"I'll hold the door so no one sees me suspiciously ambulatory, you go fetch him?"

"Why is it suspicious that you're ambulatory?"

"Lalita gave me a blood transfusion. It's got some pretty extreme healing properties."

"It can't fix death. Short of that—" he shrugs.

"...yeah," he says, "okay."

She beams.

"It's lucky you have a hope of being able to use a thing like this. I'm planning to shift more of my activism attention to the issue after I'm done being shot at for advocating Federation admission for warp-incapable species, but I don't have a realistic hope of getting much of anywhere."

"Anyway. Are we sending me out to find Dr. Hall?"

"Yes, I think so." Isabella goes to hold the door. She sneaks a kiss before he goes out into the hall.

"I wonder how much that blood of his can cure."

"I took a phaser hit directly to the chest, and it was not set to stun. Dr. Hall did a lot of amazing reconstructive work, but this was a few days ago and now I'm not even on painkillers."

"There is something called a 'phaser' which has a 'stun' setting and can also take out large portions of your chest?"

"Uh, yes. Do we want to exchange weapons technology...?"

"Maybe. We have stunners, but they don't have a 'hospitalize' setting."

"We want to exchange weapons technology," Miles says firmly. "You don't have to use ours if you don't want to, but damn, a stunner with more intimidating settings available—? Best of both worlds as far as I'm concerned."

"I'm intrigued by the idea of a stunner without, honestly, seeing as I was recently a victim of the fact that Starfleet personnel all have access to phasers even if they aren't combatants."

"I'm happy to provide."

"All right then. Phasers and stunners - I suppose with help from Bar we could figure out some of the torpedos, too, if you want ship artillery for some... constructive purpose..."

"The proliferation of ship artillery probably wouldn't be good, even if its first adopters could be constructive with it."

"Ship artiller is ship artillery," says Miles. "Unless it's amazing ship artillery far beyond the capacity of anything we could build, somehow, in which case it's also ship artillery that will take a long damned time to proliferate. I'm not absolutely intent on getting some, but it would be nice."

"I'm not, primarily, worried about the ability of ships to shoot at each other - although I should definitely also get you shielding tech if you don't have that - it's - I mentioned the planet Vulcan. It was destroyed recently."