Side Game: OMG WEDDING
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startrek_diary"Since the days of the first wooden vessels, all ship masters have had one happy privilege: that of uniting two people in the bonds of matrimony."
In TOS, Kirk was happy to marry two of his crewmen. In TNG, when Keiko and O'Brien were getting married, Data worried about finding a gift. So it's not unheard of for crewmen to marry.
Three years into the voyage, after the Narada, two crewmembers, Hikaru Sulu and Pavel Chekov, have decided to take the plunge.
The whole ship is a buzz.
In order to officiate well, Kirk did some researching and found something very, very strange. In the wake of the whole world-saving gig, the crew has become... famous. They're being written about. And not always in flattering ways. In fact, they seem to have developed a fandom.
Of course, no one can contain their curiosity.
So people are sending around snippets of fanfic- from awful to awesome, from G to triple-X.
So- who is shocked by who they're shipped with? Who was a secret member of fandom when they were younger? And who is still writing?
And in the end, do Sulu and Chekov pull it off, or do they decide there's a better ship for them?
Thanks to Bubbles for the inspiration.
In TOS, Kirk was happy to marry two of his crewmen. In TNG, when Keiko and O'Brien were getting married, Data worried about finding a gift. So it's not unheard of for crewmen to marry.
Three years into the voyage, after the Narada, two crewmembers, Hikaru Sulu and Pavel Chekov, have decided to take the plunge.
The whole ship is a buzz.
In order to officiate well, Kirk did some researching and found something very, very strange. In the wake of the whole world-saving gig, the crew has become... famous. They're being written about. And not always in flattering ways. In fact, they seem to have developed a fandom.
Of course, no one can contain their curiosity.
So people are sending around snippets of fanfic- from awful to awesome, from G to triple-X.
So- who is shocked by who they're shipped with? Who was a secret member of fandom when they were younger? And who is still writing?
And in the end, do Sulu and Chekov pull it off, or do they decide there's a better ship for them?
Thanks to Bubbles for the inspiration.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:12 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
It makes you feel good to resort to petty insults?
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:13 am (UTC)Recipient: Lemli, Roger
Oh.
Rog, I don't WANT to get married. I don't want that hanging over me. Bad enough that we're both security, but marrying that way? That's just insanity. And anyway. You want kids. And that's not happening with me. So if you are planning that, you'd be planning it with someone who could do what you wanted.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:14 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
Rog and I aren't most couples, are we?
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:15 am (UTC)Recipient: Spock, [Data Error]
Yeah, for a minute it does.
It's the joy of getting out a good curse, like FUCK. It's satisfying. You know about satisfaction?
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:22 am (UTC)Recipient: Galloway, David
Hence the "if" in that paragraph. For all I know one or both of us could be killed tomorrow and this whole discussion would be moot. But for now we're doing whatever it is we're doing, so I don't see why we can't enjoy ourselves.
I know you've said before that you don't want to get married and that you don't want kids. Do you mind me asking why?
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:22 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
And you never worry that I might get offended?
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:23 am (UTC)Recipient: Galloway, David
No, you're not.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:33 am (UTC)Recipient: Lemli, Roger
We can try.
Eh, tired tragic backstory crap. Dad got in over his head with some Klingons, ended up on a prison planet where he died a coward's death. Went to visit him once, my insides got all boiled by a poorly placed red sun and some shitty shielding. Any kid of mine is gonna have extra heads and arms and maybe no spleen. I'd marry someone if I thought I could give them what they wanted. But I can't, not for you. So yeah, enjoy ourselves while we can. When you get tired, want a real life, you'll bin me and move on. Circle of life and whatnot.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:33 am (UTC)Recipient: Spock, [Data Error]
You don't seem to have an "offended" mode.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:34 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
By the way, Jan Rand. Think about it. She likes you. You'd be cute together, all blue eyes and toned bodies, or whatever.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:36 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
We've been over this, Davey. No playing Cupid. Besides, I don't even like her like that.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:39 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
Not trying to play cupid. Just trying to point out a young yeoman who asks after you a LOT.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:44 am (UTC)Recipient: Galloway, David
Oh Dave. There is this wonderful thing called adoption. If you ever wanted a kid, you could always adopt one who doesn't have anyone else.
But thank you for sharing. Knowing that, it kind of explains your whole outlook on marriage and children.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:45 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
Well tell her I'm not interested.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:46 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Perhaps I am just very good at hiding it.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:52 am (UTC)Recipient: Lemli, Roger
I'd be shit with a kid. My mom married my best friend's dad before mine was cold in the ground, and they got one. Adopted, my mom was with me in the shuttle and all. I was 11. Whiny little thing. I hated it. I think I'm just not wired to like kids.
Well I never was one for hiding. Doesn't suit either of us. You want to know something, anything, just ask.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-19 03:52 am (UTC)Recipient: Rand, Janice
Doesn't look good, sorry.
ATT: TonyRecent.PADD
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:53 am (UTC)Recipient: Spock, [Data Error]
I never been choked across a console or backhanded onto an ice planet, so I figure we're okay.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:53 am (UTC)Anyone wants McCoy, take him. I feel weird about this version of him.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:55 am (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Well then. There you are.
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Date: 2010-05-19 03:58 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
So. You see the weird "fandom" thing that's been going around?
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:01 am (UTC)Recipient: Ensyne, Richards
Yeah, I have. Apparently I'm what's called the fandom bicycle. There're stories about me and nearly everyone on the ship.
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:06 am (UTC)Recipient: Galloway, David
Oh. Okay. Thanks for trying I guess.
Do you want to get a drink or two tonight?
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:06 am (UTC)Recipient: Giotto, Tony
Yeah, it's weird. I saw. Well, you and Ensign Chekov and the Captain.
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:11 am (UTC)Recipient: Ensyne, Richard
And Admiral Pike, too. If the fandom is any indication, he's been with everyone in Starfleet and a few extras too, all while being married to his old first officer. I wonder if she and her wife know about that?
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Date: 2010-05-19 04:13 am (UTC)Recipient: Galloway, David
Some people just aren't. No big deal.
I will. And the same goes for you, okay?