"Repairs and Paperwork"

[Garnoopy 0]

Commander Garnoopy

Chief Engineering Officer

USS Manticore, NCC-5852

Personal Log Stardate 50901.24

 

"Repairs and Paperwork"

 

Garnoopy went over the reports from engineering. The INDIA team had caused mass chaos onboard the ship while conducting repairs and complaints had filed in from as high as bridge command staff to as low as the mess hall cook. Of course, given that Garnoopy didn't care what the ship's crew thought as long as things got fixed, he quickly filed all these complains in his top priority pile: the shredder.

 

Despite their seeming incompetence - ranging from simple power outages to two of the INDIA members being found in a rather compromising position in a storage closet - the ships systems were repaired. Power had been restored and even the bulkheads were polished . . . not to mention a litany of upgrades that had been installed.

 

Of course, Garnoopy was already inspecting each upgrade for the second time to ensure that not only did it work, but that there wasn't some hole in it that would allow someone to compromise their engineering systems. Although not a security agent, Garnoopy knew he had the most knowledge regarding what should be in a system file and what shouldn't.

 

He had also received several reports from Hilee who was cross that the INDIA team had not observed the proper 'respect' Hilee thought he was so duly entitled to as a Lieutenant. These reports were quickly dropped in the priority pile - that is, the shredder, for those who didn't clearly read the beginning of this log - and Hilee received a stern warning not to interfere with the INDIA team. Their methods may not have been the same as the Manticore's, but they were the best engineers in the fleet.

 

Garn sipped his coffee and leaned back in his chair. The whole situation that had led them to this disaster was ridiculous. They had been very lucky the entire ship hadn't simply exploded. Of course, the death count had climbed into the dozens and Garn remembered his conversation with Escher, who said you couldn't take a risk if it meant people would die. No one onboard the Manticore would have died had they simply used the subspace corridor.

 

Hindsight was twenty-twenty, though, and Garn finished his report regarding engineering systems and forwarded it to Operations, Commander Farrington and Captain Sovak. Garn's opinions regarding what they 'should' have done would remain silent. Too many people had died to point fingers any more. It was a time to reflect, mourn and move on. This was simply the Manticore way.

 

As for the moment, Garnoopy went back to studying the new systems onboard. Soon there would be a new influx of bright faces filled with hope. Just how many would end up dead was the question.