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@ 2017-06-03 15:01:00

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Welcome to the Hawaiian Luau!

All characters who joined the Hawaiian Islands excursion are invited to a traditional luau and pig roast in honor of the travelers. Enjoy drinks, dinner, hula, live music, a private beach, and each other.

OOC Information

This is an in-character opportunity to write short threads with other players. This is a great opportunity to thread short, random interactions between characters.

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Jean-Luc Picard and Open

makeitso
2017-06-05 06:34 pm UTC (link)

Vacations were not frequently sought out by the Captain of the Enterprise - well, not this Enterprise - but since it was being pushed upon him, he would be willing to undertake the prospect. For the moment he had found himself a nice table on the edge of the facilities. There was an empty chair, but he had a drink, a beach appropriate shirt and shorts, and there was a book sitting on the table that he could pick up and make use of, if he found himself with some time to people watch instead of being engrossed in conversation. But for the moment he was simply sipping that cocktail, and considering the different people - some he knew, and some he didn't.

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Re: Jean-Luc Picard and Open

i_shot_first
2017-06-05 09:39 pm UTC (link)

Han sat down in another empty chair, sipping a drink of his own. It wasn't Corellian ale, but it was still some of the good stuff. He thought he remembered reading something from Picard on the network the network once or twice, although it was hard to be sure.

"Things seem to be going well." he commented. "It is good to spend time off the ship for a while, I guess. I'm used to long trips, but it looks like not everyone is.

"Am I remembering right that you're one of the Captains?" he asked.

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Jean-Luc Picard and Open

makeitso
2017-06-05 09:51 pm UTC (link)

Jean-Luc glanced over and offered a welcome smile to the man who was joining him. He had spent a bit of time getting familiar with both crew and the travelers from other galaxies here on the Enterprise, and so he recognized the man as Han Solo, but they had not had the opportunity to speak just yet. "Indeed, I suppose I am, although my ship is not here in this time."

It was interesting being on this Enterprise, both similar to the one he knew of, and yet also quite different. In a timeline that had similar people, but different events. This was not all bad, but it did make for a certain need to be nimble in one's response to events around him.

He reached his hand out in an offering of welcome. "I'm Jean-Luc Picard, and you are Han Solo, if I'm remembering correctly."

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	Re: Jean-Luc Picard and Open i_shot_first 2017-06-09 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	Han nodded. "I wish mine was...glad to be able to train for here, but I still miss her like crazy." he said.. Good to meet you...yeah, that's right, Captain Han Solo. Although it's nowhere near the same kind of stuff you seem to do. Not these days, anyway." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

makeitso
2017-06-14 10:58 pm UTC (link)

Jean-Luc nodded in response to Han. "I certainly can understand missing a ship. I certainly miss mine. And my crew, although, I've got one of mine here and that's been good." He was glad that Will was here, even though it was only one person out of dozens that Jean-Luc considered to be close friends on the Enterprise. As much, he supposed, as any Captain had close friends."

He tilted his head, wondering what Solo's ship was like. "Is it a large ship like this one?"

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Re: Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

i_shot_first
2017-06-16 08:00 pm UTC (link)

Crew...Han only had Chewie of course, unless the family was along with him.

"There really isn't much in the way of crew...just my co-pilot and sometimes, my family. " he said. Mostly Solos, of course. Luke spent most of his time in space these days on the Jade Sabre with Mara.

"She's a YT-1300 Light Freighter originally. But I made a few changes to her over the years. Those things don't usually come with a hyperdrive, for one. These days, she's the fastest ship in the galaxy." he replied. "Gotten me and my friends through a few tight shootouts, too...never really wanted to be in the military, but I suppose life doesn't always go the direction we'd like sometimes."

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Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

makeitso
2017-06-27 12:01 am UTC (link)

"I suppose it doesn't always, although I'm glad to have made my way to Starfleet and to stay there," Picard noted with a smile. "I could have been a farmer, but I think I would have made a terrible one. Space was always the place for me."

And it had been that way even when he was a younger man or boy. It wasn't perfect, and certainly Jean-Luc had been granted any number of learning opportunities along the way, but he would have turned away none of them for the chances he'd had in Starfleet.

