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[dancingmd]

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

/bursts in here

[universal_charm]

_{[ He cocks his head at Ezri. Like her, he was decked in his Star Fleet uniform, though his was the most dated model to be sure (along with Chekov's and Bones' if they happened to be wearing theirs). He frowns a touch, finding her wording strange. ]}

What do you mean 'encountered as well'?

_{[ She looked like a Fleet member, so why would that be different? ]}

[musicalhost]

I suppose it would be more them encountering us, but they came to Trill after we achieved warp. And for some time, they were the only people we would associate with.

{It's definitely an out-of-date uniform but she recognizes it. Maybe Ezri hadn't been around when it was in used but Audrid remembered it. And Tobin. Emony too, a bit, but mostly in passing.]

I suppose we like to think we encountered them.

[universal_charm]

_{[ Oh, she wasn't human. He hadn't seen any immediate indicators to say she wasn't, but he had forgotten the first rule of space exploration - assume nothing, and not all is as it seemed. He was going to guess her people were called the Trill, from her words. Still, he might as well fess up to his gaffe. ]}

Ah, my apologies, I hadn't realized you were Trill and not human.

_{[ He chuckled. ]}

Doesn't every race like to think that, when they make their way out into the stars? They're doing the discovering, not the other way around.

[musicalhost]

[She just waves a hand.]

My spots aren't the most noticeable. And I know some races like to get tattoos and such, so they might think that's what these are.

[What's that human saying? 'No harm, no foul?']

That sounds about right though. That's what most of us go for after all, right?

[universal_charm]

_{[ He nods his head gratefully in her acceptance of his apology. Usually he didn't make such gaffs, but even he had his off days. ]}

Heh, I certainly do. I did take on a five year expedition to explore unknown space, after all.

_{[ He switched his drink to his other hand and held it out to her. ]}

James Tiberius Kirk, at your service. I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you.

[musicalhost]

[She couldn't help a grin as she reached and gives his hand a good shake.] Your name is pretty well known, by my time. I'm Ezri Dax.

[They'd met once, in another life. He'd been older. She doesn't expect him to remember, so it goes unmentioned.] It's a rare chance to meet a famous captain.

[universal_charm]

_{[ He chuckled and had the good grace to flash a sheepish smile and the touch of a blush across his cheeks. ]}

I hope I can live up to the expectation.

[musicalhost]

I don't think you'll have to worry. You have a long career ahead, plenty of amazing things to find and, no offense, trouble to get into.

[She's still smiling. At least Ezri doesn't seem starstruck? Ben was a bit, would be. Julian too probably.]

[universal_charm]

Heh, I would hope so. Though - I am probably not quite like the Captain Kirk of your histories. I might be though.

_{[ He glanced to Beverley briefly and back to Ezri. ]}

Does your history align with Beverley's?

[musicalhost]

[She follows his glance and then nods.]

It does, yes.

[Maybe he wasn't? But he was still James Kirk.]

[universal_charm]

_{[ He smiles a bit at that. ]}

Ah, then I am a little different. I come from a different timeline than the Jim Kirk you knew. So do Pavel and Leonard - ah, Chekov and McCoy that is. Essentially, we're from another universe.

[musicalhost]

[She hates time travel...]

I see. I'm sure you'll all still have quite an effect on the universe. I at least know some things are the same. Leonard and I met, years ago, when I was Emony. He saved our life.

[universal_charm]

_{[ Kirk's brow puckered slightly. ]}

'Our'?

_{[ He would have initially thought she meant himself and her somehow, but that should have been a plural 'lives', not a singular. ]}

[musicalhost]

[A little grin.]

We don't tell people of your time, but a lot of Trill are a joined species. Humanoid Trill and symbiont.