Lt.(jg) Dr. Toz: Twins are confusing

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Jun 9, 2024, 5:29:50 PM6/9/24

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((USS Octavia E Butler - Science Lab, Deck 10))

Brzezinski: (succinctly, pointing at Yinn and Loq) Two brains, one mind. The two seem to have become one.

The human scientist - one of the best in Starfleet - obviously would have loved to have given a more specific scientific and technically correct answer, judging by the look on her face. Toz could read faces easily. Klingons not so much. The look on Loq’s face was a mystery. Even growing up with a Klingon she never could read him accurately. She discovered she couldn't read Bolian either. So she said the only thing she could think of.

Toz: There’s no such thing.

The doctor had to admit to herself that she never once thought it would be prudent to check on Loq’s brain when he was in sickbay for his stomach problems. So, this was uncharted waters and in things that simply had few, if any, precedents in the scientific and medical journals. And she may might be wrong incorrect.

Loq: We're just causing you so many headaches today, doc.

Yinn: response

Toz: Yes, you are. ::frowning:: I am telling you there’s no such thing as two people in one body - when there are clearly two bodies here. ::beat:: Have you notified Lieutenant Commander Peri?

Brzezinski: He did.

She jerked her thumb toward the Vulcan

Yinn: Just to clear something up, there's one person in two bodies. But that one person is both of us.

Loq: I can see through both sets of eyes, I can move both bodies ::both sets of limbs flailed awkwardly::

Yinn: Not terribly well. And I can talk—

Loq/Yinn (in unison): Through either mouth.

Loq: What I can't do, is make any distinction between my past selves. I remember being Yinn, and I remember being Loq, right up until the moment we beamed down to New Bajor. Since then, I've been both.

Yinn: I don't feel like I'm both of those people, sharing thoughts back and forth. I just feel like one person, who has to learn how to control two bodies at once, and reconcile two sets of memories.

Fer'at: responses

Brzezinski: (to Toz) You’re just in time, we were about to run an in-depth molecular scan.

Rivka moved over to the machine and began the initial start-up. Toz, curious now, took several steps toward her, trying to see the possible outcome. If there was one.

Loq: If you don't mind, I'd like to try this without assistance.

Yinn/Fer'at: responses

A type of mind-meld gone wrong? No, It happened when they beamed down to New Bajor. So the beaming process caused the molecules to cross. Cross-contamination.

Brzezinski: OK, we’re ready for the first pass.

They kept still, to Dr. Toz’s surprise. If they were intertwined as they claimed, but there should be some shifting and shoving to gain dominance. Of course, maybe they had already gone through that process.

Two adversaries, two utterly foreign species, could share a mind and understand each other completely. Again, Toz decided it was not possible. Not even the transporter could cause that. She stared at Brzezinski’s machine. A neuro-analyzer? The two beings seemed a bit confused- if that was the right word.

Loq: So, what does it say? Has anything changed?

Fer'at/Brzezinski: responses

Toz: According to the records, em… you’ve both eaten of the Antari leaves and had, em… conjugal relations. ::long pause:: Those leaves caused some sort of telepathy in some of the crew. oO not me, of course Oo

Loq: I should have thought of this earlier. Do we have any Antari refugees on board? If their leaves were in fact the catalyst here, maybe their brains work the same way mine apparently do. Just on a temporary basis.

Fer'at/Brzezinski: responses

Yinn: The question is, can we separate safely?

Fer'at/Brzezinski: responses

Toz: Do you want to separate?

Loq/Yinn: response

Toz: Well, in that case, we need to make some arrangements. I’m at a total loss here. After all, I’m a physician. You do know that means physical bodies, not brains. Right?

Fer’at/Brzezinski: response

However this turned out, Toz needed to be present and available in case of damage to the physical bodies. She didn’t think there would be any problem but she’d promised to ‘do no harm’ and to that promise, she would be true.

Brzezinski: response

Toz: Do what you can. ::beat:: Try not to kill ‘em.