Silviene Felis:
Silviene folds her ears back and shifts her footing.
"well my main concern is teamwork and familiarizing our teams to each other. best to find problems early so they can be resolved before it could cause an issue at a critical moment. also we three should run some ourselves not just our teams. Good teamwork starts at the top. if we cant get along or work together how can we expect our subordinates to do so?"
Sergei Kondratev:
"I agree. We should work together as well. I'm looking to make sure the junior medics know how to work as a team with other personnel in stressful situations."
Silviene Felis:
Silviene looks at Dr. Kondratev
"So, What are your ideas for this venture?"
Sergei Kondratev:
"Given that we're heading to face a potentially unknown foe, I think it would be best to split our officers into teams and face randomly generated enemies. Varying species, numbers, weaponry. Preparing for unexpected scenarios seems best. But I'm not the tactician." He smiles slightly.
Silviene Felis:
Silviene laughs,
"I see your point, but those are good ideas."
At first Shard politely looks at each speaker, but just after the Doctors first comment, both of Shards antennae turn to point back over his right shoulder -- and he quietly slips into what Humans call a "thousand yard stare" -- for several moments.
Just as suddenly, Shard seems to give himself a little shake, and he looks from Silviene to Sergei with an apologetic grin,
"I'm sorry. I was following what you were saying, but I thought I overheard an argument starting up, out in the corridor -- turned out to be a pair of engineers doing some good-natured ribbing getting a little loud."
"So. While I basically agree with both of you, I don't think we should jump right into combat scenarios. Our focus here, as the Doctor has said..." Shard nods to Sergei,
"...is first to establish protocols for our people to work together under stress, not just to shoot at the same targets. Perhaps a series of search-and-rescue scenarios in a variety of environments, including aboard damaged ships both with, and without, atmosphere."
"As for the three of us, I assume that each of us, individually, is competent at our jobs, so where we need to focus is our ability to understand the needs and methods of commanding each others personnel. My belief is that we start this process by collectively observing and critiquing each others people, then we review each others reviews, pointing out where we might have been too easy or too hard on someone, or where we might have given a comment without taking some departmental factor we are unaware of into account."
"For example, I might be too harsh in marking down a Medic for being to slow to pull a weapon in defense of himself; whereas you, Doctor, would point out that the Medic is trained with that silly Ancient Human dogma -- the one about not hurting people?"
"Anyway, as you can see, my point is that, as a Security Officer -- and an Andorian -- I would tend to downplay a Medic's training not to hurt people as a weakness, whereas you, Doctor, would likely consider it a strength. Commander Felis...actually, I'm not sure where you'd decide in this example. But! We need to address these differences in our command thinking, before I start sending your people into the grinder, or you start telling my people to hold their fire in the face of overt threats. And they all need to know that we are aware of their concerns, and that we've worked it out between us."
Believing he sees some sign of reluctance on the part of Silviene, Shard asks her,
"First Staff assignment, Commander Felis?", Shard smiles,
"Well then, welcome to the PADD-Pushers Club. You can forget any hopes of spending long, exciting hours exploring beneath exotic alien suns. Your job now is to push data and send younger, lowly Junior Officers out to have all the fun!"