The Bonds Of Friends And Family-Season 4

by BazzCatgirl03

Halfway through dealing with Lieutenant Commander Data, Wesley Crusher decides to create a way to handle it happening again. As things start during their fourth year together he makes preparations for leaving for the academy. As they decide to spend as much time as possible together, before he leaves that year.

4. 3: Barfight Memories And Discussions

The Bonds of Friends And Family: Season 4

Disclaimers: The characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me and every else belongs to the movie company and the creator.

Warnings: With this chapter comes the introduction to Wesley's friend and his enemy now in the high school program on board the ship. As with it, Jake Kurland was 18 in the episode leading into Wesley's application at the academy. But this is taking 3 years off his age now, so he's the same age as Wesley, Robin and their added team mate in the second story here now.

But from the next two chapters 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, as a result of Soong screwing with his memory now. The quintet, Wesley and the security guards are dealing with the emergency together as to the adult crew it was another training lesson now.

As this portion from here on in is now focused on the first episode of the season being shown. But the focus here is going to be on Wesley and the quintet now on the show for that episode. With Beverly and Deanna dealing with the medical emergency at the time now. While the crew is busy trying to take back control of the ship now from Data's sudden mind hijacking now.

Chapter 3: Working Out The Glitches And The Bar Brawl Memory

"Well that just made things worse, in his eyes, you're basically acting like my father and either the paranoia. Or whatever he's suffering from is clearly making it harder to think straight, Sir." he said and Will crossed his arms. "They attack you again and it's enough to get them thrown the ship, you're a student officer, not even in Starfleet yet. To us, you're still a kid and they attack a child, that's enough to get them kicked off the ship."

"Whatever their problem is, if they take it out on you and it's enough to get them in trouble at the moment." he said and Wesley nodded. "Yeah I know, but these hotshots think that just because I've been acting like you lately since they arrived. And I turn to you for advice, that I'm sucking up to you guys. As it is right now the fact that my ideas don't include putting anyone at risk is the reason they're getting so frustrated."

"It's been close to 3 years and despite the fact we all know that truth they're beyond jealous right now at the moment. I mean you play by the rules in internal ship politics and you move up the ladder, you don't and you get jumped for a promotion by the person that does, that's the way it works. If we were in the military and that hotshot, 'shoot first, ask questions later' attitude is the reason they're being jumped here."

"While you just promoted me from acting to full, I follow the rules, but I'm not about to get reckless when it comes to the job." he said and they nodded in agreement to that. "Yeah and you're like me, I got promoted three times by the time we hit the start of last year, but my away team has, if we were the other three branches, a captain, two majors and a lieutenant colonel in it, but that's the way it works here in Starfleet."

"You just completed the first two years regarding of your advanced training, and if we keep it up like this you're going to be ready to make lieutenant junior grade. If this results in a passing grade here at the moment." Geordi said and he nodded. "Yeah that's the point, these hotshots are trying to show off in order to move up the ladder, but you don't tolerate it, Sirs." he said and they both nodded to him as he went further then.

"At the moment they crossed the line anyway, because if you were running a private school in high school to college. Then in my case as the coach of the JV basketball team as well as several members of the faculty intervened in an escalating fight that resulted in a riot. And the faculty and the campus security had to arrest these guys as a result, but you made the rules clear when you allowed Jake and me to start training up here."

"But a balanced diet, 2) no drinking or drugs and 3) our curfew, with us being 17 was at 2230 hours every night on a school night. In their case they got caught and were arrested for speedballing when they were having their trial period shoved back further. Which is why Dave was ticked that they gave me a concussion at the time because he was playing the coach of my team, as I'm the JV team captain of my team."

"With my second in command being Jake it's just us till we get more, but it's slightly lonely with it just being the two of us and I know he's thinking the same. But having our own squadron would work better in these situations. As he tries to put it to work and as we get a direct demonstration on what you keep telling us and him. Though I pull it off with back up and that proves the point of what you always tell me, Captain."

"Jake and I were his star players and he was running the automechanics class and is our basketball coach. And as we don't have the coach of their basketball team here the ending results are the coach and faculty had to arrest them for speedballing. And starting a riot when we had outside sources turning up the heat till it exploded finally at the time." he said and they both nodded as Jenson said it to him gently as the comparision.

"Nice work with the metaphor there Wes and you're right, with your mother the head doctor and the seven of them being the board right now. The results were they got arrested by the vice principal and the head of campus security along with the campus security itself here. When we have several faculty members and extended staff in the room, the security chief and the vice principal were heading to the room just as it hit."

"And then to top it off the chemistry class professor was the added power keg here as well, as the Sparks reached the gun powder and it exploded." he said and he nodded as he answered him, with a bemused tone. "I can't believe this right now, but what idiot decides to be drinking right now when you have 3/4's of the faculty in the room. I mean when you said that to him, I could tell you were about to turn on the C.O. profile."

"Of 60 officers in the room, you and Geordi were the highest ranks in the room with the next one on his way into the room. Just as the fight took another turn and I remember that conversation. But seriously, do these idiots not understand the rules and what idiot gets loaded and starts a fight with a superior officer. And the vice principal and head of security are just about to get into the room as well?" he said and they sighed at that.

"A couple of kids that don't understand that us adults only put the records at two, cross that line and you're getting arrested. And secondly, with the fact we had a bunch of government officials on board, we all had to stay sober. Which lands it on the synthethol and only the synthethol, as if that's not enough your mother already said it here. But she wanted everyone to stay sober, so we caught anyone who was beyond drunk."

"And they were getting arrested, though if my double already made that clear, if I have to use that blaster for real to break up the fight. And someone's in serious trouble, because one bar brawl is enough in there after whatever you told them at the time and with that in mind. Because taking anything that really had ethanol in it was enough to be called out." Guinan said and Picard nodded in agreement to her thoughts.

"I take it you prefer training ensign's like me and Jake, over the guys like Hanson and Marks?" he asked and she nodded. "Yes, your personalities I prefer, I just wish you guys had your own squadron up here. So we can prove the lesson we keep trying to tell these kids, that if you want to go somewhere and you want to be somebody. Then you better wake up and pay attention, because the real world is out there and in the real world."

