"i'm beginning to think negatively, jean-luc" ( CLOSED )

[ethnobotany]

WHO: Beverly Crusher
WHERE: Off to the northwest and homeward bound
WHEN: May 10th
OPEN TO: Jean-Luc Picard
WARNINGS: tbd

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In hindsight, Beverly will say she should have expected something like this to happen.

Next to holodeck malfunctions, transporter malfunctions are one of the top problems on Starfleet ships. One would think they would have come up with a way to make them foolproof, but not yet. So, all told, Beverly has been whisked away suddenly more times than she might care to count. She really should have expected to one day turn around in the hospital only to find herself stepping out into a section of ground that is very definitely not part of the village. Either village.

In fact, she can't even really see much of the villages. Assuming what's on the other side of the trees and whatever else is in fact one or the other.

Folding her arms over her chest, she glares at the horizon, thinking this will be a long trip back. "What I wouldn't do for a tricorder here," she huffs, as though she hasn't had that thought almost every day for the last year.

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[enterprisingheart]

As it turns out, Beverly isn't the only one to have been suddenly whisked away from what they'd been doing. And for all that the feeling isn't entirely unfamiliar, he can't really say that he'd expected to be subject to even something remotely like a transporter malfunction out here. Mostly because he's not entirely certain the Observers have that sort of technology, yes, but the fact still remains that it's a bit of a surprise.

And something of an annoyance besides, given that he has no more idea of where they happen to be that Beverly herself does.

"I know the feeling. And it would make things a good deal easier."

Even if it was simply figuring out things like what to expect from the local terrain. Or just how far from the settlement they happen to be, just at the moment.