Billy reached for the 'video walkie-talkie', carefully examining the interior. "A most impressive device. Hypothetically it would function with a transmitter equipped to..." His babble eventually reached the important part. "Its power is depleted and the visual data encoding needs to be repaired, but with those changes it would come online. The capability to transmit video feeds on the field would be highly useful. Perhaps the parts needed to repair it are elsewhere on the ship."

Then they moved to the next device, and Billy found himself almost smiling. After a few discussions about the functions of objects, he was suddenly struck with an idea.

"Have we looked at the equipment in the areas beyond the Observation Deck yet? The key to improvement might be there."