TEST DRIVE #13 - Jefferies Tubes and Ten Forward

[tenforward_m]

Option 001 - Jefferies Tubes: A ship like the Enterprise requires maintenance and a way to get at things behind the walls. It also, since there are no stairs, needs to have something people can use in case the turbolifts stop working. A cross between air ducts that are so useful for people to crawl through and maintenance shafts, the Jefferies tubes span across the entire ship like a hidden parallel to the normal, everyday corridors. They come in vertical and horizontal versions.

While most people except Engineering aren't supposed to be in them, people have been known to use them for everything from a quiet spot away from everything, vertical exercise, and a place with excellent acoustics for playing music, to the kind of sneaky trails one might use to get to restricted rooms. Just don't get lost.




Option 002. Aboard the Enterprise, Ten Forward: You have no idea what just happened. One minute you were home, and now you're on a spaceship, in the middle of a crowded room. It looks like a bar. There are people eating and drinking, some in uniform, others not. Some are clearly aliens.

You've managed to land in Ten Forward a long bar with barstools and a bartender, tables sprinkled throughout, and the far wall is nothing but windows out to space. It looks like a nice lounge, low conversation making the room hum.

Better ask some questions and find out where you are, or just tap the closest person on the shoulder and try to make friends. The bar is open.

Comments

[decker_unit]

Sat at the bar is a human dressed in, yes, a Starfleet uniform, however, depending on how far Ishka's knowledge goes back, she'll notice that it's of an even more extant design than the ones more commonly worn around Ten Forward.

Captain Willard Decker, USS Enterprise, is currently sitting, pondering his current predicament, when he notices the Ferengi approaching to his right. Frowning slightly, as by Decker's time, First Contact with the Ferengi Alliance hadn't been made, he wonders if this was Q's doing, also.

[hasopinions]

Ishka can't place the uniform. It's definitely Federation. But she's not sure where from.

The frown only emboldens her. "You don't match." She's not sure what that means yet. She's not sure what any of this means. But she's putting it together.

[decker_unit]

"No," Will admits, smiling in response. "No, I definitely don't."

He shifts in his seat to face Ishka more full on.

"How about you?"

[hasopinions]

"You'd never see a Ferengi female offworld when the Federation was using those uniforms." She says it with utter disdain for that incredibly recent period in history. No way is she letting those old attitudes stick around.

[decker_unit]

"Ferengi?" His tone is curious. "I don't think we've encountered your species as of yet." He smiles slightly. "It appears something is messing with the timeline. Some... great being called Q."

He shifts again. "I'm sorry, where are my manners. I haven't even introduced myself, and I'm talking about cosmic entities." He pauses. "Captain Willard Decker."

[hasopinions]

Messing with the timeline would at least explain the uniforms around here. THough what exactly an English letter has to do with it is less clear. "If the Federation hasn't met us yet, it's not a nice place to be."

At least if you're a female. "A lot of stupid traditions." That were slowly dying as she, Zek and Rom dragged Ferenginar kicking and screaming into the 24th century. "My name's Ishka."

[decker_unit]

"Ishka. A pleasure." And then he frowns. "I'm assuming these... traditions are holding back your race?"

It can't hurt to learn more... he was a Starfleet officer, after all.