Upper Five (Ship's Forward Lounge)

[Akirapryde]

Stardate: 53834.05
USS Thunderchild, NCC-63549
Deck 5, The Lounge
Upper Five
Commander Bonham, Lt Jr Noonia, Ensign Townsend, Ensign Skytower

Commander Bonham laughed turning to face the young female ensign, "Hold on Ensign. Junior Lieutenant Noonia" he said with an inflection on Noonia's current rank. He continued, "has not been promoted. He has only have his duties extended to cover leadership development." Before he turned away from her, he caught her eyes and that soft flush on her face. He couldn't help but smile as she looked down to her PADD. He was sure she was still watching from the upper parts of her. He wouldn't lie, she was attractive and had youth on her side. 'If things were different' he thought as he knew his heart belonged to someone else.

He picked up his own PADD and rose up from the table. "As for your question Lieutenant" and held a hand out for Lieutenant Noonia to shake, "I was assigned the CAG of the USS Thunderchild's flight group this morning by the Captain. And might I say, welcome to Flight Deck Operations Division." he said taking the Lieutenant's hand in a firm yet respectful shake. "However you will not be reporting to me as I have a patrol to lead. You will be reporting to Lieutenant Paxton" he said as he backed up. "I will let her know that you will meet her in the hanger deck for your introduction to flight deck operations."

He turned once more to catch Ensign Skytower still intentionally playing with her PADD. Now looking down at her, he couldn't help but noticing that she was reread the same page over and over again. "Sometimes those make for poor distractions" he commented as he watched her reread the same paragraph over again. Before she could reply he turned to Lieutenant, "I know you will do everything in your power to shine Lieutenant. Medart may not want to accept it, but your time in Engineering might be coming to an end." He said to him then turned and walked away without adding another word.

Ensign Townsend was the first to speak, "Oh my gosh!" It was if he was holding in an explosion. "This is great Mordecai!" he said slapping Noonia on the back with laughter in his voice. "You must have really impressed him." He paused for a moment, "you know what this means. Not just anyone can get assigned to the Flight Deck. That is if you can survive Paxton. She is a real ball buster. They call her the Cadet Slayer. Two guys in my section were ran off of the flight deck because of her. She was in charge of the flight deck before the big refit." he said looking over to Ensign Skytower, "WOW! This is great....." The excitement was clearly heard on his voice.