Medbay

Kate's voice came over the communicator with a hint of panic in it despite trying to stay calm. "Medbay, this if Katherine Seward, emergency Medical transport for Catrina Matheson from Diplomatic quarters, she let out a scream of pain and then collapsed and is unresponsive after dinner. Two to beam over."

Dr. Dupont was beamed into the medbay wearing a full blown Greek Toga, a rather nice Medical Blue in color, though probably not exactly Starfleet reg.

Seeing the fact he had two personnel in serious condition, "Computer alert medical staff to come immediately to Medbay, we currently have two patients down. Enact Quarantine protocol. Begin scan of vitals." And since this involved senior personnel - Chief Engineer and a senior member of the command staff, "Computer Direct Communication to Captain Greene ~~Captain, Chief Engineer Matheson and Lt. Cmdr Teala are in serious condition in the Medbay.~~"

As he assessed both quickly for the most life threatening conditions (Triage) and then preparing proper treatment. Teala was having a full grand mal seizure, so an anti-convulsion treatment was the first thing to give. While doing that he asked Katherine, "You said this happened during dinner, did she eat anything usual, did she do anything before the scream and collapse?"

While he was moving rather fast, his voice was measured and calm. Very methodical and orderly as he managed his precious time efficiently in treating the patients while waiting the arrival of help, "Kat, do you know how to use a medical tricorder?"

20:33, Today: Alex Dupont rolled 18 using 2d20, unique dice with rolls of 4,14.  Reason + Medical.
20:35, Today: Alex Dupont rolled 15 using 1d20, unique dice with rolls of 15.  Focus Emergency Medicine.

Reason +10
Medicine + 5

Informed by GM of 4 Successes
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"Just after dinner, she ate some homemade mac and cheese, made from replicated ingredients.  We were discussing a personal matter, and I'd just given her a pedicure.  It came on suddenly with no outward signs that anything was wrong, one section she was talking the next she was screaming." Kate explained.

"I know what they taught at the academy, but I'm hardly a specialist when it comes to medical procedures.  I'm usually the one on the Operating table, not the other way around" she says the last part nerviously.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 3):

"I'm not far behind them, Doctor," Farah replied somewhere between distress and anger.  Her head hurt so badly she could barely see straight and the thought of standing made her want to vomit dinner.  "I've got the mother of all migraines.  If only Catrina and Teala are affected, our implants may be the common factor but verify it's not communicable.  Check on Lt. Cmdr Laurent, she may need medical attention as well.  I'll try to get there under my own power, but my room's spinning pretty badly."
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Almost on cue, a Combadge chirp would signal a message, "Laurant to Dupont".

#4:
Handing a medical tricorder to Kat with a reassuring smile, "Simple, just start scanning Teala at the head. I'll handle the rest." As he sets the computer to run quick scan for any contagious diseases. Seizures were induced by something overloading the brain causing the synapses to fire erratically. With Catrina screaming out, it could indicate another brain symptom. Seizures did have different manifestations. He'd quickly rule-out the contagious diseases and then proceed to brain issues.

#5:
The captain confirmed a suspicion for him. This was brain-related. "Acknowledged Captain."

#6:
In reply to the combadge link from Jessica "This is Doctor Dupont, are you in need of medical attention Lt. Cmdr Laurent?" Best to jump right to the point.


# Cast Involved
@Katherine Seward
@Farah Greene
@Jessica Laurent
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Kate glances back at Alex, "There is considerable activity in the mind machine interface between her implant and her brain.  It appears to be causing damage at the interface site." Kate says to the doctor as she reviews the tricorder results for Teala
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The calm and almost expected reply from Medical officer Dupont almost put Jessica in a sense of ease, thankfully the Engineer was able to reason everything WAS NOT ok.

"I am fine," Her voice came in hastily, trying to rush through the question of her state and into her own question, "I can't reach Teala and the computer reports her in Medbay." The unasked question hung in the air. It made sense to Officer Laurent that she couldn't reach Cat given all the hints of how integrated with the ship she was but with nothing confirmed the young engineer had only speculations and theories.

#8:
This wasn't looking good, Alex knew the captain had a fair bit of knowledge on what he was seeing and perhaps it might help them both. Comlink to Captain, "Captain, there is some foreign microcode causing a misfiring in Teala's neural interface module."

#9:
Well, that was a relief, one less concern, "Hi Jessica, I'm sorry but Teala is currently unable to respond. I can have her reach out to you after she recovers." He had a duty to protect patient privacy, but didn't want to discourage the engineer.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 10):

Farah had started trying to change into something more appropriate for others to see their captain wearing, but the headache had only worsened over time, robbing her of balance and eventually consciousness as she fell.  She was only able to get out a single word before the blackness claimed her.  "Honeypot..."

Kate does the scan on Catrina Matheson next focusing on where her implant connects to her brain tissue.

Shortly before reaching the door, "Computer, located Lieutenant Matheson". The computer chirp would inform her in Medbay, warranting another tap to the ComBadge to continue with Alex.

"And Lieutenant Matheson? who is also in Medbay.".

Just as she finished, she would reach the door and find it chirped back with an alert that Medbay was in quarantine. "Whats going on?" would continue through the Combadge as Panic quickly edged its way into her voice.

The engineer's first reaction was to look for the nearest engineering panel. Hesitancy showed in her face, her gaze settled on the access terminal next to the door.

"Computer, generate an observation work ticket on security alerts for the engineering staff. Notate caution and look but don't touch special instructions, priority reporting on any changes, and include directions to Security alerts that started within the last 20 minutes." She wouldn't give direct commands to the security staff without confirming the status of Officer Matheson, even if the computer was telling her that LT Commander Matheson is currently in Quarantine.

In reply to Farah Greene (msg # 11):

Alex wasted no time, "Computer, medical emergency. Beam Captain Farah Greene to the Medbay bed." Waited the second for the computer to acknowledge and then, "Computer broad communication to Commander Malko, Lt. Cmdr Decker, Lt. Cmdr Idrani, Specialist Walker ~~Commander Malko, and all, Dr. Dupont in Medbay. Captain Greene, Chief Engineer Matheson and Lt. Cmdr Teala have collapsed. Neural links appear to be the common thread. Only crewman Lt. Cmdr. Laurent is unaffected.~~" He trusted the commander and security to do what they do best while he turned his attention to the now disabled Captain. It appeared she had been attempting to get dressed before she went down, she's wearing a casual shirt, panties, but didn't quite get the pants on. Alex was quick to get her covered and scan the head around the implant.

#12:
Encouraging smile directed at Kat, "You're doing great Kat" Noticing no pathogens in Catrina or Teala's scans "Computer deactivate quarantine protocol." Mulling over the word spoken by the captain, "Computer is there any protocol or command for Honeypot?"


#13:
Alex is hearing the panic creep into Jessica's voice, "I'm sorry Jessica, same condition. Do you know who the engineering Hardware Software specialist is?" Alex needed answers quickly and hoped it would calm to engineer down by being useful with an answer.

# Active Cast:
@Alex
@Katherine
@Jessica

# Includes:
@Jason
@Malko
@Decker
@Nynev
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In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 14):

The computer dutifully answered Alex's question:

Honeypot: a computer system established as bait to lure malicious hackers into engaging with it, thereby revealing the identity or technique of the perpetrator and possibly deploy countermeasure techniques to repel it.
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Jason had just gotten cleaned up and part way dressed when the communication came. He froze then pulled his shirt on and stomped in to his shoes. "Acknowledged, Doctor." He confirmed before heading to the Armory, pulling the equipment out he would need from one of the lockers.

"Computer: Inform Lt Commander Idrani that I am on my way to the MedBay." He snatched up a data pad on the way out, phaser at his side. He had no way of knowing what was going on and was prepared for the worst and hoping for the best. He was about to find out as he strode down the hall at a clipped pace to the MedBay and if Jessica was still standing there by the door he would breeze on by her abruptly and enter.

