Captain Leela Kaz - Commanding Officer
[Bridge]
Leela scoffed placing her head in her hand. "Of course they have to play by the damned book. Juval was around when that crap was written." She couldn't help but wonder what Juvals reaction would have been. She imagined him storming into the engine room wondering why his orders were being questioned. Leela, however, wasn't Juval. She had more tact but the same bad attitude. "Lieutenant please advise engineering that I am more than aware of the rules. But my order stands. We can certainly mustwr 7.5." Leela paused for a moment. And then began to mutter under her breathe. Or I'll go down there and do it for you.
[Sickbay]Kali didn't mean to - she might have coded into the inbound communications to Engineering instead - but she was getting some interesting information about the warp speed struggle from the Bridge. She let out a sheepish exhale and a cringed smirk at the transcribed report.
My, my, Captain Kaz. Having trouble keeping your ducks in line? And Kaz was going to have more problems if Kali had anything to do about it. She switched out the comm for the half-written code hastily made to hack XO Wu's (well, Chief of Engineering's) profile. He can always yell at her later about it when she properly got him back where he belonged as First Officer.
This would be a hell of a lot easier if she still had her hacking tool. Alas, she wasn't even sure if it
exists anymore here. That's one of the things she'll have to check on once she got out of this infernal Sickbay.
A mute beep from the PADD greeted her ears. First firewall down. Three to go. Hopefully, Bixox wasn't paying
too much attention to her auxiliary console. That was the only way Kali could tether to Wu's without being noticed. With the first firewall came a couple of secondary commands for the antimatter chamber. She started tweaking the auxiliary valves here and there to start shutting it down.
Remember Kali, be gentle with the baby, she reminded herself.
Don't hurt it too much![Sickbay - Ensign Kyle Briggs]
Kyle stood by ready to assist as he watched Doctor Sukal examine Commander Reyes. He wondered what had happened to her. she was usually such a by the book officer. And scary at times. Sometimes, Kyle had found himself wondering who it would be worse to get on the wrong side of. Reyes or Vinnie? the security on the Discovery was definitely some of the best in the fleet. As Sukal was running his scans and reading his PADD, Kyle kept glancing at the Commander. He could see her fingers flying over the PADD that Commander Tekin had given her. she seemed to know exactly what she was doing. Didn't at all appear as if anything was wrong with her. Could she be faking? he thought. Maybe trying to get booted from Starfleet? He continued to try and watch her as he also stayed next to the Doctor in case he was needed. Maybe later, if he got the chance and the nerve, he'd approach her in the guise of a talk and see if he could catch what she was doing on the PADD. Maybe. She still scared him.
Kali froze when she looked up from the PADD and noticed her Captain watching her. It was very difficult for her not to suspiciously throw the screen down on her lap without looking too guilty. She tried to be coy instead, which wasn't too hard; Captain Briggs had always been easy on the eyes.
"Cap-
Ensign Briggs," Kali greeted with her best smile. Well, she always did when he was Captain. Occasionally she'd give him a thumbs up too to make things less awkward whenever they shared a turbolift. He and XO Wu always seemed so untouchable to the crew, but they were still human. She tried to remember that every time she casually interacted with them. "You look a bit jumpy," she continued and smoothly placed the PADD on her lap. The half-shod program continued to work on the firewalls without her. "Don't worry, I'm not contagious. Bitey, maybe. But not rabid."
