Scientific Method Line-By-Line

[Kertrats47]

SEVEN: Yes, Captain.
(Seven leaves.)

 

[May 20]

JANEWAY: Is that all? When this mutation crisis is over, I think I'll spend a few days in renaissance Tuscany. There's a little inn outside Siena I've been wanting to try.

 

[Kertrats47]

TUVOK: I will join you for a glass of wine.

 

[May 20]

[Holodeck two - da Vinci programme]

(The life study class is still in progress. The EMH and Seven go up into the gallery.)
EMH: How many?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SEVEN: I've observed fifty six of the aliens. There could be more.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

EMH: Have you seen any pattern to their behavior? Any hint as to what they're trying to accomplish?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SEVEN: They seem to be conducting experiments on the crew and monitoring the results.

 

[May 20]

EMH: As if Voyager were one big petri dish.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SEVEN: I may be among them. In the turbolift one of them probed me with a medical instrument.

 

[Athena28]

EMH: We cannot allow them to continue.

 

[May 20]

SEVEN: I've been analyzing their energy signatures. I believe there's a way to make them visible to everyone.

 

[Kertrats47]

DOCTOR: How?

 

[May 20]

SEVEN: Using a precisely modulated phaser beam. If we expose them the crew may be able to fight back.

 

[Kertrats47]

EMH: But what if the aliens retaliate by inflicting lethal mutations on everyone? It's too risky.

 

[May 20]

SEVEN: What do you suggest?

 

[Kertrats47]

DOCTOR: The key to the aliens' control is the genetic tags. I believe a neuroleptic shock would disable them. Unfortunately, it would be rather painful.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SEVEN: Will the crew recover?

 

[May 20]

EMH: Yes, they will. The hard part will be administering the shock to everyone simultaneously.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

SEVEN: The power relays could be reconfigured to do it.

 

[mattman8907]

EMH: Good. I assume you know how to do that?