Setting up

After leaving the meeting room Gould checked his PADD to find Lieutenant Vincent left him a notice and while do so nearly ran into him just outside the room.

"Good to have you with us Lieutenant." and motioned for him to follow as he continued to walk over to Dr. Bindo.

"Pardon the intrusion ladys.." He gave a respectful nod to the Deltan. "When your done here meet with Lt Vincent for his post check in and send he right to me on the bridge, we have some work ahead of us." then looked at them both almost suspiciously "Unless of course this discussion needs to have me in it?" Josh followed Captain Gould to the two doctors down the corridor.

"Hello Doctor, Doctor" Josh said as he nodded to Dr. Bindo and the Deltan doctor in turn. He then motioned to Nidiri as he said, "This is my assistant, Ensign Kiels, she'll be needing a check-up as well."

Jolie turned towards her captain and new crew-mates, feeling a brief pang of sadness as she turned her attention from the handsome male Deltan. She smiled inwardly. Even I'm not immune to the male Deltan pheromones.... She acknowledged her new crew-members with a warm smile. "Welcome to the Lotus. We'll get you both taken care of quickly. The ship's computer automatically adds you to our exam schedule when you transfer, but if you have a meeting conflict we'll work with the departments to figure things out."

She then looked at Gould. "Captain, you may not have had a chance to see the medical orders from the ship's Counselor, but he has set up a schedule for meeting every single crew-member." She smiled wryly. "We thought it would be wise to get your meeting with him out of the way as quickly as possible so you could focus on the Lotus. Congratulations, Sir. You get to go first."

"You too, my dear Captain," chimed in Elliago as Captain Kheren, coming out also from the amphitheater, just strolled by. "Chief Counselor Lyrya is already waiting for you on board, Sir."

Without stopping, the Andorian glanced at him with an expressionless face; but his antennae had flattened on his thick white mane with obvious angry annoyance. His sigh was clearly audible as he walked away, head slightly bowed.

She gestured toward the tall Deltan. "Dr. Nasaro-Myth and I were just discussing the idea of a medical briefing with the senior medical officers. We need to go over likely medical and psychological problems and appropriate medical protocols to limit casualties."

"Thank you Doctor," Josh said to the CMO. "I will stop by the infirmary after I get settled in."

Turning to Captain Gould, Josh said, "If I may take my leave sir, I would like to get settled in right away. I'll report to you on the bridge right after my check-up."

"No need Lieutenant, Ill be going back with you. Dr, Bindo, unless you plan on holding up your exam until I'm available I wont be going first, seeing as I have yet to acquire an XO I will have to double up on that job as well and I have a lot to coordinate before we launch with the Specter." He cut off any objection.

"I will make myself available at the first opportunity, witch should be shorty after launch, thats the best I can do. until then, Mr. Vincent your with me." Turned and walked off feeling just slightly pleased with him self.

"Aye sir," Josh said as he turned and followed his captain towards the Lotus.

Jolie quirked an eyebrow at her Captain's blatant disregard of medical orders, and she planned to have a discussion with him about it--but not in front of an officer from another ship. She tapped her combadge. "Counselor, the Captain has informed me that the Lotus launch is going to delay him for his appointment until after launch. Set his appointment for one hour after launch, mandatory per Starfleet medical regulation 121." The captain could try to wiggle out of that one, but not without risking being removed from command in the process.

Elliago watched with amusement as Jolie Bindo dealed deftly with the ridiculous tradition of sickbay-allergic captains that seemed to be something taught in Command school, so cliche it was now in Starfleet since the days of Captain Kirk. It was particularly amusing to him as he considered that he served with the one captain in Starfleet, a mutant abhored all his life by his own people, who was most justified to apprehend medical examination; and yet had himself ordered and followed the most stringent starship medical protocols in Starfleet!

