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Character: Jade T. Kirk
Series: Star Trek ( AOS )
Deviance: d2 – Kirk is female. All crewmembers, everyone else is the same gender as in canon. The main events of both films still happen in the same manner – which means Pike still finds her in that bar in Riverside, and she still has napkins hanging out of her nose. Bones still may have thrown up on her in the shuttle on the way to the Academy. She still cheats on the Kobayashi Maru. So on and so forth.
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Canon Used: The reboot films of the original series, Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness
Appearance: Isabel Lucas, man. Just picture that in a command gold uniform and bam.
Psychology: So we heard you like hearing about hard-headed starship captains. How much time you got? Tell you what – go get you some popcorn, maybe a drink or something, come sit back down. It's cool, we'll wait. We've got all the time in the world.
Ready?
Jade T. Kirk is a little shit, the end.
No, really. That's literally all you need to know about her. That, and her stupid smile is more attractive than it has any right to be, but .. that's neither here nor there. But – oh, you want a real run-down? Okay, i'll be serious. Promise. ( Maybe. Taking back that promise just to make sure I don't break it. )
The first thing of note about this girl is that she really is too confident for her own good. The epitome of cocky, even. Faced with a no-win scenario ( ha – see what I did there? ) she'll tell you that she can get by it. That if she wants something badly enough, she'll find a way to get to it. And in theory, this is pretty damn true. Tell her she can be a Starfleet officer in four years, she'll tell you she can do it in three. Put her in the Kobayashi Maru simulation and she'll program a subroutine to change the scenario entirely. This, of course, means that she'll cheat to make her point, but it doesn't take away the idea that she's convinced there's nothing she can't do. Nothing she can't overcome. No problem she can't solve. Which .. I suppose technically is true because she's managed to get through everything that's been thrown at her, but there's always some kind of setback. Some bump in the road.
But the fact remains that she does get there. Eventually. Even if it takes her the ass end of forever. ( For being a damn genius, sometimes she can be a little slow on the upkeep. But she does figure things out eventually. Special snowfake .. )
With her confidence also comes a ( rather large ) measure of bullheadedness. And that's .. putting it pretty mildly. Once she's gotten her mind made up, you literally cannot tell her any differently. You could try to tell her the sky was blue and if she was convinced it was green, she'd argue you into the ground until you either saw it her way or gave up completely. This adheres quite a bit to how she seems to view the Prime Directive, as well – which basically means that even if it means going against it, if she thinks whatever the decision is going to be is immoral or downright unnecessary, she'll break a good twenty-two consecutive rules to keep everything intact. A species, a planet that's about to get covered in volcanic ash and molten lava and all that really horrible shit .. it's just how she operates, under the guise of thinking she's doing the right thing. Which, most of the time, she is.
Even if she ends up getting thrown under the bus by a certain first officer with pointy ears and a penchant for giving no more than zero fucks.
Let us talk for a moment about her unending loyalty and devotion to the people she holds closest. In this case, it's every single member of her crew once she gets her hands on the captain's chair on the bridge of the Enterprise. She will do anything – and I do mean anything – to ensure their safety. To preserve their quality of life even if she's the one that put them in the proverbial line of fire. ( And at the very least she's the type to admit when she's done something wrong on such a large scale, and she does everything in her power to correct it. And give up an apology, if it means anything. ) She also often does things without thinking them through, at first, just on the off-chance that it might make things go in a better direction – meaning, how she wants them. Case in point: that whole volcano fiasco on Nibiru and the cold fusion bomb that ended up saving an entire species. Spock would have died in the volcano because some junk got pretty messed up, and Jade let the natives of the planet see the damn ship just because it meant being able to save her first officer. She violated the Prime Directive, yeah sure, and sure she was briefly demoted to the rank of first officer once Pike found out that she falsified a report – but Spock was safe and alive and that's really all that mattered to her.
