Maintenance

Posted on Sat Feb 27th, 2021 @ 7:52pm by Warrant Officer Michael Joustra

Mission: Side Stories
Location: Csec office

Michael looked annoyed he had a working replicator and desk computer yesterday and now everything seems offline. He was a decent engineer, but the basics of field stripping a phaser rifle and fixing a replicator should be the same in his opinion. It just looked like he made things worse.

"Tering, tyfus, rot toch op met je thus spoken gepiep" michael swore in his native language throwing a spanner at the replicator.

James walked into the Csec office and saw the older man swearing and removing parts from the replicator.
By his age and uniform he assumed he was an NCO with a very bad day.

"Need some help, chief?" James said with caution and dread.

" You an engineer, son, because if not then go out and find me one." Michael huffed as he turned towards Finnigan.

Finnigan looked at the man and noticed the rank....... ' warrant officer.... i never seen a real one' he thought to himself.

" I'm the maintenance engineer, sir, we shut down this whole section for maintenance, sir." He stammered.

" Just call me Chief. You fix that thing and get everything online as soon as possible. I'm going to chew out some Ensign who didn't inform me. And sorry for the mess, son, I'm the Chief of Security not an engineer." He left his office and headed for engineering.

James looked bewildered. " So... let's have a look at what the screaming man did" he said shaking taking out his padd to notify engineering he had a longer scheduled repair in the works.


James stood up and checked the computer what would have seemed like routine maintenance in the Chief of Security's office was replacing a whole power module and rerouting the power flow. He had to call in his section head to help him out in the end, but everything now seemed to work at 100% capacity.

He made a note for the Warrant officer and left for the lounge.

Arriving in the 5-n-dime he took a seat with his crew mates from engineering.

" What took you so long, your shift ended like a hour ago" Rona asked, she was a flight engineer but used to do maintenance.

" Did that Ensign Morris keep you preoccupied again with useless requests?" Karal asked, he was his Vulcan bunkmate.

" No, I had to genuinely had to repair something it was freaking awesome... had to replace a power module reroute the power flow. Had to have chief bertold check it out, but I did adequate work according to him." James said excitedly.

"What! I worked that beat for a whole year and the only thing I ever had to do was push a freaking button for that idiot Morris." Rona said annoyed..... " how, what happened?"

"Well ,there was this Warrant Officer tearing up the replicator, because he wasn't notified about the maintenance..... Ensign Carter got his ass chewed off by this guy." James started.

" You met Joustra!?" Rona exclaimed. " That guy is freaking awesome. He was in the fleet when we had to fight the Tzenkethi or Cardassians on daily basis. That guy saw more combat then the whole senior staff combined. What's he like?"

" Well, quite friendly to me, I get to call him chief. He didn't destroy the replicator though, power module was like 15 years old somehow nobody ever checked inside the replicator." James looked at Rona.

" yeah, yeah I just followed Carter's orders, blame him." Rona dismissed the accusation. " So you get to call him ' chief'. And he was kind of nice, you got a crush on him?" Rona grinned.

"No, eww,he's old enough to be my grandfather, besides I'm pretty sure he's straight. Saw some photo's of I think which where his kids and a two different women." James said taking a sip of his drink. ' Eugh what the heck is this? " he looked at his bunkmate.

" It's a Vulcan Tonic. It's supposed to aid you with breathing and...." karal started.

" Just tell him to see the doctor because his snoring is disturbing your rest already, god!" Rona interrupted the Vulcan.

" Is my snoring bothering you, Karal? Really.... I have to put up with your incense and muttering in your sleep. Besides I only snore, because Rona spikes my drinks with real alcohol." James turned to Rona.

As the group continued their chatter and getting real drink Joustra entered holding a padd. He looked up and spotted Finnigan with his friends. He took a few steps towards their table and had to hide a smile. When he was their age he had those days with his creemates

" Eh Finnigan, right, good work on the replicator, crewman, next time make sure we are notified. And if you need anything let me know." He nodded to Finnigan and head for another table.

" Sure thing, chief." Finnigan tried to sound sure and confident, he didn't.

" oh my god he knows your name!" Rona exclaimed. " now you have to marry him!" Se laughed.

" oh shut up, Rona!" Finnigan looked at his Vulcan room mate for some back up.

" Yes, indeed, cease your goading my poor loud snoring friend." Karal said in a very matter a fact tone.

"Was that a joke, Karal, am I finally getting through to you." Finnigan grinned.

Joustra shook his head. Years as a drill instructor did not make him deaf and that Rona was loud. He took his seat to talk through the training schedules for his department with his section heads.

Warrant Officer Michael Joustra
Chief Security Officer, USS Mercutio



Crewman James Finnigan
Maintenance Engineer,USS Mercutio



Petty officer 3 Rona Tyrell
Flight Engineer



Petty Officer 3 Karal
System diagnostics