"A conversation with an electrocuted klingon"

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Dr. Midshipman Victor Images Personal Log

 

I've just had quite an interesting little chat with Andrews. It was quite insightful.

 We were all working to get the station up and running. And of course by "we" I mean "they" I prefer to stick to my areas of expertise and sadly faffing around with complex wiring is not one of them. Instead I decided to have a sit down, to eat my apple and to watch the insane antics of Midshipman Mogg. That dancing Ferengi is in need of some definite therapy. Commander Ayers of course kept trying to get me off my flat behind and to get stuck in and I was just about to when I heard an explosion and saw Andrews fly back a few feet. I ran over to him and found out he'd taken an absolutely huge jolt of electricity. Which actually made me feel a lot better for not trying to help with the wiring! I was just congratulating him for being able to stand upright when he passed out and took all his vital signs down with him. I stabilised him and got him awake, but he kept fading out. I gave him a slap and brought him back to reality. He claimed to have seen his father and that he'd warned him about the ant-men, no specifics unfortunately. It's quite creepy that, there's a lot of crew dreaming about dead relatives lately, Hmmm strange. That actually reminds me, I’ve got no medication for my problem at the moment, now Sheepy and me have found the current supply has been poisoned. I should be okay though, it's not like I’m going to go insane or anything.

 Anyway, I told Andrews that it was perfectly normal to happen when in a near death situation and he replied that it might have been Stovakor, the klingon afterlife. I generally try to stop patients from talking about their own demise so I changed the topic to that of our upcoming fight. A fight that I think will have to be put off for a short bit with his current ordeal and with the state of the station. I told him I’d kick his arse but I’m obviously kidding myself, he's a bloody klingon! Anyway once again, he brought the topic to death. When I said it was a bit extreme, he said it was a common phrase. This has got me very intrigued, I know very little about the klingon views on death, supposedly it's very close to the views of Viking warriors on ancient earth but how close I have no idea. More importantly if they welcome death what are their views of medicine and doctors? I will have to add some klingon literature to my future reading list. Anyway Andrews seems fine now, he's got a couple of burn marks, some bruising and some stiffness of the muscles and joints all the maladies to be expected from electrical shock but as long as he doesn't do anything over exertive for the time being, there should be no problems. Although his hair is sticking up quite a bit I just haven't had the heart to tell him.