Even with a background in the practical sciences, as limited as it was, Makari was more comfortable with things far less biological than that of a doctor or even a botanist. Yes he held degrees and had trained. That training had led him down a career path in the operations field though. He understood a number of hypothetical concepts. And he could easily wrap his mind around such abstracts as chronitons, omega, and all manner of various random phenomenon in between the two... of which there were an endless amount. Yet when it came down to it at the end of the day, he was no doctor. He was not meant to be sticking needles with unusually wide tips and gaping maws at their end claiming to be surgically precise needle like holes. So on that count he could not have been happier than to have a trained doctor by his side, and one willing to jab himself. It took a strong will to go around playing doctor on yourself. Unless one was playing Risian doctor... and even that was more FUN with another person...<br/><br/>There was no time to think about things like that though. Which was hard.... to grasp that was. It wasn't.... HARD... Well... Makari shook his head and cleared the silly thoughts from his mind as he watched Darrin go about his medical tasks. Once he was on the biobed things seemed so much more serious. There was just something about the machinery that wrapped its way around a person, and the sterile bed that even modern medicine and the advanced technology of the Federation could not make seem friendly. Surgical bays. medical beds, they were always the same. Worrisome, fearsome... Makari shuddered involuntarily as Darrin shoved the needle into himself as if it was something simple he did all the time.<br/><br/>"How come whenever I hear that it's never something I really truly wish to receive?" Makari grinned as he accepted the  sample and Darrin's words that they were all his. Makari carried the sample over to where he had been working and set the dish down. He immediately began to run some scans before moving the dish again, this time into the nearest replicator. "We can use the transporter in the replicator system for our tests, it's small and already runs double the standard scans to protect our food from contamination." He explained as he opened up the panel in front of the replicator and began to move chips and circuits around. "Don't tell engineering though.... they complain when people mess with the insides of the ship... you know how engineers are, the ships like the mechanical sister they always wanted," Makari laughed lightly as he set the last circuit into place and the petri dish disappeared in a shimmer of light and then appeared again a moment later.<br/><br/>"Run your tricorder over this, let me know if medically anything has changed?" Makari suggested as he began to run his own scientifically calibrated tricorder over the sample, and the exposed circuits themselves, garnering data as he did so.