" This Is What Happens When the Mind And Body Become Separate "
(Previous Post: "Deeper In")
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Stardate: 60315.1800
Setting: USS ANUBIS, Sickbay
The body of the Shillian scientist rested peacefully
on the biobed as all of her vital signs were being
closely monitored by the automated systems that hung
over her head. To make sure that nothing went wrong
several nurses and other members of the medical staff
occasionally passed next to the Chief Science Officer
to insure that everything had been as it should.
Physically the Chief Science Officer appeared to be at
perfect rest, all of her metabolic readings showing
reduced activates, all but one which displayed a level
of activity that registered over twice that of what
should have been normal for the Shillian woman: the
amount of brain activity. This had been first noticed
by the Assistant Chief Medical Officer who had in time
accounted for this increase in activity to the efforts
of the scientist to bring her own body under control
and stop it from undoing all of the work that had been
done to turn the Shillian into a Cardassian.
That explanation had been true for several hours after
the Assistant Chief Medical Officer had informed the
Chief Science Officer of the extent of the
complications that had surfaced following the surgery
and which had triggered the Shillian to subdue her
metamorphic abilities by taking them into a more
direct mental control. As time passed though, the
scientist had found that this control grew
increasingly easy allowing her mind to drift onto
different things which of course included all of the
research she had been involved in prior to this little
unforeseen complication.
One of the researches that the Shillian scientist had
been occupied with had been to keep track of the rogue
asteroid that had been identified on MAFTEACH and
later discovered using the extensive resources
available onboard the USS ANUBIS. The hieroglyphic
that had been discovered on that planet and the legend
of that wondering astral body that it spoke of had
caught the full curiosity of the Chief Science
Officer, so much so that even in her sleep the
Shillian though of it. Maybe this had been because
many of the details of the legends and stories told by
the pictograms had closely mimicked the final days of
her own planet, but the scientist wanted to believe
that her interest had been purely based on researching
something that no one else even knew about.
Another item that occupied the thoughts of the
Shillian woman, one that had less to do with science
and more to do with psychology, had been the way the
Chief Science Officer had found herself looking at and
thinking about the Enaran Marine assigned to the USS
ANUBIS. Despite her continued efforts to explain the
whirlwind of emotions she felt when Second Lieutenant
Pravat was near, the scientist could not figure out
why she experienced such polar opposites when the two
of them were in the same room. How could two physical
bodies exert such a powerful force of attraction
towards one another while at the same time applying an
equal power of repulsion? From a scientific point of
view this problem seemed to be a sort of "mobius
strip", something that did not make sense within the
boundaries of the normal physical world, which led the
scientist to believe that maybe she would have to seek
the advice of a higher authority on this sort of
thing, namely that of Ensign Susan Mei the Counsellor
of the USS ANUBIS.
Those thoughts were slowly pushed aside when quiet,
whispered voices reached the Shillian woman as if
coming from a distant shore carried over to her by a
soft ocean breeze. The Chief Science Officer could
not understand what was being said, but she could feel
herself strangely reacting to the sounds she had been
hearing, or more precisely to the sound of one of
those voices that had reached her. As a scientist the
Shillian could not understand this reaction,
especially when taking into account that she could not
identify the origin of the voice, yet the feeling
persisted and grew more intense with time. When the
voices stopped, the Chief Science Officer experienced
an even stranger feeling, as if someone had denied her
something vital to her continued existence.
Slowly the Shillian woman brought herself to a more
conscious state of mind in which she would be able to
physically interact with the world that she had
detached herself through what some would have
classified as a deep meditation. As the head of the
Science Department of the USS ANUBIS opened her eyes
expecting to find the room as empty as she had left
it, the Shillian woman was surprised to see someone
leaning over her, studying the features of her face as
if looking at a never before seen creature.
Before asking for the reason for this strange
behaviour, the Shillian woman remembered why she had
been here in the first place and that the blurry
figure that had been looking at her had likely been
investigating her transformation into a Cardassian.
As the vision of the scientist cleared up, the Chief
Science Officer suddenly realised that the voice she
had heard had not belong to a member of the medical
staff and why it had sounded so strangely familiar.
"Pravat," the Shillian said, noticing as she did so
that the muscles of her jaw had become extremely stiff
and somewhat sore from not having been used for so
long. "Bet I look like something out of a nightmare."
The Enaran, surprised by the unexpected awakening of
the Shillian woman, fought back his initial instincts
that had told him to run allowing him to claim that he
had never been there and that what the scientist had
seen had only been a figment of her imagination.
Instead, the Marine stood his ground and actually
smiled at the Cardassian woman looking back at him,
seeing past her ridged features to see the Shillian
hiding beneath.
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, 2005 post #141
Jessica Solarik { maya_992003@yahoo.com }
Lieutenant Maya
Chief Science Officer
USS ANUBIS
and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour."
- William Blake (British, 1757-1827)
