Repairing a Holodeck

Posted on Thu Jul 13th, 2023 @ 11:04am by Lieutenant Thor Magnus & Lieutenant Athena Magnus

Mission: MISSION 0 - History Speaks
Location: Holodeck Area 4
Timeline: MD1 06:00
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Thor was scratching his head as he stood in a Holodeck area that was not working at all. Several were not working. “Athena, fixing a Holodeck even if it is just one is important. It is great for moral.”

“But it is so tricky,”Athena says as she rolled her eyes. “We have other priorities.”

“Do you recall that class we had together at the Academy,” Thor says as he was running scans of the equipment. “We could have it fixed before breakfast.”

“You mean Professor Marcus,” Athena said as she was rewiring the entry panel. “He said a crew that gets too stressed slows down the wheels. Darling, we can only get this one started for now. The power cells you installed will take forty minutes to charge up. Why don’t we ask other Engineers from Gamma Shift to help out.”

“I have them working in Engineering and we can bounce from here to there at Oh Eight Hundred,” Thor said smiling. “Now let’s do what we can.”

“Indeed,” Athena answered as she worked.

Thirty one minutes later, the two were waiting now on the power cells to finishing charging so the relay can boot up the room.

“That was a lot of hard work,” Athena says wiping her brow.

“Yes but we did it,” Thor sighed, “Sadly we can only do one of them for now. I will assigned a few engineers who might want to volunteer to do it on their off hours.”

“Maybe Louis and his wife Lorelei might volunteer,” Athena says as she stares at the panel. “It might be up sooner.”

Thor saw the green light come on first. “Now let us do a simple test. Computer. Please start Thor and Athena’s Big Bend Adventure. Have us standing at the entrance to Emory Peak.”

Moments later, the great view overlooking the valley came up. Was fuzzy at first but in two minutes, everything was perfect.

“Computer,” Thor says taking Athena’s hand, “Play Romance on a Saturday Morning by the Louis Brothers.”

“Oh my favorite song,” Athena says as they slow danced together as the take time for romance.

They take a short time for romance as both were off duty.

Two hours later, the two were in Engineering were smiling like the cats who ate the canary.

“Athena,” Thor asked, “Could you go with Lorelei to check life support systems. There is a long list of what we have to check.”

“Yes sir,” Athena said with a wink.

After Athena and Lorelei left, Alice Jordan came up. “Sir, we are working on the replicators. We have about a fourth fully functional and a half of them almost finished.”

“Excellent,” Thor says with a hesitant sigh. “I was hoping that was your husband’s ship we found but it was not. Are you going to be okay Alice?”

“I will,” she said sadly. “I still feel he is alive some place but maybe one day we will find him or someone.”

“I will add that to my prayers,” Thor said as he changed the subject later so they could focus on work.