The Bonds of Friends And Family: Season 4
Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs tome and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.
Warnings: With This chapter and forward it's going to enter Brothers as they try to get back control of the ship as he uses it to complete his programming. But though Data's in control of the ship. The quintet, Wesley and the security guards are dealing with the emergency together as this portion from here on in is now focused on the first episode of the season being shown now."
But the focus here is going to be on Wesley and the quintet now with Beverly and Deanna dealing with the medical emergency. While the crew is busy trying to take back control of the ship now from Data's sudden hijacking.
Chapter 2: The Reprimand And Trouble
"Returning home and continuing to serve under your command, Sir, three to five years in on the job training, I know your personalities inside and out. And everything else, being able to keep this up is the one thing I'm working towards now. And this way I can control things regarding your junior crew, I've already passed intermediate and advanced training by the time I do and I'm already accustomed to working in the field."
"So this way first day back on the job and it's back to the old route between us again." he said and Picard nodded as he felt his heart warm at the dedication he had to working under him as he answered him. "At the current moment right now I think this could be considered being able to remain with family when you finish your training. But at the moment, I understand why you don't want to get placed anywhere else."
"Because you spent four years in training in your, to our way of thinking, your home town and it's enough you don't want to leave after you just finished training." he said to him smiling. "Aye Sir, and there's three reasons for that, but 1) is because I already know who I'm working with if I get stationed here. 2) Being away from home means a possible repeat performance of what going off my regime causes and I'm not risking it."
"And 3) it's the fact that I also know what happens when separated from your parents and when you're a freshly graduated high school student entering college. When you're the child of a medical doctor and science officer as to that, side effects include someone trying to get you to loosen up on your regime. And it puts you back in the hospital, or they try to get you to lie and life here was the straight and narrow and I'm sticking to it."
"In truth, at the moment, this way you got me taking dad's place with you and you have another Crusher under your command, for good, Sir." he said smiling and Picard nodded with a gentle look at that as he finished that. "Sooner or later they're going to separate us, but until they do, best to enjoy the time together while it lasts now." he added and the seven nodded in agreement to that remark as he answered him at that.
"Well until they do at the moment, we just make sure nothing, like what just happened, does more damage than necessary right now." he said and Wesley nodded in agreement to that remark. "With the fact we've had one too many close calls I'm just naming it off, regarding the emergencies that involved you, Sir. To the training ensign that doesn't understand why I get so overly protective of you at the moment."
"If they're the other type in training, I'm dressed in red, but I'm like you and the technical team. As to that, it's there's two types dressed in red uniforms on this ship and one favors brains over brawns and the other is acting like a bunch of hotshots when it comes to being at the flight console and with that in mind. I'm the second of the two, while the other are never going to understand why I take it so seriously with you."
"Like Derek and his friends, it's enough they're going to see this as I'm sucking up to you right now. But their problem is they never look past the rumors and hearsay at the academy, when, to make a good friendship, you have to get to know the people you're working with." He said and Picard nodded with a gentle smile on his face at that. "Yes and that's another test passed now too, to work with someone right now."
"Instead of judging by rumors actually get to know the people you're working with now. And close to four years and our bonds are unbreakable now." he said and he nodded smiling at him. "Yes and I have, close to four years together and the bonds are enough I know you better than any junior ensign ever could and it's because I took the time to really get to know you after the year we spent together at the time."
"Year two made the difference in this case and I see past the rumors. It's more than they think, but to me, you're my father's captain and my mentor. And everything we've gone through together, the rumors are just that, rumors. None of its true, but you hold on to the rumors and you're never going to see the person for who they are." he said to him and Picard nodded as he rested his hand on his shoulder gently at that remark.
"At the moment the final test given regarding promotion just hit, because you chose your crew members to leaving for the academy. But in order to keep your uniform there's one final test you have to go through." he said to him gently and Wesley nodded. "Yes Sir, I know and it's the no winner, that's going to take some careful planning, but I'll work it out. But if I have added help when it happens, it's going to beat the odds."
"But whoever causes this program to get turned on is not going to realize I have several aces up my sleeve. And they're gambling too highly on the fact that they're going to get the, whatever it is, off the ship. But they're not going to beat me when they're just studying the layout through you, or my training course, because if it's activated. And it's slowing the search to a crawl." he said and Picard nodded with a gentle smile at that.
Listening to their conversation, Ensign Jake Rogers smiled at the amount of added options, regarding his young friend's ways of helping them in their way to protect the ship then. As he turned to the young man and saw a look of fury on his face as they listened to the conversation. Watching him, he could see the vibes of 'God who's he's kidding right now, he's just a suck up and a smart Alec to the old man at the moment.'
'God why the heck are they listening to some little brat at the moment, he's not a full officer.' he saw in his body language and answered that with a stern tone in his mental voice at that. 'And neither are you, young man, you're not dressed in the same clothes he is right now at the moment, but he's on his way to making full ensign right now. You're being held back for starting a bar brawl right and if you don't want be held back.'
'Then you better get that temper under control right now, because you're still on your trial period right now. As for him, the reason he's getting so much attention at the moment. Is because he's not the one trying to show off to the senior staff crew young man and if you don't want to get sent to your room. Than you better keep your mouth shut, young man.' he said in answer to that thought firmly as Will said his thoughts then.
"Yes and these kids need to get that through their heads right now, that jumping before you explore all the options is going to result in a failure here at the moment. But you jump the net too soon and it's going to result in whatever happens to result in a checkmate. Acting impulsively does more harm than good here and with that, this training turned real is the final test." Will said firmly and Picard nodded in agreement.
