There had been some kind of power surge in the night, and everyone was barred from the transporters until the maintenance crew had a chance to make sure that nothing was severely damaged and to fix anything that was broken. As a side effect, the instruments used for trans-temporal and trans-dimensional scans were offline as well, so as not to introduce any potential power disruptions. So there wasn't really much to do. There was a general attempt to look busy in the form of research into potential expeditions based on whatever data had already been downloaded and stored, but mostly people were milling around aimlessly, gossiping, and taking long breaks.
Una was in her office, feet up on her desk, a Quintette du Hot Club de France album playing. She was throwing darts with alarming accuracy at a board she'd installed on the wall opposite her desk. When she ran out of darts, she got up, retrieved them from the board, and started over.
Travel Agency - Niles Pottinger
There had been some kind of power surge in the night, and everyone was barred from the transporters until the maintenance crew had a chance to make sure that nothing was severely damaged and to fix anything that was broken. As a side effect, the instruments used for trans-temporal and trans-dimensional scans were offline as well, so as not to introduce any potential power disruptions. So there wasn't really much to do. There was a general attempt to look busy in the form of research into potential expeditions based on whatever data had already been downloaded and stored, but mostly people were milling around aimlessly, gossiping, and taking long breaks.
Una was in her office, feet up on her desk, a Quintette du Hot Club de France album playing. She was throwing darts with alarming accuracy at a board she'd installed on the wall opposite her desk. When she ran out of darts, she got up, retrieved them from the board, and started over.