"And this," Hoshi smiled, enjoying her role as tour guide. "Is the sickbay."
"Has anyone died before?" A blue haired boy asked eagerly.
"Well," Hoshi cleared her throat, "it happens but usually—."
"Was it bloody?" Another child wondered.
"Uh, why don't you ask doctor Phlox," Hoshi said as the children flocked towards Dr. Phlox.
"Oh my," he said, "isn't this an awful lot of children," he grinned happily at Hoshi. "I've always loved kids." He said.
Hoshi felt like laughing, he might eat those words after spending a few minutes with these kids.
Phlox was just about to speak when the child that Hoshi knew as Minly picked up a hypospray and pressed it to the neck of the blue haired boy beside her.
There was a solid thump as he passed out on the floor. Minly grinned wickedly and proceeded to hypospray as many children as she could.
"Minly!" Hoshi cried out, just as Phlox snatched the tool out of her fingers. He sighed and lifted the blue haired boy onto a stretcher. He shot Hoshi a pleading look as he went to attend to the other fallen children.
"Uh," Hoshi spoke up, "why don't we go…um to the bridge!" She clapped her hands.
"We've already been there."
"Twice!"
"I wanna see the weapons," another child spoke up. And suddenly all the children were yelling at once.
Somehow Hoshi doubted giving these kids a tour of the weaponry was a good idea.
"Remind me again Ensign why Captain Archer thought this was a good idea." Dr. Phlox asked.
"He said something about good publicity." Hoshi mumbled, directing the children out of sickbay. She snatched Minly's hand; deciding to keep a close watch on her.
"I've never ever been on a ship this big before," Minly smiled.
Gee, I wonder why? Hoshi thought smiling pleasantly. She wondered suddenly how everyone else was doing with their charges. She hoped they were having as much fun as she was.
"No, no! What did I say about the buttons!" She cried out, throwing up her hands.