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Garnoopy

"Back and Forth, Over and Over"

Lieutenant Commander Garnoopy

 

Chief Engineering Officer

 

USS Manticore, NCC-5852

 

Personal Log Stardate 50506.22

 

“Back and Forth, Over and Over”

 

 

 

The carpet seemed to groan under Garnoopy as he paced back and forth in this private room. The infirmary was large enough on this station to allow that luxury; on the Manticore it would have been much more open.

 

Step, step, step, step, turn, step, step, step, step, turn, and so forth. Back and forth. Over and over again.

 

“Computer, identify and define the human brain stem.”

 

“The brain stem is the stalk of the brain below the cerebral hemispheres. It is the major route for communication between the forebrain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.”

 

He frowned, remembering that bit of information from the anatomy classes he had taken years ago at the academy. Physiology had never been a strong point, tending to lean more towards advanced warp theory.

 

From what he did remember though, the brain stem was, like the brain, a still largely unknown human organ. Repairing it was almost an unheard of procedure. Since no one knew how it functioned, trying to locate the specific origin of damage was nearly impossible.

 

Back and forth, he paced, thinking.

 

“So, my brain stem is damaged” he said to the empty room. “Dr. Mele doesn’t know how to fix it, but he will. That’s for sure. Mele has something like 300 years of life behind him, surely in that time he’s learned something that will help me. Of course he has. He’s just trying to sort through all of those confusing memories, so many lifetimes after all.”

 

This went on for quite some time. The notion that the damage to his brain stem was permanent, well, that thought never occurred to him. When it attempted to surface it was quickly squashed by the knowledge that the medical staff would simply solve the problem, it would just take a little time.

 

The pacing continued for a good hour while Garn tried to burn off the energy that was pumping through him. Being cooped up with little mental or physical activity was getting to him and the itchy feeling that he had to get out was beginning to burn through his body.

 

Where could he go though? Without being able to discern the difference from the emergency warp core ejection systems and a common replicator there was little he could do without help. Help was the last thing he wanted though. Independence was a commodity that one rarely wants to give up after having lived with it an entire lifetime.

 

Back and forth. Over and over.

 

He just kept walking back and forth, over and over.

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