Lt Cdr. Bull, Shuttle Chief

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Chief Shuttlecraft Officer on the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-E. Yes, I'm half Caitian. No, you can't touch my ears.

Reports of Borg attacks on several outposts in the Carelin system. Seem to be focused on major dairy producers and some kind of speclialist farming planet.

No more details than that, yet.

Enterprise is nearest ship, so we're inbound.

Riker already making jokes about 'locking up the Captain'.

We're having problems with the temperature regulators, the whole ship smells of arse and the replicators are out of mini-Magnum licences.

This is the side of Star Fleet that never makes the Holos. #startrek

Data has been left in charge up there as apparently he plays something called "Tau" (?!) which, according to both Geordi and Riker, makes him "the enemy of fun"

It's refit week! So we're docked at the Volvo Yards above New Göteborg.

Which SOMEHOW always magically coincides with the #gothcon gaming convention. I am sure this is IN NO WAY related to Geordi and Riker's Warhammer habit.

Not that I'm complaining. I offered to fly them down.

Doing an 'AMA' is harder here than on Twitter, due to the lack of quote toots.

But if you have a question about day-to-day Fleet or Shuttle logistics you've ever wanted an answer to, just reply to this toot and I'll answer it (if it's not restricted info) #starTrek #sciFi

Your Starfleet shuttle pilot slang of the day:

"Scrubber mission"

One where you KNOW you're gonna need to use the vanity shield and the ultrasonic mop.

This post brought to you by the news that Picard's booked a shuttle so he can 'escort' a lady archeologist to a dig again.

@punkonbus1701 @theresmiling @jordanlafordan @theresmiling @trini no problem.

Reading up thread, if you need a dessert suggestion then in those same records you will find the captain of the T'Plana-Hath raving about apple pie and custard for about five pages.

@punkonbus1701 @jordanlafordan @theresmiling @theresmiling @trini I first told it on Twitter last year, but thought it would be a good way to mark First Contact day on here.

As I say, if you visit the archives on Vulcan you can find lots on it.

My advice is to focus your searches on the Science Directorate First Contact collections. And it helps if a couple of you go together, as you can only check out six items from the archives each at once (and a lot of the good stuff is still stored on hardfiles).

Definitely worth the trip though. 

@ivesen well it's a lot of space dust now, sadly.

(Luckily the crew evacuated in time)

But if you go to Vulcan, to that planetary archive, you can read that original report.

You can see the joy, fear, hope and awe in the words of the commander of the T'Plana-Hath, even through his logic. You can see the representative of one species realise he has discovered another that can perfectly compliment his own.

It is a moment of beauty and history. A moment that sums up EVERYTHING the Federation is about: that when we work together, we become our best selves.

And it's because of mushrooms.

Happy first contact day, everyone.    /END