title: Quarantine (Star Trek Voyager: Starfleet Academy No. 3)
author: Patricia Barnes-Svarney
description: Cadet Kathyrn Janeway is thrilled and nervous. She and four other cadets have just been assigned to the <i>U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky</i>. It's their first real mission: to bring medical supplies to the planet Chatoob and help save a people condemned by air that hasn't been fit to breathe for centuries. But when Kathyrn analyzes the "poison" atmosphere, she finds no evidence of contamination. Is someone telling them lies? She's determined to discover the truth. But when the curious cadets rush to help a sick old woman, they're trapped in a sealed room with people dying of the plague. Suddenly, they're cut off from their mothership, locked in a quarantine, scheduled to die -- unless Kathyrn can lead them out of the dead zone in time.
zlib_text: STAR TREK VOYAGER STARFLEET ACADEMY: QUARANTINE [065-5.0]
  
  
  By: PATRICIA BARNES-SVARNEY
  
  
  SYNOPSIS:
  
  
  “We did not see you all of the sudden,” she said, then pointed to the others
  standing behind her. “We thought you disappeared.”
  
  
  “No, but someone else did,” she said, explaining to the others about the old
  woman and the strange readings on her tricorder. “I was just going to see
  where she went,” she added, turning the doorknob.
  
  
  The door swung open slowly. Kathryn was in the lead, with the four cadets
  following close behind.
  
  
  Fixtures along the ceiling bathed the room in a bright yellow light.
  
  
  “I just want to find out if I’m going crazy,” explained Kathryn, shading her
  eyes and looking around the empty room. “Plus, if I can learn anything about
  the air outside the domes, I’d-” Before Kathryn finished her sentence, the
  door they entered slammed shut. Just as suddenly, alarms started chiming and
  ringing. She dropped her tricorder and covered her ears to shut out the noise.
  The instr