LT Tamio K'Wara - The Buzzing of a Fly

[LT Tamio K'Wara]

(( Sensor Pod - USS Artemis-A ))

Nothing like a bit of practical experience to nuance the sometimes painfully drab workload of legal documentation, or so Tamio thought. There was a reason they’d gone for Helm as their specialty instead of Communications - while they enjoyed talking, sometimes people could get caught up in minutiae that Tamio frankly hadn’t had the patience for (and still didn’t, despite many years in service) - and debating Ferengi legislature was not as exciting as some nerds aboard this Ship may profess.

This TOV suit - or ‘Beholder’ - as Jovenan called it though? See, this was the kind of exciting that Tamio could get behind. Sensors were useful. This thing? This thing was a novelty.

K’Wara: ‘Beauty’s in the eye of the Beholder’. I like it.

Their observation made the Commander chuckle.

Jovenan: I wish I had come up with the name myself. ::pause:: The Ferengi have slowly started to trust Starfleet as an organisation, but they find individuals still as corruptible as ever. A part of their problem with the project is the fear that someone might use it to influence their commercial interest, or something along those lines. Having a single operator at any point of the process enhances the risk in their eyes.

It made sense, Tamio figured. The Ferengi, while very much geared towards the individual’s gain, had an astonishing respect for legal proceedings, or at least the bureaucracy of it. It probably was to be expected that a people with such a keen awareness that an individual was always out for themselves primarily would like the idea of a completely impartial and uninvolved arbiter at the top.

K’Wara: So, how does it work then? ::mirthful jest:: Or would giving it a test-drive ruin the potential profit gains of the sector irrevocably and land us on some Liquidator’s naughty list?

Jovenan: Oh, for certain! I’m not brave enough for Ferengi bureaucracy. Imagine how much it would cost us if we tried it out on an asteroid and happened to find something valuable!

K’Wara: ::bemused smirk:: The horror.

Not that getting some Ferengi all tied up in knots didn’t sound like a fun way to spend the day, Tamio probably shouldn’t let all of their unhinged ideas be aired out in front of a senior officer. They were supposed to be respectable now.

Instead, they watched as Jovenan took the headpiece of the suit into her hands and extended it towards them.

Jovenan: Alternatively, we could test it out just around the ship. I could launch test dummies that emit radiation or signal that can only be detected by the right choice of scanners. It would be your task as the operator of the Beholder to find them. You’re the Chief of Ops now, would you approve such a training exercise?

K’Wara: Well, by some miracle, the Chief Science Officer does seem to be suspiciously available at the moment, so why not? Approved.

Jovenan: Want to give it a go? Oh, by the way, you don’t happen to have any medical ailments that make you faint easily, nauseated or something similar? Operating the Beholder can get a bit… trippy.

Tamio was excited at the notion of using the TOV helmet, but at the same time, they felt a smidge of apprehension. They shrugged it off. It was all in their head. All in their head...

K’Wara: ‘Trippy’ sounds like my kind of night, Sir.

Jovenan: Response

As Commander Jovenan prepared the dummy targets for the scans, Tamio stepped up to the chair. The harness that was intended to keep them in place for the duration of the scan was not too dissimilar to the safety harnesses that they used during contests, so it felt familiar enough as a way to key into the task ahead.

The controls going to their hands and legs, however, was an entirely new sensation.

K’Wara: All right, so how will this work then?

Jovenan: Response

Tamio assisted as best they could with putting the helmet on, and for the briefest of moments, an unwelcome sensation of vertigo made their stomach jump, before they clicked their fingers together in defiance. All in their head, all in their head. And despite the latent discomfort with the notion of projecting their visual impressions entirely to a probe out in space, it was also a uniquely interesting prospect.

They wondered how different this would feel to piloting a shuttlecraft.

K’Wara: Never, but it does seem very intuitive... ::flexes fingers:: Will there be a safety margin around the Ship itself? Don’t want to accidentally freak out any bridge crew manning the Yawn Watch.

If there was one shift Tamio had hated above all else during their time as Helmsman, it was minding the Bridge while the Ship was in drydock. That being said, the notion of freaking out Udesky just a little bit by buzzing in and out of the shield lattice was hilarious, and may just be the thing to spice up an otherwise boring shift for her.

Jovenan: Response

TAG/TBC

LT Tamio K’Wara

Chief of Operations

USS Artemis-A
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