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=^=Can you perform a neural scan to see if there might be a link between the Captain and Daniel?=^= Kord asked.

=^=” Bridge this is Grunch…The Captain has come back around…Don’t ask me how I gave him quite the cocktail of hyposprays to stabilize him and yet he is now out of whatever this is…But yeah I can Send our strange Visitor to me and I will do the scans!”=^= He replied as he turned his tricorder to start the Neural scans on the captain

“Of course captain I am having the bridge bring him in so we can do a series of neural scans to see if there is something going on between you and him” the grumpy Doctor said as he continued to run his scans and try to figure out what was happening.

“So, did Daniel say anything about how he actually planned to rid the Merri of the Temporal bewitchment?” Glen asked Grunch. ” I don’t believe in magic, and it all sounded a little hokey to me, except that there have been too many coincidences and time travel occurrences to not have some underlying cause behind them all.”

“Don’t worry,” Glen told Grunch. “On second thoughts, you carry out your scans, and I’ll read the Ship’s Log and see what Kord recorded about the meeting.” Glen took a PaDD and read through the meeting notes that followed from his departure. He wanted to be fully up to speed before Daniel arrived in Sickbay.

Further scans while they waited to have Daniel arrive showed some difference, Glen’s left foot for example was showing signs of hyper nerve signals firing as if someone was lightly tickling his entire foot. His right knee cap and thigh meanwhile were in a state of off and on cramping. While the feeling of hunger pangs was hitting Glen pretty hard even though he had eaten not too long ago scans showed he was almost three days out since last digesting food! It should be ok for Glen to drink and eat soft foods during this something easy to digest and handle so he wouldn’t choke on it.

Glen couldn’t read the expression on Grunch’s face as he performed the scans, and he asked, “So Doc, what have you found?”

“Will I live long enough to see attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, or to watch C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?” Glen asked Grunch.

A few moments later escorted by security NE Charlie, the half-human half-Ancient hybrid Daniel entered the Sickbay. “..You called for me Lieutenant?” He said looking to Grunch.

“Captain, To be honest, I have NO Idea right now Your body is making no sense on my Tricorder I need to take scans of our Guest and do some research” he growled before moving to Daniel still standing on his Mobile Step Stool “Yes I want to take some scans to compare to the Captains and try to understand what is happening with him if you will sit down on this Biobed over here I will start my scans!” he grumbled not really looking Daniel in the eye and being his usual grumpy rude self

as soon as Daniel sat down he began his scans “I Dont know yet I will have to do some research but I need to take more scans first” he added

Daniel nodded his head and took the indicated biobed and laid down. Scans showed much more finer detail of Daniels physiology then Grunch had before from just a simple medical tricorder. His organs resembled mostly those of a human, but there were variations in them showing his Ancient half. For example while he had two lungs his ability to hold his breath say was likely far larger in capacity due to the efficiency of red blood cells absorbing oxygen as well as how much breath he could intake to begin with. Most of the other major organs followed along similar designs to this. Looking for any ‘link’ between Daniel and the Captain came up a negative there was none to be detected, nor did Daniel show signs of the temporal problems Glen was showing. So what Glen’s problem’s cause was still a mystery.

Glen put down the PaDD. He really wanted to get back to work but still felt too weak to even get off the bed. “Daniel,” Glen asked, “I see you have my whole staff busy on your errands, creating exotic materials, building experimental devices and re-designing our power sub-systems. And I’m guessing that would all be achieved much faster if you were actually there to supervise and direct it personally?”

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“Dr. Grunch,” instructed Glen, “I’m clearly going nowhere soon. So, please prioritise Daniel. Complete your scans and checks on Daniel first, and let him get back to work as soon as possible. If I’m not dying, then I can wait.”

-Glen, CO