Inspecting the Science Labs

Posted on 02/24/2020 @ 3:31pm by Lieutenant JG Jasmine Langtree
Edited on on 02/28/2020 @ 7:07pm

Mission: S1E1: Out of the Barn
Location: Deck 14 USS Crazy Horse
Timeline: Day 2 at 1330

One of the first things Lieutenant Langtree did was to check out her science labs and astrometrics labs One of the stellar cartography bay is located on deck 14, with direct EPS power feed from engineering. All information is directed to the bridge and can be displayed on any console or the main view screen. As Chief Science Officer Jasmine’s office was located next to the Stellar Cartography bay.
Jasmine was intrigued with all the advancement’s in integrated data processing, the astrometric’s laboratory brought with it technological refinements used first aboard the USS Voyager. Served directly by the auxiliary computer core, the astrometrics lab conceivably has the largest single processing potential of any single laboratory aboard ship augmented with Bio Neural Gel pack technology. Facilities include multiple multi-use consoles, control facilities, a large wraparound viewscreen and a centrally placed dais with holo-emitter.

All information was directed to the bridge and could be displayed on any console or the main view screen. When under warp or staffed by demand, the astrometric's laboratory was always manned by at least one supervising officer and as many as eight subordinates. One of the things Jasmine did was to set up what she thought was a fair rotation schedule for a three shift rotation. On this ship astro-metrics also served the functions of Stellar Cartography.

The Crazy Horse being a Luna Class starship boasted a variety of labs including a planetary sciences lab specializing in geology an archeology lab specializing in cultural antropology, a physical sciences lab specializing in engineering and quantum mechanics and stellar dynamics. There was also an Aquatics Lab featuring the arboretum, cetacean ops, hydroponics, and plant biology. It also boasted a state of the art Chemistry lab. The Crazy Horse had four advanced Bio and medical labs specializing in exo-biology, cybernetics, bio-medicine and cryostasis. She even had a tactical lab where the Tactical officer could review plans develop tactics and strategy and could review data and make plans on the best way to proceed in any event.
Jasmine couldn’t be happier as a scientist. She literally had a mobile laboratory for research and development for any forseable event. Next she spent about 2 days cataloguing her inventory fortunately she had a bevy of experienced scientists working for her. Whatever the situation they got the job done. She studied the quantum mechanics lab. Quantum theory was a specialty of hers.

Quantum theory also provides accurate descriptions for many previously unexplained phenomena, such as black hole radiation or the stability of the orbitals of electrons in atoms. It has also given insight into the workings of many different biological systems including smell receptors and protein structures. Recent work on photosynthesis has provided evidence that quantum correlations play an essential role in this fundamental process of plants and many other organisms. Even so, classical physics can often provide good approximations to results otherwise obtained by quantum physics, typically in circumstances with large numbers of particles or large quantum numbers. Since classical formulas are much simpler and easier to compute than quantum formulas, classical approximations are used and preferred when the system is large enough to render the effects of quantum mechanics insignificant.

Lieutenant Langtree checked, double checked, and triple checked making sure the science department was ready for launch and that sciences would not be a single point of failure for the Crazy Horses maiden voyage.

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Lieutenant JG Jasmine Langtree
Chief Science Officer
USS Crazy Horse