Harris shifted uncomfortably. The Captain was pissed, obviously. He could almost see the interrobangs flying through the air. And while that was bad enough, Mercado's weird indifference was worse. And the combination. Damn. Best he could do was keep on keeping on, though.
"Sirs. I made a mistake," he said. "I shouldn't have lowered the field to let Nurse Chapel in without backup. I acknowledge that." He paused. Training said he should stop there, but it all seemed so... "In my defense - inadequate an excuse as it is - the Romulan was unconscious. I perceived the threat to Nurse Chapel as minimal, and the threat to the prisoner if she should go untreated as more severe."
It was still stupid, though. There was no excuse good enough for that. And hindsight made Harris want to travel back in time and kick his own ass. Sure, the nurse herself had told him to do it, but of course she did! She was medical. It was her job to worry about people who'd been hurt, but it was supposed to be his job to keep it from happening to more people.
The thing with the knives, though...
"As far as how the prisoners had weapons, I can't explain that, Captain. All I can say about it is that there was no indication in my orders that they hadn't already been searched and disarmed, so I assumed they had, on account of how it's procedure. And then the one of 'em was disarmed while I was on duty, but I couldn't do anything about the other one without backup. S'why I notified the shift after mine and put it all in the log."
Maybe he should have followed up on that? Harris was used to having a commanding officer above him who took care of things like that. But maybe he needed to learn not to assume that the people higher up in the hierarchy knew what-all was going on.
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Date: 2010-03-20 05:28 am (UTC)"Sirs. I made a mistake," he said. "I shouldn't have lowered the field to let Nurse Chapel in without backup. I acknowledge that." He paused. Training said he should stop there, but it all seemed so... "In my defense - inadequate an excuse as it is - the Romulan was unconscious. I perceived the threat to Nurse Chapel as minimal, and the threat to the prisoner if she should go untreated as more severe."
It was still stupid, though. There was no excuse good enough for that. And hindsight made Harris want to travel back in time and kick his own ass. Sure, the nurse herself had told him to do it, but of course she did! She was medical. It was her job to worry about people who'd been hurt, but it was supposed to be his job to keep it from happening to more people.
The thing with the knives, though...
"As far as how the prisoners had weapons, I can't explain that, Captain. All I can say about it is that there was no indication in my orders that they hadn't already been searched and disarmed, so I assumed they had, on account of how it's procedure. And then the one of 'em was disarmed while I was on duty, but I couldn't do anything about the other one without backup. S'why I notified the shift after mine and put it all in the log."
Maybe he should have followed up on that? Harris was used to having a commanding officer above him who took care of things like that. But maybe he needed to learn not to assume that the people higher up in the hierarchy knew what-all was going on.