Engineering Quirks

Posted on Mon Nov 17th, 2014 @ 1:14am by Captain Jack Solomon

470 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Mission 87 - Disaster
Location: Main Engineering, USS Ark Royal

After his meeting with Commander Coleman, Jack left the bridge and headed to Main Engineering via the turbolift. On the way there he was aware of the fact there was no overall Chief Engineer for the mission. Due to his previous experience, Jonathan has assigned Jack to this position and Jack had decided time was of the essence in getting the maintenance list dealt with and making sure the Ark Royal was up to specs.

He entered Main Engineering and took a quick look around. He still felt a surge of excitement being on an Ambassador class starship and seeing the Warp Core happily throbbing away made it all the more comfortable.

Jack took the oppurtunity to look up two young officers he had chosen to assist him as he entered the Chief Engineers office. He tapped the comm button. "Lieutenants Quan and Wooldridge, please report to the Chief Engineers Office," he said over the comm.

After arriving on the Ark, Jack, together with Watson, Travers and Walshie, signed on the main crew roster after embarkation, then headed down to engineering deck 2 to meet up with Dye and Truman. Jack wanted to run some procedures past the squad for when they beamed down at the disaster zone. The teams that were going down needed familiarisation with some specialist equipment and jack wanted to run the squad (and himself), through these procedures.

They strolled into engineering and met up with Dye and Harry, who were running through some Warp drive alignments with CPO Hartley. “Alright guys, found it alright then” said jack, thumping Dye on the back. “Yeah we got there alright, I almost killed an AB for nearly running me over with a trolley though” “hey, think about me I WAS run over” exclaimed Watson. “Jack, I learnt from up top that we’re all being assigned to Beta Watch and Alpha’s taking us out” said Dye, furiously scrolling through a PADD detailing Warp core temperatures. “Ok, you heard him, everyone too quarters, get bedded in and we’ll meet up later for tea, biscuits and SATCOM testing” said jack, already remembering his cabin was on deck 8, section 3, room 112.

Before he could take 3 steps however, the tannoy rang out. “ Lieutenants Quan and Wooldridge, please report to the Chief Engineers Office, I repeat Lieutenants Quan and Wooldridge please report to the Chief Engineers Office, thank you." “No rest for the wicked mate” sniggered Travers. “He’s only been on the ship 10 minutes and he’s already been called to the headmaster’s office” chimed in Truman. “I’m being called on to be told I’m being promoted to captain boys, don’t you worry, I’ll see you at defaulters tomorrow, now be off with you” said jack, smiling but wondering where the Chief engineers’ office actually was.

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