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Who: Pavel Chekov
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: For the crew of the SS Wonderduck (and video for everyone else)
When: Now

[Chekov wishes he could be surprised or, at the very least, unsettled when he wakes up in a foreign place, but there's a point at which this sort of thing becomes a fairly routine--if always unpleasant--occurrence. Losing people is never easy, no matter the universe, no matter the number of times it happens.

But taking stock of the situation and establishing who is here has to come before mourning those who were left behind in MarinaNova. To that end, Chekov, somewhat familiarized with his new home and in clothes that are slightly more dignified than the pajamas that he initially woke up in on the Marsiva, begins a broadcast. Are you listening to this in Standard/English/Common? If so, enjoy the ridiculously thick Russian accent.]

This is Lieutenant Pavel Andreievich Chekov of the Federation starship Enterprise. If you have met me already or if you are affiliated with Starfleet, please respond to this message. [He smiles even though he's in no real mood to be cheerful.] I would also be happy with replies from you if we're strangers.

Thank you for your time.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oh, I'm sorry. Those are always so hard... You have my sympathy.

But yeah, I've actually been to another Earth that's a parallel universe to mine. It's very weird.

Thank you. [He doesn't want sympathy, he wants things to not be sad. But he'll accept the sympathy!]

How did you get there? I was under the impression that your time lacks the technology to travel between universes.

I don't know how I got here, but I traveled between worlds back home because my friend can go really, really fast. Fast enough to vibrate between frequencies, I guess.

That isn't how travelling between worlds or dimensions or universes works. [He clearly believes that her friend does this thing, he's just... scientifically stumped.] Is your friend here? I would like to hear this process explained.

Unfortunately, no, but his friend Cisco is. He's on the Blameless and is way better with the technical aspects than I am.

Thank you. I will be sure to find this Cisco and annoy him with questions about physics as he understands them.

I'm sorry that your friend isn't here with you... not that being abducted to a different universe is something to wish on friends.

No, it's true, but I think I can miss them without wishing them here.

Yes, of course, that's true. It is simpler, though, having the company of people that you know already in a place like this.

True.

I'm lucky enough to have several guys from home here with me. I do miss my girl friends though.

You will see them again eventually. These places are always escapable, if not quickly or easily so.

I appreciate your confidence! I'm not really a patient person, but it's good to be reminded.

Dedication and stubbornness will get you just as far as patience.

Oh, those I have in spades.

There, then you are guaranteed to get wherever you would like to go. ...Unless where you would like to go necessitates nothing but waiting, which won't work so well for you.

I'm pretty sure where I'm going just takes a lot of moxie and gumption. Unless it's home. That will just need luck.

I have no idea what moxie is, but I'm almost certain that you have it.

Chutzpah! Temerity! Et cetera et cetera.

Oh, temerity, of course. I've been here only hours and my vocabulary is already growing.

Well, I'm more than happy to help with that. I remember when I first got to Earth it was like... new everything, especially language.

And I thought that the transition from Russia to America was a difficult one to make.

It probably wasn't too dissimilar, honestly. We're all different kinds of aliens.

Some of us do travel significantly farther than others.

It builds character.