Hester Dealt
professionally weary
methodical
cautiously insistent
formally transparent
Lieutenant Commander Hester Dealt commands the Federation Medical Collection Station as its medical trustee, a role that places him at the lethal intersection of medical ethics and interstellar quarantine protocol. When the Enterprise arrives to transport plague specimens, Dealt's holographic projection on the bridge viewscreen becomes the voice of bureaucratic caution made flesh. His disposable lab coat and pushed-up medical mask frame weary eyes that have witnessed too much contagion, while his measured insistence on pre-transfer inspections transforms procedural anxiety into life-or-death protocol. He offers total transparency—complete manifest access to the Enterprise's computer banks—yet withholds trust until every containment seal proves worthy, embodying the Federation's desperate balance between scientific cooperation and species self-preservation.
4 appearances
Medical Quarantine and Containment Protocol
Hester Dealt's Journey
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