[snip]

“And you say that Kord and the CE are discussing ‘specifications’? In my Ready Room?” Glen added.

“Uhm yes.” William smiled briefly, a joyless polite smile “Lieutenant Ezial said the Commander had requested to see some…” He paused “Specs” He quoted.

“You may want to call them to see what their status is, Sir,” Hal suggested, in an attempt to be helpful. “I’m still scanning for any potential threats to the ship. With negative results.”

“I’m not sure this thing will get through the door,” replied Glen. “I’ll wait until they’ve finished!”

Will looked at the bulky suit “Well it does seem… Inefficient” Although he’d ignored the Jab about the Doctor taking his job he had heard it “I’d suggest having someone with practical experience help design the next one.”

“Noted, Mr. Grey,” replied the Captain. “I’ll just find a place to stand… more out of the way.”

The Bridge was, as usual, a very busy and noisy place, with all of its familiar cacophony of electronic hums and whistles. Glen felt good to be back once again after his long period of isolation in Sickbay. As Glen stood in a space between consoles near to his Ready Room door, the voices of Kord and Ezial were clear, loud and recognisable above all the other extraneous hubbub, although it was impossible to hear any actual words.

“Did I just here a Growl?” Glen asked.

With a series of beeps the NE at the engineering station reported they had the necessary helium and hydrogen in the amounts Daniel had requested.

“Some progress then!” announced Glen. “The sooner we can rid the Merrimack of this temporal bewitchment, then the sooner I can be rid of this rucksack!” While the Captain shared some of the concern over the motives of Daniel and the possible recklessness of the current mission, he clearly agreed with the rationale.

Kord and Tia stepped out of the ready room. If he had a reaction to Glen’s contraptions, it didn’t show outwardly. Kord took up his usual position to the right of the command chair.

“It’s good to see you up and about again. Do you have an idea what’s happening to you?”

“Sorry, it all a big ball of wibbly, wobbly, timey, wimey stuff to me!” replied Glen. “The science goes over my head …but the sooner I’m back to normal the better!”

“What have you and Tia decided in your meeting?” Glen asked.

[reply from Kord]

Tia nodded to the Captain and headed for the lift. “Captain… permission to return to Engineering?” She wasn’t going to go if she was needed here. But she had things to keep an eye on.

“Yes, sure! You’ll need to keep on top of the work going on down there,” replied Glen. “I’ll try to come down and visit, but this equipment on my back makes my movement quite limiting. I would like a status report on what has been happening while I’ve been absent, but Kord can provide that.”

-Glen, CO