Further Experiments

[theverymodel]

[Action: Hardware Store]

[Mordin is systematically making his way through the hardware store, scanning every item on the shelf with his omnitool. Most are rejected out of hand, but some, notably fertilizers, find their way into his cart.]

Potential. Crude, but will suffice.

[Action: Grocery Store]

[A similar scene plays out in the grocery aisle]

Suitable medium. Further reaction... yes, effective.

Comments

[theverymodel]

[Mordin notes that with great interest]

Very different development. Council millenia old. Humans achieved seat after less than a century. Unusual.

[daredtodo]

Funny what a whole lot of alternate history can do, isn't it? Of all the races I do know in the galaxy, I'm not familiar with any of your Council ones. It's very interesting.

[theverymodel]

Parallel dimensions. Outside traditional physics. [sniff] Paradigm must be reevaluated.

[daredtodo]

If you're curious, I'm also privy to another universe, which actually only branched off from my native one not quite thirty years back. There was time travel involved.

[theverymodel]

Popular element of speculative situation. Would appreciate real world insight.

[daredtodo]

The short version is that a hundred and twenty-some years from what I would consider the present date, a star went... goes... will go? A star will go supernova, and sulk a pretty irritable race's homeworld into it. This one mining vessel nearby somehow gets sucked into the created black hole and comes out a hundred and fifty years in its past, via this anomaly that pretty much reads like a lightning storm. Except in space. First thing it does is destroy a Federation ship - the Kelvin - and creates an alternate timeline from that point on.

Twenty-five years later, cue another lighting storm thing and a second vessel gets pulled through, this one containing the future self of a guy I already know - Spock. He's a Vulcan. The mining vessel, in retaliation for something that hasn't happened yet, destroys the Vulcan homeworld and has to have his ass handed to him.

[theverymodel]

Many deviations from known physics. Fascinating. Unusual properties for black hole.

[daredtodo]

No shit.

Spock's the smartest guy I know, and although he... well, both of them, could make sense of it, I think it surprised them. Maybe. [Is 'surprise' an emotions Vulcans even feel? He's suddenly thinking about that and - no, get out of his head.]

[theverymodel]

Would require reevaluation of accepted rules. Common, these days. Interesting exercise.

[daredtodo]

It gives you something to do, at least?