Counselor/Medical Officer's Log #23 - "More Questions Than Answers"

Posted on 29 Jun 2014 @ 1:00am by Lieutenant JG Delainey Carlisle

330 words; about a 2 minute read

I'm afraid this mission has left us with more questions than answers, and more tension than resolution, and that's been frustrating in its own right. I had hoped to definitively rule out mental illness as the cause for these "metaphysical manifestations" the miners have reported, but that has proven more difficult than even I expected. Of the few who were willing to talk to us, and myself in particular, it was difficult to know what was just miner quirkiness and true cause for concern. Overall, I think we can all agree the issue was every bit as complex as we suspected, and perhaps connected to the products being mined itself.

Being flirted with by an overeager miner makes the body parts we discovered in the mine itself seem like G rated holovid in comparison... Frankly, I'm still absorbing our recent discoveries and I imagine the rest of the teams are too. Those certainly didn't feel like metaphysical body parts, and even though I'm a doctor, I'm not accustomed to wading in blood like that anymore than anyone else. I couldn't help but think about the Borg corpse I discovered with the last away team I was on. Not long after that, we battled the Borg. Could our grim discovery be a harbinger of things to come? I hope not, and I wouldn't dare voice these thoughts to the rest of the crew.

On top of everything else, the tension surrounding assisting the Cardassians has finally boiled over with some of the crew. I know that's a reflection of past trauma, and I will not condemn anyone for being traumatized, but between me and the computer, I'm disappointed that things had to explode at this time in this way. The crewmembers involved are ultimately responsible for how they chose to conduct themselves, but to be honest, I hold myself responsible too, for not knowing it was this bad and for not intervening sooner. I intend to make up for that now.

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