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If you're going to have sex with an alien species, make sure to talk to your doctor first. Chances are they secrete pheromones that will alter your way of thinking, secrete oils that will give you an allergic reaction, have spines attached to their genitals, or have suckers on their tentacles. If that doesn't put you off the experience, we'd at least like to make sure we've vaccinated you against whatever they might be carrying -- which we can do in 2258, at least where I come from. We'd also like to get a look at your partner, especially if it's a species we don't know much about. That'll make our job easier later on.

Remember that a lot of species, even humanoid ones, are probably stronger than you. Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons all have two legs and two arms, but they can break you in half. Hell, in Klingon society, breaking a clavicle on the wedding night is considered a blessing. A lot of species may think that you having sex with them is a proposal of marriage, too; make sure you know your alien cultures before you stick it in, because if they're part of the Federation, it might be legally binding.

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They made first contact a good two hundred years ago, back home. We've had some time.

Yeah. Just a bit I'd say.

'course, other people around here have experience with magic, so...

Yeah it's a whole other sorta world here. In my world magic was just illusion and science. Sometimes it was an alien thing people just didn't understand.

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Same on mine, as far as I know.

Yeah? I'm Rose Tyler. Don't think we've met before.

Doctor Leonard McCoy. I don't think we have, either.

Pleased to meet you, Dr. McCoy. What sorta aliens do you specialize in?

It'd be a bit general to say "all of them", but that's basically it. I'm the CMO on a starship. If you're in the Federation, serve in Starfleet, or we encounter you, then I'm probably going to have at least a basic knowledge of how to treat you.

Really? You're brilliant then. That's got to be a fun job, yeah?

Not sure if I'd say it's fun, though it can be. Interesting though, definitely.

I'd take interestin' over borin' any day though.

It's not always a good interesting.

Never is but still interestin' over borin'...

Rather be bored than watch another planet explode.

All right. Yeah, got me there. You all can't stop 'em from explodin'?

We stopped the second one. Didn't realize what they were doing to the first.

M'sorry. That had to be hard. Sometimes there are what the Doctor calls...fixed points? Even if he could stop it, he can't 'cause it's the way it has to happen. Those are hard to watch.

[ He shakes his head. ]

Apparently I'm from an alternate reality.

There's a lotta that goin' 'round.

[ Eyebrow. ] Oh?

People from different worlds, different time lines, different universes all together here. You haven't noticed?

Oh-- no, that I've noticed. Not sure many people have been informed they're in an alternate timeline back where they come form, though.

Oh. [There's some furrowed brow.] Sorry. Bit used to different sorts of timelines where I'm from.

Well, at least it's not just me. Still working on wrapping my head around it.

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