ten_fwd | life hacks (aka jim, no) • open

It's been a hell of a few weeks. Month? Little over? You know, he's not even really sure. Jim has had a hell of a time since getting here. His suddenly very much alive sort of girlfriend (ex?) being here, which he's cool with, but---wow he's already had that breakdown thanks. Admiral Pike is here---that breakdown is still forthcoming. Let's not even bring up the fight with Khan that ended with both of them brigged for a while. Then there was Q dicking around with everyone with his brand of practical jokes that had Jim letting Khan out of the brig of his own volition, and putting a few crewman into Sickbay. But he's gonna just pretend feelings aren't real things that you, you know, feel.

Spock would be proud, if it didn't mean his method of coping with his not!feelings were to find something to drink that isn't that synthehol crap.

So, he heads into the lounge, and over to the replicator. He's tapping away at the controls, trying to avoid speaking to it directly cause he doesn't want to announce what he's doing to the entire lounge. Kind of defeats the purpose of stealth. He gets an angry sounding noise from it when he tries something, raises a brow, and shakes his head.

"Okay, fine." They can do this hard way. Jim is totally okay with that. "You're gonna give me what I want, or I'm going to rewrite every subroutine you have."

[as promised: jim is hacking the replicator for real alcohol. feel free to help out by way of lookout or whatnot. gaila will be helping him out, so if you would like her to be involved when you tag in, just tag in on their top-level comment. from then the tagging order will go jim + gaila + your character = SHENANIGANS. if not, just tag in for jim, and we'll have ourselves some wacky fun. cool either way.

also, as a note: ash will be scarce because of rl/homework type things, so please bear with a bit of slow/delay on tags.]

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"Hey, this is kind of my first rodeo with dimension-hopping or whatever you want to call it. I just call it like I see it. The only guy I ever met was from this one, and he seemed pretty adamant that things did not go the way they were supposed to go." Jim can't help a chuckle though.

"Might be worth it, though. Seeing him blow his top."

That grin? It's only getting wider. Oh, he's definitely down for helping if you come up with something. It's kind of like pranks, but on a cosmic scale, right? Someone should stop the two of them.

"I'm you're guy. I hacked Admiral Pike's command email when I was a cadet and signed him up for Orion Girls Weekly." Among other things.

"He has less of a perspective on these things that someone who has been around the block as often as I have... also he's Vulcan." He shrugged "No one likes seeing what they think is supposed to be real and true get broken."

It is a prank. Just on cosmic scale. Someone really should stop them. This won't end up well.

"Good to know! My computer knowledge is - despite how well traveled I am - sadly very basic." Then, "I would have loved to seen his face when that happened. Did you ever get caught?"

"Half-Vulcan," Jim interjects, pointing a finger at him. One of these days maybe that won't be something that gets his space undies in a twist. "Yeah, I guess. I mean, it wasn't exactly the best experience for me either."

Not to mention that brain sharing thing. That was high on the list of weird.

"I can supplement what you don't know," he says, chuckling. "Yeah, he caught me, or well, figured out it was me, but all he did was get me back."

A reprimand wouldn't have worked.

"Half-Vulcan who seems to prefer his Vulcan side to his human side. At least the one I know. Not sure about the one in your reality."

Brain sharing is ALWAYS weird. Alec never had a good experience with it.

"Good! It might be highly entertaining to make all the turbolifts play elevator music..."
Bad Alec. "He probably narrowed down the suspects with an 'who would be stupid enough to do this to me' and ended up with you."

No, probably not. Kirk is the sort of person where those things just bounce right off of him.

"It's a toss up, I'm not sure he appreciates it when I ask how the half-human side of him is doing too, since he tends to ignore that."

Yeah, well, it was his first time. First and last, he hopes. If the sharing part wasn't weird enough, the freight train of emotion that pummeled him after was downright awful.

Jim chuckles a little at that. "Elevator music? What about reprogramming the computer to make smart remarks?" Hey, he can be a sounding board. He shakes his head at the realization on the other man's part that it might come back on Jim.

"Trust me, I can take whatever he dishes out. Personally, I think he needs to get that space stick he's got shoved somewhere removed. Medical might be able to help with that."

If he can survive an Admiral and man he looked up to as a father figure choosing the most inopportune moments to cockblock him at bars---he can survive anything Picard throws at him, he's sure.

"You know what might be really interesting? A Spock that embraces his human side more than his Vulcan side." Alec tapped his chin thoughtfully. "It's too bad there's not a way I could bring a Spock here or one around that I could try and flip..."

And that is one of those statements Alec occasionally makes that shows his somewhat callous disregard for other people's lives. They don't come out very often, but sometimes they do. Because he says it in exactly the same way he's been talking about doing things using Kirk to screw around with the computer.

"Is that easy to do? I'm fairly certain elevator music would be easy... or if there was a way to make it rotate so once they fix the elevator music problem the computer starts insulting people and when they fix that it flips back to elevator music..."

Alec is fairly genre savvy in these regards. Not that he particularly cares mind you, he's just fairly good at knowing how the universe works.

"Yeah he can a real stick in the mud but..." What do you say about a man who survives torture and becoming one of the Borg while keeping his sanity intact, saying that the Klingons have no honor and walking away from it still alive and all the other things he will do... or has done in another reality? "He'll probably end up surprising you. I mean you don't become the captain of the Enterprise without having some balls."

Jim's eyebrows raise in unison at that. "I'm not sure that's the best idea. We've already got one guy showboating with stuff like that enough as it is, right?" A gentle nudge in the direction of no please.

"Computers are easy enough, at least, if you're not trying to get anything worthwhile from the replicator." Yes, he's getting irritated with this venture already.

"At this point, I'd take the surprises." He'd like to be surprised. Like to think that the guy wasn't just drowning in that uniform and endless regulations. "Fair enough. But all I've seen so far is a guy that really needs to loosen up."

Alec starts to say something and then hesitates as an idea hits him. "Hold that thought and get back to me in a couple of months in the holodeck. I have to go do some research."

And he vanishes.

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