Captain's Inspection

Daniel walked into the turbolift and immediately as the doors shut "Engineering" he muttered and the normal hum of the turbolift sounded as it descended and moved through the ship. The doors opened and Summers headed into Engineering where he saw everyone hard at work, it put a smile on his face, he quite enjoyed walking through the ship watching his crew hard at work it was very personal to be able to get around once and a while to see the crew and meet and talk with them from time to time, it helped with moral....at least Daniel thought it did.

"Mr. O'Conner sorry for not saying I was coming but I needed to get off the bridge and thought it might help moral of the crew to walk around a bit and show that I am confident in them and all the work they do, how's everything coming along?"

"Captain on deck!" The new graduated officer announced, as Kurt noticed the captain stepped into main engineering.

O'Conner had quickly followed Captain summers to the engineering. and upon seeing Kurt and the rest of main engineering's skeleton crew stand at attention he couldn't help but smile. "It's going well sir but most of the engineering crew is with Lieutenant Noor and Ensign Baltazor. Installing the additional deuterium fusion power generators in cargo bay 3. The rest are with Lieutenant Corrett on the flight decks refitting her fighters."

"Outstanding Commander, everyone as you were, if you are working and you see me walk through here please continue your work do not snap to attention on my account while you are working, I am a very laxed Captain as you may notice, please continue the great work you are all doing I appreciate it" Summers announced to everyone and then turned to O'Conner, "Let's go see how everyone else is doing"

Kurt stood there looking slightly embarrassed, standing at attention few moment longer before forcing himself to relax. "Uhh yes sir." Kurt replied before handing a PADD to O'Conner. "Sir, at our current rate of speed Only the first of the three of the reactors would be available by the time we arrive at the Horizon."

O'Conner sigh lightly as he looked over the PADD, Kurt was correct. The commander's estimates were based on the Artemis' cruising speed not an Akira's. It was a silly mistake but there was no time to dwell on it. He tapped in a few quick commands on to the PADD, before handing it back to Kurt. "Looks like we are going to need some coffee, Kurt. Wake up the other shifts and get them to work, we need to be ready when we get there. Oh and get someone to check on the comm system"

"Yes Sir" Kurt quickly replied before darting off in to the engineering offices.

Smiling O'Conner turned to the Captain. "Sorry about that sir, he is fresh out of the academy. Lead on sir."

The Captain of the Spectre chuckled "We were all there at one point in our careers Commander there is no need to apologize it is his first assignment he will in time learn the way things run and what to expect from his Commanding Officer and staff" Daniel stated as he patted Commander O'Conner on the shoulder and headed towards Cargo Bay 3 to see how the projects going on there were going.

Upon arrival in Cargo Bay 3 Captain Summers noticed a beehive of activity doing their jobs so intently no one noticed him and Commander O'Conner walking in. The cargo bay was clearly divided into three sections.

On the right side Ensign Baltazor and his crewmember worked carefully on a nearly complete reactor. Meanwhile Lieutenant Noor and his crew worked at a feverish pace to complete the install of a second reactor's structure. Lastly there lay crates and pallets of equipment, clearly the third reactor parts. O'Conner hoped with the additional shifts they would have time to have each of them fully functional and the along with the standard reactors shielded against the storm's effects.

"Sir it will be a push but I promise you we will be read to fight Kilingons no matter what they throw at us sir." After a short pause he added. "Though if you could fight outside of the storm that would be great." O'Conner said with a small smile as he noticed the first of beta and gamma shift engineering crew start to arrive in the cargo bay.

"Very good, Commander because I do expect the Klingon's to show up and they never do so without a fight, we will do our best to stay out of the storm but it may be our best chance at defeating any Klingon vessel's that will not listen to reason, and who knows how many ships they will have." Summers said with a sigh.

"Let's get over to the flight deck I would like to get back to the bridge before we arrive and you back to Engineering, I have a feeling we will need you to get your hands dirty to help speed things up a bit Commander." Daniel stated as he turned and left the Cargo Bay and headed towards the flight deck.

As they entered the flight they could see nearly the same buzz of activity they saw in the cargo. Engineers swarmed a number of the small fighters. Then before they could investigate more a tall half Orion woman turned the pair. "You checking in on little old me and my boys?" The pips on her collar and her enchanting smile were dead giveaways that this was Lieutenant Rikki Corrett the lead fight operations engineer.

"Indeed we are Lt, how are things down here today?" Summers responded with a smile and a chuckle at the Lt's response to O'Conner and himself entering the bay.

"Hmmm..." Rikki smiled at the pair and tapped her lip with her painted finger nail as she pondered the question. "Well..." She turned around and stepped toward the forest of fighters. "Well I did get 6 more of these beauties." Smiling she ran her hand over the hull over one of the fighters. "but bossman over there is making boys juryrig them to fly through the fire." She said with a motion at Commander O'Conner. "It takes about 3 of my boys and hour to make one these babies fire proof, but what the bossman wants the bossman gets." She said with a sly smile. "Them's Klingons won't know what hit'um."

O'Conner stood there quietly, clearly impressed by Lieutenant Corrett.

"Excellent Lt, because for some odd reason I have this crazy thought that the Klingon's will not be wanting to talk, very well Lt, we will leave you to your work, tell your boys I said to keep up the good work, all of you, I am impressed with everyone and I now know that I have the best crew in Lotus Fleet" Summers stated with a smile twice the size of Starbase 10

"Of course they will Cappy. Klingons love to talk. They just be never listening." She replied with a smile before adding. "Now if you two don't mine, these babies wouldn't be fixing themselves up. " Without waiting for a response she turned and walked towards the flight engineers with a sway of her hips.

"She does have a way with her... words, Sir." O'Conner said with a grin. He then turned to Summers. "I need to be getting back to work as well sir, if you didn't have any questions."

"She certainly does Commander" Summers said with a chuckle "and no you may go back to your duties thank you for walking with me, I will be on the bridge if anything pops up, oh and Commander before you go" Daniel leaned in a little closer to O'Conner to wisper in his ear

"Keep an eye out for anyone acting out of the normal there may be a possibility of the Children infiltrating the ship so be on your guard" with that said Summers backed up and awaited a reply if none was given he was going to head to the bridge.

"Of course sir.' O'Conner replied. He didn't really expect any on this ship as most of the children's followers would focus on the republic or the McKenzie. After that breif moment of thought he followed Summers out and headed to the cargobay 3.