"Lal, if we get any cats on board this ship, try not to encourage them, because the last thing I need to hear is a bickering match, in binary code, when it comes to said cat. Though I don't doubt my partner is going to find that amusing if he's my own kind, but don't over do it, alright." Wesley said and the sextet chuckled at that remark. "Bickering match, binary code?" Worf repeated and he nodded as he explained that smiling.
"What I mean by that is the cat starts asking questions and she gives a gentle beep and once the cat hears that she does it again and in three seconds it turns into a computer/cat version of a bickering match till you have to end the conversation. If this happens next year after the test results come out and the scenario ends you'll see what I mean that way. But to switch subjects because this is regarding what that turns into."
"Was anything left over from the explosion in T-95 though, I know you had to fix that terminal, was anything left after you cleared up that tunnel?" he asked and Shimoda said it. "If there was and depending how long it's going to be before you have to activate that program, it's going to be rusted and with emergency lighting in there. It's too dark to see anything, why...?" he asked, before he closed his eyes as he got it as he said it.
"Wes for gods sakes here, look I know that trying to over ride the programming if it turns into mind control is one thing. And what the side effects could be, by trying to throw hints and other things at us regarding that. But having our parental instincts, regarding you, start going crazy is not the way to do it." he said to him firmly at that. As Will looked at him, before he got it, as Deanna said it for both them at that remark.
"You're not serious, don't even think about it." Geordi said in shock at that realization. "If this was Pulaski, with her being a mind control expert, she'd say to do that anyway, but it's not by doing it for real, but by stage acting the entire injury, or two. But a rusted, jagged piece of metal, directly to the hand or leg or both, that's going too far in trying to over ride the programming here." Deanna said to him sharply at that and he sighed.
"Well if I'm too exhausted to keep going that's the alibi right there, Counselor, but if this combined with added said health problem. It's could turn real anyway, because I'm too exhausted to keep going and with those words in mind right now here. You've seen me when I'm too exhausted to think straight, but if this is when I'm not up to my best and I'm going to have to, to throw them off." he said and Beverly sighed as she answered.
"Stage acting works better than actually risking it, because if there's still pieces lying around in there and you collapse, it could nail a vein or artery. And if it's rusted, the tetanus would hit long before I could get to it. So with that, if it takes stopping off in our quarters, you have everything you needed. To prevent it and make it look real enough now, honey, just be careful." she said as she squeezed his shoulder as he nodded to her.
"At the moment, I'm hoping I won't have to mom, but if the programming is that strong and my other added health problems come into it. It's having to drain the stimulate with the fact this ship is big enough to get a pretty big workout. What with the Jeffries tubes, entry tubes and everything else." he said and she nodded, as he went further at that. "You know I can't believe he actually tried to ram us like that last year."
"I mean a shuttle verses a galaxy class ship, does he have a death wish here?" he asked and Picard sighed. "He's the second of two kinds of soldier, you're more scientist then soldier, if he was in the military 400 years ago, it's he's a hotshot. But he's the second version of the soldier, the one that did stealth missions. And sabotage in regarding keeping our countries biological weapons from being used and destroys them."
"But that's why I said that, he's reckless to the point of being suicidal, he's the 'shoot first, ask questions later' type. If a scientist put it like this it's in the military, and the pentagon, it judges these guys based on how crazy they are. But the more crazy, the more extreme the situations they seem to be put into, case in point is undergoing training like this and it left them several cards short of a full deck as a result of that."
"So though we understand the dangers of this job, we don't cross the line between crazy and mentally incompetent. But like I said you do that and you're going to make a mistake and you always did the 'look, before you leap.'. But that's what we prefer, brains over brawns, and this idea once activated is going to pull it off. With you being in training still, it's one thing when in training, but going it for real now and you're figuring it out."
"It's enough that it's the opponent is putting you in the position to use the phaser for real and it's against your own people. But never mind the weapons, the biggest weapon is your mind. So if that program gets turned on, its never mind what they're trying to get you to do. But focus on the alternatives in this, why need the weapon when you can use your mind, remember that." Will said and he nodded to him smiling at his remark.
"I get the feeling if you have more than one trainee just like me it's resulting in being outsmarted by your own students when we're all the same type. Though if the second is medical born and there's the catch, because he's going to know exactly what I'm doing here. But the added side effect is a bit of sound effects added to it." he said and he chuckled, before he could answer they heard a loud crash come out of the wall at that.
As Greyson tapped his communicator at that. "Alright what the heck is going on in there exactly?" he asked and he heard a bemused tone from Eric Porter at that. "That wasn't any of the technician team Derek, it's the old distraction and division here. Wes if that's you, you better turn it off, because we don't need to hear that every few minutes when getting rhetorical." he said and they nodded in agreement.
"Yeah well the newbie on board better can it with the questions or that's going to keep up and Lal don't try it right now, because this is test run. It's not going active here yet, okay." Wesley said and the quartet of guards chuckled as Greyson said it for the entire group smiling as they looked at him. "Nice, whoever asks for the 'what's next' cliche is going to get the 'you ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer' in response."
"I don't think the programmer is going to understand that portion of it when they haven't left their planet before. But if that keeps up even after the test is done and we know you're trying to play the comedian here, but take it down a notch here, kiddo." Bates said with a chuckle to him. "Though if you're too tired to turn that off its going to keep up till we order everyone else not to ask that question here and with that in mind."
"Whatever else you have planned don't tell us, we can just consider this as part of the training scenario with us about to get started on stealth and survival training next. But once in sickbay, we're better off explaining this part to your team mates." Greyson added and Picard nodded in agreement his mother said it, but before she could answer that, they heard a bemused tone as someone interjected into the conversation at that.
"Captain the replicators are activating by themselves in ten forward. They look like they're trying to test out in making medical equipment, sleeping bags and a few other things. If this was for training purposes I'd understand that at the moment, but it's acting like some invisible person is working them right now. Testing out in creating supplies and medical equipment, almost like its preparing for emergency training."