"Update Doctor?" Jason glanced around briefly, taking in everything before returning his attention to the good Doctor and making sure he was not standing in the way of the personnel.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 14):

Upon hearing the general announcement of the Captain's and Teal's collapse, "Communications, monitor all transmissions for anything unusual, particularly internal transmissions." Then pressing the comm, "Commander Idrani, please send investigation teams to the areas where Captain Greene and Commander Teala were found."
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Kate let out a groan as she heard the computer's response. "Great, so what are we suppose to use as the basis for our own Honeypot command?" Kate asked with concern while glancing at Alex.

Jessica stood looking down the hall as she heard the announcement, her mouth gaped slightly at the mention of the neural implement. Almost in a daze, she stood there until the door chirped to signal it was no longer locked.

No sooner then that, she'd step to and through as it opened.
Officer Dupont's question and the computers description, she would have turned and spoke but saw that the MedBay officer had more to say and so waited for his question. A quick glance to the unconscious Catrina reminded Jess she was currently in charge of engineering.

Tapping her ComBadge she called out "Kusaragi, report to MedBay. Tzerak and Rr'zah, if you aren't already in engineering then report there."

Now looking back to Lt. commander Dupont, "Naoko Kusaragi is our hardware specialist. I'd like to run some scans on Catrina. Do we know what's happening in their heads?"

.

#15:
Not as useful as he'd hoped for. He understood the concept, but had hoped there was something more to it. Thani was great at bouncing ideas with as he'd enjoyed that time together earlier that 'day'.

#16:
Alex looks up from the latest scans to answer Jason, "Captain is the most stable and should be awake after I finish this. Teala is going critical. Catrina is unchanged." As the other medical staff come in. "Initiate Cyro-stasis for Teala stat." Making sure the staff acknowledge the order he moves to Captain Greene.

#18:
Alex looks at Kat, "Get sh'Elliaph, she can help." As one of the medical technicians will offer to take over monitoring from Katherine.

#19:
Alex looks at the introverted engineer Jessica, nods and points to the recent medical scan including the foreign code. "That's what I have so far. Maybe you can make heads or tails of it." Then using the medical tools deactivates the neural interface on Captain Greene and gives a stimulant to wake her up.

# Active Cast:
@Katherine
@Jason
@Jessica

# includes:
@Farah
@Teala
@Catrina

# Mentioned
@Thani

Kate hands off the tricorder and hits her comm badge. "Special Envoy Seward to Thani Sh'Elliaph, we could use your assistance in med bay please." She states calmly, despite the anxiety inside, and concern for the others.

As the hypospray medication pushed back the darkness, Farah let out a dull groan, the kind usually reserved for waking when one really didn't want to.  Then it all snapped into place.  She was in Medbay by the sounds of medical beds and scanners, just as she could tell she had been unsuccessful in putting on her pants before blacking out, thought, thankfully, someone had covered her.  Opening her eyes, she saw Alex Dupont looking at her. "Doctor," she growled, none to happy to be in her situation.  "Status report."

Jessica hadn't told Naoko why she was needed in MedBay or why others so recently off-duty were being sent to Engineering.  Neither had Naoko asked.  It was enough that a lawful order had been given and she would obey, even if it meant being out of uniform.  Normally that simply wasn't done, but something in Jessica's tone told Naoko time was of the essence.  Wrapping a yukata around her, she hurried from her quarters to Medbay, but was surprised to see so many already there.  "Lt. Cmdr Laurent, ma'am?" she said to Jessica. "You wanted me here?"

Surprised turned to astonishment as she saw three of the senior officers on Medical Beds, the Orion Naoko remembered as Teala being put into stasis. "Ittai nani ga okotte iru no?"

The specialist started taping at his pad. He nodded to the Doctor, frowning at the mention of critical and the fact the good Doc was putting Teala into stasis. "Where were Lt. Cmdrs Teala, Matheson and Captain Greene when this happened?" He paused a moment and looked up. "They all have neural interfaces?" Jason looked between they three women, eyes lingering on Cat a moment. Of the three, she was the only one he knew about.

Then he turned to look at the last one mentioned. "Lt. Commander Laurent, were you still in the lounge when this happened?" It paid to be observant at least, and the woman was a mass of nerves at the best.

After Alex hypo'd the Captain, the groan had him glancing over to the Captain a moment, finger still on the pad before glanced at the Doctor sideways. Nope, let the Doc take care of her. He turned at the door opening to see Naoko enter and he frozen briefly, eyes dipping to take in what she wore then returning to his pad. "Might'n want to speak English there Lt. Don't think the translators picked that one up," he said, accented drawl a bit thicker. "I believe they need your expertise."
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In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 21):

Thani was lounging on her bed in a silken light blue two-piece pajamas. She had been reading up on the latest photon torpedo theories in preparation for tomorrow's refinement when the voice of Katherine Seward came in. Frowning slightly at the interruption, she answered with slight concern, "Acknowledged. Is everything all right? Did one of my officers get injured?" With that thought, and the fact it was odd to be summoned off-hours, she rushed to the Medbay just around the corner.

She was shocked to see quite the gathering in the room. It was crowded. It appeared every department had thrown a party in the MedBay. Concern crosses her face as she notices the doctor, who she had cross-trained earlier on shift with, wearing a medical blue toga, treating three senior officers on the Medbay beds, one of which is a now awake captain under a sheet.

Sharing a concerned glance at Naoko, Jason and Jessica by the door, "Can someone explain what's going on? More importantly how can I help?"

Jessica made a quick glance at the display console that Medical officer Dupont indicated, she had a good idea already of what was going on and really only needed to confirm it. the Neural display showing their brain activity presents a more crisp and clear image of the situation, seeing it left a proverbial lump in the engineer's throat.

Jessica ended her step at Catrina's bed where she drew her engineer's tricorder and quickly shifted it over the visible neural implant.

"Dr Dupont, is there any preparations we should make in case we need to temporarily turn off the implant? Is there anything we can do to isolate or better protect the brain? So far it seems there is a feedback, a security protocol lashing out wildly," Glancing to the now coming to commander," I'd like to have the two I called to engineering see what they can do without making the situation worse... I understand we are in Yellow Alert."
Whenever her jaw rested, it would tightly clench.

"if we can create a field to block out outside signals then the code can probably be swept out and the situation will be stable from there, just an early idea. At this point, Lieutenant Naoko is more knowledgeable of the ship and its hardware, as well as of Catrina, and will likely know more."

All the while talking, she was running the Tricorder and sweeping through the information presented.

Making a point to try and show Jason she was talking to him by looking his way, "I was not, I went back to learning the ship's systems and was just finishing when this started. Just down the hall from here."

As Naoko arrived, announced by the door, Jessica would quickly take ahold of her engineer pack with a hyper spanner and a few other tools, and move to the lieutenant ready to hand the tool pouch over. "You can use the tools I have, there are current readings in the Engineers Tricorder and a display of neural activity near the bed." Her words were fluid but quickly spoken, like she had practiced it in her head several times while waiting. It was after she finished speaking that a quick glance showed her the state of dress Naoko was in, a quick glance down at the kimono. "I apologize."

Jess made sure she wasn't in Naoko's way, moving over to the Neural display.
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Nynev got on a communication with her entire team.  "Very good Mr.  Walker.  Please keep me informed."  She continued, detailing a security man to locate Lt. Commander Laurent and see if they  needed escort to sick bay.  Nynev spoke to the computer to find out where the three patients had been when they collapsed.  Then she took a tricorder and made her way to the diplomatic suite to investigate, sending two red shirts to the captain's quarters and two to Hollodeck 2 with the same assignment.

Upon receiving the information, Malko scowled.  "Acknowledged.  Computer, this is Commander Aurin Malko.  Captain Greene is incapacitated by a medical emergency.  I assuming command."

He spent a few moments checking in with various departments to make certain the ship would continue to run smoothly for a time without several key officers.  His thoughts were heavily focused, though, on something Aurin had told him when he met Lieutenant Commander Matheson.

