TNG Recuts. What did I even do.

[recut_captain]

I'll be honest mundane, I'm not sure why you brought me here. I don't mind as it keeps me away from Lwaxana and all those annoying idiots on my ship for a while, but this is all pretty boring.

There's nobody to control, nobody to torture. No one to even worship me. I tell you mundane, if you don't do anything soon, you might as well be my next target.

And consider yourself happy I warned you.

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[clear_horizons]

You look ... and sound dreadfully familiar, but I must be mistaken.

[recut_captain]

Oh, yet another me.

Worry not, you are not mistaken. How could you be?

[clear_horizons]

I'm fairly certain I would never say anything like what you've said, so I must be mistaken.

You cannot be Jean-Luc Picard.

[recut_captain]

Of course I am Jean-Luc Picard! How could you not recognize yourself? It's not that hard.

Captain of the USS Enterprise and all that stuff, a Starfleet officer... Well, what remains of Starfleet anyway.

[clear_horizons]

It's fairly easy to not recognize myself when I act and speak nothing like myself.

And if you are indeed a Starfleet officer, then you are presenting a rather poor example as such.

[recut_captain]

Poor example? Ha ha ha. I have single handedly rid the Federation of all its enemy and gotten God's powers on two occasions.

I'd rather say I am a brilliant example of a Starfleet Officer.

[clear_horizons]

Have you now? And just how does the Federation feel about this?

[recut_captain]

After an investigation, they decided to send a fleet to take down the Enterprise.

And they regret it now.

[clear_horizons]

Then I stand by my previous assertion. You are a poor example of a Starfleet officer, and an even worse example as a Picard.

You have forgotten what it means to be captain of the Enterprise!

You've abandoned your duties, your honor, and your very humanity in pursuit of what is apparently nothing but the satisfaction of your pride and ego!

Oh, Q would be proud.

[recut_captain]

Why, yes, I plead guilty for all those charges, except pride. Never cared to have it. Actually, you're the poor example in my view. No ambition, ethics, principles. Tsk tsk. That's pretty weak.

Are you done now? I'd have already fried you on the spot if you weren't me.

[clear_horizons]

"For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

I suppose I should thank you. For showing me what I could be. What I'm capable of.