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Who: Wrath, Winter, Beverly, Charles, and Erik
Broadcast: None
Action: on the Iskaulit
When: June 4

[Wrath's very excited about having so many of her friends around. While she likes showing off the Windrose, she decided the Iskaulit would be a better place. There are plenty of spare rooms not far from the mural where she can set up temporarily, and this way she's not taking up her ship's dining area and making things difficult for her crewmates.

She's got snacks lined up--including more dried bacon kelp--and an array of good drinks. Officer Snuggles, released from his tactical fox vest, is hanging around in the hopes that some ~~sucker~~ kind stranger will feed him under the table.

A deck of cards is waiting, and she managed to find a box of game tokens that should work well during one last trip to the moon. Everything's ready.]

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What do you explore?

Outer space, other planets, other cultures... or at least, that's what our ship does in general. My specialties lie in medical technology and botany.

[ Charles blinks. ]

Were you on another ship then? An exploration ship?

Oh! Yes! I'm sorry, since you knew about Betazoids already, I thought you knew: I'm in Starfleet.

Ah, so you and Captain Kirk are from the same universe. I hadn't realized.

Not... Quite. He's from a universe parallel to mine and from an earlier time as well. He was born about a hundred years before me.

That's . . . quite the divide. Unusual too.

You see why the patterns of who comes here intrigues me then. Even those who have been here from my universe have not been people I knew there. Much different from most people's experiences.

For me, this is the first time meeting mutants outside of my universe. I had some inkling, of course. I've interacted with my future self and other time travelers, but that was within the confines of my universe as well.

My condolences. Time travel is a real headache.

[Sort of joking, sort of not.]

[ He chuckles. ]

It certainly is that. I traveled through the mind. It was an . . . interesting experience.

I wish I had gone through the mind... at least I wouldn't have to be wearing a corset.

How far back did you go?

About five hundred years - 1893.

That's impressive. I didn't think anyone could travel back so far.

To be honest, we didn't exactly do it on purpose. I'm just glad we all made it back.

How did it even happen?

Ah.

[She laughs.]

That is a long and complicated story. Will it suffice to say simply alien technology? To be honest, I'm not a temporal physicist so not all of it makes sense to me, even though I was there to see it in action.

I suppose it can't be any stranger than people traveling back to their past selves using a mutant ability.

Or any stranger than being kidnapped to another universe to be on a reality show in space?

I suppose there is that. Though the kidnapping part seems to be mandatory for these omniscient creatures.

So I've gathered, from the discussions I've had with other people who have been in a situation like this before.

Though the idea of a reality show seems absurd, it doesn't mean it's not believable. All the creatures I've met had a fascination for observing humanity. And other variations.

Oh no, I'm perfectly willing to believe we're here for their entertainment. I know more than one species both capable of and willing to do that.

You do?