When the tall man entered, he looked around quietly for a moment, listening to everything.  His only words at first were--if necessary--"As you were."

When Jessica was at a pausing point, he stepped up to her, behind her left shoulder.  "Ms. Laurent.  I don't know if this is relevant, but Aurin is quite convinced this is the case.  It seems that sometime in the past year, Ms. Matheson might have come to be hosting an additional identity."
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Kate glances at the Trill with a frown. "Commander, may I have a word in private concerning Miss Matheson?" She asks sternly while shooting a glare at the Trill's stomach.  "I believe it will be relevant to your statement"
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#22:
Alex scanning the monitors at a glance before turning to answer, "Captain, Teala was becoming critical, to buy time I've induced a cryo-stasis. Catrina is serious but stable. You were out for a minute before I disabled your neural implant and gave you a combo stimulant and pain suppressor. I sent a broadcast to senior command staff and security alerting them to the current situation." And lowers his voice and moves closer for her ears alone,

#23 & 25:
Not addressed to the good Doctor, and he's busy engaging with the captain and then Walker.

#24:
Alex looks up from the captain to rapid fire the answers, security wanted to do their job and he understood it, but they had terrible timing, "Teala was with me on Holodeck two. Matheson was in the diplomatic suite with Katherine Seward. Captain was in her quarters. Yes, all have neural interfaces."

#25:
Alex sees Thani in the doorway, "Need help with this." Points at the neural code.

#26:
Glancing over to Jessica, "We do have options, but I would like to get everyone on the same page since we have multi-disciplines conjoining on this issue."
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Jason was taking in the talking around him, filling out information on the pad without asking questions for now. Not only were the three patients here but now there was two engineers, the second in command, family of one of the patients and yet another whom he wasn't sure needed to actually be here. This wasn't including the pertinent medical staff needed and him.

He couldn't tell who should be here and who shouldn't be here now. "Who do you need here Doctor?" With a quick press, he shunted off what little info he had been given to the Lt. and stepped back out of the way of the controlled chaos.

He gave a sharp look to the man, Aurin, who was second in command behind the Captain when he spoke and once again was jotting down notes. "Specialist Walker to Lt. Idrani. I do not believe much will be found at any of the three locations," he notified his commander.
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Despite the medication Alex had given her, Farah's mind buzzed as if a thousand bees had made her head their hive.  There were multiple voices, but she could only attenuate to Alex's, the one closest to her, and what he said sent a chill down her spine.  At first she didn't believe him, it was impossible, but she knew Alex wasn't one to exaggerate.  An internal debate flickered in eyes that still couldn't quite focus before she said, "There's something you need to know..."

Farah didn't get a chance to finish the statement, however.  Naoko had been looking at the scans of Cat that Jessica had given her, first with confusion, then curiosity that bypassed concern and leapt straight to panic. "Sonna... Shut her implant down!" she cried, moving to Cat and just stopping herself from pulling the device off of the unconscious woman's skull.  "Now!"


The lights above Medbay flickered.
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Malko's eyes fell on Katherine.  He hadn't noticed her before.  It would have made the situation more complicated if he had, so it was just as well.  He couldn't go withholding potentially life saving information because of one crew woman's past sorrow.

“Of course, Ms.  Seward,” he said softly.  “Lead the way.”

Before they could take  more than a few steps, the lights flickered.  Malko growled.  He caught Katherine's bicep and gently—but firmly—drew her out the door if it would respond, and then to the side of the door.  IF that failed, into an unused corner.  He hit his com badge fast, “Bridge, report!”

His first words after the report would be to apologies to Katherine for the handling, but the report came first.

The atmosphere in the room is tense, and her brain is stuck on photon torpedos. After having been sitting in front of a computer terminal all day her brain refuses to process this new information being directed to it. Too much stimuli at once, everyone is talking, the room is crowded. She almost wonders if she fell asleep and this is a nightmare. It felt like the last disaster that she blamed herself for, the one where she could not solve the problem fast enough and all those people died.

She looks at Naoko with obvious confusion and disbelief, "Why? Can you tell us what's going on?"



19:59, Today: Thani sh'Elliaph rolled 6 using 2d20, unique dice with rolls of 5,1 for reason + engineering

In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 32):

The news alarmed him about the warp systems fluctuation, he did not know much about engineering, but he knew a breakdown in the warp field was considered not a good thing to happen, especially when traveling at warp speeds, "Commander Geary to Engineering, we are reading fluctuations in the warp systems and issues in the power grid, This needs to be a priority investigation."

The hairs on the back of the curly haired man stood straight. This was one of those odd things he had warned others about.


Responding to the Commnader's request, "Commander Malko,sir, we are seeing fluctuations in the warp systems, I have given the orders to drop us out of warp. I have also sent word to Engineering to investigate the warp and power systems, Sir."
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Jason's reaction was almost as swift as Naoko's fear when she realized what might be going on. "Computer, shutdown all neural interface access points." And by mere chance he had a basic understanding of the Asian woman's panic.
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In reply to Jason Walker (msg # 36):

In response to Jason's command, the computer replied:

"Shutdown of primary system functions requires senior command authorization."
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In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 35):
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In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 35):
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In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 34):

Naoko looked at Thani and was about to speak when the lights flickered again and she felt the ship shudder beneath her feet.  "I was working on an attack barrier against unauthorized remote intrusions.  It thinks Cmdr Matheson was an intruder and back-hacked its way into systems she's connected to."  She looked at Cat, the Teala and the still barely conscious Captain and shook her head.  "But that makes no sense.  It was sandboxed off."

Kate ponders the statement Naoko made and frowned, her mind going back over communication protocols she learned at the academy then she speaks up. "Naoko how does the program identify someone?  What criteria does it rely on to state that someone isn't authorized?  Does it have access to Federation classified information?"

  "Computer," the towering Trill barked instantly, "Recognize Aurin Malko, Commander.  I authorize specialist Walker's instruction."

  He paused just a moment for the computer to respond, then spoke to the bridge again, "Very good Mr. Geary.  Proceed.  Malko to Idrani."
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  "Yes, sir," the Andoirian girl replied from a hallway.

  "Proceed to main engineering, armed and with an investigative tricorder.  Report as you see appropriate."

  "Yes, sir." Nynev sharply changed course for main engineering.  She stepped into the room and paused to asses the situation.

  Malko then turned to Naoko and stepped up with Katherine, holding back a little so as not to loom too much.  "I belief Miss Seward's question is extremely relevant." 
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In reply to Bartolomy Blatt (msg # 39):
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Alex heard the information and made a quick decision. He needed isolation for Catrina and surgery to disable it. "Computer Beam Matheson to the trauma bay." Locking eyes with specialist Walker as he walks to the trauma bay, "Specialist Walker, I need an isolation field for the trauma room now." (Alex begins the cyro-stasis process and will prep for surgery for Matheson).

Jess tapped her ComBadge, "Lieutenant Blatt report to the Warp core, coordinate with main engineering." A lot was going on, however she caught the hurried commands about an Isolation field and shutting down systems quickly spur around the room and made an attempt to step away from the bed to not get cut off from the rest of the ship's systems. Having both head of engineering out of commission would leave most the ship at the mercy of none engineers having to take command of the station and that wouldn't help the situation.

It was not ideal at all to have the Neural systems being shut down but she wasn't going to question commands orders. She would look for a terminal, if possible, speaking while moving away from the table "Naoko, will shutting down or isolating Catrina's implant harm her or the warp core in any way?" it was a little late to ask, it was all happening, but if she could get to a terminal and if the engineering staff was at the station then perhaps it could all be managed.

Tapping the ComBadg while facing Aurin, addressing both the standing commander and bridget. "Bridge, this is standing Chief of engineering, it is likely the Warp Core issue comes from MedBay. I have sent instructions for a warp core specialist to check out the core", Double tapping her badge to cut comms to bridge, but still clearly addressing Aurin, " Matheson has stated shes given the warp core a piece of her mind and it seemed to be meant to be as real as it was meant to be funny, if I can run diagnostics on the system from here then I think I should do that."

