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<h2 style="margin:0; background:#0F4D92; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">USS Gemini</h2> | <h2 style="margin:0; background:#0F4D92; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">USS Gemini - First Tour</h2> | ||
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:'''Sadly''' during her involvement with the away team on the surface of Rathos Prime, Vanessa became infected with the Rathosian Pathogen, a certain death sentence. Despite this she continued to work tirelessly to try to find a cure for the pathogen once again showing her strength of character. Her accident, and ultimately her death weighed heavy on Alexander's mind causing him to question his ability to lead and his position in Starfleet. This eventually led to him snapping at [[Lan Riel|Ensign Lan Riel]], one of the ships counselors, during an impromptu session in Alexander's office. Alexander had faced the death of a colleague before but, never of one so close. It was the first time he had faced the no win scenario and his performance left him wondering just what his place in Starfleet was. He knew deep inside that he had some serious questions to ask of himself and that it was going to take a long time for the scars to heal. | :'''Sadly''' during her involvement with the away team on the surface of Rathos Prime, Vanessa became infected with the Rathosian Pathogen, a certain death sentence. Despite this she continued to work tirelessly to try to find a cure for the pathogen once again showing her strength of character. Her accident, and ultimately her death weighed heavy on Alexander's mind causing him to question his ability to lead and his position in Starfleet. This eventually led to him snapping at [[Lan Riel|Ensign Lan Riel]], one of the ships counselors, during an impromptu session in Alexander's office. Alexander had faced the death of a colleague before but, never of one so close. It was the first time he had faced the no win scenario and his performance left him wondering just what his place in Starfleet was. He knew deep inside that he had some serious questions to ask of himself and that it was going to take a long time for the scars to heal. | ||
<h2 style="margin:0; background:#0F4D92; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">USS Gemini - Sabbatical</h2> | |||
:'''Once''' the USS Gemini had docked with StarBase 224 Alexander said his goodbyes to the people he had come to know as his family away from home and settled in for what would be a three month period of soul searching. His first task was to visit the brother of the late Vanessa Driscoll and return a photo of the Driscoll family to him for safe keeping. Although his meeting with him was short, it reaffirmed in Alexander the belief of just how important family was. This knowledge of course did not make Vanessa's death any easier to handle and almost certainly made him think twice about returning to the Gemini. | |||
:'''Having''' finished with Vanessa's brother, Alexander headed immediately for StarBase 118 where he would meet his wife and son. After a very brief stop over which included Alexander bearing his soul to his wife for the first time in many years, the trio departed for Earth or more specifically the Tycho City Lunar colony where they would be spending some time with their parents. Alexander used the family time well to take stock of everything he had in life and where his future, and that of his family lay. It took a lot of convincing from his family for him to decide to stay with Starfleet and to put in a request to rejoin the USS Gemini at the earliest opportunity. With Marissa soon leaving for a long term research mission on the behalf of Starfleet within two weeks and Alexander due to rejoin the Gemini, the hard choice was made to leave John behind on Tycho at least until Marissa returned from her Scientific Exploration. | |||
:'''After''' Marissa's departure, Alexander found himself paying more and more attention to the FNS. Both he and his wife had been fortunate enough to avoid the calamity that had befallen the StarBase but had returned soon enough to witness the clean up operation. They were very glad they had left John behind as it was not a pretty sight. News on the FNS feeds seemed very bleak from colonies making demands for greater protection to mysterious disturbances in sub-space opening up near Prometheus station. Alexander spent the last few weeks of his Sabbatical relaxing in his house or eating out at Grek's Bar. A few days before the arrival of the USS Gemini, he met Doctor Dale McGregor whom he found out would be joining the crew of the USS Gemini. The pair got on rather well and bonded over some fine Scottish single malt whisky and Haggis. | |||
<h2 style="margin:0; background:#0F4D92; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">USS Gemini - Second Tour</h2> | |||
:'''The''' Gemini returned only for a quick personnel transfer and equipment requisitions stopover before setting course for Deep Space 10. The destination caused some rather painful old memories to surface in Alexander that he would have very little time to deal with. Deciding to focus on other things, he made his way to Engineering to look at the QSD in operation and to learn about it's operation. | |||
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