CSO Lieutenant Alexis Wright
Posted on August 5th, 2014 by Alexis Wright

Alexis felt good about her plan. It was a good plan. She kept assuring herself of this as she left the lab and made her way to the turbolift. It WAS a good plan, wasn’t it? She’d run so many simulations, she was sure her calculations were perfect. But there were so many variables, so many things that could go wrong… and she worried that what she had to offer wouldn’t be enough.

There were moments when Alexis felt woefully unprepared for the leadership role that she’d accepted aboard the Atlantis, and this was one of them. Actual lives hung in the balance; people were depending on her to make the right decisions. When she was fulfilling the roles of both Chief Science Officer and Operations Officer, she found that she didn’t have time for this kind of self-doubt to creep into her thoughts. Stepping onto the turbolift, she shook herself slightly and reminded herself that this adjustment to a strictly Science role was what she wanted – what she had asked for.

"Bridge."

Alexis spent her ride to the bridge mentally rehearsing what she was going to say, how she would describe her plan to Vice Admiral Blackthorne, and what she would do if he decided against it. She didn’t have a backup plan. This was going to have to work, because otherwise, she was out of ideas… and being out of ideas was way outside of her comfort zone. It was not just her job to always have another idea; it was part of her identity.

She arrived at the bridge and relieved the Science officer manning her new station, surreptitiously glancing over at the Ensign now manning Ops. She quickly suppressed feelings of jealousy that welled up within her. There was no time for jealousy; the plan required quick action. Alexis faced the Admiral, took a deep breath to focus herself, and did something else outside of her comfort zone.

She took a leap of faith.