William Hampton had prolonged the inevitable as long as he could. He had performed a maintenance on damn near every system in engineering, he’d even run a diagnostic on the doors to make sure their proximity sensors were properly calibrated. It wasn’t that the doctor scared or frightened him, as she seemed to do to many of his colleagues on the senior staff. He was just annoyed by the Doctor’s seeming willingness to put up a routine to play up her grotesque looks. Walking around the ship purposely startling people instead of just calling them on the comms, or hissing with a raspy voice at the people she was talking too. It irritated the Chief Engineer to no end.

He had intentionally waited for the rest of the senior staff to be checked before he himself submitted to the exam. Just to be sure nothing out of the ordinary was being done. At least on the surface, everything was being done in an orderly fashion. Although Hampton could not get the nagging voice out of his head that something was amiss. How did the computer manage to lose all of the files on the senior staff’s medical information? Hampton decided that if the ominous feeling inside of him would not subside, he would do some further investigating. And, as it seemed, the physical exam was one of the best ways to do that.

Stepping out of Main Engineering and walking towards sickbay Hampton debated how to approach the doctor. He settled on being only slightly confrontational and more directly honest with the creature who was the ship’s chief medical officer. It both made complete and no sense that she had that position, on the one hand, she was put on a deep space vessel that rarely, if ever, was going to interact with the main fleet. So in a sense, he felt starfleet had simply shouldered her off to the far reach of the universe to get her away from the every other crew and civilization. On the other hand, on a crew like this, Hampton felt the Doctor should be a comforting and calm presence to counter the bizarre escapades the ship was sure to get involved in. Staffing Leviathan with a CMO who looked like one of monsters the ship would no doubt encounter did not exactly achieve that purpose.

All of those thoughts circulated Hampton’s head as he made his way to sickbay. Arriving he stepped inside confidently. “Alright Doc,” He called out, looking around to find her, as he did not immediately see her as he entered. “Now that you’ve finished with everybody else I’m up for this fun little examination.”

Lt. William Hampton- CE