Val found himself cruising through the corridors, he had visited the acting head of Science and got a rather low key task of just monitoring projects in the science lab, basically he was an on-call science guy, the answer man for whatever scientific endeavors my require additional assistance both on ship and at any Starfleet facilities on the surface that happened to want a 2nd opinion, though admittedly that didn't happen often at a shore leave destination.  Especially not with a specialist in plasma physics.<br/><br/>He was walking through and saw the Captain, Tosh, and another fellow he had seen in Sickbay the day they had finally gotten themselves back to normal, he thought the man's name was Brady.  Tosh and Brady had a glow about them, like the fresh discoveries of the young.  It made him smile.  Tosh and Brady were moving off to the transporter room then, Val nodded at the Captain, pausing to say a quick, "Hello Sir" without just walking past, after all, the Captain may wish to actually talk, he didn't know his CO well - seldom did people on a ship know their CO well, but it was early enough in the posting that it was possible to become friends with the man.