Favors and Time Savers

Posted on Tue Feb 26, 2019 @ 6:16pm by

546 words; about a 3 minute read

In his office, Jim was busy filing reports and doing the work that was normally done by a staff of four. He made a mental not to talk to Vic about borrowing some warm bodies for the admin shit so he could keep up with his duties. "Computer, open secure channel; authorization Holbridge-one-three-two-charlie-delta-five,"

=/\=Unable to comply, you are not authorized for this action.=/\=

"Accept override, one-one-three-alpha!" Jim replied in an annoyed voice.

=/\=Override denied! the XO has been notified of your actions.=/\= the computer responded, then shut off the terminal controls.

"Shit! How the hell am I supposed to do my job if I can't use the tools?!" Jim shouted. "Holbridge to Hunter, can you join me in the Intelligence spaces?"

In his office, Alec heard Holbridge's call, "Give me five minutes and I'll see you there."

*Five minutes later*

Alec was entering the Intelligence Department aboard the Victory. He quickly found Holbridge, "What's the problem?" He asked.

"I have a couple issues that need to be resolved. First one is fairly basic, I have no access above 'guest-officer' level. I don't have to tell you that for an Intel weenie that you guys depend on for up-tio-date information on the bad guys, that can be problematic. More importantly, I need to be able to access the classified sub-systems of my particular division. As of this moment, the ship's computer won't let me."

"Right you don't." Alec answered easily. "And it's easy enough to fix. "Computer, this is Commander Hunter, recognize voice print." The computer replied instantly "Recognized." "Authorize Lt. Commander Holbridge to access ship's Intelligence files and sub systems." Again the computer replied. "Lt. Commander Holbridge is authorized access to ship's Intelligence files and subsystems." Alec turned to Jim, "There you go. You have access."

"Outstanding!" Jim beamed, typing in his pre-memorized authorization code that let the computer know that Jim had permission to be accessing the secret Intelligence databases. "Second, my mission was blown to hell when your ship pulled that idiot Torrance out of the can. Needless to say, our goals seem to be intertwined, and seeing as how I have no fixed duty station I wanted to inquire about position availability. In shorter language, can you use an Intelligence officer in in any capacity?" (OOC: Strategic Operations, i guess would second the intel dept to me until we get an intel puke.)

"I'll talk to the Captain but it's just a formality. Consider yourself the Victory's new Intel chief." Alec answered and stuck out his hand. "Welcome aboard and your right Torrance is an idiot."

Thanks, commander. Now about that computer access?" Jim nodded is head towards the workstation.

"What about it? You have it."

Jim arched his eyebrows. "Computer access starfleet Intelligence Database EPSILON-three-four-four."

=/\=Access denied. You are not authorized to access classified Intelligence information from this computer.=/\=

Jim looked at Hunter with a shrug.

Alec mutteered under his breath. "Computer this is Hunter Tango six- one- three."

"Recognized."

"Grant unrestricted Intelligence-level access to Lt. Commander Holbridge."

Alec looked across at Jim, "Try it now."

Jim typed in his master password and the computer obediently chirped. "Thank you, commander! Anything I can do for you, holler, okay?"

"My pleasure Mr. Holbridge. I'll hold you to that." Alec replied with a grin.

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