"Space Travel Gets Under Your Skin"
Starfleet Medical reports the following:
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CMO of starship *Voyager* reports incident in which he discovered a deceased
insect larvae of unknown origin on the floor of Sickbay. CMO found several
more upon tricorder readings, but could not determine the origin, until
he scanned himself. Days ago, CMO went on an away mission to an alien planet
and encountered a highly adaptable kind of carnivorous beetle. It laid
eggs underneath the CMO's synthetic skin, which hatched and burrowed; some
of which fell out of the holomatrix onto the floor. Turning off the holographic
doctor resulted in a hail of hundreds of larvae and adult insects, which
took several days to be completely eradicated and in that time infested
many more members of the crew.
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All Starfleet personnel are prohibited from vacationing on Risa until the
planet's cayfly infestation is controlled. The cayfly is a parasitic aquatic
insect, less than two centimeters long, who is known to swim into humanoid
bodily cavities, use their spiny tentacles to latch themselves onto the
cavity wall, and consume the host's flesh and blood. In extreme cases,
the patient may hemorrhage until death.
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Lt. Geordie LaForge, the first man to be fitted with prosthetic eyes constructed
using Borg technology, discovered Borg nanites in his body when he woke
to find they had built Borg prosthetics on the side of his face. *Enterprise*
doctors also discovered a subdermal Borg homing device the back of LaForge's
neck. All physicians are asked to scan for this problem with other patients
who have been the recipients of Borg-based prosthetic technology.
