Maria Alvarez: Difference between revisions

* '''Shoreleave 239712.02 - 239801.04''': Maria finds herself struggling to adapt to everyday life aboard the Arrow, especially after such a wild first day.  She fails to connect with her new roommate, and has a spat with both the CO and XO in an attempt to minimize and hide her actions, already set on edge by the ship buzzing about her actions in Engineering.  She finds herself reliving killing Ghant over and over again.  She reaches out to Regan Wilde, one of the few people she felt like she connected to after cake, but the first two tries at their friendship go terribly awry.  She speaks at the funeral for [[Sofia Davenport]].  Regan and Maria finally manage to bond over a game of paintball assassin, and Maria is overwhelmed when Regan reveals he gave up his holodeck time on the Syrtan to be with her, and they become fast friends.  Maria receives the Legion of Merit and the Innovation Ribbon in the awards ceremony.

* '''[[The Ultimatum (Arrow)]] 239801.04 - 239802.24''': Maria leads a new charge to decipher the Sheliak language, under pressure with the new Sheliak threat to Theta 122.  The effort doesn't get very far with too little time to make serious progress.  She aids in a maneuver to disable the Razor's Edge, and mostly facilitates the crew's actions.  When the crew discovers they can't get communications with the away team and that the shuttle had been shot down, she works with the engineering teams to jury-rig a probe that can bypass the interference in the atmosphere.  This plan helps regain contact, and also draw the attention of a Sheliak captain.  With contact re-established with the away team, the ''Arrow'' discovers there's not just an Iconian portal, but a live Iconian on the surface.  With the Sheliak captain now heading to the surface, Maria assists with a plan to dive the ''Arrow'' into the atmosphere and shut down the portal so the Sheliak can't benefit from the technology.  The plan works, and the crew rescue a number of wounded from the surface, the Sheliak beaming away and repatriating the rest.

* '''Shoreleave 239802.25 - Present''': Maria started out the leave with little to do other than paperwork, leaving her in a bit of a bored bind.  She spent a fair bit of her early leave with her friend, Regan - emceeing "FSB" and consoling him about long lost love, Nicholas Rehme.  During the same discussion, Maria discovers her roommate, Chloe, might be harboring a growing crush on R'Ariel, and she meets the ship's new doctor, Cassie Mason.  She eventually returns to her doldrums though, worse than ever.  She ends up improvising a rap during the bridge night watch with Collins that cuts some of the tension, and the two end up reconciling and sharing music and drinks while the watch finishes.  It's still not enough, and in an attempt to escape dwelling on her past, she invents a project to build a holodeck aboard the ''Arrow''.  Her first step is to justify the need of such a construction, and prove its viability.  In the course of doing so, she winds up taking likeable R'Ariel out for drinks and having a surprisingly in-depth conversation about identity, siblings, myths, and legends.  Soon after, she's compiling data, and discovers Regan is being transferred off of ''Arrow'' by his father.  Upset, she confronts him, and is frustrated when he refuses to fight the transfer even though he doesn't want to go.  The next day, she goes to sickbay to gather more data for pitching the holodeck, but winds up making a new friend when she confides in Cassie about Regan, and shares a conversation about joining Starfleet and Maria's past.  Maria is delighted later when Regan asks her to help him stop the transfer once and for all - she takes internal sensors offline long enough for Regan to have a private conversation with his father.  That complete, she finally pitches her idea of a holodeck to the Captain and the Engineering team.  Afterwards, she has an antagonistic confrontation with Shayne over what to do with the Sheliak linguistic data ''Arrow'' gathered, but more importantly the events of Regan's transfer.  She eventually reaches a truce with the Captain, only backing down from her position when the alternative is a transfer.  She's awarded a second '''Innovation Ribbon''' for her efforts assisting in closing the Iconian Portal on Theta 122.

* '''[[Miracle of Venthis (Arrow)]] 239803.30 - 239805.06''': The ''Arrow'' is assigned to Second Contact with the people of the planet Venthis. Venthis had been in a global catastrophic civil war for nearly two hundred years before the fighting suddenly stopped eighteen months ago. After First Contact with the ''Arkhipov'', the Venthis have petitioned for membership in the United Federation of Planets. ''Arrow'' is tasked with evaluating the planet for membership and discovering the reason for their new technological advancement in such a short time.  Maria is tasked with running a survey of a large debris field surrounding the planet, hunting for clues as to the technological advancement.  She doesn't get very far before the ship suddenly locks down, every console aboard displaying a Greek Omega symbol.  After releasing the lockout, the captain abruptly re-tasks her to building a quantum resonance chamber with Hayley Caden.  Upon completion, she finds herself thrown into escorting the enigmatic Venthian, Hawisa Alios, then taking her daughter, Azzo, on a brief tour of the ''Arrow'' that ends in Sickbay.  Before long, Maria is ordered to the surface with Serinus, Ander, and Caden to find the Omega Particle and neutralize it.  They nearly locate the particle in a southern city called Lowka when they're pinned down by enemy forces.  ''Arrow'' barely manages to beam them and the particle out just in time, leaving Maria somewhat dazed as the particle is deposited in the closest black hole.

* '''[[What Happens on Risa... (Arrow)]] 239805.06 - Present''': Maria is dragged into a book club by Quentin and Cassie, but manages to convince them to go on an adventure with her at the next available opportunity in return.  While cleaning out a storage closet, Maria discovers an old Fleeter Still, and takes it to Shayne.  She tries to convince him to keep the still, and they end up drunk and discussing a mysterious letter of the Captain's in the process, somehow bringing the two slightly closer to an understanding.  Later, she throws a birthday bash on Risa, and convinces some fellow officers to dance at the club with her.  At the awards ceremony, she's decorated with an '''Innovation Ribbon''' and '''Captain's Commendation'''.  She barely manages to catch up with Regan, who's decided it's time to take leave of Starfleet for a while, and says her goodbyes to her friend.

{{Citation|Scotty Cross|2398|[[USS Arrow]]|Given to an officer who shows extreme creativity while solving a plot dilemma or in character plot twist.}}

{{Citation|Neelix Award|2398|[[USS Arrow]]|For extra, out-of-character simming devotion. This includes, but isn't limited to, helping fellow officers who are in need of simming aid, visibility on the forums, OOC list presence, upkeep of wiki pages, etc.}}

{{Citation|Voyager Medallion|2398|[[USS Arrow]]|Named after the USS Voyager, this award is presented to those Operations officers who have shown great skill in keeping a starship in working order despite near-impossible circumstances. The officers receiving this award have advanced the field of Operations, making sure duty rosters, provisions, gear, and even recreation time are available... no matter what.}}