018 | [Voice]

[with_discipline]

This should prove interesting. If I might ask, what have former ports been like? I would appreciate some foreknowledge, whether they have been similar or not.

Severus, have you had any survival training? I would like to know where we stand.

Lieutenant Reed, are you planning to disembark tomorrow?

Comments

[rayney_day]

Well, for the most part, they've usually got at least one nasty little surprise for everyone.

That and something cataclysmic, right at the end.

[with_discipline]

Without fail?

No! With epic fail!

[rayney_day]

Almost...

We went to a theme park, once, but it's pretty rare to get something 'nice'. Considering these things are meant to be tests for whoever we've been paired with, that doesn't surprise me.

The best kind!

[with_discipline]

Indeed. What is a theme park?

[rayney_day]

Oh, this'll be difficult...

They're huge parks constructed almost purely to provide customers with entertainment. The bigger resorts house, like, entire zoos and hotels and stuff in them, too. They're usually based around a theme decided by whoever owns them.

That one was Disney, so... It had Disney characters, rides and products coming out the whazoo. Should be something in the library about it, if you're interested.

I don't think she has any idea what Disney is.

[with_discipline]

I believe I will, thank you. Was that port without incident?

It might own Starfleet!

[rayney_day]

For the most part, I believe so. Unless someone fell off one of the rides.

:O The mouse-eared horror!

[with_discipline]

But that is the only instance you are aware of?

Boldly merchandising where no company has merchandised before...

[rayney_day]

It's the only one which comes to mind, yeah.

For the most part, they're generally horrific. Hence, why I hate us having them.

They're going to tm space, aren't they. ;_;

[with_discipline]

Quite understandable. Hopefully tomorrow will be more along the lines of this theme park.

Pluto ain't just a navigational waypoint, y'know...

[rayney_day]

Ten-to-one odds we'll end up on a safari with giant man-eating plants.

And that'll be the good part.

THEY AREN'T ALLOWED TO BRAND PLUTO.

[with_discipline]

And the bad part?

Vulcans would have Mickey Mouse ears.

[rayney_day]

That'll be the surprise...

One time, we wound up on an alien planet and almost completely got slaughtered by these things which bled acid. That or got impregnated.

Wasn't pretty.

D: Then humans would have nothing to be jealous of.

[with_discipline]

...Impregnated.

Does that include the males?

[rayney_day]

Uh, anything with a hole, I think... You got to play kissy-face with a lobster thing and lo, the miracle of childbirth - right through your rib cage.

Now you know why I cringe, every time someone thinks taking a lucky dip on the cosmic wheel of torment would be a great idea.

[with_discipline]

...Indeed. That is - unsettling.