Lieutenant Uhura's Personal Log, Stardate 2264.09. Lieutenant Alatas and I started the upgrade to the sub-space transmitters today. It's quite satisfying to be 'hands-on' sometimes. I was glad to find that I haven't forgotten how to adjust the frequency synthesisers. My legs hurt now, though. Too much bending and stretching. I need to start going to the gym again.
Chekov was released from Sickbay today too. Finally. He's been there for over two weeks. I met up with Christine in the canteen this evening. She said he's been in a bad way. I think that was medical understatement. It began with Dr McCoy trying to figure out what it was he had been drugged with and why none of his medical equipment had identified it when he came aboard. I don't remember the details, but the drug had a masking agent he'd never seen before. He was impressed and angry at the same time. And after Dr M'Benga had carried out more detailed scans they found a bio-chip in his arm that was linked into his nervous system. Almost undetectable. The drug and chip seemed to be working together to affect his brain function. That's how Senrug was able to control him. A side-effect was addiction but Dr McCoy reckoned that ultimately it would have killed him. Since then they've been treating him. 'Fast track detox' Christine called it. Poor boy. I tried to visit him about a week ago but I had to leave. I couldn't bear to watch him. I don't think he even really knew I was there. He seemed to be in so much pain. He was in agony and seemed so confused they thought he was going into shock. Nurses, alarms, people running around... I had to leave. Apparently he had to go through it again and again. But he's made it through. He's stronger than he looks and despite a tendency to fatalism he actually has a robust mind. Gradually he's pulled out of it and has made such a good recovery that Christine complained that for the past three days he has been flirting with Nurse Arany and entertaining the other patients with the most ludicrous Russian stories. I think I've probably heard most of them and I'm sure he makes them all up. So Dr McCoy decided he was back to normal and discharged him this morning. He was pronounced fit for duty and joined us back on the Bridge this afternoon. He was nervous to see us all again at first. He was worried that some people might still consider him a traitor. He still has large parts of his memory missing. But we made sure he settled back in. Mr Spock didn't give him any time to relax and had him slaving away at the science console. He grumbled all day but he loves it really.
As far as things go with him and Lita… well, that hasn't worked out so well for him. She was so upset by the events with Senrug that she has broken things off. Pasha took it quite well. I think he is sensible enough to see things from her point of view and he probably needs a break himself. Either that or he's still in a place where he doesn't need to think about it at the moment. Hikaru has of course stepped in to offer her his support. Very noble! He poured it all out to me the other night. He really likes her and I think, deep down, she likes him too. She's just got to admit it to herself. She needs someone steady and reliable like Sulu. They have already been down to the botanical lab – seems she's quite a plant lover too. Not sure yet if she's a fencing enthusiast. As for Pasha…well, he is still a young man – he's too flighty. Oh, he's charming enough but he would be the first to admit, he's not someone you would marry. Not yet, at least.
Our new prisoner, Senrug, is still in solitary confinement under Mr D'Anjou's watchful eye. He's made it his personal mission that she doesn't escape. I don't know if he was more furious with himself for getting shot or the fact that it was with a weapon from his armoury. Dr McCoy also ran more tests on her to find out what was going on. What he found was remarkable. The head wound that Dr Tabana thought he saw on Triskelion was not so much a head wound as the trauma caused by a Provider's consciousness being mapped onto Tamoon's Lalandian brain. No wonder she seemed to have such a split personality. Rumour has it she's been sitting in her cell talking to herself. Perhaps Senrug has allowed Tamoon out to give her some company. Now that it is known on Triskelion that she is in Federation custody, negotiations have moved on quickly amongst the Providers. The Captain has been able to broker a peace and an inter-species delegation will be arriving in a few days to put a framework in place to ensure that it holds.
Our next mission is, unavoidably, to Cyliss. The captain briefed us today now that we have our navigator back. We are set to arrive in about a week. Once there, we will have to manoeuvre our way past the Klingon outposts and into the Talliss system. We don't know what we'll find when we get there. We'll have to be prepared for anything. I think we are ready. After all the events on Triskelion we need to have this resolved. If the Providers are amassing an army then we must be the ones to stop them. We may be Earth's first and last defence.