Post-battle Checkups

Since the Bynar doctors had arrived back on the Horizon, they had been busily triaging the many bumps and scrapes, broken bones, and concussions that the Polaris crew had suffered since their capture as well as the long-term ill effects of the Asteroid Mine on the refugees rescued from there. A few of the refugees required surgery to remove cancerous tumors, a condition not before seen by the Bynars due to the preemptive care received by everyone in the Federation and any non-affiliated modern society near the Federation, along with the genetic sequence discovered by Pyong Ko that would inhibit growth of any cancer cells. The conditions of the mine probably caused or added to the cancer, but it would only be a simple three-step process to rid them of it: remove the tumors preferably by localized transportation techniques so as not to have to use a lasar scalpel, make the patient comfortable by administering melorazine, then applying the genetic therapy to prevent any possibility of remission.

The other patients mostly contained un-mended broken bones that were easily reset, stress fractures that could be repaired, and post traumatic stress conditions that would require mental therapy by Lyrya and her team.

Shortly after their triage work was done, Oseno Jureth walked in and sat on a biobed, and 011 approached him without a word, scanning him with her medical tricorder. 110 followed shortly after and administered a mild pain killer.

"Your injuries are quite severe, Commander. Three broken ribs, a vertebral stress fracture, and a sprain on the third metatarsal ligament in your left foot. Please describe what happened, so we don't miss anything."

110 added, "Once you're done describing the event, I will administer a more powerful analgesic so you can rest while we fix you up."

Oseno nodded wearily at the doctors. "The short version is I got tossed into two durasteel bulkheads by Khan Noonien Singh, and then put on an EV suit and threw myself off a perfectly good starship...but that doesn't include being tossed around due to the malfunction of the Horizon's transwarp drive and having to launch my ship out of her docking bay at speeds that most scientists and pilots have never even considered. I blacked out at some point during the Polaris launch too so you might want to run a neural scan if you haven't already."

Jureth was trying no to be curt with the Bynar, but he was physically and mentally exhausted as well as emotionally spent from the experience of watching Khan torture his Polaris crew, and in particular T'Lana, the vulcan security officer. While he loved Catherine Steele, he had a great respect and admiration of the Vulcan woman. It had pained him greatly to see what Khan did to her even if he had tried not to show it at the time.

Even the Bynar doctors were able to sense the Commander's weariness and did their best to switch to what they learned was a typical Bajoran "Bedside Manner Mode".

"We will run all standard scans..." said 011, followed by "and make sure you're at 100%, Sir. Just rest now," from 110. "May the prophets protect you... while you sleep," they added. Although they didn't believe the aliens 30,000 lightyears away were even aware of Oseno, let alone able to protect him, they knew that comforting the patient however they could would aid in his convalescence.

Moments after explaining the reasons for his truly impressive number of injuries, Snowfire half-stumbled into the room supported by Lieutenants Irksos and Baoule on either side. The adrenaline - or close enough analogue - rush triggered during her escape had well and truly worn itself out at this point, and the white haired science officer seemed to struggle to reach the biobed beside Oseno even with the two other officers supporting her. She waved faintly at the Bajoran as she sat down, pulled her legs up onto the bed so that she could lie down, and then promptly passed out until one of the doctors approached her.

To all appearances, all that the Ilythirii Lieutenant Commander really needed was rest, but a closer look would show that there was minor damage to several parts of her neural structure. The fact that they were healing far faster than neural damage had any right to would be another example of exactly how confusing the nature of Ilythirii mental powers worked.

The doctors' scans were picking this fact up as she lay down, and conversed with each other using the high-pitched computerized language, but softly, so as not to disturb the patients.

We must repair the neural damage, stated 110.

But can we? replied 011. The healing has already begun.

Anything we do may just make it worse.

Agreed, perhaps it is best to just let her rest.

I don't like it. said 110. We are supposed to be able to do more.

"First, do no harm", quoted 011. It was not just a human mantra, the Bynar race had an equivalent.

"Just rest," they said to Snowfire. "We will continue to monitor... your condition, but we guess... you will be fully healed in mere hours."

"Do you need anything? Water or a light refreshment would be permitted," they added.

Oseno laid on the biobed and tried to close his eyes, but his thoughts kept returning to the Nemesis bridge, and the sight of T'Lana in the containment pod. He opened his eyes and stared for a long moment at the overhead of the Horizon Sickbay before speaking.

"Doctor, I have a question when you get a moment."

Doctor 011 nodded to her fellow Bynar partner to mentally indicate, Go ahead, I will stay with Snowfire.

110 returned to the biobed Oseno was on and used her medical tricorder to take one more scan before saying, "Yes, Sir, what can we do for you?"

She was not used to using the word "I" when conversing with anyone but her partner, even though she alone was attending to him.

Oseno propped himself up slightly

"There was a Vulcan woman on my staff, T'Lana,  she was tortured by Khan along with several other officers. What is their status? Will they recover?"