She signalled Captain Picard, who touched a con-
trol, altering the projection in the center of the table.
Anna nichole smith nude now Dr. Crusher saw the face of an Orakisan woman.
"My brother's wife, Vi'ar," Lelys said.
Dr. Crusher studied the ravaged face before her.
i'ar's hair was dull and brittle, her anna nichole smith nude eyes lusterless.
Orakisan eyes were mostly composed of gloriously
colored iris with only the smallest rim of white, but
this woman's anna nichole smith nude irises had dwindled and paled until it
was almost impossible to see them. Her skin was
muddy gray, like tissue paper stretched over her
bones.
"How old is she?" the doctor asked.
"A little younger than I," Lelys anna nichole smith nude replied. "I know it
doesn't seem possible, looking at anna nichole smith nude her, but anna nichole smith nude it's true."
"Malnutrition," Dr. Crusher concluded. "Starva-
tion induced, I'd say."
"So." anna nichole smith nude Lelys agreed. &anna nichole smith nude quot;And yet she eats well, plenti-
fully. There is no anna nichole smith nude shortage of anna nichole smith nude food on S'ka'rys."
"To starve in the midst of plenty..." Dr. Crusher
mused. "A metabolic disorder, then."
Again Lelys nodded, "anna nichole smith nude Your Federation scientists
concur. For some reason, the alterations necessary to
allow our settlers to return to S'ka'rys had a disas-
anna nichole smith nude trous side effect on their digestive systems. They are
no longer able to extract the nutrients their bodies
need from the crops they raise. Unfortunately, this
effect did not become evident until it was anna nichole smith nude too late,
with too many Orakisans no longer able to live
anywhere but on S'ka'rys." She lowered her voice.
"To say nothing of anna nichole smith nude their children."
"How--" Dr. Crusher couldn't take her eyes off the
tormented, haggard face of Lelys's
young sister-in-
law. &anna nichole smith nude quot;How many have died?"
"Almost a hundred. Does it matter? Unless our
mission succeeds they are all doomed. None of them
can leave S'ka'rys and live; none of them can remain
on S'ka'rys and survive."
"And the stock animals? The ones they brought
back to Skerris IV from Orakisa? Have they been
dying anna nichole smith nude off as well?"
"The beasts don't seem to be affected," Lelys told
her. "The Federation team anna nichole smith nude explained it to
us in detail,
but my specialty anna nichole smith nude is anna nichole smith nude diplomacy, anna nichole smith nude not biology. anna nichole smith nude besides, I
don't believe in questioning luck. The herds have no
trouble metabolizing the native vegetation, which
anna nichole smith nude allows our people to get some nourishment from
eating the animals' meat. It's
only a temporary solu-
tion, though. Meat alone can't provide them with all
their nutritional anna nichole smith nude needs, and the animals can't repro-
duce fast enough to keep