"So it's a bit of a smaller ship than the Enterprise," he said thoughtfully. The Enterprise could technically be run from the bridge and engineering with a much smaller crew, but not that small, it made more sense that Solo's ship would be a smaller one. "If I had a smaller one that was all mine, I'm certain I would make some modifications as well."

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	Re: Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo i_shot_first 2017-06-28 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	"I was never one to settle down either...if someone'd told me a couple decades back that I'd be married with three kids, I'd have laughed at them. Things sure do change..." he replied. He nodded. "Yeah, that's right. I can fly her by myself, though it's best when my co-pilot's with me." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

makeitso
2017-06-29 11:25 pm UTC (link)

"I hope it's been a good life for you though," Jean-Luc smiled. He'd never had children of his own - never really wanted them, but he was grateful for some of the young people who had come into his life all the same. His crew had provided him with the opportunity to mentor and to support in ways he would not have otherwise gotten the opportunity to do, and that would be enough for him more than likely.

"It's good to have someone by your side like that," he added, lifting a glass to his lips. "I wouldn't want to be in space without certain of my crew by my side."

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Re: Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

i_shot_first
2017-06-30 07:37 pm UTC (link)

"Eh, on and off it has." he replied. "Let's just say it can get tough sometimes when you're high profile. I'm just glad Leia's the one in politics...it just drives me crazy most of the time." He shook his head. "I swear if I have to foil one more kidnap attempt before they grow up..." He sighed.

"Yeah...yeah, it is. His language isn't very common, but I know what he's saying. I'm much happier with either him or the family along when I'm in space."

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Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

makeitso
2017-07-06 12:04 am UTC (link)

"Unfortunately politics seems to invade every aspect of life. I do not enjoy it, but as a starship captain I find myself pulled into it every so often." Jean-Luc understood the necessity of diplomacy, but he could also easily understand how people could be lulled into the desire for an authoritarian government - where efficiency was guaranteed by demanded obedience. Particularly when he was working through the subtleties of a particularly thorn situation. But he understood equally the need for something different.

"Do you travel much?" he asked Han.

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Re: Jean-Luc Picard & Han Solo

i_shot_first
2017-07-07 08:40 pm UTC (link)

Han nodded. "I imagine so." The ships here seemed to be a little different in that respect than many back home. The Imperials did a lot of business from their star destroyers, but it seemed like a lot of races did their actual politics on-planet.

"Not as much as I used to. When I was younger, I couldn't think of settling down, but things have a way of changing. I still do some traveling with the family, but I spend a lot more time in one place than before."

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picard + seven

borg
2017-06-06 04:12 am UTC (link)

Though Tony Stark had successfully assisted her in dismantling her proximity transceiver, Seven couldn't help but be drawn to Jean-Luc Picard. The man who was once Locutus shared in her inexperiences in ways others had not — could not. And although her outlook on the Borg was neutral at best, colored by too many years immersed in the hive mind, the trauma of her assimilation (and liberation) would likely haunt her for the rest of her life.

In many ways, she envied him. Though there was no denying that he still possessed remnants of Borg technology from his time as a drone, it wasn't visible. She didn't have that luxury, and in this attire especially, the leftovers that would forever mark her as Borg were plainly visible.

"Captain. Is this seat taken?"

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picard + seven

makeitso
2017-06-08 10:03 pm UTC (link)

"It is not, or perhaps I should say, it is taken by you," Jean-Luc looked up at the young woman next to him. She had clearly been part of the collective, part of the Borg, and he could see that, but he offered a warm smile instead. They had interacted on the Enterprise at times with those who had been Borg, and certainly Jean-Luc had his own memories of the time so this was not his first experience.

"Are you enjoying the Luau?" He asked her, glancing across the open space filled with many of the other travelers that they were sharing this experience with. "I suspect you've not been to an event such as this one before? Or if you have, it has been a very long time ago."

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picard + seven

borg
2017-06-08 10:39 pm UTC (link)

"I recall very little from my childhood," she told him as she took a seat. "My parents were research exobiologists. Unconventional ones, at that. Somehow a luau doesn't seem like something they would have indulged in."

