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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.

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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.