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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.]

Comments

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[And Beverly just laughs at Nightingale's reaction.]

I don't mean purely like that. Kirk had a way of inspiring uncommon loyalty in his crew. [She pauses, frowning.] Has a way.

[experiencepoints]

[She notices that past-tense, but... That is not something she's going to inquire about while Beverly's so happy.]

I know what you mean, but still, I don't see it. At the very least, Bluebird or Sparrow had way more charisma just at a glance.

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[It's nothing all that bad... Kirk is so much older than Beverly thee isn't really any surprise in him having passed on in her timeline.]

Well, every captain and crew is diffeent. [She grins.] I suspect he'd run in a like trouble with me as his CMO instead of Leonard.

[experiencepoints]

Huh? Why would you be trouble?

[beverly is a good so obviously she can't be a source of trouble, ever???]

[dancingmd]

We're both a little too stubborn.

[experiencepoints]

[She just has to stare.]

Who the hell is stupid enough to be stubborn with a healer?

[dancingmd]

I think it's a Starfleet captain thing.

[experiencepoints]

I'm going to kick his ass on behalf of all healers, everywhere.

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[At one time, that statement might have upset Beverly but now she just laughs.]

I appreciate the sentiment but that's really not necessary.

[experiencepoints]

Are you sure?

[LET HER FIGHT PEOPLE FOR YOU, BEVERLY, SHE'LL FUCK HIM UP.]

[dancingmd]

[AS AMUSING AS IT WOULD BE...]

I'm quite sure. Jim and I may argue but... [She pauses - how would Nightingale put it? Ah, yes!!] He's a member of my Team.

[In a moment of drunken affection, Beverly forgets some of Nightingale's aversion to being touched and takes her hands most emphatically.]

Like you. We fought too and I was not very fair to you which I am sorry about but now you are important to me.

[experiencepoints]

[... well

you've successfully distracted her, in team and touching. She goes very stiff for a moment, but she slowly manages to relax again, and even doesn't make any move to get away, which... says a lot about how much she trusts Beverly, honestly.

that said, she still has no idea how to handle feelings.]

Huh- No, I mean, I was the problem then...

[She probably shouldn't mention the times she set teammates on fire. (In her defense, they literally asked for it.)]

But... When you put it like that, I guess I understand. But he should still listen to the healer.

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[It's okay, Nightingale, feelings are hard. Beverly gently gives her hands a squeeze before letting them go.]

Well naturally! Doctor knows best!

[experiencepoints]

[She laughs a little.]

Of course. But you're nicer than some healers I know. If someone like him tried to be stubborn with Yura, she'd beat him down to one HP herself.

[dancingmd]

I don't beat anyone up!

[...]

Well mostly I don't.

[experiencepoints]

... Mostly?

[THIS SOUNDS LIKE A STORY.]

[dancingmd]

I mean, if someone is trying to hurt me or someone I care about, of course I'm not just going to stand there and do nothing!

[experiencepoints]

Has this come up before?

[she's so curious.]

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Well yes. Not everyone we met is friendly you know.

[experiencepoints]

They apparently should be friendly if they don't want their ass kicked.

[she's 100% imagining beverly beating someone down with her bare hands.]

[dancingmd]

[More kicks than punches, to be honest. Those long legs come in very useful sometimes.]

Fighting's only ever a last resort though. I don't like to do it if I can help it.

[experiencepoints]

I still don't really understand that, but I guess everyone's got stuff they're bad with...

[how can you not like fighting though??? weird.]

[dancingmd]

Being bad at something and not liking to do it is not always the same thing.

[experiencepoints]

Bad with, not bad at... But I take your point.

[dancingmd]

Good. I don't want you to get the wrong impression.