"What is the purpose of this program?" Seven ask as she look around the big arena and I shrug
"Several purposes. For one thing my body is largely organic, just like yours and its important to keep the strength and stamina up." she frown slightly
"My implants regulate muscle growth and acid build up. I do not need exercise." and I smile while walking over to the weapon rack to pick up a stereotypical fantasy battleaxe
"That's no reason to be lazy. Besides, Like the Doctor said, your human body are taking over functions from your Borg implants. It's also more entertaining than simply running while also help your instincts and combat training." before I toss a sword to her "Computer. Initiate program."
A big European style dragon appear in the middle of the arena and roar. Seven just look at it "We are supposed to defeat this creature using these primitive weapons?" and I nod with a grin
"Welcome to the Monster Hunter holodeck program's tutorial level. Watch out for the tail when it spin, its faster than it look." before I rest my axe at my shoulder and walk towards the big creature.
During the next day I join B'Elanna and The Doctor on a away mission. Voyager received a distress call from a hologram on a ship out of our way. His crew is dead so we are taking a shuttle to assist while Voyager is heading to a meeting for trade negotiations.
The Doctor spend most of the journey walking back and forth. He is clearly exited and worried about meeting another piece of sapient software. I don't exactly remember this episode at all and at first I wasn't even sure why I was going.
In the end I asked B'Elanna and she explained that now when I have a ok handle on Federation technology I need to learn to analyze and adapt to unfamiliar technology. According to her I'm past first year at the academy in practical knowledge even if I slack behind in theory, especially math and physics.
Honestly I didn't think I was doing quite 'that' good but I have started to get what most things do in engineering and I 'can' repair the simple things...and that drone i'm working on on my free time is coming along so...she might be right.
When we find the ship and the hologram things seem simple enough. His crew have sick after a away mission and he couldn't heal them and now they are dead.
While B'Elanna are working with repairing the hologram, his matrix have taken some damage and the doctor philosophize about being a hologram with him and sharing experiences I spend the time trying to understand the technology.
After a while the hologram wanders off and a few minutes later B'Elanna return in a hurry, saying she had had a rather hostile confrontation with him. Some rant about how disgusting organics is.
To be fair if we talking about biological functions I cant exactly argue with him, but...
He is also obsessed with fish for some reason. But then again he is a sapient being that spent most of his existence in the reactor and the rest in the ship being pushed around by the organic crew. I don't blame him for having developed a few complexes.
Developing a sapient being, software or not, is just plain cruel if not straight out evil.
We left The Doctor talking with him as B'Elanna and I explored the lower deck..and found the crew. They had been murdered.
The Hologram killed his crew...and I don't blame him. Not that he gave me time to say anything when he attacked us when we discovered it and tried to access his program.
Fighting a hologram is a nightmare, but I managed to shut him down while he was squeezing B'Elannas heart.
As we where trying to shut down the dampening field to beam back to the shuttle (WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH GOOD OLD CLASSICAL DOCKING!?) his emitters came back online and he attacked. He went straight for me and knocked me out, my attempt at blocking totally unsuccessful. Apparently having your skull structurally reinforced with metal don't help when your brain bounce against the inside after a strong blow.
When I woke back up I was back in voyagers Sickbay. I then found out B'Elanna had managed to take him out by shoving a powerline into his holomatrix, disrupting it. I'm still not sure about the physics, but I think it cause some kind of feedback into the system through the force fields that a hologram consist of.
I simply groan softly and put my head softly back down on the pillow. I need to talk to Seven...The Borg must have some kind of ideas about preventing blunt force trauma.