"They don't care how good you think you are or who you're connected to, it doesn't matter, if you don't have an education, you don't have anything, and that's the truth kiddo. We have to activate that programming and you and your team mates beat the odds, and he gets arrested in the first two hours if you're playing decoy. And you just proved the point we keep making to these guys." she said and Picard nodded to that.

"I don't doubt that if you had a double in the 20th century, she possibly said the same thing to the kids who think that the course she was teaching is show up and pass. Before she changed it to better pay attention, work hard and had to earn it at the time. But you all had been telling the jocks this ever since Derek and the quintet arrived. And no matter how times they get into trouble they're never going to learn that."

"Until they humiliate themselves by getting arrested for reckless endangerment, if whatever this attempt to take control of the enterprise doesn't have an effect on Data. And he's the one who arrests whoever tries that, if they're looking for me and I'm sleeping off the come down from the adrenaline surge." Wesley said to that gently. "I'll say, but whoever did is getting it by all of us for doing that." Will said with warning tone.

"Yes and I read up on a few things, it's seems there are a bunch of men like Jonathan O'neill who have that wise guy, insubordinate attitude. And others like Commander Jackson are everything that the men they're serving under want as an executive officer and second in command. But Jackson's grandfather moved up the ranks, seven times in 20 years and made three star general by the time he hit 40 years old 400 years ago."

"But his personality and instincts were like yours, and he had the appeal to make it to four star admiral by the time he was 45." Picard said to him and he nodded. "I take it that's why you're spending so much time on me, because I'm just like Commander Jackson when it comes to these things. But in their case it's an act of comparision and if Major Hailey had this same argument with Colonel Carter, it's voiced a different way."

"In Shelby's case in the case of Commander Riker, but 'you gotten the highest score in every class I've been in. Won every award that I've ever been up for, they've been comparing me to you since the day I walked in the door. And I just can't seem to measure up in their eyes.'. That's the psychosis right now, to always want to be the best and brightest at everything they do and suddenly that all ends now at the moment."

"Because they're having to go and deal with someone even better then they are and case in point is me, Commander Riker and Colonel Carter, same fight. Same argument and we all said the same thing now in this as these guys are our rivals at the moment. But 'So that's it, what for the first time you're not automatically the best and brightest at everything you do. Get over it, there are more important things at stake right now.'."

"I've been living on this ship from the beginning and they just started in year two, and to you guys they can't seem to measure no matter how hard they try to. To you, I'm your best pupil, Jake your best piloting cadet, and to you these guys can't seem to measure up to our skills and expertise no matter how hard they try. So if they can't get passed that image they go to reputation sabotage which is that rumor that was created."

"But I'm Colonel Jackson at the pinnacle of his training at the Air Force academy, and won every award and highest grade in every class I've been in. While Derek is like O'neill and on the edge of flunking right out of the high school program at the current moment, but with you not knowing what the heck was happening in there that night. I think we better show that to you guys before we finish up in this?" he asked and he nodded.

"Alright, Guinan you too." he said and Wesley smiled. "No need to to use the turbolift, check this out, Lal, site to site, Holodeck one." he said and in answer to that they disappeared and then reappeared in the middle of the holodeck floor and Will chuckled at that. "Well that helps in keeping you two to three steps ahead of the opponent, though you start screwing around with that when late for class and you're busted pal."

"Because we don't need you to over do it with the transporter room interlock system." O'Brien said to with gentle chuckle to that. "I knew your training in working on the holodeck and engineering was going to come in handy. But I wasn't expecting that computer program to tie into every system we have on board the ship right now, Wes." Geordi added as he looked at his young team mate then at that with a smile.

"What did this just to the entire system exactly anyway?" Jenson said with a slight smile to that. "Once we activate her completely, she's tied into every system on the ship. So during the run around the results are I give her my passcode and she's taking over after that from there. But let's just say that whoever is playing the plant in this game, I got her watching my back with him, whoever it is, giving me inside information later."

"If whoever the rest of my squadron on the ship is, it's not just the four of us, but Lal as well, so she's in the computer, if one of my team mates is incapacitated. And with whatever infected you guys this time, the mastermind doesn't realize they got a plant giving their target inside information. And the computer is now the A.I. of the Android who they deactivated, and said android had a daughter they didn't know about."

"But Lal is now the entire ship, so no matter how hard the mastermind plays this game, she's never going to win. As to why I got a few aces up my sleeve they doesn't know about. If they read your minds later on this at the moment, but with you guys at half strength depending on when we have to activate this, you forget a few things and that's just another weapon I intend to use against them." he said and they nodded to him.

"Yes, but the difference is you're the 'think your way out of the box' type. And he's the 'shoot first, ask questions later' type, as well as the wise mouth, insubordinate type. And though this is the last test on the list to gain your promotions and keep your uniforms. Remember that though there are several ways to get caught, but hundreds more not to, if you look at it carefully and there's no such thinking as over thinking a situation."

"At this stage in our lives once we reach commander to full admiral now that's when we have to think about the reactions to our decisions as to why. And I'm guessing that's why Q tagged us, if they're the ones, O'neill's grandfather and his military type. Are the ones causing things in the past to get so serious. I had to prove not all of us earth humans are like this, but these fools think that taking one too many chances pays off here."

"But you continue pushing your luck and your luck is going to run out sooner or later, so with that, instead of taking chances like this. It's going to take outsmarting your opponents now in this situations right now Wesley. But trying to show off by reckless endangerment is not the way to handle these things and not when we know you'd never try something that reckless so anyway." Picard said and Wesley nodded to him smiling.

"Yes and I never would try anything like what he would try, because when running on fumes the only chance to keep this from, if this ended up in T-95. Is my stopping to take a breather, before it causes me to collapse, though if there's still shrapnel from the explosion still left in there, that's a good enough alibi to head back to my apartment. And round up the supplies I need, while doing a case of stage acting while I'm at it."

"Just how serious do these claustrophobic outbursts get exactly, if you've had to head off the outbursts more than once exactly, Chief. And I'm giving an example here but ending up in a Tyken's rift or too close to the edge of q blackhole?" he asked and O'Brien sighed. "Bad enough that we get stuck in something like that and the phobia is going to cause a case of attempted mutiny at the moment in and with that in mind right now."

