Down in Sickbay, Sam MacReady had arrived to check on the status of Medical and Science's combined efforts in testing whether or not the bugs in most of the crew were indeed attracted to the bioneural gel packs like Dun had hypothesized.  This was critical.  If this worked, then they would have a solution to their aging and de-aging problem.  Although, the First Officer was indeed a little bit fuzzy on how the crew would resume their normal ages after that...but that was neither here nor there at this point.