Ensign Noemi Lim - I have heard weirder though

[Ensign Noemi Lim]

((SOS Lab, Deck 10))

Then there were other incidents however that did not have a ready made explanation.

Lim: We’d also experienced a shadowy figure rush and yell at us in an attempt at attacking before disappearing like it had never been. ::She shivered slightly at that memory:: Shared hallucinations or contagion behavior are a thing but neither of them work like that. Nor could Betazoid abilities create that kind of effect.

The surprise, the fear, the fight or flight emotions, yes those could be shared between people but not visual images.

Drex: Shadow figures were likely your brain’s response to the stress. My hallucination was… my sister. She's always been my way of coping. But this time, she changed. Turned into an evil counselor. My mind couldn’t resist her push to kill. Then she was gone, a more demoniac voice taking her place.

She wanted to disagree and emphasize that all three members of her group saw the shadow figure but kept her mouth shut given the mood.

Letek: It was not you, Drex. Even if your body carried out the act, nothing of what makes you you, started this act.

Drex: I was lucky Williams was there. I was ready to hunt all of you down if he hadn’t stopped me. :: He looked at Lim :: I… I know I haven’t exactly been kind to you from the start, but please believe me, whatever I said or done to you on the Ifir, I didn’t mean it.

He turned back to the monitor, reading the highlighted segments from the analysis. Noemi didn’t hold Drex’s behavior against him. She admittedly hadn’t seen his worst actions, but she wasn’t the kind of person to hold altered mental states outside of a person’s control causing undesirable behavior against them.

Drex: So what we’re saying is… infrasound affects different species’ brains in different ways.

Lim: ::Nodding:: It can also affect the same species in different ways too.

Letek: Yes, but even if we take into account that two people of the same species react differently... The Captain was afflicted with hallucinations of Romulans, she even spoke Romulan at one point. That can't be caused by infrasound. Aggression? Yes. Even to a bad degree, but not full-blown hallucinations.

Drex: When Engineering powered up the shields, the infrasound effect was cut off both on the ship and the people… On the Ifir I wasn’t wearing my helmet, though…:: He paused briefly :: Do you have the readings from my suit? On the Ifir, and when our shuttle landed back on the Eagle? Someone had stunned me. :: He raised an eyebrow at Lim. :: I don’t remember if I felt any different afterward.

Noemi thought she was picking up what Drex was putting down. Despite the dour subject she was a bit happy that he was comfortable enough to ask about what her Betazoid senses had picked up from him.

Lim: My empathy was fettered in the nebula, but all I really felt were feelings. So things like anger and spite. Beyond the changes not modifying your mind enough that I could no longer read you, it’s not really anything we can use unfortunately. 

She looked at Elor to see what he had pulled up.

Letek: Here! ::points to an entry in the data:: At this point, the frequency at which your brain sends signals through the synapses has changed and... wait... ::calls up another window with data:: Here they return to the old frequency. According to the logbook, this is exactly when the modified shields began to take effect.

Lim: That matches the scans I have of people’s brainwave activity and frequency. They all had increases in at least some parts of the brain that didn’t match their physical state. Teila, the unconscious Romulan woman we brought back from the Ifir, her brain wave frequencies were all at Theta when they should have been at Delta. 

Drex: My guess is the quantum field intersections acted as natural amplifiers for subharmonic infrasound. Shift our path three hundred meters and we might not have noticed anything. We need to share this data with Kettick and his people.

Letek: It's more, at least from a medical point of view, as if... an alien consciousness is taking control. The infrasound... could serve as a control medium. I'm even willing to say that it's the influence of an alien life form. But what exactly... It wouldn't be the first nebula to be a life form. I remember a lecture on space phenomena. The USS Voyager had entered a nebula that attacked them. Only to realize afterwards that they had flown into a LIVING nebula.

Noemi’s brow wrinkled as she mulled over Elor’s theory. She agreed that she didn’t think infrasound was the cause of everything, see the shared experience that she, Adea and Yinn had experienced, but she wasn’t certain a living nebula was the cause.

Lim: I’m not certain I follow.

Drex: Response

Letek: I know it sounds far-fetched, but it would be within the realms of possibility. Of course, there could just as easily have been some experiments on the Ifir that went horribly wrong... Has anyone actually searched the ship more thoroughly?

Lim: If they have it hasn’t been shared with Medical.

She glanced over at Drex to see if he’d heard anything.

Drex/Letek: Response

Lim: It is probably worth digging into the records to look for unusual interactions between starships and nebulae at least. 

Maybe they’d be lucky and someone else had experienced the same thing.

Drex/Letek: Response

Lim: We can only hope.

Drex/Letek: Response

Anyone: Response?

Tag/TBC

Noemi Lim

Ensign

USS Eagle

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