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Kali Nicholotti

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    Waters: You should be aware that the last time I was in a shuttle, the situation was rather tense. Should things flare up once again... I should warn you. I am a good pilot, but in a very... dangerous way. ::smirking::

    Pretty sure that's all good pilots... :D 

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  2. And now, for an entirely different kind of Sandwich...

    (( Hamsan & Sirin’s Quarters, Deck 4, USS Resolution ))

    Dwich hated the chair he was sitting in.  It was awkward and made him feel like he was leaning halfway back to the floor, with nowhere to put his legs or rest his arms.  After Dr. Genkos Adea’s experimental treatment failed to produce any results, he had taken some additional scans and sent Dwich home.  Home.  These quarters, which he’d never seen before today, were his.  And Meidra’s.

    He felt like an interloper, having been given access to a stranger’s residence.  The idea that he’d be sent back to the quarters he shared with a woman he’d never met before today struck him as a tad inappropriate, for both of them.  He wondered whether the familiar setting was by design, to shock his system with the comforts of home and “fix” him.  He didn’t like it.  Everyone he had encountered on this ship so far made it seem like it was just a failure of memory, an amnesia from which he would one day awaken.  That wasn’t it.  He wasn’t the person they were looking for.  He wasn’t their Hamsan Dwich.

    But, he did have their Hamsan Dwich’s DNA and voiceprint, which gave him access to the library computer and allowed him to read up on himself.  It was fascinating reading, and after scanning his biography in detail, Dwich was able to pinpoint the exact moment when they went from being the same person, to diverging.  In the summer of 2388, Dwich was just 19 years old, spending his fifth summer in a row living and working with the ranjens at Kaiett Monastery.  At the end of his stay, he was told that his pagh was meant to walk this path, and he was welcomed into the brotherhood of the faithful.  He had remained on the property ever since, a decade of study and meditation and prayer, of devoting his life to the service of the Prophets.

    The other Dwich had not been so lucky.  Evidently, even though they were the same person, the other Dwich’s pagh was not meant for a life of religious contemplation, and he was sent away from the Monastery, never to return.  After a period of drifting, working various odd jobs in tourist traps all across the Quadrant, he had somehow ended up on Earth’s moon, working at a hospital before beginning a career in Starfleet.  After arriving on Resolution, he met Meidra Sirin and the two began a relationship.  They dated, they fell in love, they moved in together.  She even broke his arm once.

    Dwich was processing all of this when the doors opened and Meidra entered their shared living space.  He had helped many people deal with their grief, and he could tell that Meidra was still in the “not handling it well” phase.  She put on a smile and greeted him, her pleasant tone of voice an ill-fitting mask.

    Sirin: How are you feeling? 

    Hamsan:  As well as can be expected.  ::beat::  I know this must be difficult for you.  Dr. Adea sent me here, but I can easily go somewhere else if––

    Sirin: No, these are still your quarters unless you intend to see Lieutenant Yalu to be reassigned. There is another bedroom on the other side of our bathroom. I can move into that one and you’ll have your privacy.

    Dwich resisted the urge to shake his head.  These are still your quarters.  Everyone was still expecting him to awaken from this ordeal, as if it were a dream.  It was more like a nightmare.  Dwich had spent his entire adult life studying the words of the Prophets, but there was nothing he could think of that would soothe the pain she was feeling.  The silence needed to be filled with something, and Dwich could only form an apology.

    Hamsan:  Meidra, I’m sorry.  I’m sorry I don’t know you.  And I’m sorry that Dwich, your Dwich, isn’t here.

    Dwich’s apology was sincere, but it also served a secondary, more calculated purpose: he felt a responsibility to himself not to be bound by the expectation to be everyone else’s Hamsan Dwich.  Yes, they had been the same person up to a point, but after a decade of diverging paths and paghs, they were completely different individuals.  Even if he tried, every day for the rest of his life, he could never be Meidra’s Hamsan Dwich.

    Sirin: I’ll be around if you would like to talk, but forgive me. I need to meditate before this headache makes me ill.

    Meidra moved quickly away, saying nothing more, and Dwich knelt on the floor to pray for guidance as the soft sounds of a stranger crying in the next room carried over the stale, recycled air.

     

    End scene for Hamsan

     

    PNPC Vedek Hamsan Dwich
    Vedek, Kaiett Monastery
    Dakhur Province, Bajor

    simmed by

    Lieutenant Yogan Yalu
    Helm Officer
    USS Resolution NCC-78145

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  3. I feel incredibly honored to be counted among the amazing writers who received awards here today, and I'd like to congratulate each of you. It is more than apparent the hard work you put into your writing and your contributions to the game, the surrounding community, and everything that Starbase 118 is. You are the lifeblood that has kept the spirit alive for 26 years, and that which will keep it going for at least 26 more!

    Cheers to the winners! ::Lifts the glass of champagne.::

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    Kettick was going through a routine check of the holodecks. You were never too cautious with holodecks. One day, they worked just fine, and the next thing you knew, you were locked in deadly battle with Evil Emperor Repulso for the control of the main computer core, just because an over-imaginative crewmate had found a way around the safety protocols.

    Indeed. Here's our next mission!

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  5. Ash was once a provisional ensign aboard the Resolution, having rooted herself so far into the science discipline she was basically a walking textbook. Intel was her career change, and one that I'm discovering fits pretty well with her overall need to hide in plain sight. I would have never guessed it, but my characters have a habit of surprising me on a continual basis.

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  6. Last month we visited the idea that our favorite Star Trek characters could make some pretty awesome additions to some of our other favorite science fiction shows or movies. On the heels of that question, we will now consider the opposite. With so many well loved shows and movies out there, each with their own beloved characters, it might be easy to blur some of the lines to see crossovers in both directions. What? Is that Han Solo at the helm console? Is the Doctor over at science?

    This week's poll of the week question asks, if you were putting together the perfect crew, and you could pull over one character from another 'universe', who would you choose and what role would they play? Consider the chaos that could ensue! There really is no limit to who you could pick, but be sure to let us know why you chose what you chose in the comments below!!

  7. There are a number of quotes from our favorite television shows that we can return to, inviting a flood of memories back about the episode and what we were doing in our day when we heard the words. Few shows have grown beyond that, but Star Trek is definitely one of them. Rather than having to stop and explain a scene to your friends or co-workers, it's easy to let one of these popular phrases fly and get a response from nearly any audience. Even those who don't consider Star Trek a part of their lives will recognize some of them.

    Perhaps that is why Trek had such an amazing following throughout the years. It wasn't just the progressive attitudes and the willingness to delve into the unknown both in the show's reality, and in our own psyche, but the manner in which the words resonated through multiple generations. And that, of course, brings us to our poll of the week. What is your favorite famous Trek saying? Let us know if it's one of those we love, or if you have your own, and don't forget to join the conversation and tell us when you put your favorite phrase to work below.

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