[Bridge]
Caelene watched the console in front of her as the diagnostic on the Science bridge station completed. The results compiled on the screen and she read through them, shaking her head. The diagnostic hadn't found anything wrong. From what she was seeing, there was no reason Zex shouldn't have been able to use it. Perhaps she needed to run a more thorough diagnostic...
Nothing happened. "No good. I'm getting the same issue here" he said.
Turning towards Zex once she heard the Deltan's voice, Caelene's frowned deepened. Whatever was happening seemed to be spreading, but for the time being her engineering console was okay. Unless there was a glitch where the diagnostic results were incorrect.
It was at that moment that the Engineering bridge console flickered, went blank, then returned slowly. What was going on? Steve moved over to her and hopped up and down, agitated. She tried to calm him by petting his scaly head while she thought.
Caelene didn't like not knowing what was going on. If she knew, she could fix it. Or if she at least had an idea about the cause it would be easier to isolate and resolve. Her best guesses at this point were the same as before - either the holodeck glitch had morphed and gotten worse or perhaps something about the station was interfering with their systems. Those were the two most likely scenarios based on the timing.
At this point, the Trill felt she needed to inform James and T'Ra; they should know what was happening. Taking a deep breath, Caelene tapped her comm badge, =/\=Shran to Captain Hawke. This is Lieutenant Tam, sir. The ship--=/\=
A burst of static suddenly squealed over the comm system, causing her to wince. Not what she needed...
Caelene tried again. =/\=Shran to Hawke. We're experiencing numerous glitches across several unrelated systems. I'm currently investigating and will update when I have something. Shran out.
Throughout her message, she'd heard various odd distortions, almost like being underwater, and squeals coming from the comm link. Caelene had no way to know how much, if any, of her message had gotten through. Hopefully the Captain had received it and they would hear something back...if not, she would have to continue on as she had already planned.
Lost in thought as to her next move, Caelene nearly jumped as Will came over to her. She hadn't seen him in his peripheral vision due to how distracted she was with the issues at hand. "Actually," she answered with a sigh, "I'm afraid we're having a number of issues. Engineering received reports of malfunctioning replicators and holodecks, which I sent them to investigate. After that, Ensign Zex wasn't able to get the Science console to begin a particle sweep. She moved to another station - still no luck - and I ran a diagnostic on the Science console, which supposedly has nothing wrong with it, if I happen to believe what these results are telling me. The screen here has flickered, gone blank, then come back. And just now I tried contacting the Captain, but the comm system was distorted and made some awful squealing sounds..."
It was just her luck. Her first time in charge of the ship and everything seemed to be going wrong. Perhaps it would have been better if she had just stayed down in Engineering. All she could do now is do her best to get to the bottom of things and try to help put it back together before the away team returned.
OFF: Tag Zex, Will, Hawke?...others on the ship