USS PATRIOT/GS-2: GS-2: Various (“Prep Work”)

From: V. Rahul Chandra (vrccan_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 29 2007 - 10:53:41 PST


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“Prep Work”

Con’t from Sarah’s <GATEWAY> “But I Always Thought That I’d See You Again”

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Location: GS-2

Stardate: 2422 [2.7] 1229.1308

Scene: Promenade

 

“This is not going to work,” Morris muttered as he and Daniel walked along
the parts of the promenade that had yet to be evacuated.

 

“What’s not going to work?” Daniel asked absently, reading a PADD that had
just been brought to him by a runner.  He clucked to himself in annoyance,
changing the subject.  “The evacuation isn’t going fast enough.”

 

“Do we have anymore personnel left that we can assign to it?” Morris asked.

 

Daniel shook his head.  “Manpower isn’t the problem,” he said.  “It’s just
the evacuation of such a large mass of people is slowing things down big
time.  I’m not sure what we can do about that with the resources that we
have.  People are already moving as fast as they can and we’ve got the
transporters working at peak efficiency.  If we’re lucky, the Dominion will
hold off their attack long enough that everyone we’re going to evacuate gets
a chance to get off the station.”

 

“And if we’re not lucky?” Morris asked.

 

Daniel shrugged.  “Then we’ll find out how many marines remember their
training about fighting in front of civilians.”

 

There was a moment of silence as the two kept walking, before Daniel spoke
again.  “What’s not going to work?” he asked, remembering Morris’ earlier
comment.

 

“This plan of arming civilians with phasers and planting them near their
stores,” Morris said.  “These guys aren’t even militia; they’re worse than
militia.”

 

“They all have at least some sort of basic training with a phaser,” Daniel
pointed out.  “We’re not letting anyone into the battle zone that doesn’t.
Besides, Mav’s point in issuing that order was to get the ones that want to
stay and fight out of our hair as soon as possible.  We need to finish this
quickly and get back to helping set up the defensive areas on the station.”

 

“Yeah,” Morris agreed.  As they walked by one of the shops, Morris noticed a
marine handing a phaser to one of the civilians, who immediately dropped it
before sheepishly bending down to pick it up.

 

“I guess it could be worse,” Morris muttered under his breath, before
following Clarkson into the next section.

 

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Time Index: Simultaneously

Scene: Sickbay

 

Back at work, Jeff had been helping to coordinate the controlled chaos of
triage that was going on in the sickbay he currently commanded.  All over
the place there were doctors from not only GATEWAY, but also from all of the
other ships.  Coordinating so many people that had not worked together
before was difficult, but with the help of his assistant and a number of
experienced triage personnel, no major obstructions had hindered the triage
as of yet.

 

“One more over here!” a voice hollered, causing Jeff to turn around and walk
over to help with the newest patient.  Biobeds had long since been filled up
and now the beds were used for emergency surgery, with people recovering and
being treated for minor to intermediate injuries being placed on temporary
mats that had been scattered around the sickbay and surrounding areas.

 

After quickly asking the patient a few questions and doing a scan with his
tricorder, Jeff determined that his injuries weren’t severe enough to
warrant surgery.  “Find an empty mat and help him down,” he ordered the
Starfleet recruit that had come in with the patient.  “Then alert the
circulating nurse for that area and she will assign a doctor as soon as
possible.”

 

“Aye sir,” the man replied, before carrying out the Doctor’s orders.

 

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NRPG: Well, this post ended up a lot shorter than I was hoping.  I initially
intended to write a post last Saturday once I’d had a couple of days to
unwind after exams, but it’s been a very strange week.  In any case, I
should be back to my normal rate now.

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Rahul Chandra <vrccan_at_gmail.com>

 

Playing…

 

Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey Gorman, MD

Chief Medical Officer

GS-2

 

And…

 

Major Daniel Clarkson, MD

Marine Executive Officer

USS PATRIOT

 


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