inhistorybooks | [020: voice]

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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

For a while, maybe. She decided she needed ta be honest with me about some of the stuff that happened between where I'm from and where she is, so we're basically on the same page.

I see.

It's important based on our deal.

I had the general idea that it was, but didn't want to pry.

I don't mind. It's not like it's a secret or anything.

A lot of people here are pretty uncomfortable talking about their deals. Or their backgrounds, for that matter.

Seems kinda like it'd just be smarter for everyone to be open about that kinda thing, since most floods bring out things you're not comfortable with anyway.

Well, that's just being rational, Trip.

I know, it's a crazy idea.