Changes: Side Effects

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Side Effects is a Star Trek: The Original Series manga story from the 2006 anthology Shinsei Shinsei, published by TokyoPop, written by Chris Dows, with art by Makoto Nakasuka. In this story, a landing party aboard a 200 year-old damaged vessel found a large group of humanoids hooked into equipment. The ending contained a shocking revelation.

Summary

Captain’s Log, Stardate 4722.1.: Having detected a badly damaged alien vessel, a landing party consisting of myself, Science Officer Spock, Doctor McCoy and Ensign Chekov is investigating disturbing sensor readings.

McCoy says the humanoids locked in the mysterious equipment are all from the same race, "but have combinations of other species spliced into them." One hybrid shows traces of human and Romulan DNA along with hundreds of others. Some have cybernetic implants grafted into their nervous systems. Feeding tubes and circuitry keep them alive in a semi-conscious state. Records indicate the ship had been launched more than 200 years ago.

Side-Effects-Danzek-discovery-color — Discovering Danzek

A female hybrid has mechanical implants and organs from nine species within her, but doesn't seem to be as debilitated as the others. The woman suddenly awakes, breaks out of the equipment holding her, grabs Chekov, and pokes something into his neck before Kirk can fire at her. All the humanoids begin awaking, and the woman seems unaffected by phaser fire, so the landing party quickly beams back to the ship.

Side-Effects-wormhole-color — Retrieval ship creates a wormhole

While Chekov is being treated, a wormhole opens nearby. A massive vessel emerges from within and drags it, the damaged ship and the Enterprise through the wormhole to a massive space station orbiting a black hole in an unknown area of space. Around the station, the Enterprise and more than 100 other vessels are being held in high-energy containment fields, and some are over 3,000 years old. Yet the station itself is no more than 50 years old.

Chekov has been infected with the same accelerated antigen as the hybrids, and it is killing him. McCoy deduces someone is kidnapping as many races as they can, using their immune systems to improve its own, to research a cure for a highly-adaptive disease. Spock realizes that, due to time dilation effects from the event horizon of the black hole, it is possible for an experimenter to send ships into normal space-time, run experiments for several hundred years, and then retrieve the ships, with only days or weeks having passed near the black hole.

Side-Effects-Chekov-color — Chekov afflicted

Uhura is unable to contact the station, but the mutated female and several other hybrids appear to be attacking the satellite's perimeter shields. McCoy says the female hybrid's physiology is unique, and since she infected Chekov, a tissue sample from her is needed. Even in suspended animation, Chekov will be dead in a matter of weeks.

Beaming to the satellite and tracking the female hybrid, the landing party finds her and several followers attacking security from the satellite. Following a fight, security evades the female and brings the landing party to a command area where they met Dr. Mynzek. Mynzek says their race is dead apart from those left on the station and he's spent 50 years trying to save his race. He believed the female – his daughter, Danzek – had the cure to the disease. Danzek then breached the command area and, after a fight, infects her father with her antigen. She reached for Kirk, but Spock deflects her arm and breaks her shoulder, spilling her blood on him. The satellite begins breaking up and reopening multiple wormholes. After beaming back, Sulu pilots the ship back through the wormhole they arrived in, returning to Federation space. The blood on Spock allows McCoy to cure Chekov.

Side-Effects-break-shoulder — Spock breaks Danzek's shoulder

Captain’s Log, Stardate 4722.8.

The Enterprise escaped its space-time prison... and Chekov is on his way to recovery. However, the nature of what we experienced continues to elude us. I am working with Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy to complete our report to Starfleet.

Spock says several escape pods were jettisoned during the breakup of the satellite, but one escape pod had been piloted deliberately into another of the wormholes. There may have been at least one survivor, but as there is no way to know where or when the wormhole exits, the survivors might emerge thousands of years in the past or future. McCoy says the infection was curable only because it came directly from the female. "If she goes on to infect others," he says, "and the pattern of infection continues, resistance to such a race would be, well, futile."

References

Characters

Pavel Chekov • Danzek • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Myznek • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura
Referenced only: Albert Einstein

Starships and vehicles

USS Enterprise • escape pod • Myznek's lab ship • Myznek's retrieval ship • Myznek's space station

Locations

Races and cultures

Human • Myznek's species • Vulcan
Referenced only: Romulan

States and organizations

Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Other references

antigen • black hole • bridge • communicator • containment field • cybernetics • DNA • event horizon • nervous system • neutrino • phaser • red alert • sensor • shields • sickbay • space station • special theory of relativity • temporal distortion • time dilation • transporter • wormhole • yellow alert

Appendices

Information

This story was reprinted larger (6" x 9") in Star Trek: The Manga - Ultimate Edition, with the first 16 pages in color.

