48 Year Checkup

Posted on Sat Jan 26th, 2019 @ 10:13pm by Commander Rita Paris & Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi & Kodria Mizu

Mission: Section 31-B
Location: USS Hera, Deck 24, Main Engineering
Timeline: 2396

The tour hadn't started far, so it was a quick hop, skip and a jump to get to Main Engineering, where currently Rita Paris, First Officer of the Hera was escorting what appeared to be an artificial Vulcan girl on a tour.

"So, here is a marvel of late 24th century engineering, kiddo. Or so they tell me," Rita admitted. All the science she didn't understand- it was just her job five days a week.

The young android suspected that this engine room would look to her like the ones from Aunt Rita's day would look to the Chief Engineer of this ship, but she didn't want to be mean. "Then I hope to learn a lot. I want to be useful, after all."

"That's good. You need a purpose in life..." Rita started then trailed off as a significant thought hit her. "What year are you from again, Miss Mizu?"

"2492?" the young android replied somewhat sheepishly. "I served aboard an older vessel for six years processing research data and working with civilian scientists. Part of my duties included sensor and deflector calibration but I also helped out in engineering now and then."

"Hey, my girl more than a marvel of 24-century engineering. She is the poster girl for marvelous 24-century engineering. " Called Thex from the upper level as she looked down and her friend and the stranger.

"Come on down here, Lieutenant Commander sh'Zoarhi. There's someone I'd like for you to meet, and some work I'd like for you to do," the cheerful commander called to the overhead. "Bring some diagnostic tools and I'll lend you some perspective..."

"As for you," Paris added quietly, "Don't worry. Auntie Rita is brewing up a plan, and I think we might just be able to get you home, little one. Just bear with me here and try not to give away a hundred years of technical improvements," she added with a smile.

" One moment.." The andorian said as she grabbed her tools and with her acrobatic skills made it down to the bottom floor with a few jumps grabs and leaps. " I don't believe we've met ." She said offering her hand to the stranger.

"Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi, may I present Miss Kodria Mizu, a visitor to our ship from the end of the 25th century," Rita figured that summed it up well enough, and gave Thex some context as to just who the android was beyond the physical.

Shaking Thex's hand, Kodria grinned brightly and looked around at all the shiny, well maintained equipment in main engineering. "Everything looks so new and fast!"

"Atta girl," Paris muttered under her breath.

" Well me and my boys take good care of the ship. Most of these parts are from the last refit. " The andorian said with a grin. " Don't...." she began before remember what a certain jellyfish had told her about time travel. " never mind where did a 25th-century android come from?" She asked the pair.

"Apparently she fell through a chronal anomaly in 2492," Paris explained, palms spread upward. "Ended up back here, and was brought to the Section 31 base to be studied. Recently her repair circuits woke her up, she made her way through the Romero-infested complex and got off a distress beacon that got her rescued. So, with all of that said, as you are our resident expert, I'd like you to check her out. She's having some issues, and while I know this isn't your specialty, I was hoping you could make sure she's all right."

" Okay should be simple enough. Let's step into my office it should give us some privacy." The andorian said as she lead the way to her small office. " So is there anything I shouldn't be taking a look at it case it messes up the future?" She asked as she pulled her toolkit from under her desk.

"Well, most of my systems are reporting good recovery so there's no need to check them... But my personality core... It's throwing bad errors and my best guess is 43% functionality... I feel like I'm about eight again rather than the teen equivalent I was before the anomaly." Popping open the access panel on the back of her head, Kodria sat down in one of the chairs so Thex could get to her easier.

"Okay let's take a look." Thex said as she opened up the head. " Well you're definitely more advanced then what I'm used to. Still, most of it is looking like it's Federation tech. Is this a modular replication transducer?" She asked tapping a part.

"Part of my self repair systems. It's working across most of me fine, but the part responsible for my personality core isn't," Explained Kodria, placing one hand on a nearby desk terminal, interfacing with it through her palm, and displaying a series of holographic schematics. "Hence the failures in my personality core..."

Here all this time I just thought she was developmentally challenged. Way to read the situation, genius, Paris looked a bit sheepish. Taking a look at the schematics, they made little to no sense to the throwback officer from the duotronic relay days. "So what can be done for them? Is there a reboot, or a power supply... ah, somebody throw me a bone here, folks?"

" Hum. " Thex said as she looked at the schematics then back to the android. " Could it be possible to create a loop using the reserve polarization circuit to allow your systems to start self repairing? It probably won't do it overnight, but it should be able to slowly start repairs."

Kodria was still interfaced with the desk terminal as she processed and analyzed this information so her simulations flashed rapid-fire across the screen as her systems ran through the option. It only took about fifteen seconds as she completed the workload and resumed the display of her schematics. "If you bypassed the tertiary linkages, I believe that would have a ninety three percent success ratio. It should kickstart the self repair systems of my personality core and begin noticeable repairs immediately. Full restoration is projected to take approximately one half cycle."

" What would happen in the other 7%?" Asked the andorian. " I'd hate to slip up and cause damage we can't fix."

"Six percent chance of nothing, one percent chance of a partial overload in my already damaged personality matrix." Kodria replied in a rather Vulcanesque manner.

" You sure you want me to do this then?" Thex asked the android her voice full of concern.

"Ninety-three percent is pretty good odds, and one in ninety-nine is a risk I'd be willing to take to clear my head," Paris weighed in, then redirected the focus. "Miss Mizu, the decision is yours, of course."

"It's either this or I wait almost a hundred years for Professor Artan to likely do something similar. Please go ahead. I'll shut down what I can just in case." Leaving the schematics up for Thex, Kodria closed her eyes and powered down what she could for safety.

" Okay... let's do this. " Thex said as she picked up a few tools and got to work. She was starting to realize what the doctor must have to do whilst performing brain surgery as she carefully worked her way through the delicate wires and circuits. She was thankful she'd looked at commander Data's schematics back at the academy as they were helping greatly right now. After ten minutes she paused as she completed the repairs. " All right that should be it. Do you want to activate and see if it works?" she asked the android.

After a few moments, the little circuits inside Kodria's head began to light up sequentially and she opened her eyes. "Diagnostics online. All systems nominal with the exception of personality core. Bringing self repair systems online... ..." It was a tense few moments as the young android paused. "Self repair systems online. Personality core at thirty seven percent functionality. Massive fragmentation found. Estimated time to full repair... Point five seven cycles."

She then blinked a few times and smiled up at Rita with a child-like innocence. "Hey, Aunt Rita. Did it go well?"

Smiling down at the android from the future, 'Aunt Rita' felt a swell of pride. "It sounds like it went great, Kodria. Welcome back- seems you'll be catching up as we take that tour. Well done, Chief sh'Zoarhi!" Rita offered a handshake to the hardworking hardware handygal.

" Just doing my job commander. " Thex said feeling very relieved as she wiped her forehead. That had been tough to do. " Would your friend like to see the rest of engineering?" She asked politely.

"I'd love to! Your central chamber uses a single phase dilithium energy conversion system, right?" Kodria was back to her normal cheerful self as she disconnected from the computer, sealed her access panel back up, and hopped out of the chair excitedly. "And your plasma streams from the injectors are a tight beam formation, right?"

A Section 31 base that, upon receiving the signals, apparently 'romeroized' their entire ship's complement intentionally had somehow yielded an android from the future who had connections to the people she met today in a causality loop that would bring her back home after 96 years after touristing in the past. A sweet young life form on an epic journey.

Some days it was really, really good to be in Starfleet.