From this high up Bacchus II looked a pleasant enough place, glowing gently with the reflected light of its star. Only went to show that appearances could be deceiving ( Read more... )

Scotty was in a significantly better mood when he headed back down to Engineering a few hours later. He did the rounds, but as he'd expected, the rest of the engineers on duty had managed just fine during his brief absence. In fact none of them seemed to have noticed that he'd been gone. He would have been alerted if there was an emergency anyway ( Read more... )

It wasn't something he would have been expecting to be able to say - not in only his second week as Chief of Engineering aboard the Fleet's flagship - but nevertheless, it had happened. Scotty was boredOr perhaps bored wasn't quite the right word. It was more that he found it galling to know that there was nothing he could to to aid in the current ( Read more... )