"Captain Jean-Luc Picard, yes." Cambridge is looking around, distracted. Presumably at least one crewmember in here informed someone in charge when he arrived, as that sort of occurrence, if it warrants quarantine, is important.
But 'quarantine' can't be precisely the right word, can it? Medical quarantine, at least, involves level 9 or 10 force fields and isolation.
Cambridge, at least, isn't much danger. He doubts there's any pathogen he's picked up and carried in the fifteen years since this date that would affect the ship at large. Furthermore, any disease in the past is probably one he would already have had exposure to. It's the ones from hundreds of years ago that are the real risks: they could carry diseases since eliminated, such as herpes or smallpox or immunodeficiency virus.
But most of that is relatively easy to deal with. The medical facilities on the Starfleet flagship wouldn't have much trouble with outbreaks of conventional disease.
So, why any kind of quarantine? Probably an effort at keeping the newcomers under control: enough freedom to feel out the lay of the land, so to speak, but not enough to cause any trouble. A reasonable and prudent gesture, if there are too many arrivals to monitor individually, and, additionally, if there is no reasonable way to send people back - in other words, no other way to keep them placated.
Cambridge sighs.
"Enterprise D, then," he says. "Not far back enough for Rachel Garrett."
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But 'quarantine' can't be precisely the right word, can it? Medical quarantine, at least, involves level 9 or 10 force fields and isolation.
Cambridge, at least, isn't much danger. He doubts there's any pathogen he's picked up and carried in the fifteen years since this date that would affect the ship at large. Furthermore, any disease in the past is probably one he would already have had exposure to. It's the ones from hundreds of years ago that are the real risks: they could carry diseases since eliminated, such as herpes or smallpox or immunodeficiency virus.
But most of that is relatively easy to deal with. The medical facilities on the Starfleet flagship wouldn't have much trouble with outbreaks of conventional disease.
So, why any kind of quarantine? Probably an effort at keeping the newcomers under control: enough freedom to feel out the lay of the land, so to speak, but not enough to cause any trouble. A reasonable and prudent gesture, if there are too many arrivals to monitor individually, and, additionally, if there is no reasonable way to send people back - in other words, no other way to keep them placated.
Cambridge sighs.
"Enterprise D, then," he says. "Not far back enough for Rachel Garrett."