Scientific Method Line-By-Line

[JanewayRulz!]

TORRES: How's the resolution?

 

[sekundant]

EMH: Very nice. Now, let's focus in on the hyper-stimulated segments of this DNA. Can you give me more magnification?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

TORRES: Coming up.

(One of the molecules has a marking on it.)

 

[May 20]

EMH: That's odd.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

TORRES: What is?

 

[May 20]

EMH: There seems to be some kind of contaminant on the base pair sequence. It didn't show up on the first scan. I need a closer look.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

TORRES: I'm going to maximum magnification. What do you see?

(An alien bar code.)

 

[May 20]

EMH: I'm not exactly sure.

 

[mattman8907]

TORRES: Well, what does it look like?

 

[May 20]

EMH: See for yourself.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

TORRES: I'm no microbiologist, but that doesn't look like it belongs there.

 

[sekundant]

EMH: Believe me, it doesn't. I've never seen it. This level of sub-molecular technology is well beyond anything Starfleet has developed.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TORRES: What are those markings? Some kind of alien writing?

 

[Kertrats47]

DOCTOR: I wish I knew. They might help us determine where it came from.

 

[Athena28]

TORRES: Who could have put this into Chakotay's cells without his knowledge? Let me try a compositional analysis.

 

[Kertrats47]

DOCTOR: It's in Mr. Neelix's DNA as well.

 

[May 20]

TORRES: Is this what's causing the mutations?

 

[Kertrats47]

DOCTOR: A good scientist never jumps to conclusions, lieutenant, but I'd say it's a distinct possibility.

 

[sekundant]

TORRES: I'm having trouble getting a clear reading from the sample. It looks almost like the er, whatever it is could be slightly out of phase.

 

[Kertrats47]

DOCTOR: That must be why my initial scans didn't reveal it.