Paula sighed and stared unseeing at her datapadd, the novel she’d begun the night before not capturing her attention. She felt almost like new, most of her injuries from the away mission healed but when she’d returned to Sickbay for her checkup that morning Dr. Xin had ordered her to remain off duty for two more days, and then restricted her to ( Read more... )

It was done. Paula blinked down at the concluding paragraph of her paper, a mixture of pride, relief, and sheer mental exhaustion coursing through her. It had taken a couple of months, snatching what time she could to review her research of the past year and compile the results into something approaching a final draft, and here it was. The lost ( Read more... )