From:		Kimberly_Diego
Date:		07 January 1996 01:25
To:		U.S.S. Lafayette (BBS)
Subject:		RE: Briefing Room

<Lt. Kimberly Diego, arrival at briefing room>.

As Kimberly took an interminable walk towards the turbolift that would take her to the Lafayette's boarding room, she took the time to ponder upon the situation.

I should have arrived sooner,(I fear I am the last one to do so), but I had to do some research on my fellow "shipmates" here on the Lafayette.  The lot of them are rather talented, and experienced, meaning it will take more work for me to prove myself not fledgling... And my background might make people expect too much, or my age too little.  No matter.  I have done it before.
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Kimberly stepped into the briefing room a while later, and some thoughts later.  (I'm tardy)! She scanned the crowd for familiar faces, from her research, and from the Academy.  She spotted the chief engineer, in the far corner of her eye, scribbling away at her PADD, (she likes tri-dimensional chess, maybe we can play sometime), and at the anterior end of the room, Lt. Cmdr. Max Mortimer, the Operations manager--a friend. 

(So we meet again!!!) Kimberly made her way quickly through the crowd, oblivious to her lack of manners-as pertains to everyone else in the room-to greet him.