Fic: Observations, Ch 82

[anon_j_anon]

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[chibinecco]

Actually, modern technology (2009) has the ability to do hand transplants. With cloning/stem-cells, in 200 years or so they probably would have a way to completely regrow hands. Currently the restoration of sensation and movement isn't perfect, likely a professional surgeon or concert pianist would have to find a new profession, but you'd be able to play fetch with the dog again.

The only problem is there are often a lot of psychological issues with hand transplants. That the patient has difficulty acclimating to accepting the hand as his. many take a year or more to adjust and stop doing things like calling their new hand "it" etc.

[anon_j_anon]

Thanks for the comment. Advances in medicine is not my forte, and I should have done more research. I was going off my very shallow knowledge of prostheses and robotics. I'll try to make my medicine more accurate in the future.

Just in general, thanks for the comments on my annotations. It's very much appreciated. Out of curiosity, when did you do delta-epsilon proofs?

[chibinecco]

Actually, your tech info is, for the most part, really accurate. I was really impressed with the quasi-computer jargon. I'm a comp sci major, and I'm not quite sure it would have worked, but it's better than most fanfic writers and certainly the original Star Trek's tech jargon XD (The only reason I know about hand transplants at all is because a trans friend and I were looking up penile transplants a couple weeks ago)

I did Delta-Epsilons just over a year ago. I got "lucky" and got the one professor who still taught them because he thought it was a really good thing to have on your transcripts that you know how Delta-Epsilons work.

I don't remember if I've mentioned this or not, I LOVE the Swahili proverbs. They fit the interactions and advice between Nyota and Spock perfectly.

[anon_j_anon]

Thanks for the compliment, but to be honest, I was cringing at my sheer ignorance with respect to computers. I worked on some combinatorics this summer and that required some brute force computing, but my project partner was the one who did all the programming. I wasn't kidding when I said that the extent of my programming knowledge is fooling around with some GUIs in Java. And then there's the actual hardware side... the 'City on the Edge of Forever' arc, I really wanted to call up one of my friends and ask them to give me a crash course on microelectronics. Like I wrote in the annotations, however, there was a point where I had to put my foot down.

I actually kind of like delta epsilons, since I understand them. Maybe I'll slip it into a future chapter. And I'm glad you like the Swahili. Proverbs are an aspect of language that I've always loved.

[yazmin_enbouton]

At the risk of sounding like an utter idiot, I'll kindly ask you to explain me what exactly did Jim mean when he says "“That’s funny. I was gonna say the same thing about you.” Perhaps because English isn't my first language, but sometimes I pick different or various meanings to certain sentences and I need to check just to be sure...

And I loved this chapter so much that I can't even put it into words. You made me feel like a teenager getting along with her crush or watching her best friend getting along with her own crush (you know at that age you kind of share feelings with your BFFs). It was really lovely and I'm grateful for that :)

[jacob_bella4073]

It means that, Jim was going to go with out what ever Spock did't choose. So if Spock said he could deal with being blind Jim would say he could go with being deaf. They both had the idea of complimenting each other.

I' m sorry this is my first comment, but I'm a lurker by nature and I only started reading this a few days ago and I'm already on chapter 82. Great story, btw.

[yazmin_enbouton]

Good! That's what I thought, but still had some doubts :P

Thanks for the explanation! :)

[treia24]

Well, that started off really sweet and touching, but now I'm laughing so hard I can't really breathe. Good job!

[avictoriangirl]

“We are imposing Prime Directif on ourselves, keptan. No interference.”

Best line EVAR. Loved this chapter and am looking forward to seeing how long it takes them to figure it out. ;)

[emluv]

The clueless captain and his equally clueless first officer. There's something fabulous about these two hyper-intelligent men surrounded by their giggling crew, all of whom see precisely what they fail to recognize about their own relationship. So very well done.