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driftfleet2017-04-05 07:53 am
dancingmd) wrote in driftfleet2017-04-05 07:53 am
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Who: Beverly Crusher, Ezri Dax, James Kirk, Leonard McCoy, and Pavel Chekov - and you, should you like to stop by!
Broadcast: video
Action: Málum
When: April 5
[So Beverly may or may not have taken a few tequila shots. And she may or may not be quite drunk and affectionately effusive about... everything. Thus she has something Very Important to tell the Fleet, which she does from inside Málum with some of her Starfleet companions around. Thankfully, one of them is holding the camera or this feed would be a lot more intolerably shaky.
It's also one of the rare times you'll find her in her Starfleet Uniform.]
Today! [Beverly claps her hands together.] Today is an important holiday back home - First Contact Day! It marks the time when humans finally launched the first spaceship powered by warp drive and that was also the same day we met the Vulcans. [She frowns, her thoughts coming more slowly than is usual.] I don't think we've had any Vulcans here in the fleet, unless it was a long time ago before I came. Which is really weird when you stop to think about it, that there's been Humans and Cardassians and Trill but no Vulcans. Or anybody else really. Vulcans kind of look like elves so I've often wondered if maybe they are but just so many universes removed that it's not quite the same.
[Clearly someone is giving her A Look from behind the camera and she points an admonishing finger at them.]
I'm getting there! [She straightens up and pats her hair, getting back into "lecture" mode.] What probably many of you don't know, is that I saw all of this, first hand, the last time I went home. You see there were the Borg - only we're not going to go into them because this is supposed to be a celebration - and they were trying to go back in time to ruin the warp ship so the Vulcans wouldn't come down to see us so of course we had to go stop them even though we're not supposed to time travel - and for good reason too, it's a pain in the ass. One time Mark Twain followed us onto the Enterprise and it was this whole thing though I guess it worked out all right in the end because then he wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court so that's good. And he really was very nice and understanding of why he couldn't tell anyone what he saw.
[Another pause as she tries to figure out why she started talking about Mark Twain. Ah! Right!]
So anyway we had to go back in time to stop the Borg and so we met Zefram Cochrane who invented the warp drive and he was completely not like any of us expected and you know, sometimes they say you shouldn't meet your heroes? We'd all been taught about what a great genius he was, and that's true, but I guess they didn't really want to mention in the history books that he really liked to party and building the ship wasn't some noble, selfless endeavor to advance science - it was a difficult time in human history, and he needed the money. But that's the beautiful thing isn't it? People are complicated and may not always be what you expect but they still can do great things. And that's really what First Contact Day is about, celebrating the amazing things we've already done and the things we'll do in the future too. Together.
[This nerd, y'all. You should come party with her.]
Broadcast: video
Action: Málum
When: April 5
[So Beverly may or may not have taken a few tequila shots. And she may or may not be quite drunk and affectionately effusive about... everything. Thus she has something Very Important to tell the Fleet, which she does from inside Málum with some of her Starfleet companions around. Thankfully, one of them is holding the camera or this feed would be a lot more intolerably shaky.
It's also one of the rare times you'll find her in her Starfleet Uniform.]
Today! [Beverly claps her hands together.] Today is an important holiday back home - First Contact Day! It marks the time when humans finally launched the first spaceship powered by warp drive and that was also the same day we met the Vulcans. [She frowns, her thoughts coming more slowly than is usual.] I don't think we've had any Vulcans here in the fleet, unless it was a long time ago before I came. Which is really weird when you stop to think about it, that there's been Humans and Cardassians and Trill but no Vulcans. Or anybody else really. Vulcans kind of look like elves so I've often wondered if maybe they are but just so many universes removed that it's not quite the same.
[Clearly someone is giving her A Look from behind the camera and she points an admonishing finger at them.]
I'm getting there! [She straightens up and pats her hair, getting back into "lecture" mode.] What probably many of you don't know, is that I saw all of this, first hand, the last time I went home. You see there were the Borg - only we're not going to go into them because this is supposed to be a celebration - and they were trying to go back in time to ruin the warp ship so the Vulcans wouldn't come down to see us so of course we had to go stop them even though we're not supposed to time travel - and for good reason too, it's a pain in the ass. One time Mark Twain followed us onto the Enterprise and it was this whole thing though I guess it worked out all right in the end because then he wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court so that's good. And he really was very nice and understanding of why he couldn't tell anyone what he saw.
[Another pause as she tries to figure out why she started talking about Mark Twain. Ah! Right!]
So anyway we had to go back in time to stop the Borg and so we met Zefram Cochrane who invented the warp drive and he was completely not like any of us expected and you know, sometimes they say you shouldn't meet your heroes? We'd all been taught about what a great genius he was, and that's true, but I guess they didn't really want to mention in the history books that he really liked to party and building the ship wasn't some noble, selfless endeavor to advance science - it was a difficult time in human history, and he needed the money. But that's the beautiful thing isn't it? People are complicated and may not always be what you expect but they still can do great things. And that's really what First Contact Day is about, celebrating the amazing things we've already done and the things we'll do in the future too. Together.
[This nerd, y'all. You should come party with her.]
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I'm glad you could come!
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You've already been celebrating, from the looks of it. But it's a nice occasion to commemorate- a remarkable milestone.
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[Beverly slides a shot glass over and pours Jennifer some space-tequila.]
Which is why you must take a shot with us! It was Cochrane's favorite.
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I'll dedicate mine to friends... the ones I have, and the ones that have gone, and the ones I left behind.
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I'll drink to that.
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Lucky us.
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Yeah, no kidding. But it hasn't been all that bad. We've been able to help people. I haven't felt more... more alive and at home in a while than I've felt on this past planet, helping the Dasioe and all. It reminded me of the reasons I became a doctor.
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[Beverly's body sways generally in Jennifer's direction and she hums happily.]
That's good. That's... really good. I want you to be happy because you deserve to be happy and when you're happy, I'm happy.
[(She's happy Jennifer could you tell???)]
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Yeah. It helped me feel useful, you know? Like I was making a difference. It's one of the best feelings in the world to me.
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[Beverly rests her head against Jennifer's, clearly getting into a sleepy-comfy stage of drunkeness.]
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I'm glad you think so. And I guess I must be doing something right if I've stuck around for too long.
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You are. I'm glad we can help at least someone while we're here.
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Did they now? When did they say that?
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Here we go, I believe this came up after we'd left the poison planet. Something about how it's outside the audience's interests to try and fix things.
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Ah. This was when I went home then...
[She sees that note from Jennifer, demanding to know where she was and she feels affectionate warmth go through her at the sight of that.]
This only makes me more motivated to help the Dasioe and others, of course.
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Even a small act of rebellion like that feels pretty good, to tell you the truth. And like hell am I going to break my oath and ignore someone who's in need of my skills.
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