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JETREL
Episode 15
Part E

 

Neelix walks along the corridor toward Sickbay.

Neelix enters Sickbay. audio: standard doorsstandard doors "Dr Jetrel."
Jetrel spins round: "You startled me!" He happens to be standing such that anyone standing in the doorway cannot see the container.
Neelix: "I'm sorry, but I need to speak with you-"

Jetrel: "Is it possible we could talk later? It won't be long before I am too weak to work. I would like to finish before I die."
Jetrel tries to steer Neelix to the exit.

Neelix co-operates, until he catches sight of the container and the movement inside. "What is that?" He approaches it for a closer look. "You're engaging in some kind of bizarre experiment, aren't you? What is it this time?"
Jetrel: "You don't understand. I can help them."

Neelix: "What do you call that?" Seeing the substance pulsing as if it is alive, Neelix is appalled. "Scientific progress?! I'm going to the Captain!"

But as Neelix turns to leave, Jetrel suddenly seizes him and injects him with a sedative. audio: hypospray injectionhypospray injection

Neelix slumps to the floor unconscious.

Crewman William McKenzie enters the Bridge from the turbolift. audio: standard doorsstandard doors

Janeway to Chakotay: "Any report on Dr Jetrel's progress, Commander?"
Chakotay: "Not yet, Captain."
Janeway, via comms: "Bridge to Sickbay." No response. "Janeway to Sickbay." No reply. "Janeway to Dr Jetrel." No response. Impatiently: "Computer, activate Emergency Medical Hologram."
They hear the Doctor, having come online, saying: "Please state the nature of the med-"

The Doctor's hypospray vial-loading unit and, lying beside it, the hypospray that Jetrel used to render Neelix unconscious.

Janeway, via comms: "What the hell's going on down there, Doctor?"
Doctor, via comms: "Dr Jetrel deactivated me. He's gone now."

Tuvok: "Computer, locate Dr Jetrel."
Computer: "Dr Jetrel is in Transporter Room 1."

Doctor, via comms: "And Mr Neelix is unconscious. It appears he's been tranquillised." Contact ends.

Janeway to Chakotay: "You have the Bridge, Commander." Via comms: " Security, meet me in Transporter Room 1." As she heads towards the turbolift: "Tuvok!" The two enter the turbolift.

Janeway, Neelix, Tuvok and a security guard enter Transporter Room 1. audio: standard doorsstandard doors They find Jetrel at the transporter controls.

Tuvok: "Please step aside, Dr."
Jetrel to Janeway: "You must let me continue. Lives depend on it."

Janeway: "We've heard that from you before. You're beginning to lose credibility."

Jetrel: "Captain, I beg you, let me bring them back."
Neelix, now revived, enters the transporter room in time to hear this. Tuvok and Jetrel notice his arrival.

Neelix: "Bring who back? Who, Doctor? Who is it you're going to bring back?"

Jetrel: "The victims of Rinax."
Neelix is stunned.

Neelix: "He's out of his mind, Captain."

Jetrel: "Please, look at my calculations." He hands her his PADD. "You remember what I told you about Metremia, Captain, how it causes the bodies atomic structure to undergo fission. It mirrors the way the Metreon Cascade vapourised its victims through bio-molecular disintegration."

Neelix: "Do we have to listen to this!"
Janeway: "I think we should hear him out."


Jetrel, suffering the advanced stages of Metremia.


The ill and weak Jetrel has to sit on the transporter step.

Jetrel: "What I've been working on for the past fifteen years is a way to rebuild that atomic structure, what I call 'regenerative fusion'."
Janeway: "Are you saying you're actually trying to restore people who were vapourised by the Metreon Cascade?"
Jetrel: "Yes!"
Janeway: "Given the degree of fragmentation you're talking about, I don't see how that's possible."
Jetrel: "The electro-static properties of the cloud are such that the disassembled bio-matter has been held in a state of animated suspension. I discovered years ago that re-integration is possible."
Neelix: "Is that what you were doing with that thing in Sickbay?"
Jetrel: "Yes, exactly! Neelix saw it. It was an amalgamation of randomly fused organic material. Bits and pieces of previously vapourised bio-matter."
Neelix: "But if the bio-matter in the cloud is so random, so jumbled, how could you reconstruct something whole?"
Jetrel: "I used medical records to identify the genetic coding of a specific victim, a test case if you will. Once we input his DNA sequence, then we can isolate his atomic fragments with your targetting scanners and then rematerialise him!"
Neelix: "What if he's right?"
Tuvok: "Captain, Dr Jetrel is proposing the reconstruction and re-animation of a remarkable complex set of bio-systems from billions of subatomic particles."
Janeway: "I'm afraid I have to agree. It all sounds very implausible."
Jetrel: "You sound exactly like my country. I asked them for more funds to continue my research to help the victims of Rinax, because I wanted the world to know I'm not a monster. My theories can be used to heal, as well as to destroy. But they refused me, called me a Talaxian sympathiser and exiled me."
Janeway: "Does Neelix really have Metremia or was that just a pretext for getting us to come to Rinax?"
Jetrel: "It was just a pretext, Captain. You do not have Metremia, Neelix. You are not going to die."
Neelix: "Why didn't you just tell us the truth in the first place?"
Jetrel: "Your Captain is an accomplished scientist. She doubts my theories. My own government did too. I just could not risk being not believed again. But, Captain, it will work!"
Neelix: "If there's any chance he can do it, you've got to let him try."
Janeway: "Neelix, there are just too many variables."
Neelix: "Please, Captain."


 

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