Subject: What the hell is this?
Oku Ramin spent the whole night in his quarters, low-lighted by the light of his subspace-field cosmic-ray dark field microscope. As his eyes are red and thus more sensitive to stress, he was dropping some tears.
He was startled with that tissue samples he got from the wounds of the away mission. The disruptor blasts were very uncommon.
"With this I am gonna write a paper in Starfleet Medical Archives" he thought.
Looking at this strange view of 1000-power-burned muscle tissue he found a little, tiny coiled thing. He was amazed. "¿Spirochetes?" he thought. As exobiology was his strongest, he started to think.
"Computer" he said, "display list of Federation worlds' spirochetes"
The computer then displayed a list bigger than the USS Grail itself.
"Damn" he thought. "Computer, isolate species which can survive a disruptor blast"
"There are no species with desired specifications" computer replied.
It was simply amazing. ¿Could it be some sort of contamination?
"Computer, performance of biological Isolation fields level 3"
"Isolation fields working at 100%" it replied.
Oku Ramin thought that he was getting somewhat ignorant or... there IS a species of that sort of bacteria that lives either in disruptor blasts of... in SUBSPACE ITSELF
"Computer, display every known spirochetes that lives in subspace"
"There are no known species with desired specifications" computer answered
"Computer" Oku asked, "Analyze genetic material from spirochete in field of microscope"
"Genetic sequence analyzed. The genetic code has been altered"
Alteration of that genetic code only means something: BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS or Oku doesn't hate Horusians!
He remembered the Fantara II epidemics due to a genetically altered virus. He then tried to identify the gene sequence that had been altered. It was not a plasmid. It wasn't natural. It had some flaws that revealed the authors of the manipulation: Romulus Science Lab Alpha or somewhere nearby.
He wanted to be sure, but his Thairian mind was as sure as a Klingon engaging in battle.
He identified the original species. It was a common Treponema vulcanae (the Vulcan syphillis one, which has the ability to invade and penetrate any known tissue IF the immune system is down). The altered code was from that unknown species found by the Ferengi. Somehow, Rommies got one (might have bought one) and extracted the genes for subspace living, implanting them to this little thing.
"Ramin to Dr. St. Claire" he spoke through his communicator "I'm sorry to wake you up, but there's something you must see... NOW!"