Star Trek_ A Choice of Catastrophes - Michael Schuster
McCOY PRESSED A BUTTON THAT WOULD START THE PREPROGRAMMED STIMULUS SEQUENCE.
Impatient, he counted to ten. Now this should have an immediate effect. McCoy glanced up at the monitor.
Nothing.
“If there’s no physical cause,” he said, increasingly worried, “then what’s slowing his brain down?”
“Infection?” suggested Brent. “Virus?”
“Can’t be,” McCoy said, “he hasn’t been off the ship. The only recent possibility of infection is C-15’s anatid flu, but biofilters would stop that from getting abo ...