Too Many Cooks

Posted on Sun May 26th, 2024 @ 3:32pm by Commander Kevin Lance
Edited on on Sun May 26th, 2024 @ 4:05pm

Mission: Starbase 364
Location: USS Chuck Norris
Timeline: Current

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{Outside Senior Officer's Quarters, Deck 1}

Kevin stood stoically with his arms crossed as three Klingon engineers argued loudly with each other over the best placement of a bulkhead support beam to best fulfill Lady Rasmehlier’s desires. Kevin was certain that this was about to come to blows. When it came to Klingon decision making, facts and logic took a backseat to honor and the argument that had the literal strength to subdue its opponents was the one that invariably won one. Best that he could do was keep his ship’s crew and the maintainers from the starbase out of the way until the matter was settled between the three.

His comm badge chirped. “Lance here,” he announced after touching it.

=/\= “This is Montgomery, there are another five Klingons here demanding access to the ship.” =/\=

Kevin grimaced. He had left Montgomery with a detachment of security personnel at the docking bays airlock to stem the tide of Klingon help. They just refused to accept the concept that there was a diminishing point of returns on the amount of Klingons that you could throw at this problem. “Tell them that there is only room for one more and that they will need to fight it out amongst themselves as to who it will be.”

Kevin could visualize the horror on Montgomery’s face from the tone of his voice =/\= “I can’t do that Commander!” =/\=

He was correct, of course, and Kevin wearily replied, “Fine. Stand your ground and deny any more Klingons access. We really do have more engineers and technicians than can reasonably be accommodated. Call in Starbase Security if you need too.”

Montgomery acknowledged and cut the connection.

Kevin settled back to continue watching the escalation of the Klingons' argument but was once again interrupted by his comm badge.

=/\= “Walker to Lance. I need your assistance in Main Engineering. These Klingons are insisting on reinstalling the cloaking device, properly in their words.” =/\=

Kevin gave a heavy sigh then replied, “I’m on my way.”

He found the next senior ranking Star Fleet Officer and placed her in charge with orders not to interfere until the Klingons sorted out their issues then climbed down the ladder to Deck 2

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Lieutenant Commander Kevin Lance
Executive Officer
USS Chuck Norris