"Screw it" Mike said to himself, he had done all of the things he needed to, there were four people waiting and there was not another scheduled flight to Kinsi for an hour. "All aboard" he said as he boarded a large shuttle. He smiled to the people behind him and sat at the soft chair. He pulled down his beige shirt and then fiddled with his green faux-leather jacket. He loaded up everything and then sealed the door. He smiled to himself as he replicated he put on a Lt's Pip from his pocket - it was an odd regulation, but when flying he had to wear it. He lifted off and used the Cheif Engineering Officer's Override to get straight out of the Chimera. Once into open space, he hailed the starbase. "This is the Chief Engineer of the Chimera requestion docking." he said matter-of-factly. "Your flight is not scheduled. Please state who authorised this flight" replied the Starbase's attendent. "Lt Michael Blackburn, Cheif Engineering Officer of the USS Chimera." replied Mike. "Acknowledged" replied the attendent. Mike's console flashed with details of where to dock, his sensors showed that a tiny fraction of the shields on the base had just dropped and he headed towards them. He looked to the Chimera, he had hoped they would get some dry-dock time so that they could replace the ship's warp coils, but it wasn't possible. He sighed, it needed doing within a year. Entering the caverty in the starbase, he autopiloted the back of the shuttle into the starbase, and within seconds, after a decompressing noise, the doors opened and Mike was powering down all systems. He left the shuttle last and saw that it was sealed, he locked it and told the computer to COMM him if it was touched, it was one of the Chimera's own, and it was a better edition to that of the Kinsi. He walked along, he had been directed to a part of a huge promenade where many ferangi were selling different products. Mike looked down and walked, he didn't want to buy anything, he didn't want to see anything, he didn't want a fight and that was pretty much all these ferangi wanted. Mike toddled off for a turbolift and headed for the Chimera's private Mess Hall. Perhaps that wouldn't smell of a weird flower someone had just been waving at him.