<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Mission: Space Was Cool Before It Mattered</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Stardate: 2446.04.25</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">(Exeter – Shuttle Bay One – SMO – Ensign – Ciri
Kovak - 1906)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=How many pilots do you have? =^=</span></span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ciri was about to answer but Merek carried on. </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=Wait, belay that, it doesn’t matter=^=</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Yes sir.”<br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=To answer your question, the briefing didn’t
specify if their approach would be staggered, but they both have the same
arrival time estimate. Work as if the worst-case scenario were to happen,
arrange things as if they will arrive simultaneously=^=</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“Yes Sir. I will.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">~Better not mess that schedule up or we will have
ques which will not be good~</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">She made notes on her PADD as she talked.</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=The number of pilots you have on hand doesn’t
matter, because you can move the shuttle in position, put it on auto pilot for
station keeping, then beam the pilot out and have them move the next into
position=^=</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“Understood sir.”</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=I wasn’t planning on starting to move
anything until 2400 hours, but if you want to get a jump on it you can=^=</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“Thank you, sir.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ideas were forming as she noted them down.</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=I’m not going to require you to execute my
plan, I’m sure you have your own ideas. You can take volunteers to watch the
shuttles and camp out overnight, but don’t require anyone to do so=^=</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">“Yes sir.”</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">=^=If that’s all, Merek out=^=</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">She heard the comm channel click closed and nodded to herself.</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Okay let’s get a plan down now I can always change it as we go.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp63ec4b5aMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
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