[Video, Monday Evening, Week 14] CMO's Log: Entry One

[damn_it_jim]

[It's shortly after Nem's message goes out that a new face appears on the network. Bones had awoken from his pod a couple hours previously, but had spent the time finding his pants and prowling around with a suspicious glower, trying to get his bearings and trying to place just what the hell sort of alien storage facility he's found himself shunted to.]

I don't know where the hell I am, or who the hell you people are, but if you need shelter or you need medical help, then I'm inside some sort of stasis facility and the walls here look good and thick.

The name's McCoy. Dr. Leonard McCoy.

Comments

[video]

[jimkirk]

[ It's pure chance that Jim happened to look at the network at all. Things have been kind of busy. So when the video comes on, he looks tired, but he's managing, like he always does. ]

Bones?

[video]

[damn_it_jim]

[It helps that Bones is holed up on the ship, waiting on the chemical-laced fog surrounding it to lift and growing steadily more bored with waiting as the hours pass. His response when the message comes through is immediate and exasperated and entirely unfair. Because he cares.]

Jim! What the hell have you gotten up to this time?

[video]

[jimkirk]

H-hey! Don't blame me for this. It's not like I just decided to let someone waltz on my ship and kidnap people. Anyway, most people can't do with without Scotty's equation, right? Last I knew, no one outside Starfleet had that info.

[ He sighs. ]

Look. I don't know how we got here, but this place is all kinds of messed up.

[video]

[damn_it_jim]

You're telling me. A nice intelligent blue lady who I really hope you haven't offended yet explained a few things, and a pair of what are apparently giant intelligent robots explained a little more. Some sort of war zone between two planets, with godforsaken chemical fogs and a blue energy dome full of flamethrower-toting facists?

And then there's something up with Spock... You owe me a drink, Jim.

[video]

[jimkirk]

I haven't offended anyone, Bones, ladies love me and you know it.

...Spock? What are you even talking about? Did you hit your head?

[ He knows he missed something, being on the trip and all, but now he's second-guessing himself. Damnit, Bones. ]

Re: [video]

[damn_it_jim]

He's wearing blue pyjamas and calling them a Starfleet uniform, Jim. [Bones' delivery is deadpan perfection.] If there's head trauma, it's not me.

[He isn't touching the question of the ladies' inexplicable love for James Tiberius Kirk.]

Although I thought of a couple other possibilities.