Personal Log – 56279.56

Ben Marcello came by my dorm yesterday. I haven’t heard from him since we were kicked out of Red. I think the squad still talk about that fight, well at least I know I’ve left my mark on a tradition at the academy.

Anyway, when I opened the door, we were silent for so long that Cortak appeared around the corner holding a springball racket, when he saw who it was, he didn’t put it down.

It turns out that Ben had heard about my offers to CS and AFRT and thought he could help with my decision. Ben and I go way back. My Dad and his Mum were stationed on the Lexington at the same time when we were kids, we were good friends, spent a lot of time together, wandering around that ship.. Then the Battle of Sector 001 came. His mum was one of the ninety-six initially killed.
We were sitting in a shuttle heading in the opposite direction as fast as possible, along with most of the other civilians from the taskforce. Command weren’t going to have a complete repeat of Wolf 359. We actually saw the Enterprise return through the temporal vortex in earth orbit.
I probably shouldn’t have said that, next thing I know, I’ll be having a visit from intelligence.

One of the good things to come from 001 was my Dad’s promotion. He was Second Officer at the time, when the Captain was killed, he kept the crew together whilst the exec kept the ship. Captain Raymer headhunted dad to be his new XO whilst the Lexington was in drydock after the engagement.

Mum jumped on the first runabout sent to retrieve civilians from Deep Space 5. She brought Ben and I back to Fortrose, he was understandably completely beside himself, we barely got four words out of him, even after his father arrived from K7.
We kept I touch, but didn’t see each other until we entered the academy, he was different though. Then we were both invited into Red Squad.

That was fun, when I wasn’t hanging out with Cortak and the gang I was with the squad or Ben, until we got into a fight at a bar on Betazed during an off world training session. We both got kicked out of the squad, Ben didn’t forgive me.

Anyway, I digress far too much.
We sat and talked for a couple of hours, it was good catching up, spoony left us alone when he decided that we weren’t going to kill each other, the couple of whisky’s helped.
I still don’t know what I’m going to do but Ben got an offer from Captain Picard, well Commander Riker but still. He thought that the bar incident would kill any chance he had to get a good posting, but obviously not. The fact that he was obviously noticed somewhere, it’s pretty amazing. Although being a “Red Shirt” on the Enterprise does have a certain reputation.

I’m going out to lunch with Lynya Tomorrow, and apparently I’m going shopping with her, maybe I can drag cheap along, although that might be a bad idea, he’ll just spend his time at the meat stalls. He loved Wild Boar the last time we took him to the markets in Edinburgh. Said it reminded him of a Sarana Beast, whatever that is. I would ask Cortak but I’m fairly sure he’s entertaining one of his lady friends tomorrow. I can try and twist his arm though.

I think my parents are planning on coming down too, they mentioned something about Captain Raymer visiting Scotland for the first time too, that’ll be fun.

Personal Log – 56252.16

Sunday was rough.

I had one hell of a hangover. I haven’t had one like that since I was sixteen…

The four of us decided to ‘go out on the town’ as Spoony put it. He read that phrase in some of those awful 21st century novels Lynya gave him for his birthday, I swear he’s been saying it every day since. I think he even worked it into a response to one Professor Obrien’s questions the other day.

With final exams coming up we thought it was probably the last opportunity we’d get to really party, so we did…

I’m not sure how many pubs, clubs and bars we frequented. I do remember Chep getting into a disagreement with a rather rotund Bolian over the last sausage. I think that was at the 602, or was it Rosie’s? I’m not sure.

Cortak brought along his holocam too. He fancies himself as a bit of a cameraman I think. I managed to delete most of the more compromising photo’s on there, but he still got some rather, how should I put it, undesirable pictures of Lynya.

However I must give him credit, he made a “Music Video” when we were in Club 47 (how we got to Spacedock I have no idea). It turned out to be pretty good I think. I’ve never seen some of those dance moves that Chep pulled out. Didn’t think the little guy had it in him. He kind of looked like a lephrachaun.

I’ll see if I can swipe the file and attach it.

Like I said, I woke up on sunday with the worst headache imaginable, spent most of the day in the bathroom. Cortak wasn’t much better off. Spots and Chep popped round to take care of us, but nothing Chops gave us helped. I think he mixed up his hypos on saturday night, no idea what was in them but it certainly wasn’t something to sober us up.

Today though was much better except Professor Helaan was on my case about not having accepted my place at C.S. yet. I still don’t know what to do. Maybe I’ll talk to Bilby, he usually know’s what to say.

Oh and I think I saw Captain Picard walking around the Quad with his XO, what’s his name again? The guy with the Beard? Rick? No that’s not it… Riker! Yes Riker. I wish I could have shaken their hands but I was late enough for Political Studies as it was.

I should probably sleep now, it’s been a long couple of days.