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Who: Leonard McCoy
Broadcast: Yes! Fleetwide
Action: Caprine/Solace
When: Friday

[There are days when McCoy would gladly turn in his lab augment for an engineering one. After practically picking apart the Caprine and then putting her back together bolt by bolt (with a lot of help from actual engineers out there, thanks) he's about ready to airlock himself.

He's a doctor, not a goddamn mechanic. It's like learning anatomy all over again, except this time he doesn't understand a single thing. Glory be, at least, they've finally graduated to trying fix the many issues in non-essential systems.

Like the kitchen, where McCoy is now making sure it all works again, after having spent hours trying to put it all back together. Spoiler: it doesn't go well. That's why he's waving away wisps of smoke and coughing a bit when he addresses the Fleet.]

I need an engineer. Again. [Sigh.] I'll pay you the going rate. Come on over to the Caprine. It's the ship in the most pieces over here. [There goes more credits. Everything exploded again. Someone just... put him out of his misery.]

[private comm to Beverly Crusher]
[So he's starting to regret thinking that someone should put him out of his misery. Really coming to regret that.] Hey. We need to talk. Let's meet somewhere.

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I could introduce you to a witch or two. They might have a plan for that.

Wouldn't I need a bit of good luck for a luck spell to work, though?

You make a compelling argument, sir. That must be why you're the captain and I'm only a first mate.

Well, at least someone sees captain material here.

Still not feeling it? I think you an step down if someone else wants to captain instead. But you lose the big bed.

In my defense, I never went for command in the academy.

It's not for everyone. I never really intended to lead anything but it happens sometimes. [Not that she is at the moment.]

[He scoffs a bit.] You'd think I wasn't in charge of my department back on the Enterprise.

I imagine leading a division of highly trained people in your field is different from captaining a spaceship full of completely random people with potentially no experience.

Hmm, yeah. It's easier to focus on one thing and do it well.

I've chosen to focus on waffles. Well, sometimes pizza. Focus is hard.

I'm sure there's a waffle pizza out there somewhere.

[Totally relevant to the conversation here.]

Woah.

You just blew my mind. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself until we figure out how to make that happen.