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[anomalies]

Hey. [ HELLO, TRANQUILITY. someone appears to have found a razor since their last post. someone also appears to have not slept in the past... well, sleeping's overrated. connor's eyes are droopy and dark, and if the communicator could communicate smell, it'd probably be producing a intense odor of coffee. which is pretty much all he's been drinking lately.

off the side of the feed, there appears to be some kind of shifting, golden light—it's throwing cheerful, twinkly shapes against the walls of his room, lending a pleasant atmosphere to the feed, despite connor's obvious discomfort. the source of this light remains offscreen, but the mask is there nonetheless, sat innocently on connor's bed. despite telling abby he would... he hasn't yet locked it away. he can't seem to make himself do it. (it's got to be there for a reason, right?)

anyway. not the point. ]

Right. Couple of things. I'll try to be quick.
Jenna mentioned a headcount system last month, so Tony and I put our heads together and whipped up something to keep track of what numbers are in use at any given time. It's completely anonymous, so no names associated with the numbers—just that they're being used, which gives us a pretty solid count of how many passengers are onboard and using their comms, which comms are active, that sorta thing. It's obviously not gonna work on life-forms who aren't using the communicators, but this is a pretty good springboard. I heard— [ stalked ] —Communications was working on something a bit more refined?

If you guys need an extra pair of hands on that, I'd be happy to help.

And trust me, if there was some way of knowing what else is lurking on this big hunk of metal with us, I'd be all over it, but right now, this is the best I've got. [ he offers a small shrug, rubbing his hands together. ] We can work on triangulating organic life forms next, I suppose, but that might take a bit more doing.

Anyway, it's been up and running for a while—but I finally hooked up a VDT from the science department in medical to display the actual number, so you can check to see if it's fluctuated at all before or after this jump. No disrespect to the dead or missing, but this might... make it a bit easier to figure out if someone's gone right off the bat. There's also a subnetwork version if you'd rather check in on the go. I'm putting it up now. [ he reaches forward to tap a few keys, and a text link pops up. ]

» HEADCOUNT

[ right, onto the next thing. ]

I've been thinking. [ more like debating various distractions from all the crap that's been happening lately, but: ] If anyone were interested, we could start up a sort of... lecture series. There's a lot of people what are really well-read in their respective fields, and it'd be nice to spread the wealth. So to speak. So—the idea is, pick a topic you're particularly specialised in, and we can set up something in one of the conference rooms, or maybe a rec room. Broadcast it to the network. Myself, I've got experience in computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, and palaeontology, but I know quite a lot of other people've got experience in some of the same stuff—it'd be good to give everyone a chance to present what they'd like. Y'know. Variety.

I've typed up a rudimentary electronic sign-up sheet, so if there's enough interest, maybe we can make it happen. [ or something. ]

LECTURE SIGN-UPS (NAME, SUBJECT) 1. Connor Temple, Palaeontology OR Temporal Physics 2. Chapel Hill, Nanotechnology OR Basketball 3. Mike Ross, Literature 4. Topher Brink, Computational Neuroscience 5. Leoben Conoy, Yoga

Right, that's it from me.

—One last thing, though. Stay safe, everyone, alright? I know weird stuff on this ship's pretty much a given, but... [ he sighs. ] It's been a bit weirder than usual. Let's try to keep our wits about us.

[ connor out. ]

Comments

voice;

[leaps]

How much?

voice; 1/2

[sugarbear]

[ ...

Don't do it Casey. ]

voice; 2/2

[sugarbear]

Enough to know you're a hell of a lot straighter than you used to be.

voice;

[leaps]

[ there's a confused pause because no, that wasn't the answer sulu was expecting. ]

Wwhat?

voice;

[goldshirt]

What?

[NOW IT'S KIRK'S TURN TO LAUGH HAR HAHALKJAD.]

voice;

[leaps]

[ SHUT UP KIRK ]

I don't know, ask him.

voice;

[sugarbear]

Or you could ask your Spock.

voice;

[leaps]

Wait, what's Spock know about it?

voice;

[sugarbear]

He flies a little bit to the left too.

voice;

[leaps]

[ wait what. ]

But what about Uhura?

voice;

[sugarbear]

You ever see she and him actually--you know?

Exactly.

voice;

[sugarbear]

Don't make me repeat myself. Other you is gayer than a Shirley Temple with a rainbow cocktail umbrella.

I'd say you were an improvement, but the dude was pretty good with a sword. [ Pause. ] Katana.

voice;

[leaps]

[ well this sure is news. ]

How'd he fly?

[ this is of paramount importance. ]

voice;

[sugarbear]

A little to the left.

voice;

[leaps]

[ there's a snort of laughter. ]

At least I'm a better pilot then.

voice;

[sugarbear]

You're supposed to be the same person, right? So how does that work, exactly?

voice;

[leaps]

I'm not...exactly sure.

It's complicated.

voice;

[sugarbear]

Uh huh. Complicated.

voice;

[anomalies]

Any change in any physical constant in any universe is generally what creates a parallel universe or alternate reality—so, basically, all we'd have to do in order to determine the differences between Sulu Prime and this Sulu is to compare their histories and see what's changed.

We already know some of it, obviously. Well. Those of us who've watched the film.

[ you asked for it. ]

voice;

[sugarbear]

I'll have you know I get plenty of free time. But everything directed by that guy looks the same to me.

Besides, this isn't a real alternate universe. It's an alternate timeline. Mirror Verse is an alternate universe. Get it straight.

voice;

[growling]

Please don't.

[ also oh god that angry number is sulu ]

voice;

[sugarbear]

You don't understand. I'm doing a public service.

voice;

[anomalies]

[ UH ]

O-kay, I don't think that means what you think it means.

voice;

[sugarbear]

It's okay if you don't get it. You'll understand when you're older.

voice;

[anomalies]

[ wh... at. ]

Right. Honestly, why do I even try? Don't answer that.