[fin][open]The Other Side...

[larkin]

"As fun as that sounds I don't like to do my flying standing up."

"Are you sure? You and I could play musical chairs and make the ship dance to Klingon Opera?" Larkin said straight faced but sounded a little lighter in tone than he has previously. "It could be fun...." He said holding out each word.

"Nice and shiny again Mister Q-ball."

"Well you know, if I can not blind anyone that sees me through the view screen with my head, than I am not happy, and Larkin that is not happy Faith, is a an Orion that is not happy, and when the Orion is not happy its crew is not happy. Its a very vicious cycle Faith. Shiny is as shiny does, so now you know, if the head don't glow, the ship don't run." He somehow managed to stay completely straight faced through that entire tirade. He looked at faith expectantly expecting a witty retort. Or a laugh either one would have been acceptable.

"We have our navigational sensors fully operational again. And we are still steady at full impulse. And we have come across some L class planets."

"L class planets? Not the most desirable are they. How many, and I take it there were no M class planets on Senors? Did you run a scan to see if there was any ion or tachyon wave nets in the area, if we fall in any of those that would be bad for the ship. Ship is steady, thats a good sign, left and right nasals working at optimum efficiency. As far as helm looks we look good. Great job Faith." He said even as his on fingers danced across the controls seeing all this information as fast as she could report it.

"If that's all..."

"Faith, smile, your on Starfleet Live, brought to you by Lieutenant Commander Larkin Reinhardt. Starring Lieutenant Faith Ackron as the plucky young girl." He smiled, its was small, it was tiny, but it was a smile.

[Captain La'Mara Tiho]

"What kind of progress have we made?" La'Mara inquired of the officers on the bridge as she looked to each one of them. "Sensors back up? Find anything of interest?" Truthfully she was quite curious to know more about the latter question. Captain Tiho went up to her chair ready to sit in it anytime Mishtak was ready to get out of it. Well...well...well... La'Mara bit her lower lip in anticipation.

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[Commander Christian Hughes]

Christian entered the Bridge and took his seat beside Captain Tiho, throwing her a reassuring glance to show that he was there to help. "Looks like you all have been busy," he said to the bridge officers. "I'm sure we'd all like to hear your reports." He turned to his console, tapping a few buttons and reviewing the reports. "All departments report they are functioning normally, ma'am," he said to the Captain.

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[Lt. JG Lisa Huygens]

Lisa smiled as Ryanna reported that she was in astrometrics. "Acknowledge," she replied over the comm. She was amused and a little puzzled by Larkin's sense of humour, which she only hald shared. Nevertheless, she thought it might be good for the atmosphere on the Bridge.

The Captain returned from the Ready Room followed closely by Christian, and ordered them all to report their progress. "'Science' has gone to astrometrics as ordered," she said, using the Captain's phrase. "Ensign Digby reported just a while back that there's a system containing four planets of at least Class L just a day's flight away." Lisa didn't tell the Captain about Rose's uncertainty: that was just the girl's nerves. "Lieutenant Denali is down there now, working with Ensign Digby and Crewman Vortek to get us more details."

She finished her report and went back to working on her console.

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[larkin]

"Navigational sensors fully operational Captain and we are steady at full impulse. Helm is awaiting your orders." Larkin said fingers moving over the helm control console. He turned his head back a little to see if new orders would be given. After a moment his fingers stopped moving as well. He was ready, yes ready would be a could word to use he thought. He sighed softly to himself thinking that his daughter would have loved this.

[Faith Ackron]

"L class planets? Not the most desirable are they. How many, and I take it there were no M class planets on Senors? Did you run a scan to see if there was any ion or tachyon wave nets in the area, if we fall in any of those that would be bad for the ship. Ship is steady, that's a good sign, left and right nasals working at optimum efficiency. As far as helm looks we look good. Great job Faith."

And Larkin spit out the rest of the report. How many people could talk faster than sensors scanned? Not many.
"Four and no. I also can not take all the credit. The engineers and operations officers have more of a hand in the repair than I. If you want to know more about the planets, I'm sure our assistant chief of science," Faith glanced at Lisa for a moment. "who's at the science station can tell you more if you'd like."

"Faith, smile, your on Starfleet Live, brought to you by Lieutenant Commander Larkin Reinhardt. Starring Lieutenant Faith Ackron as the plucky young girl."

Faith lightly chuckled, and playfully punched Larkin on the shoulder like she used to. "I suggest a commercial break."

The captain and commander then came back to the bridge. Reports? Well Faith didn't have much in the way to say now that Larkin was back on the bridge, and filled in. Faith just gave a nod and took her leave. There was no sense for two pilots to be on the bridge. Everyone had all under control anyhow. So, Faith made her leave.

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[larkin]

"Four and no. I also can not take all the credit. The engineers and operations officers have more of a hand in the repair than I. If you want to know more about the planets, I'm sure our assistant chief of science," Faith glanced at Lisa for a moment. "who's at the science station can tell you more if you'd like."

As he was looking toward the Captain and rubbing his arm playfully he remembered Faith mentioned that Lisa also did some work. Once more his fingers played at his console and a message appeared on Lisa's console saying Well done Lieutenant Huygens

"I suggest a commercial break."

If life was always going to be this swell. His previous elation at having talked about his feelings a little seemed to be wearing down. Lilllian Daniels, hmmmm. He thought maybe he would take the medical personnel's advice and maybe seek her out when he was off duty. He knew the value of loosing those closest to you all to well. Anyhow, back to focusing his head once more turned in the direction of the captains chair.

