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All right. It's all very intriguing, and I'd quite enjoy a chance to get involved with Communications, or have a look at those engines, and the science department is quite enticing, not to mention all the people here — yes, you lot, definitely a perk, lovely chatting with you all — but I've had enough.

[ enough of boring domesticity. enough of being trapped. no matter how many small projects he takes on it never gets any less dull, and the bigger one never resolves itself. one thread leads to another leads to another, and he knew from the moment tom mcnair told him about the pirates that there was more going on here than meets the eye, reaffirmed by neal caffrey's cryptic intelligences, but in the process of finding it he's getting itchy for real information. ]

[ so there's a strictness in his tone and a glint in his eye that is perhaps not strictly the best way to make his debut on the network (this debut, anyway) but he has a question he needs answered. ]

Now. Somebody tell me how I can go about speaking to the captain of this ship.

[ he adjusts his bow-tie, and waits. would he be the doctor if he didn't think he could work it all out where everyone else has failed? it would be delusional arrogance if he hadn't managed it quite so many times in the past. ]

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Saying the captain runs this ship is like saying God runs North America. Like religion, you can dedicate yourself to something you're never gonna see, or else you can just get on with running yourselves. One guess which one gets you somewhere.

Not to pick holes in your analogy, but god can't override the autopilot.

Who says the captain can, either? You know, we build these things but we don't have the slightest idea what we're doing--and that's if you even believe Ward's the real captain, which I happen not to.

[ with slight condescension; ]

You may not have the slightest idea. But tell me why you don't think Ward's the captain.

[ because he could believe that, and it interests him. ]

Tell you? Just like that, huh? I have my reasons. I'm not gonna go around schooling people on the who what where and how, because it's a theory, and I'm not a rabble rouser.

[ Politics, you know. ]

You brought it up. I'm just interested. It seems like a fairly controversial thing to say — and you're right, you don't strike me as a "rabble rouser". And I'm sure you, of all people, are aware of how very little said over these things is private.

[ Nathan is quiet for a moment, then goes on carefully, thoughtfully. ]

It's a controversial thing to say cause it's an opinion, but you've been here as long as I have, seen the lack of leadership, the furtive nature of these people, their strong desire to protect their own asses, and you know--you just start thinking they're closer to my kind of people than the captain type.

By which I mean professional liars, of course.

Politicians, then, rather than military leaders. Not that the two are, of course, distinct categories.

[ he acknowledges with a tip of his head. ]

Captain Fry of the space training program seems to think they're attempting to control us.

[HAH she laughs at this, okay, well done Doctor, she likes you more now.]

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