Hopefully I'm doing this right, and this excerpt isn't too long for a quote.
I really appreciated this summary of the 'Men in Tights' mission and the humorous/deadpan way it was delivered.
I like the idea of an emergency response vessel.
I've just started reading C. J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station (published 1981), that begins with the end of a war and a massive number of survivors from several collapsed space stations being dumped on one space station without the space or resources to handle them.