LtJg Lera Michaels - Death of a Stranger
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Mar 5, 2026, 9:10:46 PMMar 5
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((Indulgence of Chocolate-Coated Jama’haron, Deck 47, Room 47166))
Michaels: You mentioned a confusing dream. Start at the beginning. We can decide where to go from there.
Zerva: ::nodding:: So to backtrack before the dream, I did something I shouldn’t have done. Do you remember those messages from the Ouachita we downloaded?
Michaels: Of course, I remember. As I recall we were warned not :: beat :: to look:: beat :: at our own :: Lera closed her eyes and nodded :: names and :: sigh :: you did.
Zerva: I uh, yeah. I did ::looks down:: I know I shouldn’t have done it. But I was curious and wanted to know if I was in there. I mean I get it, it’s a future that won’t exist anymore, but still I wanted to know. I found one with my name in it.
Michaels: Perhaps not the wisest thing anyone has ever done.
Lera looked up at Ezra. Clearly he was unhappy with the situation. And there was nothing to be gained by scolding him about it.
Michaels: ::softer tone:: However, what has been done has been done. Nothing can undo what you learned. We can only move forward from that point. I will point out that I have been convinced that our "time travelers" actually had any connection with us. They may have been from a completely different reality. Please remember that.
Zerva: I tried. I really did. It took me this long to even get the courage to open it.
Michaels: The Ouachita logs are in the past now. What do they have to do with your dream tonight?
Zerva: I think the dream was a result of me looking into that file.
Lera frowned and closed her eyes again. The connection should be obvious but it was not. He had seen some reference to himself in a file that was nominally from the future and it had, somehow, upset him to the point he got up out of bed, retrieved a pillow, and came to her doorstep in the middle of the night still wearing his bed clothes. Whatever it was, it had upset him a great deal and had caused a particularly vivid dream. What could it possibly be?
She looked at him again. He was still shaken by the dream. She longed to comfort him but other than physicality, what could she do?
Michaels: You knew your name was somewhere in those files and you found it. It seems probable that it was no ordinary file.
Zerva: Yeah it was a medical file, not a message. One with Doctor Ohnari’s name on it.
He held out the PADD to her and she accepted it. It was, indeed, a medical file digitally signed by Dr. Talia Ohnari. The patient listed was a Lieutenant Dex Lyr.
Michaels: Dex Lyr. I have never heard of... one moment. Have there not been several Dexs in Starfleet history? Cruson Dex. Jessica Dex. And others. Is Dex the name of a Trill symbiont? :: she paused :: But I thought the last name derived from the symbiont. If Dex Lyr is a joined Trill name, would that not mean that the symbiont would be Lyr?
Zerva: Response
Michaels: :: another sigh :: I am struggling here, Ezra. I need your help to understand... at least minimally... what has happened. And how I can help. I do not understand why this dream has upset you so... unless... it either was not a dream in the same sense I use the word or it has some special significance to Trills that I know nothing about. You and I are two different species. There are things about Trill I am scarcely capable of understanding. Vulcans and Humans have no parallel to what it means to be ... joined. Or the relationship between hosts and symbionts. Or unjoined Trill and symbionts. :: she stopped and wondered if she suddenly understood. Lera bit her lip. This could be a dangerous question to ask. :: I have seen Humans suffer emotionally about seeing the body of a dead stranger. They suffer horribly at the death of a family member. :: long pause :: Did Dex Lyr die?
Zerva: Response
Michaels: I hope you know or at least suspect, that I would help you in anyway I can. I will never betray you or reveal any secrets you choose confide in me. If my queries are straying into matters that you do not wish me to ask about, you simply have to let me know.
Zerva: Response
Tags/TBC
——— ○● ———
LtJg Lera Michaels
Engineering Officer
USS Khitomer
K240106LM2
Michaels: You mentioned a confusing dream. Start at the beginning. We can decide where to go from there.
Zerva: ::nodding:: So to backtrack before the dream, I did something I shouldn’t have done. Do you remember those messages from the Ouachita we downloaded?
Michaels: Of course, I remember. As I recall we were warned not :: beat :: to look:: beat :: at our own :: Lera closed her eyes and nodded :: names and :: sigh :: you did.
Zerva: I uh, yeah. I did ::looks down:: I know I shouldn’t have done it. But I was curious and wanted to know if I was in there. I mean I get it, it’s a future that won’t exist anymore, but still I wanted to know. I found one with my name in it.
Michaels: Perhaps not the wisest thing anyone has ever done.
Lera looked up at Ezra. Clearly he was unhappy with the situation. And there was nothing to be gained by scolding him about it.
Michaels: ::softer tone:: However, what has been done has been done. Nothing can undo what you learned. We can only move forward from that point. I will point out that I have been convinced that our "time travelers" actually had any connection with us. They may have been from a completely different reality. Please remember that.
Zerva: I tried. I really did. It took me this long to even get the courage to open it.
Michaels: The Ouachita logs are in the past now. What do they have to do with your dream tonight?
Zerva: I think the dream was a result of me looking into that file.
Lera frowned and closed her eyes again. The connection should be obvious but it was not. He had seen some reference to himself in a file that was nominally from the future and it had, somehow, upset him to the point he got up out of bed, retrieved a pillow, and came to her doorstep in the middle of the night still wearing his bed clothes. Whatever it was, it had upset him a great deal and had caused a particularly vivid dream. What could it possibly be?
She looked at him again. He was still shaken by the dream. She longed to comfort him but other than physicality, what could she do?
Michaels: You knew your name was somewhere in those files and you found it. It seems probable that it was no ordinary file.
Zerva: Yeah it was a medical file, not a message. One with Doctor Ohnari’s name on it.
He held out the PADD to her and she accepted it. It was, indeed, a medical file digitally signed by Dr. Talia Ohnari. The patient listed was a Lieutenant Dex Lyr.
Michaels: Dex Lyr. I have never heard of... one moment. Have there not been several Dexs in Starfleet history? Cruson Dex. Jessica Dex. And others. Is Dex the name of a Trill symbiont? :: she paused :: But I thought the last name derived from the symbiont. If Dex Lyr is a joined Trill name, would that not mean that the symbiont would be Lyr?
Zerva: Response
Michaels: :: another sigh :: I am struggling here, Ezra. I need your help to understand... at least minimally... what has happened. And how I can help. I do not understand why this dream has upset you so... unless... it either was not a dream in the same sense I use the word or it has some special significance to Trills that I know nothing about. You and I are two different species. There are things about Trill I am scarcely capable of understanding. Vulcans and Humans have no parallel to what it means to be ... joined. Or the relationship between hosts and symbionts. Or unjoined Trill and symbionts. :: she stopped and wondered if she suddenly understood. Lera bit her lip. This could be a dangerous question to ask. :: I have seen Humans suffer emotionally about seeing the body of a dead stranger. They suffer horribly at the death of a family member. :: long pause :: Did Dex Lyr die?
Zerva: Response
Michaels: I hope you know or at least suspect, that I would help you in anyway I can. I will never betray you or reveal any secrets you choose confide in me. If my queries are straying into matters that you do not wish me to ask about, you simply have to let me know.
Zerva: Response
Tags/TBC
——— ○● ———
LtJg Lera Michaels
Engineering Officer
USS Khitomer
K240106LM2
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