<div class="floatleft">(http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a533/stuartcollis/KellyJeanOConnor_zps7af3c76f.gif)</div><strong>Day 1 - 0930 Hours</strong><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name: </strong></td><td>Captain Kelly Jean O'Connor</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Bridge</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Bridge Staff/Lieutenant Commander Caitlin Wade</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Working</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging:</strong> </td><td>Wade, Duskfire, bridge crew</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><br/>O'Connor responded neutrally regarding Doctor Nuress, "I doubt Starfleet would be sending her to Obi VI if she was not good."<br/><br/>It was then that O'Connor witnessed something that she thought that she would never hear from Wade - a full lecture.  Wade had always been much more interested in her computers, warp core, and other machines to ever talk this much and yet, here she was titillating like a school girl about her first serious crush.  O'Connor knew that engineers, especially Chief Engineers often thought of the ships as their own but never before had she heard such pride in such excruciating detail.<br/><br/>Having been raised through the ranks of security, O'Connor did not have to have a thorough knowledge of the nuts and bolts of the ship.  Frankly, in command school, it was the one thing that kept her from being higher in her class, as the engines were about as exciting as a dentist describing a root canal.  However, she knew what she needed to know to be effective.  She also did not care too much.  O'Connor wanted adventure - to boldly go where noone had gone before and to prove herself.  She doubted that knowing the inner workings of each part of engineering would do that and she was truly grateful that Wade knew them.  So, O'Connor politely nodded and smiled as Wade continued telling her about the abilities of the Phoenix.<em>Still not an Excelsior.  The sooner I get one of those, the better.</em><br/><br/>"Well, keep up the good work, Wade.  Hopefully we'll give her a sufficient test soon."<br/><br/><br/>