In reply to Jessica Laurent (msg # 49):

Checking the computer to see who was speaking, "Cheif Laurent, Understood.  Please advise once a sloution has been determined and or implemented."

Jason jerked his head up to Alex then nodded. "Computer, initiate isolation field around the trauma bay as soon Dr. Dupont has moved the patient there."

In reply to Aurin Malko (msg # 42):

In response to the order to shut down the neural interface:

Unable to comply.

In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 47):

In reply to Jason Walker (msg # 51):

The transporter activated, but it was clear it took additional effort to move Catrina to the surgery bed.  Once Alex entered, the isolation field activated.

In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 53):

Being alarmed at the news he just received, Deckar raised his voice, "Computer, Go to Red Alert!"

"Commander Laurant, Report to engineering."

"Deckar to Commander Malko, Engineering is unable to take the ship to impulse.  The warp systems are not responding."

"No, you don't understand," Naoko said, trying to answer the multitude of questions directed at her.  "It's not random code.  It's an active counter-measure I was working on in case of remote intrusion into our systems.  Somehow it entered Cmdr Matheson's implant, then jumped to the systems she's connected with.  She's not controlling any of this.  It's like a virus.  It's spreading from system to system to disable it."

"Are you telling me your code is the cause of all this?" Farah growled as she pushed herself off the medical bed to stand.  The blanket covering her legs fell away, exposing her regulation bottoms for all, but she didn't care.  Her head still buzzed and she could barely stay upright, but she glared at the engineer.  "When I authorized this project, you assured me nothing like this would happen."

In reply to Farah Greene (msg # 57):

"It shouldn't have!  I had created a virtual neural interface, but it was all in a sandboxed container!" Naoko exclaimed, then caught herself.  Honor demand she not try to avoid the blame for this.  She bowed before her captain and everyone around. "But it has happened and I must accept responsibility."
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In reply to Naoko Kusaragi (msg # 56):

Jason stared at Naoko with growing horror. Even he could understand what that meant. "Naoko," he started, voice calmer than he expected which surprised even him. "If'n I understan', y'built something that somewho escaped it's leash and now is running hog wild? Never mind finding out how it got loose, we need to shut it down before other things happen. Think, did you... I donno, did ya make some sorta back way into it?"

"Naoko, you said it shouldn't have happened since you designed the code, what kind of situations would have triggered it to respond like this?  Could someone have tried to hack into our networks triggering it to respond like the active immune system those colonists made a few years ago on that remote research colony?  Could something have gone wrong with the execution of the code?  Just what were the parameters that this code was meant to run under?" Kate asks frustrated as she looked at the engineer.  This had effectively ruined her night and she was getting fed up with pretending everything was fine.

RED ALERT

Jessica could see a lot of flashes of conversation, people asking questions across each other, a few voices were being raised, it was getting out of hand pretty quickly and the red alert would only add to the stress. "LIEUTENANT!" cut through the room, spoken just over the pitch of the other voices which had been escalating to be heard. Jessica spoke it in a sharp and explicit pitch both to cut through the rest of the noise and hopefully to silence it. Immediately, her face would go deep red in embarrassment, her eyes dare not look around the room.

" We dont have time for Guilt, shame, or panic. Save that for after," she was pointedly looking towards the engineer. "We need to counter the Virus, Cat's fine now, Unless command has other orders for you. Follow me or get to where you need so to either shut this program down or make something to neutralize it. NOW." Her voice almost started to shrink a little near the end but her now was reinforced and bolster to be just as sharp and firm as when she spoke to cut through the noise earlier.

Then, with a quick turn to face the door, unless either Aurin or Farah spoke or unless security moved to arrest her. Jessica began moving to the door while tapping her ComBadge "Bridge, this is Active Chief Engineer Laurent, the situation in medbay is currently stable. Heading to Engineering as ordered."

Hot sweats quickly flushed her face, and she may have tapped the doors control panel a few times in an attempt to get out of the room as quickly as she possibly could. Her own panic and now her embarrassment evident. Yet, onward she moved.

As soon as she was in the hall, she'd tap her ComBadge again "Engineering, This is Laurent, manually disable the neural system in the warp core room. I'm on my way. Give me a brief status."
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Thani noticed there wasn't much for her to do in MedBay. She needed to be in front of a computer terminal, and engineering seemed to be the place to be. "Lt. Cmdr. Laurent, how can I help?" She calls out as she follows along to engineering.

Isolation field up, Alex checks the scans, and then decides to work a little smarter.

"Captain, I'm going to attempt to revive Lt. Cmdr Matheson in this field. Is there anything you wanted to let me know, or any other method to disable her neural interface short of surgery?"

With no comms, Catrina was now in the same condition as Captain Greene when he disabled the neural interface. After Captain Greene's response to his plan, he would do the same application of the stimulant with pain suppressant, and would attempt to wake up Catrina.
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Takar hit his comm badge and frowned from his position at the security office. "What are my orders Cmdr Idrani?" he asks curiously as he begins to look over the feed from his station to see if there is any sign of intrustion.

Vanna makes her way to the bridge as the ship turns to red alert looking sleepy and exhausted from her earlier shift. "What's the situtation Istala?" she asks moving over to the ops station.

In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 60):

Before Jessica had taken her, Naoko had addressed Kate, Malko and Jason.  "It was meant to be a honeypot, a target for intruders to access and trigger the countermeasure that would go back up the intruding connection and attacked connected systems."  She smiled ruefully. "It's working better than I expected.  I hadn't implemented the filter against authorized users like the ship's crew because I had sandboxed it.  It shouldn't have gotten out!"

Jason slapped his badge. "Walker to Idrani. There is a program running wild in the system. Engineer Kusaragi was developing it. It got loose from its cage and she and Engineer Laurent are heading back your way. I have to stay with Doctor Dupont due to the isolation field around him and Commander Matheson." He paused, eyes narrowing slightly. "Naoko, find out how it got lose after you box it back in." That was the most encouragement he could give her because in his mind, who ever let it lose potentially tried to murder not only Cat, Teala and the Captain but they also endangered the ship and the entire compliment living on board.

"What if the preceived attacker, was one of the crew members, would that trigger it?" Kate asks thoughtfully.

In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 69):

Realizing she had missed Jason's question, Naoko said. "I can shut down the sandbox, but the virus is out and spreading on its own."  She muttered to herself.  "If I could devise a kill switch... I wish I had done that before. Naoko no baka..."

Kate's question snapped Naoko from thoughts and she looked at the young diplomat in confusion.  "Why would any of the crew do that?"

By then Jessica had barked at her and demanded she followed.  With a bow, Naoko said, "I must attend to my duties."

As she left, she gave Jason a sorrowful look.
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In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 64):

Indifferent to her appearance, Farah moved to just outside the isolation field that contained Alex and Catrina.  As bad as as her head felt, her stomach felt worse, a twisting sensation that no painkiller would soothe.  Passing by Teala had been bad enough as she had only realized the friendship she felt to the Orion, but Cat was all but family.  They had been through so much together and now Cat was laying on a bed with someone ready to operate on her.  Again.

"Her implant serves as both a neural link and to compensate for the damage to her temporal lobe and while she's capable of manipulating the Mihoshi's systems, she's not integrated into it.  Shutting down one will not affect the other," she said to Alex.  "If it were working normally, I'd say there would be a way to disable the link without risking what she's been able to reconstruct of her lost memories."  That had her glancing at Kate.  "Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on what the virus has done, whether it's jumped between the two.  You can try, but I can't say how it might affect her behavior, if at all."
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In reply to Vanna Marie Keyes (msg # 66):

"Warp field is stable, but we're slowly increasing speed, sir," Istala said to Geary as she read her helms panel.  She had laid in a course at Warp 7 to arrive at the Jorret system in four days and at the rate they were going, they would get there considerably sooner.  "Currently at Warp 7.3 and rising."

