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[candothat]

Enterprise? Do you read?

[A curly-headed boy, almost certainly not out of his teens, frowns at the screen. His words are rendered somewhat incomprehensible by a thick Eastern European accent in spite of his obvious attempts to annunciate.]

Ensign Chekov to bridge. Uhura? Sulu? …Mr. Spock? Chekov to engineering. Mr. Scott, can you hear me? There may have been a... ah, a malfunction with the teleporter.

Can anyone hear me?

[He sighs and fiddles with something on his device. The video feed distorts momentarily before returning to normal. When the teenager speaks again, his tone is low and words less painstakingly produced as if he’s speaking himself.]

Ai, what is this? There shouldn’t be interference this far out from the magnetic anomaly. Eto piz`dets…

Comments

[private video]

[socoolbrewster]

But it's easier to prove you're not someone than it is to prove you are. Negatives are always easier to prove.

[private video]

[candothat]

[Siiiiigh.] Then you may tell me how to prove that I am not the person you think I am.

[private video]

[socoolbrewster]

Fine. What's the name of your hoover of a girlfriend.

[...Whatever that means.]

[private video]

[candothat]

Hoover?

[Whatever that means.]

[private video]

[socoolbrewster]

...Yeah. She eats everything in sight?

[private video]

[candothat]

A hoover does?

[private video]

[socoolbrewster]

Uh, yeah? Because it's a vacuum cleaner?

...Shit, fine. Unless you're playing dumb intentionally, I guess you pass.

[private video]

[candothat]

[Ohhh.] You might have said that to begin with.

And I do not play dumb.

[private video]

[socoolbrewster]

I didn't realize I needed to.