TEST DRIVE #5 - Low Gravity Gymnasium and Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

Option 01. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprises' off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...



Option 02. Aboard the Enterprise, The Low-Gravity Gymnasium: The gym is a large room with several alcove-like sections housing the aerobics and martial arts areas, a parrises squares area, an anbo-jyutsu court, and a separate fencing room. While there is normally a zero-gravity area as well, today all of the gym is in zero-gravity conditions.

Zero-gravity can be, well, kind of weird, because it's not like a gradual loss of the pressure holding you to the floor--you may have taken the turbolifts, just expecting to take a leisurely run, or maybe work out with a treadmill to get in some cardio, but the minute you step into the gym you're floating, as is anything you might have been holding or bringing with you.

Do you freak out, start flailing and trying to swim through the air back to where you can escape? Do you make the best of it and tough it out to get your exercise in, or do you start having fun with the sudden game of weightlessness? Pick your personal scenario and have fun with all the other weightless people.

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Spock {Prime} | Star Trek '09

[livedlong]

To any Starfleet personal, the man standing before one of the large windows within Ten Forward is well known. Under other more normal circumstances he would have already sought out the captain of this vessel to make his presence known, but then the circumstances he found himself in currently were far from normal. Especially given the fact that not even a minute prior, he had been on New Vulcan.

Needless to say, Spock is currently gathering his thoughts on his current situation before he takes the steps to contact the captain. The question of which timeline he's currently part of hangs in question as does the date. However, he does at least recognize the lounge of the ship he's currently standing in. It remains to be seen if the ship bears the same name and captain though.

[empathic_pathfinder]

To say that he's recognised is an understatement, but, still, Lt. Cdr. Terzen T'Karr, formerly of the USS Pathfinder, allows him a while to be by himself before disturbing him.

And, even then, it's in the most unobtrusive, respectable way possible. He walks up behind Spock, making sure his reflection is visible in the window.

"Excuse me, Ambassador?" He asks, politely. "Is everything okay?"

Spock will find himself talking to someone in Operations Gold, with the black eyes of a Betazoid, but the spots, faded, but still obvious, of a Trill.

[livedlong]

Spock notes the reflection, quietly observing it as he's spoken to. "Not quite."

He himself is physically fine, the problem lies in his current location and time. He remains facing the window for now, but he'll take advantage of the Lt. Cdr's presence to possibly gain answers to his most prominent questions currently.

"Perhaps you could answer a few questions of mine. What is the current stardate? Do you know the name of this vessel and its captain?"

[empathic_pathfinder]

"Of course, Ambassador."

They were fairly simple questions, after all.

"The current stardate is 43497.3. This is the Federation Starship USS Enterprise, Galaxy-Class, Registry NCC-1701-D under command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard."

[livedlong]

He'd been correct in the identification of the ship then. However, it would appear that he had moved forward in time, but whether or not this was the unchanged timeline that he had originally hailed from or the altered one he had been part of during the last year, that yet remained to be determined.

There was one easy method he could use to learn this, he would ask one more rather specific question and await its answer, though no doubt the other's reaction to the question would tell him nearly as much as the answer to it.

"Thank you. I have one more question for you, Lt. Commander. Does the planet Vulcan still exist?"

[blazing_stag]

James had just arrived also but he wasn't worrying about it. It was almost normal to jump from one place to another in his life. Looking around, he noted the old man with the pointy ears by the window and couldn't help but ask.

"Hey. What's up with your ears?"

[goldencobra]

Henry had been learning about what this era called history and luckily for him, and possibly unlucky for the old Vulcan, it included pictures. So when the boy spotted the man by the window, he smiled and walked over to him.

"You're Mister Spock, aren't you?"

[tea_earlgrey_hot]

Indeed, it most certainly does. Far be it for this captain to make a man of Spock's reputation wait for an appointment. Though it is not often he frequents Ten Forward, it is not above him to enter — particularly when rumors of such a distinguished guest begin to circulate among his crew.

"Ambassador," he greets with a brief but polite bow, straightening to full attention. There is always some suspicion to be had when individuals from the annals of Starfleet history arrive due to Q's interference, but Picard is nothing if not a good host. "Welcome to the Enterprise."