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Engineering - Day 26 - OPEN

Dec 07, 2010 17:47

Jim supposed that, maybe, since they were docked and he had nothing pressing to do, it would have made more sense to wander the starbase a while, get off the ship. It would’ve been a change of scenery, and maybe, if he had time in the next few days, he would leave, but for now, he needed to spend some time with his girl ( Read more... )

!shoreleave post, character: keenser, location: engineering deck, character: kirk, timeline: day 26, !nonmission post, character: scott, character: mears

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transwarp_beam December 7 2010, 23:17:00 UTC

On this particular day Engineering was in a state of loosely controlled chaos. Not that Engineering wasn't normally in a state of barely controlled chaos, but given how utterly wrecked the entire department had got in the course of the mission, this probably qualified as a special circumstance. All around, overworked and exhausted engineers - many of them injured in small ways - were practising the time-honoured method of hitting things with wrenches, shouting at them, and when that failed, shouting at each other.

In the midst of it all was the chief engineer, seemingly everywhere at once, flitting from one minor crisis to another like a hummingbird on speed. The arms of his overalls were knotted around his waist, the shirt underneath sporting a fetching smeared-with-engine-oil look. He tucked a pair of welding gloves into his waistband and lifted a set of safety goggles up off of his eyes as he spotted the captain entering engineering, and strode purposefully across the main floor to meet him. "Captain."

daredtodo December 7 2010, 23:25:31 UTC

"Scotty!" This was the first he'd really seen much of his Chief Engineer since his... misadventures in drinking the other night. Well, it wasn't as if he was the only one. In fairness, he'd had less time to build up the metabolic resitance to alcohol that Bones and Scotty had.

Was this going to be awkward? Jeesh, he hoped not. "How's my girl?"

transwarp_beam December 7 2010, 23:32:12 UTC

"'Fraid she's no' in great shape, Captain," Scotty replied, scrubbing a hand across his face wearily. It left a streak of oil behind. "We've got life support back on form, but we're still havin' trouble wi' power distribution, no' t'mention the computer system's a bloody shambles..." He shook his head and gave a wry half-smile. "I'll spare y'the technobabble. Short version...I've got every spare set'a hands workin' on it, we should have the worst sorted in th'next forty-eight hours."

daredtodo December 7 2010, 23:38:08 UTC

Jim's brows immediately furrowed in concern over that. "You've already been at it for a good forty-eight hours," he said. "The computer, where's the glitching in that that you haven't got resolved? All programming issues, I'd assume?" Translation: is everything plugged in?

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sweetinaskirt December 8 2010, 02:58:11 UTC

Daniela had felt no pressing need to leave the ship for shore leave, so she had most of the yeoman office's duties on her shoulders. Walking through Engineering, she looked up at the tubes and catwalks nervously. Most things that went wrong with the ship seemed to originate in Engineering, and it would be just her luck that a pipe would explode over her head or something.

Catching a hint of gold out of the corner of her eye, she stopped herself just in time from running into the Captain as he rounded the corner.

A bit flustered at the near collision, she squeaked, "Hello, sir!"

daredtodo December 8 2010, 22:58:36 UTC

Flail, squeak, yeoman. That was apparent before Jim even got his focus on the flailing, squeaking being in question. A beat later, he'd identified Daniela and adopted a warm, friendly smile. "Yeoman Mears, nice accident aversion, I must say," he said teasingly.

sweetinaskirt December 8 2010, 23:10:51 UTC

"Sir," she replied, getting her bearings. "Umm, thanks. I noticed your shirt." Shifting nervously from one foot to the other, she struggled for something to say. She hoped he wasn't down there because something was wrong with the ship.

"Is everything... good? With the ship?"

daredtodo December 8 2010, 23:22:02 UTC

"She's seen better, but she's certainly seemed worse." As he said that, Jim wondered a moment if referring to the Enterprise almost exclusively in affectionate feminine pronouns made him entirely sane. And then he rationalized no one was really allowed to call him on it, anyway -- except for Bones, who already knew he was his own Kirk brand of crazy, and Spock, who still seemed to be trying to wrap his head around comprehension of Jim -- he could call his girl whatever he wanted. Err, and by "his girl" he totally means the Enterprise.

"The crew's getting things back in optimal working order, at least," he added. "I'm just down for a little observatory stroll."

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