Oh, and then there was that whole thing about dying to get the warp core back online. Talk about dedication, if you're willing to die for your crew and keep them from crashing to the earth in a busted-up starship.
I mean, yeah, she was revived and all – but she totally died being the hero that everyone's been trying to tell her she can be since the beginning of forever. The bonds she forms, when she actually does form them, they don't break easily. Her friendship with Spock has only become stronger since they decided that they could exist without hating each other, with the help of understanding how the other operates. Bones keeps her centered, keeps her on her toes and makes sure she at least tries to be a decent human being when she isn't being all self-sacrificing. He's been there from the very, very beginning of it all, and their friendship – even if it's rough around the edges and in no way refined in the slightest – is unshakable, no matter how often or how deeply Jade manages to piss the good doctor off. It's just a fact that they're drawn together like a couple of bratty magnets. ( You know, like this. )
Now. Going back to my initial statement. The being a little shit one. It really is true. This is the kind of girl that sits on a fake bridge during a simulation that is seemingly unwinnable after she's reprogrammed the damn thing, apple in hand and basically making pewpew noises at the viewscreen as ships blow up all over the place. She'll talk shit to anyone within earshot, whether they're actively listening to her or not and actually expect to get away with it. ( See: how she tries to get one over on Bones on a regular basis. See also: it never works. See also also: Bones has hyposprays and isn't afraid to use them. )
Oh, she is also not afraid to use any sort of pickup line she can think of if she thinks she has even a remote chance at getting a man's attention. She is a tenacious little thing, by all meaning of the word, but she's generally a cocky little shit about it and while it always seems to get her what she wants, none of the men she brings into her bed ever seem to get to know anything about her. ( Defense mechanism? My bullshit senses are tingling, captain. ) It just goes along the same vein of her being very particular about who she lets into her life, and those that she does let get close to her mean much more to her than they realize.
To put it in simpler terms, here's a few adjectives. She's charismatic, witty and charming, an expert bullshitter and an even better captain. She'll give you hell every step of the way, pushing and pulling and questioning everything you throw at her, but ultimately she'll get the job done, even if it isn't exactly how you wanted her to. ( It might even be the exact opposite of what you asked her to do, but since she gets the job done, no harm, no foul, right? Of course. ) Rolling with the proverbial punches is how she operates, the most adaptable human being known to man even if she'll put up a fuss initially – but it's the eventual adherence that counts. ( Even if, again, it isn't precisely what you'd been trying to get out of her. ) She's a hell of a lover and a hell of a friend, even if you can only glare at her as she claps you on the shoulder and tells you to buckle up.
Kirk out.
Other Skills/Abilities: Aside from being the only genius-level repeat offender in the midwest? Let's see. She's intelligent, that much is obvious in everything she does. She's witty and resourceful, taking into account anything and everything she can to work any given situation in her favor. ( Or just out of something more dire, whatever need may arise. ) She's an inherently smooth-talker, especially when it comes to getting something she wants – and does flirting go under that category? It should. Because she would flirt with a lamp post if it gave her the time of day.
She was an assistant instructor in hand-to-hand at the Academy, and she's a pretty damn good shot with a phaser. And did I mention the whole being excellent at bullshitting thing? If she had one superpower, that would be it.
Other Weaknesses: Her crew, first and foremost. Keeping them safe and well is her top priority; it's part of what being a captain means to her, and threatening them is threatening her. There will also always be a special place in her heart for a certain southern doctor, her best friend in the whole of Starfleet as well as her first officer – which means worlds will burn if anything happens to them. ( All Bones has to do is scowl at her, and Spock raise an eyebrow, and there's pretty much critical damage done to her Achilles heel. )
History: The events of both films are here at Memory Alpha, and nothing along the AOS timeline has been changed despite Kirk being female.
Canon Point: Post-Into Darkness
Reality Description: The future. Space. Aliens. Explosions. Um … other stuff. No, really, here I go.
