2310.04.19 There He Is

Locations: Sickbay, Engineering
Characters: Ensign Gen Hagen, Ensign James Ardin

Gen worked at the terminal and closed the Doctor's Log when her attention was suddenly caught by her Starfleet badge trilling.

"Ensign Lowry to Sickbay, medical emergency in Engineering!"

The Doctor wasted no time. "I'm on my way, Ensign, just hang tight." She closed the link and hurried out the sliding door from Sickbay. God knew what had occurred.

=One or two minutes later….=

Gen almost burst into Engineering and quickly located the injured officer. As she approached the man, who had another Ensign kneeling near him, she immediately recognized him.

"I told you I'd come in," Ensign James Ardin chuckled, immediately wincing in pain with a hiss.

Gen grumbled a curse in Japanese; geez, how could this happen? She dropped to her knees beside her acquaintance – in her opinion they didn't know each other well enough to be friends just yet.

"Good God, Jim," the half-Betazoid began, using the man's first name in an effort to try and relax him, "what happened?"

"Oh, this?" he asked with a grin. "Just a scratch. See, I think the plasma manifold running behind the replicator got a tad bit too close to its power converter. This caused a little overload which triggered a teeny little explosion."

As James explained Gen scanned the injuries. First and Second degree Plasma burns, most of the latter, across his chest and arm with the uniform shredded to clearly indicate the impact points of the explosion. She was surprised that James could speculate about what might've gone wrong, despite his injuries.

But she couldn't fix them right in Engineering; he had to go to Sickbay for proper procedure.

"Looks like you're coming with me pal," she announced.

"Well I could have done that," James replied with a smile.

"Cute," Gen said with a small involuntary grin. "Very cute."

She touched her combadge and requested the Transporter Room to beam two to Sickbay.

Helping the Engineer was no huge chore. She put James under so that she could operate on him effectively and soon enough she was completed with the process.

When he woke up, the Doctor told him exactly what she had done to help him.

Ensign Gen Hagen
Medical Officer
USS Dauntless