Fixing the EMH "
By: Teilani Dane, Chief Medical Officer, [PC]

Stardate: 58204.16 1600

==Doctor's office==

Teilani walked into her office, carrying all the good she had purchased on the Station under her arm. She had even managed to find an old Indian blanket with yellow being the main colour. Carefully she place the breakable stuff on her desk.

She looked through her office, not knowing where to hang the sunflower painting. Finally she decided to hang it opposite her desk. The rest of the goods she distributed on some shelves. The Indian blanket was hang over the small couch in the corner of the room.

The marble Mark had given her was carefully placed beside the white pebble on her desk. Teilani took a few steps back wards, inspecting her room.

"Ha, she said mainly to herself, now we are getting somewhere". "Gorgeous" She walked over to the replicator and order: "Coffee, Jamaican blend, double strong, double sweet". She only hoped that the other crewmembers would notice the change too.

Carefully carrying the hot mug in her hands she sat down at her desk only to noticed that her headnurse Ally had left a message on her console.

"Computer, display message".

Doctor All our supplies have been delivered and stored accordingly If you have time would you mind checking on the parameters of the EMH, he seems to be malfunctioning. Tal'kar is finalizing the cultures in science lab 1, ready for you to review.

Ally

Her face darkened as she saw the last request. And, unfortunately, she had to sign off on the task himself, rather than delegate it. Oh well. Better get it over with.

She had to check the operations of the Emergency Medical Hologram. No doctor liked the idea that they could be replaced by a computer generated image, but Teilani really hated the concept of any computerized projection operating on anybody. And to top it off, she really hated the Zimmerman personality. She found the EMH to be whiney, over-opinionated, having a lousy bed-side manner, and generally annoying.

She walked over to the main sickbay. Never-the-less, she cleared his throat after swallowing the last coffee, frowned and spoke up, "Computer, please activate the Emergency Medical Hologram."

Immediately the image of Dr. Zimmerman, the former head of the medical academy and creater of EMH appeared in front of him. "Please state the nature of the medical emergency," it said, in its prissy voice.

"No emergency, just testing your program."

"Oh. I do so hate these little red-tape pro......"

"Run a full diagnostic please, and put the report on my screen," Teilani interrupted.

"Really! How rude! Very well..." Quickly statistics began to scroll across her PADD.

Something caught Teilani's eyes. "Freeze display," she said, with curiousity. "What does this personality setting of 001 mean?

Zimmerman turned to her. "Oh, that. Its a new feature in this new class of ship. The CMO may chose the image and personality of EMH out of a database of medical officers."

"Really?" Teilani asked, slyly as she punched up the list on the database. It read like a who's who of Starfleet doctors. Most were former heads of the Maqui medical academy and just as stuffy as Zimmerman, but one name caused her to stop and consider. "Computer, change EMH personality setting to 079, please."

Zimmerman shifted and was replaced by a thin human with short dark hair, in his late fourties, and wearing a blue uniform. He had a sour look on his face and turned around to face Teilani.

"And I suppose this is much better," the EMH said, sarcastically. "Dammit, I'm a medical program not a sit-com!" The face of the legendary doctor, Leonard McCoy, Chief Medical Officer on the USS ENTERPRISE glared backed at her.

Teilani laughed as the image responded just like she had expected him to, after hours of watching Hollywood's recreations of the ENTERPRISE and her heroic crew on the holodeck. "Yes, I think this setting is much better." She punched in the codes to lock the setting and continued with the display while "Bones" paced in irritation.

Than the door chimed interrupted her thoughts. "Come," she answered, without looking up. In walked nurse Tal'Kar, her vulcan assistant. "Dr. Dane, I have completed the diagnostics on the bio- lab."

Teilani looked up to see Tal'Kar and the EMH both eyeing eachother. "Doctor," Tal'kar asked, "Who is this?"

"Who am I?" the hologram snorted. "I thought you Vulcans claimed to know everything."

"....You're testing the EMH, but this is not the standard Zimmerman hologram?" Tal'kar replied, ignoring McCoy.

"No," Teilani answered, amused. "This is much better. Don't you agree?"

Tal'kar scrutized the historical doctor. "No. I would think that someone more...professional would be more logical."

"PROFESSIONAL?!" Bones barked. "Why you inhuman, green-blooded..."

"Computer, deactivate the EMH." McCoy vanished leaving the Vulcan looking quizzically at her CMO, one eyebrow raised. Teilani started to say something, but instead burst into heavy laughter.

Tal'Kar walked out shaking her head in confusion, which just made Teilani laugh even harder.

This day promised to be a good one.