"Though if it's in ten forward, I'm going to need back up before it trashes the room a second time. Because if he starts coming up with conspiracy theories and everyone is too exhausted to think straight. Then the ending results are it's going to result in arresting him and whoever's with him that started the fight." he said and they nodded bemused. "Lovely, that's just what we need, paranoia resulting in another fight here in there."

"This guy needs to get it under control and just because none of us are getting any rest, doesn't mean he needs to start something at the moment. But after the bar brawl, once was enough, fortunately I have something we can use to head it off, before it gets worse in there." Guinan said and he smiled. "Whatever you brought on board would be useful here Guinan, for the moment after Data deactivates the programming on you."

"Before debriefing you in what I was doing, but the first maneuever after he does is activating the security code and lock the room down. As to why because I'm calling you in the morning to check in with you and whoever of our group here is in the room with you." Wesley said to her and she nodded. "I don't know what the deal is with Hanson, but if he honestly thinks you're stupid enough to walk in there to get something to eat."

"When we're waiting in ambush than he doesn't know you at all, you'd never get that reckless." Burke said to him and he nodded in agreement to that. "That's my point exactly, he may say he knows how I think, but he doesn't. As to why because trying to attack head on, I get arrested, setting the auto destruct, getting arrested. Try to beam over to their ship and taking them, whoever it is, getting arrested as well, as to that."

"And it's by careful planning and evaluation of this situation, but 1) parent a doctor, I use what she used when in home medical care, 2) the enemy blocking one route. I take another, distraction and division, if this is the same as the conspiracy three years ago. And I have two more partners in addition to me who are my own kind, and it's using what you three did here." he said and his mother and the duo smiled at that.

"So long as you can keep the reckless stunts out of the equation we're fine with this, if we all get compromised, but going from careful planning to repeated reckless actions. And one of them finally lays you out and whoever caused it is ending up behind bars for it." Will said to him bemused and he nodded to him. "Yeah well there's the father bear syndrome for you once you're back to normal." he said and the older man chuckled.

"Yeah and with it, with our bond, they cross me, once I'm back to normal, regarding you and they're ending up in sickbay, before getting thrown into a detention cell here. Since this began and you and Jake became my first students at the time. It's making it clear, but I'm the coach they never want to mess with now. And frankly for these kids it's a damn good thing I'm not their coach or they'd be out of training for 1/4 of the year."

"And banned from the areas they spend the most time in, if I caught them in the act of speedballing or drinking at the time. You knew what I wanted even though I never said it out loud and you're the captain of the team, son. Though I never said it out loud I think Commander Jenson took the role of assistant coach that night. If he did that and arrested the quintet for starting a fight a bar fight in there that night, at the time."

"You said that was Marks he threw over the bar counter?" he asked and Wesley nodded as Jenson sighed as he explained it to him. "The fight was half arrest for speedballing which explains the five Red's that were in the room with us, Marks being one of them. And the other a result of Sarek's ability activating a second fight, but that's what Geordi meant, he knew what caused the first half of it, but he didn't know what caused that."

"Just as Geordi got the kids out of the room, Janson knocked him into the wall and the fuse reached the gun powder and it exploded. But I was the match that was struck to light the fuse and he was the minute before the fuse reach the gunpowder. Before the explosion hit just as you walked in the door, Sir." he said and Will nodded to the information as Beverly said it for the four of them at that remark.

"Were the seven of you surrounding Wes and Shayla, just before the fight went from vocal to physical though, Dave?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah we were, but I took the unspoken directive to act as Wes's coach at the time. Like he said if this was a high school or college we were running, then I'm the teacher of the automechanics class. And the JV coach watching gently over my captain of the team with his date."

"While Geordi and the quintet were the rest of the faculty and with the quintet's coach not on board the ship right now. Then I had to take charge and I was trying to control the situation in there before it got worse. But I was acting like the coach you wanted regarding him and I was serious when I said I was a friend of the family, because we've been friends for three years since our deployment." he said and she nodded to him then.

"At the moment like I said what you saw with Colin a bit ago was the reaction he gave in ten forward, just a lot more controlled. But Dave was right, when you, Commander Riker, Data and the captain aren't around. Then the other highest ranked officers were in charge and he insulted him while talking back to him in the process. But they told him to cool down 15 times before they gave me that concussion." Wesley said and they nodded.

"Aside from being his other supervisor in engineering, I'm his assistant coach, so you were the coach at the current moment. I was assistant and the added act was getting our student and his date out of the room, before this got worse. But I was ticked at the way Colin was treating him at the time and I went to deal with this, but if we had any comparisions, it's having the alter ego breaking out and it running amok."

"But that sums up what happened in there that night before you arrived in there, Sir." he said and the quartet nodded. "Yeah alright let's have it, I need to see this fight from your perspective, so we can see what caused this. So I know what happened before the eight of us and Eric and his team got in there. Though with the fact we're seeing this from your perspectives, guys." Greyson said and he nodded as he he said it to the computer.

"Lal, activate memories of the events leading into the bar brawl, then after that show the fight between me and Derek. And what caused it, so the next time we have a security breach for whatever reason and that truths going straight to the Hansons next." he said and in answer to that the room in front of them turned into the ten forward bar. And the first four tables directly in front of it as they watched what was going on.

"Nice touch, we got a perfect reenactment of things leading into the pandemonium in there right now." Geordi said, seeing himself talking to Billy Wilcox at the bar counter. "Who is that child at the bar, he's dressed all in red?" Picard asked and he sighed. "That's Billy Wilcox, he's a eight grader in the middle school program. Wes decided to just this once allow him in there and he was sitting in hearing range of the conversation."

"Wes told him that in order to get into the next game he was playing in the middle school program championship. He had to keep his grades up and Billy asked me that to confirm his opinion and that's what we were talking about. Leading into the next fight at the time here that night." he said and Picard nodded. "These children in middle school have five to seven years left in the school program on the ship and that time goes by quickly."

"And this one has five years left, I take it he was more focused on grades than athletics if he was asking that question?" he asked and Wesley nodded. "Yes Sir, but to him, he's a younger version of me and he was attempting to get in on just his SAT's. As to why because I was his role model, and he knew what Geordi was to me and went to him to confirm my opinion." he said and Picard nodded as they watched as things got started.

