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Who: Beverly Crusher and you
Broadcast: Network - Video
Action: Blue Fish
When: September 1

[There's a strangely familiar cold that has settled in her bones, a dreadful chill that disorients her in the first few moments that she's awake. Her first thought is that something went wrong - very wrong - as they passed through the temporal distortion, but then... as she sits up and takes in her surroundings, the memories all come back in a flood. Atroma has brought Beverly back, a little older, a little blonder, and with a new Starfleet uniform.

Or maybe I never left, she thinks. This is not the Marsiva, these are her quarters aboard the Blue Fish, and none of her things look as if they've been moved. Though admittedly, her memories of Drift Fleet seem distant. By her reckoning, it's been three years since she's seen this room.

Not that "time" really means much, considering what's happened in the past few days.

The communicator rests where she left it on the bedside table. When she picks it up, she finds it's full of unread messages, crewmates and friends wondering where she is, each message sounding more alarmed than the last. With a sinking feeling in her stomach, she checks today's date: September first.]

Damn!

[Immediately, she sends a message to the network, via video:]

This is Dr. Crusher of the... SS Blue Fish. It seems our gracious captors sent me home for a while. I'm back now, and I'm safe, and I'm sorry to everyone who was trying to contact me this month. I'll be on the Blue Fish if you need me.

[There's a pause, as if she's about to say something else, but then she simply gives them a small smile, one that doesn't quite reach her eyes.]

Thank you.

[The feed cuts off and after a moment, she decides to head for the kitchen. Not that she's particularly hungry but - there's a good chance that's where she'll find at least a few of her crewmates.]

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In some ways it’s better than before, during my first arrival. At least now I have friends waiting for me. But then this time… I’ve just come from a battle to save Earth.

I assume you won or you would not be here? Or even ... alive?

[Her mouth forms a grim line.]

An assumption you should not be so quick to make, here.

But I, at least, am still alive and we have won this particular battle.

[They destroyed the Borg Queen at any rate... but who is to say the timeline is exactly as it was? She won't know for sure until she returns. For now, it is enough to know she is defeated.]

[He thinks about that, and then snorts.]

You make an excellent point.

I am glad to hear you are still alive, however.

I'm glad to be alive. Wasn't so sure I would be a few days ago.

To come back here ... I am not entirely certain you got off lucky, Doctor. [A faint smirk, but he is pleased to see her, regardless.]

Not lucky to be here, no, but lucky in who I am with.

You flatter us all -- and not unduly, because we are all quite brilliant.

[She laughs.]

And modest too.

Now that is something I have never been accused of.

[He smirked faintly.]

Oh, modesty's overrated anyhow.

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I have always thought so. I am surprised how much we have in common sometimes, Doctor.

Oh? Because we are from such different worlds and times from one another?

Precisely so.

Perhaps it is because we share a common curiosity in the strange and the new and the different - those barriers don't seem insurmountable, at least for me.

You know, I would absolutely agree with that. Especially since those barriers are in one's mind.

Often those are the hardest barriers to overcome though.

I cannot deny that. Perhaps it is because we are both so willing to learn, eh?

I'd certainly like to think so. It's part of why I'm in Starfleet in the first place.

What is the most amazing thing you have learned since starting Starfleet?

[She lets out a soft laugh.]

Oh, just that the universe is bigger and stranger than anyone can ever expect. There's too many amazing things - I don't think I could pick just one.

That's true ... and it seems to get bigger all the time. Wilder and broader all the time.

And I find that very few things are as impossible as they first seem.

You know, talking to you makes me realize just how terrified I should be right now. [Dry, but serious.]

[She shakes her head.]

I promise you, that was not my intention.

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