"Thank the Fates!" Istala exclaimed as her partner-in-crime and best friend took the ops chair.  She still worked frantically to keep the ship in something that resembled on course, but she did her best to fill Vanna in.  "Seems like something's gotten into the engineering systems and it's screwing with the ship.  I can't drop us out of warp."

In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 55):

Replying to Geary, Bart said, "We're still within the Mihoshi's tolerances, but that could change if... whatever this is get into other systems like inertial dampening or the structural integrity fields... which it looks to be trying to do."

"Acknowledged, Cmdr Laurent," he quickly added to his comms as Jess rang in.  He piped her into his channel with Geary.  "I was informing the bridge that the warp core is being accelerated by whatever this is.  We manually shut down the neural access point to it, but it's had no affect.  Now I'm being told it's attempting to access other systems like structural integrity and inertial dampening."
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In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 64):

Eyes fluttered open and Cat looked at the man staring at her.  She didn't know him.  She hadn't seen him or the woman staring at her from behind.  The woman was more pleasing to her, but the man was closer.  He said something to her, but the words couldn't compete with the noise in her head, an urge driving her to him.  Cat didn't know why.  The man said she needed to do something, but the compulsion was too strong.  Reaching for the man, she pulled his lips to hers.
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Alex said what needed to be said with urgency, but what she did next was very much not the result he had intended. He was afraid there was a complication with the interface, but Captain Greene had initial confusion too!

Pulling back gently from her grasp and shaking his head in a compassionate look, "Sorry Lt. Cmdr. Matheson you are not yourself! You need to disable your neural interface. (Pointing the the side of his head to emphasize what he is saying) The ship is in danger. Do you understand?"

Meanwhile, one of the medical nurses comes up to the captain holding a hospital gown, "Ma'am, here."

Kate didn't hesitate and took a step closer to the isolation field and started humming first a familiar nursery rhyme filling the med bay at first before she began to sing with slight talent although nothing impressive. "Twinkle Twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are, up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky, Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are.  When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light. Twinkle, twinkle, all the night
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.  How I wonder what you are."  Her eyes focusing on Cat intensely as she tried to move into view and distract her away from Alex with something so base, and familiar that even with the memory problems it should get through, hopefully.  She almost started singing it in Vulcan next but blushed and bit her lip instead.  "Sorry, I thought it might help"

In reply to Bartolomy Blatt (msg # 73):

He held his breath at the news, "Lt. Blatt, understood.  We will monitor the speed and structural integrety from here.  No need for updates unless something drastic happens."

Recalling the specs of the Saber class he knew the stated speed at which the Mihoshi could reach and how long it could maintain top speed.  He also knew the engineers gave a conservitive estimate and that the tolerance would be a bit higher than that.  Looking at the two women at the helm, "Lt Keyes, Lt, Res, Do either of you know what the actual top speed of the Mihoshi actually is?"
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Jason frowned at the departed Naoko and it wasn't the look she had given him that caused that. The Capt there, minus parts of her uniform, made him briefly stepped out of the MedBay and asked one of the guards to get someone to bring the Captain a pair of her pants from her quarters. Once they were retrieved, pants in hand, he returned to the Medbay to catch the tail end of Kate singing.. "Well Captain ma'am. Either a dressing gown or your pants," he said, offering them to her.

Malko touched Naoko lightly on the shoulder before she could leave. “Wait please,” he said in a soft, firm tone.  “Miss Kusaragi, our only responsibility at this time is to repair the ship and preserve the lives of those in it.  Sit down here,” he gestured to a chair, “and take three deep breaths.”

With red alert sirens and chaos going down all around them, Malko simply waited for her to breath, holding back anyone who tried to interrupt with a gesture.

“What we need to know,” he continued once Naoko was steady, “is what caused your program to identify a threat, and will correcting that problem cause it to stand down.”

Jessica hadnt waited to see what Naoko did, she was out the door and down the hall by the time the other engineer was stopped. She didnt immediately respond to Thani, her mind reeling from the situation, but the question floated in her mind until they got to the lift. As they stepped in, it was here Jess noticed an absence of Naoko, shed pause long enough to make sure she checked the hall and room for the other engineer before pushing the button to move to the level with the warp core. Main priority was stabilizing that.

Finally, as the lift begins moving, she turns to Thani "If we can find some way to manually slow the Warp core without compromising it then we may need to do that to stall our situation while we tackle this program. Yet, all I've got swimming in my head are stall tactics for the program, I have an image of the system we can use to reset from... ensuring no latent remains of the code are embedded but that will require a full shut down of the ship and time to restore everything system by system. If we can get behind the program some other way, it would be more ideal but time is not on our side right now." It was almost liberating for the engineer to actually speak her thoughts, everything was short and critical in Medbay, racing against time to prevent deaths and figure out exactly what was going on... this moment was almost a lull, they at least had the moment, and speaking almost gave the petite young officer a woosh of tingles and release as the tension flowed from her body into her words.

She's been a step behind this whole time, even behind her engineering team, and it compounded her emotions. It was so bad she was actually sweating, had she been tensing up the whole time? finally relaxing a little, she could actually feel it through her body.

Making a point to take in a deep breath, controlling the release in a slow exhale. If the science officer began to speak, Jessica would look over and listen to what was said.
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Thani knew the Medbay was not her domain. Engineering and science were far more aligned. When Jessica spilled her thoughts she smiles, "Firewall break. If we can get ahead and put a buffer  to prevent the code from progressing, that would work. Figure out the critical systems and put them in isolated sections of code that is apart from the main system." The wheels in her head turning. "The critical system in the warp core. Disconnect that from the main computer and just use the local controls. But we would have to shut it down, wipe the entire thing and then bring it up. Otherwise you risk reinfection."

In reply to Nynev Idrani (msg # 45):

Though she had yet to meet any of then, Nynev could see the engineering crew either hovering over stations or flitting between them like flies.  The most prominent of the group were a dark-skinned human male, a beige Catian female and a violet male Saurian moving in an odd synchronized dance.  The human caught sight of Nynev standing there and waved for her to approach.

"You here to help?" he said as he returned to his station.  "Hope so, but even if you aren't, you will be.  Name's Lt. Bartolomy Blatt, but just call be Bart"  He pointed and another monitor.  "Know how to work a polarity bias?  No?  It's easy.  Adjust the controls up or down to keep the meter in spec."
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In reply to Aurin Malko (msg # 79):

Malko's command overriding Jessica's, Naoko stopped and turned to face him.  She didn't much feel like sitting.  She didn't want to explain the problem.  She wanted to go fix it, but an order had been given and she had to do her duty.

Taking a seat, she tried to collect her thoughts, an effort complicated by the bizarre events around her.  To her shock, she watched Cat awaken and kiss the Doctor, only to be distracted by the singing some old Earth lullaby from the woman who had been questioning Naoko earlier.  If that wasn't enough, her Captain was standing nearby in her panties, though a nurse and security guard seemed determined to change that.  It all bordered on the surreal, but that didn't stop her from answering Malko's question.

"It perceived the Captain and the others as threats as I hadn't programmed in the authentication method."  She thought for a moment, theorizing.  "If my code came into contact with the neural interface mechanisms, which did have authentication, it didn't have its own to check against so it automatically failed.  I wasn't worried about it because I thought I had the proper containment protocols for me to test the countermeasure algorithms.  So, no, sir.  I can't correct what doesn't exist.  We need to shut down and remove all traces of the viruses."
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In reply to Decker Geary (msg # 77):

Istala gave an uncertain glance at Vanna.  She knew the answer, but did Geary or was he just testing her?  "Maximum sustained warp is 9.3, sir," she said to him. "Maximum burst warp is 9.7 for approximately 12 hours."  She glanced back at her displays.  "We're currently at 7.6 and rising.  Did you have any other orders for us, sir?"
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In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 76):

Only briefly deterred, Cat had begun to move again towards Alex when the song stopped her in her tracks.  To her frustration, she couldn't understand the words, but the song...  The song reached deep into her and it had meaning.  Cat didn't know how or when, but she turned to see a red-headed woman she didn't recognize and that made Cat's heart hurt because she should.  Cat moved to the singing woman, then hit the isolation field and could go no further.

