Preparing For The Worst and The Best
Posted on Sat Jul 26th, 2025 @ 4:49pm by Lieutenant Commander Tarian Aloria
Edited on on Mon Jul 28th, 2025 @ 1:46pm
547 words; about a 3 minute read
Mission:
In The Nick Of Time
Location: Office of the Chief Temporal Operations Officer - Deck 4 - USS Herodotus
Timeline: MD004 1830hrs
There wasn't much going on the Bridge, so Commander Aloria decided to head down to his office for a little bit to go over some last minute preparations. Preparations for both good and bad moments, especially since the away team was down there on the Kroat homeworld.
Sitting in front of the computer terminal sitting on his table, Tarian started to pull up all the information from the main computer about what the procedures were. So, that way, he could make sure that he didn't call a wrong alert status when they needed to go backwards or forwards in time.
One of the biggest things would be making sure that he remembered the differences between Black and Blue Alert. Tarian was allowed to call for Blue Alert, which was to get the crew to their stations due to the fact that there was something or someone coming through a temporal event, or that a temporal event was actually occurring.
Black Alert was the other temporally related alert status for the ship. However, unlike Blue Alert, it was meant to be called upon by the CO or XO, with the concurrence of Tarian himself as the Chief Temporal Operations Officer. Tarian guessed that whoever wrote some of the procedures didn't want the Commanding Officers to just go off and go on a random adventure into another time.
Either that or they learned too much from James T Kirk and company. Tarian winched a little bit when he thought about Kirk and all of the times that his crew messed with the timeline in one way or another. The Guardian of Forever, going back to subvert Gary Seven in the 1960's on Earth, and even going back to 1986 to save a pair of humpback whales named George and Gracie.
"I guess they can get a pass on the whole whale thing," Tarian muttered to himself as he was looking through some of the procedures on a PADD he had picked up. But, thinking about everything else just put Tarian and his mind into a tail spin, causing him to get a bit of a headache.
Getting up for a moment, Tarian walked over to the replicator on the wall and called up for some Vulcan Mint Tea. The tea was something that Tarian had picked up over the last few years, especially after working with a Vulcan handler on a mission that he was a part of. The Vulcan in question was someone Tarian had gotten to know quite well and considered to be a close friend. On a mission to Andoria, the handler had told Tarian about all the ways that he could get rid of a headache without having to use actual medicine. Including Vulcan Mint Tea.
Ever since, Tarian had ordered some whenever he had a headache or knew that one was coming along. After the replicator finally gave him his tea, Tarian grabbed it and took it back to his desk. Looking over the procedures and how much there was left to go over, Tarian said sarcastically, "This is going to be fun!"
A Post By
Lieutenant Commander Tarian Aloria
Chief Temporal Operations Officer
USS Herodotus DTI-30656
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