Perhaps the worst day in my Starfleet career...
Posted on Wed Jul 22nd, 2020 @ 12:00am by Lieutenant Takeshi Nakazato 'Zack'
600 words; about a 3 minute read
Air Boss' log;
Gosh, how weird it is to open like that, but since I lost the Second Officer's commission, I can no longer open these logs as normal. Perhaps I'm going to stop doing them...
Oh, boy, what a day it has been! It has been a week and a half today...
For starters, the briefing went horribly wrong: My plan for building trust and camaraderie with the pilots went south fast. Some pilot decided he didn't like what I was planning on doing, and called me many things in front of the CO, and I counted at least two other pilots that sided with him, one of which being Lieutenant Riverside, who I had personally vouched for! What a shame...
After I called out the pilots on their bad attitudes for attacking the new guy with no friends, I got called out myself by the CO and was told to act like quote 'a damn professional.'
So, afterwards, I followed what I thought was regular operating procedure to reprimand the culprit. I'll admit that I made several missteps, like not informing the wing commander what I was doing, in the process, but I was blinded in my quest to reprimand the culprit for disrespecting a superior officer, not only professionally, but as a person.
However, I still stand by my views that the reaction from the crew was unwarranted: Everyone was so quick to shout abuse of power... They wouldn't last a second aboard the Myogi! An act I would've been heralded as a hero for on that ship instead cost me my commission as Second Officer.
If they honestly think what I did was unwarranted, than they'd hate to know that I know of (and am not afraid to use) far more ruthless interrogation tactics to achieve my ends.
And then, Captain Aisaka... Oh, boy where do I start with her?
All throughout the day, I got a look at Captain Aisaka's dark side. In the meeting, and then again in the ready room, I saw the sheer, murderous rage in her eyes, and since I have, a vision has popped into my head that I can't get rid of; and that's her murdering me and Sayuki in our sleep, and then either killing the kids or raising them as her own... Frankly, I'm not sure which version of the vision is worse.
I know Sayuki wanted to have dinner with Captain Aisaka and thank her for letting them aboard, but I decided for her safety and the safety of the children to postpone until cooler heads prevail.
Oh, but Captain Aisaka didn't appear to take too kindly to that either, for I was interrupted from bonding with Mako by the first officer to be questioned on the day's events. Though the XO has proven that she can be reasoned with more than Captain Aisaka, she still stands by the CO in her views in that my actions were unwarranted, and in the process she turned everything I thought I knew about starfleet on its head, and I'm now questioning whether or not I joined a completely different organization.
Perhaps I should just go through with it and have the damn dinner with Captain Aisaka, and show her that I'm willing to go to the ends of the galaxy to protect my family, even if it means blowing a hole in her head.
I'm probably talking out of my ass at this point, I'm so tired. I think I'm going to get some rest and hopefully I'll be back to old Takeshi in the morning...
--OFF--
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