Watching as he was sitting there talking things over with Guinan, they saw Geordi tap him on the shoulder gently. "Hey Wes, about what happened last night, I'm sorry, I'm not sure what caused that outburst." Geordi said and Wesley nodded as he answered him smiling. "It's okay, Sir, we were both on edge for some reason. But we just had another outburst here this morning at the moment here."

"And this time it did shift to violence, because we had ten outbursts in the side of twelve hours today." he said and Geordi nodded to him at that in agreement. "I heard the same thing commander, but it seems like we had more than one sudden outburst of violence breaking out around here right now. And four of those are in the teenage department as well." Shayla Janson said and he nodded.

"Yeah it's the same for the middle schoolers Commander, we had two fights in the junior high program, and three more in the high school. But two last night, two this morning, and six breaking out in ten hours. That's not normal right now, I mean, when we don't have government officials on board. Things are not quite this tense, but it seems like the tempers are frayed more then normal."

"Though I think the only ones noticing this are in the engineering and science departments. If Counselor Troi has had 10 people telling her this in the side of 48 hours since the ambassador and his entourage arrived on board the ship." Wilcox added and he nodded. "And I'm not surprised you picked up on that yourself Billy, you're just like me regarding this." Wesley said and Geordi nodded.

"Something weird is going on around here, Deanna said she heard the exact same thing from ten different people over the last two days here. Alright I get the feeling it's about to get worse, if it hasn't already by now. Though if I know anything it's that this fact is about to shift from random violence and into a brawl." he said and Wesley nodded, though just as he was answering his remark then.

They heard the next start up and recognized the voice as the transporter chief then as the fight started off gently. "Excuse me, but we were sitting here." they heard and turned to look at the conversation. "Yeah I remember that, and Fieldman was acting like it was first come first served and acting the tough guy with it. We just left the table for five minutes to get something to drink." O'Brien said and Picard and Will nodded to him.

"Well we're sitting here now." They heard from a man in a blue uniform as O'Brien answered him. "Come on fella, this is our table." he said and the man smirked as he answered him and they sighed as he answered that. "Really, funny I don't see your name on it." he said and they watched as Wesley grabbed Geordi at that. "Geordi, it's about to get nasty here, look over there." he said and he turned to look at them.

As they listened to the fight, seeing the escalating tension in his friend then Geordi remembered it firmly as he said it. "Yeah this was just the prelude to the oncoming fight that night, but this is what I meant Beverly. It was barely fifteen minutes later that the fight went from vocal to physical and I got him out of the room just as someone knocked me into the wall." he said to her and they nodded as they watched the debate.

As it shifted from courtesy to possible stand off and a near fist fight. "Oh boy, the chief may look like he's a push over, but he's anything but, after his trying to help Greyson arrest Roga six months ago." Wesley said and Geordi nodded in agreement. And O'Brien hid a smile as he answered that remark with a gentle smile on his face. "Yes and for obvious reasons here, I've had to deal with one fight or another that year, on my own, before we got security in there." he said to him gently to that and he nodded.

As he heard Geordi's recorded response in answer to his statement then. "Yeah but none of us are pushovers, we may may look like we're not up to it, but we're anything but. Though having a soldier like Danar attack us when our backs are turned is not helping their cases right now, in these situations at the current moment." he said and he nodded in agreement as they listened to argument then.

"Yeah well whatever is causing this is getting out of hand right now and it just went from possible standoff to a probable fight." The bartender said to him then. "Didn't your mother ever teach you manners." they heard from O'Brien and the duo both stood up at that as Geordi said it firmly. "That's what I meant when we said that, one minute things were slightly tense and the next it's on the edge of a fist fight."

"As I deflected this, before Marks started another ten minutes later." he said as he heard his recorded image say it then. "Aw crap, not again, here we go again, alright you kids stay over here." he told them and they nodded as he walked over. "Hey, hey, guys, is there some kind of problem here?" he asked with a firm tone and O'Brien answered him without taking his eyes off the man he was arguing with as he said it then.

"Well there seems to be some kind of question to who's table this is." he said and Geordi said it gently. "Well there are plenty of other tables, right?" He said reasonably and the O'Brien sighed and nodded. "Yeah I suppose you're right." he said and they sighed in relief. "Why I don't I get everyone another round of drinks, okay." Geordi told him and he nodded as he patted them both on the shoulder as the group saw Wesley watching the sextet carefully as Geordi walked up to him.

As he looked between him to the bartender at that. "Is it my imagination or are the tempers getting a little frayed around here on the ship lately right now?" he asked in a bemused tone and Geordi and the bartender nodded in agreement to that. "I'm not sure what the hell is going on here, but be ready for anything here." he said and he nodded as, looking at O'Brien, he then turned to the rest of the team.

"Hey guys, group meeting, come on." he said and the sextet walked over. "What's up Wes?" he asked and Wesley explained that. "Whatever caused that fight between me and Geordi last night just hit you and it's turned into a live wire around here. But so far we've had this same problem in either physical violence or people getting testy with each other from ten different people over the last two days." he said and they nodded as they relaxed at that ad O'Brien answered him.

"So where did it start exactly?" he asked and Wesley sighed. "It started with me and Ensign D'Amato, followed by you and Geordi the night before." Worf said as he heard Wesley repeat that remark as he explained that then. "It started with Ensign D'Amato and he got into a vocal altercation with Worf. And Worf put him on report, for insubordination, as a result of the first 10 hours after Sarek arrived."

"Later that night I got the news from Jake that the quintet were going to be at the concert. And immediately following that was Geordi and me and the commander walked in just as the fight turned into yours and nearly resulted in a fist fight. This morning mom and I got into it and it did shift to physical violence, don't ask." He said and she sighed as she answered that remark.

"Yeah and it's because I thought you deliberately skipped out, I didn't realize it was because you were attempting to keep it from happening again. And this time right in front of us at the time." Beverly said and he nodded as he answered her. "Yeah and it's because with they're being inebriated and on drugs, the psychosis was getting worse by the minute around here at the time, but it's the added act of jealousy right now."

"And the syndrome unlocked the door here at the time." he said as his recorded self finished that remark. "But an hour later we had two more adults lose it and another fight turned altercation today as a result. Another an hour later and it did turn into a fight, three teenagers in a flat out fist fight in the classroom. And Hanson and his friends got into it with Jake and a friend of his."

