Engineering 101, Wednesday Period 2 - Lesson 1, January 10

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Geordi sat behind his desk as he waited for his students to enter the classroom. Once everyone was seated and the noise had calmed down he stood up and walked around to the front of his desk. He surveyed the class before he spoke, “Good morning and welcome to Engineering 101,” he said in a clear voice, hoping that his nervousness wasn’t visible, “I’m Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge, you may address me as either Commander or Professor LaForge, I have no preference as to which.”



He paused, “as you can see from the syllabus on your desk this is going to a pretty intense course and it is important that you keep up to date with the work, however it is has also been designed for those who have had little or no experience with engineering so if the latter concerns you there really is no need to worry. If for some reason you discover that you’re having difficulties with any of the topics covered throughout the course feel free to see me and I’ll be happy to help, my contact details and office hours are on a separate sheet of paper on your desk,”

He leaned against his desk, “now today is going to be a basic class, just to cover what you should expect in this course and general introductions. Now I’d like for each of you to give me your name, year, one fact about you and why you’re taking Engineering 101,” he gave a small smile, “I’ll start, I’m Geordi LaForge, I’m a teacher, I’m currently taking leave from my position as Chief Engineer on the Federation starship Enterprise and I’m teaching engineering because I was offered the position as Engineering Professor even though I haven’t actually taught at a high school before,” he motioned at one of the students for them to give their introductions.

[wait for the OCD is up!]

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Re: Talk to Geordi

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"Well a starship, well is another name for a spaceship," Geordi replied, smiling at Rikku's enthusiasm, "and in a nutshell yes, that's what my job as Chief Engineer entailed, well I guess it still entails" he paused, "and I hope that I can teach the basics of engineering, which includes fixing engines,"

Re: Talk to Geordi

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Rikku attempts to explain the reason for her excitement, but she gets even more worked up, and ends up spilling out a huge rush of words at the poor unsuspecting professor.

"Pops just called the airship an airship, I mean, we didn't know the real name for it, nobody was even sure it would work, you know, but we were kinda stuck so we just fired it up and boom! There it was and we were just flying! And now all of us are kinda living up there but nobody really knows how to fix it and I wasn't sure it'd get here since we usually just stayed on Spira just going to different towns, you know, and so Brother's always down there clanging around with tools but you don't want to screw anything up, you know, and it's a thousand years old anyway so it shouldn't even be working but it is! But it's gotta break eventually, right?!"

She takes a much-needed breath. "So, you fix them? The spaceships? When they break? While they're still flying around?"

Re: Talk to Geordi

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"Federation starships are designed to have primary and secondary systems," Geordi replied, "the ship maintains its position depending on the level of damage it sustains and how long it takes to get it working again, I was Chief Engineer on the starship Enterprise before coming here but I basically know the entire engineering operations of the Federation fleet,"