Joe had waited a bit and then as things had calmed down on the planet, he had released the two engineers and the two security people who had helped him perform the miracle of the food. These he released to their DH’s for duty on the planet. Although Joe wouldn’t mind hanging around for a short while he wasn’t a trusting soul and never liked to underestimate anyone so the idea of leaving the shuttle on the planet didn’t seem like a good idea to him.

He waited awhile as things seemed to get settled before he climbed into the shuttle and got the systems up and running. Only fifteen minutes later he had the shuttle safely in a shuttle bay and five minutes later was walking onto the bridge to finally sit down into the comfortable command chair as if he were a man who had just squeezed two shifts into one. “Alright” he began with a smile,”I see that Cross hasn’t dented anything yet!”

It was a good thing Cross was not around ,as she was having coffee with a security named Richard,with her streak temperament the only dent would have been in Glen’s head .The female doctor would need to dispose of these allegations and fabrications once and for all, she already knew that the Captain had made similar remarks in the past ............

George almost split his sides laughing. “Don’t catch the darn good doctaw her ya say that, there,” George told him. “She is right touchy about that there subject. She were done left in command whahl we docked at the darn Federashun space stashun. Unknown ta anyone ayn’ without any darn warnin’, they done turned off all theuurr defences faw some routahn maintenance. At witch darn point, an unknown species av darn subspace-living aliens done appeared out av nowhere ayn’ attacked us. Ay mean, it were almost as if doctaw Cross were set up!”

• George ‘Phones’ Sherridan