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Tweak says, "gottahavawawa!"

To Boldly Go | RPG Community (boldlygomod) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-09-09 13:53:00

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Welcome to the Holodeck!

Each Saturday, join the Enterprise crew and your fellow travelers to meet new arrivals, catch up with those you haven't seen in a few days, or try a new drink. This week, the traveler liaison program, along with the help of the Deck 5 Lounge staff, have decided to theme the evening on the holodeck. Welcome to a forest getaway. It's late afternoon into evening, an outdoor bar is set up alongside a campfire, picnic tables, and a lake with canoes. Enjoy stargazing as the sun goes down.

OOC Information

These weekly posts are IC third-person threading opportunities. Threads that extend to 10 total good-sized comments can be counted as a log for activity check. If you have any questions, please let me know. The hope is that you will use this opportunity for random character interactions and development.

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borg
2017-09-18 03:46 pm UTC (link)

"Annihilation is not our—" A pause. "Not their ultimate goal. Perfection is, and they will use whatever means necessary to obtain the information and technology that will bring them closer to that goal. Sometimes worlds are collateral damage while in pursuit of perfection. Worlds resist regardless of how futile the attempt may be."

And yet, she readily conceded to his point. "No, they do not. I understand that better now than I did when I was part of the Collective. Granted, I did not possess the ability to understand, let alone think for myself."

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	starfleetnavy 2017-09-18 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Let that be a lesson to the perfectionists amongst us," he said, an ache settling in his chest at the realisation of what she was saying. Joking aside: "I can't imagine what you've been through. We forget, sometimes, how easily we can lose the ability to think for ourselves. Take it for granted." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

borg
2017-09-20 03:14 pm UTC (link)

"It was not quite the horrific experience everyone makes it out to be," she found herself saying. "I was a child when I was assimilated. I suppose my point of view is colored by that unfortunate truth, but the fact remains that I was too young to properly judge what was about to happen to me. Too young to remember what my life was like before I was Borg."

Which was both a lie and not. She recalled her assimilation in great, vivid detail — hiding under the console from the drones that beamed aboard the Raven, convinced they wouldn't find her because she was a small. But they did. She remembered her parents bringing dormant, regenerating drones aboard the ship on more than one occasion, and there was some latent, bitter part of herself that resented them for essentially desensitizing her to something she ought to have perceived as a greater threat than she had.

"Individuality is a precious asset. One does not need to be assimilated in order to lose their sense of self."

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starfleetnavy
2017-09-20 04:44 pm UTC (link)

He let out a gasp of emotional pain. "I think you've misunderstood what makes things horrific to us," he pointed out. "The fact that you were a child makes it more horrific, not less.

"Children aren't just the continuation of our gene pool, they're innocent, they rely on us to protect them, to help them grow. That such a thing happened to what should have been the purest part of ourselves, goes to a place that we can scarcely contemplate, let alone speak of.

"In times past, children were hurt by adults - making them experience adulthood before they were ready. Just because they didn't understand any better than you did, didn't mean those children weren't hurt."

He calmed himself before he could get excited. "You tried to casually pass off the destruction of entire worlds. I think you're hurt more than you know."

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borg
2017-09-23 09:21 pm UTC (link)

Few individuals would dare to point out such a thing, especially back on Voyager where half the crew still feared and loathed her, but it was true. She had just calmly stated something horrific that she had attempted to pass off as some sort of norm. The destruction of worlds shouldn't be anyone's version of normal, and yet it was part of hers during the time she was a drone. And in this new life she was forging for herself, she'd developed the habit of falling back on Borg familiarities, including all nightmarish travesties that came with them, instead of braving the unfamiliar waters of her burgeoning humanity.

"I am not sure I know what hurt is," she allowed herself to admit after a moment.

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starfleetnavy
2017-09-24 12:49 pm UTC (link)

The destruction of Earth and humanity would have been an abstraction to the Voyager crew where for Malcolm it came perilously close to coming to pass.

"You'd be surprised the number of people who don't," he replied. He was talking about himself, the NX-01 crew and most particularly Trip. "I suppose it's... just easier to cope, that way. But it can't be ignored forever."

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borg
2017-09-24 11:36 pm UTC (link)

But unlike the rest of her crew, Seven was well aware of the thwarted events of First Contact, of how dangerously close humanity came to ceasing to exist in those poignant moments. Thankfully ~~Locutus~~ Captain Picard had been able to intervene. The Alpha Quadrant without humans, without Starfleet? It was difficult to imagine — even for her.

"Is that what I am doing? Coping?"

Believe it or not, nobody had put it that way before.

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	starfleetnavy 2017-09-26 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, I'm no psychologist, but..." he shrugged and nodded. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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