"Just what is going on here right now?" they heard and he looked up to see his friend Guinan and he chuckled as he answered her smiling. "Wesley created a computer chip to make the mainframe self aware and with it, is to act on the added friend vs. foe programming to ensure, in case we have a conspiracy, it never leaves. But to answer your question we just downloaded Lal into the computer and she's testing out systems."
"Creation on the supplies and medical equipment, so in case we have another emergency situation like the virus breaking out. So in case we have a foothold or another conspiracy break out on board the ship and combined with it is the Polywater virus mutated into something. And if he's the last adult left standing as well, she's helping maintain control this way so in case the conspiracy results in a manhunt on board here."
"And your arena happens to be one of the hotspot turned designated shelters, you got food and supplies. So Lal is the one playing with the replicators right now in there, Guinan, I'm making it clear, but if it's repeat of the Polywater virus. And it's mixed into a the same conspiracy that killed Captain Keel. Once the room is decontiminated, your orders are to cease all alcoholic beverages, because your guests are under a detox."
"From whatever it was that caused them to turn into drones or are recovering from substance abuse or both." he said and she nodded. "Got it, whoever of the security teams are in the room with me, I'm giving that order to them and if there's a secondary reaction, and with this computer programming..., yes alright I get it. This is in case you return from the academy and you're not up physically to what is going on in the ship."
"And while you're recovering, she's blocking every conceivable route to finding you, while for us, we're protected?" she asked and he nodded as she smiled in impressed amazement as she walked up to Wesley. "Somehow I knew you were going to bounce back from that, but like I said. Don't let what those kids say take you down Wes, you got a gift, don't suppress it." she said and he nodded with a smile as he looked at her.
As he explained it to her. "Yeah that's it exactly, Guinan, for the opponent this is blocking and slowing down their search in looking for me if it turns into a manhunt. And when I'm not at full power when it happens either, for you and the spots once decontiminated. The computer locks down the room, in your case both doors into the room. And places a sound proof shield on the doors and it's going to full security lock out."
"While at the same time she's taking control of the replicators and starts replicating survival and camping supplies for you. Until it's safe to come out and the virus is completely shut down down, added security arrangements. Are in case someone suffering a flip out on their phobias or is suffering the secondary programming. And it's so they can turn me, my team mate, or both of us over to the still infected members."
"If I'm right, the ones ending up being the ring leaders of that situation are the senior staff crew. But the secondaries job is turning us over to the still infected, and she's going to replicate the equipment needed to place the person that suffers it under medical arrest as well. Until the programming gives and their back to normal." he said and she nodded with an amazed smile, before she could say it, someone did it for her at that.
"I'd hate to be the poor idiot that tries to test you once you activate that programming, because once she goes big sister, everybody better stand back for it." they heard and he looked up to see Christina, 'Chris' Nagel, Luke Burke and Tom Davidson. "Added back up plan Chris, she maybe in the computer, but she's acting like the added big sister, so whoever causes me to need to reactivate her, well you better stand back for that."
"Because she's going to be acting like you, when we were working on the Hathaway." he said and she nodded with a chuckle. "Oh boy, I maybe 25, but that's not stopping me from acting your like your sister these last three years since I also know regarding that virus." she said and he nodded as Will hid a smile, knowing choosing her for his team had resulted in them acting like they were brother and sister back then.
"Alright, who's bright idea was it to use the converter you created in the wargames you two?" Will asked and Davidson answered that question with a smile. "It was mine, another fast thing I taught him here: if the opponent doesn't give you enough time to prepare and you have limited supplies needed, and need an edge. Improvise and use what you created, sometimes in these wargames, the opposition has the upper hand."
"Than to even the playing field you have to bend the rules, just a bit to win, though in the case of a simulation turned real scenario and you're a technician/scientist. You have to use up everything in your mental Arsenal to beat the opponent in these situations. This could be considered that and once activated she's helping even the playing field if the entire ship gets hit by what it turns into next." he said and Will nodded in agreement.
"Though at the current moment, frequent pranks with the instrument sightings is wearing thin on everyone's patience. And while we're on the subject, was that really necessary, Chris, because you want to give them a heart attack you're doing a very good job on it right now at the moment." Wesley said and she smacked him on the shoulder at that as Geordi interjected at the remark, with a bemused tone in his voice.
"Alright before you guys start playing around regarding this and we can play later, after we finish that test run here. But this is neither the time nor place for this right now for this kind of conversation you two." Geordi said as she gently nudged him and he did the same and they nodded as Beverly hid a chuckle at that. "She started it." Wesley said to him and she looked at him with a bemused smile as she answered that.
"Alright buddy, don't push it right now kid, or you're really going to get it, and to answer you Geordi. In our case we're closer in age than you are Geordi, but then it never mattered at the time either. Because the bonds built only got and grew stronger in the last two years since at the moment." Nagel said to him and he nodded with a smile as Beverly interjected at that as she tried to hold back her laughter at that.
"What did this just turn into between you guys?" Beverly asked and he chuckled. "That one year you were gone resulted in us, the three of us, acting like adopted siblings to him. To the point that I was ready to beat the crap out of Henderson for giving him that concussion and, in all honesty. The three of us are just a year older than Colin and his friends, and with that, it's helping to concentrate and the physics and mechanics."
"Involved in training, resulted in needing to improvise in certain areas for this. The Hathaway was to assmililate the battle we just dealt with, regarding the Borg. So with that in mind, the captain and Commander were testing their battle strategies against each other, one of them was Talupian maneuver on instrument sighting. And that's one edge in the games the other was Wes's science experiment, he beamed it on board."
