.004 - video

[captain_jtkirk]

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.

Comments

[captain_jtkirk]

I'm not actually on your ship, sir.

[myshipfirst]

Then what the hell are you doing off of her?

[captain_jtkirk]

Exploring?

[myshipfirst]

Exploring.

What?

[captain_jtkirk]

I am not really sure what yet, sir.

The Enterprise is safe though.

[myshipfirst]

You're sure?

[captain_jtkirk]

Positive.

[myshipfirst]

Then tell me about this barge.

[captain_jtkirk]

It's a prison ship, sir, for the criminally and morally damned.

[myshipfirst]

And what's your role on there?

[captain_jtkirk]

To rehabilitate a criminal.

[myshipfirst]

That's not an easy thing, Jim.

[captain_jtkirk]

When have you ever known me to do something easy?

[myshipfirst]

I mean it's not trivial. Taking responsibility, completely, for another human being.

[captain_jtkirk]

With all due respect, sir, I'm responsible for hundreds of lives on board my ship. I've got this.

[myshipfirst]

The forest and the trees are not the same.

[captain_jtkirk]

I didn't know you were so philosophical.

[myshipfirst]

An unfortunate tendency.

So, tell me about your project.

[captain_jtkirk]

I-- don't have one.

[myshipfirst]

...what are you doing, then? Day-to-day.

[captain_jtkirk]

Working on that thesis paper I never finished?

[myshipfirst]

Is that a clever way of saying 'playing paintball'?

[captain_jtkirk]

Doing both, sir.

[myshipfirst]

Good to know your style of multitasking persists to alternate dimensions.

[captain_jtkirk]

I'll take that as a compliment, sir.