[USS Tempest] Ctrl+Alt+Del by Rosie Le Beau

Rosie glared at her main engineering console.  Kicking it wouldn't do  any 
good but the thought of it made her smile.  It's too bad nobody else is  going 
to smile about this, she thought with sigh, but it's got to be done.   She sat 
in front of the comm section and made sure that the message she was  about to 
record went to all consoles, comm badges, and any other communications  
devices the Tempest's crew might have been using.  
 
"Greetings, Tempest crew.  By now, I'm sure you're all familiar with  the 
technical problems we've been having.  Engineering is having to resort  to a 
complete ship wide system reset.  It will take approximately  twenty-four hours 
to 
complete so that, unfortunately, that means nothing is  going to work and 
that you ought not to be aboard while it's rebooting  itself.  I'm going to be 
starting the process in an hour.  Hopefully  that gives everyone enough time to 
save their work to separate sources.  If  there are any questions or problems, 
please see me, the captain, or Chief  Lynley.  We'll help you sort whatever 
it is out.  Le Beau out."
 
She then sent another message to the doc.  "Don't worry, Doc, your  sign's 
completely safe.  I owe you a cherry coke if you can verify I'm not  a Ferengi 
female with Vulcan ears and a fetish for hasperat."
 
With that, she pulled up a program that, with a nod toward anachronisms,  
she'd labeled 'ctrl+alt+del' and set it to start in an hour.  "This better  
work," she grumbled as she pressed the start sequence

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