By =/\= Captain Zanh
80102.21
Following Beholden and Examining the Finer Points of Medicine (and before everything after)
-=The Captain's Ready Room=-
80102.21
Following Beholden and Examining the Finer Points of Medicine (and before everything after)
-=The Captain's Ready Room=-
Zanh Liis was still staring at the floor when she began to get the eerie feeling that she was no longer alone.
She drew her eyes up and saw a pair of shining black boots before her.
Remembering she'd locked the door, she jumped up, taking a self-defensive posture and drawing her phaser.
The Long-term Medical Hologram shook his head, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender.
"'S'only me, Captain." He frowned at her. "If I'm here that means that your blood pressure has spiked again. You tryin' to tear apart that new aorta that the Bajorans worked so hard to give ya?"
"Doctor," Zanh frowned, holstering her phaser. "I thought after what happened last night we were clear on the fact that I expected you to disable the remote BP monitoring system that activated you automatically where ever I am if it goes above a certain reading."
Zanh bristled, remembering.
"I already apologized to you, and the Vedek both for interrupting your. . .private moment." The Doctor replied. "Ain't nothing to get ruffled about. I'm a Doctor, not a voyeur."
"Yeah, well, I gave you a direct order. Your being here now is a violation of that order."
"Captain, must I remind you that as the head honcho aboard this boat that you don't have the luxury anymore of pretendin' your body doesn't have needs, or limits." McKay countered sternly.
He moved to the wall and removed a med-kit that was mounted there. A moment later, he scanned her with the medical tricorder within. "You've gone off like a Roman candle again. You want to tell me what's got you so bothered?"
"No." Zanh replied, waving him off. "Sorry, Doc. It's a matter of strictest security."
"I've got the clearance. There is nothing that you can tell me that I'm not clear to know." He insisted, a bit too uncharacteristically.
"I know," She began to play along, and she moved to her computer terminal. "Well, I guess maybe we should talk. Please, sit down, Doctor McKay."
As the doctor moved to sit across from her, Liis took to the chair behind her desk. "I'm sorry, I'll have to work while we talk, I'm very busy today."
"Everybody seems to be. What's this I hear about the ship being bugged?"
Liis began to tap commands into her computer, and nodded. "Seems someone has more than a passing interest in what's going on aboard our little ship." She initiated a scan of the Doctor's program, and ran it against the master program that had been transferred from the Alchemy's database into Sera's after the crew had returned from the rescue mission.
Liis was not an engineer or a scientist, but she'd learned enough over the years to perform a magic trick or two of her own. It didn't take more than a moment to find what she'd been looking for.
"This is stressing you out, Captain. Just look at your blood pressure." McKay said, brow creased with concern. "And who can you talk to about your troubles? The Ship's Chaplain is a great listener but he's a little too close for comfort if you truly need an objective ear, don't you think?"
"So I should talk to Terasha then. Since she's taking over the role of Chief Medical Officer."
"You could." The LMH said, holding his hands up. "But we already know each other and understand each other. You can tell me anything and you know it won't go any farther."
"Mmm Hmm. Yup. You bet it won't." Zanh tapped a command into the computer and suddenly, the LMH began to shimmer from view. He looked down at his hands then up at her in confusion. "Sorry, Doctor."
She told the computer to unlock the doors, and tapped her badge. "Zanh to Lair."
[Lair here.]
"Kellyn, I have taken the LMH offline and locked his program. He's been compromised."
[Compromised how?]
"Someone's hacked into his program and is using him for surveillance." Zanh's teeth ground together as she spoke. "I've disabled him until you can go over his program with a fine tooth comb, find the additions to his programming and remove them."
[How do you know for certain that he's been corrupted?] Lair asked, thinking that the Captain was beginning to sound just a tad bit paranoid.
"Because," Zanh replied. "He disobeyed a direct order, and doing so is not a capability of his original programming."
[It'll be a little while before I can get to work on him, that is if you want the Alchemy back anytime soon. I'll make it next on my priority list after we get her space worthy.]
"Understood, thank you. Zanh out."
Liis rose from her seat, moved around the other side of her desk and slowly bent at the knees to pick up the medical tricorder that had fallen to the floor when she'd deactivated the doctor. She shuddered, and folded it shut. She placed it back into the medkit and returned the kit to its proper place.
Before she shut it off, she did notice that her blood pressure was elevated. That much of the Doctor's speech had been truth.
She sank back into her chair, and closed her eyes.
"Computer, initiate musical playback."
>Specify selection<
"Sting." Zanh sighed. "Play something by Sting."
She hoped that the music would calm her down, as she tried to accept the ugly truth that they were going to have to delve a lot deeper into their surroundings if they wanted to be absolutely certain that no one on the outside was watching their every move -- and taking notes.
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=/\= Captain Zanh Liis
Commanding Officer
USS Serendipity NCC-2012
=/\= Captain Zanh Liis
Commanding Officer
USS Serendipity NCC-2012