[Captain La'Mara Tiho]

"'Science' has gone to astrometrics as ordered," "Ensign Digby reported just a while back that there's a system containing four planets of at least Class L just a day's flight away." "Lieutenant Denali is down there now, working with Ensign Digby and Crewman Vortek to get us more details."

"Navigational sensors fully operational Captain and we are steady at full impulse. Helm is awaiting your orders."

"Good job." La'Mara said quite pleased. She then took her seat and looked at the console between the two chairs. Putting a finger to her chin in thought La'Mara spoke again. "Let's move in a little closer, but use caution. Set a course for the fourth planet. Keep as at full impulse though until we detect more. Also, I'd like continuous scans for any vessels."

She then tapped her badge. "Tiho to engineering, how are things down there?" She knew what needed to be fixed had been. This was more a systems update type thing. See if anything was going haywire down there. Also a voice could tell you more than what the ship could at time. Wouldn't want to get any false readings.

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[larkin]

"Let's move in a little closer, but use caution. Set a course for the fourth planet. Keep as at full impulse though until we detect more. Also, I'd like continuous scans for any vessels."

"Aye Captain, coordinates set to the Fourth planet Captain. Orion is steady at full impulse and sailing smooth. Scans detect no vessels in the vicinity of the Orion at this time Captain. All green Captain Tiho."He reported even as his fingers danced over the console. He loved his job. He got the ship moving wonderfully and it just seemed to go so smooth like a well oiled machine.

He swiveled around in his chair with a confident look in his eyes even though his facial expression might well have been Vulcan for all he showed on it. He took a moment to gaze at the Captain, the Commander and the rest of the crew. He nodded approvingly and thought this is a gifted crew, hopefully we keep all hands through out the duration of this tour. Deaths aboard a ship was never easy, deaths of a friend or loved one aboard a ship is something uniquely different and horrible.

[Commander Christian Hughes]

Christian smiled. All was going quite well. He looked at the Captain, who seemed now to be more at ease in her new position already. He, too, was more at ease in the new working relationship, deciding to take some of the work from the Captain's hands. "Harold," he said to Lieutenant Francis. "Any news at Ops?"

Harold looked at his panel. "Well, Commander," he said, pondering what he saw. "I am now picking up what seems to be a ship, unknown make and designation, coming in our direction from the direction of that system Rose picked up."
"Captain," said Christian. "Shall we go to yellow alert until we're certain of their intentions? We might be about to make first contact."

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[Ensign Rose Digby]

// "Digby to Bridge," she said. "Cadet Syda and I think that the fourth planet in the system might be a Class-M planet." She stopped. "And, er... just in case you didn't know, there's a ship in grid two five one." //

[Captain La'Mara Tiho]

A ship? La'Mara was intrigued. "Can you put it on screen?" One of those orders that basically meant 'if we are in visual range let us take a look'. La'Mara looked at Commander Hughes when he spoke. A fist contact situation? Well...it'd be interesting. But yellow alert?

"Are their weapons or shields active?" Tiho asked the officer at OPS. If they were down she felt that they should do the same. Who wanted to look threating? If they were peaceful and the Orion went to yellow alert raising shields the other ship might do the same out of sheer fear of a possible attack.

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[Commander Christian Hughes]

"Their shields and weapons are not operational," said Harold Francis at Ops. "Okay, so no Yellow Alert," concluded Chris.

Ensign Digby reported from Astrometrics with the latest findings. They were made aware of the approaching ship just moments ago, but he was glad that Digby had apparently plucked up the courage to inform the Bridge instead of just dismissing it because they probably already knew. "Well, that's our course, isn't it, Mr Reinhardt?" he asked the helmsman. "Lucky us."

Wait a minute, he realised. Did she say Cadet Syda was there? Remembering his conversation with the Captain, he got an idea. They were now done in Astrometrics for the brunt of the work: Crewman Vortek might be able to handle the routine jobs. Perhaps he should suggest to them that they'd go for a friendly drink off-duty.

"Hughes to Astrometrics," he replied. "Good job, you four. Seeing as you are now done with the hard work, ensign, why don't you and Cadet Syda take a break in the Mess Hall? You've both done extremely well."

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[larkin]

Larkin swiveled back to face the console at helm. He once more worked his technomancy with the helm. Amazing, not even an hour into the Delta Quadrant and already they were making first contact, or possibly second if the Voyager already beat them to it. He turned his neck towards the Captian's position.

"Captain, recommend going to one third impulse and approaching slowly." He waited...he knew it would only be seconds for her to say what she wanted done but with his fingers posied his neck craned, it seemed like an eternity in a sea of infinity. He almost cringed because he was so anxious, thats one thing that never left him even since he was a cadet years ago, was his anxious to fly. With the possibility of battle he was very anxious.

"Well, that's our course, isn't it, Mr Reinhardt?" he asked the helmsman. "Lucky us."

"Aye Commander thats our course, recommend one third impulse as not to frighten them Sir?" Larkin acknowledged his fingers still poised on the console control. Ah, this was insidious, this feeling of eternity.

[The Doctor (EMH-I)]

They approached. "We're being hailed by the vessel," said Lieutenant Francis.
Without a thought, Commander Hughes replied. "On screen, Harold."

The face of a humanoid male with a heavy-built face appeared on the view screen. He was clad in some sort of robe, for as far as they could see. His most prominent facial feature was his nose: half of it was taken up by a huge pair of nostrils, and his nasal bridge bulged outward. He had a goatee and mutton chops, and short greying hair which was receding. He made a sniffing sound, then continued.

"Greetings, Federation vessel," the man said in a deep voice, his face still except for his moving mouth. "My name is Yenos, Guide of the Vessel Ruo'do. What brings you to Rathren space?"

He looked, patiently waiting for a response.

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