"The Hathaway, and we used it to add on to reactor, give us enough of an edge to get away, but we used the lieutenant's strategy first. And then just as we were getting ready to test the reactor we get an unexpected surprise in the middle of it at the time. Like 20 minutes later, after the Ferengi showed up at the time here back then. Wes came up with one added idea and he and I worked it into the lieutenant's and we won the sim."
"Using that as a push off now for what happened three weeks ago, so Wes is using several aces in the hole for this testing game. If it turns into the real thing, though if our opponent decides to use games as a way to get a foothold going on the ship." he said and Wes smiled as he finished his sentence. "They want to play games, I'll play games, but I'm going to win this game at the moment, because you've seen me in action."
"Half focused like when we encountered the virus, I can come up with four to five good ideas in an hour. Fully focused and you better stay out of my way, or I'm throwing the entire psychological Arsenal at you. And I'm not telling you what I have in mind so just wait on that, Sir." he said and Will smiled as he answered him. "They maybe controlling us, but knowing, once we're freed what you yanked from your arsenal to pull this off."
"So whatever you got planned don't tell us, because if this results in manhunt, and we, or rather they, have to chase you down. Use any of a few manhunts on board, but pick the most memorable, because if they start replicating our moves and yours, his, whoever it might be. The longer the game goes on and the more they're digging themselves into a checkmate here." he said and Wesley nodded as he smiled at him at that.
Looking into his eyes, Will ran his hand through the hair at the nape of his neck and he hid a smile at that as he said to him gently. 'I'm proud of you kiddo, don't worry, if you need me, I'm here now, they get to me, just focus on me as I am now. But you lose your concentration they're going to win, just focus on what you have to do, okay.' he said to him with his eyes and he hid a nod to his orders then.
"Issues of things regarding these scenarios, but at the moment the added side effect regarding these things at the moment is the athletes are getting jealous. And as to why it's that you listen more to a teenage version of yourselves then them." He told him and they nodded. "Yes well there's more to being in Starfleet than being a pilot. We're exploration, not military, and it takes a certain degree of mathematics as well."
"In order to calculate hyperspace jumps, you get it off by a centimeter and it can kill and so far you've been doing that so well that you were ready to earn your uniform. And sooner than you did now at the moment, but in order to keep it there's the last and final test." Will said to him and he nodded. " I know and I won't let you down." he said Picard smiled. "And you never have, I'm very proud of you." he said and Wesley smiled at him
"Brain trust." they heard and he turned arournd at that remark as the security officer quartet all looked at him. "Oh no, not again, don't start with me right now Colin." Wesley said quickly as he shifted position in his chair. "What's wrong exactly?" Will asked and he quickly said it. "That's how he sounded the night of the riot, and before he and Henderson gave me that concussion, dad." he said, emphasizing the title to the ensign.
Hearing the emphasis in his tone, he nodded as he responded to that remark. "Well now he's just really ticked me off, you're still 17 and not even in starfleet yet, you're still just a kid. And this is child abuse, son, as to that right now, if you don't want to get kicked off the bridge, you better cool down and back off young man, and leave my son alone." he said sternly as he rested his hand on Wesley's shoulder protectively then.
"Looks like he's couldn't hold it in any longer, he was getting more ticked by the minute, Sir. You read my thoughts out loud when you said that a bit ago, but the jealousy just took total hold here." Rogers said to him firmly. "Lovely, and at the current moment he's forgetting they're not alone in the room right now. Or that there's no added influence on this ship at the moment either." Guinan said as she crossed her arms at the insult then.
"And let alone that the source of the violence is not on the ship right now either, but that's not just any jealousy talking at the moment. This time there's no excuse for that behavior, because before it was because we had Sarek on board the ship. And his ability was getting thrown on everyone at random, but that's not the case right now. There is no outside influence this time, that's his emotions breaking down the front door."
"It's clear he's thinks he's sucking up to you, Sirs, but as he's acting like this there's only one reason for it and it's because he's jealous he never thought of this idea, Captain. The psychosis is clear, to us we know that truth, to him and his friends, let alone Derek Hanson and Joey Harper, or even Dillon Jacobs. And it's they think he's trying to suck up to you, Captain." MacDougal said with a firm tone as Guinan finished that remark.
"And just what were you thinking exactly, regarding coming in here Marks, after I see you at the bar with Tony, and I tell you, start anything and you're getting ejected." she added as she looked at him firmly as Burke crossed his arms as he finished that remark to him sternly as Nagel said it. "And don't even think about it Colin, if you're drunk you just crossed the line here right now, and with that." she said sternly to him, watching.
"Well someone's getting jealous that, again, he's being ignored at the moment. And while the student officer is once again working on a way to protect the ship right now, wouldn't you say, you hotshot." she said slowly then. "Because this time it's you're not just surrounded by full officers, you got the security guards in the room and with them the boss himself, Colin." Burke said with a firm growl as he crossed his arms.
"Shut up you geek." They heard in response and at that Picard stood up at the insult as the sextet exchanged looks at that remark. "It's the act of his trying to ignore us adults in the room with him right now. He and his clique are 24 years old and we, the entire engineering senior staff team, but we're close to twice his age at the moment. And that attitude is like starting a fight with the coach when he's just a player at the moment."
"And the said coach, or coaches, just caught him in the act when they're ganging up on the team captain who's 7 years younger than they are, the son of the head of the medical team. And is also the adopted son of two of the senior staff members and surrogate son to the principal as well. But in this case, with us close to 45 years old, it's enough that he's calling someone twice his age and his superior the wrong name."
"But he's a training ensign, we're full officers and we're twice his age as well, so he's on the edge of getting dragged into the principals office here. And for starting a fight with another student and one who just entered college. To these little brats they never bothered to check the damn rumors, and it's because they've got the same attitude. That their predecessors in the 20th century are, and it's something we're not tolerating."
