TEST DRIVE MEME #4 - The Arboretum/Ten Forward

[ten_fwd_mods]

Option 01: Aboard the Enterprise, The Arboretum: In exploring the Enterprise, you end up on Deck 17, section 21 alpha: the arboretum. Instantly upon entering you can tell this room is different from all the others. For one thing, you're now standing on grass. It's no illusion, no simulation; it's real grass, leading up to a small pond in the center of the room. All around you grows a variety of plant life, trees and bushes and hanging plants, flowers and herbs and even what one might consider weeds. The arboretum is, for all intents and purposes, a botanic garden, used both recreationally for passengers to relax and enjoy, and scientifically for research and study. After all, the scope of alien plant life is impressive, from the Cyprion cacti down to the Earth variety roses.

The room is well lit and large, with benches to rest on and small walking paths. Children are grouped off in one corner working on botany projects, while some passengers are seen kneeling in the dirt carefully tending to their garden patches. There are even windows along one wall, allowing for a view of space while the room itself gives the illusion of daylight. It's the perfect spot to relax, read a book, or grab a spare spade and dig in the dirt. Or perhaps you've been looking for the right moment to say hello to the passenger standing off by the venus flytraps.





Option 02: Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: Or maybe not. You've just arrived, and you have no idea what just happened. One minute you were somewhere else, and now you're in what looks like a spacious, well-appointed bar. The hum of the crowd is inviting, and the drinks look invigorating. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.

Try to find out why you're here, or catch a drink at the bar; there's always something happening here.

Comments

Hardison = Awesome!

[age_of_the_geek]

"Where was I? I was at home, man! I was about to have some quite time with Parker! Watch Earth Girls are Easy and laugh and then have cuddles and then may get some-err...thing that is private! Man, who the hell are you anyways?"

Hardison is cranky. He is denied girlfriend time.

XD

[knight_2000]

"No, I meant where - and what time period? Are you familiar at all with the movie, The Wizard of Oz? Because you're not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy."

Kitt had never heard of that Earth girls thing. It was after his time. But if this man was from Earth, surely he'd heard of Wizard?

"My name is Kitt. You should probably sit down."

[age_of_the_geek]

It takes Hardison a moment.

"Time period. As in, time travel and some shit?"

Hardison does find a place to sit. Because otherwise this is waaaaaay too much to take in.

"Okay, Cat-man, hit me with it. Where the hell am I, and when the hell am I?"

He still doesn't believe it, but with all the weirdness around him frankly why not just play along with the crazy person?

[knight_2000]

"Yes." No sense in beating around the bush about it. Kitt follows him, but doesn't sit down himself. He frowns a little at the 'Cat-man' but says nothing, supposing it's simply this person's way of coping.

He fervently hopes so, anyway.

"You're on a spaceship. The U.S.S. Enterprise, 1701-D. The year is... I'm not sure of the year. Sometime in the twenty-fourth century. But don't worry - you're here as a guest. You can't leave, not yet, but you're not a prisoner, either." He falters for a moment. "It's really not so bad."