SO Ens. Alexei Lisenov

[Alexei, What do I specialize in?]

Adam smiled sympathetically. "I know the feeling, mate." He waved his hand dismissively. "Life comes at you fast and all that."

Alexei was quickly deciding that he liked the CSO, and he genuinely appreciated the man's candor. Given how he'd made an mess of his relationship with Zolar, he was quite relieved that he would have at least one senior officer behind him.

Trask folded his arms, stroking at his cheek, as he thought about Alexei's question. . "I suppose that depends," he finally said. "We're in need of bodies everywhere, to be perfectly honest. What do you specialize in? Xenobiology? Astrophysics?

He paused for a millisecond. "... Xenoarchaology?" He asked, daring to dream.

At the mention of xenoarcheology, his ears went about halfway back. Of all the courses that he'd taken in the academy, even taking into account the couple extra years he spent chasing an advanced degree, he'd found the xenoarcheology course to be the most boring. If he was going to be a scientist, he wanted to be one who looked forward to the future, developing new things, rather than one who looked backwards at things that had already happened.

At the academy, he'd focused on engineering and computer science courses, with a number of resource management courses to round them out. It was all part of his goal to work in operations and eventually make his way to command. This assignment to the science department had come as something of a surprise. Still, he'd taken the courses in computer science out of a natural interest, and his science professors had noted that he had (apparently) a natural gift for the physical sciences, so... "Well, sir," Alexei started, stalling for time. "Most of my courses were in resource management and engineering," he paused, "I'm rated in xenolinguistics, and am pretty well versed in astrophysics, gravimetrics and plasma dynamics" he he trailed off, a his whiskers drooping a bit, "But it's been awhile since I've seriously studied those last three." he shrugged, flicked his ears back in mild embarrassment. "Starfleet apparently thought that I'd be a good fit in the science department here, but to be of use in many of them, I'd need to brush up a bit, sir." Embarrassed as he was, he was also confident that he could pick up whatever knowledge he needed to be of use.

His ears flicked before continuing, it was now or never, he supposed. "However, at the academy I did also specialize in computer science -- Primarily AI development, but also robotics and cybernetics." His ears perked back up, and he smiled with some pride, "I'm currently working on a thesis for an advanced computer science degree, and was looking to talk to you about acquiring the means to complete some of that research at some point." he said, "But, " he added, "I can find the time outside of my duties to continue that work, sir."

He chuffed a bit at his awkwardness. "And if you really need me to have a different specialization, sir... Well, I'm sure I can take some courses in my free time and get back to you in a few months," he gave a small grin. "I'm pretty good at picking things up, but it'll take some time."

[OOC: That's absolutely fine, Dan. Now is probably a bad time to mention it, anyway. As far as the rest, you'll have to deal with a bit of bumbling from me as SO. I don't think I've ever played one before.]

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SO Ens Alexei K'rorrovich Lisenov - Valdivian Station/USS Trinity
Player: Soren Alder
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