Let's talk about Starfleet first. The main institution involved in maintaining diplomacy among Federation planets – that would be the United Federation of Planets – also in furthering technology, exploring the galaxy and learning all there is to know about the surrounding systems as well as keeping the peace with its military. Starfleet officers are seen as representatives of the Federation when they make first contact with a new species, though there are strict protocols in place with regards to engaging a new civilation. ( Not that Kirk pays attention to that most of the time. Some pre-warp civilation now probably worships the Enterprise as some kind of deity. Just like in Voyager. Okay I'm done, I swear.
But that would be why she was demoted after that whole stint on Nibiru and had her ship taken away from her. Violating the Prime Directive is a severely-punishable offense. )
Now, the 23rd century. Pretty darn neat, if you ask me, what with its advanced technology. Artificial intelligences, energy weapons instead of projectile weapons, advanced medicine in the form of being able to take a hypospray to the side of the neck and cure just about anything. ( Multiple applications may be needed, if your name is Leonard McCoy and you have a personal vendetta against a certain Starfleet captain. ) Let's not forget the replicators, because while they may not be able to replicate mom's apple pie ( well, if you're anyone but Jade's mother, who spent more time off-world than at home with her kids ) perfectly, but it makes midnight snacking a hell of a lot easier than it would be if you had to go all the way to the mess and make yourself a sandwich.
There are also these handy-dandy devices called PADDs that can handle any and all of your data needs, should the need arise. Like if you need to go over duty rosters or check that supply list sent up from Engineering … or send messages to your CMO involving a few choice words in response to an impromptu hypo-stab under the guise of there being some new bug going around that you had no notion of. ( Seriously, Bones. Not cool. Warn a girl first, would you? ) And barring an all-inclusive explanation of starships and their classes, suffice it to say that Starfleet operates in space and that's all there is to it. ( But the Enterprise is a Constitution-class ship, just for future reference. It's important. … Okay, it's important to her captain. )
That's about it, really, unless you want a long-winded rant about how Vulcans need to lighten up and how hot Orions are and how cheating during the Kobayashi Maru was totally justified because the test itself was rigged. Or how some aspects of the Prime Directive should be able to be looked over when it comes to saving your First Officer's life when things don't go as you planned.Or how Khan Noonien Singh is whitewashed in the reboot and Ricardo Montalban will always be the tried and true.
First Person Speaking Sample: [ well. this is new. okay this is beyond new but with the things she's seen since enlisting in starfleet, so far, this is barely more than a blip on the radar.
she's arrived in the central part of the plane, momentarily caught off-guard by the floor beneath booted feet; it's almost as though she's looking at the viewscreen in the astrometics lab, long-range sensors showing her what lay beyond their current position, and it's so mystifying that she almost forgets that she's somewhere she doesn't need to be.
or, at the very least, somewhere she doesn't mean to be.
she takes a few more steps forward, ending up right in front of the information kiosk, and she reaches out to take a pamphlet. she's only accustomed to feeling real paper beneath her fingertips when she's paging through one of her own books, care-worn and well-loved, and being so surrounded by technology her entire life, this feels … odd, to say the very least. she reads, line by line, eyes scanning each folded section until she's taken it all in – and even then, she reads it through twice more, attempting to wrap her brain around the logic that, given the current circumstances, doesn't seem to apply here.
spock would be proud, if he'd had any idea.
the pamphlet is folded and held in one hand as she continues wandering about, and it isn't long before she comes across the bar.
the bar.
and it's with a small sound of interest lingering in the back of her throat that she pushes forward, fingers trailing over the bartop's surface, peering behind it to see what she has to choose from. most of it, she's never heard of, but that never really seems to matter. one quick look around, and she's helping herself to the nearest bottle – something bright, nearly translucent, and wherever bones is he'd better hope she isn't allergic to it because he isn't there to help her if she is.
bottoms up. ]
Third Person Writing Sample: Waking up in a hospital after being in a coma for two weeks after being brought back from an irradiated death is .. something that she'd never like to experience again, thank you so very much. Especially since it meant Bones being on her case even worse than usual.