"And it's clear to the seven of us right now that he's forgetting who it was that arrested him once already for this at the moment." Goldberg said with a stern tone as Jenson finished that remark as he looked at him sternly. "Alright watch it young man, did you forget you're not alone in the room here at the moment right now, just keep it up, and you say another word and you're getting sent to your quarters here."
"Because if this conversation heads in the same direction as it did last time, and you're getting arrested for real. This is not the ten forward, you're on duty right now and that attitude of yours is not tolerated right now. And if you're drunk that's another penalty right now and if you came on duty. And you're this loaded, than you obviously don't realize it's not just the six of us in the room here anymore at the moment."
"But the CMO, the captain, and first and second officers of our ship in the room as well, and you're walking a fine line of being yanked from active duty. Till the drugs in your system wear off right now, if you came in here loaded, so I'm giving you one chance. If you just got yourself busted by the same sextet you did then, now calm down right now young man." Jenson said sternly at the remark and the younger man growled at him.
"Stay out of this Jenson." he said in response and Wesley ran his hand through his hair as he looked at the eight members of the group involved in the altercation that night. "Deja vu, guys?" he said, looking at the sextet and they all nodded in agreement. "What's going on here?" Picard said firmly and he quickly answered him. "Possible repeat performance, only this time you, Data and the Commander are in the room for it."
"Along with my mother Sir, that's the response he gave, after you turned the chair over to me so I could take my shift. But that remark is along the lines of calling us geek, nerd or any of the other derogatory terms his type called mine since the mid 20th century. As you just heard him call Luke the real definition to his insult just now, but that's what he's really calling me when he talks like that." he said and sighed as he went further gently.
"And with it is the term captain's pet, which is the same as teacher's pet, if you were running a college or high school and I was on the honor roll and principal's list. Of top ten or twenty students, my SAT's were high enough to get into the academy. But with mom leaving that year and the fact I got denied regarding the no winner test before. You decided to let me train from up here and these idiots are not looking at the fact."
"That this outfit he's wearing was just two years training and he thinks that you're breaking rules for me so I can get in. And instead of asking anyone of the senior staff here at the moment. He's listening to Derek Hanson, but you once told me that you never tolerated stereotypes and I mean both of you in the remark. And he's jealous of that, but he's far more controlled now than he was the night he attacked me here."
"But that was a cross between stereotypes and a drunken bar brawl breaking out in ten forward here. You never tolerated drinking when on duty when your crew is under 25 anyway and you already made it clear mom that they're barred from the bridge, holodeck and the shuttlebay if they were. And Dr. Pulaski enforced your medical orders, regarding that at the current moment here right now and with that at the moment."
"It's if he was drinking, before he walked in here." he said and Jenson finished that. "That's against regulations and the law for any officer to be drinking when on duty anyway. We made it pretty clear that we caught you kids with the contraband and you're in serious trouble for breaking the regime we set for you. And so far you haven't broken it at all, but with him being over 21, it's still enough to get him hit with a charge."
"For coming on the bridge when inebriated at the moment." he said and Will said it then. "Than he's wracked up two more charges, insubordination of another officer, insulting a superior and possibly another DWI. The lower deck remarks just took on a whole new meaning right now. I specfically said if I caught you drinking, cub, than you were barred from the bridge at the time here." he said and Beverly and Picard nodded to him.
"What's the deal exactly, does he think he can get away with this when he's not under 21, Commander, because you always made it clear in your opinions?" Wesley said and he nodded. "Yes, and as to why, though over 21, that doesn't change the fact he arrived right after we, the adult crew, set the regime. And he's still in his training period right now, so if he wants to have something alcoholic, do it after your shift is done here."
"And not before, which is why we created synthethol, gives the same taste, but not the added side effects." Guinan said and he nodded. "And at the moment, I don't know if he's drunk or not at the moment either, because even though he was in there. I was giving synthethol only with his shift about to start, so if he did. He's just gotten caught by the people he didn't want to get ratted out to." she said and the trio nodded sternly.
And Rogers, looking him over, turned around. "Guinan, was he in ten forward before coming in here. I can smell a slight stench of ethanol coming off his uniform. Though if you ended it two and he went to his quarters he possibly drank three more and if he's reacting like this, he's stoned as well?" he said and Beverly stood up at that. "Yes he was and he had two of the real ones." she said and he quickly snapped it out at that.
"Shut up you hag!" he snapped and that did it then for her as Will said it sharply at the news as he left his hand on Wesley's back at that. "Than he came in here drunk and is flying the ship, all you said was you were checking something. And not that your shift is over, alright young man get away from the helm right now." he said sternly and he snarled back at him that. "Back off Riker." he said coldly and she said it firmly at that.
"Alright that's enough young man, Jack scan him, because he's being arrested for DWI, right now." Beverly snapped and he did firmly before turning around. "His BAC is .12, looks like in addition to the two real ones, he's had a dose or two of whatever stimulate he was on in the fight, readings suggest it's caffeine, Beverly. He's speedballing, alright young man calm down right now." he said sternly and she nodded to that in agreement.
"Alright you're off the terminal as of now and Wes, honey, you better retake the helm, he's being yanked from active duty, until he's clean." She said and he nodded to her gently. "Oh yeah sure the brain trust gets it every time." he said with a growl and the quartet of security guards crossed their arms at that as the eight turned to her. "What was that, Colin?" Perkins said with a warning tone and they watched him freeze up.
"Back off." he growled and Greyson said it sternly to him. "Either you calm down, or you're getting arrested and this time. You're outnumbered, and it's not complete chaos Colin, settle down now, again you broke orders and this time the boss and second in command as well as the doctor are in the room for it. You want to get kicked off the ship, control yourself." he said and the young officer stood up and the quartet reacted to that.
