Lt.(jg) Dr. Toz: Transporter fears
Patty Boyle
(( Sickbay, Deck 5, USS Octavia E. Butler ))
Rouiancet: We'll proceed. Yinn, if you'd give Kovacs the signal, please?
Una had questioned the use of glucose and Toz had been about to explain the benefits of a sugar rush to the brain when the engineer spoke up.
Kovacs: =/\= All green on my end. You're good to proceed. =/\=
Una: Ok!
The transporter locked on to two… somethings. They appeared to be humanoid, but the signals had resolution problems. After 30 seconds, there was a gasp and a scream on the other end.
Kovacs: =/\= (panicked) What happened?!=/\=
Yinn: Responses
Una: The phasing-back process, the transporters, everything seems to be functioning flawlessly. No explosion this time! Incredible.
Well, that all sounded good to go, then. NA Wing was seeing to the unconscious elder Nilsen, and everyone else seemed ready. Lia nodded again, this time directly to Yinn.
Someone or something appeared. Una clung to the Captain and everyone else in the room, both relieved and a bit frightened, when someone screamed loudly.
Out of reflex, Dr. Toz bent over Barney to protect him from whatever might fall. Then nothing did. Without standing up, she moved her head first one way then another. Nothing seemed amiss. So what was the screaming? It occurred to her that it might have been the voice -Wilma?- in the upper corner.
Yinn / Una : Responses
The transporter cycle engaged a few moments later, just after the security team arrived, and once force fields isolated a section of the main Sickbay ward. It resolved, with a similar green sparkling Lia had observed earlier with respect to beaming Barney back into phase, into two unique signatures.
However, things went rapidly downhill from there. The transporter continued to cycle, and when it finally resolved, Lia gasped. Someone screamed.
Kovacs: =^= (panicked) What happened?! =^=
Lia rested a hand on her tricorder, for all the good it did. Una was continuously analyzing the data, just in case she had made a mistake. NA Wing was standing with a horrified look on her face but not moving.
Rouiancet: =^= (grimly) One of the two crew we transported didn't make it through the process. It appears that they were alive when the cycle began. =^=
She looked over at her officers. They were all looking back.
Rouiancet: Ideas? I would prefer not to repeat that.
Una: The signal was not sufficiently stable... I apologize. We need better signal amplification maybe…
She looked back at Yinn and Toz as if they might have a better answer. Toz stood upright, certain nothing was going to attack and shook her head in the negative. She had no answers and no ideas.
Yinn: Responses
Kovacs: =^= Response
Una: At least I identified the problem: a sudden high-pitched phase oscillation. What do you think we can do to prevent it?
Toz: The phase variance was out of synch. I’m say engineering needs to completely go over the transporter system.
Yinn/Rouiancet: Responses
Kovacs: =^= Response
Una: Hopefully, it's a rare event, but can we prevent it? Clean the buffers!?
Toz: I can’t imagine the buffers being the issue. If I remember my little bit of training, electronic circuits connect a high-impedance source to a low-impedance load without significant attenuation or distortion of the signal. Thus, the output voltage of a buffer replicates the input voltage without loading the source.
Oh, my! That sounded just like she’d read it from the manual but in a way she did. So scared of the transporters when she first came across them, she learned whatever she could to still her fears. It was how she overcame her fear of spiders. It had worked with transporters, too.
Yinn/Rouiancet: Responses
Kovacs: =^= Response
Toz: ::softly:: I'm never being transported again.
Yinn/Rouiancet: Responses
Toz: ::nodding:: We'll get the sickbay ready to receive lots of patients and somehow we should ignore the invisible voices.
Yinn/Rouiancet: Responses
Lt.(jg) Doctor Toz
Acting Chief Medical Officer
USS Octavia E Butler
T239801T14