She turned back to the mesmerizing Deltan. "Now, Doctor, we were discussing Artemis protocols," she said as she tapped his medical security methods into her PADD for immediate implementation on the Lotus by the medical staff. "I will definitely discuss right away these with our Tactical Chief. I imagine this should be a fleet wide protocol anyway, if it's not."

"That's what my captain strongly suggested," reminded Elliago. "But even medical security protocols are under the authority of the captain, First officer and chief of security of each ship, not us, sawbones. But we should insist on them anyway. Nine people died on the Artemis... nine lives that would have not been lost had these precautions been implemented when the cult assaulted us."

Jolie nodded. "Those I will definitely pass on through the appropriate channels. The protocols that are strictly medical, however, I'll implement immediately. I do not want to lose lives in a way that could so easily be prevented."

After a pause he added with a very serious tone:

"Frankly, the Artemis is the last potential target now; and your ship, the flagship, certainly on top of the list. All I can say is any of the other ships ignoring the protocols we propose will do it at one's own risk, at the risk of their own crewmates' lives."

She tapped her PADD again to invite the other CMOs in Lotus Fleet to join both Dr. Nasaro-Myth and her in the vacant meeting room next to the main room they'd just exited. "Now, let's go over the stress disorders and medical conditions we'll expect from the anomaly itself. I'd also been wondering if there was some way for us to figure out if normal space itself could be changed in such a way that it could 'fight off', so to speak, the anomaly cancer, for lack of a better analogy. Obviously the science is very different, but the concept is the same. I think if we can teach a body to fight off infections and cancer with science, we can figure out the equivalent for healing these subspace fractures."

The Deltan's eyes widened and he nodded with visible surprise and admiration.

"A cosmic cancer... of course! The uncontrolled flaring, the virulent damage, the expansion through inner passageways... Doctor, I salute your insightful intellect. Pure genius!"

Nodding with obvious excitement, Elliago added then:

"What we need now is someone with deep scientific knowledge of the anomaly to discuss this further. And as luck would have it, we have here the foremost expert on the Azimuth Horizon in the whole galaxy..."

He tapped his combadge.

1.84 hours after being extricated from the science conference, the enigmatic meeting with the Temporal Investigators concluded. Syntron was escorted out and led back to the turbolift. Dulmur inserted his encoded key into the lift security panel and positioned his face for the retinal scan. After the security procedures were implemented and accepted, the turbolift panel activated and was engaged. The lift arrived and the doors swiftly parted. Syntron entered the turbolift alone this time and set its destination back to the location where the science meeting occurred.

He arrived to a vacant room but noticed a lone PADD positioned on the table where he was previously seated. He activated the PADD and his files illuminated along with a brief message from a colleague. As he was reading the message a signal came in from his combadge.

"Doctor Nasaro-Myth to Lieutenant Syntron. If you have a moment, Lieutenant, please join me and the fleet's medical staff in meeting room 7A here on the starbase. We have a most interesting theory about combating the anomaly that requires your unique expertise."

Syntron tapped his combadge as he headed back out of the conference room and responded “Acknowledged, I’m on my way now” as he walked back toward the turbolift.

Following the aknowledgement of the Vulcan, Elliago smiled again at Jolie.

"Mister Syntron is the one who devised the suturing procedure of subspace fractures using inverted ionic pulses from the main deflector," he reminded her from the general meeting earlier, as explained by Captain Kheren. "He and the Artemis science team have directly studied extensively the anomaly for more than a whole week and even mapped the entire subspace fracture grid we will all use to... cage the beast. If anyone can make your novel approach valid, it's him."

He turned his bald head towards the room's door when it wooshed open to admit the tall, bearded, green-tinted and pointy eared chief science officer of the Artemis.

Entering the designated room on Starbase 10, Syntron walked toward the small gathering of Lotus fleet officers. With his PADD tucked in his hands positioned on his lower back as he approached them, he nodded and stated “Lieutenant Syntron reporting as requested. How may I be of assistance?”