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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express</p><p class=MsoNormal>Day: 2<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stardate: 2445.12.02</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(USS Exeter – Sickbay – ACMO – Ensign Dural Methor DrPH – 2330)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>T'kel laid back and let the doctor check him out. " Proceed."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dural looked at the biobed monitor. “Vital signs, stable…. though your respirations are a tad high, hurt to breathe?”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply T’Kel)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“The pain won’t allow you to open your lungs all the way, so your body compensates by breathing faster.” Dural snapped open his tricorder with a flick of his wrist and began a skeletal integrity scan. The information began flooding in through the small screen. “Mister McDonald was correct. Three unilateral rib fractures.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply McDonald)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Mister McDonald, please pass the osteogenic stimulator and give our Vulcan friend his first dose of medication.” Dural requested. He placed his tricorder at the foot of the biobed.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply McDonald)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dural held his hand out palm up to accept the requested instrument. It was placed squarely in the palm of his outstretched hand.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Excellent technique, you’ve had some experience in an operating room, haven’t you?” Dural said complimenting him.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply McDonald)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As Dural adjusted the instrument going through a quick functions check, “We shall have to remedy that.” He turned his attention to their patient. “You may feel some itching, perhaps some discomfort. The medication he gave you should be minimizing the pain very quickly.”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply T’Kel)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dural began turning on the instrument hummed and issued a wide magenta colored beam along the Vulcan’s thorax where the Cardassian pointed it. He made slow even passes, moving the beam along the selected rib. “How is that?”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply T’Kel)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Very well.” Dural said stopped, adjusted the instrument, and then continued. “Mister McDonald, you are rated for an osteogenic stimulator, are you not?”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Reply McDonald, T’Kel)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Posted by Todd)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“<span style='color:black'>The only way to defeat fear is to tell it 'No'." No - we will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness. No - we will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts. No - we will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.” - Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“No, I’m from Iowa, I only work in outer space.” – Adm. James T. Kirk, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Todd Holladay<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SGT, IA ARNG (Retired)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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