Posted by Ensign Oliver Pierce (Engineer) in Deck 31

Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Deck 31
From Sick Bay the group of five moved to the nearest turbolift. He was not going to make an verbal order until they reached the deck in question lest the computer consider their intrusion to be hostile and lock them out. It may already have happened; the Terran concept of ‘Big Brother’ had considerably evolved over the centuries. Today it was nothing to consider one’s every move to be logged or tracked or flagged - until one might be threatened by it.

“Deck 31,” he said as they entered the lift and the doors closed. “In an emergency such as we are in,” he began, “the deflector dish is something that is critical to a vessel. It was something that should be put onto one’s ‘list’ of critical areas to cover in the event of a ship wide alert. That is why we are going there now.” His tone suggested that he was intimating a ‘stretch of the truth’. The storage rooms were their destination, however he still wanted to put the computer at ease to their journey.

Winston curled up his face in a question and was about to speak when one of the security NE’s gave him a nudge followed by a finger to his lips to ‘stay quiet’.
- Sural, CE

Oliver had never seen a Vulcan try to lie to a computer before, and it was something of a surreal experience. Still, with all the social grace that the universe had gifted him, Oliver attempted to play along, “I’ve uh… Never worked on the deflector dish of a real starship before… Uh… Sir.” He tried to communicate on the sly, just as his superior had done, “Anything we should… watch out for?”

Oliver Pierce, smoothest man in space

The turbolift would descended to deck 30. From there it would not budge further downward by any command. The screen on the lift wall list up with a “CODE BLACK” override screen as the turbolift rose another 3 decks and stopped with the doors shwishing open. A very confused looking Crewman looked at the armed officers and just put his hand in the air, “I think I’ll just catch the next one.”

-GM