The doctor surved his office in complete shock. The desk was the only thing in its proper place. As far as the eye could see, there were boxes upon boxes marked 'Medical Supplies'. As he slowly weaved his way between his desk and the boxes, he poked his head into the room to his left. It was a large room and mostly bare, save for the medical beds piled into the far corner. All but two were still wrapped. Apparently, these other two had been used recently. They were plugged into the wall and life signs monitors plugged in. Regretfully, all the other life signs monitors were also in a pile in another corner, with no apparent means of hanging them on the walls. Even the small, conical medical scanners were on the floor, too. Presumably, the door just inside the hospital room to the left was for the supplies that were behind him in boxes. The door all the way to the right must be for surgery. As he looked up, he saw a holo emitter dangling by a couple of wires from the ceiling. Apparently, the EMH was installed in some makeshift fashion to that emergency Commander Kirk eluded to a few minutes ago. One of the supply boxes was open, with some medical equipment on the floor next to it. From the looks of things, it was a dermal regenerator and some bandages. "By the prohets," he muttered.

He back out of the hospital room and maneuvered to the other door out of his office. This room, apparently, was his office. The front office must be for his nurse, whom he had yet to hear anything about. This office was fairly spacious, with a larger desk. Along the far wall was room for some kind of small research station. Regretfully, this room was even more cluttered with boxes than the front office was. He looked up at the nondescript white ceiling. In the center of this room, too, was a cluster of wires, presumably for another holo emitter. Doctor Rass surmized that the EMH was supposed to have free reign over the entire facility. Poking his head back into the front office, he saw yet another group of wires dangling from the ceiling as well. "Over my dead body," he thought. He dug briefly through the piles of unorganized treasures in his office. "Well, I may be understaffed on this ship, but they didn't spare any expense on the toys." he said as he held up part of a multi-spectral sub-particle microscope. He uncovered his chair, slowly unwrapped it, then placed it carefully behind the desk. He sat in the oversized leather chair. It was quite comfortable, actually, but it needed some adjustments. After many dozen small adjustments to height, back spacing, chair arm width, upper cushions, lower cushions, rocking tension, and chair wheel movement, he was satisfied.

"Well, that's about all I can do on my own," he said. He tapped his comm badge. "Doctor Rass to Commander Kirk."

His comm badge popped. "Kirk here. Go ahead, Doctor. What can I do for you?"

"You know darn well what you can do for me," he replied tersely. "My entire sickbay is in parts scattered all over the floor. It'll take me days to sort through all this by myself."

"Tell you what, Doctor," the comm badge replied, "let me go over the maintenance schedule this afternoon. I should be able to free up a couple of people to help you tomorrow morning. Will that work?"

The doctor let out a loud sigh. "I suppose it'll have to. Thank you, Commander. Doctor out." The doctor winced when he realized that came out more sarcastically than he had expected. Getting up from his chair, he looked through the boxes in his office looking for his personal belongings. Apparently, they were either buried deeply or hadn't made it out of the cargo bay yet. Sighing again, he remembered the captain had wanted to talk to him. He tapped his comm badge again. "Doctor Rass to Captain Velasquez."

"Velasquez here, doctor." her voice replied through the badge's speaker.

"Captain, I can't do a whole lot with my sickbay in the condition it's in. I've already informed Commander Kirk, though. Anyway, there's not much else I can do here until he sends me reinforcements. You wanted to see me?"

"Yes, doctor. I'll be right down. Velasquez out."

"I wonder what she wants," he said to himself.