Makari probably shouldn't have pulled a cheshire cat grin at the prospect of NOT being the last person to arrive to the meeting, especially when the last to arrive was the XO. Score one for second officer, efficient and on time compared to the boss. Now if only he could arrive before the captain... hard to do when he was the man calling for the meetings... Okay so grinning was fine, or at least inevitable. He had the common sense to not voice his thoughts aloud though so that more than made up for the grinning he did allow himself.<br/><br/>In all seriousness though, Makari focused as the meeting started and two new crew members were introduced to them all. He gave them both nods and waves. "Welcome aboard, always nice to see the medical side of things fleshing out, keeps us from falling over sick in our chairs and they stop asking science to play doctor..." Makari grinned and let the thought trail off. He couldn't recall ever being asked to play doctor. Not since he had left Risa at any rate. Okay, all seriousness mode... starting now!<br/><br/>He listened as the captain spoke, watched him tap away at the console in front of himself, flashing it from one image to the next. They should invent something to remove the excessive need for tapping... No, he would save that for engineering, they needed things to do anyway, especially since it seemed as if their new mission fell more in the political and diplomatic end of the spectrum.<br/><br/>"I wouldn't put much faith in the governmental spin of things, a whitewashed view of their world was what they handed out last time, why would it be different this time? Especially now that they know just what to hide from us if need be," Makari stated. He wasn't sure how true it was, but a corrupt government, or one that had no qualm hiding away some of its own people at any rate, that had not changed leaders was likely bound to continue its same mistakes. But the Federation was nothing if not a place of second chances and room to grow and expand one's views and ways of being. So he could state the pessimistic, but they had to go into things optimistic all the same.