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Who: Beverly Crusher and Wrath
Broadcast: yes, video
Action: Find Beverly and Wrath on the Blue Fish right now (Wrath on the Windrose later)
When: Current

Good afternoon, Fleet, I’m Dr. Crusher, of the Blue Fish, [She gestures a hand towards Wrath] this is Wrath, of the Windrose, and we have an important request of our fellow fleet members. Wrath needs to undergo complicated back surgery, involving the removal of cybernetic implants. I have the skills and done the research necessary in order to do this, but I do not have the facilities or all of the equipment that I need. If anyone with medical, engineering, or computer knowledge would be willing to help us construct a surgical suite, I would, of course, compensate you for your time and energy. Please send us any questions you may have and thank you!

[Wrath waves and grins. She's leaning on her familiar cane.] Hi everyone! Um! Like Dr. Crusher said, I really appreciate any help, it'd be great to be back up to full effectiveness and kicking ass! This is so great, I never thought this injury could get fixed so I'm really... just hopeful. So thank you everybody.

And uh. It'd probably also be good to have someone who can talk to the nanobots that regulate my bone growth and muscle fibers. Cuz my old doctor put a governor on the muscles so I wouldn't hurt myself, but once my back is fixed I should get retuned to full speed.

I'll definitely compensate anyone for help too!

[Responses can come from both Wrath and Dr. Crusher!]

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It would be far more convenient to have it available to us for future use, yes. I presume you've already looked at the medical facilities available locally? It may be possible to rent them out.

I have. If that proves to be my best option, I'll take it, but I want to look into other possibilities first.

[He nods. It really would be better to have it in the Fleet, as there are sure to be other medical emergencies later on, but at least they have the option of doing it on the moon instead.]

I would be glad to help construct what we might need, then, provided we can find the proper materials. Two of my creators were heavily involved in the medical technology field.

Perfect! Have you by chance met James Kirk yet?

I haven't, no, though I'm glad to work with anyone you recommend.

He’s someone else from my world.

[...]

Kind of. He’s a Starfleet officer as well and a citizen of the Federation, but from a universe parallel to mine.

I'm beginning to see some aspects of that with my own timeline. It can be rather confusing, but if the basis for society is similar enough it shouldn't be too bad. At least you have the terminology in common, yes?

We do... But the other problem is that he is from the past as well, so it's difficult to know exactly what I should and should not tell him.

[It's a headache.]

Is that something you need to be concerned with, if you're sure you're in a different timeline?

Maybe, maybe not. There are certain events that are likely to happen, regardless of our differences... It is actually much more difficult for me to know how to deal with this situation than I would with someone from my own universe, even if they were from a different time.

[She smiles ruefully.]

Not that I was particularly good about that either. The Prime Directive has gone a bit by the wayside I'm afraid.

Yes, I suppose so. The Second World War is always likely to have a Holocaust, whether or not Hydra is involved--something along those lines?

The Prime Directive - keeping the timeline intact? [It's a guess, but that is what they're talking about, after all.]

Something like that, yes. I have no idea what Hydra is but there was most definitely a Holocaust in our World War II. Though... It's strange, that WWII seems to be such a common thread in all these worlds, but I have yet to run into anyone else who has experienced WWIII.

As for the Prime Directive, it's a directive of non-interference by Starfleet personnel in regards to the development of other cultures and it applies to those from the past as well. Technically, I should not tell anyone here well... anything, really, about my world. But that is of course, rather unfeasible given our situation.

[Still, she frowns. She's rationalized it all but there is a sliver of doubt there. Not enough to change her mind, however.]

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I'll choose to be grateful for that, I think. I'd very much like there not to be a third World War. May I ask when it took place in your timeline?

[He nods with a thoughtful expression.]

Ah, well, in that case I'd understand if you'd rather not answer about World War III. There was rather a lot of weapons development in the wake of the first confirmed modern contact with Asgard, after all, and the New York Incident could have been avoided entirely if they'd not left an artifact on Earth in the first place.

[Right. Asgard... she remembers now that that's a planet in Vision and Natasha's universe. More aliens pretending to be gods.

Fantastic.]

I'm not sure what the New York Incident is, exactly, but I believe you're getting the idea, either way. The Prime Directive was established because of the centuries of historical precedent, where cultures were destroyed, even by those who thought they were helping.

Especially by those who thought they were helping, I'd imagine.

[There's a reason he doesn't stick his own fingers in every pie - or even very many at all. For too much of its past, the Mind Stone had been a vortex of destruction.]

Is there a point you would interfere, then? Aside from an immediate threat to your own livelihood, which is excusable.

Ah... actually, a Starfleet officer must be willing to sacrifice their life and the lives of their crewmates in order to uphold the Prime Directive. No doubt if Starfleet command knew of some of my actions here, I would have to face a board of inquiry. [Again.] I'm fully prepared to deal with that should that happen, if I remember the events here when I return. But I believe I would receive leniency for the fact that I was brought to the fleet against my will. This is... an unprecedented situation, thus why it is difficult sometimes to know how to proceed.

[Really.] Does it come up often? That seems rather extreme to me.

Additionally, the rest of us are under no restrictions to speak of our home timelines, all in all.

Not often, but it does happen.

[Her voice gets quieter.]

It almost happened to my son. But there is absolutely no way I would have allowed it. Some things come before even my commitment to Starfleet.

It's important to consider personal moral convictions. Mine are to preserve life whenever feasible.

[Which is to say, he agrees with her choice.]

It was more than morality - it was love.

[No considerations, either. There was only one acceptable answer to that situation.

She considers Vision for a moment.]

May I ask you something? About your nature, as an android?

The can most certainly influence one another. Love, especially so.

[He inclines his head.]

Of course you may.

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Do you experience emotions? I don't mean necessarily in the way organic species would, but in general... do you feel love? And if that's too personal of a question, please, don't feel obligated to answer.

I don't find it too personal, Dr. Crusher.

Yes, I do recognize emotions. I can't guarantee they're the same to me as you might feel, but I've more than enough organic components to feel.

[The specific question brings a smile to his face.]

I know beauty when I see it. I know sadness, that it will be eventually lost. I know joy, that I have witnessed it before it's gone. According to Shakespeare, that ought to be enough.

[What an eloquent way to put it! It's naturally appealing to Beverly, given her background in theatre.]

And we won't dare argue with the Bard, will we?

[She smiles.]

I ask because I have a friend at home who is an android and was the only one of his kind for a long time. Even now, there is only one other who is still functioning and she is... well, it's complicated. In any case, he has always maintained that he does not have emotions and I have often felt - [Another small smile at her inadvertent choice of words] I have wondered if he was perhaps comparing himself too much to us because he never had anyone else to measure himself by. It's been something I've been thinking about more lately, having now met androids from other universes.

[Of course, Data is not her only reason - it'd take very little prying to discover Daneel's role in this as well.]

He is an authority on human emotion. [And all of his works are easy to find, being on the public domain. Not that he couldn't access everything else with a little more effort.]

Ah, I see. I believe the importance here would be in how one defines emotion. If it's the reaction of certain chemicals in the body to create a subconscious response, an android body could certainly be created without those. If it's defined instead as the collection of experiences and input creating a reaction that is other than logical, any sufficiently complex intelligence would be able to experience that - artificial or not. Expressing emotion in the same way is different between individuals of the same species, is it not? [Perhaps his standards were skewed, if he was only comparing himself to humans.]

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