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driftfleet2016-11-19 11:19 pm
universal_charm) wrote in driftfleet2016-11-19 11:19 pm
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Captain's Log 04 - Laughter Is the Best Medicine
Who: Kirk + YOU!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist if you want to come find him
When: Nov. 19
Hello, my fellow Drifters. For those who don't know me, I'm Jim Kirk - captain of the Tourist.
It seems like everyone's been kind of down lately, so I thought we might try something to lift the mood. They do say laughter is the best medicine after all.
[ He's totally expecting Bones to have a quip for that. Just waiting for it. ]
So I thought I would start with a story from my early captain years on my ship, the Enterprise. Specifically, how I actually got on her in the first place.
Short backstory short, we were being mustered to see to a distress call from planet Vulcan, only I had been grounded due to some technical, ethical review business. Insisting I needed to be on the ship, I found our newest senior medical officer, Bones, and he agreed to help me on.
How, might you ask?
Well, he proceeded to inject me with a vaccine for an alien disease I did not need, and it temporarily made me ill. I am told I looked and sound loopy and or terribly drunk. Well, Bones got me on and took me to med bay to undo the damage of the vaccine by injecting me with more of them. To which I had delightful reactions - passing out, numb tongue, and my hands swelling. And when I say swelling - I mean they looked like cartoon gloves on a friendly animated character kind of swelling. It was like having two blown up surgical gloves for hands.
[ He waves his hands up in front of his face, back and forth, to help you visualize of course. ]
It all turned out okay in the end, but that is the story of how I first got on the Enterprise - which I am now the captain of.
[ There's an upbeat message beneath that, surely. ]
Now - who's next?
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist if you want to come find him
When: Nov. 19
Hello, my fellow Drifters. For those who don't know me, I'm Jim Kirk - captain of the Tourist.
It seems like everyone's been kind of down lately, so I thought we might try something to lift the mood. They do say laughter is the best medicine after all.
[ He's totally expecting Bones to have a quip for that. Just waiting for it. ]
So I thought I would start with a story from my early captain years on my ship, the Enterprise. Specifically, how I actually got on her in the first place.
Short backstory short, we were being mustered to see to a distress call from planet Vulcan, only I had been grounded due to some technical, ethical review business. Insisting I needed to be on the ship, I found our newest senior medical officer, Bones, and he agreed to help me on.
How, might you ask?
Well, he proceeded to inject me with a vaccine for an alien disease I did not need, and it temporarily made me ill. I am told I looked and sound loopy and or terribly drunk. Well, Bones got me on and took me to med bay to undo the damage of the vaccine by injecting me with more of them. To which I had delightful reactions - passing out, numb tongue, and my hands swelling. And when I say swelling - I mean they looked like cartoon gloves on a friendly animated character kind of swelling. It was like having two blown up surgical gloves for hands.
[ He waves his hands up in front of his face, back and forth, to help you visualize of course. ]
It all turned out okay in the end, but that is the story of how I first got on the Enterprise - which I am now the captain of.
[ There's an upbeat message beneath that, surely. ]
Now - who's next?
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[ respect. sort of. ]
There must have been other ships, why that one?
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Well, my position was already questionable, so why not keep pushing?
And that was the ship Bones was assigned. I just needed on one, I wasn't precisely picky. Got lucky it was the Enterprise, and that she was captained by my mentor.
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I never said I wasn't - I know that entire incident was mostly blind luck and stubbornness.
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Though, you could call it fortitude and ... being at the right place at the right time
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Hah, I will remember that turn of phrase the next time I tell this story.
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... Almost sounds like you know what you're doing.
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After five years at the helm, I finally did begin to master that aspect of it.