When assigned to check engineering B'lanna certainly hadn't thought
that the three missing 'guests' would literally come to her. She had been
about to report an all clear on the whole section, when the Jeffries tube
hatch beside her opened to reveal three rather guilty looking officers.
Easier then she thought.
For a moment they all just stared at each other. Then the three seemed to surmise that she had indeed seen them, and there was no use in trying to remain invisible anymore.
The woman was the first to crawl out.
~~~1~~~1~~~1~~~
Hoshi couldn't have been more surprised when she opened the hatch right in to engineering and a very startled engineer. But it was really a far hope that the whole section be deserted when they entered. There had really been no other choice. They could only go crawling through tubes for so long. Hoshi knew she had definitely met her limit on that.
With an indecisive hesitation, Hoshi simply stared at the woman for a moment. Then she climbed out in front of her. The engineer had a tanned skin tone and, what looked like, almost Klingon ridges on her forehead.
Hoshi graciously extended her hand as her two shipmates crawled out behind her. "Hoshi Sato, its nice to meet you." She said. The engineer stared at her hand for a moment and then extended her own.
"B'Lanna Torres, Chief Engineer." They shook hands gingerly.
Reed and Trip exchanged a look behind Hoshi's back and then proceeded to follow her example.
"Charles Tucker III." Trip said and looked around as Reed stepped forward to introduce himself.
"It's a nice setup you have here." Trip said.
"Thank you, it works well for us." B'Lanna said, still a bit leery about the whole situation. "I believe that your presence is required in sickbay." There was really no point in not being civil, after all.
"We thought it might be." Trip answered. "Sickbay was never my favorite place."
"Mine either, but captains orders and all."
Trip nodded. "We understand."
Still they just stood there looking at each other.
"I don't suppose there's any chance of getting around it, maybe skipping straight to the investigating of our problem, is there?" he asked almost as an afterthought.
"No, I don't think so." She was smiling when she said it though.
"I didn't think so." Trip replied
"We really would just like to get home." Hoshi said. There had to be a way to make these people understand. It was so awkward being in a time where you knew nothing that was going on.
"We are looking in to the situation. We just have a lot of experience with time paradoxes, the captain especially, and we tend to be very cautious around them."
"I can imagine." Reed said from behind them.
The woman just smiled again, and motioned for them to perseed her to sickbay.
"Pardon my asking, but you look a bit Klingon." Trip said as they descended to the lower level of Engineering.
"Half." She said over her shoulder. "My mother was Klingon."
"You must have had an interesting childhood." He commented.
"Very." She didn't seem to be about to elaborate though.
For a moment they all just stared at each other. Then the three seemed to surmise that she had indeed seen them, and there was no use in trying to remain invisible anymore.
The woman was the first to crawl out.
~~~1~~~1~~~1~~~
Hoshi couldn't have been more surprised when she opened the hatch right in to engineering and a very startled engineer. But it was really a far hope that the whole section be deserted when they entered. There had really been no other choice. They could only go crawling through tubes for so long. Hoshi knew she had definitely met her limit on that.
With an indecisive hesitation, Hoshi simply stared at the woman for a moment. Then she climbed out in front of her. The engineer had a tanned skin tone and, what looked like, almost Klingon ridges on her forehead.
Hoshi graciously extended her hand as her two shipmates crawled out behind her. "Hoshi Sato, its nice to meet you." She said. The engineer stared at her hand for a moment and then extended her own.
"B'Lanna Torres, Chief Engineer." They shook hands gingerly.
Reed and Trip exchanged a look behind Hoshi's back and then proceeded to follow her example.
"Charles Tucker III." Trip said and looked around as Reed stepped forward to introduce himself.
"It's a nice setup you have here." Trip said.
"Thank you, it works well for us." B'Lanna said, still a bit leery about the whole situation. "I believe that your presence is required in sickbay." There was really no point in not being civil, after all.
"We thought it might be." Trip answered. "Sickbay was never my favorite place."
"Mine either, but captains orders and all."
Trip nodded. "We understand."
Still they just stood there looking at each other.
"I don't suppose there's any chance of getting around it, maybe skipping straight to the investigating of our problem, is there?" he asked almost as an afterthought.
"No, I don't think so." She was smiling when she said it though.
"I didn't think so." Trip replied
"We really would just like to get home." Hoshi said. There had to be a way to make these people understand. It was so awkward being in a time where you knew nothing that was going on.
"We are looking in to the situation. We just have a lot of experience with time paradoxes, the captain especially, and we tend to be very cautious around them."
"I can imagine." Reed said from behind them.
The woman just smiled again, and motioned for them to perseed her to sickbay.
"Pardon my asking, but you look a bit Klingon." Trip said as they descended to the lower level of Engineering.
"Half." She said over her shoulder. "My mother was Klingon."
"You must have had an interesting childhood." He commented.
"Very." She didn't seem to be about to elaborate though.