Recreating Sickbay

Posted on Sun Jun 14th, 2026 @ 3:28am by Lieutenant Commander Toulaine Doctor & Lieutenant JG Phinix Vander & 1st Lieutenant Melody Hawthorn
Edited on on Mon Jun 15th, 2026 @ 4:56pm

2,207 words; about a 11 minute read

Mission: Mission 01 Shakedown Cruise
Location: Main Sickbay USS Churchill
Timeline: Stardate 239706.13 1000 hours to 1300 Hours
Tags: Lieutenant Commander Toulaine, Doctor Vander, Doctor Hawthorne

Recreating Sickbay
Joint Log
Medical Staff


::Open log::


Toulaine limped into sickbay and looked around. There were crates being unloaded all around and people were half heartedly working at stocking the exam rooms, emergency rooms, triage areas, overnight rooms, and offices. She stood there and by her silence and stillness, attracted the attention of those in sickbay and they stopped and looked at the scarred Andorian leaning heavily on a cane.

“Thank you for your attention. I am Lieutenant Commander Toulaine, the new chief medical officer on the USS Churchill. The captain has asked for a full readiness report in three hours. I expect everyone to put on and get things ready and up to standards I require so we can have that report ready in the three hour limit. If you have any questions, you may ask, as long as you are also working.” She paused for a moment and everyone was still just staring at her. “That means now.”

Moving to the front office, Toulaine walked in and claimed it for her own and started setting up the standard equipment.

Dr. Vander had been watching Dr. Hawthorne as she did the adjustments to the new biobed scanners. Or had been before the room halted in its controlled chaos to respectfully acknowledge the new CMO at her arrival. He felt his whole body relax. He wouldn't be stuck trying to run this rat trap after all.

Dr. Hawthorne watched the blue CMO disappear into the office then looked at Vander with a touch of concern. “So… I guess I should probably go and introduce myself.” She said.

Dr. Vander nodded. “We probably both should. Especially if you plan to work here with us. You will be needing her permission.”

Hawthorne smiled, glad she would not be going alone. She followed Dr. Vander through the ruckus to the office and waited patiently.

Reaching out for politeness sake Phoenix tapped the chime announcing his arrival.

Doctor Toulaine finished with her office and saw two officers standing outside her door waiting. She went to the door and nodded to both. “If you listened, I am willing to talk, only as long as we are all busy. What were you doing when you stopped to talk to me?” She asked in an emotionally neutral voice, but all business.

A nurse pointed to the exam rooms and the biobeds being set up and Toulaine nodded and walked into the exam rooms, expecting the two doctors to follow her, and she got busy setting up biobeds and calibrating them.

She noticed that her staff saw her working without stopping and smiled and got to work with more energy and purpose, realizing that this woman was just a do as I say, but do as I do, kind of leader and they felt better.

Melody had been about to say that she had already done the set ups on the bio beds when a look from Vander shh’ed her. Instead she watched taking a mental note about the CMO’s preferences instead of the manual layout.

Phoenix had step over to a biobed in the next section to continue to work as well.

Melody though was unsure of what to do without permission she couldn't touch anything. So she opened her mouth finally to ask. “Dr. Toulaine may I have permission to help here in the main medbay?”

Vander smiled from his place at the other bio bed. The young Hawthorne sounded more like a child than a marine medic.

When the biobeds were set up, Toulaine grabbed a box of supplies and started to stock the room with needed hypos, vials, and other things needed for sickbay to run smoothly. She did glance at Melody and offered a small smile. “If you have medical training, you are always welcome in my sickbay. I also accept medical training from local traditions and not just Starfleet classes. So feel welcome to help out where you feel comfortable, right now, I can use any hands willing to turn to and help out.”

After placing the stacks of reusable and sterilized blankets used in sickbay, Toulaine moved to a different exam room and began stocking in there. Everyone now and then, she hid the fact she was rubbing her bad leg and it was beginning to twitch.

She did look over at the other Doctor. “Was there something you wanted?”

Dr. Vander kept moving as well, helping to restock the necessities as he spoke. “I just wanted to introduce myself. Doctor Phoenix Vander.” He stated, still moving. Still working. He had noticed her rub her leg, filed it away for later.

“It is nice to meet you, Doctor Vander. I will most likely make you one of the team leaders.” Toulaine said and reduced the empty crates to flat stackable crates, before reaching for another.

“I like to have each Doctor have a team of four nurses and each team takes a four hour shift once a day to build the team and to learn what each shift is like and would need so that in an emergency, each team can work independently and get the most patients dealt with quickly, thus saving more lives. There is also a level of standards I expect from each doctor and team in the performance of procedures, including double checking everything before moving onto the next step. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to come along behind other doctors who didn’t do this and fix their mistakes. I want to minimize mistakes, if you can understand that.”

Toulaine then moved to the triage area and started to put those areas into order, nodding to the nurses who were putting together the emergency rooms. “Good job, nurses. Thank you for your dedication.”

Melody had hopped to it so to speak. Once she had permission she was back to checking the systems and helping with maintenance issues. Her background in applied medical engineering shining through she was happy to help.

