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|[[Image:Darwin in orbit.png|150px|thumb|left|In Orbit]] Back in the Chemistry Lab, the latest from the bridge had made its way down with Larson, Baker and Corbin all preparing to leave for their respective tasks. Before Corbin and Baker left, however, James did ask them for their progress with the simulation. Fortunately it was almost done, so their departure did little to slow the effort down. Quickly they started the simulated investigation finding that while the drug had little effect on Terran physiology (a mild stimulation, the equivalent of a strong cup of coffee) it had an extraordinary effect on Laudian physiology, causing increase in heart rate, increased sensitivity in regards to their Fielding and the possibility of emotional changes. The next program testing Haiilian physiology found much of the same, if a little less violent. With this new data, James felt it prudent for the group to re-locate to Sickbay in order to present their findings to the medical team.
Meanwhile, Thomas, Falcon and HoS'etlh had made their way to the Brig where Abel, Inala and Bo'Sun where being held. The group decided to interview Bo'Sun this time, to see if his story corroborates the Laudians. While being let out to be taken to the interview room, Bo'Sun expressed the hope that they will be "more prepared to listen than [the] other officers" and expressed the sentiments that Starfleet was "a group of racists who've already decided [him]guilty as a result of [his] species" which was rather ignored. In the room, he started to tell a story that he was a passenger aboard the ship, attempting to get home to attend a funeral ceremony and that he knew nothing about the illegal cargo. The group was not impressed with this explanation, particularly after the way he had blocked the investigation earlier and told him as much. Shortly thereafter, the interview ended and the team retired to discuss what they had learned from that. After deciding to re-interview the Captain, Thomas was contacted by Ensign {{n|Graham|Block}} and informed that he was needed on the Bridge as though the freighter may not be fixed in time...
In Sickbay, it had become apparent that Reinard was not the only one affected. Shortly after he had been subdued by Manius and a hypospray, Brice announced that she may have been affected - possibly while clearing a sample in the Chemistry Lab - and while she retained more control then Reinard, it was somewhat tenuous. A few minutes later, the Research Team also made its arrival where James informed them of the drugs affects. After some discussion, it was decided that Sickbay was not the best place to preform research and that they still needed to know more about the drug, particularly if there was a cure for the Captain and Brice. It was also suggested that a cortical inhibitor may help both officers.
Over on the ''Tenacity'' things where going far less well. It became quickly apparent that flying the ship out on autopilot would be impossible, due to the system being locked out. Larson had also identified that the overload was defiantly happening in the ship's impulse engines, with low level thoron radiation blocking the scanners from finding any more information. Baker then made the decision that they should go down to Impulse Control. When there they soon found that the thoron radiation was being emitted by a broken cylinder and Larson modified her tricorder to generate anti-thorons to deal with them, however as it would take too long Saroa instead suggested modifying a tricorder to emit a low-level subspace transmission, which could be detected by the ''Darwin'' to have it beam it into space. As soon as they could get access, Baker suggested that Larson head back to the Bridge so she could pilot the ship away from the Darwin and dump the excess plasma from the drive coils through the vectored exhaust director. After quicklly mveing the ship out of the ''Darwin'' (with only a slight scratch on the ''Darwin'''s hull) and with just 30 seconds to spare, Baker was able to dump the excess plasma and prevent the buildup!
This where going just as well, back in the Chemistry Lab. After employing the help of Ensign {{n|Aigle|Phos}} they where able to come up with a working theory on how to find a cure. Between the two of them, they came up with the idea of checking what the chemicals found in Terrans (who where uncreative to the drug) and the chemicals Laudians and Haiilians have in common against the drug to see if there was anything that may prevent it from working. After having a short conversation on James' recent promotion, the test completed showing that an enzyme found in Terrans caused the drug to become inactive. After reporting the drug to Corbin, James was contacted by Thomas and ordered to meet him on the Bridge.
Back in Sickbay, news of the Research Team's discovery had reached sickbay (which bared a striking resemblance to one of Brice's own ideas) and was quickly administered to Reinard, who had started to come out of his medically induced sleep. The cure a success, the Captain was already closer to his old self - the anger and fear from earlier replaced with remorse. The same was true for Brice, her levels of anxiety also returning more towards the norm. After Brice was contacted by Thomas, Corbin stated that he would like both Brice and Reinard to remain in Sickbay so they could be monitored, however with the arrival of Baker, who had passed out from heat exhaustion upon returning from the freighter, it was decided that they could return with a monitor.
On the Bridge, the Freighter Team had just beamed back onto the ''Darwin'' however Thomas still wanted confirmation that it was not a danger to the ship, assigning James to the task. At the same time, he assigned HoS'elth the task of bringing the vessel back into the containment field (a novel task for him, as had "[studied] how to use a tractor beam but not quite to [that] degree") before heading into the ready room to communicate with Brice. While Thomas was away, James colluded with Falcon over the possibilities that could exist for sabotaging the ''Tenasity'' and only declaring the vessel safe when he was satisfied that all the remaining options would either be very visible or take to long. On Thomas' return, a strange communication was sent to the fighter. After taking several precautions, the channel was opened to reveal an angry Tellarite who asked "Why are you not at the check in point yet?" after stringing him along for several minutes, Thomas was forced to revival himself causing the Tellarite to cut off the call, although not before threatening the Freighters Officers if they revealed anything. It was then decided that they needed to track down the signal and restore the Warp Core, the second task ending in success while the first resulting in far too many possibilities. Before long, they had settled into discussing the possibilities this communication could reveal, before Reinard arrived taking Thomas to his ready room to apologise for his earlier behaviour. Before leaving, James was given the Bridge and before long orders to head to [[Deep Space 6]].
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