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Hal’s internal and external scans for that matter turned up nothing dangerous, things were quite quiet aboard and around the ship thankfully, which was great given they were about to begin a risky experiment.

William took a glance at the files then sent a copy to both his private terminal and his workstation in the main labs. He also typed up a message to the Chief Medical Officer on a time delay thanking him for the new hobby to be sent in two days time.

“So I wonder what compels an an alien, not just a Tellarite, to sign on as the CMO of a ship full of other species of humanoids. Mainly humans?” Hal asked to nobody in particular.

William took a moment to consider the question “A doctor is a Doctor, and I think that humans have a tendency to need a doctor more so than many other Federation Species.” he speculated, he had considered that question himself at times.

Turning from the helm station, the NE there stated, “..Sirs? We’ve reached the minimum safe distance from any stellar anomalies to run the device. You may want to alert the Captain and XO if they arent already aware..” he said.

William moved to the Captain’s chair and hit the comm button [O]Bridge to Captain Glen and Commander Kord, we have arrived and are prepared to begin[O] He spoke clearly if a bit loudly.

A few minutes later Kord entered the bridge.

“Report.” he called out as he took his position next to the Captain’s chair.

“We’re here, Sir,” Hal said. “I think that we can start this phase of the operation at any time.”

A few minutes later Daniel came over the comms =/\= Commander Kord. We are ready down in the cargo bay and engineering. If you could have helm initiate a holding pattern and warp bubble of up to warp 8 we can begin..=/\= He said.

William turned around to his instruments, he wanted to see firsthand what was going to happen “Now we see if this works or if it blows up in our faces, literally” He said perhaps a little to loudly and a far too filled with glee.

It was so tense on the Bridge that you could cut the atmosphere with a knife. Dariusz looked from Navigation to his partner in crime, the NE sitting next to him at Helm, and raised an eyebrow in support. What were they really doing out here? It seemed like the senior staff were paralysed and unable to give the final order to start that ‘secret’ machine. That machine that everyone on board knew was being built down in the Cargo Hold. If it was so dangerous, didn’t the crew have a right to know what it was? A holding pattern and a Warp Bubble didn’t seem very perilous, even when they were in space bandit territory, right on the border of the Klingon Empire, so it had to involve more than that. Did the CSO just say something about ‘blowing up’? On a dangerous mission of this kind it’s always someone could be be killed. Dariusz looked around the Bridge to see if there was a Redshirt that he had never seen before, but there was only this NE at Helm.

-Dariusz, Navigator