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When the conference on the ship of healers from Adigeon Prime broke up, they went to the bridge to check for developments which may have happened while they were otherwise occupied. The lone officer on the bridge of the ship barely waited for the others to leave the conference room before reporting, "There have been developments. While monitoring the Lindbergh's bridge, I learned a separate group of aliens seems to be conducting experiments on the crew of Cold Station 12."

Maluse was pleased, "I assume the other aliens are responsible for the artificial genetic stimulation on the station?"

"Well, there is no proof as yet, but that would be the most logical explanation."

Maluse smiled at the bridge officer, indicating that his information was appreciated and she shared his supposition regarding the genetic anomalies occurring on the station.

She spoke to her team, "I think we can forego scanning the station for contagions at this point since we have a new hypothesis." She returned her attention to the officer who had been on the bridge, "How did the crew of the Lindbergh discover these aliens?"

"By adjusting the phase variants on their sensors, and before you ask, no, I have no idea what variant was used to detect the aliens."

Maluse started to think, and since her team was so accustomed to her methods, they all fell silent, leaving the Chief Healer free from distractions while she mulled the situation over. After several long minutes, during which the others were as still and quiet as possible, Maluse looked to the bridge officer, "How many phase variants are there?" They could tell by her tone of voice that she wasn't expecting an encouraging answer.

The officer didn't disappoint, "Hundreds, thousands, it would take a long time to rotate the sensors through all of them in hopes of hitting on the right variant in anything like a timely manner."

"How did Lindbergh come across the right variant so quickly then?"

The bridge officer thought for a moment, then a look of encouragement came onto his face, "The CMO referred to these aliens being from the Delta Quadrant where they previously encountered Voyager."

Maluse looked encouraged as well, "Good, then there is a record of it somewhere in Starfleet databases. Let's get to work, bring up the Starfleet database, how convenient that they are so generous and trusting to make their records public for the most part. I think the best search to start with would be accessing Voyager's logs. Let's get to it."

At this all the members of her team, but not the bridge officer since he wasn't part of the medical team, brought up the database and began searching.

It was Mersh, the junior team member who shouted, "I've got it! I'm sending the proper phase variant to your computer console Maluse." The man looked pleased with himself but was careful not to look too pleased. He was still stinging from his earlier breach of protocol and the Chief Healers well deserved rebuff.

Maluse acknowledged Mersh with a simple nod of her head. Working the console in front of her, she made the adjustments necessary to make the aliens visible. This was not as big a shock as it had been on Lindbergh, after all, the healers from Adigeon Prime were engaged in the same type of activity.

Mersh spoke with a renewed sense of urgency, "Chief Maluse, I've just discovered something shocking."

Maluse asked, "Is it relevant to the current topic of discussion?"

"Yes Chief, very relevant."

"Continue."

"I was looking at the records of the Srivani, that's their species name, encounter with Voyager, and they let one of their subjects among the Voyager crew die. In fact, they threatened to terminate the entire crew once the humans discovered their presence on ship."

Each and every member of the crew were shocked, and their facial expressions showed it.