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gone_byebyeSecond Arrival at Milliways + 2 Days
Milliways
Oh my God. Oh my freaking GOD.
I am either the luckiest scientist ALIVE or I am going to Hell. Possibly both.
The first part is because I just met Dr. McCoy- the one from Classic Trek, not the Beast, although that would be cool too.
The second part is because I lied to him.
I didn't mean to. I saw him come in and I choked on my soda, which is not a good thing when you're trying to reconstruct the primary pyramid of Tenochtitlan out of toothpicks and napkins, and he asked if I was all right. I told him yeah, it was just a pipes issue, and when he introduced himself I said 'I know'. At which point he gave me the ol' fish eye and I realized I'd put my foot in my mouth clear up to the ankle, so I said the first thing I could think of that was reasonably close to true- that I was a parapsychologist and that I read papers on xenobiology and stuff for telepathy research. Which is true, but only so far as xenobiology can be stretched to include animal species with close association to humans. He seemed to buy it, and even gave me a name so that I could look up some human telepathy research in JAMA- I’m going to have to ask the Bar for a copy- but I don't want to have to keep up the false front. I just have to think of a way to apologize to him and explain without saying 'by the way, you're a television show where I come from, and you and Montgomery Scott were my heroes in high school'.
OH GOD I ALMOST FORGOT I gave him copies of everything I've been seeing and picking up on the PKE meter since I got here. I transcribed it all to my new Palm and had it converted, just in case it turned out useful to him. I don't know if it would, but you never know, right?
… God, I hope I don't get in trouble for this.
But this is so freaking cool. The only way it could be better is if I got to talk to Scotty about the proton packs, although since I got Anakin Skywalker to do that I don't know if I can really ask for something that incredibly cool. That's just getting greedy.
Milliways
Oh my God. Oh my freaking GOD.
I am either the luckiest scientist ALIVE or I am going to Hell. Possibly both.
The first part is because I just met Dr. McCoy- the one from Classic Trek, not the Beast, although that would be cool too.
The second part is because I lied to him.
I didn't mean to. I saw him come in and I choked on my soda, which is not a good thing when you're trying to reconstruct the primary pyramid of Tenochtitlan out of toothpicks and napkins, and he asked if I was all right. I told him yeah, it was just a pipes issue, and when he introduced himself I said 'I know'. At which point he gave me the ol' fish eye and I realized I'd put my foot in my mouth clear up to the ankle, so I said the first thing I could think of that was reasonably close to true- that I was a parapsychologist and that I read papers on xenobiology and stuff for telepathy research. Which is true, but only so far as xenobiology can be stretched to include animal species with close association to humans. He seemed to buy it, and even gave me a name so that I could look up some human telepathy research in JAMA- I’m going to have to ask the Bar for a copy- but I don't want to have to keep up the false front. I just have to think of a way to apologize to him and explain without saying 'by the way, you're a television show where I come from, and you and Montgomery Scott were my heroes in high school'.
OH GOD I ALMOST FORGOT I gave him copies of everything I've been seeing and picking up on the PKE meter since I got here. I transcribed it all to my new Palm and had it converted, just in case it turned out useful to him. I don't know if it would, but you never know, right?
… God, I hope I don't get in trouble for this.
But this is so freaking cool. The only way it could be better is if I got to talk to Scotty about the proton packs, although since I got Anakin Skywalker to do that I don't know if I can really ask for something that incredibly cool. That's just getting greedy.
