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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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[How well she's aware of that. She smiles though.]

I'm glad you came around eventually.

So am I. I wouldn't have half the friends I do if we hadn't. [And part of it was thanks to Lela.]

It would be a lot lonelier, wouldn't it? And having seen what almost could have been on Earth... I'm thankful.

It really would be. And so am I, the borg are... at least we can fight the Dominion. [Well, fight them more easily.] It would be a lot more empty to. I'd hate not getting the chance to meet you or Ben or Julian.

[She nods.]

I can't imagine my life without ever knowing Deanna or Worf or Dr. Selar or... even Odan.

[She smiles though, to let Ezri know it's all right, they aren't going down that particular road again. At least not for tonight.]

I have to know though - did you all drive the Vulcans as crazy as we did?

I think that's something only you get to claim. We were so focused inwardly and we valued their logical approach to everything.

[At least she doesn't seem as upset and Ezri can't help but return the smile.]

Oh I think the Andorians gave us some stiff competition in that regard.

Right. I guess they did give them quite a bit of trouble for awhile

Glad to know we weren't the only ones at least.

I don't think anything can compare to the Andorians.

The poor Vulcans. Maybe it's good they had you, to balance us out.

Maybe. We didn't even associate with them much but we actually let them come to Trill. Sometimes.

Very generous if you. Hopefully you didn't try to ply them with tequila.

[She pauses.]

Trill tequila! [She obviously thinks this is much funnier than it is, judging by her grin.]

Edited (Wrong icon whoops) 2017-04-24 20:05 (UTC)

[O-oh dear. She laughs a little herself, mostly because this memory is never going to fade. It's so rare to see another officer drunk, even Quark cuts people off.]

Maybe you should slow down?

[Her brow furrows.]

I already have!

[She gives a helpless little shrug.]

As long as you're sure you won't regret it in the morning.

Oh, I probably will.

[She says with complete serenity.]

After all, I'm not as young as I used to be.

I always heard that you're as young as you feel. That hangover might make you feel old though.

Fortunately, there's coffee, humanity's greatest invention.

Edited 2017-04-28 14:25 (UTC)

Think that'll be enough?

[Too bad they don't have raktajino here?]

Let's hope so.