NEW GAME: "A Piece of the Action" REBOOT!
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startrek_diaryThose of you who are familiar with the TOS episodes might remember the fantastic episode in which the Enterprise comes across a planet with 1920s gangster culture.
So, in gentle reboot fashion, Our Heroes are toddling along, being Heroes and Righting Wrongs and whatnot when they encounter a planet identical to Earth was. In 1969.
Why 1969? Well, my friends. 69 makes me giggle.
Also, 1969 had a lot of important events.
January 20 – Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records.
April 4 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
June 3- British singer Elton John releases his first album, Empty Sky, in the United Kingdom
June 28 – The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
July 20 – Apollo program: The lunar module Eagle lands on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon.
August 9 – Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends.
September 2 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus first airs on BBC One.
November 10 – Sesame Street premieres on the National Educational Television (NET) network.
November 15 – Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK.
December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
This was also the year that Women were allowed into the FFA and HIV first hit the United States.
Look at all that. So much that we take for granted. Imagine (all the people? Living side by side?) what a year like that would look like 300 years after, rather than 40. What amuses people, what horrifies them? And what just plain confuses them?
So, in gentle reboot fashion, Our Heroes are toddling along, being Heroes and Righting Wrongs and whatnot when they encounter a planet identical to Earth was. In 1969.
Why 1969? Well, my friends. 69 makes me giggle.
Also, 1969 had a lot of important events.
January 20 – Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records.
April 4 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
June 3- British singer Elton John releases his first album, Empty Sky, in the United Kingdom
June 28 – The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
July 20 – Apollo program: The lunar module Eagle lands on the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon.
August 9 – Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends.
September 2 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
October 5 – Monty Python's Flying Circus first airs on BBC One.
November 10 – Sesame Street premieres on the National Educational Television (NET) network.
November 15 – Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK.
December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
This was also the year that Women were allowed into the FFA and HIV first hit the United States.
Look at all that. So much that we take for granted. Imagine (all the people? Living side by side?) what a year like that would look like 300 years after, rather than 40. What amuses people, what horrifies them? And what just plain confuses them?
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:14 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
I'm sure that will be good for you, then. Enjoy your date. I will be here, making sure a scared woman sees a familiar face when she wakes from a bullet wound. Since that is apparently so terrible, I'm sure we will have lots of fun.
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:18 am (UTC)Recipient: Kirk, James
About an hour. Don't harass her too much for at least two, though.
It's weird as hell, but it happens. Didn't you say that you got the impression Starfleet Intelligence had "suggested" to the Admiralty that we explore this sector?
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:21 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
That's fine, I don't want to scare her or anything. This'll be enough of a mess without that. She'll probably be freaked enough by us.
Yeah. Yeah I did. Funny how that works out. Except for the it not being funny part. We'll get to the bottom of this all sooner or later. Doesn't mean I have to like it though.
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:23 am (UTC)Recipient: Chapel, Christine
Hey, Christine, it's Hikaru. PADD lost on the planet. Want to grab dinner after your shift?
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:44 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
Oh, hi Hikaru! How did you lose your PADD? I'd love to have dinner. I get off at 1900, so that's the perfect time for dinner.
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:48 am (UTC)Recipient: Chapel, Christine
Down on the planet. One of the natives grabbed it from me before shit went down. Didn't quite give it back.
Honesty, because you deserve it: Chekov's ex was down there, too. And I want him to admit how he feels about me. This is my endgame for tonight. Still interested?
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:50 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
You're supposed to keep track of those things you know.
Oh well that's fine. I just have to run it by Carrie first. Wouldn't want her getting jealous, you know. But you know, don't you think it would be better to just tell Chekov that you are attracted to him and that you want to initiate a relationship with him?
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:55 am (UTC)Recipient: Chapel, Christine
Hard when you're being molested by hippies and projectiles are being fired.
Oh, like you and Carrie were any better at first.
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Date: 2010-04-16 01:57 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
Well then maybe you should have avoided that situation altogether, now don't you think?
Of course we weren't any better! But we've been together since high school. I know Chekov's still a teenager, but you aren't. Stop acting like one. You need to step up to the plate and be a man Hikaru.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:04 am (UTC)Recipient: Kirk, James
Good.
Next time, don't joke about SI. It never ends well. We're going to have to go back down there, aren't we?
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:07 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
I've learned my lesson about making SI jokes. This week.
Yeah I'm sure we will. Once we find out what the hell is up with this girl at least. I'm not keen on anymore action until we know more baout what's going.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:10 am (UTC)Recipient: Chapel, Christine
Pavel told me to meet him. That's what I was doing.
I know. I know. But he's seventeen.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:11 am (UTC)Recipient: Kirk, James
Great.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:14 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Cheer up Bones, you probably won't have to go back down at least!
Well. Maybe.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:14 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
Oh, so you'll do anything Pavel asks you to do?
Yes, but you're *not* and so you need to be the grown up. He's young. He probably hasn't had alot of relationships. He's probably not sure *how* to have a relationship.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:27 am (UTC)Recipient: Chapel, Christine
No, of course not. Give me a break. I was on a mission. I was following the mission plan.
He doesn't want to be with an old man, Christine. He has his pick of people o the ship.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:38 am (UTC)Recipient: Kirk, James
You always say that. Christ. I'm going to have to make sure everyone's got tricorders that can detect the cartilage plates quickly.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:41 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
Sure you were.
Of course he has his pick of people on the ship. But why is it so hard for you to believe that that pick is you?
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:44 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Yes, yes you probably will. Love ya Bones. I owe you booze.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:51 am (UTC)Recipient: Chapel, Christine
I was. Just cause you're always on board doesn't mean things are always tame down there. You're the one seeing our guts when they don't. Things happen.
Because it makes no sense. What's so special about me?
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:51 am (UTC)Recipient: Kirk, James
Yes, yes you do.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:53 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Stop by your quarters after shift? When are you off?
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:57 am (UTC)Recipient: Kirk, James
The way things are going today? Good question.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:58 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Thought so. Comm me when you finally drag your ass out of sickbay and I'll meet you with the good alcohol.
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Date: 2010-04-16 03:01 am (UTC)Recipient: GuestPADD Alpha
I know things happen. You don't need to tell me twice.
You're reliable and honest and you're not hard on the eyes. If Carrie hadn't already proposed I'd be all over you. Well, okay. Probably not. But just because you aren't Carrie doesn't mean that there isn't *anything* special about you. Even if it doesn't make sense, shouldn't you take advantage of it while you still can.