[Taking Charge] -- [Security, Kirk, Spock, ???]

[kirktastic]

Jim called them together - all of the men who were supposed to be guarding Nero and Ayel, who were supposed to have been feeding them, should have searched them. Harris, the head of security, and anyone else who should have been guarding them.

He was going to crack some heads together.

They had completely disregarded his orders about the prisoners: have them searched, feed them vegetarian meals, don't let anyone into their cells, don't drop the field. All four of them had been violated. He would see someone pay for it.

He looked to Spock, who seemed tense. Maybe he was just as angry as he was in his Vulcany way. Maybe he was mad Kirk was even bothering to discipline the people who had been making Nero and Ayel's lives a little more miserable. Sometimes Most of the time Jim couldn't even figure out what was going on in Spock's head.

"Should be here, soon. Going to wait until everyone's in the room before we start."

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[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

...Bull. Shit. Jim wasn't even going to stand for that. "You are not going to push off responsibility onto someone else! Prisoners in the brig are your responsibility! Its security's job to make sure that people in the brig are taken care of, including making sure that they've been fed! If you're going to feed me some line about the kitchens, it still should have been your job to go make them give it to you! If you knew no food was coming down to them, even on your shift alone, you should have fixed the problem!"

[anon-crewperson.livejournal.com]

"Sir, as you are unhappy with the services I have tendered, I resign effective immediately and will inform the rest of security that they should resign as well. I will have a request for transfer to some other ship or Starbase on your desk as soon as possible," Mercado had had it up to here with the spoiled Captain who seemed to think Security was responsible for everything going wrong all over the ship. Maybe he'd assign one of those other dimensional people to lead it and crew it.

[cso-spock.livejournal.com]

"Lieutenant." Through this entire meeting he had only managed to dull his hunger, not eliminate it completely. Now it seemed to worsen again as this crawled towards its conclusion. "Forward your request to my office instead, and I shall see it processed with the utmost efficiency."

[kirktastic.livejournal.com]

Maybe Jim was just starting to learn Spock's ways as they spent more time together, but he actually glanced over his shoulder towards his first officer for just a second at the threat he was pretty sure he was hearing there. Was Spock just backing him up? Or did Spock mean it, angered by Mercado's indifference?

He turned back to look to Mercado, "Some people on this ship are happy actually doing their job and proud of it, despite the insanity that's been going on since we left Earth. I think more than anything, Security is sick of their officers being able to do their own jobs. Consider your resignation accepted, and you can leave ship when we reach New Vulcan. I think less of security will leave than you'll think, if any at all."