Windrose, where the wind blows

[tothefly]

Who: Windrose crew and you, distinguished visitors!
Broadcast: Naaah.
Action: Windrose, various points in the near vicinity
When: Until we get off this frozen rock

[On New Year's Day, the crew on board the Windrose and those nearby may notice the chill as the doors to the cargo bay are left open, and their captain making quite a bit of noise as she inspects their newly expanded home away from home. This is likely to go on for a while. Feel free to come investigate, chat among yourselves, complain about the cold, etc!]

Comments

[unbearablynaive]

[The Vision smiles, very slightly.]

It's certainly not a good excuse. But then, neither is entertainment in general. Perhaps their writers are on strike and more reality broadcasts are the only solution.

[dancingmd]

[Yeah that reference... just goes right over her head.]

What do you mean, their writers might be on strike? Like a labor union action?

[IS IT SOMETHING WE CAN USE AGAINST THEM???]

What makes you think that?

[unbearablynaive]

[Well, it is much more current events to him. Does the Federation even have reality TV?]

It was exactly that that caused a rise in reality television programming in my own timeline. Though, conversely, once the strike was resolved, there was also a rise in the general quality of scripted programming and a move toward the story arc model rather than the episodic model.

[He shrugs apologetically.]

It would also explain Calibrations, if the signal were temporarily offline for some reason.

[dancingmd]

[Not really. She has some hazy recollection of it being A Thing at some point in history but well... It never took off the same way in her 21st century as it did his, with the devastation of World War III and its aftermath. So this only makes a little bit of sense to her.]

I believe the other fleet had something to do with that, personally, when they drove us into the nebula.

[unbearablynaive]

[WWIII is something that, thankfully, they've yet avoided. Of course, there's also the matter of alien contact long before the Vulcans in his time, so that may have something to do with it.]

You don't think it was intentional by Atroma, then?

[dancingmd]

I don't, not after seeing how Diamond and Beau were acting, and how everything has lost its... Smoothness since then.

[unbearablynaive]

[He nods.]

We've not heard from them since then, either. Perhaps they were held responsible and have been fired from their positions.

[dancingmd]

Now that's a thought... I don't know how it'd help us any but it might tell us something more about them if that turns out to be the case.

[unbearablynaive]

Any knowledge can be useful, I agree. We have so little about them.