<strong>Day 2 - 0915</strong><br/><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3f/Yul_brynner.jpg)</div>Character: Dr. "Tiger" (Ty) Nadami (Lt. Cmdr. Aono Tsayafa Nadami), CMO<br/>Location:  Conference Room<br/>With:    O'Connor and Duskfire<br/>Doing:  Being grilled<br/>Tagging: open<br/><br/>Nadami finds himself nodding in agreement with Duskfire again.<em>The man has a good head on his shoulders,</em>he thinks as he finds himself looking at the CSO in a new light. "Commander Duskfire is exactly right," he says. "None of us doubts Dr. Nuress' abilities. But given completely free rein to her ego, I suspect she will be her own worst enemy... and the mission's. No matter how noble her aspirations."<br/><br/>"I realize, sir," he adds, "this is a... slight departure from the strategy I outlined in my report." He grimaces uncomfortably. 'Slight departure' is understating it, and he won't be surprised if the Captain calls him on it. "But<em>no</em>Doctor is so capable that they can solve a problem this complex in total isolation. That's a lesson I learned a long time ago... and that Doctor Nuress has yet to learn. She's young, no doubt she's brilliant... but even the brightest mind can make itself stupid through pride. If she develops tunnel vision, which appears to have already happened, the results could be<em>more</em>deaths on Obi VI rather than less." He shrugs. "I agree with Commander Duskfire. We should bring our full resources to bear on the problem whether she likes it or not. My personal pride aside, that is my professional opinion as CMO. Write me up for it if you like."<br/><br/>He shakes his head and adds: "At any rate, I wasn't asking to be put on her team. What I stated was that my duties as Ship's Surgeon require me to monitor activities in Sickbay. That is, as it happens, simply true... and needs to happen. A single-minded personality in pursuit of a goal can lose sight of seemingly small procedural considerations." A memory wells up as he speaks of the old days aboard the<em>Constitution</em>. Captain Kalmar berating him for bringing aboard samples of an alien lifeform without proper quarantine procedure... a lifeform that had damned near disabled the ship. He'd resented Chris for a long time for that... but the man had been right.<em>I like to think my social skills were never that stunted,</em>he thinks:<em>But maybe I see something of my old self in Dr. Nuress. Is that what put me at loggerheads with her so quickly?</em><br/><br/>"Besides that, Dr. Nuress has confused her mission authority with shipboard authority. The sooner she develops an understanding of the limits of her authority as well as ours, the better. After all, she's eventually going to have to interact with planetside authorities on Obi VI to carry out any treatment. If she behaves there as she's already behaved here, how well do you think that can go?"