Complications chapter four

Nyota

Nyota waited for her room mate to arrive with anticipation, she hoped that her room mate would be as friendly a the Orion girl 'Gaila' she had met on the shuttle ride. But, she was also anxious Nyota dearly wished that her room mate would not be an anti-social person who she would not get along with, because all Nyota wanted was to enjoy her time at the Academy. She knew that the stress of exams would be enough so an awkward room mate on top would not help.

After waiting a further Twenty minutes Nyota was bored of waiting for her room mate and decided to explore the campus a bit. Leaving her dorm room, to walk down the wide corridor ahead. She took great attention of her footsteps in the hope it would prevent her from getting lost, noting her path she took a right at the end of the corridor she certainly did not want to be a part of the stereotypical 'freshman lost scenario' which would end up her asking one of her professors for directions,.Clumsy lost Cadet was not the first impression Nyota wanted to give to her professors.

She made her way to a large quad of grass with a few benches dotted around; she walked around the quad noticing a quaint little coffee shop in the left hand corner of the quad. Nyota decided that a coffee and a bun would ease her, as her Mother always said 'Eat your worries!' even though she found the sentiment attractive and enjoyed it. Nyota was careful not to eat too many worries she did not want to become over weight she was happy with her body as it was.

In the Coffee shop Nyota ordered a Mocha latte and a pecan nut flapjack, finding a seat by the large windows she took in the sights and her surroundings. The coffee shop was basic with white wall and floors, silver counters made out of some sort of metal and the metal chairs with uncomfortably yet, stylish low backs.

The view from the window was unlike her dorm room it was not facing the Golden Gate bridge but towards the dormitory building and the quad. See watched as Cadets milled around moving from class to class, the grassy quad was large with trees planted in random places but shaped into various shapes she saw a ship, the Starfleet emblem and a few more random ones that she could not work out. The quad also was home to plenty of ergonomically designed benches fashioned out of Permacrete. Behind the quad was the dormitory building that she had come from, taking in its architecture he noticed that it was of an alien design, not one she recognized though. It had a huge archway for a door that was suspended in the air by transparent aluminium rods creating a floating effect. The building itself was large within its two stories it homed 600 Cadets with its wall painted a mixture of red, green and white the building was very, unique.

She had finished her drink so she headed back to her dorm room, crossing the quad again and entering through the suspended archway retracing her former steps. Passing through she noticed a placard with an alien language scribbled upon it, stating the name and manufacturing date of the building. It read:
'Ki'tura-kel putan-tor Starfleet ovensu kir-lap eh stukhtra.'
Which Nyota quickly noted was Vulcan and translated the message in her head, "Accommodation building in honour of peace and the intergalactic friendship of Starfleet" or something similar she knew her Vulcan was strong, but she was never too sure. She shrugged now knowing that the alien building was a Vulcan alien building and carried on retracing her steps. When she reached her dorm successfully without getting lost, the door was un-locked so she guessed her room mate had arrived.

Stepping in she could her rustling as her room mate shuffled around the room, Nyota cautiously spoke out... "Hello" from behind the glass partition a girl's voice sounded,

"Oh, you gave me a fright aha" The voice replied. Nyota waited before replying. That voice. Where had she heard that voice from before?

"Yes, sorry I'm your room mate I arrived earlier" she said cautiously.

"Oh great, I noticed your stuff-" Nyota walked around the side of the parting to meet her room mate "-I.." her room mate continued before cutting off her sentence abruptly and turned to face Nyota. With a first glance Nyota knew who's voice it was and the face that matched it. "GAILA! oh I am so glad you are my room mate!" Nyota exclaimed finding the green skin of her Orion friend welcoming, extremely happy that it was Gaila who was her room mate.

"Oh! Ny! well, WOOHOO! is all I can say aha fancy that" Gaila paused then mockingly added "we, are destined to be." with a pout and air kiss. Both girls broke down with laughter.

"Ahah we are, we are. God this is such a coincidence, we can be best buds in class! and out!" Nyota remarked glee fully.

Spock

Seven years since his abrupt emotional choice to pursue a career with Starfleet. Spock was a lieutenant Commander, he wasfirst officer to Captain Pike aboard the USS-Nelson and now a respected, highly sort after Physics, Mathematics, advanced Phonology ,hand-to-hand combat and Xenolinguistics professor at the San Francisco Academy. He thought back to himself, whilst waiting for his students to arrive for his Phonology 1 lecture. He concluded that his choice to join Starfleet was not only satisfactory by his standards but also proved to be, logical after all.

