What About the Scientists? (Part 2)

Posted on Tue Feb 23rd, 2021 @ 11:22am by Lieutenant Commander Amber Quinn & Lieutenant Azusa Nakano & Lieutenant Trei Jansum & Lieutenant Remy Boudreau & Lieutenant Zuub & Lieutenant JG Paris Deville & Lieutenant JG Tessa Nicoles
Edited on on Tue Feb 23rd, 2021 @ 11:32am

1,308 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: Caverns of the mind
Location: Conference Room

[CONTINUED]


The doors opened next and the chief engineer, Azusa walked in looking a little sheepish and nervous, more than usual. She looked around the room briefly, avoiding eye contact with Trei. She simply slid down into a chair without saying a word. Her heart was pounding, she could remember Everything that had happened, and now she had to face possible consequences.

Trei was beginning to remember, too. He had memories of another man trying to rape Azusa, and stopping him...before he did it himself. Sure, she was compliant, but she hadn't been in her right mind. Then again, neither had he. He caught a though from Azusa about "consequences" and began thinking about the baby again. If she was pregnant, he wanted a little girl. One who looked just like her mother. And if he was being honest with himself, he wanted this child. If she didn't, he would gladly take care of the baby himself. And that started the entire thought process over again.

"Enough, please," Amber projected telepathically to Trei. "You're loud."

Trei grimaced before looking at Amber. Sorry, he said to her. I've got a lot on my mind.

"So I noticed. You might want to talk to the counselor if this concerns you," she sent back.

Paris entered, mug in one hand and PADD in the other, seeming so busy he didn't acknowledge anyone else's existence. Any else but Amber of course. He looked up briefly, winking and letting out a smile, before turning his attention back to the PADD. As he sat down, he kicked feet up on the table and leaned back in the chair, taking a sip from his mug as he looked at the PADD. A PADD not full of mission related data or shuttle schematics to freshen up but of a digital magazine article. Nothing remotely related to the mission or his job on board the ship.

Looking up from his notes as the Helmsman enter, Boudreau saw that Paris was scarcely paying any attention to where he was going, not matter taking notice of the people around the table. Boudreau frowned mentally. Looked like Paris was being Paris again. Looking for some attention. He had some sympathy, but still. It seemed like he was putting a lot of effort into making people think he didn't care a jot.

Amber walked over to Paris and whispered in his ear. "We put our feet on the floor and sit up in our meetings. Even you, my dear." Her tone was light, but there was a note to let him know she was serious but not angry. "I am also going to ask you to report on what you found on the planet while you were exploring."

Azusa glanced over at Paris. "I am totally not sending one of my team to clean the mud off the seats from him..." she thought to herself, she only just realized she might have been glaring at him for a few minutes, she wasn't even sure why. Was cleaning the seats even Engineering's job? Safe to say, she wasn't really that sure.

"Oh... I can give you that report right now." Paris said, shifting his gaze to Amber, as he smirked. "You remember what you saw when you were down on the planet? Imagine that... but spread around.... everywhere." He chuckled slightly as he removed his feet from the table and adjust his seat, but still leaned back in his chair. "To be fair... this seems less like a meeting and more of a this is the kind of of crazy stuff I got into on my summer vacation type gathering? I'm ready to take it seriously when the rest of the group takes it seriously. Until then, I got my PADD and my hot beverage, to keep me busy till we hit serious town."

She nodded and went back to her seat.

"With the presence of Mister Paris the Away team is finally here and I am sure he has enough manners to clean up after himself." Interjecting he sat back in his chair. "I can see that we have our people back in shape and a treatment discovered. " Was his lead in. "Do we have any idea what to do about the missing Scientists?"

Paris just laughed at the comment, not caring much about it, as his eyes focused on his PADD. He kept his ears opened for when he was needed for something. It was best to leave the science stuff to the science people.

"We could do as we did to retrieve the away team members, sedate the tribe and then take the Science Personnel from the caves and then follow through with treatments on the ship?" Troilon suggested. "It worked well the first time."

"That works," Amber said. "We'll need to let them know what happened, and how to prevent it from happening again. Starfleet can decide what to do about the others in the cave. I'm all for leaving them there if that's their natural state." She turned to Remy for his response.

"Treatment is not simple," Zuub responded, interjecting in her soft, wispy voice. The electrical impulses must be sustained for a period of time and requires the patient to be steady. The unconscious or restrained patient would be best served.

Boudreau nodded at Zuub's comment. 'I think we noticed a difference in the treatments performance as our officers regained consciousness. It lost effectiveness when compared to the treatment of our guest who remained fully unconscious throughout Zuub's procedure.'

'As for the indigenous population, upon review of the tricorder scans within the cave network, recordings from the installation on the surface, and our own sensor sweeps from orbit, compromised as they are, the Science Department takes the view that this is their natural state of evolution. There are no recognisable signs of advanced civilisation that we have come across. They should be left in that state per the Prime Directive.'

Amber nodded. "That agrees with my findings as well. I suggest we rescue the scientists, restore them and then have this planet marked for observation only so that no one disturbs their natural evolution. As far as we know, they may be immune to the gas and will evolve naturally."

Reluctantly, Zuub nodded her head. She suspected that she could do something to assist the indigenous species but they had already affected this planet enough. However, she raised the point anyways, "What is to say that we have not already affected it? After all, the scientists may have procreated with these indigenous species in their affected state."

"Ah have been in the caves and closest to the dwellers with a tricorder." Nicoles spoke up. "It would seem that while the Cave Dwellers are indeed Humanoid; there is a genome that does not react well with human Biochemistry." She almost blushed. "It could be the of the gas in their system but while it mentally affected the team .... and personnel. There is evidence that the in-digenous population would reject the Human DNA of the Science team there is an acidic aspect that would cancel the Human DNA strain from taking root. so they are not comparable for procreation at this time. Perhaps if the team had more of it in their system that could change but the time to balance the exposure would take a year or more to convert the Humans the same genetic levels."

(To be continued...)

Lieutenant Azusa Nakano
Chief Engineer

Lieutenant Trei Jansum
Chief Security/Tactical Officer

Lieutenant Commander Amber Quinn
Executive officer

Lieutenant Tessa Nicolers
Medic

Lieutenant Zuub
Chief Medical Officer

Lieutenant Remy Boudreau
Chief Science Officer

Lieutenant JG Paris Deville
Chief Flight Control Officer

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