"And I heard that Peterson and Wilcox just ended up in a fight with Davis and Renfro, just before we got in here and yours got started. But that makes 20 and if I've got to guess, than Deanna heard this already. And from ten different people all over the ship of fights breaking out, and it's either physical violence or tempers getting testy with each other at the current moment here."

"I mean normally we do fine when we don't have outside influences getting involved and suddenly we got a string of violent vocal outbursts breaking out. Or someone starting a real physical fight and it's all in the space of four days. But does that seem strange right now, I mean things are fine around here until Sarek arrived last night?" he said and they nodded as they exchanged looks at this.

As MacDougal answered him at that remark with a bemused look on her face. "With that, I think it's safe to say that Sarek and his party are the reason for it right now, because the outbursts of violence. And physical or no, started at virtually the same time as when Sarek and his party beamed on board the ship." she said and O'Brien sighed. "You alright now Chief?" Wesley asked and he nodded to him.

"Yeah and I haven't a clue to what caused that in me just now, but this is getting out of hand. But at the moment, and you're right, but this is getting serious right now, I mean 10 fights in the spaces of 2 days, normally we're on good terms with each other. But this time it's the act of outside sources causing tempers to get more frayed then normal around here lately and with that."

"This happens again and someone is going to start something here." he said and Wesley nodded. "Yeah and that's not if the said someone is not just suffering from whatever this..., damn it, alright, alright. Sarek, if he was human, or just a humanoid would be a Betazoid. As they get older they start losing control of their telepathy and empathy, and it starts jumping on to humans at random."

"I don't know the name of that disease, because I never looked it up in biology, but it's the Vulcan version of Addison's disease before we cured that. But if I know anything it's this, that the ones either losing their tempers or are getting violent have too much pressure on their shoulders. Or they are suffering from substance abuse and I think that explains Hanson if he got into it with Jake."

"But in the side of two days we had ten to twenty outbursts of violence or vocal fights. So far we had two last night, three this morning and three more, before it landed in here, this keeps up its turning to a full blown fight or worse. But at this rate, if the effects of whatever's causing this combine with alcohol or worse someone's on drugs and they've had one too many, at the moment."

"And case in point the quintet if they're drunk." he said and they all nodded to that as he finished that. " Jake told me Hanson was taking drugs, and possibly speedballing at the current moment right now Dave, as are Eric Jacobs and Tony Farley." he said and Jenson nodded. "What are they taking if he told you that exactly honey?" Barnfield asked gently and he sighed as he answered her at that.

"Same as our 20th century counterparts and I doubt Lieutenant Walters knows this, right now as well. But if this is what could be considered a total burnout right now, because if they're trying to get noticed by the captain or the commander. They're going about the wrong way to do it, it's not based on muscles or fast thinking, its careful strategy and knowing your opponent."

"You've been telling me that for two years and I'm on the edge of earning my uniform. And it's a result of simply not showing off, careful strategy and thinking your way out of the box. You always told me to look before you leap and so far my ideas have resulted in pulling us out of the fire, one being what started this at the time." he said and Shimoda and MacDougal nodded to that.

"Yes and in your case we've seen that so long, but then we're just like you and with that in mind. It's these kids are pushing so hard they're going to put themselves on medical suspension if this keeps up right now at the moment. Whatever this is, is about to result in, if this continues and we don't figure this out, a riot next, if they lose their tempers." Geordi said to him and he nodded.

"Yeah well at the moment we have six college athletes trying to push the limit no matter how far they can just to get noticed by the captain and Commander. But I'd say this is the say as the psychosis regarding they're not seeing my bonds with you as anything but what they think it is right now. And to them the psychosis is I'm showing off to you to get special treatment at the moment."

"But then I'm not the one taking drugs trying to cross lines in the eyes of a veteran and to him and you. You all know what that truth regarding my parents and the captain is. But remember what you told me before, regarding training, even though you needed back up when we had Roga on board. But you have zero tolerance for showing off, hotdogging, going by our gut instincts."

"Or trying to act like a hero, I took your lessons seriously since the captain activated me, and you know I'd never get involved in a situation like Roga. But these guys are trying to push the limits, trying to get passed a bunch of asteroids. Playing chicken with the Cardassians or some other fool hardy maneuver, you try that and your luck is going to run out sooner or later."

"But how many times have you guys said it exactly, how many times, there's more to the job then using your muscles. You have to use the other five subjects in high school to make it in this job, case in point the Polywater virus. But history and biology class, piloting and engineering: chemistry and calculus, everything I studied in history class on all the past ships named enterprise."

"But the situation regarding the Polywater virus took three things here at the time and with it. It took my real experience at doing this under pressure, but there's more to this then just being in Phys Ed." he said and they nodded to him. "You're right about that and you've been passing these tests with the highest scores in practical that these kids get in simulation at the moment."

"And in this case, there's more to the job then just using your muscles, but the captain and commander believe in brains over brawns, always have and always will. But you took to the job so easily that you know what they wanted and whatever project you have been cooking up is another example. But I'd consider this obsession a case of a health violation and physical burn out now."

"Though this keeps up and I'm looking at the kids that got ticked at the team captain and his gang for reporting them for a health violation and with it. If this heads in the direction of a physival burn out it maybe necessary to relive the kids of duty and in Hanson and Parker's cases. To put them on medical suspension till they're clean." Jim Shimoda said and he nodded in agreement to that.

"Someone starts something in here and we have to get security in here before said altercation turns into a bar brawl, or worse at this rate. But whoever causes it, influenced by whatever this is or no. And it's getting them a week on light duty under watch if they're beyond loaded. At the rate this is going and you already took the unspoken agreement to be my and Jake's coach, Dave."

"If the commander walks in the door just as the fight starts and we drag them before the captain, we're your players and with my date in here as well. I don't think you got a choice, but varsity captain going at the JV captain for one reason or another. And they're drunk, so everyone watching the conversation get ready for the fight here." Wesley said and the seven nodded in agreement.

As Geordi said it for all them as he answered him to that remark. "Alright again be on watch and ready for whatever's coming next at the moment though this keeps up we may have to arrest them and..." Geordi started to say as the O'Brien looked at the quintet. "Oh boy, how many did they have exactly, because they're looking like they're all drunk." Jenson asked sharply and the bartender answered that.

