Yuri arrived first to medical as the doors quietly hissed open the lights turned on automatically, dim at first, but slowly illuminated to their full brightness. He wandered through the receptionist area towards the back where the CMO office resided. He set the thermos down on the desk and walked behind it, swiveling the chair to his direction before sitting down and unscrewing the cap of the thermos and pouring himself another cup. The steaming liquid still retained it’s heat as he warmed his hands with the small cup. He tapped the screen on a nearby terminal, bringing it back to life from the black LCARS screen as it sat idly through most of the evening. What could be done to stall the shuttle? There were several non-threatening, but invasive bacteria’s and viruses that could provoke a small quarantine, but there we too many to pick from and he had no idea where the shuttle had been. It would be an easy bluff to see through if he claimed that they had a Vulcan bug or something attached to their ship if they had never been in the area. He quietly shot a message to OPS requesting the shuttle’s flight plan for it’s most recent stops and sat back and took a sip of his coffee, pondering.

Lieutenant Yuri Balashov (CMO)