Makari tried to wrack his brain and think of anything he had ever read on advanced aging and de-aging existing together. He knew that the crew of the Enterprise had experienced age alterations that ran the gambit from transporter accidents to genetic code turning everyone prehistoric. None of that included chronitons though. And none of it covered both getting older AND younger at the same time. By all accounts it shouldn't have been happening. But then by all accounts so many other things in space should never have happened should they? A single particle named Omega should not have controlled the fates of so many or been so powerful that entire starships became prisons as its effects were dealt with. And yet that DID happen. So why not age becoming nothing more than a swinging pendulum instead of a fixed hand of a clock, ever creeping forward a second at a time?<br/><br/>The fact it was so random was what stumped Makari the most though. The fact it WAS happening proved that it COULD. The fact he had seen or heard of so many strange things happening on ships just further supported it all. But invariably what happened made some semblance of sense, at least once the facts were gathered and there was a core understanding of WHAT was going on. In this case though it seemed that nothing added up to nothing at all. One plus two always equaled three, but what happened when it equaled four or nine?<br/><br/>"No need for medical treatment for me, old age isn't something you can cure short of borg implants, and metal headgear and cybernetic arms aren't really my thing," Makari said to the doctor with a half smile. It was a forced attempt at lightening the mood and being humorous, and he was sure it showed. But better to smile then to break down and cry, or just crawl into a corner and die an old shell of a man. "And sadly wisdom seems to allude me no matter my age..." he offered up in response to the other question tossed his way from the Chief Engineer. He was about to say more as the captain called the meeting to order and he sat straighter in his chair, listening intently as the slightly aged captain began to speak.<br/><br/>Makari looked up with a frown as the captain announced that they had lost their chief science officer. He hadn't heard about that. But had he been so wound up in his own aging and his own attempts to get a handle on things that he had completely missed such things? Possibly. That worried him. Was it an attempt to devote himself to duty that caused him to miss it? Or was his age affecting his mind? Was he getting forgetful, sloppy, slow?<br/><br/>As the Captain continued to speak, Makari listened. At first he was sure that his newfound maturity had come with a newfound dimensia as the Captain said he would take charge of the Science Department. But no, the man meant what he said and Makari knew that. Could he handle the task? Of course he could. One did not become an OPS officer because they trained in endless operations. They specialized in a task and their ability to multitask and organize was what pulled them into the position. It always meant they had some other skillset under their belt though. Most commonly it was an engineering or science skill. And for Makari it was sciences. Not anything he tended to rely on during the course of a normal day, but once a scientist always a scientist as they said... he just had to figure out who THEY were and he would be set...<br/><br/>"Understood Captain, I will speak with the science team after the meeting and try and get a firm grip on this all," He said shortly, for once not wanting to mince words or play at things in the more casual lasseiz faire respect he was more keen to do. Aging at a random pace hardly led to an abundance of free time after all. Invariably they were all either going to end up too old or too young to do ANYTHING. So they had to sort things out before that could happen.<br/><br/>"Unfortunately I have very little to report at the moment. From an operations standpoint the ship is working as expected. Any shield problems we have had were not derived from the power systems, nor where they planned or scheduled by ops. All systems had, and remain, to have full power, that includes all biological detection scanners. So I can say we are not dealing with a bio threat, which was far from a fear, but nice to know all the same. What I can't say is why things happened or what exactly has happened... just that our systems seem unaffected but our crew does not..." Makari explained concisely, not having much to offer at all, but speaking up with it all the same.<br/>