FACILITIES

	The Medical department, under the direction of the Chief Medical 
Officer, is principally located in two sickbay facilities on Deck 12. The 
primary facility, located on the port side of the ship, consists of two medical 
intensive-care wards, an attached laboratory, the CMOÕs office, and a small 
nursery. The second facility, located on the starboard side of Deck 12, is 
similar to the primary sickbay but features two dedicated surgery suites, a 
physical therapy facility, a nursery, and a null-grav therapy ward. Adjacent to 
the second facility is a dental care office and a full biohazard isolation unit.

	These facilities provide the medical staff with an impressive 
complement of tools with which to handle an extraordinary range of medical 
problems for both known and presently unknown species. Capabilities 
include a fully equipped medical laboratory with advanced bio-assay and 
lifeform analysis hardware. Also available are nanotherapy, genetic 
sequence, and virotherapeutic equipment. Medical lab capabilities can be 
bolstered by employing the lab services of one or more shipboard science 
departments.

	In a large-scale medical emergency situation, all three shuttlebays 
can be converted to medium- and intensive-care hospital facilities using 
quick-deploy emergency hospital modules. Additionally, lesser numbers of 
overflow patients can be handled by conversion of guest quarters on Decks 
5 and 6 to medical intensive-care units.  Æ