"It's a long story, but in the process of trying to destroy the Enterprise he knocked out our central grid, it sent us into Earth's gravitational pull. The warp core was misaligned."
Lips pursing, he slips into a narrower scope of explaining, one he would use during debriefings.
"There was no time to go through the necessary procedures so I redirected the power myself once the manual override was hit. People were falling, screaming ... It was a mess. Nacelles were getting torn off like sticks." Wetting his dry lips, he stifles a cough. "I went in there and fixed the ship so she wasn't dead, but I couldn't get in and out fast enough. I got as far as the decontamination chamber where Spock met me on the other side and let me know that it had worked, I was so out of it I could barely tell."
The furrow on his brow is deeper than he means for it to be, professionalism taking a back-seat in his eyes if not his tone.
"The serum that Bones synthesized to bring me back later was made from Khan's Augmented blood, he tells me it repaired my irradiated organs after my body resisted accepting it. I woke up here right after he'd implemented the stuff back home, the first few days in the City were ... not a lot of fun. Kind of threw up in that fountain." A blue gaze sweeps up to meet Kathryn's. "He hasn't said anything, but it's obvious he thinks I'm relapsing. Frankly, I think that assessment's not too far off the mark."
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"It's a long story, but in the process of trying to destroy the Enterprise he knocked out our central grid, it sent us into Earth's gravitational pull. The warp core was misaligned."
Lips pursing, he slips into a narrower scope of explaining, one he would use during debriefings.
"There was no time to go through the necessary procedures so I redirected the power myself once the manual override was hit. People were falling, screaming ... It was a mess. Nacelles were getting torn off like sticks." Wetting his dry lips, he stifles a cough. "I went in there and fixed the ship so she wasn't dead, but I couldn't get in and out fast enough. I got as far as the decontamination chamber where Spock met me on the other side and let me know that it had worked, I was so out of it I could barely tell."
The furrow on his brow is deeper than he means for it to be, professionalism taking a back-seat in his eyes if not his tone.
"The serum that Bones synthesized to bring me back later was made from Khan's Augmented blood, he tells me it repaired my irradiated organs after my body resisted accepting it. I woke up here right after he'd implemented the stuff back home, the first few days in the City were ... not a lot of fun. Kind of threw up in that fountain." A blue gaze sweeps up to meet Kathryn's. "He hasn't said anything, but it's obvious he thinks I'm relapsing. Frankly, I think that assessment's not too far off the mark."