Sure you're not feelin' homicidal? Angry? Psychotic? Y'gotta tell me, Jade. This is pretty damn important.
I keep telling you, Bones. No more than usual.
It's touching, in a way. She knows it's all out of worry for her well-being, the fact that she's been transfused with augmented blood – but sometimes, her chief medical officer can be a little over-the-top with dramatics. At least he isn't making superfluous use of metaphors. She doesn't think she can handle that right now.
Or anytime in the immediate future.
Restlessness takes the place of fatigue, eventually, and Jade starts thinking of ways she can be as obnoxious as possible. See if that has anything to do with the amount of time she's going to end up having to spend in this place. They can't possibly tolerate her longer than a few more days if she's an insufferable nuisance, can they?
.. Hm.
This means enlisting certain members of her crew to plan a few things .. and honestly, she's both surprised and pleased with the lack of effort involved in getting them onboard. I really do have the best damn crew in the whole of Starfleet.
She gets Sulu to bring in one of his plants – one of his prized plants, the helmsman interjects with a fair amount of pride – and it goes on a table across the room. Out of the way, seemingly inconspicuous but still within range to allow the captain to toss sunflower seeds in its general direction and watch the damn thing not only catch them, but swallow them whole. ( She swears up and down she'd heard the thing burp, once. No lie. You can't make that shit up. ) It stays quiet until one of the nurses comes in to check on her at random intervals, and completely out of nowhere it starts up with a high-pitched screeching. Like an alarm clock that can't be shut off, it just about makes ears bleed until Jade tosses a seed at it, and quiets down immediately.
The staff just glares at her, and she gives an innocent, blank look right back at them. It's just a plant – what could he have to do with it?
Kirk: 1; annoying hospital staff: 0
Next on her list of personal saviors is her chief engineer. Scotty, of course, never bows out on a chance to raise a little hell – a fact of which Jade will always be eternally grateful – and she wastes no time in sending a list of things she'd like the other to bring on the mini PADD Chekov had consented to bring her. ( The kid refused to be a part of all this, because he believed his captain needed as much rest and relaxation as she could possibly get, and while the thought was appreciated, she couldn't seem to get the point across that she was slowly going out of her mind being stuck in here.
Oh well. Moving on. )
The next time Bones comes to check on his patient himself, Jade's pretty sure it's only a matter of time before that vein above his left eye explodes. Or he has an aneurysm. Both seem pretty likely with the way the doctor is looking at her when he sees all the junk that has somehow found its way into the room. Up to and including a cheeseburger oozing cheddar and pepperjack cheese and topped with thick-cut bacon, a package of powdered doughnuts, Pixie Stix – yeah, they still make them, much to her surprise and absolute glee – a bag of sour cream and onion chips ..
And an apple.
"What in the absolute hell is this?"
".. What? Can't a girl have a little snack?"
"Jade, this is not a snack. This is a heart attack waiting to happen. Who in the world puts ranch dressing on chili cheese fries?"
"People with good taste, obviously."
Bones takes every single bit of it away – but leaves the apple. And Jade just ends up staring at it forlornly as though it alone had betrayed her.
Despite her efforts, none of it helped her get out any quicker than she otherwise would have. She's left fidgeting and having long conversations with Sulu's plant, which occasionally gives its input in the form of quiet chirps or squeaks, and she swears to god it's the only friend she has left in the galaxy.
Which just means that when they finally let her out, she makes a run for it like a bat out of hell – or, at the very least, a bat in a wheelchair being rolled by a slow-as-hell orderly toward the dock that will finally let her back onto her ship. Sigh.
She refuses to sit in her chair on the bridge for a good three days. Her ass is sore, okay? It needs its own measure of recuperation. But the fact remains that she's finally home, and now that they're about to get their five-year mission under way?
