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Re-entry 04: Video
Mar. 25th, 2013 11:20 am[Felix is smoking, because this place is getting a little stressful and he finally got a chance to get his hands on a pack. It's not the effect of the changes he minds so much: the level of luxury the Barge usually offers is miles above what he had as an officer on Galactica, even as chief of staff on New Caprica, much less an inmate in a brig. This is a lot closer to what he's used to. He can cope.]
Well, Dean, I guess I should have taken you up on that fridge. Or at least what was inside it.
[It's the fact that there are changes at all that's bothering him, like so many others. It's the wondering where it's going to stop. It's the undercurrent of panic. And it's what he's hearing come out of people's mouths. He taps the cigarette nervously on the side of his desk.]
In my last broadcast, I talked-- sang-- whatever-- about rebellion. About revolution. My situation wasn't really all that different from this one: a population stressed to the breaking point, trapped and suffering under an indifferent and uncommunicative leadership. A series of unasked-for changes that put everyone at risk. I've always assumed that if I'm to graduate, I have to repent of my mutineering ways, but seeing even wardens talk about finding their way to the bridge now... [He shrugs.] Can you really blame me?
Anyway, what I actually want to say is this: where I failed was in my lack of attention to detail. Is anyone prepared to cover all the bases right now? If this situation continues... or doesn't. If a group of you does take the bridge. If the Admiral takes matters even further into his own hands. If he stops giving the wardens supplies. Are we prepared? Obviously not.
I'm not saying this to alarm anyone, although I'm sure there are those among you who will take it as an excuse one way or the other anyway. I'm just saying that I think it's time we started to try getting organized. Save water. Save food. Medicine. Oxygen. Even save the alcohol, because I can promise that you'll miss the pub a few weeks from now a lot more than you do today. If we have an unlimited supply for now, we need to be taking better advantage of it.
And if you do want to take the bridge, I suggest you do so with your contingency plans well thought-out in advance. It ends badly if you don't.
[Filtered to Lab Staff]
Assuming that the Barge actually has a lab after next week, I was... I was wondering about coming to work for one of you. My degree is in engineering, but I've done a lot of work in genetics, and I'm pretty well versed in the other major disciplines. [Wryly, he adds:] I can't supply much in the way of references or documentation, so my word might have to suffice.
Well, Dean, I guess I should have taken you up on that fridge. Or at least what was inside it.
[It's the fact that there are changes at all that's bothering him, like so many others. It's the wondering where it's going to stop. It's the undercurrent of panic. And it's what he's hearing come out of people's mouths. He taps the cigarette nervously on the side of his desk.]
In my last broadcast, I talked-- sang-- whatever-- about rebellion. About revolution. My situation wasn't really all that different from this one: a population stressed to the breaking point, trapped and suffering under an indifferent and uncommunicative leadership. A series of unasked-for changes that put everyone at risk. I've always assumed that if I'm to graduate, I have to repent of my mutineering ways, but seeing even wardens talk about finding their way to the bridge now... [He shrugs.] Can you really blame me?
Anyway, what I actually want to say is this: where I failed was in my lack of attention to detail. Is anyone prepared to cover all the bases right now? If this situation continues... or doesn't. If a group of you does take the bridge. If the Admiral takes matters even further into his own hands. If he stops giving the wardens supplies. Are we prepared? Obviously not.
I'm not saying this to alarm anyone, although I'm sure there are those among you who will take it as an excuse one way or the other anyway. I'm just saying that I think it's time we started to try getting organized. Save water. Save food. Medicine. Oxygen. Even save the alcohol, because I can promise that you'll miss the pub a few weeks from now a lot more than you do today. If we have an unlimited supply for now, we need to be taking better advantage of it.
And if you do want to take the bridge, I suggest you do so with your contingency plans well thought-out in advance. It ends badly if you don't.
[Filtered to Lab Staff]
Assuming that the Barge actually has a lab after next week, I was... I was wondering about coming to work for one of you. My degree is in engineering, but I've done a lot of work in genetics, and I'm pretty well versed in the other major disciplines. [Wryly, he adds:] I can't supply much in the way of references or documentation, so my word might have to suffice.
