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Personal Log

200407.26

Ensign Delgado

 

I got a letter from Mother yesterday. She’s decided to make a trip to Vulcan. She knew I would be worried about her, so she reminded me that at eighty she’s still considered quite young. My grandfather will be accompanying her, but he’s one hundred and twenty-seven. Sometimes it’s just hard to grasp. I’m aging like a full human. My mother looks more like my sister than anything.

 

As for work, I’m not quite sure what I’ve gotten into. I understand the need for a doctor on the Passive Weapon Project. I understand that I am there to make sure they make a weapon that doesn’t harm anyone. But, well, I’ve never had anyone ask me for design ideas for a weapon. I’m a doctor, not weapons specialist! However, I am brainstorming, I really am. I am trying to come up with ideas.

 

Sadly, my mind has a way of wandering. All I’ve come up with is what pip might stand for. (Professional Insignia Pin; or it might be Personnel Indicator Pin, but that doesn’t make as much sense)

 

This is not good. I have to have some brilliant ideas by tomorrow, when we meet again. I don’t want to let any of the team members down, and they seem to think I can do whatever it is that Lieutenant Commander Krax is requiring of me.

 

I have done my homework on Electromagnetic weapons. Really I have. It appears that the worst harm that might be done to the occupants of the ship would be minor burns from Electromagnetic Radiation, as well as some of the side effects our engineer was mentioning. However, depending on the wavelength they uses the radiation may be so little that it would not affect the occupants in the way of burns. I’m still not sure that using this type of weapon would not knock out life support, but I’m sure we’ll address that at the next meeting.