Lt. JG Garcia yields his seat at the Communications console to Kylah with a polite smile and goes back belowdecks.
Zweller works closely with Rangin and replies, as they go along, "I've been working with Dr. Brold for about three months now, since we started on Gagarin VII.... Don't know where his assistants are today. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason as to when he has them with him, and when he doesn't. They didn't come to dinner last night with the Captain, either.... Lt. Patel picked me for the Brold project. She'd read my Academy honors thesis on starship sensor design and pulled some strings with Starfleet Command, I heard...." Zweller looks at him oddly. "Yes, my first name is Darren. We met yesterday, remember?"
Dr. Noel says to T'Var, "All right. I'm afraid I didn't know her when she was... in good health. I'd be glad to compile a list of her Science colleagues; that's no problem. Do you know who her friends are?"