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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.]

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[dancingmd]

Also makes me wonder what else they're hiding from us.

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[forsometimenow]

That's the question we always come back to, isn't it? What are they hiding? Why bother taking us to places where we CAN help if they don't want us to? Are we supposed to just gawp like we're tourists, then turn around and leave like it was nothing?

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[dancingmd]

I feel like we're making more progress than we realize though, being in the middle of it.

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[forsometimenow]

And maybe that IS the whole point- to test us, to see how well we can follow the clues and take whatever leads we can get.

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[dancingmd]

Like rats in a maze...

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[forsometimenow]

Mmhmm. [She makes a noise of frustration.] Still not a perfect theory, but I'll add it to the list, I guess. It makes more sense than the reality show excuse, anyway.

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[dancingmd]

I was more willing to buy the entertainment angle earlier on but now... I don't know what to think.

[forsometimenow]

Me, neither. I almost want to give up trying because no matter what, it's like we're running around in circles. But I can't give up, either. I feel like I owe it to every person who keeps getting brought here against their will, and every person who's ever had someone taken from them, to keep trying.

[dancingmd]

[Beverly pats Jennifer's hand fondly.]

But for tonight, I think it might be okay to forget for a little bit, just have some fun.

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer smiles, and sheepishly says:]

Right, I didn't mean to go off on a serious tangent.

[dancingmd]

It's all right. We'll just have to find something to get your mind off of it.

[forsometimenow]

Right, because it IS an important day for you! I hope humanity gets to that point in my lifetime. I mean, we HAVE met aliens, but most of the public doesn't know about them, and they tend to be hostile besides.

[dancingmd]

No friendly aliens at all!?

[forsometimenow]

We did eventually work together with the Wraith... and I guess it's a bit unfair of me to call them all "hostile" when their need to feed on humans was pure biology.

And actually, now that I think about it, Stargate Command met the Asgard, a dying race that worked closely with us and gifted the SGC with their technology when they finally died out. I never personally met any, though.

[dancingmd]

Asgard... like... [She waves her hands vaguely upwards] like the Viking gods?

[forsometimenow]

Yeah. A lot of the civilizations the original Stargate team encountered had contact with Earth centuries ago and absorbed things like names and religious beliefs and the like.

[dancingmd]

[She huffs.]

Of course they did!

[forsometimenow]

Yeah. I think it would've been interesting to meet them... but at the same time, I'm kinda happy staying at the home base.

[dancingmd]

I can't say I am very fond of aliens acting like gods.

[forsometimenow]

Me neither. It leads to them thinking they're better than everyone else and have the right to be treated as such.

[dancingmd]

Fortunately, most aliens we meet are not like that.

[forsometimenow]

Well, that does give me hope for the future. For peace and cooperation, instead of hostility.

[dancingmd]

That's the spirit!

[Aaand is she? Yes, she is definitely pouring you another drink.]

[forsometimenow]

Cheers. [She raises the drink once it's poured, but sips.] I try to be optimistic about the future, even if we haven't had good experiences with aliens so far.