Time to kick Medical butt

[starfleetcleaner]

WHO: D'vana Tendi
WHERE: The Infirmary
WHAT: Trying not to panic, and setting up her Medbay
WHEN: Early June


Tendi is having a bit of a day. She's woke up somewhere that was not where she went to sleep, had a mustering that was vaguely threatening, and now is set free to roam on this sea ship with noone she recognizes, and in addition, seems to be in the distant past. However, she's resourceful and determined, so first things first.

The map of the ship has indicated there is a infirmary, and that seems a good a place as any to begin. She still has her medical kit, even if it's low on supplies, but from the look of this place, they seem to still be in the knives and string level of medicine, she's sure that her skills will be greatly appreciated.

She arrives in the infirmary, and begins to take stock, seeing what medicines they have, other supplies. After all her hypospray only has a few doses left, and best to save that for an emergency.

Comments

[lightconductor]

"Well, for one, there are several actual pirates on board, and they're actually very lovely people, in my experience."

Watson does not entirely succeed at suppressing his smile at that. Part of him is still sort of amused about it, and that he's technically part of a (very ineffectual) pirate crew.

"But I wouldn't have known. Honestly, it grieves me a bit to hear of these fantastic futures with miracles of technology, medicine, and social advances, and then we are apparently still having the same old fights over new prejudices."

[starfleetcleaner]

"Wait there are? Like, actual pirates? Ahh dang it...Not that it's a problem! I don't know anything about piracy, I mean, Orions haven't been slaves and pirates for like, five years, it's all ok!"

This is the first time that Tendi has looked actually nervous, looking around quickly while she changed the subject with haste.

"So where are you from anywho? You said they year, but like what part of earth?"

[lightconductor]

"Honestly, they're very pleasant people, nothing you need worry about."

Five years is a very specific and surprisingly short span of time, but also he's a gentleman, and won't press the matter.

"Oh, England," he says, amiably. He's mildly surprised that she knows Earth at all, because by now he knows better than to assume anyone from another planet would. "London, specifically. Have you been to Earth, then, that you know it?"

[starfleetcleaner]

"Oh I know of it, but I've never been, Starfleet Academy is in San Fransisco, and I was pretty busy, so I never got out much. It was very pretty though! There are some wonderful parks and very nice food. What is London like?"

[lightconductor]

"You studied in San Francisco?"

That surprises him. For some reason, he did not assume that the green space lady has been to America.

"Well, the London of my time is the largest city on Earth at five and a half million people, and is a centre for culture, cuisine, and academia." Watson gives her a wry smile. "And also poverty and crime, as large cities must be, I suppose. It is never dull, at least."

[starfleetcleaner]

"Oh, of course! That's where Starfleet is headquarterd, Everyone really comes there. It's a real melting pot."

Tendi nods politely at the mention of London, but her history of earth is a bit shaky. "I have heard how bad Earth used to be, the Eugenitics wars, the Irish unification, the Black Death, back before the world really got together and it was all diffrent countries fighting for resources. Are things still that bad in your time?"

[lightconductor]

"Oh, so people come to Earth in your time to learn? People from... many worlds? I would like to see it."

That's... sort of nice to hear, actually. It puts him in mind of some of the bigger English universities, full of students from across the Empire, except... even grander, he has to suppose.

"I know... one of those things," Watson says wryly. Eugenics is still a very newly coined term and Ireland hasn't had the war of independence that will require it to eventually unify. "Fortunately the Black Death was well before my time, but outbreaks of plague still do occur occasionally. Not nearly as serious as it was, of course." He sighs. "I don't know how to mark my own time. We have wars, we have poverty, we have epidemics. Women have little power in my society, and rich men have too much, and the British empire is a sprawling things of many wonders and many peoples who chafe under the yoke of British rule. It certainly could be better. But we've made such improvement even in my own lifetime, too."

[starfleetcleaner]

"Oh it's be great to show you, it's really quite wonderful, the Federation isn't perfect but well, they're welcoming. On the whole, you always gets jerks no matter where you go."

"And don't be down on your own time, every day, in every way we get better and better. And if you need proof, look at me! Sure it'll take...five hundred years, but eventually you'll be traveling to strange new worlds, and meeting wonderful new people! Just have to hang in there, you know?"

[lightconductor]

"I don't think I'll live to see it," Watson says, with a small grin, "but it is a comfort to know that we get there at some point."

Honestly, he'd have signed up to visit new worlds. He sort of did that anyway, with a bonus colonial war. Starfleet probably would have gone better for him.

"What is the goal of Starfleet, and this Federation? You have a military rank, I notice. Are you conquerors?"

[starfleetcleaner]

'Well, the main goal is twofold, Exploration and Defense. We explore deep space, seeing what is there you know? It's the final fronter, and Starfleet's main goal is to...well, basically, go and see. See what's there, if there are people who we can talk to and if they'd like to be friends."

Tendi gives a bit smile, her face almost glowing with confidence and optimism.

"We never conquer, but that's not to say we can't defend ourselves or the members of our Federation. Really, what we're looking for, to quote Captain Picard, 'The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. Whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based.'"

[lightconductor]

"Not much like the military I know," Watson says, smiling, "but certainly more noble. That's a lovely sentiment. Discovery and defence and the truth, noble goals. I can scarcely imagine what there is to discover in space."

To be fair, Tendi isn't much like most of the young officers he's encountered, but he's okay with that, and honestly it makes her claim of what Starfleet is a little easier to swallow.

[starfleetcleaner]

"Oh, I mean...that's right! You've seen the stars on earth, right? Well, you know the dark areas between the stars? Those are FULL of stars! Countless points of light, and each of those points is another galaxy of stars, and each of THOSE has thousands upon thousands of other stars, and those have planets!"

Tendi is getting excited, eyes wide as she grabs her PADD, cycling through pages. "Here, look! This is the view from the window by my bunk, see all of those stars? That's what's out there, it's...endless! It's beautiful and it's endless discovery!"

[lightconductor]

He's seen some photos in this vein before. César showed him some pictures from the Hubble, after all. That doesn't at all detract from how incredible he finds them.

"It's astonishing to me," Watson says, "that such beauty exists out in the universe, so from the eyes of mortals. Men murder each other over scraps and that is there to be seen."