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driftfleet2016-05-01 09:56 am
thespaceopera) wrote in driftfleet2016-05-01 09:56 am
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And We Danced (Masquerade Overflow!)
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Apollo - Ballroom
Well, I thought it was. The trick, I found, is actually keeping it. I had her taken away from me for a short time, but I earned her back.
[ At first for a reason he would never be able to fully reconcile, but after because he had done everything he could to save her and his crew, albeit from circumstances of his own making. ]
It's been a bit of a bumpy relationship the past two years, to say the least.
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Not competition, more that there have been some big events, and I was actually off her for a year in recovery after an accident. But there was the one time I did get knocked off because the old stodgy men in uniforms did not like my lack of regard for the Prime Directive.
[ He shrugged casually. ]
I won't apologize for what I did. We had the means to save a people, and so I did.
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It's basically a non-interference rule in Star Fleet. It's meant to keep us from overly influencing primitive cultures we come across, throwing off their natural evolution to the point where they can be part of the greater universe on their own.
I respect that rule, I do, and I understand why it's necessary. But at the same time, I don't think it's a good enough reason to sit back and simply watch a whole civilization die.
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... I'm not so fond of your organisation anymore.
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For instance - say we find a planet, and the only two cultures on that planet are at war with each other. We're not allowed to step in and interfere and stop their fighting. It's not our place, and if they end up wiping each other out, well, it's considered a part of that culture's evolution. As much as I dislike that part of it, I understand it. We would be entering into a situation we have no cultural reference for, and further we would be imposing our own cultural and morale values onto them at a point where they could quite easily be dominated and influenced, thus wiping out their unique culture altogether.
Think about how many just on Earth have risen and died out. If someone had stepped in hundreds of years ago, would we be what we are today?
Now, what I did - I and my crew saved a culture from a natural disaster. A volcano. We came at the right time to see it, and I couldn't rationalize letting them die because of something we could prevent. Besides stopping the volcano, there was no contact with the people.
[ Not entirely true, but that's not the point right now. ]
There are reasons for the Prime Directive. Good reasons. I just... don't happen to agree with every letter of it.
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Okay, that makes a lot more sense and is far less evil than I was starting to think.
Non-involvement in cultural development.
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That is really what it's about. It's to protect those planets not yet able or ready to defend themselves on a universal stage and preserve who they are as a people. We - that is Star Fleet, and especially myself - do not wish to be conquerors like the Klingon. We value the individual cultures that make up the Federation and those we might yet come across.
And while many would believe that stopping the volcano is a violation of that protection, an in-direct interference in their evolution, I... I believe that life is precious. And that doing nothing is as bad as setting off that volcano ourselves.
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Though we did sort of destroy Italy on a parallel Earth.
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Well, the world could do with a bit less pasta.
[ He gives him a little smile to show he's teasing, ducking his head to laugh. ]
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Well in that case, who can argue?
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Why would alien overlords want Italy of all places?
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[ He laughed. ]
One of Earth's great mysteries, hmm? Like 'Why a raven is like a writing desk'?
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[Apollo doesn't even think about the answer as they dance.]
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Did he? There's an answer to that in your world?
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[ It dawns and he gapes a little. ]
Oh my god, how did I never see that?!
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[ He finds he likes that smile on Apollo's face and he cannot help but return it. ]
They throw that stupid riddle at you in sixth grade english and for the life of me I've never thought of that being an answer!
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Well, it's a good thing you did. Otherwise that question would have haunted me all night and then I would have gotten no sleep at all thanks to you.
[ He smirked up at Apollo, a touch of flirtation and innuendo in his words - mostly because it was simply how he was. He could never resist. ]
It might be fate that I danced with you tonight. One of life's great mysteries has been solved.
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