Punch it.
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Other Characters: None yet, just re-apped some idiot named York.
Character: Jade T. Kirk
Series: Star Trek ( AOS )
Deviance: d2 – Kirk is female. All crewmembers, everyone else is the same gender as in canon. The main events of both films still happen in the same manner – which means Pike still finds her in that bar in Riverside, and she still has napkins hanging out of her nose. Bones still may have thrown up on her in the shuttle on the way to the Academy. She still cheats on the Kobayashi Maru. So on and so forth.
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Canon Used: The reboot films of the original series, Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness
Appearance: Isabel Lucas, man. Just picture that in a command gold uniform and bam.
Psychology: So we heard you like hearing about hard-headed starship captains. How much time you got? Tell you what – go get you some popcorn, maybe a drink or something, come sit back down. It's cool, we'll wait. We've got all the time in the world.
Ready?
Jade T. Kirk is a little shit, the end.
No, really. That's literally all you need to know about her. That, and her stupid smile is more attractive than it has any right to be, but .. that's neither here nor there. But – oh, you want a real run-down? Okay, i'll be serious. Promise. ( Maybe. Taking back that promise just to make sure I don't break it. )
The first thing of note about this girl is that she really is too confident for her own good. The epitome of cocky, even. Faced with a no-win scenario ( ha – see what I did there? ) she'll tell you that she can get by it. That if she wants something badly enough, she'll find a way to get to it. And in theory, this is pretty damn true. Tell her she can be a Starfleet officer in four years, she'll tell you she can do it in three. Put her in the Kobayashi Maru simulation and she'll program a subroutine to change the scenario entirely. This, of course, means that she'll cheat to make her point, but it doesn't take away the idea that she's convinced there's nothing she can't do. Nothing she can't overcome. No problem she can't solve. Which .. I suppose technically is true because she's managed to get through everything that's been thrown at her, but there's always some kind of setback. Some bump in the road.
But the fact remains that she does get there. Eventually. Even if it takes her the ass end of forever. ( For being a damn genius, sometimes she can be a little slow on the upkeep. But she does figure things out eventually. Special snowfake .. )
With her confidence also comes a ( rather large ) measure of bullheadedness. And that's .. putting it pretty mildly. Once she's gotten her mind made up, you literally cannot tell her any differently. You could try to tell her the sky was blue and if she was convinced it was green, she'd argue you into the ground until you either saw it her way or gave up completely. This adheres quite a bit to how she seems to view the Prime Directive, as well – which basically means that even if it means going against it, if she thinks whatever the decision is going to be is immoral or downright unnecessary, she'll break a good twenty-two consecutive rules to keep everything intact. A species, a planet that's about to get covered in volcanic ash and molten lava and all that really horrible shit .. it's just how she operates, under the guise of thinking she's doing the right thing. Which, most of the time, she is.
Even if she ends up getting thrown under the bus by a certain first officer with pointy ears and a penchant for giving no more than zero fucks.
Let us talk for a moment about her unending loyalty and devotion to the people she holds closest. In this case, it's every single member of her crew once she gets her hands on the captain's chair on the bridge of the Enterprise. She will do anything – and I do mean anything – to ensure their safety. To preserve their quality of life even if she's the one that put them in the proverbial line of fire. ( And at the very least she's the type to admit when she's done something wrong on such a large scale, and she does everything in her power to correct it. And give up an apology, if it means anything. ) She also often does things without thinking them through, at first, just on the off-chance that it might make things go in a better direction – meaning, how she wants them. Case in point: that whole volcano fiasco on Nibiru and the cold fusion bomb that ended up saving an entire species. Spock would have died in the volcano because some junk got pretty messed up, and Jade let the natives of the planet see the damn ship just because it meant being able to save her first officer. She violated the Prime Directive, yeah sure, and sure she was briefly demoted to the rank of first officer once Pike found out that she falsified a report – but Spock was safe and alive and that's really all that mattered to her.