Despite the chaos around, the insistence by two that she put something on her legs had Farah reaching for the pants Jason was handing her and pulled them up, her eyes not leaving her friend.  She watched in fascination as Kate's singing drew in Cat as surely as the mermaids of old did sailors, only without the "to their doom" part.  Still, the behavior was odd beyond Cat's kissing of Alex and she remembered reading the reports of Cat's injury. "I don't think she can understand us, Doctor."

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Jason.  Security.  "I don't think she's violent or a threat, but be prepared to stun her if necessary."

Overhearing Naoko, she glanced at Malko.  He was still in charge until Alex cleared her for duty and she knew herself well enough to know she wasn't.  Still, she did have thoughts.  "There's little more you can do here, Mr. Malko.  I suggest you take Lt. Kusaragi..." There was an edge in her voice that made Naoko shiver.  "... with you and get my ship back under control."
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Kate stared at Catrina from just beyond the isolation field and smiled at her hopefully. "It's going to be okay, we had to disconnect the implant.  Just focus on me and the song okay?" She said hopefully. She began to slowly sing the song again, feeling an ache that she knew Cat couldn't recognize her but it was the least she could do to keep her centered in this moment. 

For a brief moment, a face flashed in her mind and a feeling of uncontrolled rage stirred in her heart before she calmed herself and resumed the singing giving Alex a look to try to nonverbally tell him to make the most of the time she could buy him.
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He furrowed his brows at Cat's actions. This was totally unlike the engineer he had made the trip to DS5 with and spent time with getting to know her a little. He couldn't help but nod slowly at the Captain's assessment of Cat's state. "Yes'sum ma'am," he said, attention moving to Kate's singing and then back to Cat before he double checked to make sure his phaser was set to stun only. His thick drawl was probably the only indication that even Jason was not unaffected. That was a friend there acting weird like.

In reply to Istala Res (msg # 84)

He nodded in agreement with the stated facts, "Lt. those are indeed the specs for the Saber class starship. The question was is wether or not if you knew if the Hiroshi has or could excede those specifications."  He considered the ship for a bit, "I know that it is a new ship so I am afraid that we may be testing those limits shortly.  I'm just trying to be prepared."

He checked on the different systems and different departments to make sure he wasn't misisng anything.

"Lt. please keep me advised of the speed at every half warp speed until warp 9.3, and then at every tenth, thank you."

Alex nods at the Captain and Katherine.

Mind quickly thinking... Yes, she's having multiple issues, but the comprehension was the overriding one. That meant the module was altered by the virus. Alex needed to restore it back to the original code, and the medical database would have a copy. Katherine would only distract Catrina for a short period. Alex quickly gets a copy of the original code on his medical tricoder tool, and then goes to flash the interface module and wipe it back to that version.

"Matheson, can you understand me? You need to turn off the transmitter in your neural interface so we can drop the isolation field."

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 90):

Catrina's eyes fluttered as Alex rewrote her implant's microcode.  Things could have gone wrong, badly, but after a moment, her posture relaxed though her confusion remained.  Catrina looked back to see a man she didn't know, then around to see other faces that were strangers to her as well.  He wore odd clothing.  Nearly all of them did, save for a man dressed in a Starfleet uniform.  That relieved her some, but only some.  She looked at Alex, the man standing with her inside what must have been an isolation field.  "W-Who are you?"

"Catrina," Farah called out, speaking to the woman as her friend.

Cat's head snapped towards Farah.  She still couldn't make out the face, but the voice was familiar.  "Farah?"

"Yes.  Close your eyes and focus on my voice," Farah gently commanded, to which Cat obeyed.  "Something happened with the ship and your implant was infected with malware.  Dr. Dupont is with you and is here to help.  He had to reset your microcode, so you might have lost some recent memory and information."  Farah glanced at Kate.  "Someone else is here too."
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Kate smiled at Catrina and spoke clearly if more then a little anxiety bleeding through. "Hello, Catrina.  Do you recognize my voice, do you remember me now?" she asks A hint of desperation in her eyes as she stared at Catrina hoping that whatever Alex had done would help her.

"Should I lower the isolation field Doctor Dupont?" He asked Alex quietly. It seemed with what ever the Doc did, that Catrina was back to herself but he didn't have a clue if everything was actually fine. Still he kept one hand on his phaser just in case. The young man's dual colored gaze kept moving between the occupants of the room, not quite sure what to do because there was no manual for a event like this. Jason reverted to text book without a guide.

Alex looks at Jason and slowly shakes his head in the negative. Catrina's Neural Interface still showed as active and the effect of dropping the field would start them at square one for her. He's allowing the patient to re-acclimate with familiar voices and hoping they'll encourage her to do what he's already stated.

In reply to Katherine Seward (msg # 92):

"Katie?" Cat said to Kate.    "Of course I remember you.  How could I forget?  And Jason? You're hear too?  What happened to me?"

"As I said, there's been an incident and your implant was affected," Farah interjected, "but I need to you switch off the neural link."  Pausing a moment to give her friend some reassurance, but impress the need, she added, "That's an order, Cmdr."

"Yes, of course... Captain." Cat reached into her implant interface and deactivated it.  The "voice" of the ship had already gone quiet in her head, but switching it off felt strange all the same.  "Done..."

After confirming the implant was off, Alex nods, "Specialist Walker, you can drop the isolation field." He'd then run a quick diagnostic check of Catrina to verify there were no other issues. "Cmdr. how are you feeling?", Looking to both the Captain and Cmdr. Malko, "She can return to limited duty, no command privileges until I get a chance to re-evaluate."
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"Aye, sir," he said. "Computer, disengage the isolation field around the trauma bay." For a moment he wasn't sure what to tell Catrina and then glanced to the side at the Captain quickly before responding to Cat. "Glad to see ya back Miss Kitty," he drawled out teasingly before darting his gaze around and schooling his features into something more respectable. But for a brief second he had a grin on his face.

In reply to Jason Walker (msg # 97):


"Funny.  Now I know it's you," Cat said to Jason as she left the surgical area, then called back to Alex. "I'm a bit fuzzy headed, but OK otherwise.  Thank you, Doctor.  I'll be back when I can, but right now, my ship needs me."

She paused for a moment before Kate.    "I appreciate the assistance, Ms. Seward."

"I'm sure they can use your help in Engineering, Cmdr Matheson," Farah said, taking on a more formal tone to move Cat along. "Take Lt. Kusaragi with you and help her get rid of that code."

"Aye, Captain," Cat said, then looked around for Naoko.

"Here, Chief," Naoko said rising, knowing her superior was having problems recognizing faces.  "I'll fill you in along the way."

"Alright," Cat replied, then turned for the door.  "Come on.  Let's hope the new kid is up to the challenge.  You too, Jason.  We'll find something to keep you busy."  She took a few steps, then glanced down at her bare feet.  "Though I suppose I should at least get some shoes first."
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Kate smiled at Catrina Matheson and gave a polite nod. "Anytime, Commander.  I'm sorry that this whole incident ruined our dinner plans.  I'll try to be a better host next time?" she said jokingly as she glanced to the Captain. "How may I be of assistance Captain Green?"

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 96):

With Cat on her way, Farah looked to those remaining and her eyes fell on Teala.  That immediately changed her priorities and she trusted her crew to tackle the ship's problems.  She had to.  "I need the room with Dr. Dupont.  Alone."

