There was only so much a single person could do in a crisis situation. That was a lesson that carried through a person's entire career in Star Fleet. Be they a lowly midshipman or a noble captain, helming the flagship of the main fleet, boldly going where no man, just one overused cliche, had gone before. That was just how things worked. Yes, one officer, one cadet, one anybody, could do a great many things. But the strength of Star Fleet came from working together. A ship was a crew, a crew was a family. And more so than all of that, they were a team. The more they worked like one, the more they got things done. Even the notorious loner Zeffram Cochran, who had predated the Federation, in fact been the catalyst for first contact which LED to the Federation ever being formed, had worked with a team when he wanted to prove that warp space flight was possible.<br/><br/>So would Makari forsake centuries of human and Federation tradition ti try and go it alone? To try and solve the issue of the day by himself? Maybe if his ego had been just a tad larger than it was. Thankfully for himself and everyone else though, his ego was the size of Risa and her six moons and no larger. So they were all safe. His ego would save the day... or his immense skills. Or his team work. Yeah, the last one sounded a lot less egotistical didn't it?<br/><br/>He would have laughed to himself but it was hardly a time to laugh. Instead he kept working away at the monitors and the PADDs before him. There was an answer in it all. And he knew they would find it. Not HE would find it, but THEY would. "Free radicals?" Makari repeated the words he heard the mumbled words across the room. He tapped away at one of the PADDs and a grin grew on his face as well. "This is the information we needed... now we can work out how to stop them... I might have ideas in that regard, our transporters should have scans before the free radicals were introduced, and we can test that theory... though not ship wide... one person, one cell.... just a simple, small test."<br/><br/>