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[couldnt_kahless]

This is a stupid idea. This is what you pick for a hobby? And all the places you're thinking of putting me are terrible, on top of that. A ship with engines off-limits to me, place where they don't have anything more advanced than generators--if you want a combustion engine mechanic, you want Tom, not me.

Besides, you don't know the first thing about engineering, I don't care how alike you think we are in personality.

...You're really not going to be put off of this, are you?

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They're both mixed species. This comment had to happen, I'm sorry.

[princeofchaos]

U-um, hi. My mun just wanted me to tell you you're her favorite character on your show.

A-and, um, I'm sorry if that sounds weird. I'm not very good at talking to new people. But try to cheer up. A lot of muns change their mind on where to put you, and you could even end up somewhere with your friends.

Haha, nothing to be sorry for!

[couldnt_kahless]

[...alar equine species are new and different, but hey, this place is weirder than the Delta Quadrant, so.]

Well, then I guess she's got good taste.

But I'm not sure my friends are anywhere out here. Not that I've seen at least.

[princeofchaos]

You'd be surprised... anypony - er, anyone, can show up here at any time. And there's so many games here, I'm sure there's someone you know somewhere out there. You just have to stay positive.

Um, I'm Iris, by the way. Nice to meet you.

[couldnt_kahless]

Stranger things have happened, but I'm not holding out much hope.

B'Elanna Torres.

ohai~ o/

[goingtoenjoythis]

You know, I could always give you coaching lessons. Just imagine, you, me, the car creeper...

omg Tom!!!

[couldnt_kahless]

Now that doesn't sound so bad. Too bad I don't think these places have anything like a holodeck. Or ancient cars lying around.

I had quite a similar reaction to this post 8D

[goingtoenjoythis]

Now there you go, crushing my hopes just like that. Luring me in with all your combusting promises.

[Cue to the most wounded look in all the Delta Quadrant.] If you missed me all that much you could have just said so.

[... Wounded is just another synonym for smug anyway.]

/mutual glee wahaha~

[couldnt_kahless]

I guess I'll just have to make it up to you somehow, won't I?

[You tease, it's lucky she sees right through you.]

What, and have people think I couldn't handle things on my own?

[goingtoenjoythis]

Who in their right mind would honestly believe that? Besides, it's only natural to miss me. I think your reputation is safe.

So where are you going?

[couldnt_kahless]

Well, maybe I have missed you a little.

[Sigh and bother.] Dunno. She 'hasn't decided' yet. None of the possibilities look all that promising though, if you ask me.

Awesome, Klingon :D

[sonof_worf]

You wear a Starfleet uniform, Klingon. I have only seen that once with my father.

Q'plah!

[couldnt_kahless]

Half-Klingon. And yes, I do; it kind of came with the commission.

[You gotta problem with that, kid?]

Re: Indeed :D

[sonof_worf]

Forgive me, but may I ask your name? [Half Klingon? What else was she?]

[couldnt_kahless]

[The human-sounding last name probably gives it away, but that's alright.]

Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Chief Engineer on the USS Voyager. You?

[sonof_worf]

Pleased to meet you, Lieutenant Torres. Of the USS Voyager? Interesting. My father served aboard the USS Enterprise D for many years. Lieutenant Commander Worf.

I am his son, Alexander Rozhenko.

[couldnt_kahless]

Now him, I've heard of. And who doesn't know the Enterprise? [Especially when, for a few years there, it one ship you so didn't want ending up on your tail, as a Maquis...]

Alexander's not exactly a traditional Klingon name.

[sonof_worf]

It isn't. My mother was half human, like you. She was know as K'Ehleyr and was killed aboard the Enterprise by Duras. [He frowned. He still remembered his mother dying in his father's arms.]

My name derives from my foster parents, Sergey and Helena Rozhenko. They looked after me since my father was too busy with his Starfleet duties. When I was ten years old, I was allowed to come aboard the Enterprise as I wanted to be near to my father. He taught me what it is to be Klingon.

[couldnt_kahless]

Sounds like you've got quite the interesting story. Not many people get to be on the Enterprise so young. Or... be so close to their father.

[sonof_worf]

[He nodded.] You could say that.

I met my father when I was three years old onboard the Enterprise.

[couldnt_kahless]

That must have been quite a big change.

[ungrounded]

At least hold out for a place with proper technology. Thankfully, I've convinced my own mun that if she drops me on a planet without a way off, I'm leaving one way or another. Or I 'quickly become mopey and unplayable' in her words -- which isn't true. I don't get mopey.

[couldnt_kahless]

Oh I'd rather stay where I'm supposed to be. Who's going to take care of Voyager without me? Seven? I don't think so.

But I suppose if this p'taQ insists on putting me somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere I'm not having to bang rocks together to get anything done.

[ungrounded]

My mun doesn't care about my duties to the fleet either; I assume it's a trait universal to the type.

[couldnt_kahless]

A universally frustrating one. And it's no comfort that, should I go to one place, a pre-requisite is that your home planet be destroyed! Talk about 'not okay'.

[ungrounded]

What if one doesn't have a home planet?

And now my mun will bring it up that my situation only threatened the destruction of the ship I was on if I didn't play along.

[couldnt_kahless]

Probably wherever, or whatever, it is you consider home then.

They're certainly... persuasive. Almost coercive, you could say.

[ungrounded]

They are that.

[couldnt_kahless]

As if the Delta Quadrant wasn't bad enough on its own.

[ungrounded]

Delta Quandrant?

[couldnt_kahless]

Delta Quadrant, of the galaxy. That's where Voyager, my ship, is. And has been for the past five years or so.

[ungrounded]

It can be... difficult when ordered to an undesirable mission.

[why, no, someone isn't used to interstellar travel that is slow enough that 'across the galaxy' is more than an annoyance.]

[couldnt_kahless]

Even worse given it isn't what any of us signed up for. I believe the longest deep space Starfleet mission prior to Voyager's was five years--and that was deliberate.

[ungrounded]

We sometimes get duties we don't care for.

[sonof_mogh]

I did not know there were any other Klingons serving aboard Starfleet ships.

[couldnt_kahless]

Well I don't know of any others in the Alpha Quadrant, but I've been away a few years.

[sonof_mogh]

You have? What is your name? [He noticed she was with Starfleet.]

[couldnt_kahless]

B'Elanna Torres.

[Belatedly, since she was mentally debating between 'daughter of Miral' and:]

Chief Engineer, USS Voyager.

[sonof_mogh]

Voyager? I have not heard of that ship.

I am Worf, son of Mogh. Chief of Security aboard the Enterprise.

[couldnt_kahless]

Really? I haven't been keeping up with the news lately, for obvious reasons, but one would think--

Right, there's some time travel stuff going on here, or so this girl tells me. Guess I'm from your future?

Oh. Nice kid you've got up there.

[sonof_mogh]

I would imagine you are.

You have met Alexander? How is that possible? No matter. The timelines are strange within this place. May I ask what house you are from?

[couldnt_kahless]

It would make sense. As much as time travel ever does, anyway.

I'm... not from any noble house. My mother's name is Miral.