Moving On

Posted on 14 Dec 2014 @ 11:13pm by Lieutenant JG Zane Neptune

495 words; about a 2 minute read

Personal Log, Zane Neptune Recording...

A lot of things have changed and it's time that I start looking towards my future. I've done what I feel that I came to do at the Academy and I'd like to try something different. There's a lot that I want to do and I'm still young enough to do most of them, so it's high time I started doing the astronomy where I wanted to do it before: among the stars.

Cadet Sorino came up to me yesterday, the last day that I went to the Academy gym, and thanked me for inspiring him to go beyond the normal bounds of physical fitness. He is a Vulcan and there wasn't much of an emotional outpouring, as I've come to expect, but he seemed to be gaining some muscle mass beyond what a Vulcan would normally have. In fact, I would say that he was thinking about competing but I didn't ask so that is just a guess. He was seeing benefits to the routine of working out, something that could aid him in mental discipline, and that was what he wanted to thank me for. I guess I hadn't known I was inspiring anybody outside of a classroom, though I won't go so far as to say that I feel I'm inspiring at a podium.

Sorino made me wonder whether or not I was actually a beneficial presence, despite the fact that there aren't many who want to get as massive as I've become. The tendency for others to assume I'm just a meathead is far less at the Academy and I will miss that. I don't judge before someone opens their mouth but I do notice when the opinion of me is negative because of the change in their look towards me.

But if I only inspire one person, that would be enough.

I am headed to the USS Galileo, which I think is fitting. I love stars. The actual gas giants that are set a light by installer forces providing light to the galaxy. I'd like to see more of them up close. There is research I could read, of course, and I can always head to a holodeck to see them, too, but nothing beats actually being there. I'll be more of a general sciences presence on Galileo, but I think that will expand my experience beyond my limited focus. Things like that help.

I may even want to do something in the command field, but I don't really have any immediate aspirations. I'm only a JG. I've got plenty of time for that.

My shuttle is leaving in a minute and I wanted to get there by shuttle because seeing something for the first time should be done without transporters. Those are okay, too, in case someone is hearing this and assumes I don't like them. Experience should be experienced visually and physically before you go popping in and out of places.

Neptune out.

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