"Don't try it kid, you do anything and you're ending up in a detention cell, young man." Goldberg said to him sternly as he, Jenson and O'Brien all stood up as well as MacDougal and Barnfield both looked at Beverly with a sigh. "As Wes said that's the same as calling us, our grouping, us in the technical and science department, of geek, nerd, brainiac, or any of twenty different names his kind called ours since we were Wes's age."
"But the direct translation regarding that remark here, it's suck up and show off, Bev, they've had it stuck in their minds. Since the captain agreed to let Wes stay here and you set up his regime, that he's been showing off to him, the commander and the entire senior crew staff. And he and the quartet have been using it since the void at the time." Barnfield said to her and she nodded as she said it firmly to that information.
"That's what these little brats are really saying, regarding my son?" she said as her tone started changing at that and the ensign paled at the mother bear tone in her voice and O'Brien answered that, as he shifted his gaze off the 24 year old training ensign as he answered her. "Yes, it's been going on ever since we had the trio playing around on the holodeck, regarding training scenarios and they're jealous he's passed everyone."
"But this started not long after the void we encountered and before our encounter with the smuggler. But with several Sherlock Holmes mysteries that week at the time, he was with us, but the more he came up with the right answers. Regarding pointing out what we couldn't catch, the more these guys started treating him like this. And that nickname is the same as the other term, to which I'm not saying out loud here either, Sir."
"And he's getting sick of it, you want a catalyst for why Kate wrote down why the knack him that hard, it's that, it was after that incident, he opened up to eight of us, Luke, Chris and Tom, and to us. We couldn't care less he's that good, because we encourage it, though at the current moment, every time Marks here comes into the room. And he tries to ignore them, but though he never starts it, they're the first to instigate a fight."
"And he's getting sick of it right now, which is why he came to our terminal at the moment a bit ago ago. But that first exchange you over heard earlier was the second portion to what caused the incident and why his system crashed." he told her and she nodded with a furious look. "When did these little brats arrive on the ship exactly Miles?" she asked him softly and he explained that to her firmly, but gently as he said it.
"Right after we got trapped in the void, the one that killed Frederickson at the time, but between this and when we encountered Okona. Like us Kate was as annoyed as we were, that this caused him to push himself into a collapse at the time." he said and she nodded to him as she turned around and looked at the 24 year old sternly. "You didn't think we heard that, young man?" Beverly said to him sharply at that remark with a firm growl.
As her son sighed at that as he said it to them, watching as Nagel rested her hand on his shoulder, he leaned into her touch as he answered her. "He's right mom, but my grievance is that everyone is throwing my abilities on me every time I turn around. And he's part of the group that Derek created that year, but they were in the concert. When Sarek was here, that's reason number two for why I wasn't there that night."
"Just to avoid a fight, I decided to ask Shayla out and we were doing something else while these guys were at the concert. And with the Bendii syndrome hitting us, I wasn't risking an explosion breaking out that night and that's why I got your attention a bit ago and with that. That's the nickname that started the entire thing that day Sir, mom, I was simply reporting in for my shift, and you ask him to shift positions with me."
"And he throws that at me, that day I was in a rush, and didn't have time to change uniforms, but this was before the situation with the knack. And I wasn't in the mood for it, it was just after this that Devin suffered the first symptoms of the Rot. It intensifies and, somehow, he managed to throw it on me and it switched courses. But you want the catalyst for the reason it hit me that hard, it's because of that damn nickname he said."
"I never provoked a fight, he just lashed out in anger that you asked him to switch positions with me, Sir." Wesley said and the trio all nodded as they all looked at the young man at that remark then as Jenson crossed his arms at the remark as Geordi said it for him at that. "Wait, you missed out on the concert, is it because these guys were in there and with the source of the near fist fight I saw between you and Geordi."
"In there as well, you weren't risking another one right in front of us at the time Wes, that's why you decided to opt out on coming that night?" Will said softly and he nodded. "Aye sir that's it exactly, in fact I was waiting for the other shoe to drop and when it did, that explains the bar brawl. I'm not the one provoking these fights between us, they get ticked that you turn their shifts over to me when it's my turn at the helm."
"But that night it's enough I was already on edge, because I realized and heard, from Jake. That Marks and his friends were going to be at the concert that night, and rather than risking getting in trouble for a possible fight, I opted out. And she and decided on something else that night." He said and they nodded as the trio exchanged looks at that as Geordi gripped his arm as he answered him gently as he said it to him.
"Wait Geordi, honey why didn't you tell me that the following morning?" Beverly asked and he sighed. "Because I told you and this was likely to blow up into what happened in ten forward anyway. Though I try not to start anything, to these guys, I tell you and it's to them now, it's I'm ratting them out. So instead I decided to wait till they busted themselves in front of the sextet and let them take it from there at the time."
"I reported it to my coach and the rest of the adult faculty with it, and they decided to wait till he lost his temper. And when he did that night when he picked a fight with me they took over. Like Derek, he knows that he and friends get caught for breaking the regime you set for us. And it's getting them kicked off the ship, but he was already on thin ice, regarding my collapse after the knack, and this just made it even worse."
"But he's basically, every time he's drunk, starts losing control like this and can't control his attitude. Till you as the senior staff catch him in the act, or the added coach and faculty does, and he doesn't realize that the sextet are the said coach and faculty. Commander Jenson is though third in command of their team, he's the one training me when I'm not around Geordi, the chief or the quartet." he said and she nodded to him.
