Tin Man Part 2

Posted on Sun Aug 8th, 2021 @ 2:47am by Lieutenant JG Louis Bordeaux ( Barclay de Tolly ) & Captain Garrett Lovejoy [ Taylor] & Ensign BF 345078 (john Snow.) [Sthilg]

Mission: Season 5: Episode 2: Operation Save Humanity
Location: Engineering
Timeline: MD 6 11:30
1224 words - 2.4 OF Standard Post Measure

Another day and Snow was on his rounds again dropping off the crew's prescriptions and refilling the ship's medical kits. Currently, he was floating into engineering the small supply replicator module hanging underneath him.

Ensign Louis Bordeaux saw Snow first. He smiled asking, “Do you need some help?”

" Ah," Snow said as he finished dropping off a few supplies into the medical kit before tractor beaming it back onto the wall. " Is ensign Napoleon avaliable? " The small robot asked politly.

Napoleon saw his new little friend. “Mister Snow,” he said, “Great to see you. Today, we are going to make history. You are going to be the best nurse in Starfleet. You will be able to scan better and you will be able to display a multi-layered view of a human’s body in order to help you perform as a nurse and provide medical assistance to doctors. You would not by chance have a friend from your species who does Engineering?”

Louis added, “Now that would be super cool.”

" BE 3074 was one of the twelve of us that joined Starfleet and he was designated for engineering. We do communicate every fortnight. " the robot explained.

“Which ship is he serving on?” Louis asked. “Has he ever had any desire to work with you? Is he happy where he is located?”

“Plus are others who want to join Starfleet?” Napoleon added.

" He's an environmental engineering specialist on the USS Tnav." The exocom replied hoping the two would know the converted galaxy-class which was used as one of Starfleet mobile diplomacy centers one with each deck capable of being a separate environment. . " His frame is idle for his job not needing to breathe oxygen as for more of my people joining starfleet i'm not sure. I hope more of us choose to join. "

“When you joined,” Napoleon asked, “How long did it take from the date you requested to the day you became a member of the crew? Did you have to go to boot camp or what? Are there any exacomps from back home you wish was here?”

Louis was rubbing his chin thinking. “Do you have a girlfriend back home? Please forgive me. You are the first exacomp I met in Starfleet.”

"We have been around for awhile. Two years and eight months those of us remained , we went through the accelerated medical course made possible due to the medicle data being uploaded into our servers. As for my people, I wish they were all here. They are my family and miss them every day, but I have a duty to represent them in the greater galaxy. We do not have familial units like yourselves so I lack a girlfriend." the robot happily explained beaming a hologram of Alpha city on his people's adopted homeworld for the two to see. It was built into a cliff and resembled a large silvery dome with small holes to allow his people to exit and leave.

“This very fascinating,” Napoleon remarked first. “We should check to see if there are any who are about to be Starfleet and perhaps we should expedite them coming here. I do not know if you ever get lonely but I can tell you have feelings.”

“What kind of quarters do you have?” Louis asked. “Let me know if my questions are too personal. We want to be your friends. I feel my purpose in life is to be all I can be and that includes being a better friend.”

Napoleon was about to prepare to add the upgrades to the Exacomp but he was waiting for the right time to ask if he was ready.

"There is no need to apologize my friend. I have no quarters as i don't need them. I have my charging stations in the main cargo hold and in sickbay." the exacomp explained. " Maybe with my new body i will request some quarters. It would be an interesting experience."

Napoleon and Louis looked at each other. Napoleon then looked at BF. “A new body we have to be careful about. This could effect all Exacomps in Starfleet. Reason why your species are accepted is because you do not look human. We could make you human but you might more like a Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz or a droid from what was those movies called again about the Force?”

“Star Wars,” Louis replied. “You mean like C3PO or R2D2? I think we are going to have to talk to Victor on this. Victor will have to request from the Captain for us to proceed.”

“He has to any way,” Napoleon sighed. “BF. How do you picture yourself looking?”

BF activated his holo-projector showing his blueprints for his planned body. The older model suit of Starfleet marine armour, modified to have a chest unit to hold his current body along with four arms. Where the head would be was a series of cameras scanners and monitors that looked clearly inhuman. " I designed the idea myself. " He said proudly.

Napoleon and Louis studied the design for about fifteen minutes along with studying what they could understand about Exacomps. They were not taught about them at Starfleet. Napoleon deducted Starfleet thought it would make students lazy. The original incident was the one who created them was Doctor Farallon. Once Commander Data realized they were sentient, Starfleet allow them to evolve. Originally the ones which were created were created for Engineering. BF was designed for Medical.

Napoleon said to Louis and BF, “Your design is very advance as you have the CPU where the heart is. You actually will be thinking with your heart. BF, you are a medical officer and I do understand you have the ability to override the programming keeping you with medical parameters. Any attempt to change this could result removing you from Starfleet. I am going to have to send a report to the Captain and First Officer plus my Chief. I am all for it and I am sure Louis is as well. After all, you will be able to morph into a Terminator as in one that was from twentieth and twenty-first movies. Do you agree with these terms.”

" You may, but you can assure them my medical parameters can only be altered with permission of the chief MD or chief of engineering under code 456782 of the Starfleet accorders regarding mechanical lifeforms. I would never alter it by myself." the small robot replied with the voice fo someone who had memories said book.

“Very well then,” Napoleon says. “I will go by the book and send my recommendation to upgrade you. I will send it to the Captain, the XO, the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief of Engineering. If it was up to me, I would do it right now but this kind of upgrade requires approvals.”

The report was sent in five minutes. The report had in it Napoleon Bond concerns.

“My friend,” Napoleon said after the report was sent off, “You might get the approval making you more cybernetic but hopefully the upgraded Nursing Holographic Projection they might accept.”

Snow let out a slight beep of disappointment at the news giving an "oh bugger" in that old English accent he was borrowing.

“I know,” Napoleon sighed, “I do not make the rules.”

" I know." Snow bleeped.