"I thought the plague was similar to the one the Ori sent," General Patchkirk said softly.

"First thing we tried," Allison said leaning back in her chair.

"Unfortunately for us, while the plague showed some signs of similarity, and possibly was based off the one currently affecting our guest. That plague was specifically designed for non-advanced humanoid physiology, as was the vaccine," Doctor Keller said. "This one is different, based off the records in the database it specifically targeted the Alteran and those with genes that closely matched their template, meaning the ATA gene among other identifiers. So it's still dangerous to us."

"It also seems more advanced, the evasive qualities, and the adaptability to the medications we've attempted to this point," Doctor Keller shook her head.

Patchkirk opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted as his comm-badge chirped at him. He frowned at the device, yet another invention from some star trek happy engineer. He tapped the thing, "Patchkirk, what is it."

"Sir, project watchtower reports a possible sighting of the chariot, you asked to be notified," the voice of the relatively young Theodore Spencer replied.

"I'll be on the bridge shortly, Lieutenant," Patchkirk replied tapping the device again.

Turning back to Doctor Keller, he said, "I have the utmost faith you and you're team will figure something out. I also can't help but think that some of the research from our work on the earlier vaccine wouldn't be unhelpful."

Allison nodded, "I'll keep you posted sir."

"Sorry about cutting the conversation short Doctor, but duty calls," James Patchkirk smiled and left.

** No Paradoxes **

"Did someone say there was a chariot race going on?" Patchkirk asked as he entered the bridge.

"We have a confirmed sighting from watchtower and are currently tracking the vessel now sir," Theodore said from his post.

"Do we have the package ready Ted?" Patchkirk asked.

"We've selected the most complete footage and schematics from the database," Theodore said.

"Send it through then and make sure the synchronization doesn't fail, we don't know how the Asgard would react to finding one of our probes let alone us," the general ordered.

The package was a selection of video footage of conventional earth weaponry being used against the little techno-bugs followed by a series of kinetic energy weapons or slug throwers designed for Asgard use. It was followed by a set of coordinates leading to the derelict Asgard exploratory ship which from when they first started to use cloning technology, and when stasis was still in heavy use to cover distances between the stars.

There was some concern on their part that if the Asgard knew of them, either through discovering them later on, after providing them with more complete solutions, or by direct contact while they where still building, that the Asgard would object to the interference in the established time-line, or that they'd be unwilling to use the knowledge due to some prohibition into research on time manipulation related technology beyond time dilation.

So they'd decided to spoon feed hints to them using the most enigmatic methods of delivery.

General James Patchkirk nodded as he watched the icons on the screen updated by watchtower as it showed the Asgard ship come to a halt. A short time later it sped towards the coordinates given stopping long enough that he knew they got a good scan and then it left the range of the sensors and the galaxy at great speed.

The general smiled, "Good work Teddy, and keep an ear out for any replies," he said, heading to his ready room to make a note in the project files. "Col. Reed, you have the bridge."

** No Paradoxes **

Back in his ready room the general opened another project file and started reading the updates from the teams. After the success of integrating trek inspired technology, when the question of fielding more troops came up, fans of a different sort stepped forward and suggested the solution from another popular science fiction program; Star Wars. The suggestion was further split into two groups the first was working on what it would take to make a clone army, the second was working on the problem of droids, their shape, programming, and abilities.

Just as with the earlier trek happy group, the general provided these two new groups with the same admonishment and a reminder of his earlier words, "Remember before you even think of building a prototype for your droids or actually cloning someone. First this technology should not bear more than the slightest passing resemblance to the original source, and above all it must work for the purpose it is designed."

To the team working on the droid problem he told them, "I don't want to see another self replicating machine problem. You will impose strict intelligence bindings and restrict self replication and tool creation to nothing. Learn from the mistake the lanteans made with the asurans here, don't give them the capacity to learn and remember to restrict them from attacking us."

As for the cloners, he gave them an equally strong admonishment, "Don't rely on a the genetic material of a single individual alone as your source material, don't embed any 'commands' into their mental makeup. Do ensure that each clone holds the same values as us, do ensure that they see themselves as full citizens capable of choosing their path. And most of all make the process ours. I'd prefer you didn't actually clone anyone, so research all cloning tech across all science fiction before you continue."

Now, he was viewing the results of some of the research. The core had already helpfully marked which designs where plausible and which ones unworkable, it including a ranking scale with the most successful theoretical designs having a higher ranking. Anything below 50 he only gave a cursory glance at unless the design intrigued him in which case he tagged it with a note asking the team to review the design to see if they could make it viable.

When he got to the clone group he saw that some helpful engineer had attached the design for battle armor similar to the Kull armor only white in design, the core had marked it as viable since it had an example of an existing armor, but also resource intensive to produce.

The thing that made him tag it with a no go though, was the close resemblance to the storm trooper armor from the movies. In the notes he helpfully marked down. "Please re-read the evil overlords list. Particularly the rules about helmets. Also consider integrating a chameleon tech paint job that automatically adjusts for the environment, and finally please see if we can reduce the resource cost, and make the armor lighter," and sent the design back.

General Patchkirk sighed, He really needed to brief the team leaders on what got sent to him.