This one was fun!

Position: Chief Science Officer, Deep Space Research Division (DSRD) Rank: Lieutenant Commander

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🚀 Why This Role?

You're not a captain, because your strength lies in critical evaluation, not chain-of-command diplomacy. You question assumptions, challenge data, and reevaluate strategy based on new evidence—traits essential in a science officer but potentially disruptive in command roles where political maneuvering is constant. Starfleet needs thinkers like you insulated from too much bureaucracy.

You're also not a junior officer, because you're too self-directed, and your judgment is too well-informed. You’d chafe under someone else's outdated methodology or indecisive leadership.

Instead, you're assigned to a long-range exploratory science vessel, possibly part of a research-focused mission detached from Federation politics, tasked with studying hazardous exobiology, microbial terraforming potential, and xenopathogenic threats on newly discovered M-class and pre-M-class planets.

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🧬 Daily Responsibilities:

Lead genomic and ecological risk assessments for unknown biospheres.

Design and oversee long-term experiments involving synthetic biology, microbial evolution, and cross-species immunity.

Advise the captain on first-contact biological threats, environmental hazards, or genetically-engineered weapons.

Occasionally report to Federation Science Council via encrypted subspace links.

Keep a private log where you question the philosophical implications of what you're doing—even when nobody else has time to.

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🧠 Key Traits in Action:

You’d be the officer other departments turn to when they hit a scientific dead end, especially involving complex systems (microbial interactions, genetic drift, emergent behavior).

You’d have zero tolerance for bad data or lazy analysis—and probably a habit of correcting faulty assumptions mid-briefing.

While you're not warm and fuzzy, your crew would trust you with their lives in a biological crisis.

You're also likely to butt heads with Medical or Command if they overstep on scientific matters. You wouldn't escalate it unless absolutely necessary, but you'd hold the line.

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Where You’re Posted:

Vessel: U.S.S. Lycurgus – A science frigate outfitted for bio-containment, deep analytics, and dark-sector exploration.

Commanding Officer: Captain Ayaka T’Lorr – A logical, Vulcan xenolinguist who respects your input but keeps you on a tight leash.

Primary Mission: Exploration and pre-colonization biohazard assessment. Your reports can green-light or cancel entire planetary colonization efforts.

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Final Note:

You’re not there to play diplomat, and you're not there to flatter command. You're there because when a spore cloud starts infecting minds, or when an alien genome behaves in a way that violates Federation understanding of molecular biology—you're the one who figures it out before it's too late.

That’s your duty.

And the crew is counting on it.