Brother's Revenge
Chapter Three
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Geordi LaForge looked down at his unconscious friend with an extremely worried look while waiting for Dr. Beverly Crusher. He didn't know what happen to Data for him to react badly during the Level One Diagnostic. In fact, he had never once heard Data scream as if he was in pain. Data was right that his sensory inputs are not programmed to experience pain, but the scream made it hard to believe.
"Geordi, what happen to Data?" Crusher asked as she enters into Engineering. She bends down where Data laid on the floor, and ran a medical tricorder over android's body. "The readings I am getting from the tricorder are outside normal operation parameters." She was very worried that Data had a serious malfunction.
"I don't know, Doctor," said LaForge. "I was running a Level One Diagnostic before Data's shift on the bridge. I wanted to get it done before Data went on leave to Altrea. When we started the diagnostic Data scream and lost consciousness. So far, the tests I ran on him gave me the same results that you got from your tricorder."
Crusher looked down at Data, and decided that he needed to go to Sickbay and hopeful find a "cure" him. She was very worried since this was the worse malfunction she had seen from Data, and she hopes that he will recovery from it.
"Geordi, we need to take Data to Sickbay to hook him up to one of the biobeds to run more tests on him. It appears his biofunctions are also affected by this malfunction. We should also inform Captain Picard about Data's status," Crusher said in a very worried voice.
"Crusher to Picard," stated Crusher.
"Picard here, Doctor."
"Sir, we have a medical emergency. It's Data. He had a malfunction while performing a Level One Diagnostic in Engineering. We are transporting him the Sickbay," state Crusher.
"I will meet you in Sickbay. Picard out."
Data was laying on a biobed that was design for his unique "medical" needs. It is rare that Data needed to go down to Sickbay since he is in optimum operation condition. He only goes to Sickbay only if he's malfunctions where to serious that it could not be handled in Engineering by LaForge.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard entered into Sickbay and walked over to Crusher and LaForge. He looked down at Data, and wonder what happen to him. Not too long ago he was talking about going on leave and visiting his mother. Now, he is laying on the biobed and no condition even to tell them what happen to him. In away Data looked fragile, in which, Picard never wanted to see in his Second Officer in such state. He hopes whatever happen to Data could easily fix so he can go on leave and see his mother. Picard had grown to understand how important families are to his crew especially to his android officer. When he had his first meeting with Data, he was an orphan in a manner of speaking. Now he had a "brother," daughter, father, and now a mother.
"Doctor, status report," Picard asked Crusher.
"Captain, Data had a serve malfunction in Engineering while performing a Level One Diagnostic. His operation temperature is 10 degrees above normal, bioreading are outside of normal parameters; his internal diagnostics are giving him false reading for months maybe even years from the look of it.
As of right now, I believe Data was infected with a virus that only affects him. We have not found it in the ship's computer. Commander LaForge and I are trying to clear his systems. It should take about an hour."
"Doctor, how come Data did not know his internal diagnostics were giving him false reports," asked Picard.
"I believe like humans when they have problems with their blood pressure. Without monitoring from outside sources, that person would not know they had a problem until he or she had a heart attack. Data trusts his internal diagnostics to give reports on his system. He would not know if his diagnostic program had problem itself. Once we have the virus clear from his system we have to reprogram his internal diagnostics with the one we have in the main computer."
"Doctor, before installing the internal diagnostic you better make sure it does not have the virus. If does we might have to stop at Daystrom Institute," stated Picard. I would rather avoid that place if all possible."
"Captain, trust me," stated LaForge as he looked at one of the instruments that gave him information on Data's status, "I will not install anything in Data without running several tests on it first. I don't want see him have a similar malfunction again."
"Once I have more information as to the cause of the virus we will inform you shortly," stated Crusher.
Picard looked down at his Second Officer, and wanted the android just to wake up. "Doctor and Geordi, please keep my apprised of your progress. I will be in my Ready Room." After that, the captain left Sickbay.
Daystrom Institute three years earlier…
Commander Bruce Maddox just finished listening to the latest communications from Commander Data with a little chuckle. It would seem Data had an interesting day being the father of the bride for Keiko Ishikawa's and Chief Miles O'Brien's wedding. Even though Data had come far in his understanding of human behavior, he still has a long way to go to fully mastering it. In a way, he is glad never got the chance the android apart. The android's communications to him gave greater insight about androids than he would have thought possible.
"Nakamura to Maddox," stated Vice Admiral Tujiro Nakamura.
"Maddox here, sir"
"Commander, we just received a shipment from USS Enterprise. It contains the remains of android know as Lore. I want you to fix it so the other scientists at the institute can study it."
"Sir," inquired Maddox. "I had communication from Commander Data stated that Lore is a danger and should not reassemble."
"Maddox, I believe that android was overestimating about the danger from the android Lore."
Maddox tried to suppress a laugh at the thought of Data overestimating anything. "Sir, from own experience I have never once heard Commander Data overestimate anything before."
"Maddox, do as you are order to do or I will have you relieved and have someone else will do it."
"Yes, sir," stated Maddox. He thought he better do it and avoid someone making a critical mistake in reassembling Lore. Maddox had to remain himself he needed to be careful or he would be in serious trouble.