That put Kate in the undesirable position of little to do.    There was little she could do about it.  Instead she simply said, "Go back to your quarters for now.  I haven't forgotten your skills from the Endeavor and if they're needed, I'll call."
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Jason's eyes lit up in amusement at Cat's deadpanned comment towards him. Taking a step back, he removed himself from Catrina's path and then glanced back at the remaining patient in stasis. His name drew his attention to Cat and he blinked. "What? Me?" His voice pitched up higher a moment. "But I don't know nuffing 'bout engineering," he said, following behind instantly at the order given and almost running into Cat when she stopped to look down, eyes almost lighting up in glee at the painted, red toenails. "I'll get one of the team to go get some from your quarters or you can ask them, there's two outside the door." He added, holding back a laugh.
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Kate exits stage right to return to her quarters.

The nurses leave the MedBay, leaving the room empty (In theory) with Dr. Dupont, Teala in stasis, and Captain Greene.

    "Very good Ms. Kusaragi.  Proceed and be aware that i will be accessing logs of who logged into the honeypot.  Inform me if I interfere with your work."



Malko took a step back.  "Welcome back Catrina.  Keep up the good work, Doctor Dupont. I will be on the bridge if I am needed."

Malko strode briskly to the bridge.  At his leg length, a brisk march could pass some people's run.

Upon reaching the bridge, he stepped out of the turbo lift.  "Mr. Geary, maintain the Con for the moment."

He moved to an empty station and did what he'd told Naoko earlier, accessing logs of who had accessed the Honeypot.  From there, he asked the computer--as a confirmation--to identify all neural interface users on the ship, and if nothing relevant had come up yet, he pulled up records of all their logins in the last twelve hours and checked for inconsistencies.

"What do you know, Katherine?" he said to himself.  "You're no more likely to know what lullabies Catrina's mother sang to her than you are to know which ones my mother did for me.  But your sister surely heard the same ones you did."
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The Comms system on PA and all badges begins playing a Vulcan funeral dirge, preventing anyone from using it.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 103):

OOC: Before the dirge begins playing.

  "Computer," she called, hoping the thing hadn't been compromised. "Decrypt the classified section of Lt. Cmdr Teala's medical file and display on this monitor.  Authorization, Greene Delta Gamma Niner."
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Alex reviews the information presented.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 107):

Farah frowned at the unwelcome music.  She had asked Naoko to program counter-measures, not psychological torture.  "Of course, Doctor," Farah continued, doing her best to ignore the music.  "As long as Teala is stable, I don't want any attempt to operate on her before this whole..." She growled in frustration. "Mess is fixed."
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Alex nods in agreement. "Well, since we have ample time (With a slight smile) perhaps I should see if you're fit to return to duty. My experience has been ship captains love to be captains." As he grabs a the medical tricorder and begins reviewing her vitals and functions.

Alex shakes his head slightly, "Sorry captain, your implant has given you a mild concussion. Proper head trauma protocol dictates no heavy thinking for the next 12 hours. You need to rest and let your brain heal."

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 109):

Farah frowned at Alex's diagnosis, but could not disagree with it.  She could feel the fuzziness in her head.  Detailed thought seemed to elude her grasp.  So despite her desire to seize control of the situation, she had to trust the team she had selected.  "As you say, Doctor."

As a testament her state of mind, it was only then she noted Alex's attire.  It was Orion, though anyone unfamiliar with their traditional dress might have mistaken it for Greek.  "If I may ask, Doctor, why are you dressed like that?"

Alex had been so in the moment that it took him a second to realize he wasn't in standard uniform. It really was comfortable.

Tugging at the toga top, "Oh, Teala and I enjoyed an evening on an air archipelago from her home world. Stunning view I might add. She was wearing the traditional garb of her people and asked me if I wanted to enjoy the full Orion experience as well. I took her up on her offer. It was quite refreshing to have a friendly conversation. We were wrapping things up with a sunset when everything went sideways and I ended up beaming here for our emergency."
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In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 111):

"Oh?" Farah said, surprised by the explanation.  She had spent time with Teala on a holodeck, but never in such a context.  "Consider yourself special, Doctor.  Teala invited you to spend time in her world, literally and figuratively."
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Alex nods, "Yes, I do feel special. I don't expect she lets people into her world like that. Too bad it ended on a bad note." He frowns.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 113):

  Despite the Doctor's warning, she began making her way to the door.  "Excuse me, Doctor.  I need to speak to someone."

#114:


Alex nods, he had done his duty and the captain would either listen, or not. Such was the burden of command.

Alex would summon the nurse back into the room to monitor Teala while he formulated the next processes to revive Teala. Despite the weirdness, he hoped the crew could get the craziness under control. Teala had been having a good evening and then one bad program had left her brain damaged and in critical condition. He wouldn't lose another friend, not again! He at least had the tools and technology to make a difference this time around.
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"Hi, Doctor Dupont," Cat said to announce her presence in MedBay.  She had promised to return and she had, though perhaps not in the way he had expected.  "Captain Greene asked me to personally do the medical systems wipe and restore.  I wanted to coordinate with you to make sure..."  She glanced at the still in-stasis Orion.  "... nothing goes wrong."

She approached and stared at Teala.  A face she didn't recognize, but knew by the color of the woman's skin.  How easily it could be her there, she thought, and she unconsciously fingered her implant. "How is she?"
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Alex looks up from his screens and gives a tired but slight smile of encouragement, "Critical but the stasis prevents any further damage."

He sighs, "I find it truly scary that in the mere matter of moments three crew members were rendered incapacitated. You and Teala collapsed immediately, Captain Greene held out for maybe a minute, but Laurent was unaffected. Maybe the answer to getting your implants unaffected lies in Laurent's interface."

Looking at the screens again, "I'm ready for the wipe, the stasis has battery back ups."

Alex pulls up the implant specs and compares them to see what the difference might be while Cat is dropping systems for the wipe. Something is troubling Alex about all this but he can't quite put his finger on it...

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 117):

"Mine's pretty tightly integrated with my temporal lobe," Cat almost automatically as she continued to prepare the medical systems.  "It's capable of some decent bandwidth, though not as much as Teala's."  Then realized who she was talking to. "But you know that already."

The preparation complete, she was going to tell Alex she was ready when she caught sight of her scan shortly after the interface had been fused to her skull.  "I was a mess then..."

Alex stops what he's doing to look over to Cat and the image she is looking at, "I'm here if you want to talk about it. Besides, I would say from the messes of our pasts a better person emerges to take that place. I would not be the doctor I am today were it not for losing my best friend."

His eyes take on a distant gaze as recalling the memory, "I felt powerless, incapable of saving his life. I vowed I'd never be powerless again, which is how I ended up becoming a doctor." He pauses, "What about you?"

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 119):

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Doctor," Cat said, seeing he had misunderstood her meaning, "but I meant more literally.  It came as quite a shock to wake up and not remember the details of my life or recognize the people I knew best."  She paused to stare at him.  "Even now, I only know it's you because of the sound of your voice.  That and you're the only man in here.  But your face?  Until the implant forms a pattern sequence for you, I don't recognize it at all right now."

How she had come to be an engineer was a similar matter and she sighed her inability to remember.  "Just as I don't know why I became an engineer.  Kate Seward tells me my father inspired me, that I was always tinkering or building, but those memories are forever lost."

Almost as an afterthought, or perhaps a way to change the subject, she added.  "I"m ready to begin the wipe.  I'll have to shut this down to purge the memory."
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Alex nods while listening, "That must be very scary and frightening at times. Having lost a piece of your own memories and experiences. Relying on other people to tell you about what you can never remember. I can't imagine what it must be like even now. I can only say I'm sorry for what you've lost."

Alex does a double check of his systems, verifying there wouldn't anything he needed. "Okay, let's take it down and wipe it." For some reason he felt that he had overlooked something, it tickled the back of his mind, a consistent nagging feeling. His primary focus was still on his remaining patient in stasis, Teala.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 121):

"Here we go," Cat said as she initiated the process.  She glanced over at Teala, who remained peacefully in stasis, and felt a pang of survivor's guilt.  Her own circumstances had greatly differed, then and now, but she couldn't help but feel some empathy for the woman.  It sent a chill down her spine and even though she had always intended to return to Alex for a follow-up, she asked.  "Will you check on me after the system's back up?  I'd hate to think some part of that damn virus is still lurking around in my head."

