LCDR Bubbles-Upon-Distant-Tide
Counselor, DS13
SUBJECT’S NAME: Vaas, Halur
INTERVIEW STARDATE: 100409.6
PURPOSE AND CONTEXT OF EVALUATION
Basic Profile Assessment
CONCLUSION
Authority finds subject to be of sound mental health and fit for active duty.
DISCUSSION
Subject was recently transferred to the 38th Fleet from a position in security aboard Earth Space Dock, evidently at the suggestion of one Lieutenant Commander Serris Zital. The subject is to be stationed aboard the USS Mariner as chief of security following a period of time assigned to Deep Space 13 for additional training and orientation. Authority cannot speak to the full details of this arrangement as they are not privy to such decisions by the command staff of USS Mariner. The subject displays an affable demeanor and eagerness to go forward with the proceedings, but exhibited a degree of discomfort in dealing with a telepath beyond the usual adjustment this authority notes in typical initial interactions. Authority has made a note of this in the event the subject seeks further counseling.
The subject professes an overall positive opinion of their previous work aboard Earth Space Dock, and the roles and duties assigned to them. The subject also professes an eagerness to begin their duties aboard the Mariner which is at odds with their assigned period of service aboard Deep Space 13. While the subject is willing to admit that their current experience may not be wholly sufficient to meet the demands of their forthcoming posting they also express an irritation with their assigned training period aboard Deep Space 13. Given that the subject relayed past personal interactions with several present members of the 38th Fleet authority believes that subject’s ties to Lieutenant Commander Zital may be a factor in their expressed impatience.
In the course of this assessment the subject displayed evident reticence when discussing their past at multiple points. Authority suspects some of this may be related to the subject’s species (Orion) and possible prejudices the subject has been exposed to. This may help to explain the subject’s professed skepticism of others, and concerns with how they are perceived by others. The subject also expressed concern as to what authority may perceive as a telepath in regards to their path. Note that authority performed no invasive telepathic incursions into subject’s mind, restricting mental interactions to surface level thoughts and empathic impressions as a matter of course. Authority believes that the subject is able to perform duties assigned with no significant impact from this assessment’s findings. Subject has been encouraged to follow up with further counseling, and seemed receptive to the idea if noncommittal.
NOTE
The above discussion has been interpreted and transcribed by Ensign Caissa of the counseling department, based upon the impression relayed by Lieutenant Commander Bubbles-Upon-Distant-Tide. The assessing authority’s impression has been included below.
Discussion - Original
A dark chamber, carved of rough-hewn stone. Light filters in through cracks above, slivers of bright white shining into an expanse of gray-black. A breeze filters through, ephemeral, inconsistent. It carries with it an odor of the sea, of loam after a spring rain. A hint of smoke from a distant fire carried miles by wild winds to settle, ashen, upon the floor of this cavern.
The cavern twists and winds, pocked with narrow crags and false chimneys. But there is a pattern to it, a path through which the wind whistles a mournful tune. A bittersweet song of spring rains and distant ash punctuated with long beats of introspective silence.
At long last the cavern reaches an opening, a gap in the crumbling edifice of an antediluvian cliff face. Stone scored by crashing waves of long receded seas, crumbling down a grassy face toward a valley below. Green stretches out in all directions, seas of grass rippling like waves in the winds, a verdant ocean taken root in rich, silted soil. But through the cavern the wind still whistles mournfully, apart from the rustling roar of tall, swaying grass.
LENGTH OF INTERVIEW: 1.5 hrs
END OF EVALUATION.