Design for Conspiracy

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When the first of the new model shuttlecraft dropped three metres to deck under full gravity, cracking an impulse nacelle and making everyone on board glad the shuttle deck was open space, the blame fell on a manufacturing flaw in the primary gyroscopic stabilizer.

Scotty snorted when he read that report. Any flaw of that magnitude should've shown up in any and all of the inspections that were supposed to have happened before the shuttle was even put together, much less after, and certainly long before anyone tried to get it into space.

But when the new tractor array shorted out all at once, blowing the starboard power coupling and sending an entire construction team of six to the star dock sick bay for shock and concussion injuries, that made up his mind, and Scotty started digging.