Oh, and then there was that whole thing about dying to get the warp core back online. Talk about dedication, if you're willing to die for your crew and keep them from crashing to the earth in a busted-up starship.
I mean, yeah, she was revived and all – but she totally died being the hero that everyone's been trying to tell her she can be since the beginning of forever. The bonds she forms, when she actually does form them, they don't break easily. Her friendship with Spock has only become stronger since they decided that they could exist without hating each other, with the help of understanding how the other operates. Bones keeps her centered, keeps her on her toes and makes sure she at least tries to be a decent human being when she isn't being all self-sacrificing. He's been there from the very, very beginning of it all, and their friendship – even if it's rough around the edges and in no way refined in the slightest – is unshakable, no matter how often or how deeply Jade manages to piss the good doctor off. It's just a fact that they're drawn together like a couple of bratty magnets. ( You know, like this. )
Now. Going back to my initial statement. The being a little shit one. It really is true. This is the kind of girl that sits on a fake bridge during a simulation that is seemingly unwinnable after she's reprogrammed the damn thing, apple in hand and basically making pewpew noises at the viewscreen as ships blow up all over the place. She'll talk shit to anyone within earshot, whether they're actively listening to her or not and actually expect to get away with it. ( See: how she tries to get one over on Bones on a regular basis. See also: it never works. See also also: Bones has hyposprays and isn't afraid to use them. )
Oh, she is also not afraid to use any sort of pickup line she can think of if she thinks she has even a remote chance at getting a man's attention. She is a tenacious little thing, by all meaning of the word, but she's generally a cocky little shit about it and while it always seems to get her what she wants, none of the men she brings into her bed ever seem to get to know anything about her. ( Defense mechanism? My bullshit senses are tingling, captain. ) It just goes along the same vein of her being very particular about who she lets into her life, and those that she does let get close to her mean much more to her than they realize.
To put it in simpler terms, here's a few adjectives. She's charismatic, witty and charming, an expert bullshitter and an even better captain. She'll give you hell every step of the way, pushing and pulling and questioning everything you throw at her, but ultimately she'll get the job done, even if it isn't exactly how you wanted her to. ( It might even be the exact opposite of what you asked her to do, but since she gets the job done, no harm, no foul, right? Of course. ) Rolling with the proverbial punches is how she operates, the most adaptable human being known to man even if she'll put up a fuss initially – but it's the eventual adherence that counts. ( Even if, again, it isn't precisely what you'd been trying to get out of her. ) She's a hell of a lover and a hell of a friend, even if you can only glare at her as she claps you on the shoulder and tells you to buckle up.
Kirk out.
Other Skills/Abilities: Aside from being the only genius-level repeat offender in the midwest? Let's see. She's intelligent, that much is obvious in everything she does. She's witty and resourceful, taking into account anything and everything she can to work any given situation in her favor. ( Or just out of something more dire, whatever need may arise. ) She's an inherently smooth-talker, especially when it comes to getting something she wants – and does flirting go under that category? It should. Because she would flirt with a lamp post if it gave her the time of day.
She was an assistant instructor in hand-to-hand at the Academy, and she's a pretty damn good shot with a phaser. And did I mention the whole being excellent at bullshitting thing? If she had one superpower, that would be it.
Other Weaknesses: Her crew, first and foremost. Keeping them safe and well is her top priority; it's part of what being a captain means to her, and threatening them is threatening her. There will also always be a special place in her heart for a certain southern doctor, her best friend in the whole of Starfleet as well as her first officer – which means worlds will burn if anything happens to them. ( All Bones has to do is scowl at her, and Spock raise an eyebrow, and there's pretty much critical damage done to her Achilles heel. )
History: The events of both films are here at Memory Alpha, and nothing along the AOS timeline has been changed despite Kirk being female.
Canon Point: Post-Into Darkness
Reality Description: The future. Space. Aliens. Explosions. Um … other stuff. No, really, here I go.
