<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228;background:white">Mission: Space Was Cool Before It Mattered</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background:white"><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;">Stardate: 2446.04.26</span><br>
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<span style="background:white"><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;">(Exeter - Mess Hall - Nurse – Ewan McDonald - 0232)</span></span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228">Ewan liked doing night shifts. There was a calmness and
quietness to the shifts when most people were sleeping. The lights in sickbay
were lowered and he had heard the soft breathing of the patients. He had spent
a couple of minutes eyeballing them to make sure that they were actually breathing
even though the monitors were showing that they were.</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228">He had managed to take a brake and decided to go for a wander
through the ship rather then getting his head down for a little bit. He had
done longer shifts on less sleep before and he didn’t mind. He was humming softly
to himself as he entered the deserted mess hall. </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228">He was remined of a time when a friend of his had been wandering
though the refugee camp and all of the sudden she had been swarmed by fireflies.
She had sat there in the dark surrounded by the fireflies singing to herself until
she had been found by security and told to go back to her tent.</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228">Ewan smiled to him self as he moved across the darkened room and
stood at the large windows illuminated by the light from the nebula. </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228">~Why not~</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:#1D2228">He took a deeper breath and began to sing. It was one of his mothers’
favourites and she had sung it to him when he was a child.<br>
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<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">“Oh the summertime is coming</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">And the trees are sweetly blooming</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">And the wild mountain thyme</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Grows around the blooming heather</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Will ye go, lassie go?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">“And we'll all go together</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">To pull wild mountain thyme</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">All around the blooming heather</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Will ye go, lassie go?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">A smile began to creep across his face </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">“I will build my love a bower</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">By yon' cool crystal fountain</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">And on it I will pile</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">All the flowers of the mountain</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Will ye go, lassie go?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">“And we'll all go together</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">To pull wild mountain thyme</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">All around the blooming heather</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Will ye go, lassie go?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">He grew louder as his confidence came back.</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">“If my true love she were gone </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">I would surely find another</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">To pull wild mountain thyme</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Grows around the blooming heather</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Will ye go, lassie go?”</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><br></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">“And we'll all go together</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">To pull wild mountain thyme</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">All around the blooming heather</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1A1A1A">Will ye go, lassie ........”</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">He heard the doors open behind him as the words caught in his mouth as
the song dissipated into the sounds of the ship. He turned feeling very self-conscious.</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1D2228;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">(Reply any)</span></p>
<p class="ydp307dbc53yiv9397194767ydp132824a4msonormal" style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1D2228;background:white">(Posted by Robbie)</span></p></div><br></div></div></body></html>