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ten_fwd2014-07-22 11:16 pm
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[Sickbay]: Round Three scans and vaccines
New guests have arrived on the Enterprise, and that means Lieutenant Worf and his security detail are busy once again bringing them to see Dr. Crusher. Sickbay is fairly typical for a hospital. There are no terrifying devices or humming machines you could see in a sci-fi thriller. The biobeds along the walls are equipped with biofunction monitors, but look fairly standard. Instead of silver trays filled with metal tools and sawblades, there are an array of small devices that look as harmless as cell phones.
As for the staff, they're all well-groomed and friendly. As a matter of fact, all personnel look harmless. Well, perhaps excluding the sun avatar, but Trance Gemini is as skilled as the Starfleet officers.
"All right, come in," one of them calls out as you enter. "Don't be shy. It's just a scan and a hypospray, nothing to worry about."
Probably.
[ooc: Same rules as before: this is an open log for everybody. Tagging isn't mandatory, but going to sickbay is. So if you'd prefer to skip threading with one of our doctors, you can handwave that your character got a clean bill of health and a shot and were sent on their merry way. For those who are tagging, we have Julian Bashir, Trance Gemini, and Rory Williams on deck, so please specify in the subject line of your tag who you would like. Beverly Crusher can be available if needed, but the player may not always be available. If you would like more details about sickbay, here's the wiki page. If you haven't made your intro yet, you can assume the doctors will want to see your character shortly after they arrive.]
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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."
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"There's backlash in our world, too, Trance, but that doesn't mean people hold my genes against me for the Nietzscheans destroying the Commonwealth."
Even those who'd like to see the whole Nietzschean race wiped out.
"I appreciate the warning, Doctor. Good to know what I'm getting into. I'd rather know than not." He nods his head towards the computer Doctor Bashir's looking at. "Especially since it's all now on record." Which he's not so keen about, even if the doctors here follow confidentiality.
He's never thought before about what a scan of his DNA would look like to somebody who has no concept of what a Heavy Worlder is, any more than he'd thought about trying to explain what was different about him to forewarn a doctor. Heavy Worlders aren't that uncommon, though they're rarer on worlds like Tarn-Vedra where their genetics aren't needed except, for example, by high-G shuttle pilots.
"Yeah. It'd be good if you could do something to keep an eye out for Harper. He catches everything going. And who knows what there is here that we've never met before?"
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And with that she gave Dylan a smile...and a lollipop. Yup. She was hysterical. Clearly.
"I was telling Dr. Bashir how we use nanobots for almost everything--from building weapons to cleaning to medical use. I thought he should know in case anyone needed treatment. Our crew complement is certainly going up.
"Oh--Dylan. So you know, Harper's out of Sparky cola, and since it has a narcotic component he wont be able to replicate it without medical authorization." Which they both knew was easy for Harper to get, or get illegally. Trust in the Harper.
"He's already going into withdrawal." But hey, at least it wasn't flash! There's always good news. "So if you see him parked by one of the autochef----replicators, you might want to check on him. Make sure he's not rewiring it." A Harper on a mission was a focused Harper.
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"At any rate, just because we have scans on file doesn't mean they'll be accessed unless absolutely necessary. And it will be kept in strictest confidence. If you prefer, and it's not an emergency of course, you can ask for me directly whenever you come to Sickbay, if Trance isn't available. That offer extends to your crew as well."
Julian hopes that will alleviate some concerns, but he's not entirely sure. It probably would if Captain Hunt knew about him what Trance had already figured out.
"Probably quite a lot. Aside from being in completely different timelines, I'm also fairly sure we're dealing with alternate universes. Which isn't entirely unheard of for us, but it does complicate matters a bit."
As for Harper--Julian just shakes his head slightly. "Honestly, I'm not sure how far he thinks he'll get. If he doesn't know the chemical composition, the replicators wouldn't even be able to begin to make it. Nevermind programming it in."
TW: drug withdrawal
There were Nietzschean loyalists, after all. Are Nietzschean signatories to the charter, even if some of them are proving to be a lot of trouble.
He's still glaring at Trance as she presses the lollipop into his hand.
"I'd appreciate that, Doctor," he tells Bashir, mindful of Trance's suggestion that this world bore parallels to their own that could be informative, as well as of the need to understand his own potential situation. "Can't hurt to understand it. And to have a doctor around who has some idea what to expect with me." There's a tightness in his smile that turns it wry. "I'm used to medics who know how to treat a Heavy Worlder."
The news about Harper makes him frown.
He's been through helping people through withdrawal as Captain, most recently with Beka after she'd used flash to try to thread her way through the impossible slipstream clues she thought she'd found to Tarn-Vedra. That hadn't been pretty, though he'd done everything he could to help.
He shakes his head.
"Harper's probably not going to think of it that way. He doesn't always think things through."
Dylan sits up, rubbing at the spot where Trance just stabbed him again.
"How's he coping?"
Re: TW: drug withdrawal
"Harper isn't a straight forward thinker. He jumps from A to M, and usually he's smart enough to make it happen, even without knowing what comes in between. And he's a bit single minded." That was putting it mildly but it was the best she could come up with, without subjecting her new friend to actual Harper experience.