Alex nods, sympathy writ on his face, "Of course I will recheck."

On The way to MedBay, Jessica would instruct a runner to go inform Naoko to come to Medbay when she was done with what she was handling.

And another runner to REQUEST Captain Farah also come to Medbay.

In reply to Jessica Laurent (msg # 124):

Cat didn't know exactly why Jessica had instructed messengers to get Farah or Naoko, but saw no reason to stop her.  Instead, she was more concerned with getting Jessica to Alex as he needed.  "Dr. Dupont," she said as they entered MedBay.  "I've brought Lt. Cmdr Laurent."

Jessica would enter Medbay as instructed, making sure Catrina entered first. There was a frown accompanied by furrowed eyebrows on the young engineers' face as she entered.

Upon seeing the doctor, her expression shifty several ways as her furrowed eyebrows raised before she settled on looking Cryo where Teala was, all from the entry door. "Doctor Dupont," her expression soften, but she still did not approach as she spoke across the room, "You are the reason no one has died, mistakes where made but you mitigated the most critical of consequences to those mistakes." She would lean back to look out into the hallway, checking both directions, before then finally stepping in enough to allow the doors to close if they still would. If they didn't, and she clearly checks, she would step to just inside and to the side of the door, "I have sent for Lt Kusuragi and Captain Farah."

Alex looks up with a scanner in hand, clearly confused by her preamble, "Okay, Commander Laurent, I have no idea why any of that is important, but time is of the essence. I need to scan you." He'll approach Jessica with the scanner in hand.

Assuming she allows the scan: (If not, I'll follow up with a response post to the reaction)
He scans her, quirks an eyebrow, does it again, "Tricky bugger. You have the virus. Let me grab the tools to wipe it from your implant. Please lay down on the bed."

As Dupont approached, scanner in hand, "Doctor, please wait." if he didn't, she would actually step back out into the hallway but either way she would continue "you sent Lieutenant commander Matheson in her state across the ship to call over for something that's classified, and, frankly, an engineering issue." Her expression hardened as she spoke but then quickly neutralized as she made a point to give a more polite and respectful one, "look, I'm going to have Naoko handle," again looking up and down the hall before again looking back to Alex to make sure no one is in the hall "to handle something that's classified in at least two ways and directly relevant to her work, we have some time... they are going to manually adjust course with the thrusters and there will be a check before we start rebooting the system to make sure everything has been wiped to prevent reinfection.... trust that engineering is handling their job... Captain Farah chose us all for a reason, just as you handled yours so exemplary. please."

Having the knowledge of the device he held in his hand, she could understand about its range and would go so far as to even step down the hall to avoid his scan if he so insisted.

Alex shakes his head, "I'm sorry Lt. Cmdr. Laurent, you are potentially endangering the lives of everyone on board this vessel by delaying my diagnosis. This virus is adaptive and has proven to hide in plain sight. If I didn't know better I'd say you were acting compromised. You know the basic scan won't compromise your implant, and there is nothing classified when it comes to your implant that I haven't already reviewed. That device falls under medical purview."

He continues to approach Jessica, "The mere fact you are avoiding the basic scan shows you are distrustful of me and clearly not thinking straight. Now, either get the basic scan now or I'll relieve you of duties until we clear your device and you back to duty."

Deckar rounds the corner, holding his hand to his chest.  Seeing the betazoid backing away form the medbay with the man, doctor by his insignia, is following her with some sort of device in his hand, he call out, "Commander Laurent, Is everything in alright?"

Jason entered the MedBay carefully, avoiding moving his left arm too much. He had gone back to his shared quarters and then realized that he might want to go see the Doc first before anything else. "Hey Doc," he said to catch Alex's attention. "I... unn... need a couple of things looked at," he said sheepishly.

DAY 3: Alpha Shift


Alex looks up in surprise at the security officer, grabs the scanner, and then points to the first open bed, "Over here please. Now tell me, what happened to you officer Walker?"

"A spar happened. Might have overdone it a little." He gave a slight shrug as he moved over and sat down on the bed the Doc pointed at. "She's fast thought, got me a few times and I am pretty sure I got a few welts from her." He actually pulled his tee shirt up to show the thin red welt on his right side just below his ribs. "I'd show you the others but I am having issues lifting my left arm up. Mighta pulled a muscle."

"Pretty intense sparring session Mr. Walker. Let me give you something for the pain." Scanning the area and giving a pain suppressant was the first order of business.

"Okay, give that a second to kick in. And then we can work on correcting your welts and muscle strains." He gives a pointed look, "I haven't seen you in here before for sparring, was there anything different that prompted... this level of... effort?"

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 134):

Jason nodded, he wasn't too bothered by the welts he had gain, it was the shoulder that could cause problems in the future. "Thanks, sir."

He gave a brief grin to the Doc. "I haven't actually gone that hard since DS5, sir. You might find me a visitor once in a while. Pain's a great motivator to improve skills. But the level of effort? Might have been my partner's level of aggravation from the recent events, sir."

Alex nods, "Ah, stress relief. There are less painful ways to get that tension out..."

Alex continues scanning and then working on the shoulder issues with his tricorder and specialized medical equipment...

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 136):

Jason nodded slowly. "Yea, though I was tempted to do a standard training with no locks in the holodeck. That would have required a visit to you after. Its a stress test in itself." With the pain gone, the muscles relaxed in his shoulder. "Shoulder, I think I did something when I was disarming my opponent."

Alex chuckles, "You certainly have interesting ideas on how to release stress. And you of all people should know not to override the holodeck safeties. They are there to prevent accidental deaths. Challenge yourself with the Klingon workout if you need to get your stress beaten out of you. But if you are open to alternative, less strenuous methods, might I offer you Yoga or meditation as a incredible workout without the torn ligaments and pulled shoulders."

Alex lets out a low whistle after seeing the scan, "Wow, your opponent didn't hold back, torn shoulder muscles, right side large hematoma, left side hematoma under the left armpit and flank. Luckily no broken or cracked ribs. I can fix you up but you'll need to stretch to avoid stiffness from the new tissues." Alex begins the regrowth of the torn tissues.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 138):

Jason laughed. "That was my problem. I didn't stretch like I should have. Its not her fault, its mine. It wasn't my stress either. This... the issue that happened was exciting for me but my friends got hurt in the process."

He glanced at the doctor, hesitating. "Can I ask if 'she' is ok right now?" He didn't mention names but he had been part of something by accident and was concerned. In general he was too nice a guy.

Alex nods as Jason talks. "Smart guy like yourself in the physical activities should know to warm up before and stretch after during cool down to avoid injury."


To the off-topic question, "I can't speak to specifics because of privacy, but she is recovering and has requested her privacy. But I can convey a message to her if you'd like."

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 140):

Jason nodded. "Yea, wasn't expecting the full Monty there. I might have not been so lucky and had more welts if I hadn't been lucky."

His face fell a moment. "Not asking Doc. I know better. Just let her know I am hoping we find a way for her. I know everyone else is pulling for her. We've got some pretty bright people here."

Alex puts a hand on Jason's, not injured, shoulder, "We are doing our best and will help her one way or another, you have my word on that." 

And then he chuckles, "But please do consider challenges that are less strenuous from time to time. I do hope you won't be a frequent visitor in here."

The machine finishing up the tissue repair. Alex scans for anything else and an update to make sure that Jason is ready to take on his next challenge at full health.

In reply to Alex Dupont (msg # 142):

Jason gave Alex a lope sided smile. "I just know if it was my sister, i'd be doing all I could with what tools I have. She's been right nice a lady Doc. Just wish this whole mess hadn't done this to her. She's way too nice for this to happen."

He then chuckled at the Doctor. "I don't intend on visiting too often but you never know. I am security. M'all good now so I'll get out of your hair. Thank you."