Life was exhausting, regardless of location. Life on a starship where things seemed to go wrong regularly and without apology. And it was only the first week. Exhausting usually led to notions of sleep. Exhausting for Christine Chapel meant no chance in all the universe of her sleeping naturally, so she might as well make the most of her time ( Read more... )

For all the advances in technology, for all the computers, wizzy beep things and transporters there were in the universe, sometimes, a big wrench and elbow grease was more useful ( Read more... )

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Free time on the Enterprise would've been spent by most crewmembers either sleeping or in one of the recreation or exercise rooms. Free time for medical personnel - or at least the Chief Medical Officer and his Head Nurse - was almost always spent sleeping ( Read more... )

When Leonard first woke up some -- damn, two? -- days ago, to go on this mission to Bacchus II, he expected some boring mission scanning plants. He certainly wouldn't have predicted this. Being chased out of Sickbay by a flock of crazy, horny people. Slowly becoming one of those crazy, horny people. Leonard paused momentarily out in the ( Read more... )

As part of her job, Christine had given a lot of people medicine, both in school and aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The liquid antibodies usually came in the form of a needle, quick and stinging, but thrown away before anyone could realize it had even existed. Too many events in life were similar to vaccines, stabbing needles and downing cough syrup ( Read more... )