Uh,

It looks like it's an early onset at Pregis.

Really?

Yeah.

But I'm only 29?

I would both know that's not true.

But it's still pretty young to be having our hurts since here.

Okay, well, what can we do about it?

Well, I guess normally I would overhaul your immune system since it seems to be a

rheumatoid arthritis, so basically make your body stop attacking itself. Great, let's do that then.

It takes a few weeks, Captain, and you'd be out of commission. A few weeks? Yes. I mean, we could

just, you know, get somebody else's knees and stick them in there instead of yours. Oh, great. Let's just get someone else's knees.

I just was, I was making a joke.

I was, you know, like, obviously that's a very selfish thing to do.

Yeah, but I'm the captain. I mean, the ship needs its captain.

If my knees and elbows and joints need to be replaced, then people should gladly give up their

joints to do what's best for the entire crew. All right, commander, I am going off shift. I will see you later.

Oh, Jesus. What happened? Plurum, what's wrong? I don't know. I can't move, but my legs don't work

anymore. All right. Let me get you to sickbay. Come on.

Oh, oh.

Oh, you fell over.

Something's going terribly wrong.

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