Ensign Yinn: Prank You Falettin Me Be Myself

[Mike Vago]

Yinn was wary of the repercussions that might come from pranking a senior officer, but Zarah's giddy enthusiasm made it hard to say no. The girl tried to laugh maniacally, and it was so incongruous coming from someone so good-natured Yinn couldn't help but laugh herself.

Johnson: Oh that is perfect!  Perfect!  Zherlac for breakfast, zherlac for lunch, zherlac for dinner, and zherlac for dessert!  It’s fantastic!

Yinn: That's every Bolian child's nightmare!

Johnson:  Right, so now we have to not only figure out how to do it, but in a way that we don’t get caught.  

Yinn: I'm absolutely on board with us not getting caught. Fortunately there's basically zero security on the replicators. It probably wouldn't be to hard to convince the system we're someone else and then make the changes for them.

Johnson: I don’t have the privileges to make that kind of change.  

She paused, then added. 

Johnson: But my mom does. 

Yinn rubbed the ridge on the back of her head nervously.

Yinn: But that means you could get her in trouble.

Yinn had certainly played pranks on her various parents at different times, but letting one of them take the fall for something she had done? You didn't betray a family member's trust like that. 

She had always assumed that the parent-child bond was stronger with humans, since they only had two parents, but maybe she was wrong about that.

Yinn: Maybe if there's some way to use her access without implicating her... oOalthough I don't see how that's possibleOo. But I don't feel comfortable risking her being held responsible for our actions. And neither should you!

Yinn didn't really want to play the role of patronizing big sister, but sometimes it was unavoidable.

Johnson: Response

Yinn: What about this... what if we could get someone else's access. Someone else we wanted to play a prank on?

Johnson: Response

Yinn: There's so much chaos on the ship with the refugees everywhere, it shouldn't be that hard to "accidentally" overhear someone's access codes.

Johnson: Response

Yinn: Wauhk would be pretty funny, as it'd never occur to her in a million years to do something like this. And no one would seriously think she'd done it, but it also wouldn't come back to us. Or Fer'at. He's a big believer in the whole "Vulcans don't lie" thing, so it'd be pretty funny watching him defend himself.

Johnson: Response

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Ensign Yinn
Science Officer
USS Octavia E. Butler
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