"I would assume so," Beverly answers with a shrug. "We know perspiration and blood worked. I would assume saliva did-" There were questionable activities that would lead one to assume that. Not that she personally saw any, but given what happened... "-and all the rest. It wasn't exactly a very difficult illness to contract."

They'd had a lot of cases from something as simple as touching a person who were perspiring and that was more than enough trouble.

"Oh, it's all fun and games until someone blows the hatch on the cargo bay and everyone gets sucked out into space. Or until someone turns off the environmental controls and the entire ship freezes." Her tone is slightly sarcastic, much more so than she would offer normally, but her words speak of experience. They saw that on the Tsiolkovsky. "We're not talking about something simple and fun. We're talking about something deadly, an intoxication that killed entire starships. We were racing against time from the moment Geordi started exhibiting symptoms."