CO's Office
"You're welcome, Dan. Congratulations." Handshake dispensed with, Stafford sat back down. "I wish we had more time to celebrate, but the show must go on. I'm sure you're aware that we've got shipments of biological pathogens on its way to the station. Until we get a new chief engineer, I am afraid you're going to have to wear two hats, so to speak. I want you to direct the engineering team and ensure that all proper protocol is followed."
CO's Office
"=/\=Understood, ensign. Transmit the report to the chief science officer. For now, get yourself to the docking ring. The Curie is going to dock in a moment. We've got dangerous pathogens we need to neutralize on board that ship."
"Sorry, Dan, duty calls." Stafford said with a smile. "Dismissed, commander."
CO's Office
Stafford had already stood when he'd bid the XO farewell, and so made his slow way over to the door when the chime notified him of a visitor. It turned out to be two, the new science and operations officers.
"Lieutenant, ensign, enter." He realized the new officers were reporting in. So he made his slow way back to his desk, and remained standing. Stafford was here in his office, he might as well be formal.
CO's Office"Thank You Sir, the show never stops!" Howell nodded as Commander Stafford explained about Howell looking after engineering, which he was more than happy to do. As he stood, he allowed Stafford to answer the hail before replying once more "Understood Sir, I'll have engineering running like clockwork, need to with something like this." and with that he left.
Howells QuartersNow that Howell had been promoted to Command Division and with guest officers coming aboard which he had seen as he left Commander Stafford's Office, he decided it would be a good idea to change into a red colour uniform, so returning to his quarters, he quickly replicated and changed into a red shirt and placed his 2 gold pips and one shiny new black pip on his collar. With that he headed to engineering to ensure everything was ready as this was quite a dangerous mission.
EngineeringA few minutes later, Dan arrived in engineering, which was quite considerably busy, no doubt due to the requirements that this mission would bring. Certain officers in closer proximity noticed the now red shirt and black pip Dan was now wearing and nodded respectfully. Walking over to the center, Dan announced "Ok, listen up, as you know I have been acting First Officer for a couple of months now, and I have been lucky enough to get promoted to Executive Officer in full, but for now I am still acting as the department head for Engineering so you still report to me. Now, our latest mission given by Starfleet Command doesn't directly affect engineering, however Starfleet Medical are bringing dangerous pathogens on board to be disposed of, so I want to make sure that all biological and containment systems are working, so lets get to it and run some diagnostics on those systems, any problems throughout this mission with anything, even in the most minor detail is to be reported to be ASAP. Carry on." And as he finished, he walked over to a nearby terminal to conduct some diagnostics of his own.