0021 - [Video]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Now this is...promising.

I don't expect we're able to direct calls to those of our choosing?

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[keeps_a_cool_head]

Immensely.

What have you been doing, Gard?

[gard]

Didn't I just answer that question?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Not to my satisfaction. Not in detail.

[gard]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't trust you.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Because you don't remember me, or because I am a self-confessed prisoner?

[gard]

Because you're asking questions.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I apologize. I'm naturally curious.

[gard]

Be a little less curious. Or watch the news.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I'm afraid I don't get your news here. And you should know how impossible it is to stave off curiosity.

[gard]

He was about to sign it. He was about to bring Bajor into the Federation.

Now - there'll be fingers pointed. Bickering. The strongest voice for Bajor's membership is silenced.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Do you feel accomplished? Safe?

[gard]

Definitely not safe.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Perhaps that's why you came to the Barge in the first place.

[gard]

You're talking a time loop? This conversation is why I go?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

It's not impossible.

[gard]

Not even unheard-of.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Do you feel at all inclined to see the Barge?

Perhaps not now, but...someday.

[gard]

Maybe.

Maybe.

It sounds - really fun, actually.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

It's an opportunity you should not dismiss out of hand.

[gard]

I was serious.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

..'Fun' and I have never been linked in the same sentence for long, and I can't tell you how enjoyable it is to be a prisoner.

But it is exhilarating.

[gard]

Well, I probably wouldn't be a prisoner. I'm not. Habitually.

[ This situation may prove an exception. ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Yet you killed someone very important. That can't exactly endear you to your people.

[gard]

Necessity. Also, if I can get back to my world, I can probably get away with it.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

You're very confident. Yet all it takes is one simple pull from the Admiral to bring you here.