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     Cdr. Velorna Tal |
The night before the zhian'tara: She needed focus, but she wanted distraction. The Coronado costume party had seemed like a wonderful chance to relax in the wake of her constant training and meditations and preperations for the upcoming zhian'tara. And it had been an amusing time, watching the verious crewmembers swarming the lounge. A costume party in light of recent strife had been just the thing to lighten the darkening mood on Coronado. Tal had made a note to commend Lt. D'Rall for her suggestion. But every good feeling that Tal might have been experiencing that evening had vanished during her conversation with Savant. Savant's confession that the artificial intelligence was in love with Admiral Tebrun Lora Kor had shaken Tal rather badly. She had nearly lost her composure and had come close to spewing Romulan ale all over the holographic avatar Savant was using to manifest herself at the party. But a week of solid meditation and focusing exercises had strengthened Tal's recently-weakened facade of calm and control. She doubted that Savant had even noticed Tal's discomfort with their topic of conversation at the party. But now, hours later, Tal sat alone in her quarters, unable to focus. Her ankles were swollen and aching, the twins she carried within her were active and kicking, and her heart was in turmoil with how to deal with her own recently-discovered feelings towards the Trill Admiral. But love was not an emotion she was certain she understood. She was no stranger to attraction, certainly. She'd had her share of physically-based romances in her time. And she'd even found herself drawn to the occassional intellectual pursuit. But... love? What did love have to do with anything? She shook her head to clear it and turned to her computer terminal. It was still set to the most recent document she had pulled up: On Time Travel: Three Case Studies in Effect and Cause by Rear Admiral James Tiberius Kirk. The text had been standard reading in her Starfleet History 4: Futures Past. She had turned to it recently to try to gain a greater understanding of what it was that Coronado and her crew had experienced when they had been caught in the recent temporal loop. Tal glanced over the introduction to the text, hoping to clear her mind of thoughts of Savant and babies and Trill admirals. --- Before we get into the heart of the text, it is important to understand the nature of time travel and the rules that apply to situations involving temporal translocation. The first and most important rule of time travel is this: Don't. -excerpt from On Time Travel: Three Case Studies in Effect and Cause, by R. Adm. James T. Kirk ======== Christian D. Clem '01, aka "Aggie" Cdr. Velorna Tal, Executive Officer (IC) U.S.S. Coronado NCC-97901 |