Side Game: Dystopia
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startrek_diaryIn the world you are entering, there is a Federation. There is an Enterprise. There is even a Captain Kirk.
But in this world, they are not as you know them.
George Lowther, 27, is the captain of the pirate ship known throughout the galaxy as the Enterprise. Of course, he's not the real George Lowther, and neither was the man before him, a fellow called Chris Pike. They're in the process of trading the identity, so Pike can retire, having made his fortune. The new Lowther, real name James T. Kirk, has hired on a crew, and they're off on their first voyage, affiliated with the Federation of Interstellar Pirates.
So. How's the crew doing? And, of course, who's fucking?
But in this world, they are not as you know them.
George Lowther, 27, is the captain of the pirate ship known throughout the galaxy as the Enterprise. Of course, he's not the real George Lowther, and neither was the man before him, a fellow called Chris Pike. They're in the process of trading the identity, so Pike can retire, having made his fortune. The new Lowther, real name James T. Kirk, has hired on a crew, and they're off on their first voyage, affiliated with the Federation of Interstellar Pirates.
So. How's the crew doing? And, of course, who's fucking?
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Date: 2010-06-04 10:43 pm (UTC)Recipient: McCoy, Leonard
Let's go.
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Date: 2010-06-04 10:49 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
Something like that.
He wanted you to have a chance at life, even if he wasn't going to live it with you. You don't always have to know someone to love them.
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Date: 2010-06-04 10:52 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
No, I want your word. Not until I think I can do it.
That's a shit answer. I'd rather have grown up in a Fleet jail then be a legend's son.
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Date: 2010-06-04 10:57 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
I can promise not until I think you're ready.
They would've taken you away and put you through the orphanage system-if you were lucky. They also might have killed you outright, it was a fucked up time. Your father knew that.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:00 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
No, you can't go. Not unless we talk about it first.
Better that than to be "raised" by Winona and her fuck of the week. And you, when you bothered to stop by and pretend to care.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:03 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
You'll have plenty of warning, and we'll talk, but if I think you're ready and you disagree I might leave anyway.
This isn't the time to get into this, we have to get to the dinner and it'll be no good if we're fighting. We can discuss this after.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:15 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
Fine, whatever. Let's do this.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:16 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
Good man. After you Captain.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:20 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
If they all stand up when I enter, you owe me a bottle of Romulan ale.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:22 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
I'll have one ready just in case.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:27 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
Well, here goes nothing.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:38 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
See? You survived. Went well.
And you're not getting a bottle of the good stuff for the record.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:43 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
You have a funny definition of "good." Spock and Jailbait spent the entire time trying to prove they're smarter than me. McCoy had Chapel's panties in his pocket, and if McKenna had eaten any more slowly, she would have actually made her "carrot" come. And I'm pretty sure Uhura knows eight ways to kill a man with her kegels and I'm scared.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:47 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
I'm an optimist sometimes. They're eccentric, brilliant and dangerous, just what you need. It was entertaining if nothing else.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:50 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
So can we talk about this whole "Saint George was a complete dick for comitting suicide" thing?
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:52 pm (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
Yes, we can if you'd like.
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Date: 2010-06-04 11:55 pm (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
They are a good crew. And you were right about Rand.
If he loved me so much, why did he leave me with her? She didn't give a shit.
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:01 am (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
They are, they'll do well.
Your mom was different back then. He couldn't have known, hell I saw it happen and I didn't realize soon enough to do much of anything. And she did give a shit, and she still does, but she's never been quite whole since George passed.
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:06 am (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
Well thanks, I guess. For helping me choose them.
My earliest memory of my mother was her kissing me goodbye. To go on one of her adventures. Leaving me with Frank. She never asked for help. If she needed it, she could have called you. Or one of the old crew, the ones who were always coming by for drinks when I was supposed to be asleep. But she pretended everything was okay. She lied. And now I'm this and Sam is who knows, probably dead or something, and she doesn't care.
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:14 am (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
Welcome.
I know. it's all a mess of unfair to you and Sam and yes, she should've asked. But c'mon, you know what this life is like, if you're weak you're dead and I can only assume that she couldn't shake that attitude even though she needed to. I'm not saying you have to like what she did, or what your father did, but eventually you're gonna need to find a way to forgive them and move on with your life without them holding you back.
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:22 am (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
I don't love her. I didn't know that until you picked me off that floor, until you started acting like I mattered. I don't love her and I don't feel guilty about it. That's weird, isn't it? Or wrong? And I don't love him, because the only thing I know about him is that he's a martyr. everyone else loves their parents. You do. But I don't think I know how.
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:37 am (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
Weird maybe but it's not your fault. Hell, my parents were 'fleet Jim, and died before I learned what that really meant. Not everything's black and whole when it comes to family, and it's definitely not perfect. Look around at this ship, it's a second family, first for some, that's the beauty of it. They may not all have your burdens but some won't be that far behind I assure you. We live in a fucked up world son, I wish you could've known your father, and seen your mother at her best, but we have to make do with what's left.
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-06-05 12:59 am (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
You said you thought of me as a son. Would you say you loved me?
I wish I knew them, too. What they were. But I have to make do, don't I? With what I have? You, mostly, and whatever I can get from this crew.
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Date: 2010-06-05 01:10 am (UTC)Recipient: Lowther, George
Yes, I would say that; I do. That's the truth of it.
They were good people, you should've been raised by them. You have to keep going no matter what. By the end of this tour I think you'll be surprised just how much this crew will be family to you. You're not alone anymore.
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Date: 2010-06-05 01:25 am (UTC)Recipient: Pike, Christopher
Oh. Okay.
I should have had a lot of things. Should have been the prince of my own empire, huh? Well, we'll see what I can go here.