[quote=@Gunther]
[@Gowi] I must admit, I often enjoy reading your prose. I recall reading some of your IC posts about 3-5 years ago on the old forums, but for whatever reason, I do not believe we ever wrote in the same thread together. Irrelevant now. Here we are.

Haruhi is a good read. I had a similar personal experience as she had with her father. When I was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenat in the US Army, my father was there to pin my "butter bars" on me. But due to his poor parentage and lack of presence in my life as a child/teen, I felt only contempt for him. I could empathize with Haruhi up through that part of her life. Fortunately, for me, dad was not killed by some Alien Life Form while on patrol in the outer reaches of space  and our relationship improved greatly during adulthood.

As I read your description, I felt you nailed it pretty well. I look forward to working with you. I know you write exceptionally well regardless of the substance. I'm sure your Star Trek is not as rusty as you may imagine. Like anything else in this hobby, there are massive tomes written on this subject and the research is half the fun.

On a side note, are you British? I ask simply because you use the term CQC for Close Quarters Combat. I spent 21 years in the US Army, mostly in the Infantry and we always referred to it as CQB, Close Quarters Battle. CQC could also be a civilian thing, what do I know.
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First of all, you flatter me. I assure you I am only really good at [i]pretending[/i] to be a good writer.

I’m sure I’ll be okay as a security officer but all of my technobabble is something I’m incapable of right now despite my experience with Star Trek as a franchise. But my intent here is to make an engaging member of the crew and see where it takes me— it is really cool to see someone outright comment on my sheet outside of “accepted” which you and Orlan have already done. It’s great, I live for this shit. I agree with the research bit, too.

I’m 100% American in nationality, actually. As far as I know CQC is just how it’s always been explained to me in digital media (video games like Metal Gear Solid, certain televised dramas and films, etc.) so that’s where I picked that up on. So I’m not sure where the line of convergence between military and non-military with the terminology starts truthfully.