Let's talk about Starfleet first. The main institution involved in maintaining diplomacy among Federation planets – that would be the United Federation of Planets – also in furthering technology, exploring the galaxy and learning all there is to know about the surrounding systems as well as keeping the peace with its military. Starfleet officers are seen as representatives of the Federation when they make first contact with a new species, though there are strict protocols in place with regards to engaging a new civilation. ( Not that Kirk pays attention to that most of the time. Some pre-warp civilation now probably worships the Enterprise as some kind of deity. Just like in Voyager. Okay I'm done, I swear.
But that would be why she was demoted after that whole stint on Nibiru and had her ship taken away from her. Violating the Prime Directive is a severely-punishable offense. )
Now, the 23rd century. Pretty darn neat, if you ask me, what with its advanced technology. Artificial intelligences, energy weapons instead of projectile weapons, advanced medicine in the form of being able to take a hypospray to the side of the neck and cure just about anything. ( Multiple applications may be needed, if your name is Leonard McCoy and you have a personal vendetta against a certain Starfleet captain. ) Let's not forget the replicators, because while they may not be able to replicate mom's apple pie ( well, if you're anyone but Jade's mother, who spent more time off-world than at home with her kids ) perfectly, but it makes midnight snacking a hell of a lot easier than it would be if you had to go all the way to the mess and make yourself a sandwich.
There are also these handy-dandy devices called PADDs that can handle any and all of your data needs, should the need arise. Like if you need to go over duty rosters or check that supply list sent up from Engineering … or send messages to your CMO involving a few choice words in response to an impromptu hypo-stab under the guise of there being some new bug going around that you had no notion of. ( Seriously, Bones. Not cool. Warn a girl first, would you? ) And barring an all-inclusive explanation of starships and their classes, suffice it to say that Starfleet operates in space and that's all there is to it. ( But the Enterprise is a Constitution-class ship, just for future reference. It's important. … Okay, it's important to her captain. )
That's about it, really, unless you want a long-winded rant about how Vulcans need to lighten up and how hot Orions are and how cheating during the Kobayashi Maru was totally justified because the test itself was rigged. Or how some aspects of the Prime Directive should be able to be looked over when it comes to saving your First Officer's life when things don't go as you planned.
First Person Speaking Sample: [ well. this is new. okay this is beyond new but with the things she's seen since enlisting in starfleet, so far, this is barely more than a blip on the radar.
she's arrived in the central part of the plane, momentarily caught off-guard by the floor beneath booted feet; it's almost as though she's looking at the viewscreen in the astrometics lab, long-range sensors showing her what lay beyond their current position, and it's so mystifying that she almost forgets that she's somewhere she doesn't need to be.
or, at the very least, somewhere she doesn't mean to be.
she takes a few more steps forward, ending up right in front of the information kiosk, and she reaches out to take a pamphlet. she's only accustomed to feeling real paper beneath her fingertips when she's paging through one of her own books, care-worn and well-loved, and being so surrounded by technology her entire life, this feels … odd, to say the very least. she reads, line by line, eyes scanning each folded section until she's taken it all in – and even then, she reads it through twice more, attempting to wrap her brain around the logic that, given the current circumstances, doesn't seem to apply here.
spock would be proud, if he'd had any idea.
the pamphlet is folded and held in one hand as she continues wandering about, and it isn't long before she comes across the bar.
the bar.
and it's with a small sound of interest lingering in the back of her throat that she pushes forward, fingers trailing over the bartop's surface, peering behind it to see what she has to choose from. most of it, she's never heard of, but that never really seems to matter. one quick look around, and she's helping herself to the nearest bottle – something bright, nearly translucent, and wherever bones is he'd better hope she isn't allergic to it because he isn't there to help her if she is.
bottoms up. ]
Third Person Writing Sample: Waking up in a hospital after being in a coma for two weeks after being brought back from an irradiated death is .. something that she'd never like to experience again, thank you so very much. Especially since it meant Bones being on her case even worse than usual.
