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Tweak says, "ho ho ho!"

john crichton is obsessed with wormholes (frellmedead) wrote in toboldlyrpg,
@ 2017-10-08 19:37:00

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! enterprise, - holodeck, ^ log, john crichton | farscape, samantha carter | stargate

26 SEPT (MORNING)

John Crichton ✦ Sam Carter
Holodeck experiments
No warnings
Complete

Leaning against a nearby wall as he waited for Sam on the holodeck, John looked longingly at the simulation of his module. Knowing it was all fabricated from the ship’s computer didn’t make it look any less rule and he had to remind himself that he couldn’t just jump in it and take a spin the way he used to when he felt too cooped up on Moya. No matter how many times he used the holodeck, he would never get used to how damn realistic the thing was. Even growing up watching Star Trek wasn’t enough to prepare him for all of this being a reality.

“Damn, I miss you,” he murmured vaguely. He wasn’t sure if he meant the module or Moya or the crazy band of friends he’d made in those years aboard her. Here, he’d made other friends and he’d managed to carve out a life for himself, but sometimes he still felt the ache of missing home. Both his homes.

Pushing off the wall when he heard the door to the holodeck open, he turned to Sam with a grin.

“You ready to do this?” he asked her.

Walking in she nodded at John, she should have said something about sure she was, but she was more interested in what was in front of her.

She took a minute to look over things before looking at him. "I didn't say hi, thanks for doing this did I?" She laughed. "Hi, how are things?" She asked the question, but her eyes were still focused on the hologram.

“It’s okay.” John shook his head and laughed at her excitement. “It’s amazing, isn’t it? You’d never know this is all just ones and zeros. Feels like we could just hop in and take a spin” Which wasn’t technically what they were about to do, sort of. They’d be putting the module through a recreation of the experiment that had landed him near the uncharted territories to begin with. He’d already programmed the scenario and once he told the computer to start it, it would play through, just as it had that day. From there, he thought they should be able to play with the variables and see what they could figure out.

"Do you think your module created the wormhole or you just hit one at the right time?" Sam asked as she carefully lifted a panel to check inside of it. She knew what she was doing, and she could see where had he been from her world where she'd recommended adding a few things that they'd learned from the Asgard, but that wasn't the point of being here.

Letting the panel back down she took a step back. "It's impressive, you ready to get started? I'd like to see what you've got first before diving further in."

John nodded. “It’s hard to know for sure,” he drawled as he did a few more checks of the program he planned to use to run the simulation, “but I’m pretty sure it had something to do with some freak electromagnetic event Canaveral detected right as I was doing my thing.” He explained a little bit about the theory he’d been testing, where he’d been trying to find a way to boost speed using only the planet’s gravity, trying to pave the way for interstellar travel.

Reviewing a couple of things, he gestured to the module. The plan was for them to experience the simulation from inside so he could show her exactly what he’d experienced that day while the computer recorded as much data as it could extrapolate from the whole thing.

Sam watched it once and had him run it again, watching it carefully, she hadn't exactly seen anything like it, but she knew a lot about different kinds of wormholes, had it been their world she would have thought it was something to do with stargate travel.

"Electromagnetic wave," she whispered to herself as she paused it in the middle of his trip. "Do you know if there were any recorded sun flares at the time?" From what it looked like it was a surprise and given her knowledge of how sun flares could mess with wormhole travel she wanted to know if perhaps that added to what he experienced, based on what she saw so far she didn't think it was just sun flares that caused it, but she could be wrong.

“There might have been,” he admitted. John thought back to you what he’d learned from the Ancients, what them messing with his head had told him about that day. “That’s not where my focus was at the time, but from what I was able to get later, there definitely could have been a flare.”

"Flares of our sun had, well I suppose still does, have the ability to send our wormholes into the past so that it could make sense, there was even a time teams from different realities started to show up," Sam paused a section of the programming. "So far it seems most of our worlds have similar opinions and laws of physics, and if we could," she said looking back up at him. "Sorry, do you mind if I try something here? I'm not sure if the simulation will even work, but if I think through putting naquadah in here, well, I just want to see what happens. Naquadah's a rare, extremely dense mineral that has a lot of uses, but we've made generators out of it, among other things..."

John nodded. “Go ahead,” he said. He trusted Sam, knew she knew her stuff, and the whole point of this was to play around with some variables and see if they could come up with some good theories. Preferably something useful and provable.

Grinning, she nodded and dove straight into building what she could with the holodeck and eventually putting the Naquadah into the engine with his help getting more information on how it was built.

"This might blow up, and not work at all," she warned as she stepped back. Hitting basically the 'play button' they watched as the simulation started when it started to get towards the wormhole and go through, well things got messy, and there was a massive explosion. “Might need to tone that down.” Sam said after a minute.

Shrugging at the comment that it might blow up or just not work. “Might want to just a bit,” he said moments later after the explosion. He’d been paying attention to what she was doing and he was starting to get an idea of what she was after and he made a suggestion for a couple of tweaks.

"Good thing it's just a simulation," she said getting back to work, they both provided suggestions and tweaks to it. She knew how difficult Naquadah could be sometimes. As they were waiting for some calculations, she smiled. "It'd have been nice to have this kind of holodeck at home, would have saved a lot of headaches."

“No kidding,” he agreed. “No one cares so much if you blow up an imaginary shuttle.” Something like this wouldn’t have been possible at home. Running these simulations was going to be really useful. At least he hoped so.

“How are you finding your team?” Sam asked as she moved another panel around, she wasn’t completely sure how she found her team, very smart people, but she still wasn’t sure how she felt about them just yet.

“Carol’s only part time, but I like her,” he said, “but Narvin’s a giant pain in the ass. If I could find a way to push him out an airlock and make it look like an accident...”

She shouldn’t be laughing, but Sam couldn’t help it. “I haven’t had much experience with him, but from what I have seen, I can see where someone might feel that way.” She also didn’t add that she might have a thought on that, she wouldn’t follow through with it though.

“He thinks he’s smarter and better than literally everyone else on this ship. Condescending jerk, but then he turns around and accused me of being rude to him. I’m amazed I haven’t hit him yet.” Dealing with Narvin was about the only part of this project he didn’t like.

“Tell me how you really feel about him,” Sam said standing up a little straighter. “This ship does have a lot of egos.”

John just chuckled at the as he finished up some work on his own panel. “Take 2?” he asked.

Sam nodded stepping back and waiting for him to do the same before running the simulation again. Watching as everything started to go as expected, thankfully things didn’t blow up this time as they watched the model go through the wormhole, just with some changes in destination control. “I think there is a lot of data in this that we’re going to need to study.” Watching it once gave some information, she felt like there was more to it.

John nodded his agreement. “I think you’re right. It would be good to get everyone else’s eyes on it, too. We’re all from different enough backgrounds that the different perspectives could be really good.”

“Someone might see something that we’re not,” she agreed. Sam was always happy to have more sets of eyes on this kind of thing.

Nodding, he made sure everything was accessible on the PADDs. “So, next step, send all this to the teams and see what they think?”

“That’s the most logical step,” she agreed.