Images

Connections

published order
Previous comic: First Comic	Star Trek: The Manga	Next comic: Anything But Alone
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 :''Having detected a badly damaged alien vessel, a landing party consisting of myself, Science Officer Spock, Doctor McCoy and Ensign Chekov is investigating disturbing sensor readings.''
-McCoy said the humanoids locked in the mysterious equipment were all from the same race,“but have combinations of other species spliced into them.” One hybrid showed traces of human and Romulan DNA along with hundreds of others. Some had cybernetic implants granted to their nervous systems. Feeding tubes and circuitry kept them alive in a semi-conscious state. Records indicated the ship had been launched more than 200 years ago.
+McCoy says the humanoids locked in the mysterious equipment are all from the same race, "but have combinations of other species spliced into them." One hybrid shows traces of human and Romulan DNA along with hundreds of others. Some have cybernetic implants grafted into their nervous systems. Feeding tubes and circuitry keep them alive in a semi-conscious state. Records indicate the ship had been launched more than 200 years ago.
-[[Image:Side-Effects-Danzek-discovery-color.jpg|thumb|left|Discovering Danzek]] A female hybrid had mechanical implants and organs from nine species within her, but didn’t seem to be as debilitated as the others. The woman suddenly awoke, broke out of the equipment that had been holding her, grabbed Chekov, and poked something into his neck before Kirk could fire at her. All the humanoids began awaking, and the woman seemed unaffected by phaser fire, so the landing party quickly beamed back to the ship.
+[[Image:Side-Effects-Danzek-discovery-color.jpg|thumb|left|Discovering Danzek]] A female hybrid has mechanical implants and organs from nine species within her, but doesn't seem to be as debilitated as the others. The woman suddenly awakes, breaks out of the equipment holding her, grabs Chekov, and pokes something into his neck before Kirk can fire at her. All the humanoids begin awaking, and the woman seems unaffected by phaser fire, so the landing party quickly beams back to the ship.
-[[Image:Side-Effects-wormhole-color.jpg|thumb|right|Retrieval ship creates a wormhole]] While Chekov was being treated, a wormhole erupted nearby. A massive vessel emerged from within and dragged it, the damaged ship and the ''Enterprise'' through the wormhole to a massive space station orbiting a black hole in an unknown area of space. Around the station, the ''Enterprise'' and more than 100 other vessels were being held in high-energy containment fields, and some were over 3,000 years old. Yet the station itself was no more than 50 years old.
+[[Image:Side-Effects-wormhole-color.jpg|thumb|right|Retrieval ship creates a wormhole]] While Chekov is being treated, a wormhole opens nearby. A massive vessel emerges from within and drags it, the damaged ship and the ''Enterprise'' through the wormhole to a massive space station orbiting a black hole in an unknown area of space. Around the station, the ''Enterprise'' and more than 100 other vessels are being held in high-energy containment fields, and some are over 3,000 years old. Yet the station itself is no more than 50 years old.
-Chekov had been infected with the same accelerated antigen as the hybrids, and it was killing him. McCoy deduced someone was kidnapping as many races as they could, using their immune systems to improve its own, to research a cure for a highly-adaptive disease. Spock realized that due to time dilation effects from the event horizon of the black hole, it was possible for an experimenter to send ships into normal space-time, run experiments for several hundred years, and then retrieve the ships, with only days or weeks having passed near the black hole.
+Chekov has been infected with the same accelerated antigen as the hybrids, and it is killing him. McCoy deduces someone is kidnapping as many races as they can, using their immune systems to improve its own, to research a cure for a highly-adaptive disease. Spock realizes that, due to time dilation effects from the event horizon of the black hole, it is possible for an experimenter to send ships into normal space-time, run experiments for several hundred years, and then retrieve the ships, with only days or weeks having passed near the black hole.
-[[Image:Side-Effects-Chekov-color.jpg|thumb|left|Chekov afflicted]] Uhura was unable to contact the station, but the mutated female and several other hybrids appeared to be attacking the satellite’s perimeter shields. McCoy said the female hybrid’s physiology was unique, and since she infected Chekov, a tissue sample from her was needed Even in suspended animation, Chekov would be dead in a matter of weeks.
+[[Image:Side-Effects-Chekov-color.jpg|thumb|left|Chekov afflicted]] Uhura is unable to contact the station, but the mutated female and several other hybrids appear to be attacking the satellite's perimeter shields. McCoy says the female hybrid's physiology is unique, and since she infected Chekov, a tissue sample from her is needed. Even in suspended animation, Chekov will be dead in a matter of weeks.