Sure you're not feelin' homicidal? Angry? Psychotic? Y'gotta tell me, Jade. This is pretty damn important.
I keep telling you, Bones. No more than usual.
It's touching, in a way. She knows it's all out of worry for her well-being, the fact that she's been transfused with augmented blood – but sometimes, her chief medical officer can be a little over-the-top with dramatics. At least he isn't making superfluous use of metaphors. She doesn't think she can handle that right now.
Or anytime in the immediate future.
Restlessness takes the place of fatigue, eventually, and Jade starts thinking of ways she can be as obnoxious as possible. See if that has anything to do with the amount of time she's going to end up having to spend in this place. They can't possibly tolerate her longer than a few more days if she's an insufferable nuisance, can they?
.. Hm.
This means enlisting certain members of her crew to plan a few things .. and honestly, she's both surprised and pleased with the lack of effort involved in getting them onboard. I really do have the best damn crew in the whole of Starfleet.
She gets Sulu to bring in one of his plants – one of his prized plants, the helmsman interjects with a fair amount of pride – and it goes on a table across the room. Out of the way, seemingly inconspicuous but still within range to allow the captain to toss sunflower seeds in its general direction and watch the damn thing not only catch them, but swallow them whole. ( She swears up and down she'd heard the thing burp, once. No lie. You can't make that shit up. ) It stays quiet until one of the nurses comes in to check on her at random intervals, and completely out of nowhere it starts up with a high-pitched screeching. Like an alarm clock that can't be shut off, it just about makes ears bleed until Jade tosses a seed at it, and quiets down immediately.
The staff just glares at her, and she gives an innocent, blank look right back at them. It's just a plant – what could he have to do with it?
Kirk: 1; annoying hospital staff: 0
Next on her list of personal saviors is her chief engineer. Scotty, of course, never bows out on a chance to raise a little hell – a fact of which Jade will always be eternally grateful – and she wastes no time in sending a list of things she'd like the other to bring on the mini PADD Chekov had consented to bring her. ( The kid refused to be a part of all this, because he believed his captain needed as much rest and relaxation as she could possibly get, and while the thought was appreciated, she couldn't seem to get the point across that she was slowly going out of her mind being stuck in here.
Oh well. Moving on. )
The next time Bones comes to check on his patient himself, Jade's pretty sure it's only a matter of time before that vein above his left eye explodes. Or he has an aneurysm. Both seem pretty likely with the way the doctor is looking at her when he sees all the junk that has somehow found its way into the room. Up to and including a cheeseburger oozing cheddar and pepperjack cheese and topped with thick-cut bacon, a package of powdered doughnuts, Pixie Stix – yeah, they still make them, much to her surprise and absolute glee – a bag of sour cream and onion chips ..
And an apple.
"What in the absolute hell is this?"
".. What? Can't a girl have a little snack?"
"Jade, this is not a snack. This is a heart attack waiting to happen. Who in the world puts ranch dressing on chili cheese fries?"
"People with good taste, obviously."
Bones takes every single bit of it away – but leaves the apple. And Jade just ends up staring at it forlornly as though it alone had betrayed her.
Despite her efforts, none of it helped her get out any quicker than she otherwise would have. She's left fidgeting and having long conversations with Sulu's plant, which occasionally gives its input in the form of quiet chirps or squeaks, and she swears to god it's the only friend she has left in the galaxy.
Which just means that when they finally let her out, she makes a run for it like a bat out of hell – or, at the very least, a bat in a wheelchair being rolled by a slow-as-hell orderly toward the dock that will finally let her back onto her ship. Sigh.
She refuses to sit in her chair on the bridge for a good three days. Her ass is sore, okay? It needs its own measure of recuperation. But the fact remains that she's finally home, and now that they're about to get their five-year mission under way?
Punch it.
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