"Coach, is that how you see Commander Jenson, Wesley?" Picard asked and he nodded to him. "Aye Sir, in the 18 months since you assigned his regime he and I grew pretty close at the time to that point. That, if we'd been in the 20th century, I'd have been the coach of the team he played on, I was now another adopted father. And I told him, after the knack, if he had anything to tell us, tell me first as I reported to the quintet as well."
"Before it started bouncing through the rest of the other two colors on the ship, so instead of reporting it to his mother. Let alone you and Commander Riker, regarding this as in their eyes, he's squealing on them we all decided to wait till they exposed themselves. Drunken rage or not it doesn't matter, but we decided to wait till Hanson exposed himself as the one who started the rumors." he said and they all nodded to him.
"So every time you are just trying to keep it peaceful these guys get ticked that the duo decide to turn their shift over to you when it's your turn. Or is it that the student officer gets more attention than the training ensign right now in their eyes. When we spent one year together and they arrive a year later and you've been at it longer. When we spent that one at together and in essense the results are we helped your mother raise you."
"You helped us when we needed you to, quick question, is that why you lost your temper when we were discussing your date, Wes. That the syndrome started making me sound like them and you were getting defensive regarding it?" Geordi asked him gently and he nodded with a sigh as he answered him then. "Yeah that's it, regarding our bond your encouragement was enough to give me the nerve to actually ask her out."
"So hearing your voice suddenly sound like them was like a knife through my heart." he told him and he gripped his shoulder gently at that as he answered him. "We're the ones who always encouraged your keeping up in your skills in science and engineering. Four months in and already you're helping us in the engineering and then things change course you get your shot and that year of being together results here."
"In us bonding so tightly that you don't want to leave and during that time it's turning you into a training ensign yourself. And you out score everyone at the academy in hands on, and while these guys are trying to show off at the helm. You're doing the jobs that insure you're surrounded by us and one of which. It had to do with getting Danar up here at the time, to them, it's showing off, because you're not risking jump in like that."
"A year later and into the summer they arrive and seeing the way we are together they start getting jealous. That in their eyes, the kid, a kid who's a supposed student and one whose working everything they're trained to. Is now being the one to run things with the entire senior staff crew, and is connected to every member that helped his mother." Geordi said firmly and he gave a nod to him gently to answer that and they all nodded.
"Geordi our friendship was all that mattered to me, three years together, you and I could do this faster than any normal person at the time. And it's because you always came to me for help at the time, the trust that, though you had others in your team fully qualified for this. But you keep turning to me to get us out of the situations we get ourselves into." he said and Geordi nodded as Picard answered that remark gently as he said it.
"That's the problem then, that, in their eyes, I pay more attention to you, because you're my student officer and you've been here longer on the bridge. One year together in training, I decided with the first rejection at the academy, because of the no winner that you train from up here. And your appeals in hands on training hit the highest scores at the academy in simulation when done for real, and they're jealous I'm listening to you."
"Because you're the son of my original number one and the son of a science officer/technician, and the CMO of my ship and crew as it is now. Like Will, I'm your mentor and the fact that the time is fast approaching when you're getting ready to leave. That the thought of you really leaving is getting harder by the day, for me because I helped raise you now, to me you're like my son." he said and his tone firmed up then.
"And to them, it's I'm playing favorites in junior officers, simply because I have you always around me here. That I listen more to you than I do them when it comes to training?" Picard said slowly and he gave him a nod to answer him and he nodded firmly as Jenson turned around at that. "So what's the deal, young man, the fact that he's not like you when it comes to working on the bridge, he's acting as a professional in it."
"He's not acting like a hotshot in trying to push the limit, regarding the engines when in training. Jealous that he's trying to think up another way out of trouble for us without it getting physical or dangerous at the moment. Or is it that you're jealous that the captain is considering it right now, his ideas save more lives. Than the reckless actions like the daredevils stunts in getting us through them, if we were the space saga and their pilot."
"He's playing chicken with the officers of the opponent's recruits, which is dangerous enough and could kill us. And he's choosing safer ways to work this out that don't call for muscles or wits, but your mental arsenals. Which to your way of viewing it, is he's showing off to us again, is that it Ensign, you're jealous he's simply giving us another way to protect the crew." Will said with a stern tone as Jenson finished that tone firmly.
"And one without violence and, in your way of thinking it with you being a hotshot college athlete, no action or adventure, just out thinking your opponent. By doing this by careful strategy and planning and not rushing the net. When you rush the net and it can and will get you, and whoever's with you, killed if you don't think through all the alternatives, let alone all the possible ramifications of which can go wrong."
"If you don't look at all the options first, but act, before you think first in these scenarios." Jenson asked with a stern tone at that and he swallowed at the remark as he looked at the older man. "Did you forget what rank I am when I arrested you that night." he asked him sternly and he swallowed at that remark. "Training Ensign, Lieutenant Commander, yes you're an ensign, but to us several ranks ahead of you."
"It's you're just a kid, you see the trio, they've been dressed in their uniforms for over a year, but they're lieutenant J.G.'s, when you start out as an ensign you're dressed in your color of the branch you belong to. But when in training from simulation to real, you're dressed in the uniform you're dressed in now until the years are done. Than you're given your uniform back, but the uniform it starts with is sky blue."
"Until you reach lieutenant J.G. and you get a gold one, till you make full commander and you're dressed in red after that. But to put this bluntly, with you being a training ensign, if this was a normal college or high school and you're an athlete. And you were on the varsity team and I found you in a fight with one of my players and you're drunk. It's enough I'd have dragged you before the headmaster or principal at the time."
"But then when the headmaster or the deputy headmaster are not around at the time, let alone secondary deputy of the school. That leaves it to us members that are teachers and extended staff to deal with the students, ergo. You got arrested by the coach of the team that runs the mechanics class and you're just a student. As is he, but he's the captain of the team, the oldest of the training ensign's, though he's a student officer."
