"Slow down, agent, I hate to disappoint you." He holds up his hands. "Engineering Department is pretty much 'the people who started building things in the Special Weapons wing and got official about it once we were all settled down enough to do some organization.' The only thing we had back at the start in the way of leaders was Cybil Bennet, who named Billy and myself co-heads because everybody else who wanted the position was being a dickweed about it. Cybil has since abdicated captainship to Jean-Luc Picard."

He waits to see how she'll react to that. Especially the "Picard" part.