Quite Tribblesome
[Closed starter @ologistisms]
The space station had been enormous and even the space hating doctor couldn’t help himself from being just the slightest bit impressed. Sure, it was still a big snow globe in space just waiting to break and cause the death of thousands and thousands of people including himself but is was an impressive death snow globe. Real positive outlook on the space station. The break from the ‘adventure’ of space travel had not been unwelcomed. Yet even with all that, a part of him just wanted to get out of Yorktown as well. He felt like a goldfish in a tank, just aimlessly letting life pass by.
So when the day came that the Enterprise was fixed up, good as new, Bones actually was somewhat excited. Somewhat. Not that he’d admit it. Everything was going great as the crew began filing onboard in shifts to get the ship underway to take off and continue her voyage. As chief medical officer, McCoy was eager to see the Medical Bay all fixed up and to get back into his normal routine of life aboard a starship. Surprisingly he’d not slept very well in his accommodations on the star base, he was far too used to his quarters. Understandably as it had been his home for a few years now. He needed that routine. That sense of normalcy, not changes. It was one of the things that made living in space doable.
By the time the doctor was able to get to sickbay, the Enterprise was already a good distance away from Yorktown. “Dr. McCoy? Uh you should probably take a look at this.” The sound of one of his nurses speaking up as he walked in had the pleased look falling off McCoy’s face. Great. Was there already a problem? Turning at the corner, Leonard was met with a rather fluffy sight. Tribbles. At least a dozen or two scattered in the shelving of supplies, on some of the bio-beds, even a few outside the door of his office as if trying to get in. “Typical.” All Bones could do was roll his eyes and pretend to strangle the air where his hands rested at his sids. “Someone go---I don’t know---get someone.” McCoy was already hurrying to pick up the furry creatures because he knew full well how fast they bred and like hell was he going to have a sickbay full of tribbles. Hell no. “NOW!” He said a bit louder, shaking a few of his staff out of the surprise enough to get a move on. Where the hell had these things even come from?












