So it was more like five minutes. Even Will Riker, who worked here every day, had never seen this level of chaos in Starfleet Headquarters’ central transporter terminal. MACOs and Starfleet Security personnel in full battle dress, armor and all, were working their way through the crowds of people trying to get to their ships. Periodically a ship would find a lock and beam people out before they got to a pad. This chaos wasn’t helped by somebody who saw him and managed be heard hollering, “Admiral on deck!” over the noise of the crowd. Everybody froze where they were and snapped to attention.