Another Day Under The Warp Core

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Another Day Under The Warp Core

A Log by Lt David Johnson

 

 

David stood at the Impulse Manifold/Reactor console tapping buttons and re-calibrating the engines. Since the ship was sitting still and because Lt Commander Jax had left so hurriedly without leaving any instructions David figured he would help catch up on the engineering workload. There was a pile of padds on Jax’s desk as high as a wedding cake and it was obvious to David that he had missed something big in the two short weeks he had been away from the ship. Rebecca was in a similar position because Lt Commander Robinson and two of her new security colleagues had left the ship with Lt Commander Jax on a mission that neither David nor Rebecca knew anything about. So she was passing her time by re-organizing the weapons in the armory so they would be more easily accessible if the ship was boarded. For David, it was another day under the warp core, and he couldn’t have been happier about it. While he had enjoyed his wedding and honeymoon he had been somewhat restless and that restlessness had increased slightly when Lt Commander Jax had left without saying more than 5 words to him, “Go hold down Engineering Dave.” So when he saw that their was a mountain of work to do he got right on it and as he re-calibrated the impulse engines so they would function more efficiently for a longer period of time he took a look at another padd that he had grabbed out of the “To Do” pile on Jax’s desk. It seemed that the holodeck one had still not been repaired and was, so far as he knew still malfunctioning. He remembered that he had once been ordered to repair the holodeck but he had been stopped on his way there by a comm. call ordering him back to engineering where he was informed that there was a far more important task to be done; checking out a funky smell in one of the shuttles. As he remembered one of several demeaning tasks he had been given by Lt Commander Bob that particular week and he dreaded even having to ask him about the holodeck’s however Lt Commander Bob had given him permission to re-calibrate the impulse manifold so maybe, just maybe, Jax had spoken to him during the time David had been on leave, or maybe he was treating him with more respect because he was a Lt now. Whatever the case, David saw no reason to hesitate asking him because he had decided a while back that he would no longer be intimated by Bob. Even though he held a higher rank than he did, it was no excuse for disrespect towards a fellow Starfleet officer and although he hadn’t had a problem with months David realized that he was his same, “chipper” self when he had walked into engineering and greeted him only to get a grunt for a response. David put down the padd and went back to the re-calibration. He wanted to finish it as soon as he could because if for some reason the ship needed to get out of the area in a hurry, having the impulse engines offline would make things difficult. He tried to have a quick conversation with his wife over the comm. but he was quickly silenced by Lt Commander Bob. After having to cut his conversation short he chuckled to himself and thought to himself, “Nothing has changed around here, nope, nothing at all.”