Pre-Launch

Rogers had left the meeting immediately upon breakup and then stopped outside the nearby restaurant. When the other ship's officers from the meeting caught up with him David addressed them individually, starting with the Spectre's tactical officer Lieutenant Tritter.

"Mr. Tritter, I suggest you co-ordinate with the Lotus' tactical officer and familiarize yourselve's with quadrant three. You can also take that time to work with Lieutenant Shar Noor on getting the Spectre's engines ready for the encirclement of the horizon anomaly."

Turning to the next officer, David continued, addressing the ship's Andorian engineering officer.

"Lieutenant, after you and Mr. Tritter have gotten the warp engines ready for the first phase, see if you can grab as many torpedoes from the base's stores as feasable. They need not be weapons ready as we basically just want the warp angines on them. Once you have that nailed down, contact the Lotus enginnering officer and familiarize yourselves on the two ships' specifications."

Anticipating the engineer's beginning gesture that the two engineer's were quite knowledgable about Intrepid and Akira design parameters, David raised a hand in a stop motion.

"I know what your thinking but you know as well as I that we engineers like to tweak our systems. Please get the latest on the Lotus' capabilities from Lieutenant Adams on the Lotus, and make sure he is up to speed on our upgrades as well."

lastrly, David faced the Spectre's science officer, Lieutenant Michaels.

"I believe you should contact base operations and get all you can from the science department on the horizon anomaly. Then perhaps meet with the other ships science departments and correlate the information for the Spectre's computers. I especially suggest contacting the Artemis' science officer, Lieutenant Syntron, as they have the best information on it."

Knowing that they were all already thinking along these lines anyway, David sumed up his small briefing with a smile.

"Okay, I now you were already thinking all this before hand. Just let's get to it. I am headed to the ship to see to the module fit. If I know Captain Summers, he wants it swapped out yesterday. Okay? Briefing in two hours ... let's get it started people."

Turning away, David eyed the restaurant longingly, but passed up the temptation. He would grab something from a replicator on the Spectre while he oversaw the module refit.