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So, Ray's gone. I'm startin' to wonder if I'm ever gonna get assigned ta someone for more then a couple weeks before they vanish.

... There's somethin' I don't understand. Now, I don't pretend ta know people's reasons for needin' to go back home or anything, but I don't understand why wardens choose to leave permanently without completin' their deal. Choosin' ta leave everything for god knows how long ta complete a deal isn't somethin' you just toss around lightly. You're makin' a commitment to another person, and packin' up and leavin' because it's too hard or somethin' just seems...

I don't get it. And again, I'm not sayin' people who disappear are at fault, or that I get why people leave or anythin' but...

I'm here to do a job. And I'm not leavin' until it's over.

[Private to Fred]

Kinda weird meetin' someone when we're not actually ourselves and with a whole buncha memories that kinda... aren't ours, but it was nice ta meet you.

[Friends Filter - Martha, Kay, Capa, Sarah, Tim, Rex, Four, Kirk (yes even you), anyone else who should be on it.]

How's everyone doin' after that breach?

[Filtered to Tosh and Harper]

I know this might be some kinda "too many cooks in the kitchen" thing, but would either of you mind if I come down and take a look at the engines or somethin' once and a while? It's just, it's been kinda weird not havin' engines ta keep an eye on these last couple months and I'm not lookin' to step in and take over or anythin', I just want somethin' a little different then fixin' laundry machines and cleanin' up after people. [He's a chief engineer, not a maintenance guy and all that.]

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Engines are a lot more predictable than criminals.

And they always give you somethin' ta do without puttin' up a fight about not wantin' ta talk or hang out or anything.

If I were you, I wouldn't complain. My inmate only puts up fights.

I'm really not. Ray was a good guy, and Vince and Deadpool were both pretty okay. I wish I'd been able to do more for each of them.

Maybe they'll be back. You never know.

Maybe. I just hope next one I get assigned to sticks around longer, you know?

I don't blame you. Movie night doesn't exactly make up for the fact that you start to feel like you're wasting your time here waiting on an inmate.

Exactly.

On the subject of movie night though, you ever watch Star Trek?

With William Shatner? Sure. Who hasn't seen it?

Me. Who's William Shatner?

He plays Kirk. You should watch it. It's a great old show.

Jim and I are kinda from the same universe. He's from a decent way ahead in the future, but I'm kinda wonderin' if I'm in a TV show too or something.

[Paaaaause because what the hell.]

I see.

So, you're, ah...what, in Starfleet?

Yeah. I'm the chief engineer of Earth's first warp five capable starship, the NX-01. Enterprise.

...Right.

So. Engines.

You don't believe me?

...I don't know if I do or not, honestly. I've met a guy who thinks he's Victor Frankenstein, and I'm apparently from a series of books. But it's still a big pill to swallow.

I've got plenty of proof. I don't wear my uniforms around just for the hell of it.

I don't guess you do. They don't look like what I remember from the tv show, so I never gave them much thought.

Well, I'm from about a hundred years before Kirk, I think. They musta just updated the uniforms.

You read the books you're supposed to be from?

One of them. The one I'm in. I started the first one, but...

[An uncomfortable sigh here.]

My father's in it. It's all a little weird.

I can imagine. I kinda can't decide if I wanna know if I'm actually in somethin' or not. Weird ta think people've read or watched me in more then just a history book or somethin'.

What about T'Pol? Is she...you know. Where you're from?

Yeah, we've served together on Enterprise for four years, where I'm from. She's from about a year ahead of me in the timeline.

Must make things awkward for her. Having to preserve the timeline and all.

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