[07✩video]

[daredtodo]

[This is a grumpy-looking, aged twelve James T. Kirk the community gets today, just a few days after his "first" post here. The room he's in is not his own, but a white, ultra-modern looking place that hardly looks lived-in. He moves around a bit as he's talking, but the camera on the computer follows him. At one point, he passes a window and, if

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[lt_cmmdr_scott]

Bad day?

[daredtodo]

It was going to be awesome. Apparently, fate decided to pick on me instead.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

Yeah?

[daredtodo]

Yeah!

[Any articulate thoughts Jim might have had are gone now, and so he flops himself dramatically, face-down, on the couch. The camera helpfully does a closeup.]

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[He'd offer you a drink, Jim, but you look a bit young for that.]

[daredtodo]

[Give him until after Tarsus, at least?

He does some mumbling into the couch, then finally looks at the camera to address Scotty again.] My mother promised me we'd do something together tonight. She promised.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

An' then something came up?

[daredtodo]

Starfleet. [He practically spits the word. Bitty!Jim is cranky.]

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[Yeah, see, this is why Scotty - when he's his proper age and where he should be - doesn't want a family. Because there's no good way to balance Starfleet and family.]

Oh. That sucks.

[daredtodo]

It does. A lot. So if you ever know me again, make sure I don't join Starfleet, okay?

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

Yeah, sure.

[He pauses, because... Well. He was planning on going drinking again but he's already done that two nights in a row and this kid looks like he could use a distraction.]

Hey. You like robots?

[daredtodo]

Yeah... [He sits up properly on the couch now.] Robots are cool.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

I've got a couple I built. Could fight 'em out in the quad.

[daredtodo]

We're probably not even in the same time. I was talking to a lady from Starfleet and she's from the future, when I'd be, like, twenty-six.

I'd like to see them, though.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

What's the stardate, where you are?

[daredtodo]

It's 2245.170.