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Who: Beverly Crusher and all you other fine redheads
Broadcast: Networkwide Video
Action: Blue Fish, Cargo Bay
When: Right after the shuffle!

[The video feed cuts on to show Beverly, grinning with amusement, though her tone remains professional as she addresses the fleet.] Attention, Drift Fleet! This is Dr. Crusher of the SS Blue Fish. [Sorry guys, it's going to be a while before she stops talking to the network like she's in Starfleet.] We've received an... interesting delivery here on board the Blue Fish that I think some of you will want to see.

[She steps back from the camera for a moment, revealing the Blue Fish's cargo bay, stacked floor to ceiling with crates of what looks like... shampoo? You'll also see the Blue Fish's intrepid Captain Sokka in the background, mouth open in angry shock about this intrusion into his cargo bay. Beverly walks over to the nearest crate and pulls out a bottle of shampoo to hold up closer to the camera. The shiny red bottle looks suspiciously similar to a certain famous salon brand of hair care products from late 20th or early 21st century Earth, if any of you happen to be familiar with that. "JOHN FLOOTER" is emblazoned prominently on the top along with the words "RESPLENDENT RED" in gold.]

In case you can't tell what is in the crates, it's shampoo, and tons of it.

[Her face pops back onscreen.]

Someone out there must really have a thing for redheads. [She waggles her eyebrows.] But who can blame them?

[She sets the shampoo back in its box before continuing.]

Of course, it's not all for just me and Kairi! They sent a list, which I'll upload onto the network, and if your name is on it, you can come by the Blue Fish at any time to pick up your gift. Or, if it's easier for you, just let me know and I'll bring your box by your ship at your earliest convenience. Thank you!

((ooc: if your character is a redhead, assume they're on the list. someone in the audience just really wanted an excuse for all the redheads to get together, okay???))

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[The catgirl does come to mind. Although she supposes evolution has taken enough by-paths over the years to make anything possible. The parallel universes theory grabs her attention more strongly at the moment, though:]

Really? Smaller differences, how so?

Well, the most famous example - or infamous, I guess would be more accurate - was discovered about a century ago by Captain Kirk and his crew. They found that versions of themselves existed in that universe as well, except there, they weren't part of a peaceful republic, but rather a brutal militaristic empire, where torture, murder, and betrayal were commonplace. Otherwise technology, places, people, even some historical events were roughly the same as they were in our universe.

Fortunately, no one has encountered that reality again, but there have been others. One of my crewmates was caught in a state of quantum flux and shifted through several different realities before he was able to correct the original quantum incursion. I myself have been in another universe, though that was not exactly comparable as it was unstable and didn't exist independently from our own universe.

So in that first alternate world, similar histories existed. The same people were there, but different. Altered by their experiences, I guess. [She knows all too well what that's like, these days.]

I take it it didn't end well, that first time. People from your world meeting people from the other.

They all survived the encounter if that's what you mean. But barely. It easily could have gone very, very differently.

Mm.

[She's lost in thought for a moment, considering the not!Steve. The hatred and bitterness in his eyes. She still can't believe that a man like Steve could become someone like that. She would say could look at her like that--but that she can believe well enough. Looking back at Bev, she offers a one armed shrug, finished with her examination of the tricorder.]

I can't imagine it was any easier for them. Seeing people they could have become.

Perhaps. From all reports they seemed to get some sort of sadistic enjoyment out of harming others, but having never been there myself, I can't say for sure.