imagine Star Trek’s chief engineers switching places
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Geordi’s on Deep Space 9, and although Sisko yelled at him for trying to equip the entire station with a warp drive, he and Julian have spent 3,824,967 hours being nerds in the holosuites
B’Elanna is busy doing things to the Enterprise-D’s warp core that would make Geordi cry. She’s doing pretty much fine until Worf gives her a Klingon valentine and she throws it at his head, which only encourages him. Then she runs off with Ro to join the Maquis again
O’Brien just looks at all the Maquis workarounds and Borg tech slapped haphazardly onto Voyager’s systems and throws his hands up in despair
Trip thought he wouldn’t be able to keep up with the 23rd Century machinery on Kirk’s ship, but since the troubleshooting process for everything is pretty much “hit it with a wrench and scowl at it” he’s doing just fine. One day while drinking bourbon with McCoy he blurts out, “The captain and Spock have a thing goin’ right? Please tell me I’m not th’ only one who can tell!”
Meanwhile Scotty pops up on the NX-class Enterprise like “WARP 5? PISH! MAH GRANNY COULD DO WARP 5 IN HER WHEELCHAIR, LEMME SHOW YE SOMETHING REALLY COOL” and before you know it, they’re zipping around at warp 8 and the Vulcans are very upset
Bringing this back just to say that it would not surprise me one single bit if Montgomery Scott’s grandmother had an actually warp-capable wheelchair
oddthesungod
meanwhile Stamets and Jet pop up on the Defiant (i know its ds9 too but couldnt think of another shipthat wasnt already mentioned here lol) carrying a box full of mushrooms instead of tools like “you think the defiant’s overpowered? watch this” and proceed to bicker all day while everyone else has no idea what the fuck they’re doing down in engineering
