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Science Team Holodeck Simulation

Posted Nov. 14, 2018, 8:54 a.m. by Ensign Alison Kane (Science Officer) (Amanda Mercer)

Posted by Lieutenant Xeal Loss (Chief Science Officer) in Science Team Holodeck Simulation

Posted by Ensign Kavox Monsant (Science Officer) in Science Team Holodeck Simulation

Posted by Ensign Spartacus Neidell (Science Officer) in Science Team Holodeck Simulation
Posted by… suppressed (16) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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Spartacus did enjoy being in the dirt. Of course, he enjoyed it more with a trowel and finding out what the inhabitants were like.

Neidell Sci

As the group began to walk through the thick brush of an alien planets, tropical rain forest, they came into a clearing with a single plant in the center. The plant was about 3.5 feet tall and appeared to be shaking and making sneezing type sounds.

Xeal had never seen such a thing before. He certainly didn’t program this plant into the holodeck program. “Everyone take your tricorders out.”

Lt - Xeal Loss - CSO

Even as Monsant was flipping his tricorder open, he was considering how futile the instruction was. On a holodeck, anything other than the items you brought with you would simply be holomatter, and an analysis of that would be more useful from an engineering perspective than a scientific one, generally. That’s why the data crossing his screen caught his attention; his mouth sputtered for just a moment, and then he said “Well, that’s funny…”

-Kavox Monsant

The data showing on the tricorders was intresting, even though this was a holodeck simulation the tricorders read that this strange plant was indeed alive and with them.

Ducky

“What’s so funny Kavox?” asked Xeal

Lt - Xeal Loss - CSO

There was something amusing about the idea of multiple scientists pointing their tricorders at something and expecting someone to get a different result. She hadn’t exactly come to the meeting with a tricorder and hadn’t bothered to grab one once inside. Instead, Faye was going to take in information the old-fashioned way: with her senses. While they focused on the plant itself, Faye was checking out the jungle surroundings and the topography of the clearing. Was there an obvious water source besides rain? Where there signs of animals that might cohabit with the plant, symbiotically or as predators towards each other. What geographical markers might be important to their setting? She wasn’t just looking for data on the plant, she was looking for the context for its existence.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

The typography was that the land was dished slightly and the plant was in the centre. Besieds that there was a further steeper imbankment full of the natural forest to the east. The open field could not have been more then fifty feet across in ether direction.

“Well, sir, I should just be reading holomatter, there shouldn’t be anything real in here except us. Certainly nothing alive!” He snapped his tricorder closed. “So… either someone transported or… excuse me. Either someone used the transporters, or they physically moved, this plant into here. There must be a seam in the ground where the real dirt meets the holomatter dirt…” Monsant hunched forward a bit, trying to spot the difference between photons and soil with his eyes.

-Kavox Monsant

Monsant would not find the seam.

(Ducky)

Xeal pondered this briefly. “That may be, but I have never seen any creature such as this. Have you?” Xeal was cautious but took another couple steps closer. “What do you think it is doing? It almost appears as though it is sneezing?

Lt - Xeal Loss - CSO

“And you probably won’t see another” Alison said as she stepped closer to the flower. She ran her hand down the stem, and as she did Audrey made a wheezing sound and pushed into her hand. Kane arched an eyebrow “that’s new”

She took a step back and took a quick scan to compare to the one she took in the shuttle right after she had sprouted. “Everyone I would like you to meet Audrey. She is a Dionaea Muscipula hybrid. I took the Magaap Haam (dream flower) of Andoria and cross bred it with the with a very rare flytrap I found while on Zotera Prime.”

Ensign Kane, Science

Audrey? That seemed to be a silly name for a plant, in Monsant’s opinion. Still, what harm could an alien hybrid plant from outer space do?

“Ho… forgive me if this is a silly question, but how did your plant get to the holodeck?” Monsant gave up on trying to find the seam; it had to be there, but it wasn’t really that important a detail at this point.

-Ens Kavox Monsant

Faye supposed she was supposed to be impressed and perhaps even a tiny part of her was, but the only question on her mind as she took in Kane and ‘Audrey the sneezing plant’ was why? She understood making hybrids but there was usually a particular reason to do so and at the moment such a reason baffled her.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

That was an interesting name. Most people named animals or pets. That was something new and different. Spartacus hadn’t heard of someone naming a plant. He’d have to go on a few more digs to see if that was a tradition or something new.

Neidell Sci

Audrey began to snivel and Sneeze violently. The plant seemed to take a deep breath and then Sneezed goop all over Ensign Neidlle.

Xeal had to stifle a burst of laughter. The look of surprise on the ensigns face was priceless. “Well ensign, I believe the term is that you have just been slimed.” he then walked closer to the plant. He didn’t know what it was but he felt the need to touch and pet the plant, wanting to tell it that it will be all right.

“Ensign, now that you have been… Slimed, what kind run a diagnostic on it to see if there is any sort of pathogens. I’m sure you’ll be fine but Lets not take any chances.”

Lt - Xeal Loss - CSO

It took Kane almost everything she had to not burst out laughin. She even had to cover her mouth to keep from giggling out loud. “I think she likes you” she said as she took a sample of the slime that clung to the ensign.

Audrey hung her head low and leaned toward the ensign “I sowwy!”

Alison looked at Audrey and then to the CSO “Di di did she just talk?” She looked at the other scientist still in shock. The Zotera fly trap must have been more special the ln the Zoterans led on.

Ensign Kane, science

That was new. Spartacus wasn’t sure exactly what happened. “It talked.”

Kavox snapped his tricorder out again. “You heard that too,” he observed. “Therefore I assume we’re not simply crazy.” How could a plant speak? Even making sounds would be rare, but communication? Understanding and contrition? Did that imply sentience? Not necessarily, there were some animal species that could mimic humanoid speech without actual understanding of meaning, but…

-Ensign Kavox Monsant

Faye had hung back and while the sliming had been amusing, they had been lucky it hadn’t been acidic or toxic. “My guess is that you won’t find a central brain, though I would guess at a really solid network of nerve-like filaments. And we’re assuming it was a verbal speech, but maybe we’re all just receiving a collective telepathic communication.” It was a known phenomenon in some plants, so it was worth tossing out the hypothesis.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

Peyton hung back a little bit and watched, group activities were definitely not her cup of tea. She felt overwhelmed and the string in her hand continued to keep her grounded for the moment.

Grant (SCI)

Neidell Sci

“Telepathic? That just gives me the” Monsant paused, mentally translating. “Oh yes, heebie-jeebies, I think that’s the right phrase. Especially Jeebies.”

-Kavox Monsant

Xeal was completly at a loss. He was not expecting that the plant would start talking. “I’m glad I was not the only one to hear that.” Xeal then turned to the plant. “That is quite alright it should wash right off. What seems to be the issue? You seem to be sick by the way you are shaking and sneezing all the time.”

LT - Xeal Loss - CSO

Audrey leaned closer to Xeal and started to sniffle again “me don’t feel good” she said as she turned away and sneezed again.

As Audrey turned back around they would see that she had grown again. She now stood slightly over 4 foot tall.

Audrey


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