Helen doesn't even bother to answer right away. Her immediate reaction to his innuendo is to berate herself inwardly for leaving herself wide open to that one. Perhaps if they weren't in this particular situation, she might be more open to it and willing to banter back with him; she has, after all, loosened up in her old age. However, with things the way they currently are, the most she wants to do is get on with finding a solution.

"Focus, Nikola," she says instead of any of this. "We need to find an access panel. From there we can access diagnostics." If the computer can tell them what's wrong, they have a chance of fixing it easily. Otherwise, this will get very difficult very quickly.

Either way, she starts towards the back wall. They might not have built this holodeck -- no one on the station did, seeing as the station itself was a Cardassian station built during the Occupation of Bajor -- but they have seen enough of the technology of this century to figure it out. Eventually, her hands run across a panel that she pries off. "Here we are. Let's see what we can find here, shall we?"

Nikola might stand the better chance of actually doing anything with the system due to his abilities, but Helen is on hand for advice and bouncing ideas.