"I know, believe me. I'm not condoning it, just giving you a forewarning." Julian is helpless to change the law--he'd been granted an exception, but it wasn't through any action of his own. Captain Sisko had fought that battle for him. And it wasn't the time nor place to fight it again.

Dylan had noticed the interest he'd taken in the readings, Julian observed. He hoped he wasn't coming off as rude. He just hadn't ever had the chance to look at data like this.

"Harper, right. Trance showed me your nanobots--impressive little things, certainly. We don't use them nearly as much. But combined with some medications we have available we should be able to keep him out of Sickbay. I'd rather he not have to visit weekly with the Ankaran flu or some such thing."