<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mission: Space was cool before it mattered</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stardate: 2446.04.25</span></p>
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<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(USS Exeter – Sickbay – Nurse - CPO – Ewan McDonald - 0904)</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ewan glanced at the wall chronometer and sighed mentally.</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~I think it’s going backwards~</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He was board, there not really been anything exiting happening since
they had arrived and even the trip out had not been over stressful from a
medical point of view. </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He new that lack of patient was a good thing as it meant that people
were not getting hurt but still. </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~You may get lucky as board people do stupid things and then get hurt~</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He gave a slight smile which he covered with a professional demeanour as
the sickbay doors opened. </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~Ow could this be something~</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He hid the inward disappointment as a woman walked into sickbay. It took
him a moment to realise that the person was Bracken.</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~What’s </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Commander Ailynn
Bracken</span> doing back on board~</p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">He gave a quick medical appraisal which was
almost an automatic reaction when he saw people entering sickbay. </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">~Well she looks like she is getting there. I hope
she doesn’t pop while she’s onboard~</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">He paused for a moment.</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">~It would make things interesting an crash section.
Not had many of those since I got here~</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">His eyes wandered around sickbay with its modern
and pristine equipment.</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">~Would have liked to have this type of facility
when I did my last one~</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">His mind wandered to a time and place in his
past, with the screaming, hands deep in woman’s abdomen, the flickering lights
as the power began to fail and the terrified face of the surgeon across from
him. </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">He closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he calmed his unwanted thought.</span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">~Yes here would be far more better~</span></p>
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<p class="ydp784bcf37MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">(Posted by Robbie) </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
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