The last time Paula had had two days off in a row was so long ago she couldn't quite remember. Weeks ago, anyway, she thought as she let herself into her quarters and put her padd and communicator down on the table. She wandered over to the bed and sat down, tugging her boots off and wriggling her toes before flopping onto her back with a sigh. ( Read more... )

Being on the ship while an away mission was in progress was nothing out of the ordinary. Most of the crew would probably never notice the difference, consumed with their own tasks that kept the ship running smoothly. Others might be disappointed they hadn't been selected for the mission, or wonder what was going on down on the surface. This mission ( Read more... )

It felt good to be back, Paula thought as she sat at her desk, finally making headway on getting caught up. The brief visit to the starbase had been… interesting, she supposed, for lack of a better word. The base itself was impressive, and she’d managed to tour the laboratories during her time off the ship ( Read more... )

Paula sighed and stared unseeing at her datapadd, the novel she’d begun the night before not capturing her attention. She felt almost like new, most of her injuries from the away mission healed but when she’d returned to Sickbay for her checkup that morning Dr. Xin had ordered her to remain off duty for two more days, and then restricted her to ( Read more... )

[ooc: nothing elaborate, just a little drama for the holiday weekend. if you’d like to join in, feel free! ♥]Their orders were simple: a routine survey mission on a recently-discovered M class planet. Calibria, as it was named, was sparsely populated, with the majority of its inhabitants living in the coastal regions. Paula had skimmed through the ( Read more... )

It had slipped up quietly on Paula, that moment when everything shifted away from the nervous tension of a new mission and became comfortable, with new routines established. She had settled into her new job and her quarters with relative ease, for the most part enjoying just being back out here, working instead of sitting idle ( Read more... )

The shipyard had done a good job making Enterprise whole again, repairing and replacing parts and polishing her up until she looked brand new again. If you didn’t know what had happened, Paula mused as she listened to the ensign report on his experiment, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. She had gone up with Leonard and Jim while the ( Read more... )

Because I suddenly have extra time on my hands *looks sideways at Cmdr. Spock*, I propose a way to entertain myself an experiment. Let's try out this ancient word game I found on the subspace network ( Read more... )