If This Be Treason

Oct 31, 2006 09:19

My reasons for participating on this expedition were twofold: to provide what information I could to assist in the location and destruction of the
ISS Voyager and her Admiral
Janeway, and to verify their demise if at all possible. After one false alarm, I have been able to declare the
ISS Voyager destroyed. My purpose having been served, the Admirals in charge of this incident have - for the time being - forgotten about me. Unfortunately, they are still very much concerned with Commander
Storvik of the
USS Murgatroid, with whom I am still making plans vis-a-vis our daughter,
T'Sorvik.
It had been make clear to me that, upon the completion of this mission, both my daughter and myself will be returned immediately to Vulcan. I have little choice in the matter (officially), due to my questionable legal status arising from my origin in a parallel universe - the same universe from which emerged the variant of Admiral
Janeway who was the source of Starfleet's recent difficulties. That I had any freedom or influence at all was due to the usefulness of my knowledge - now passed, like Admiral
Janeway herself - and the intercession of this universe's Commander
Storvik on my behalf.
(There are also some issues involved in my relations with smugglers, Romulans, and the Orion Syndicate subsequent to my arrival in this universe; though I have explained that those are not relevant as they were based upon the standards of my previous universe, before I had attempted to integrate myself - somewhat - with the standards extant here.)
In any event, I am more than capable of enduring and surviving whatever this Federation may choose to inflict upon me - that which I do not instead evade or escape - but I have no intention of allowing my daughter to be subjected to what passes for an educational system on this universe's Vulcan, where any traces of emotion, spirit, or personality are attacked and destroyed without hesitation or mercy in the interests of conformity to Surak's Vulcan ideal. The Surak which I studied in my own universe was far different - I do not intend to raise my daughter as one would be raised in the
Empire, either; but surely there is some middle ground.
Our daughter is unique, as she was conceived by two Vulcan males (variants of the same individual) under the involuntary influence of both a gender-swapping retrovirus and a pon-farr inducing drug. Her own gender is variable (it is assumed that she will be able to consciously control the gender-shifting ability when she matures; and "she" is only referred to in the feminine mode due to inadequacies of language and the form she had when she was born and her official records were created). It is because of her uniqueness that I believe she needs to be educated to her full potential and allowed to make her own choices in life; and yet, it is that same uniqueness which compels the Vulcan Science Academy to demand her continued presence on Vulcan under their constant examination and study.
I need no one's assistance to escape; but
Storvik's greater knowledge and influence in this universe will certainly make things easier for us … and I must concede that he has a role in
T'Sorvik's life as well. Therefore, just as he is being lauded at the end of a successful mission (despite being elsewhere at its conclusion), I am asking him to once again break regulations and defy his superiors. It is fortunate for him that such activities are not nearly as suicidal in his universe as they were in mine.
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