Joe was not given much time to prep anything for the meeting. It was only six hours until arrival at their destination. He had no doubt that their new chief engineer would want to speak with him already for heading off at warp seven before he could even run one diagnostic on anything in his department. But there was precious little Joe could do to keep everyone happy. All he wanted to do was to not have things go amiss like on the last mission.

He looked around the conference room and saw an empty coffee pot. He got the coffee pot start to start brewing a pot of coffee and had the replicator make a batch of donuts. He then went to his cabin to print up the operational plans along with some notes. He got himself a cup of coffee and sat down to go over his notes. Now all he needed was to have his no doubt miffed department heads to show up

Captain John T Glen had been sleeping. It took him a while to wash, shave and dress. He got ready as quick as he could and hoped that he wouldn’t be last to arrive. As he approached the conference room he could already smell the coffee.

“Good Morning Joe!” he said on entering the conference room. A quick look around confirmed that no one else had arrived yet. “I’m keen to know about the new mission, but I don’t want to make you tell it all twice, so I’ll wait.”

Joe looked at Glenn and shook his head as he smiled. “Really sir? Having seen you show up I was feeling pretty much relieved. But if you’re game to listen to my witless meanderings then you’re more than welcome to. I must warn you however that these cursed things were never my bailiwick. ” Joe looked once more around the room before turning to the captain and asking him, “And how are you feeling sir? is the headache better? ”

Cross entered the conference room and acknowledged both the Captain and Cmdr with a nod while wondering if Lance was behind her.

Hearing Joe asking Glen if his headache was better, the female doctor’s attention was now on what he Captain would answer .

“Doctor Cross gave me a shot for it,” Glen replied. He met Miriam’s gaze and raised an eyebrow.

Glen, CO