[video/action]

[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

voice;

[prosopopoeia]

[Le sigh, she enunciates painfully slowly for him:]

Nothing is for certain.

voice;

[candothat]

Ah, yes, thank you. No, but it is difficult to prepare for uncertainty.

voice;

[prosopopoeia]

Difficult, but not an unworthy effort.

voice;

[candothat]

I will keep this in mind, Chief Engineer Delacroix.

voice;

[prosopopoeia]

[Ai yi yi...]

Delacroix will do, ensign.

voice;

[candothat]

Yes, Delacroix, ma'am.

[The latter is added with a bit of a cheeky tone.]

voice;

[prosopopoeia]

Thank you.

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