Posted by Lieutenant Miriam Cross (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Shuttlebay - Landing/Away Team Preparations

Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Main Sim - Shuttlebay - Landing/Away Team Preparations

It was shortly after the department head meeting and down in the Merrimack’s shuttlebay shuttle 2 was being prepped for launch by NE Tech and NE Lee. Shuttle 1 unfortunately was down for maintenance due to both previously mentioned NEs having gotten sloppy in the past week on their work and thrown a ‘unsanctioned party’ inside Shuttle 1, the exact details to which this party took shape with was still to be released. This had been in a report and the details of said party to the XO the day prior though probably had yet to be acted on in any form for punishment. For now both NEs were on report and their section chief was punishing them with extra duty shifts with preparing Shuttle 2 today while under his watchful stern gaze.

As the team to depart began to file in NE Chief Stern turned to the XO and CO. “..Sirs, Shuttle 2 is prepped and ready to go. NE Bills will be your pilot today unless you would prefer to handle it yourself?” he offered with direction of the question going to the CO given his past as a pilot too.

“No,” replied John Glen. “I’m happy to let Bills pilot. I’ve found Shuttle 2 has always had unresponsive controls and never liked it anyway!”

After his reply Stern continued, “..We have the usual team equipment in the shuttle, a basic medical, science and engineering kit. Three extra Type-1 phasers, and just in case 3 days of emergency rations. We have also provided a small ‘tribute’ box of simple food stuff samples, and print out images of different places, things, and the like from ship stores. In case you wanted to offer it as a first contact gift..” he said.

“That’s very thoughtful, Stern,” replied the Captain. “Thank you!”

Mike stood off to the side of the entrance to the shuttle awaiting everyone else and of course waiting for Stern to finish his talk. In the meantime his eyes roamed around to see if he could find the NE’s who had thrown the party. He had read the report this morning and forwarded it and his recommendations to the Captain. He had said that while he thought they had been punished enough for now it was glaringly obvious that neither one was showing even a bit of maturity. The sort of maturity which would be necessary for a person of a higher rank. He had therefore recommended that they be overlooked the next time they came up for promotion.

Cross approached Joe ‘’Say Cmdr what if the person with the broken nose had been to this party and you punished the wrong guy instead’‘ she whispered in a teasing sort of way.

Joe looked at Cross , confused for an instant. Then the look of understanding look came across his face. “Then I would have to feel sympathy for the wrongly accused individual because I have been in the same situation once or twice. ” Joe answered with a barely suppressed smile. “But as an XO I was acting on the report of the duty officer and any punishments received by any individuals will be decided by the captain not me. I only make recommendations. ” Pausing then he turned to Cross and said , “Along with that if there are any saucy little medical officers who have information which might help a wrongly accused individual they should go see the captain .

Tia arrived with a backpack and a carry case. On her hip, peaking out from her jacket now and then, was a small phaser. She nodded to everyone as the conversation paused. “Permission to store my gear?”

Cross nodded back while noticing the small phaser, if Tia had brought one then surely the rest of the away team had not come unarmed she reasoned to herself, which made the doctor more at ease.

Joe looked over at Tia . So this was the Chief Engineer. Well it was nice to finally meet her. He looked around the shuttle bay at all the people including himself who were standing about uncomfortably and then replied to the Chief saying ,”I think it might be a good idea to stow everything at this point including ourselves . I dare say the seats in the shuttle might be more comfortable than standing around on the deck . And good to meet you Chief. ” Joe then stepped aside for Cross and Tia to begin boarding .

Tia smiled back, “Good to meet you as well, Sir. And feel free to call me, Tia. Too many Chiefsaboard this mess.” She laughed.

Finally! Cross thought to herself as she boarded the shuttle The quicker we set off on this journey the sooner we’ll get back .
The female doctor now had time to check the small bag Hunter had given her, looking inside she found a stethoscope, needles for shots,sedatives, doses of painkillers, antibiotics and anti histamines which made her scratch her head at the latter.

Some of which had been taken from sickbay........ which had been on display of days gone by.

Cross CMO.

Glen noticed Tia’s phaser too. “Just to say, that as we already decided in the meeting earlier, we will stow away phasers and communicators in the shuttle, except for Security, so that we don’t display any technology that the Dol may not have. Chief of Security, Lance Del Wolf, will be coming with us and will be making sure we are kept safe. The Transporter Chief will hold a transporter lock on us in case we need a quick extraction. Please do make small talk but don’t mention our technology or equipment in conversation. We may decide to exchange technology with the Dol, but if we do so, I will have to make that decision without compromising the spirit or essence of the Prime Directive.”

• Glen, CO

“Of course, Captain,” Tia replied. She must have come in after the weapon situation has been discussed. Realizing she might get separated from the security team as she had in the past, she tucked her phaser into the very bottom of her till bag. Amongst the other items, it just looked like another tool. Hopefully it was something security would be reminding her to return, later, because she’s forgotten about it

Trucking the bag in the webbing beneath her seat, she sat down to allow the others to move a bit easier. Tucking an errand red lock behind her ear, she moved her legs sideways as the XO stepped by her. “Empty seat of you want it,” she said and nodded to the one on her right.

It occurred to her afterwards he might be helping pilot and mentally betrayed herself for the stupid offer.

Tia
CE
(Just being nice…I swear…lol)