"With those kids, I was sticking it to the synthethol, though I think if they did replicate alcohol someone just crossed the line. And the regime strictly forbid drinking when on duty, especially when we have government officials on board at the moment right now. But the captain ordered that no one under the age of 26 was to be drinking when on duty and they're all 24 years old."

"If they were drinking it's getting it from the bartender just before me. Because Guinan's off duty right now at the moment and I need backup. With Lal now gone she was the only strong enough to break things up before someone got hurt if a fight broke out. If she was still alive, I don't doubt she'd take them apart if they attacked you out of jealousy, since you're like a brother to her."

"But if this is heading for a real fight every adult better keep and eye out for the time being. But this gets started and we better get Derek, Eric or Jack in here and fast." he said and they all nodded. "Son if whatever this is causes them to flip out be ready, because we're coming to you. Though this turns into a fight, we may have to arrest these kids, because you're my student and I'm your tutor."

"And we're on watch in case of trouble, because they start going at you, I think it's safe to that whatever this is, it's causing us to speak whatever we wouldn't normally say in front of the captain or the commander. Though if this is what I think, I think it just shifted back to what you told us." O'Brien said for all of them and Wesley nodded as they shifted position to the table directly across from the counter.

"Fieldman, Janson, get ready we could have trouble in a second." he added and the duo both nodded. "Yeesh, what the heck is going on here?" Peter Janson asked and he shrugged. "I wish I knew right now, but what I do know, is that we could have a case of speedballing in the college age athletic department and my players are the target, so stand by." Jenson said in answer to that and he nodded.

"College age?"he repeated and Jenson nodded to him."Yeah the quintet are just short of graduate school age, my boys are just under 18. And they've been here longer, but after the knack, I think it shifted from insults and jibes. And is about to shift into violence with them possibly drunk and speedballing right now. And to answer the unasked question at the moment, Wes and Jake, but the kids."

"I've been their unspoken coach since Beverly left the ship and with that, in mind." he said and the duo nodded."Yeah I get the point and we'll keep an eye out." Fieldman said as Wesley sat there talking to Shayla then. "Yeah and I can't say I blame you for that remark right now David, and as to why right now. It's because I did order that no one was supposed to be drinking when on duty anyway at the time."

"I take it this was ten minutes before the fight broke out honey?" Beverly asked and he nodded to her softly. "Yeah but get ready for this, because I knew you weren't going to like the results. My thoughts and opinions were heading in the direction yours were after the fight, but I couldn't remember the name of that disease at the time. But I knew it was related to this at the moment, but ten fights in two days at the moment."

"And it started at virtually the same time as when Sarek and his party beamed into the ship. But this was getting out of hand and this syndrome was connecting to substance abuse with it was that Deanna was feeling thirty different sets of emotions and not being able to tell who the fight started with. Though you got definite hit after my fight with Derek that night after you called him into your office." he said and the quartet nodded.

"Lal add the inner commentary so she knows what I was thinking and with it the silent conversation between me and Commander Jenson." he said and knew she got the message. "I take it this was your thoughts regarding how I was going to take it when I heard that they were not only drunk, but speedballing?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah being a doctor, I knew you weren't going to like this." he said and she nodded to him.

Watching they saw that things were quiet in the room for fifteen minutes, before they saw a red shove him in the back. And then saw his date as she steadied him and he said it sharply as he gripped her gently as he said it firmly."Hey what's your malfunction, pal, what was that for." he asked and turned around and saw Ensign David Marks standing there as he said it sharply then to him as he looked at him then at that.

"Marks what's your problem man, was that really necessary, I mean you could have asked me to move. Being polite works better then getting physical right now at the moment." he said to him as they saw a furious look on his face. "I really don't see why the duo even bother with listening to some little brat like you right now." he snapped and they watched as he stood up as he focused on him firmly.

'Oh great, just as that one ends, this one gets started, he's drunk and possibly stoned. And more than likely on the effects of whatever caused that fight a bit ago. Alright I'm in total control, but if this doesn't work in calming him down he needs to be arrested, before he starts something.' They heard as he answered him gently, but firmly then as he watched his video taped self then as he answered him.

"Whatever this is about, wasn't my doing, so, if you don't want to get written up right now and since we're not the only people under 25. At the moment in here, did you forget we have a regime to follow at the current moment. And this breaks that regime, Ensign, you're drunk, calm down now here Colin." he said to him sternly as they got a better look they saw he was beyond loaded.

"Aw god, I've seen that look on one too many patients since before you were born at the time. But this was out of jealousy and they want the attention, of Jean Luc and Will, but this is crossing the line in health and wellness." she said as she crossed her arms as they watched, and they knew he had more than just the synthethol then. 'Oh boy how many did he have exactly, he's looking like he's ready to collapse here?'

'Damn it, alright act like the JV captain I am, this varsity player has had one too many and is possibly speedballing right now.' they heard as he locked gazes with the sextet and Geordi. 'Wes see if you can get him to calm down, but if he keeps this up we're arresting him, because we don't need another fist fight this soon. You're my team captain, so just try, if not we're coming to you, son.'

'But just be ready in case this latest one causes a free for all right now.' They heard from Jenson and he quickly answered him. 'Dave, I'd say he's had more than the maximum safest dose in ethanol and possibly he's on drugs with it. So be ready in case this does get physical.' They heard in answer to that thought as they saw, through his eyes, his skin looking reddish pale and he was drenched in sweat.

'Alright whatever's in his system is mixed with the alcohol and it's not synthethol, but the really good stuff. Aw crap, he's beyond drunk right now, oh boy mom's not going to take this well when she hears this. And neither will the duo, the commander was always stern about this thing. And with both me and Jake made it clear, but we'd never cross that line, dang it guys."

'Are you out of your damn minds, it's dangerous to be taking in that much and it's illegal, when on duty anyway. I'm the son of a medical doctor and Anenzi's not going to like it that they crossed the line in health.' they heard as Will answered him. "Yeah that's an understatement and especially when I forbid drinking on duty anyway and these kids are crossing physical limit lines not meant to be crossed."

"Right now and with it you guys read my mind, that if meant arresting these kids before they drove themselves right into the wall. You had it right that the limit we set it to was two and only that, but drinking, and doing this when you're under 25 years old. If we were back in the 20th century and us officers caught one of our subordinates drunk. That's enough to get the arrested, because this was a felony, either on earth or up here."