Though it was backwards to think of it that way. Magnus and Erin had been okay with dragging their young daughter along with them on a venture to study the Borg that Starfleet hadn't exactly approved of, but wouldn't have bothered to stop and attend something like a luau. She wasn't sure how she felt about that, but her parents were a subject she typically avoided.

"It's... different. I am accustomed to my presence being required for events on the holodeck, and the authenticity of this gathering is something I am not used to."

Not just the scenery and lack of holographic extras, but having the gathering just to have it, and not because they'd needed a moral boost after surviving one narrowly avoided catastrophe after the other.

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picard + seven

makeitso
2017-06-14 11:01 pm UTC (link)

"If they were in the field, then I suspect that they would not have had much opportunity for something such as this," Jean-Luc agreed taking in the gathering. "If you'll believe it," he turned to her with a somewhat conspiratorial glance. "I don't like this sort of event typically. I'm very bad at vacations actually as any of my crew can tell you. But you're right about the authenticity of this, and it not being required is different from most events I must attend.

"It's good to have them," Jean-Luc nodded, even if he was not typically one to partake in them. "Others, not me, but others need this sort of thing from time to time, and I think it's good for all of us to stretch our wings sometimes and do things that are not something we would typically pick. I do find myself feeling the need to get back to Captain-ing my ship, even if that's not something I'm required to do here."

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borg
2017-06-26 05:48 am UTC (link)

"They did not. They were... obsessed with learning more about the Borg. I suppose you could say they got their wish."

Morbid, but that didn't make it any less true. Their obsession drove them into the arms of the Collective, giving the Borg their first taste of humanity. Seven was unable to say whether she held any animosity against them for their actions, for their thirst for unobtainable knowledge — knowledge they now possessed as drones, but could not in any way use as their individual selves had intended. Her outlook was clouded, feelings mixed. They would likely remain that way for a long time.

"I agree. This is a necessity for individuals, and while I do not enjoy being alone, I've learned that I do not care for the chaotic, unpredictable companionship that is present at events such as these. On Voyager, I would attend for a required amount of time, then return to the Astrometrics Lab to continue working or my alcove to regenerate."

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picard + seven

makeitso
2017-06-27 12:05 am UTC (link)

Picard nodded, his expression neutral. Whatever they might have wanted as individuals seemed unlikely to be met if they had been assimilated, which seemed likely under the circumstances. Their daughter would have grown up Borg, and she was not individual again. It was such a very different way of living, but it seemed, as best Picard could tell that she had made the transition well enough.

"It is very different not knowing what someone is thinking or feeling in the interim isn't it?" Picard looked over sympathetically. "There is an entirely different skillset necessary in learning to work in events like these - something you would not have needed among the Borg. You seem to be adjusting however, even if it is something that is not a preference."

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borg
2017-06-30 07:16 pm UTC (link)

She did grow up Borg, and her tainted perceptions of the universe would forever color her outlook. Her childhood was taken from her, and that which she did get to experience written over with necessity and protocol, memories that were deemed irrelevant discarded and locked away. There were members of her crew who had expected her to revert back to her human self with ease, forgetting that the last time she was human, she was nothing more than a frightened, wide-eyed little girl. And that little girl was damaged and buried, largely inaccessible to her.

She wasn't Annika anymore. She may never be again.

"It is," she readily conceded, grateful for his unique perspective on her situation. "I am adapting. That, at the very least, is something I know how to do well."

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picard + seven

makeitso
2017-07-06 12:01 am UTC (link)

"And that is something that humans do remarkably well," Jean-Luc agreed with a smile. "The ability of humans to adapt in any situation is something I have marveled at many times over the years. Not that it is a simple task, but it is one that we seem able to persist at, which is good."

He took a sip of the drink in his hand and looked over at her. "You said that you worked in the astophysics lab. What is your particular interest?"

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borg
2017-07-12 08:43 am UTC (link)

"Yes. A... shipmate and I designed and constructed it, fusing Starfleet and Borg technology into one efficient series of systems," Seven readily explained.

As for her personal interests, that was a more complicated answer that gave her pause, her brow furrowing together in thought. "I suppose it is. In the Collective— As you know, in the Collective, I had no interests. Only assigned tasks. The things that I was interested in as a child do not apply to my life now, and I enjoy working. I do not enjoy solitude or idleness."

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