captain_jtkirk | .004

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I don't think these things are malfunctioning at all but if it's just an excuse to roll call, then I'm Captain James T. Kirk. My friends call me Jim.

[He tips the communicator to the side, and there's Spock. Looking stoic as always.]

And that's Spock. Don't worry kids, he always looks like that. He won't bite.

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No. No, quite the opposite.

[She spoke at a conference on Vulcan not two months ago. It seems a unnecessary fact to vocalize.]

Was it the Borg?

[omg why is everyone spoiling him for the future.]

It was a Romulan.

[He doesn't add 'Please do not tell me who the Borg are' because really.]

[Yeah, that was rookie level mistake. She is still processing the whole Vulcan is destroyed thing. And congrats, because that is another ridiculous piece of information to process, and you've managed to become more logically incongruous than the last three wormhole anomalies combined.

Should have just given her name and date.]

The--

[Since when did the Romulans possess that kind of power? The Borg went around destroying and assimilating planets. The Romulans were...politically cranky. And even when they'd been far, far worse than that, they wouldn't have risked destroying a Federation planet so openly.]

Surely the Federation didn't stand for that.

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That sounds very important! [And detailed, dang Spock, way to keep them details tight]

But I'm moreso talking about hobbies. Part time jobs. Social events. Things that get a resident of this ship connected with their community.

It sounds exciting. Aren't you worried about contaminating the timeline yourself when you get back?

[It sounds like a very real risk. She's sure that Spock has the discipline to refrain from conversing with anyone who poses a danger in that regard, but surely not everyone on board is so careful. They took Kirk, after all.]

[She half chuckles.]

Sometimes I wonder.

[But he is family. Granted, she's also got an uncle who comes to reunions and gets drunk and has fallen in the firepit more than once, and he's also family. Doesn't mean she's not just as glad to see him leave as she is to see him arrive.]

Try to let Commander Spock look after you. You two sound thoroughly cut off.

[Ah. That, he has very little experience with.]

What would you suggest?

The Captain did not stand for it.

[It's a mild correction, but an important one. Kirk's decision had saved Earth and millions of other lives in the 'Fleet, even if he'd broken the rules.]

[Speaking of which--]

Are there laws governing exchanging information across these temporal disturbances?

[Of course he didn't. Jadzia smiles -- there's a reason that Kirk is the standard by which Starfleet captains invariably measure themselves.]

That is an excellent question, to which I have no answer. There are very clear laws regarding interfering in one's own timeline. I've witnessed first hand the consequences of breaking them. But if what you say is true, my reality as it stands shouldn't even exist.

[She ducks her head down, scanning the day's logs. But as far as she can tell, all Federation outposts are standing. Including those on Vulcan.]

A parallel universe?

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What are Aya's interests? Skillsets?

She is currently equipped to and interested in destroying all emotional beings in the universe.

[Hey, you asked.]

[Y E P he's met older Spock.]

One created when the Romulan in question altered the timeline, yes.

[Beat.]

May I ask what happened when one's own timeline is interfered with by a past or future version of oneself?

...so not boggle, then.

I assume you are not using it as a verb.

[HUMANS!!]

My crew and I were transported to a milestone era in early twenty-first century Earth history. My captain, through no fault of his own [temporal regulation officers have ears EVERYWHERE, you never know], interfered in a landmark civil rights movement.

As a result, entire planets were wiped out. We were forced to directly interfere in historical events, in order to set things right. I can't imagine that the consequences of losing Vulcan would be any less dire.

No. It's a board game. One that I am awesome at.

[Okay. Leslie flips over to her "funtivities for would-be genocidal maniacs" section.]

In Aya's condition, I would say that forging a connection to emotional beings is all the more important. Perhaps some sort of job or project, where she has to rely on the help of others? Or even an activity where she has to at least process the emotions of others. I find that the arts can provide a good outlet for that.