-Beaming to the satellite and tracking the female hybrid, the landing party found her and several followers attacking security from the satellite. Following a fight, security evaded the female and brought the landing party to a command area where they met Dr. Mynzek. Mynzek said their race was dead apart from those left on the station and he’d spent 50 years trying to save his race. He believed the female – his daughter, Danzek – had the cure to the disease. Danzek then breached the command area and, after a fight, infected her father with her antigen. She reached for Kirk, but Spock deflected her arm and broke her shoulder, spilling her blood on him. The satellite began breaking up and reopening multiple wormholes. After beaming back, Sulu piloted the ship back through the wormhole they arrived in, returning to Federation space. The blood on Spock allowed McCoy to cure Chekov.
+Beaming to the satellite and tracking the female hybrid, the landing party finds her and several followers attacking security from the satellite. Following a fight, security evades the female and brings the landing party to a command area where they met Dr. Mynzek. Mynzek says their race is dead apart from those left on the station and he's spent 50 years trying to save his race. He believed the female – his daughter, Danzek – had the cure to the disease. Danzek then breached the command area and, after a fight, infects her father with her antigen. She reached for Kirk, but Spock deflects her arm and breaks her shoulder, spilling her blood on him. The satellite begins breaking up and reopening multiple wormholes. After beaming back, Sulu pilots the ship back through the wormhole they arrived in, returning to Federation space. The blood on Spock allows McCoy to cure Chekov.
 [[Image:Side-Effects-break-shoulder.jpg|thumb|right|Spock breaks Danzek's shoulder]] '''Captain’s Log, Stardate 4722.8.'''
-:''The ''Enterprise'' escaped its space-time prison…and Chekov is on his way to recovery. However, the nature of what we experienced continues to elude us. I am working with Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy to complete our report to Starfleet.''
+:''The ''Enterprise'' escaped its space-time prison... and Chekov is on his way to recovery. However, the nature of what we experienced continues to elude us. I am working with Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy to complete our report to Starfleet.''
-Spock said several escape pods were jettisoned during the breakup of the satellite, but one escape pod had been piloted deliberately into another of the wormholes. There might have been at least one survivor, but as there was no way to know where or when the wormhole exited, the survivors might have emerged thousands of years in the past or future. McCoy said the infection was curable only because it came directly from the female. “In she goes on to infect others,” he said, “and the pattern of infection continues, resistance to such a race would be, well, futile.”
+Spock says several escape pods were jettisoned during the breakup of the satellite, but one escape pod had been piloted deliberately into another of the wormholes. There may have been at least one survivor, but as there is no way to know where or when the wormhole exits, the survivors might emerge thousands of years in the past or future. McCoy says the infection was curable only because it came directly from the female. "If she goes on to infect others," he says, "and the pattern of infection continues, resistance to such a race would be, well, futile."
 ==References==
 ===Characters===
-:[[James T. Kirk]] • [[Leonard McCoy]] • [[Spock]] • [[Pavel Chekov]] • [[Danzek]] • [[Myznek]] • [[Montgomery Scott]] • [[Hikaru Sulu]] • [[Nyota Uhura]] {{ref}} [[Albert Einstein]]
+:[[Pavel Chekov]] • [[Danzek]] • [[James T. Kirk]] • [[Leonard McCoy]] • [[Myznek]] • [[Montgomery Scott]] • [[Spock]] • [[Hikaru Sulu]] • [[Nyota Uhura]]
+{{ref}} [[Albert Einstein]]
 ===Starships and vehicles===
-:{{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} • [[Myznek lab ship]] • [[Myznek retrieval ship]] • [[Myznek space station]]
+:{{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} • [[escape pod]] • [[Myznek's lab ship]] • [[Myznek's retrieval ship]] • [[Myznek's space station]]
 ===Locations===
 ===Races and cultures===
-:[[Human]] • [[Myznek's species]] • [[Vulcan]] {{ref}} [[Romulan]]
+:[[Human]] • [[Myznek's species]] • [[Vulcan]]
+{{ref}} [[Romulan]]
 ===States and organizations===
@@ Line 54: / Line 56: @@
 ===Other references===
-:[[antigen]] • [[black hole]] • [[bridge]] • [[communicator]] • [[containment field]] • [[cybernetics]] • [[DNA]] • [[escape pod]] • [[event horizon]] • [[nervous system]] • [[neutrino]] • [[phaser]] • [[red alert]] • [[sensor]] • [[shields]] • [[sickbay]] • [[space station]] • [[special theory of relativity]] • [[temporal distortion]] • [[time dilation]] • [[transporter]] • [[wormhole]] • [[yellow alert]]
+:[[antigen]] • [[black hole]] • [[bridge]] • [[communicator]] • [[containment field]] • [[cybernetics]] • [[DNA]] • [[event horizon]] • [[nervous system]] • [[neutrino]] • [[phaser]] • [[red alert]] • [[sensor]] • [[shields]] • [[sickbay]] • [[space station]] • [[special theory of relativity]] • [[temporal distortion]] • [[time dilation]] • [[transporter]] • [[wormhole]] • [[yellow alert]]
 ==Appendices==
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 ===Related Stories===
 *{{c|TOS|Restructuring Is Futile}} – A mechanical intelligence seeking to augment organic life with cybernetic implants uses a female human as a template to create an ultimate version of itself.
-*{{mn|TNG|First Contact}} – The [[Borg Queen]] tries to assimilate the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-E| (NCC-1701-E)}}.
+*{{mn|TNG|{{st|First Contact}}}} – The [[Borg Queen]] tries to assimilate the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-E| (NCC-1701-E)}}.
 ===Images===

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