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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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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!

Has this come up before?

[she's so curious.]

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

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.]

[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.

Edited 2017-04-19 18:05 (UTC)

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.]

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

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

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

Never. You're pretty much the last person in the Fleet I'd want to piss off.

[Her eyebrows go up in surprise.]

I am!?

Uh, yeah?

[most people she can fight

but she can't fight Disappointed Mom Feelings.]

But... I'm not scary am I?

You're not scary. At least, in terms of pure combat, I'm pretty sure I'm stronger...

[She's not sure how to explain, because thanks to her own home life, she has no idea how to describe a maternal figure who isn't awful.]

I don't think there is any question about that!

I mean, you might be hiding some combat power? Yura's a healer, and I'm pretty sure she could take me.

I don't have any powers...well I guess I do now. I can breathe underwater!

But that's not very helpful in combat.

[She shudders a bit.]

That's... a useful power, but I'm not sure I want it...

[water phobia makes things not fun.]

The Dasioe gave it to me as a gift... At least I would rather take something from them than Atroma.

That was nice of them... Well, we did do a lot for them.

I think they wanted to repay us somehow... but it didn't feel right to take money from them.

... Would they even be able to give us money we could use?

[She shrugs.]

Good question. I don't know, but I still wouldn't have wanted to take it.