"But 80% of the ship was adults ranging from 25 to their mid 50' and early 60's and with that, these guys weren't even out of their young adult stage. At that age you're stuck between being a teenager and an adult, and they want the freedom. Now, of making their own decisions in this, but there were close to 150 teenagers on board and you guys were the model students we preffered, in giving a clear example to the teenagers now."

"And it's the act of being the team that role models for these kids, but you and Jake were the model teenage officers the kids should have been looking too at the time. And instead of a quintet of college hotshots at the time as well, you were my pride boys. Especially when it came to training, but you anticipated my every decision and did it at the time guys as it is right now, if I'd been in there, I'd have let him have it then."

"And you, without without needing to be told what to do now was attempting to prevent a fight here, as to that. But for us, it was that you and Jake, were, in my eyes you're the top students I had at the time. And this need to be in the lime light was going to be the self destruct switch." Will said firmly to that as Beverly finished that remark. "And we had to get them off active duty and before they crashed and burned."

"But this was going too far because they're jealous that Jean Luc and Will pay more attention to you guys then they do to the college age students." she said and he nodded as Jenson answered her as he sighed then. "Don't tell me what to do you little smart Alec." Marks said and Wesley crossed his arms at that remark then. "Yeah I wasn't bothering with sinking to his level by that point." he said and she nodded to him firmly.

"Not that I blame you but when it comes to dealing with this type of thing it's turning on the stern parent mode when your superiors are 12 to 20 years older then you are which was why we have the security teams on high alert regarding this." she said and he nodded as he heard his remark. "Hey I didn't ask for that position at the time, he decided to give me a shot that year. But I'm a training ensign, Marks, I'm his apprentice, his student, he's my father's best friend and that's it."

"He decided to give me a shot and mom decided to let me stay after he offered to look after me. But I'm seventeen, or did you forget this with you this loaded right now. But it's no damn business what bond and friendship I have with the senior staff right now here. And again, you're drunk so take it down several notches or you're getting arrested here Marks, and I mean it right now."

"Or did you forget that we're not alone in this room and those officers surrounding us are 13 to 25 years older then you are. And my coach is in the room with us at the moment as well. If you really want to get yourself arrested just keep it up at the moment. Because they're all getting sick of this right now Colin." he said to him and he shoved him against the desk and the guys stood up.

"Whatever's causing you to act like right now, you better dial it down Marks, you're drunk. You know the rules the captain gave you: no drinking when on duty if you don't calm down right now. And it's not just you're ending up in the tank, you're also getting written up, so calm down right down."he added to him as he said it then sternly and he sighed as he said it to her then at that remark.

"At the moment he was too drunk to realize that we had 50 officers and 20 civilians in the room with us and with it those officers. Aside from himself, me, Shayla and his clique were all twice his age at the time. And with it I was trying to tone it down as I gave him a warning, but that's where it started getting worse." he said and she nodded as she saw the sextet watching as she heard the warning tone in Jenson's voice at that remark.

"Marks I swear you touch him at all like that you're getting thrown through that door right now. Calm down right now, or you're ending up in the tank here, now settle down now young man, cool down." they heard in answer to his remark from Jenson and the quartet hid a nod of agreement as Wesley finished that. "Look whatever this is about can be touched on when you're completely sober Colin, but at the moment this is neither the time nor place for this conversation."

"As we're not alone in here right now and you're not thinking straight either at the moment and with that in mind. Now get it together and calm down or you're getting arrested and put in the tank." he said to him with a stern tone and the ensign snapped at him. "Sure you're some kind of captain's pet, but you're just some stupid little brat, I don't get why they're even wasting their time on you." Marks said with a growl and Wesley said it firmly then to him at that remark.

"I'm not defending my reasons, but the short version is my parents are his best friends and in case you haven't noticed right now. We're surrounded by officers that are ten to twenty years older than you are, along with the bartender. And along with that at the moment its that I'm just a teenager, I'm 17, you're picking a fight with a 17 year old and you're a college kid and you're an adult."

"And did you forget basic protocols as well right now, it's against regulations to be drinking when on duty right now anyway. Captain's orders: no one is allowed to be drinking if they're younger than 25 years old. And not when they're on duty either, but you want to get arrested now, because I got a line to one of the teams that will do that." Wesley said in answer to that and Shayla backed up at that.

"Commander, he's drunk, I think he had more than the synthethol here, but possibly the really good stuff." They heard Shayla say as they heard the answering response. "I think he's more than drunk, he's definitely speedballing right now. God, where is Data or Lal when you need them right now, she would be able to subdue this kid pretty fast." Golderg said as he repeated his remark of his taped self.

As they heard O'Brien answer his remark as his tone went stern. "He touches him at all after what he told us and he's getting thrown through that door right now. He's drunk and possibly on the edge of ending up in the tank." he said as they heard Wesley's next remark. "Marks you're walking a fine line in getting arrested, because those guys in the engineering crew get overly protective of me."

"You really want to start this with half of the crew that can take you apart in here right now, get it together and take it down several notches now. We got two groups in here ready to arrest you if this turns physical, one being the medical team. And the other a group as skilled as the security teams here, and I don't care if they are engineers or not at the moment, but don't try it Colin."

"And with those words in mind right now at the moment here, the medical department specifically prohibited taking in more than two when on duty. Let alone bringing any type of drug on board this ship, medical orders. And did you forget something else here, my mother is the CMO on board this ship. So you even touch me and she's hauling you up on charges, I'm 17 years old you fool."

"You're an adult, I'm a teenager, and my coach is in the room with us, just try it and he and the rest of the crew over 25 are taking you down right now. So try it and they're going to break your neck for putting me in sick bay here, so stand down right now. I'm saying for them, for the last and final time, calm down and stand down right now." he said sternly as, at that, Geordi walked up behind him.

As they watched the five members of the engineering crew walk up. "Wes what may I ask is going on here?" Jenson asked and Marks said it sharply. "But out Jenson, this is none of your business." he said and he crossed his arms at that. "Rule 1) when it comes to Dave, if you're a junior officer, and a teenage young adult one. Then you better not get rude or start talking back to him, or you're in big trouble here and with that."

