[snip]

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.”

A comm call from engineering came up, it was from Daniel =/\= Daniel to Captain Glen. I heard you were released from sickbay. I am gladdened to hear you are stable. I see too we have gathered the necessary gases for the temporal device. We are currently finishing up final tests and power connections in the cargo bay as well as reported to me. From there we simple need to power the device with a stable warp bubble of warp 8. From there I will initiate the device and we will begin the temporal and reality ‘healing’..=/\= he said.

Glen was glad that Tia hadn’t left yet so that he could ask her directly before he replied to Daniel. “Are we ready to give the go ahead to him now?”

• Glen, CO