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[peggy_carter]

Who: Peggy Carter and OTA
What: Reviewing history isn't for the faint of heart.
Where: Classrooms
When: First of December
Status: Open
Rating: PG-13



Class rooms

There was a lot of history to catch up with, so much had changed since the post war era. If this was a world in which she would be living it behooved her to know the history of it. Earth history was rather thoroughly documented in the records on board Enterprise. However there was no mention of Steve or the SSR or anything. Not even a whisper about Howard, though there was another genius inventor name Howard Hughes. He sounded like Stark only less flamboyant. And he met a rather bad end it seemed. So where was all the history of her world?

While she was perusing the archives it was suggested to her that she might always want to check the Holodeck for additional resources, she made a note to try that after and settled in to a volume on something called The McCarthy era.

Comments

[hasopinions]

Ishka finds herself just about everywhere sooner or later. And that includes this classroom, which she was expecting to be unoccupied. "Wasn't expecting anyone here."

The real question is was this woman expecting to be interrupted by someone who looked quite like... this.

[peggy_carter]

"Nor was I, but I've never felt that meant it had to remain as such." Peggy held her hand out toward the many open chairs.

"Please don't let me stop you, have a seat."

[hasopinions]

"Are you looking for anything in particular?" She takes a seat. She's native to this universe, if a bit time displaced. She might be able to fill in some details since there was no formal class scheduled here for quite some time.

[peggy_carter]

"I was hoping to catch up on history, well at least a history of a similar world to my own. But it isn't as pleasantly enlightening as one might hope."

[hasopinions]

Ishka looks her over. Well, she certainly looks human. Then again, most of Q's victims tended to be. Though that was often where the commonalities ended with the stories she heard. "You're from Earth, I take it? How far off?"

[peggy_carter]

"An Earth, 1940's. Which puts me a few centuries behind. And a time line which only shares some commonality with this one apparently." To which she sounded mildly perturbed.

[hasopinions]

"My boys visited not long after that time period." Time travel. It happens. "Your version was pre-spaceflight too?" That seemed to be pretty common, at least.

[peggy_carter]

"Yes, well for the most part at least. There were new scientific discoveries being made everyday so it could not have been too far off." Who knew what Hydra could have cooked up if allowed to grow unfettered? Or what geniuses like Howard might have made given free reign and time.

[hasopinions]

"It's amazing how fast technology develops, when there's the right motivation in place. And the right people ready to put it to use." That was important. Technology did very little good if no one actually bothered getting it out there. "If I'm remembering what Nog said right, it's a little over a century between your time and hewmons developing warp drive. At least for this universe."

[peggy_carter]

"I can scarcely believe it is so short a time, but inventions seemed to shift the time frames. The more one discovers the faster one tends to discover more." It was mind boggling to think that in such a short time man would be traveling among the stars in such a way. Still it was an astonishing feet.

"And your people," As she was clearly different though Peggy hadn't reacted with any malice or fear, no reason given to do so yet. "Are they long in spacefaring?"

[hasopinions]

"A little bit before hewmons. It opened up a lot of new markets for us." Obviously the most important factor. For Ferengi.

"And when you get new markets, you get more and more development. It only gets faster." Marvelous thing, capitalism. It had served them well. Their biggest problems had come from being blind to making proper use of things.

[peggy_carter]

"So your society is quite well versed in trade?" No Peggy! Don't ask, do not open that can of worms!

"And you trade with other races? That must be fascinating."

[hasopinions]

"Commerce is the backbone of Ferengi society. That's why we're everywhere. Rule of Acquisition number seventy five. Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum." The rules weren't perfect, but there was a lot of solid advice in them. They just needed a bit of interpretation. "Other species have things a third party might want. We make that happen."

[peggy_carter]

"What a fascinating cultural structure. So you acquire and sell and through the success of that earn rank in society?" It wasn't unlike some people were attempting in the states, they were out only to amass wealth.

[hasopinions]

"We do. More paths are starting to open up. My grandson's the first Ferengi in Starfleet." And she's just brimming with pride at that. Nog was good at being in Starfleet so why would she want him to be anything else? "We'll always mostly be merchants though. Better ones now that the commerce authority isn't keeping more half the population from earning profit."

[peggy_carter]

"I suppose you would be the best to ask if I ever needed to acquire something, that makes you valuable to know. "My name is Peggy Carter by the way, may I ask yours?" She was quickly learning that cultural relevancy of names and titles worked very differently among the varied cultures and species here. She didn't want to make a misstep out of sheer rudeness.

[hasopinions]

"Ishka." No last name. Oddly enough Ferengi didn't have them, despite their making a good name for a family business. "Most Ferengi traders in this time won't speak to me directly." Even if that wasn't some sort of temporal continuum issue with her already being on Ferenginar now. "But I can point you the right way."

[peggy_carter]

"Is this before your time or after it?" Interesting to know she was not the only one out of time and that it could even happen to aliens.

[hasopinions]

"A few years before. But they're very important years for Ferenginar." For everyone, really. Mostly for less positive reasons. But it all added up for her not being keen to visit her own homeworld.

[peggy_carter]

"Ah, so you are out of time too. It seems many of us here are from outside this time if not this universe as well." It was curious but also something she was happy to learn more about.

"Your people, Ferengi seem to have done quite a great deal of exploration in the course of trading."

[hasopinions]

"That's Q for you. Meddling in every direction he can." No one seemed to particularly like that.

"Rule of Acquisition number 75. Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum." She shakes her head. "Of course it's only in the few years difference that females have been allowed off world."

[peggy_carter]

"Surely cultural change to allow more freedom for females is a good thing." She stopped herself and had to once again remember that not everyone shared her progressive (for the time) idea of equal rights.

"These rules of acquisition you mention, are they the laws of your people?" They were varied and frankly interesting, they seemed so open to interpretation.

[hasopinions]

"It is. Should've happened generations ago." But apparently Ferengi society had just been waiting for her to not be willing to take those restrictions. It happened fairly quickly, once she and Zek really got started on it.

"They're not laws, they're business guidelines." Which was much more fundamental to Ferengi than any mere law. "Some work better than others, even if some of the old members of the Commerce Authority might argue with me on that." Had.

[peggy_carter]

"So you live by the rules of business. It seems to have worked well. How do you find interacting with other cultures which have different laws?" Because it would seem from what Peggy had heard so far, that such rules wouldn't take into consideration the laws of others.

[hasopinions]

"There's always something they want. The Federation was a strange case though." She's still not sure what to make of their lack of a real financial system. "And a contract is a contract." But only between Ferengi. Another rule of acquisition.