While waiting fro the Athena to eventually turn up again, Viyara had decided to work on one of her personal projects. She hadn’t actually asked permission to use one of the science labs. But she was a Starfleet Science Officer, so why shouldn’t she? And who would notice anyway? The personnel on starbases always seemed to be a little more in flux than on ships and they currently had the crew of the Ogawa stranded here as well, waiting for the ship to be repaired. Thus in all likelihood the science staff from the Starbase would assume she was part of the Ogawa’s crew and vice verse. Which should leave her free to do whatever she liked.

Right now that meant testing a theory she had developed the night before. So here she stood alone in the lab, looking at her experiment set up, making sure everything was connected properly. The most prominent feature as a large Liebig condenser. On the left hand side of it stood a Bunsen burner and hanging over it was a round-bottom flask with a fractionating column and a thermometer attached to it. The fractionating column was then attached to the Liebig condenser and underneath the end of it stood another glass flask. Once she was satisfied that everything was set up properly, Viyara turned on the Bunsen burner. Now all she had to do was wait.

A while later, the dark haired Trill swapped the glas flask at the end of the set up, for an empty one. Moving to a neighbouring table, she put the flask down and then inserted a pipette into the liquid. After filling it was liquid, she dropped a few drops in each of the five test tubes in front of her. At first nothing or very little seemed to happen to the liquid within. But suddenly a hissing sound came from the third one and the liquid within seemed to boil. She cursed loudly, but was too late to try and do anything about it. Instead watched the test tube break and the surface of the work desk blister when it came in contact with the liquid. That was not what she had expected.

~Ensign Nazeen, Scientist