He shook his head, but smiled. "I'm just a good old-fashioned engineer." And one who wasn't very good at standing around watching someone work, so he picked up a wrench and came around to help her.

He raised his eyebrows at her doing repair work at eleven. At that age he'd still been in the mainly taking things apart stage.

"There are a whole lot of civilians on the Enterprise." They were pretty hard to miss. "How do you get on with them?"