"And he's focused more on academics than athletics, which is what the headmaster prefers, that you concentrate on your grades rather than the games. You flunk a class and you're off the team and are on a academic probation till you get your grades back up. Which is why he's advancing through the ranks faster, because he knows the rules and regulations given to him by us adults, which is something you kids have to learn."
"You flunk a test or are flunking a class, because of athletics or are caught red handed looking like you're pushing yourself into a burn out. And we have just cause to remove you from the team till you're clean from the drugs, stimulates and ethanol. He brought it to our attention as his teachers and you attacked a freshman when drunk. That's enough to get you kicked out of the school for several charges all at once, young man."
"Now I may not be part of the branch you're getting ready to join, but I'm still twice your age young man, as such I'm also five ranks above young, ergo, I'm your superior officer. And you talking back to me is enough to get you hit with an insubordination charge, especially when you're intoxicated at the time too, Ensign." Jenson said to him sternly and he swallowed at that as Picard finished that remark sternly as he looked at him.
"The ranks in officers training go from ensign to captain when deployed, but when you get sent to your duty station you got to go through 4 years of hands on training. But we're just preparing you for your job, this is not your duty station. Captain Maxwell is your future commander Ensign, we're just preparing you for the job. As you get used to working in a live environment at the current moment, but with it comes rules."
"Regulations and tests, requirements to prove you can handle being on spaceship with several dozen other races in officers, tests of tolerance, patience, health. And until you complete them, you're denied your color designation, our ship, like four others, takes it seriously, regarding the rules when it comes to you training ensigns. And to us, the qualifications to get your uniform back once you arrive at the time are a factor."
"But 1) as you're the oldest kids on the ship, despite the fact you're officers it doesn't matter, it's your job to take care of the kids. Especially when they're 7 to 10 years younger than you are. 2) is you help us when we need you to either in the lab, engineering or working here on the bridge. 3) is, when it comes to the dangerous situations, like what happened a bit ago, leave it to us as more experienced officers."
"Than you are, because we've had ten to thirty years field experience. 4) Regarding the fact that, in our eyes, you're still a child it's sticking to the health plan regime we created for you when you arrive. Said health plan is a balanced diet, no drinking or drugs, let alone smoking and Curfew is set for a specific time regarding your age. With you being college students to and high school students in our eyes, it's to set to your age group."
"And 5) and most important right now, when it comes to situations like a man hunt or we have a foothold, or incursion running loose on the ship and we're being boarded. We don't tolerate acts of showing off, but we have zero tolerance for showing off, hotdogging, going by your gut instincts or you're trying to act like a hero. Trying stunts like whatever you were considering when we had Roga on board are beyond reckless."
"And dangerous, to you you're trying to help catch him, to us, you're a hindrance and it could get you killed or captured. As to that, it's why when we had to get him on board, I made sure that Ensign Crusher was where we could see him right now, but that brings it to an important qualifier right now and with that. You want to make it here, or anywhere else, that you're sent too, than rein it in right now rookie, and I mean it."
"And get that arrogance and temper under control." Picard said firmly and Wesley gripped his arm at that and he looked at him and nodded gently as he rested his hand on his shoulder. 'Sir I understand you're irritated, but you've just dealt with a trauma and you had surgery barely 18 months ago. Calm down.' Wesley said to him softly and he nodded as he looked into his eyes at that as he gestured to Geordi and he nodded.
"Look at the uniform you're dressed in, you're dressed in a light grey uniform and no insignia on your neck collar. While Wesley is dressed in the uniform of a full officer, the branch you're training to be in, but to get to that color you got to go through blue and gold. Before you get to red, do you know what that says to us, you're not an officer, but a training ensign, a training ensign who got busted back a grade for getting arrested."
"It's he's an equal to me and the others up to my rank, Wesley was dressed in the uniform you're dressed in for that eighteen month period at the time. Before we graduated him to full ensign, though he's still in training, the last and final test is the no winner. And that's the test he's beyond worried about right now, and if you forced him into it and you're in serious trouble." Geordi said sharply to him and he swallowed hard.
"And with that, if you're going to act like that, you're spending a week off duty as of now, young man, so with that. Until you get that attitude under control, you're relieved of duty, report to your quarters until further notice." Will finished sternly to him and he swallowed. "But Sir." he started to say and Picard answered that remark. "No buts Ensign Marks, the rules apply for insubordination for everyone, you may be an ensign."
"But you're a training ensign with just two years training, he's 3 1/2, you're the junior ensign, he's the senior ensign. And just because he's trying to show me what he developed next in case of emergencies is no excuse for this attitude problem at the moment. So until you get that attitude under control you're relieved of duty, and I warn you right now at the moment, that you start getting into anything else."
"The next outburst that causes a riot after you started a fight in ten forward and I'm adding that to your record. It's enough that you're slowly looking towards a transfer to Dauntless or the Phoenix for your being the 'leap, before you look.' type. I've said, repeatedly, on this ship, I do not tolerate acts like what you pulled in ten forward. I'm only giving you one last chance to straighten up your act, or that's it, understand."
"One more thing, I hear you told Derek Hanson, your clique or his friends, regarding that chip. And you're spending three months in extensive training until you learn to respect the other types on the ship, young man. As I do believe that we've had this discussion several hundred times and that neither Commander Riker, nor I, tolerate acts based on stereo types." he said and Wesley tried to keep from flinching at his tone then.
"As of this moment, the only time you're allowed to leave your quarters is for training on the holodeck and that's it. I'm hereby barring you from contact with your friends or Derek Hanson, try to get around that. And you're being transferred off of the ship, and with you, your quintet, understand." he said and the young man nodded and left the room at that without a word and Wesley sighed as he looked at them at that.