Lt. Corey Wethern - Who are you?

[Corey Wethern]

((San Francisco District - Starbase 118))

Wethern: We should be able to access a terminal here and also dry off a bit.

Drex: Good. We should run the ferroniobium scan while we have stable access. Environmental interference has already complicated our readings.

Voss: All right! So we need the right ratio of iron and niobium for –

Corey realised they weren't along. 

Anethra: Excuse me?

She was shivering, and visibly confused.

Voss: Uh, hi there?

Drex stepped aside immediately, creating space within the narrow alcove and gesturing her further in, away from the rain still lashing the corridor outside.

Wethern: Are you ok? 

The woman looked at all three of them with furrowed brows.

Anethra: Could you perhaps tell me where I am? I believe I am quite lost... this planet doesnt look familiar to me.

Voss: Right, so, we’re not in immediate danger, but... something has been causing people on the station to lose their memories. Or, well, not *lose* actually, because they’re still there, but we can’t access them, so it’s kinda one and the same. Oh and also, this is a station. Not a planet. A space station.

Corey was starting to get used to the matter of factness of memory loss Voss

Wethern: That might be a lot to take in. Do you know at all where you started?

Drex: It’s... how they say it.

Anethra: I’ve been walking for quite a while... nothing seems familiar.

Voss: ::nodding toward Drex:: Yeah, we don’t remember any of this place either. It seems like everyone is losing a different amount of time. I thought I was back on Betazed in 2399, but turns out I’m four years off. It’s 2403.

Wethern: My memory seems to be unaffected, well for now at least. 

The architect nodded.

Drex: My last clear memory was retiring for the night in my mother’s home on Denobula. I have no recollection of arriving here. However, procedural knowledge remains intact. The memories appear present, access to them is impaired.

Voss: We suspect the memory loss could be linked to some kind of artifact that’s putting out a signal that disrupts brain waves. Where were you when you noticed something was wrong?

Anethra: ?

Voss: ::to Wethern and Drex:: We should run the ferroniobium scan while we have access to the terminal, but after that, maybe we should try to track down where... ::to the Rekarian:: sorry, what’s your name?

Anethra: ?

Voss: Right, hi. I’m Lyra. ::back to Wethern and Drex:: Maybe we can track down where Anethra was when this started? It’ll be useful information for the heat map, at the very least.

Drex: My name is Drex ::To Anethra::

Instinctively, the Denobulan stepped toward the terminal. His fingers seemed to know better than he did what needed to be done. He typed his Starfleet identification code to unlock the screen and stopped. He could not quite remember the code; uncertainty prickled at the edge of his mind. He partially turned his head toward Wethern.

Drex: There’s any medical explanation to this?

Corey shrugged. 

Wethern: I'm Corey, I'm one of the medical officers. might be muscle memory or plugging into something in your subconscious.

Anethra: ?

Drex: Not immediately. But we can start by scanning the local ferroniobium flux. It should give us a preliminary map of signal intensity across the station.

Wethern: We should be able to start narrow down at least the location. 

Anethra/Voss: ?

Drex leaned closer to the console. He selected the proper scan parameters, carefully calibrating for anomalous energy signatures, and initiated the ferroniobium sweep.

Drex: Scan initiated. It will take a few minutes to render a full heat map. In the meantime, we can begin cross-referencing the memory disruption reports with station layout data. Every data point we collect will improve our probability of isolating the source.

Wethern: So anyone seen any good holonovels recently?

Anethra/Voss: ?

The architect leaned closer, eyes narrowing as the heat map began to fill with flickering points of light.

Drex: The scan’s picking up a few irregularities... These could be interference nodes or at least areas where the signal is strongest.

Wethern: That under carrier wave there. 

Corey pointed at a scan.

Drex/Anethra/Voss: ?

Wethern: That looks like the same signal from a neural stimulator for a Vulcan. 

Drex/Anethra/Voss: ?

Corey shook his head. 

Wethern: No human brains don't have any area that responds to it. It's similar to a gallbladder for us. We can easily live without it and it isn't in use much. 

Drex/Anethra/Voss: ?

Wethern: Where is it coming from? 

Drex/Anethra/Voss: ?

TAGS / TBC

Lt Corey Wethern

Chief Medical Officer 

Starbase 118 Ops

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