"Regarding the fact he's the reason I ended up in the emergency room to begin 18 months earlier. It's enough Colin just caused the stern part of my coach to activate at the moment. I've seen him like these maybe three times, the first being after Jake took the shuttle to the training station I was at and he was ticked at his trying that when he wasn't ready for it." Wesley said to them and they nodded as Jenson crossed his arms.

"I'm lucky we promoted you to L.C. boys otherwise this could have been a lot worse at the time and you're trying to control things before they get out of hand." Picard said as they watched. "Yes Sir and trust me at this stage, like he never kept anything from you or the commander, I was in that same confidence at the moment. But now with the fact that I knew the commander and Worf were on their way into the room here."

"I was trying to prevent an escalating fight that was ready to result in the spectacle that the duo walked into." Jenson said and Picard nodded as they watched as Jenson remembered this as he heard his taped voice say it then to the 24 year old at that remark. "When it pertains a member of my team, especially if they're younger then twenty and the child of a friend, you better believe it's my business."

"Young man he's one of my players and you're drunk so with that in mind you better calm down now. As for that attitude problem right now, I'm only giving you one chance. Or did you forget who you're talking to right now at the moment young man, as my rank is on my uniform. As I see this like any college or high school athlete who's ticked that he's being jumped by someone better."

"And you're too drunk to realize you're talking back to a superior officer and with those words in mind right now. Now you may not be part of my grouping, but that doesn't mean the rules are not the same for every portion on board. So when the captain and commander, or Commander Data, are not around. We of the next section over are in charge son, as to that the trio are not in the room."

"And I do believe we already had this conversation 5 times in the side of a year and 10 in 2 as everyone in here is either lieutenant to ensign. Commander La Forge and I are the highest rank in the room, and with those words in mind right now. If you don't want to end up in sickbay for getting arrested for DUI, since it's illegal, both on earth and up here to be be drinking, on drugs or both."

"And when either at the controls of the ship, on the holodeck or the car when inebriated, and especially when you're on duty and this could be considered that at the moment. But as you're still just a child in our eyes, still a kid no older than 25, I'd consider this a health violation right now. But the captain specifically forbid anyone to be drinking the real stuff when on duty."

"And as I catch you when you did, it's I'm giving you only one chance to calm down. So you better take it down a notch and cool down, young man, settle down right now Colin. Or you're getting arrested, now again cool down now young man. But it's either you cool down or you're going straight to sickbay here, calm down." he said to him sternly as Jennifer Barnfield added in to that remark.

As she wrapped her arm around Wesley. "Back off you geek." they heard in answer to that remark and they watched him swallow at the insult as they saw Jenson's eyes narrow in anger then. "Jeez, I know that when being hit by that syndrome you can't control what you're saying, but these guys are drunk, speedballing. And they're not going down without a fight here." they heard and Wesley turned to see Jake Kurland.

"Hey man, what's this exactly?" he asked and they sighed as Wesley explained that to him. "I'm showing them what caused the fight between us and the, metaphorical, varsity players, but then you and I had their attention ever since year one. And these guys are jealous they focus more on us as their star pilot and JCL leader. When we've been at it for over a year at the time." he said and Jake nodded as he sighed in annoyance.

"Whatever Wes told you was true, it's kind of lonely without several more players on our team. I mean we've been in training ever since the traveler was here. One mistake in training and the results are we get two explosions in class followed by a case of teenage rebellion." he said and Wesley covered his eyes as he tried to hold it in. "Alright what caused it this time exactly, I said repeatedly to pay attention in class when in chemistry."

"So who was it who blew up the bunson beaker now?" Beverly asked and the other boy started laughing as he answered her. "Hanson's team mate, Joseph Wainscott wasn't paying attention and didn't hear Fieldman say that said three chemicals in the beaker. And the bunson burner on high were a dangerous mix, I looked up in time to see the flames beginning to come off the chemicals and tried to turn it off before it went then."

"But just as I switched off the burner, the beaker went and I had to hit the deck then to keep from getting hit. But trust me Fieldman was beyond annoyed that their idiocy, again nearly put one of his star pupils in the E.R.." he said and they nodded. "Well that explains the burst of fire that came down the ventilation shaft into engineering. Jenny, Rick and I were talking over engineering diagnostics when I heard the explosion."

"Looked up and saw the fire blast come down the tube that day kid, let me take a guess, Walters said if he didn't get his grades up he couldn't play in the next game, right?" Geordi asked as he crossed his arms and he nodded. "Yeah that's it exactly Commander, fortunately we know when not to break the rules, but though we play the occasional game of basketball, we're not crossing the line in health violations you being a doctor."

"And not when we've got other things to worry about, but what Wes told you regarding Derek was true here, I caught Derek with a bag of caffeine pills. And caffeine and ethanol don't mix, I mean uppers and downers you keep that up and the results are you're going to put yourself in the emergency room for screwing with your neurological functions." he said and she nodded as she crossed her arms at that remark as she answered him.

"You're right that is dangerous, but recreational drug use, just to get that scholarship, what's he trying to get noticed for exactly anyway honey?" she asked looking between them. "He wants to get into the piloting program at the academy, but we both told him it's not up to us, it's the attitude and the grades, not the talent to get into the academy." Wesley told her and she nodded as she exchanged looks with Picard and he nodded.

"If this really was a high school or college I'm running at the moment boys, you read the record right, I don't look at athletics or fast thinking. I look at your ability to follow the rules and regulations, good grades and staying out of trouble and you're both doing fine in that area right now. But he and his friends have one strike on the record, and it's a three strikes rule here, so he brings it up again tell him that, alright, Jacob."

"As for your being lonely at the moment here regarding being the only ones on your team, or squadron up here at the moment. Whoever Wesley meets at the academy, I don't doubt that Admiral Brand is choosing them if they're just like you two, Jacob. As it is, I prefer intellect over athletic and you both are doing admirably at the moment, with your graduation in just a few months as well, things are picking up right now."

"But I'm proud of both of you right now." he said and they both nodded as Wesley hid a smile at the remark. "Yes alright, let's see what happened next after you said that to him Commander, if Lieutenant Barnfield was trying to get this under control?" Will said and he nodded as Wesley reactivated as the teenage duo were watching this, they could tell the quintet were getting more volatile by the minute as she said it.