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Inappropriate Consequences.
The communicator was ringing.
Normally, this occurrence could have signified a new mission, a great danger of some form or another, and had the general population of the Star ship on their toes, ready to go in moments.
( This instant, though, James Tiberius Kirk, newly commissioned Captain of the Enterprise, could not give a flying fuck if there was an attack being mounted against the new settlement on Delta V, where his brother was currently camped out. )