driftfleet | Chapter Seven [video]

Who: Richard Castle and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A unless Windrose crew wants it
When: June 7th

[When the feed clicks on, Castle has his feet propped up and is reading aloud from a book, although the cover is obscured from view. Also, his Scottish accent is atrocious. Bear with him. He's discovered the cheap vending machine romance novels.]

"Lass, from 500 years intae the future ye may be, but theh be things ye kannae ken." Lord McKraken then doubled over in pain, holding his stomach.

"But I love you!" Elizabeth cried out, rushing over to her Lord's side, holding his sweating form in her arms as he grimaced in agony, running her hands along his feverish pectorals. "I've promised to never leave your side no matter what comes between us."

"Ah beg ye, lass, get thee away before it be too late- AUUUUUUGH!" Elizabeth was forced to back away as McKraken's skin became slimier and slimier. "Ah'm... Ah'm..."

"What is it?"

"Ah be a were-cuttlefish!"

[Castle then has to place the book face-down on the table and lean his head back, laughing.]

Sorry, I just had to share that with someone.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Exactly. It's a lot more difficult to fill a starship with water than it is with air. Not that it's impossible mind you - we have aquatic quarters on the Enterprise.

Now THAT sounds cool- and it's awesome that you all did that, too. There was a problem, so you came up with a solution so that everyone could cruise around the stars with you.

Well dolphins are no slouch in the engineering department - the builders of the Enterprise had a lot of imput from them.

... dolphins? Really?

[She grins.]

Yes, really. It took us much longer than it should have to realize they were sentient too.

That's so cool! I mean, it makes sense- they do like to chat, just not in any way we can understand.

Most of them have a pretty great sense of humor too.

New life goals: have a nice chat with a dolphin. Too bad I can't communicate with aquatic creatures.

Who knows? Maybe a universal translator is not too far in your future.

Gosh, I'd love that. And we can be prepared for when extraterrestrials do inevitably discover us.

[She laughs.]

Hopefully they'll be duly impressed then.

I can only hope so- and that they don't decide to just nuke us from orbit instead.

I know this is not much of a comfort but you're probably not considered much of a threat to anyone at this point, so that does help in some small way.

You know, that's an angle I hadn't considered, but it's true. I mean, humans have plenty of efficient weapons, but I'm sure any alien beings would be prepared for hostility.

Or peace. We were fortunate in our first extraterrestrial meeting that they did not want to conquer us.

That would be nice. Ushering in a whole new era of prosperity and awesomeness for mankind.

I hope so - though of course, there's no reason to wait for alien influences to get started on that path.

You'd think, but humans in my time have figured out plenty of reasons to be... less than awesome to each other.

[She tilts her head thoughtfully.]

What year is it again for you?

2013.

Well, it sounds like you're doing better than we were at that point at least.

Well, that's comforting to know. Sometimes it feels like humans are headed fast toward destruction.

Have more faith in yourselves. You'll get there.

And I can't wait til we do.

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