Star Trek: Ascendant - Shakedown Cruise IC

[Rhun]

"Interesting," says Hale with a frown. "While it may be an accident, I still think it warrants investigation. I mean, for that chip to get in there, it would have had to get routed to the Ascendant by mistake, and then installed in the system without anyone catching it." The Lt. Commander shrugs. "Certainly not impossible, but I'd like to be sure."

 

[knightemplar]

Lt. Morrow turns back towards Lt. Commander Winters, "Yes, sir. I think I can replicate and reprogram a new chip within the hour, sir." She turns with both the good one and bad one in her hand and heads out of the magazine.

 

[Rhun]

"Keep me informed," says Hale. "I should report our findings." He nods his head to Winters, and then moves to leave the ship's magazine, making his way back to the bridge.

 

[ethandrew]

Lieutenant Commander Winters looks around the magazine, the only one left in the room, and soaks up its splendor. It truly was a sight to behold, a great, destructive sight. After a few moments, he turns and exits the magazine as well, heading toward his office to file his own report, do a little research, and hopefully track where this fault originated.

 

[knightemplar]

Coming on to the bridge, Lt. Commander Hale notices that Ensign Benson currently has the center seat. As the two eyes meet, Benson makes a motion over towards the door to the hallway that leads to the Commodore's ready room as well as to the briefing room.

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As Lt. Commander Winters arrives just around the corner from his office, he notices Lt. Singh waiting outside the door. As he turns around for a second, he notices that this is still Alpha shift, and wonders why Lt. Singh from Beta shift is waiting.

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Dr. Crescent rounds the corner from his office into the main sickbay. He notices that Dr Corwin has already set up for Crewman Montgomery's examination on biobed three against the wall.

Looking across the room, he also sees the male andorian nurse checking on Ensign Grenadine, who seems to be resting comfortably.

 

[Rhun]

Hale nods at Benson, and then moves down the hallway to the door to the Commodore's ready room. He pauses for just a moment, and then sounds the chime.

 

[ethandrew]

Winters pace slows almost to a stop when he spots the Beta-shift Lt. Singh. "Is there something I can help you with, Lieutenant?" Winters asks apprehensively.

 

[knightemplar]

"Enter", says the voice through the door, then the door slides open.

Jonas sees the Commodore and Admiral Kiel sitting down in the couch area of her ready room.

"Have a seat Commander.", as she makes a hand wave at the couch. "Actually we wanted to talk to you about your future."

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"Uhh sorry, Commander", Singh says as he drops the padd he was working on, and then picks it up off the floor.

He holds the padd out for Steven to take.

"I would like to test some changes on the port sensor arrays, with some ideas I had, sir."

As Steven quickly scans the padd, it looks like a reconfigurement of the sensor array and replacement of a few parts with new ones made in one of the engineering labs. It could be an improvement, but its questionable until tested. Of course, Singh also improved the sensors on the Enterprise with a 10% performance gain.

It is a really complicated set of plans, Steven thinks to himself, It might have to bring the rear sensor arrays offline for a day or two for the changes.

 

[Rhun]

Jonas nods, and take the proffered chair. "Thank you, ma'am. I came to report on the situation with the torpedo launcher but...my future?" It is clear that Hale is caught a bit off guard by his superior's remarks.

 

[knightemplar]

"Let me start from the beginning.", Kris said as she made the motion for him to have a seat.

"We all know Commander Cherok is physically not able to carry through his duties, but he has been a friend for a long time and I really do not want to put him out of the service. With special permission from Admiral Kiel, I have moved him into an position in which Starfleet does not use that much any more." Pouring a cup of tea out of a silver tea set, "How much sugar would you like."

"For the most part, Starfleet a long time ago combined the position of First Officer and Executive Officer into one position. I would like to move him into the Executive Officer position cover half of Beta and Gamma shift, while I cover Alpha and the first half of Beta shift."

Kris picks up a small saucer of scones and offers one to the Admiral then to Hale. "I need an experienced officer to move into the First Officer position. This would require a lot of extra work from that officer. The First Officer is responsible for Away Teams, as well as shift scheduling and evaluations of the Senior Staff."

"Basically a few seconds of excitement followed by hours of paperwork.", the Admiral chimes in. "Sometimes, I really regret taking a Command position. I always get the paperwork now, and never the excitement."