[Nog picks up his patched together device, uses the scanner to aim for Boimler's thymus, and fires.]

[The phaser emitter gives off a barely noticeable, half-hearted bweoo.]

[Nog checks the readings.]

Looks like a...huh. Steady 15 to 20% increase in production.

[Certainly better than Nog thought he'd get with his slapdash solution.]

It's going to be a bit before we see how much it helped, though.