SajidaKajada
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OFF: This will take place after Sajida and Valren are finished and when K'Hare finishes with Tauvits
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>> XFY: The Legion <<
After Valren had left Sajida she asked the bartender yet again for another refill on her sunset.
As he prepared it she twirled around to look at the bar in its entirety and noticed a rather large Klingon sitting in the middle of the Legion at a table all to himself with one mug full of bloodwine and several empties. Feeling rather curious she got her drink and a bloodwine from the bartender and walked over to the Klingon, clearing her throat and speaking. "You seem lost in thought or rather the bottom of that mug there" Sajida said to the Klingon. "You may not have noticed you were about to run dry."
K'Hare looked up at the gold shirted mongrel and noted the odd pair of drinks she was carrying. She was right, he had just one tankard left and she had brought a spare so he pointed to an empty chair, an invitation for her to sit down. "Your uniform... you are security?"
"No no, Engineering actually, security was never my forte" Sajida said while sitting down on a chair to the opposing end of the table.
K'Hare sat up with interest. Perhaps she would not be yet another part-Klingon using her natural strength advantage to gain position in the human world. "Engineering... you don't meet many Klingons who study that. Tell me, what sort of ship are you in charge of?"
Sajida smiled while staring at the glass of Samarian Sunset and its swirling colors as the mention of him thinking she was in charge of Excalibur's Engineering department was comical, then again he would not know if she was in charge or not.
"I only wish I was the Chief" Sajida responded with a chuckle. "I am Sajida Kajada, Assistant Chief Engineering Officer on the USS Excalibur possibly you have heard of her?" she asks him.
K'Hare raised an eyebrow, "'Only the assistant'? So you are not proud of your position?"
"On the contrary I am very proud of where I am!" she answered while taking a drink of her beverage. "It may have taken a while and getting there was quite a journey"
K'Hare laughed. "You are far too serious. When you talk of your ship say what you mean. Modesty is a human failing." He finished one tankard and picked up the next. "Yes, I have heard of the ship... Marten's ship, right?"
"It was his until he was kidnapped by an old arch enemy of his. A renegade Admiral who had some kind of personal conflict with him. The Executive Officer is now in command of the Excalibur now" she replied with a rather distasteful look on her face.
"Well, it seems I haven't kept up with your task force. Martens kidnapped? I am surprised I haven't been briefed. But perhaps the federation considers it an internal matter. But onto more important issues," he said with a grin. "Why aren't you the Chief Engineer? Aren't you good enough?"
"Of course I am good enough!!" Sajida said in a somewhat loud tone. "Even my Chief knows I am more than qualified to step into his shoes but I'd never forcefully take the position unless he left, he's too good a friend to do that to anyways."
He smiled... that was more like a Klingon response.
Taking yet another drink from her glass she smiled at the Klingon and asked him a question "Well then what is your name my friend? I remember you from the judges panel last year and when you stood on that keg of bloodwine to grab everyone's attention" she said with a chuckle "It certainly got mine!"
He looked her over. She was toying with him. That she didn't know his name was unlikely. "Well, apparently not enough to remember my name." He took a quick drink. "I am K'Hare totlh, commanding officer of Klach D'kel Brakt... perhaps you've heard of it." He gave her a false questioning look. Of course she'd heard of it, she had attended the last tournament there. He continued. "And while there is no doubt I am the best Klingon Engineer in the fourth fleet, I will assert I am also the best Engineer period." He smile was mocking, but it was also filled with humor. It was clear he was just having fun with her.
"Hmph!" she grunted to him while downing more of the drink in her hand "And what makes you so special? Did you get recognized for a minor shuttle refit that somehow made Starfleet headline news??" she said laughing a little.
He joined he laughter. "A shuttle refit you say? So you aren't the Chief Engineer of the Excalibur, but still you are in charge of its refits? My my... perhaps I did make a mistake in recognizing your importance." He continued smoothly without giving her time to consider what he said. "As to what makes me important, well that should be obvious. It is the same thing that makes every Klingon important. Me, I do. I don't need a starfleet headline."
"Well then, if you are such a self sufficient Klingon, why do you need a federation ship."
K'Hare laughed. "So you do know the ship I rode in on! Ha! It may be silver, but the incorporates Klingon designs. Without those designs... it may as well be a puny explorer class."
"Oh yeah... those Klingon designs would never have worked if not for the human Engineer Montgomery Scott. Without his input, the ship was just a like a Klingon... big, clumsy, tripping over itself. And you can't deny it... your ship is even named after the human."
K'Hare eyed her. She was here for a reason and he'd just figured it out. "Yes, the IKS Montgomery Scott is one of the support ships for my base. But I named it after the Engineer, not the human. If you'd met him, you understand that he was an Engineer above all else."
"So you did know him! Tell me, what was it like knowing such a legend." Sajida asked with enthusiasm.
K'Hare smiled. He would have been insulted but she was an Engineer and he understood. "For a human, he was very Klingon. He could outdrink most and his dedication to his ship, his captain, was immensely honorable. As for what it is like to know a legend... I am sure many will ask you the same question once I am gone."
Laughing up a storm Sajida fell back in her chair and answered K'Hare "Ah my friend you make me laugh! Yet they possibly may ask me too. But to know Scott must have been something...." she replied taking a pause. "Did he work on the ship with you or was it just named in memoriam of him?"
K'Hare waved at the bar for a few more rounds and switched into his story telling mode. "Now as a starfleet Engineer you have no doubt heard the stories. Some say its just a story but I met him and can tell you it was true. When he first returned, it was not so much kept secret but just wasn't broadcast. He was given the freedom to do what he wanted. At the same time, starfleet and the Empire was working on the original raptor and it had its successes and failures. In the end the problems with the ship outweighed its advantages...it was to be scraped. But, fate stepped in and Scotty returned to starfleet looking for a challenge just as the project was about to be killed. Since the integration of starfleet and Empire technology then was primarily based on notes from his old reports from way back when... made during his time on a stolen bI'rel, they gave him the task of saving the ship. It took him less than 6 months to ..."
K'Hare continued with the story weaving in and out of the raptor's history and the antics of the design team and the stories about their drinking and the results binges. Oddly, the personal details of the story centered as much around a Klingon ne' and his actions as they did around the legendary Engineer. K'Hare told the story well and made it seem almost as if he was there.
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The BF database entry for the raptor class http://www.bravofleet.com/avalon/starship-raptor.htm, the class of the KDB support ship, IKS Montgomery Scott.
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