[USS Vanguard] Re: NRPG
- From: lela chambers <ensignkhan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncv80221@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:22:23 -0700 (PDT)
hey guys, I'm having a little computer problem, but i
will be posting in a couple of days for sure.
Kadi
she'ra Khan
--- Mel <uniquemel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think I've got all of the =20 etc out :-)
>
>
> Lt.Jaav E'thexx
> Ship's Counselor
> Location:USS Vanguard
> Time:During/After "Words"
>
> Jaav E'thexx began his stroll down the Vanguard
> corridor.It was an amazing
> relief for Jaav to have somebody around that he knew
> he could trust, Zena
> Quetan was a stable figure in his life when the
> world inside his head seemed
> so much the opposite.Before he got much further Zena
> stopped him as she
> spoke.
>
> Quetan: Jaav...Would you like to go to dinner with
> me sometime? You know
> maybe after the mission or something...
>
> Zena's warm face, soft tone and relaxed presence
> made it an easy decision to
> make.
>
> E'thexx: I'd like that a lot Zena.
>
> Zena smiled and turned, leaving to complete the work
> she had previously
> mentioned. Jaav watched after her as she disappeared
> down the corridor,
> lingering a little before remembering what he still
> do.
>
> ***
>
> Within a few short moments, Jaav found himself
> exiting a turbolift and
> making his way to the Vanguard's main sickbay. Dr.
> Xristha Droin and She'ra
> Khan were already clustered around the main
> diagnostic view screen, She'ra
> was sporting a unusual piece of headgear which she
> quickly slipped off and
> placed on a nearby biobed upon his arrival.
>
> E'thexx: Sorry I'm late.
>
> Droin: I was wondering if you were going to turn up
> at all. Grab a seat.
>
> Jaav pulled up one of the medlab stools and seated
> himself in front of the
> viewer.
>
> Khan: Xristha and I have been trying to asses the
> physiological risks
> involved in using the Temporal Transporters. From
> the little documentation
> we have they appear to be safe, but theoretically
> there are some risks
> involved.
>
> Droin: Especially with it being such an
> experimental technology. I doubt
> the engineering core has had a chance to iron out
> all the bugs.
>
> E'thexx: Such as?
>
> Xristha changed the display on the viewer with a few
> key presses.
>
> Droin: The wildcard element in all this is the fact
> that we are dealing
> with a temporal continuum. It's been a while since
> I had to suffer through
> Professor Zol's Temporal Physics class but if I
> remember correctly one of
> the key ideas to get your head around is that using
> a temporal transporter
> requires the subjects pattern to be suspended in a
> totally different type of
> buffer, it's not really even a buffer at all.
>
> E'thexx: I think you might lose me if you're not
> careful, I never did
> temporal physics.
>
> Khan: Well bluntly, the temporal 'buffer' in this
> case is an environment
> where time doesn't really apply, it's what makes the
> whole thing work, when
> the pattern exits the buffer which is in 'nulltime'
> it can theoretically be
> transmitted into any point in time within certain
> constraints.
>
> E'thexx: So what's the problem?
>
> Droin: Because time doesn't exist inside the buffer
> the pattern is formed
> instanteneously, in conventional tranporters the
> pattern dematerializes and
> materializes over a very short period of time but
> it's still measurable,
> She'ra and I are concerned that the rapid and
> instant materialization might
> put cells under a greater level of stress, as well
> as causing psychological
> disturbances.
>
> E'thexx: Have you run any simulations?
>
> Khan: We've run several simulations through the
> computer and they within a
> 98% confidence value they all yield the same result.
>
> Jaav stopped, scratched his head and collecting
> everything together in his
> head before continuing, time travel had always been
> a concept he'd struggled
> to get his head around, and in this particular
> instance his new symbiont
> didn't seem to shed any more light on it either.
>
> E'thexx: So what are the results?
>
> Droin: As far as we can tell the cell damage is
> only an issue after three
> or four consecutive tranports, after a few months it
> is nearly completely
> repaired and the subject is reurned to full health,
> but the psychological
> affects are harder to predict, we were hoping maybe
> you could offer your
> opinion.
>
> Jaav perused the viewer, glancing over the
> statistical analysis, diagrams
> and schematics.
>
> E'thexx: Looking at the data you've already
> gathered, it would seem that
> there's no way to predict who the effects will
> present themselves in or
> when.
>
> Droin: This is more you're area Jaav, have you any
> idea what we'd be
> looking for?
>
> Jaav scratched his head for a moment (succumbing to
> a moment of extreme
> clich ), and tried to sift through his now more
> jumbled memories.
>
> E'thexx: Only one instance springs to mind, it was
> an encounter the crew of
> the USS Enterprise - D.
>
> Jaav moved over to the computer terminal and
> accessed the particulars of the
> mission through the Library Database, the details
> appeared on screen, but he
> continued to dispense his own summary.
>
> E'thexx: Captain Jean-Luc Picard and other members
> of his crew were
> returning to the Enterprise by runabout, when they
> reached their vessel they
> found it along with a Romulan warbird, frozen in
> time, they found a way to
> enter the distortion, however Counselor Deanna Troi
> documents some unusual
> effects. Captain Picard experienced a form of
> 'Temporal Narcosis'
>
> Khan: Temporal Narcosis?!
>
> Droin: Old Earth Sailors used to experience
> something similar termed
> Nitrogen Narcosis.
>
> E'thexx: The cause is entirely different but the
> psycholgical effect is the
> same, the sufferer is likely to undergo
> hallucinations, delirium, and
> experience a complete sense of disorientation.
>
> Xristha sifted over the data, she was visibly
> dissatified with what it made
> apparent.
>
> Droin: The Captain's going to love this, the risk
> involved may be
> relatively small but it's still a risk and one I'm
> not happy with, I'll
> leave the final decision to him.
>
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