Captain Kathryn Janeway
Day 1
Captain Janeway stumbled through Voyager's corridor.
"Must…get…coffee…" The replicator in her quarters was, as usual; mad at her for the now ancient glorified toaster remark. She didn't have the time or energy to rip its guts out and fix it, so she was going to have to get her morning coffee fix somewhere else. Her destination was the captain's ready room. The mess hall would be too crowded with eager young ensigns trying to make small talk to their CO; they couldn't see her like this. With slightly shaky hands, she entered the turbolift.
"Bridge! And some coffee" she murmured to herself.
"Unspecified command, please clarify." She didn't have time to respond to the computer. The turbolift slowed, and through the fuzz covering her brain, she straightened up, hoping Ensign Kim wouldn't have anything to say, ask, or report. The doors opened and Janeway made a beeline for her ready room. Speed walking past Tuvok, ignoring B'Elanna's open mouth, and Chakotay reaching over to pass her a PADD, and through the door. Safe at last. Striding over with much less confidence then previously displayed, she moved in the general direction of the replicator.
"Coffee, black!" She gave a slow sigh as she reached in. Nothing!
"Command unrecognized, please restate."
"Coffee, black."
"Command unrecognized, please restate."
"Coffee! Black!"
"Command unrecognized, please restate."
"Computer, what is status of this replicator?"
"Replicator is functioning within specified parameters."
"Then why won't it give me a cup of coffee?"
"Query not recognized, please restate."
"Janeway to Lieutenant Torres,"
"Torres here,"
"Could you please come in here?"
When Torres entered, Janeway restated her question, with a very forced politeness.
"I was trying to tell you that when you first came on to the bridge, Captain. Ensign Vorik was trying to cut down on the amount of power the replicators use, and he accidentally deleted several patterns and phrases from the computer banks. He is trying to correct his error, but things are not looking good."
"And the patterns and phrases that were deleted?"
"They are all on this PADD. I can assign Ensign Kim to help Vorik."
"Do it." Janeway said this rather weakly, and B'Elanna knew exactly why. Heading the list of thirty or so phrases and patterns was coffee. This was going to be tough on the captain.
Day 3
The Captain entered the sickbay, rather pale.
"This is the second time in three days Captain. You usually avoid the sickbay like it was the plague, although there is no such thing here. Surely that hypospray lasted longer than three days."
"I'm afraid not."
"You are suffering the classic symptoms of withdrawal. Shakes, paleness, inability to focus, if this keeps up, I may have to relieve you from duty. There, that should do you for a month." The Doctor injected Janeway with another hypospray of what was supposed to replace the need for caffeine.
"Thank-you doctor. I certainly hope I'm not here again anytime soon."
With that, the shaky captain left the sickbay.
Day 9
The captain fell back onto the bed in her quarters. Trying to focus on the lights on the ceiling, she couldn't. She had been relieved of duty five days ago, and The Doctor had kept her pumped so full of drugs that were supposed to help, She could see the hypospray she was supposed to inject herself with, but it kept moving. So did everything else in her quarters. She made a sudden lunge for the hypo. At this point, Janeway blacked out.
"You found her in her quarters?" Chakotay questioned,
"Yes, I was coming to check up on her. Had I gone earlier, there might have been a chance, but I was too late to do anything."
"You are now the captain Chakotay." An impassionate Tuvok did not allow his face to give away his feelings on the subject.
"Thank-you Tuvok, what was the cause of death Doctor?"
"Stoppage of heart caused by a chemical imbalance in her brain. The imbalance was the lack of caffeine."