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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.]

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[Nobody's explained tequila to her yet, but she's kind of putting two and two together here. And already deciding to avoid it, in everyone's best interest.]

I see. I must admit, I have yet to take part in any human celebrations. Or witness one, even.

But I am impressed you humans celebrate the realization your galaxy was shared with others. I'm much more accustomed to only a select few even realizing that the rest of us exist.

Well it has only been the past few centuries that we have known about other people - in galactic terms, we're still the new kids.

[She smiles.]

But now I can't imagine not having other species and cultures around.

[She'll get a smile right back, even if there is just a little bit of smugness behind it.]

That seems to be true for most universes. But I cannot imagine how dull the galaxy would be without other civilizations in it.

[Tetramands may have been somewhat isolationist and distrusting of outsiders, but even their world had its fair share of residents and visitors from other planets and races- even if humans were very, very rarely among them.]

Indeed! Life is much more exciting this way!

What's your name, by the way? I'm Beverly!

Perhaps for some of us- I appreciate the new perspectives more than the "excitement." Even if I do often disagree with them, it breaks the monotony. And it has proven useful.

[Case in point: now that she's had time to better understand you humans, she's not nearly as openly hostile as she used to be. As for the introduction, she'll go ahead and bring one fist up to her chest to make things nice and cordial, if slightly noisier, given the clinking of her armor]

I am Princess Looma of House Red Wind. And I am pleased to make your acquaintance.

Kirk James Tiberius has already extended an invitation to your celebration- I look forward to meeting in person.

[She'd unfortunately not been able to get much of a reaction out of Kirk himself when she deliberately messed up the order on that one, but she wasn't above trying the same thing with Beverly.]

[Sorry, Looma. Beverly's met enough people, both human and not, who put the surname first that she doesn't think anything of it. If Jim wants to correct her, he will.]

It'll be a pleasure to have you join us, Princess Looma!