It's time for your monthly Capringle Mingle <3

[moonofmylife]

Who: All Visitors and Crew aboard the Caprine
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Yeah!
When: Now

[Monthly mingle for the SS Caprine, get.]

Comments

[notanoptimist]

[Okay, he'll give you a few of those points. Jaylah didn't deserve to stay bound to that planet any longer than she already had -- he kind of liked that kid -- and yeah, saving a starbase and the rest of the Federation was pretty much all in a day's work.]

It wasn't all-- [He cuts the exclamation off with a grunt. Wasn't all bad. That's what he says. Wasn't all bad.] Enough of it was.

[He sighs, rocks back on his heels and crosses his arms.] Balthazar Edison was the best of the best. Out there representing Federation ideals.

[And he comes back and nearly destroys them all. How's that for terrible irony?]

[universal_charm]

That's right. He was. And that's how he'll remain.

_{[ He was angry at Krall for taking his people, for killing those he had, for taking out his anger on innocent people. But he was also sad for him - to have been lost all those years, waiting for help that would never come through no fault of the Fleet. They simply couldn't hear them through the Nebula. Isolation and feelings of abandon had driven him mad, and he'd become lost. Still, those feelings were no reason to take away Balthazar's accomplishments, and the truth of that wouldn't serve a greater purpose. Let the legend live as it had, and give the families closure without pain. ]}

Tell you what, if you can look on the bright side of a situation just once without my prompting, I'll give you a prize - I won't fight you the next time you want me to get my physical.

[notanoptimist]

[He sighs deeply. That's how he'll remain and he's not gonna fight Jim on that one. In fact, he agrees with most of Jim's reasoning on it, though there's an ember of anger at what Krall had done that will never go out. McCoy's not commanding a ship, doesn't quite get the isolation and loneliness that comes with it, but he has his own baseline for isolation and abandonment and humanity.

Krall let what happened take away what made him good.

But the Federation needs her heroes.]

You want me to... do what?

[Jim, do you know how difficult that is?]

[universal_charm]

_{[ Kirk would agree that Bones had every right to be angry and to always be angry. He would be too. He tried to be a good man, but some things he wasn't good enough to forgive and the destruction of his home and the death of his crew was one of those things. He was a good man, not a saint. ]}

You heard me. I want you to look on the bright side of situation, once, without my prompting. And if you do, I won't fight you the next time you want me to get a physical.