Tariq Abboud

Main Points:
Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU
Summary: Jim's notes on Tariq Abboud.
Word Count: 387
Rating: Gen

NAME: TARIQ ABBOUD
RANK: ENSIGN
SERVICE NUMBER: UJ782-6454XOU
ASSIGNMENT: USS ENTERPRISE
SIGNATURE: Tariq Abboud

      Kind of mysterious, but he just joined us at the last colony to replace our previous archaeologist, Dr. Kristi Ljungstrand, who joined a planetary expedition when ruins twelve billion years old were discovered on a planet.  The rumors were that it might’ve been remnants of a civilization like the Preservers.  He generally likes to keep to himself but is amiable enough.  Pretty sure he’s got a crush on Uhura, which I can’t blame him for given that she’s really smart and pretty, but probably also isn’t the best idea.  He’s working on getting his doctorate and I guess is on the ‘do some original research’ portion of the process?  I dunno, I did most of my stuff online, so I’m not sure how it works in the ‘real world’.  Well, and I kinda never completely finished any program because I couldn’t stay in one major long enough, ha.  I get bored easily.
      I don’t think he does, though.  I mean, I can sit still for playing 3-D chess with Spock, but he engages in staring contests with Engineering and they take those things seriously.
      He reads all those old twentieth century fantasy novels that are basically all different versions of each other, of which I recognized maybe two?  I read a few of them, anyway.  He likes being planetside more than being on the Enterprise which is a shame but I guess not everyone can appreciate her beauty.  I think he really enjoys studying new weather phenomena and how they affect architecture and ancient things, which, I guess; fair enough, other than ion storms or you know lightning in space which is a bad thing that I never want to see again you don’t get weather in space.  I really want to learn more about him and talk to him but he tends to clam up when I talk to him.  He’s slightly more comfortable if other people talk to him and he hasn’t noticed me but I’m not sure if he’s just shy or what.  I’ve tried asking him about his work or weather because usually that’s at least something that gets people talking, but no dice.  I’ll keep trying, though, ‘cause if anyone knows me, I don’t believe in no-win scenarios.