This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise to the Mars expedition, please respond.
[ They're not a couple, will never be a couple again, but the anxiety she wears does something unfairly squishy to Jim's insides and he tries again solely for her sake although he knows it's pointless. The same static infects his own device that Chekov has been recalibrating. ]
Mars expedition, respond effective immediately.
[ There's a pause of five or so seconds, then he snaps the communicator closed and hands it back, taking a far more ridiculously dated ... phone thing out of his back pocket. Just don't ask, Gaila. ]
Don't worry, it'll be fine. Uh. Hang on. [ There's only one person he knows who can handle this damage control and he punches in the number without pause for thought. ] Lieutenant, I need you down by the south-east end of the local festivities right away, please.
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This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise to the Mars expedition, please respond.
[ They're not a couple, will never be a couple again, but the anxiety she wears does something unfairly squishy to Jim's insides and he tries again solely for her sake although he knows it's pointless. The same static infects his own device that Chekov has been recalibrating. ]
Mars expedition, respond effective immediately.
[ There's a pause of five or so seconds, then he snaps the communicator closed and hands it back, taking a far more ridiculously dated ... phone thing out of his back pocket. Just don't ask, Gaila. ]
Don't worry, it'll be fine. Uh. Hang on. [ There's only one person he knows who can handle this damage control and he punches in the number without pause for thought. ] Lieutenant, I need you down by the south-east end of the local festivities right away, please.