"Captain Abarai, this is Lieutenant Lunai, your chief engineer. We're ready to bring the warp core back online. Would you like to attend?" Renji stared at the dark ceiling of his temporary quarters on base as he thought about it. It's just a warp core turning on, no big deal. But it's your first ship coming under its own power. New life from the closed circuits and bio-neural gel packs. You have to be there. He stood up as he thought about it. He didn't want to deal with the loud cheering. "Sir?" The voice called as he moaned. He finally tapped his combadge and said "I'm on my way to the observation deck, don't start without me." Renji walked the corridors to the observation deck, to his surprise admiral Janeway was standing there as well. "Hello Renji." She said with a smile. He remembered her from the Breen War, his ship was taking fire when the USS Voyager came in and took out the dominion bug ship. "Admiral, it's a pleasure to see you, how is life aboard the Voyager? I hear your doing desk work?" Renji asked. Her smile turned to a grimace quickly as she winced. For some reason she couldn't stand 'desk work'. "I'm not to fond of it, however being able to sleep a full night has it's advantages. But I'm almost never sleeping in my quarters. Too much work to do, so the ready room is my home away from home." Renji couldn't help but smirk "Don't you wish you had my assignment?" Janeway nodded and replied "Don't worry, I'll find something to do." Renji turned to the porthole as he looked out at his ship as the lights and engines burst to life. "Captain! We have a steady plasma stream and an active warp core!" The crew burst into cheer as Renji smiled. "Good work everyone, lets get to work." The next few days were filled with signing PADDs, overseeing repairs, and shaking hands with Admirals, and then the day came.