Video 愛 un: companioning

[companioning]

[The feed flickers a few times as Inara pokes at her phone a few times. Finally it steadies and Inara shakes her head.]

Bàoqiàn. I'm sorry, I'm still attempting to get use to these communication devices.

[She settles back and offers a charming smile before briefly dipping her head.]

Nín hǎo? For those of you I've failed to meet, I'm Inara Serra and still relatively new here. [She draws in a deep breath before continuing on.] Now I know that there are a great deal of you came from Earth, and while I find that truly fascinating and would love to hear some of your stories concerning it, I'm interested in knowing just where everyone else comes from.

I ask because though my ancestors come from Earth, though, no one has lived on Earth for centuries. I was born and raised on a planet called Sihnon. I trained there as well but before coming here, I'd spent a good year traveling between the different planets and various moons of our system.

[She takes a small sip of her tea before giving a brief nod of her head. She might have borrowed a teapot and some cups.]

I can't offer much, but I've only just made a fresh pot of tea and I'd be willing to share it with anyone who wouldn't mind telling me about where they come from.


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Comments

[directives]

The Earth I was born and raised on was heading down that path a couple centuries ago. Thankfully, humanity turned it around and learned how to be kinder to the planet.

[ though it says something about what earth was like before the third world war that janeway isn't all that surprised to hear that there was a version of the world where humanity did earth dirty and was forced to leave. ]

You did? I be that was still a marvelous site to behold. [ leonardo da vinci's workshop was one of her favorite holodeck programs back on voyager. ]

[companioning]

Oh, well I'm glad they were able to do that.

[Sadly humanity hadn't been able to do that where she came from. But, at least they'd been able to move somewhere else and keep humanity going.]

It was smaller than I had thought it would be. But, Leonardo da Vinci was truly talented. It's just a shame that more of his work didn't make it.

[directives]

So am I. What happened to your Earth could have very easily happened to mine.

There's a holo program I used to visit frequently back on my ship. It was set in Renaissance Italy, in da Vinci's workshop. He was quite the character — or so he was programmed to be.

[companioning]

I... Don't rightly know what a holo program is. Though it must be amazing if it allows you to interact with Leonardo da Vinci.

[directives]

It's a technology we have where I'm from the utilizes photons, force fields, and light to mimic scenery and characters that are programmed to interact with you as if they were alive.

[ more or less. it's a bit more involved than that, but that's the gist. ]