<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82478.msg3793421#msg3793421">Quote from: Barnbean on 19-10-2010, 17:37:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Hello everyone," Makari said as he waved his hand at the gatherinfg of crew members. They were off in their own private conversations but it was still nice to play the friendly second officer and not try and be the stern type. Totally not his way. And if he ever had to be stern it was super effective if he was the nice guy having to yell. And more fun too... right?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Val heard the general greeting of the human that just walked in...  He thought it might be the XO but he didn't know for sure, he was only vaguely familiar with the pictures of the senior officers...  None the less, he silently raised a glass to the man anyway.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82478.msg3795310#msg3795310">Quote from: Ryven on 20-10-2010, 03:46:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Tosh visibly softened at the inquiry to his training.  He quite enjoyed talking about it as well as participating in it.  "Well, I am proficient with all standard regulation weaponry.  However, my personal favorites are hand-to-hand combat styles.  I've been trained in karate, kenpo, judo, kickboxing, and taekwondo, to name a few.  I have created a series of training programs, some of which are still used at the academy, and I have a personal repertoire of programs that I have created to train myself further.  I've programmed them into holodeck format with varied difficulties and have been studying them for the better part of my time in star fleet, and at the same time, improving on their content."  The man finally stopped with a smile then cleared his throat as if to lighten the mood a bit.<br/><br/>"So, umm...plasma physics?  What made you pick that for your area of expertise?"  Tosh asked, trying to give Val a chance to converse.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Val listened, this man had extensive hand to hand training, and enjoyed talking about it.  He wasn't bad at combat, really, he wasn't.  It also wasn't really his thing outside a holodeck.  Now, inside, he could enjoy light training, good to blow off steam at least.<br/><br/>"Remind me not to meet you in a darkened corridor." Val said with a playful tone and a soft chuckle, "Plasma physics?  I'm not sure to be honest, in the academy it was my best subject and the way energy and matter coexist in a kind of symbiosis fascinates me."