Meme

[mirroredcommand]

How this meme works:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

I make no promises that you will like the answers to your questions. Damn 'internet' things. Don't understand them, but I'm learning.

Comments

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

1. How did you join Starfleet?
2. How did you acquire your first command?
3. What is your home like back on Earth, assuming you have one?
4. What are your past relationships?
5. What do you teach in the Academy, assuming you also teach?

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

1. Enlisted straight out of high school.
2. Four years of hard work and moving up the ranks, and then the captain of the Yorktown being promoted and my taking over his position.
3. Well, I have an apartment in San Francisco that looks out over the bay. But the family home, which I more consider 'home', is a horse ranch in Mojave, California. Did you grow up there, in your universe?
4. Assuming you mean serious ones...eleventh-grade girlfriend, Jesse. George and Winona Kirk, at the Academy. Wife of several years, Regina Foster. George and Winona Kirk once again, for good this time.
5. Survival Strategies and Interspecies Protocol, on a part-time basis. Though I'm on sabbatical at the moment.

Would you mind answering these same questions yourself, here? I have to admit, I'm curious.

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

Can't honestly say that I'm not a hint curious about the man who wears my face.

1. Drafted out of high school due to high psi-scores on required testing.
2. Killed Captain Kammach on the Aldrin after he started giving orders that were nonsensical and against the wishes of the Empire and crew. Took over long enough to get it back to Earth, was given Captainship of the Yorktown.
3. I have several acres of land in Mojave and a large home.
4. Assuming you mean serious in return, one serious relationship that I'm not fully libel to speak of due to its nature.
5. Any cadets that tests psi-capable get put into my hands. Since each cadet is unique in what they can learn and the amount of them is growing somewhat rare, myself and a handful of others teach them all individually.

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

Psi-capable. What exactly does that mean? There aren't any tests (that I know of, anyway) like that here. I didn't actually think humans had the capacity for psychic powers (if that's what you mean), but perhaps your universe is further ahead in research into the brain.

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

Psi-capable, meaning those particular parts of the brain are active. All humans are psi-capable to a point, which is why Vulcans, Betazoids, Romulans, and other such races are capable of speaking mind-to-mind with us, performing mind-melds, and more devious acts. If we were utterly psi-null, we couldn't be able to hear them. Imagine not having psychic 'ears' to hear.

In our case, those among the cadets who are not only psi-capable but either that particular part is developed beyond normal or other parts have become active are what are being tested for. Shielding against outside influence is the one the higher ups are most looking for to prevent loss of information during torture. Some are capable of more. I had a student that could produce fire through manipulation of the molecules of the air.

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

Ah. I understand. That does sound useful. So, if you have a certain level of psi-capability, I probably would as well?

...And have you ever heard of the 'X-Men' comic books from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? Because I recently dressed up as one of the characters and, well, talking about this is giving me some amusing mental images.

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

Spock and I are more then capable of testing you to see if you are. Before you go insinuating some terrible act from us, we've given the psi-tests more then once for the cadets with only minimal side effects. Every human reacts differently, like working muscles you never knew you had.

I haven't heard of such a thing.

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

I'm not insinuating anything. Some people might say I had too much faith, but I think I trust the two of you not to pull any stunts while you've been given leeway to roam the ship. I may take you up on your offer sometime - it's always good to know the extent of one's capabilities.

Professor X. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_X) I don't think bald is a good look for us, by the way.

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

Surprising, considering the reaction we've gotten from others. Just let me know, I'll admit to a curiosity myself. My initial assumption would be that we have similar psi-capabilities.

Interesting. Considering how much of my hair I've managed to keep in my age, I would think shaving my head would be a negative impact on that.

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't trust you completely. I just trust in the fact that you're both intelligent enough to know that trying anything while on a ship not your own in a universe not your own and surrounded by watching eyes is far, far from a good idea.

And thanks be to the person who invented hair growth stims, whoever they were.

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

It pleases me that one of the few men who actually seems to have intellect on this ship is my counterpart.

Is that what you had to do after you wore that strange costume?

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

Mistrust of you =/= lack of intellect. This is a brilliant crew, just with a very developed sense of caution - as I'm sure you've found out since you've been here, we had issues recently with a genocidal maniac from another reality.

It is indeed. Smells disgusting, but the hair all grew back in a day or two - still, don't think I'll be reusing that costume idea next year. Do you do holiday parties on board your ship?

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

I question the brilliance of this crew, but to each his own. Yes, I've learned a good deal about Nero and what he's done.

Parties usually end in someone dying, so no.

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

Dying, huh? To paraphrase something Admiral Archer sent me this morning - Parties: You're Doing It Wrong.

[kirk-george.livejournal.com]

What's Archer nattering about now?

[letspunchit.livejournal.com]

Well, he sent this. Apparently in reference to some conference he's attending. And the image file was named 'party: ur doin it rong'.

(http://tinypic.com)

I think his mind may actually be going.

[kirk-winona.livejournal.com]

...What is that?

I believe we crossed the threshold of thinking his mind may be going and it may have actually become a reality.

[iron-command.livejournal.com]

I am not sure about the Admiral Archer of this universe, but it seems we three may be in agreement.