Valin Dermont: Difference between revisions

The next year he received a letter saying how Kurdan how joined Starfleet Academy.  That he was doing something with his life.  Valin looked at a video of his son, looking so handsome and proud in his cadet uniform.  It was a wakeup call.  He was going to prove that he would be worthy of his family again.  He was going to stop the self-pity and be part of something bigger than just his own meager existence.  And Starfleet was just the way to do that.  In 2190 he joined his son at the Academy.

"Cadet Dermont knows his mechanical theories.  And while, sure, he is better with the hands-on aspect of the engineering job, he nonetheless scored excellently in all aspects of the engineering classes.  Certainly well enough to be placed on a ship in the fleet.  However, I just have to note this for whatever Captain may deem it worth reading.  Dermont just might not be material fit for running his own crew.  Now, I know his background, but I didn't see it today.  We were in his final exam...a holo exercise where he takes over the role of Chief Engineer.  It is designed to see how much information he has assimilated throughout his last year and to see how he applies it in on board a vessel.  He was handling things pretty well, but at key times he failed to order the crewman to perform procedures that would have solved the problem before him.  A problem that he answered without issue in the written section, not an hour before.  So he is either forgetting how to translate the knowledge he has into a command format or he was failing to do so intentionally.  I suppose only time will tell which one.  I suggest retesting one year into his commission.