log 001; voice --> video

[leapfromgreat]

[ there's a pause, some cursing in quiet romulan. there's a metallic clink--the dog tags--before sulu pushes a few more buttons and the video feeds cuts in. ]

Alright. This is Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu of the U.S.S. Enterprise, and I seem to be...misplaced. Unless we're kicking off shore leave early and no one told me.

[ there's a pause. ]Scotty, if

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[leapfromgreat]

Can I have the bad news first?

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[incywincyhero]

You sure about that one?

[leapfromgreat]

Positive.

[incywincyhero]

You're trapped in an alternate universe according to the capricious whims of a superpowerful, sentient AI of unknown motivations.

Also, it's 247 years in your relative past, give or take a couple years.

[leapfromgreat]

Well, that explains this comm...

So...what is the good news?

[incywincyhero]

[He shrugs!] You get sent back to the same moment you were kidnapped, with all your memories of this place removed, so it's like you were never here at all. You won't be getting in trouble for going AWOL, or whatever Starfleet calls it.

Also -- [drawling it out] -- and this is either good news or bad news, depending ... but you might have superpowers.

[leapfromgreat]

Superpowers.

[ is this really his life right now. is it. ]

Well, at least I'm not missing the launch.

[incywincyhero]

There are worse ways to get stranded in another dimension, lemme tell ya.

[leapfromgreat]

You've got experience with this sort of thing?

[incywincyhero]

You could call it a job hazard. This gig's pretty swanky, actually, since we get paid and don't have to fight each other to the death for the supposed edification of a godlike being.

[leapfromgreat]

Sounds like a blast.

[ says the man who willingly signs up to jump out of moving shuttles from hideous heights. ]

[incywincyhero]

It does rather refreshingly clarify one's life philosophies. Such as, "Oh god oh god I don't wanna die oh god."

[leapfromgreat]

[ oh sulu remembers that life philosophy. ]

That's a pretty good philosophy to have.

[incywincyhero]

The nice thing about it is that if you adhere to its principles, it's self-fulfilling.