Now ten minutes and eighteen seconds later, all of his students were seated and eager to learn. He glanced around the lecture theatre in an attempt to familiarize himself with the Cadets. Glancing around three particular Cadets caught his attention, these three Cadets stood out from the rest of the crowd. The first Cadet was a young, red haired Orion Female, with her strikingly green skin and red lips. The second and Andorrian female with blue skin, short white hair and her antennae wiggling around in small circles of anticipation. The third Cadet was a human Female of an African descent; she had dark toned skin, with her long hair tied up into a high immaculate ponytail. These three Cadets stood out the most because; although Starfleet was an intergalactic, inter-species organisation most of its Cadets were white human males, 67% in fact. So the Orion, Andorrian and Dark toned females did indeed, stand out.

He taught the lecture as he would any other, his hands clasped firmly behind his back, pacing back and forth along the lectern stage. Whilst explaining how the Andorrian and Tellarite languages were phonetically similar but written in a completely different fashion. Throughout the lecture he noticed that one of the Cadets who had caught his eye earlier was incredibly attentive, she listened with great interest, asking questions that were not only on an intellectual scale but a logical one too. Surprising him entirely; he did not expect his students to be so involved.

Usually his Three hour lectures lulled the Cadets to sleep.

He found that he was not irritated by the constant firing of questions that Cadet Uhura fired at him,(knowing her name after checking her Cadet ID on his PADD out of politeness), but he was eager to answer them. Pleased that this 'rare' Cadet would become a successful Starfleet officer. He also noticed the Orion girl identified as Cadet U'adidat was an eager cadet that admired languages just as much as her friend Cadet Uhura did. The Orion was such a rarity within Starfleet because from his knowledge there were only a few Orion males that worked in Starfleet, he thought she might be the first Orion female to ever have en-listed within Starfleet, so on this basis Spock felt the urge to keep both Cadet Uhura and Cadet U'aidat on the 'road to success'.

Although he thought highly of both cadets, Spock had no intention of favouring them over the other cadets, yes they were the top students in his class but he found favouring certain students to be distasteful. Unlike most other professors namely the Tellarite Professor Gral, who did. Spock thought favouring cadets to be illogical, he thought it would cause unnecessary social implications so by this use of logic he decided that it was indeed, illogical to favour a Cadet.

The first semester passed quickly by Spock's judgement; referring to one of his Mother's illogical human quotes 'time flies when you're having fun'. Which conclusively he found to be almost correct, considering the he had in fact found the first six months of being a professor to be satisfactory and the time scale had passed at an abnormally quickened pace. Compartmentalizing the thought to share with his mother at a later date, she always found that when she had proved him wrong with something illogical, and him admitting to it rather amusing. Still after all these years living and working with Humans Spock could not understand the complexities of Terran humour.

Nyota

The next morning Nyota awoke at 6:00 AM giving her enough time to shower, dress and eat breakfast before attending her first phonology 1 class with Professor Spock, who had a reputation for both being brilliant and very strict.

She and Gaila entered the huge lecture theatre, finding some seats nearer the front next to an Andorrian girl. She got out her PADD and stylus placing them on the small desk provided. Professor Spock rose from his seat to start his lecture, when Nyota forgot to breathe, he was incredibly handsome. Tall, dark and handsome. He even managed to make the dull grey instructors uniform look good, his posture perfect with his immaculate dark hair and his eyebrows... those so Vulcan eyebrow tilting up at a striking angle. "Today Cadets we will be discussing the differences between..." He announced cutting Nyota's thoughts off, bringing her back to the real world.

Throughout the three hour lecture she found herself almost staring at the professor, until every time stopping herself from doing such a thing. A cadet drooling over her professor, her Vulcan professor! Was completely inappropriate and unprofessional, Vulcan professor or not! Although her eyes wandered throughout the three hour lecture she found her concentration to remain intact. Asking question and taking notes on the answers that he provided. She found that the time flew. After the lecture, with new knowledge on Tellarite and Andorrian languages she and Gaila separated. As Gaila had a Maths class and Nyota had her engineering level two communications course over on the south part of the campus in E12 Block 2.