James Tiberius Kirk (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
universal_charm) wrote2013-10-13 07:33 pm
universal_charm) wrote2013-10-13 07:33 pm
Literary Inquiry [ Video ]
[ So, Luceti, you have Kirk showing up today on our totally hi-grade, super deluxe communication system (haha, yeah right). Anyways, he's there, and he currently has a copy of George Orwell's "1984" displayed in hand. ]
So... I have an honest to god sort of question for everyone.
How many of you ever thought or believed the stuff in books like this would come true in the future? Or better yet, does anyone actually live in a world like these books describe?
Because, really, the twenty-first century view of the future is... interesting.
So... I have an honest to god sort of question for everyone.
How many of you ever thought or believed the stuff in books like this would come true in the future? Or better yet, does anyone actually live in a world like these books describe?
Because, really, the twenty-first century view of the future is... interesting.
[voice]
[A beat.]
Time travel is possible on my world.
Re: [voice]
All right, well, as a person who is more or less a victim of that - watch where you come out. Just sayin'.
[voice]
Re: [voice]
Let's just say my whole life took a major detour from what it should have been because of accidental time travel.
[voice]
Time travel makes every situation worse.
Re: [voice]
Well, I can't say my life is terrible, but it's definitely not what it might have been had things gone different.
[ He quite likes his life, actually, but a part of him is jealous of his other self, in that other stream of time that fractured apart that day. The him that had known a dad and a mom and a lot of other things. But it wasn't really worth thinking about, just the thoughts that drifted through his mind on melancholy, sad days. ]
[voice]
[What? That's not insane where she comes from...]
Re: [voice]
No, but... I met someone who told me of the other life. He was from that stream, and knew me in that stream. He's a friend now.
[voice]
All of the timelines I have seen were in the future. I no longer existed there.
Re: [voice]
Well, not to be morbid, but isn't that natural at some point? We all go to the great beyond eventually, right?
[voice]
[Laura had no idea how long her mutation would let her live. Logan was over a hundred, by his reckoning.]
Either way it is preferable to meeting an alternate version of myself.
Re: [voice]
Yeah, I guess. I don't know if that would collapse a time stream or not, meeting yourself. I hope not, because I'm not sure how Spock and Spock are going to avoid each other being as they're two of only 10,000 or so Vulcans left in the universe...
[voice]
[Why does that sound familiar...Spock.]
They are from a...television show?
Re: [voice]
Uh, well, I guess in some universes, I am. It's definitely not a show to me, it's my life.
Name's James T. Kirk, but Kirk works fine.
[voice]
I am Laura Kinney.
Re: [voice]
Nice to meet you, Laura the Time Traveler.
So, if you can travel through time, what's your favorite period of time?
[voice]
I cannot usually travel through time. They were...extenuating circumstances.
And I prefer the present.
Re: [voice]
Fair enough. And probably best that you can't hop through time as you please, but you've heard my piece on that already.
[voice]
So why were you asking these questions?
Re: [voice]
I was just curious really, and bored. I'm not meant to be earth-side this long.
[voice]
Re: [voice]
Oh my ship, the Enterprise, out in space. I'm aiming to get the five year assignment I hear is in the works - go out and explore new worlds. How cool is that?
[voice]
That does sound...cool.