One thing I noticed re-reading the logs -- the officers died last. Chance, or do the Licori have a special ability that preserves their noble officers at the expense of other crew?
..........can we have it............
In any case the captain of that vessel is certainly like, the Anti-Thiur. He's also dead probably so
Gaeni Techs, Preparing Flesh-Disintegrating Energy Wave:
"This is going to void the warranty on our deflector dish, but the look on your face will be- oh wait, you won't
HAVE a look on your face! MUAHAHAHAAA!"
[Gaeni captain, scoring competitive maniacal laughter contest, holds up a 9/10 card]
Glad that they never met, otherwise the casual disregard for the lives of one's crew would have caused Thuir to produce approximately three gigatons of outrage in a Thuir/Anti-Thuir reaction.
Eh, that wouldn't have been so bad. You know what happens when you produce that level of outrage from a Thuir?
Simple. Thuir does not send an away team to the surface.
"Neroth, sir." The Indorian bowed his head again, as best as he could while clinging to the scaffolding. "I will work more quietly."
"Its alright, Ensign Neroth. Just, what was that, exactly?"
The Indorian cocked his mostly bald, gray head at her. "Just an echo of the Enterprise's shade, sir. It's much clearer than I expected."
Samhaya's eyes narrowed. "Shade?" She paused for a moment, until the cultural briefing came back to her. "Your people's artifact-spirits?"
He shook his head. "Not my people's, no. The Enterprise came from Earth, once."
She bit back a culturally insensitive comment before it could pass her lips. "Ah. My...I heard someone I know hum that song, once."
"Of course. You must know her well, Captain."
"Yes. Yes, we're rather close, or at least we used to be." She still wasn't sure how this shade business was relevant, but her question was answered. "Sorry for the interruption; keep up the good work."
Ensign Neroth looked confused, but wordlessly returned to his work on the turbolift. As the doors swished shut again, Samhaya wondered where and when this green ensign could have possibly met Nash.
Aw, shucks, thanks!
Now I'm tempted to write a fifth chapter of
Dreams for Sam. She could use a reassuring, sisterly voice for a change; the burdens of command have her pretty wound up. Hm. Gotta think about that one.
[By the way, as far as I'm concerned, this is 'canon'
Dreams insofar as
Dreams is canonical; I take some pains to have an independent rational explanation for everything that happens within
Dreams for the benefit of anyone out there who doesn't think ships have souls]
Great Bird of the Galaxy, how the fuck are we up 87C in the GBZ and an Excelsior in every BZ plus our two largest home sectors?
Hey, it's even one of our tags.
Ship happens.
Like seriously, we have as many Connie-B's as we do Mirandas planned for the GBZ (although we might lose a few of either in the upcoming showdown with the Cardassians). I know this is justasplanned.jpg but damn.
Also the Constellation-class must feel like such a piece of shit. Next-gen cruiser design and what does the Federation go all in on? A fucking relic and a slightly less decrepit escort.
I like to think of the
Constellations running around being happy and carefree and peaceful doing SCIENCE and interior duties. Like
Sappho. And
Docana.
They're Starfleet ships; the fact that they're not very good at killing people doesn't necessarily disappoint them.
8 Constellations; Remember the Polaris!
Irrespective of whether we started with all eight
Constellations we now have, this is why I attributed the Federation's short distance speed record to
Polaris in
With Quicksilver Stride. o7
Possibly, but as far as secondary motives go I think both rivalry and hope to get their hands on research notes, prototypes and the like rank higher.
Given the chronic Gaeni disregard for their own safety, you may well be right.
Yeah...maybe we should let them know that Operation Paperclipping a bunch of superintelligent omnicidal maniacs will not win them any points with the Federation.
Mentats wouldn't be so bad if we could just keep an eye on them. The problem is when they're inserted into a social-cultural matrix (like the Arcadian Empire) which is so dependent on them that it doesn't properly monitor them.
Hm.
I actually had an idea for what would be a GREAT symbiosis if we could convince both sides to play along: Vulcans and Licori mentats. No seriously, think about it. What's the greatest weakness of Vulcan science? In all probability, lack of creativity- they're very effective at logically plodding from A to B, but they don't necessarily innovate if they have a solution to a problem that they're prepared to accept as-is. What's the greatest weakness of Licori science? Lack of continuity and transference of ideas and knowledge from one mentat to another, because they're incentivized to hoard techniques AND they don't live long enough to waste a lot of time taking notes and publishing.
Vulcans are great thinkers, but lack the inspirational spark that drives some other species... but they can read and store people's memories, and they live for hundreds of years. Mentats have a spark of genius that burns so bright it endangers those around them, they generate amazing memories, but only live for ten years.
They complement each others weaknesses very well, when you think about it. The Vulcans have as many viable ideas for technological and scientific development as they can use- if not more. The mentats no longer have to worry so much about their knowledge dying with them and their projects getting stalled forever in a half-completed state, because someone else can literally lift the information from their brains and carry it forward.
