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Who: Beverly Crusher
Broadcast: Video
Action: Iskaulit
When: Now!

[Hello Fleet, it's been a while since you all have seen this particular redhead's face on the network. Months, really, since she's made a public broadcast like this. She appears to be in a good mood, offering the fleet a smile, and even if her address is rather formal, her tone is warm and welcoming. Behind her is the greenhouse of the Iskaulit, with lots of tropical-looking plants and even what looks like fruit! Weird fruit! But fruit nonetheless.]

Good afternoon! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Dr. Beverly Crusher of the SS Blue Fish. I, along with Ino Yamanaka on the Three Twins, run the garden here on the Iskaulit. I've spoken with many of you who have expressed an interest in learning how to garden. In light of this, I've decided to offer classes of a sort... nothing too formal, just a weekly meeting where I can teach people the basics of taking care of plants in the environment of a starship. Though of course, if people want something more extensive, I'm more than happy to accommodate for that! But it seems best to start simple, see what people are most interested in. So, if this is something you think you'd like to be a part of or if you have any questions, you can either respond here or I'll be on the Iskaulit the rest of the afternoon should you prefer to talk in person.

Thank you for your attention!

[And Crusher out!]

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[Daring Beverly to do anything is a dangerous proposition. She's hardly intimidated by rank, hardly intimidated by anyone, really. She'll argue with Picard, she'll argue with Q, and she'll certainly argue with the great Captain Kirk.]

Julian was coming straight from a prisoner of war camp where he was starved and tortured and forced to fight other inmates. Probably faced a lot more that I don't know about. He was hardly in his best mental or emotional state, so forgive me for not judging him for that and for caring more about his well-being than pushing my theories on him.

_{[ Most likely, and he knows that somewhere in the more instinctual
part of his brain. It's dangerous to challenge any CMO to anything in his
opinion, but then he was heavily biased thanks to McCoy. The new
information did give him pause, but it wasn't enough to change his
mind.}

_{He had never been a POW, but he had suffered in his own ways, ways he
preferred not to remember, and others that were still to raw. He didn't
think her keeping it from him had been doing him favors. Would she ever
find it a 'good' time to tell him, would his well-being ever be served by
telling him? Kirk would rather know the possibility of the monsters in the
dark, to better guard himself, than to go on living in ignorance. He might
never have forgiven McCoy if he had done something like to him, he
thought.}

_{But Beverely was not McCoy, was she? And it wasn't hard for him to see
that she was not going to give ground on this, and neither was he. Stubborn
as he might be, even he could see when it was a losing battle and he would
rather not sour what relationship they had. ]}

We just see the situation a bit differently, then.

But we can both agree we need to be on our guard with this Atroma, right? If it's willing to commit something that close to genocide - theorized genocide anyways, I hate to think what else it finds acceptable and is capable of.

[She might have eventually brought it up to Julian again, but the right time sure as hell wasn't three days after his arrival. And at the time it wasn't a priority for her. Her focus was first and foremost on finding a cure, and then on doing what she could to help Julian readjust to life in a different sort of prison.

Arms crossed, she's still working her jaw in annoyance. But she knows to take an olive branch when it's offered, even if it will take her a little longer to get over being mad at him (She will get there though, Kirk, promise - the truth is, a lot of her defensiveness stems from the fact that she has no idea if Julian is even alive, which is something that continues to eat at her).]

Guess so.

[Then a sigh, to release some of the tension.]

I don't think there is much of a line for Atroma.

_{[ They could argue in circles about what was the right way to handle things. He would have said he wouldn't have appreciated her keeping such a thing from him, that he would have felt more secure understanding the true potential of the monsters that had taken them, but he had not been there and she had. It was a moot point now, and butting heads over it was, essentially, pointless.

She could get over it or not. While Kirk valued her opinion and friendship, he wasn't about to apologize for what he felt was right either. It was his stubbornness in full swing. ]}

That's true. We're applying human concepts of morals and decency to something that we don't even know if its human, machine, alien, or otherwise. It's safer to assume it's capable of anything.

[She gives a stiff nod.]

Especially since we know they are perfectly willing to violate our minds and make each other complicit in doing so.

_{[ His mouth set in a hard line, his eyes doing the same. He shifted
his weight, crossing his arms stiffly. ]}

I really hate this part - not knowing what we can do. Not knowing anything, really.

I know. I don't like it either, but I think this is something that's just going to have to take a lot of patience. No one is invincible though.

_{[ He nodded. ]}

Very true. Now it's just the patience part. I'm still working on that part of being a leader.

[Kirk… never really was known for his patience. More for his “cowboy diplomacy” as Jean-Luc called it. But he was a man of his time and now that this Kirk is facing a dramatically different world - who knows? To already be a captain at his age… it’s a lot to take on.]

Probably few better places to learn than here.

_{[ Well, at least he wasn't disappointing in that regard then. He
didn't personally think he would ever learn much patience, honestly, but he
did hope to learn not making poor decisions while being less than patient.
]}

Heh, I guess I had better or go insane - or possibly drive others insane.

I find it helps to get involved with projects that help make our lives a little easier. Then you feel like you'r'e doing something at least to move us forward... If you let yourself sit too much thinking about everything you will start to go crazy.

Yes, perhaps I should. I've been exercising, but it can only occupy so much of my time. I wouldn't mind having a project or two like back at the station.

Hmm... well, we have the bars, and the gardens here and a library, even a fox park...

[Then her eyes light up as she has a thought.]

What about a workshop of some sort? For helping out people whose ship's don't have an engineer or if people want to collaborate on projects?

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