Phoenix felt himself smiling. He seemed to be doing that a lot these last couple of days. He liked Dr.Toulaine. Obviously, she was a woman of high standards and he appreciated that. Her method of application to the schedule was peek. It would eliminate burn out and improve things as she said. “Yes ma'am. Or do you prefer Doctor?” He asked as he moved a crate of the dermal regenerators to their proper place in the triage.

“I prefer Doctor or Doctor Toulaine. I know that I am also allowed to use Ma’am by Starfleet standards, but I lost all right to gender by my racial standards and I would rather not be reminded of that.” She said simply and looked over to where the other one who asked permission was putting together the long term biobeds that were built more for long term monitoring and comfort for those who had to stay in sickbay for longer than a couple of hours. “The other doctor with you, what is her story, if you can tell it, if not, please let her know I would like to speak with her about it.”

Phoenix followed her gaze to where Melody true to her name and nature it appeared was happily whistling a tune as she worked with obvious ease on the complex constructs. “I looked her up a bit after meeting her a few days ago on the star base. She's an orphan of unknown origin raised in a Starfleet care facility and science institute for a time before joining herself. She's a prodigy of sorts particularly when it comes to engineering and medical procedures. Apparently a certain section of Starfleet has been keeping tabs on her. She's a good kid though from what I can tell. What she joined with the Marines is a curiosity; she's not violent by nature. Likes to help out. I'd say you should talk to her and maybe get your own perspective as she has me rather stumped. Careful though she might drag you into some musical whimsy of hers.” He said it with a straight face, a clear warning that he wasn't making an idle joke. He had been privy to no less than three such performances in so many days.

Nodding, Doctor Toulaine left Phoenix working in the triage area and moved to where Melody was working in the long term rooms. Opening a box of sheets and blankets, she stocked the warming cabinet. “So, I don’t think I caught your name.” She glanced at Melody. “You don’t have to stop the humming, my sister hums and sometimes sings when she's working on a project.”

Melody smiled, “I am Doctor Hawthorne primary field medic for the 47th division. My friends call me Melody. You can too if you like to be friends.” Several of the nurses chuckled not to make fun of but because they still hadn't gotten used to the oddity of the woman who claimed to have been the one who had redesigned and refitted these biobeds and was therefore able to install them without the need of calling engineers in.

Toulaine looked over at Melody for a moment and then actually smiled at the woman. “You need to meet my sister. She is the new chief of science here on the Churchill. I think the two of you would get along perfectly. People always underestimate her, but she singlehandedly found a cure for barrenness in women and created the design used on the phaser rifles that allow for the barrel to never overheat and increase the accuracy of the shots. I welcome both of you to help out in medical when you can. She is almost always too busy with her projects and labs and such, but when she isn’t buried in work, she is wonderful in triage.” Then the smile vanished and she was once again emotionally neutral. “Thank you for your help and if you ever have suggestions, please bring them to me.”

“Oh, you're welcome. I love it when I can help. Back home I used to help with the babies and the cleaning and school stuff. I particularly like science.” Melody smiled over at Dr. Toulaine her hands never stopping in their sensitive work. “I'd like to meet your sister and get her take on a case I worked on recently on the Tomcat. I'm hoping with the right clearance I will be allowed to recreate the process. A scientist would be an excellent helper.” Melody closed up the machine and turned it on to begin its software upgrades. “I think it would be cool to bring someone back from the dead again.”

Toulaine thought about it. “I think it would depend on the circumstances. A child who has died before really getting the chance to live, most definitely. Someone who had lived through hell and given all they can give, no, let them rest in peace. If you understand my meaning.” She smiled. “But it is a nice dream, to never lose another patient and be able to save everyone. However then we run into the conundrum of what to do with all the excess people who aren’t dying anymore. So questions of morality and plain logistics come into play with being able to revive the dead and put an end to death for all intents and purposes.”

With this room ready, Toulaine went back into the main sickbay and found that all the offices were set up, hers being the only one in the front. The triage area, the emergency area, the exam areas, the long term areas were all ready now. The empty crates had been taken away and the supplies they held either stocked in the various rooms or in the storage lockers in the back of sickbay.

Toulaine again silently commanded the attention of all the medical staff there. “I want to thank all of you for your help. Sickbay is open and ready for anything they can throw at us. You have all worked in an exemplary manner and I am proud to call you my staff. I wanted to let you know that at your personal desks in the offices, you are free to make it comfortable for you with pictures or plants or whatever, as long as it doesn’t get in the way, it is fine. If you have a question if something would get in the way or not, please feel free to ask me. My office, as long as the door is open it is open for anyone to come in. When I close that door, I do not wish to be interrupted, no matter what it is I am doing in there. As long as we all understand that, then Doctors, please select which nurses and techs you want on your teams with an active team of eight, nine including you. Submit your choices and I will make up the duty shifts based on the teams. Now go and take an hour to get off of your feet, eat, relax, clean up, and then check to see who is on shift first. Again, thank you.”


::End Log::

Lieutenant Commander Toulaine
Chief Medical Officer

 

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