I'm not going to use real names so let's call my coworker Broccoli. I should make it clear up front that he has a lot of trouble talking with people and for some reason that pisses people off. Every day I'll be at my console randomly pressing buttons and then I hear somebody screaming at Broccoli while every time he stutters while trying to explain something. They know he knows his shit because they keep putting him on big projects, yet the entire time they make fun of like a bunch of 13 year old kids. I've never been on such an unprofessional ship in my life, and I served aboard a Klingon cruise ship.

Here's what I don't get, half of engineering won't even talk. They just grunt. It got so bad I had the computer run a diagnostic on the universal translator. No, they are literally just grunting at me. The chief of engineering is the worst. He has a hair trigger on his temper and then tries to act like he's your best friend. In the middle of our ship being eaten by some space anomaly or something I don't remember he gets caught banging a holochick when he's supposed to be reversing the polarity or something. wtf. I don't know what he has on the command crew but they didn't do anything about it.

Broccoli at least can talk, and he's a nice dude. We played Call Of Duty: Klingon Ops 3 together and in there he's a totally different guy. Confident, friendly, brave, cool stuff like that. But outside the holodeck he stutters a lot, and is obviously afraid of talking to people. Of course he's afraid! Any time he tries to say anything some jackass leaps out to make fun of him or yell at him. He still winces every time I talk to him because he thinks I'm going to say something mean.

It seems like everybody on the ship has it out for Broccoli and I don't know why. What should I do to help him? I'd like to report the bullying behavior to the captain but he doesn't seem to care. He just gives speeches and then looks longingly out a window.