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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

*under her breath* We really have to update these translators-- Yeah, Q! She's nice to people. Doesn't put species on trials.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Comparative extratemporal xenoanthropology. Uh. I was talking with Q and my research is to see if you guys have a similar origin the way humanoids do.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Have you ever interacted with Bajoran Prophets before? I mean, other than the time the Emissary punched Q. Do you think they'd understand you, or would it be a turf problem?

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Is this a problem with our universal translators, maybe? Like the Tamarians? Culture and intent sometimes are lost in the filter.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

No offense, it's just in starfleet, your reputation proceeds you. I don't much feel like being flung centuries back in time or to another planet.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So... can I ask why you all have the same name despite having individualistic identities when outside of the Continuum?

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's just an exclamation, you startled me. I was hoping to start out with meeting Travelers - they're more predictably amicable. No offense. Most of the research I have on Qs are secondhand, and there's a specific... personality who interacted with the Enterprise D I hoped to avoid.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

*Jumping out of their skin* Oh, mother of the Prophets, what the-- yes. Yeah. Hi. *holds out her hand to shake with an awkward smile* Patyu Chavak. Please tell me you're one of the nice ones and you're not gonna dump me in the Delta quadrant.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Well, yeah, I was looking for her. No offense, you obviously kind of look alike. Would you mind letting me know if you experience any of those symptoms? I do need to ask her for a runabout.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Oh, I don't want to bother Admiral Picard with all of this. Or Captain Crusher. All of this is... it's in its infancy. I don't want to get any hopes up. Self-directed research is the best way to go for now.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Well, the science demands it. I tried to look at the triggers before my encounters that might have made them decide when to send me. The Prophets have a plan for everyone. Have you considered they might be responsible for your molecular stability? Not to get all vedek on you.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

When the Circle tried to take over the station, and when the first Orb was retrieved from the belt.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I've never actually... interfaced with the Prophets directly. I've been through the Celestial Temple multiple times, but nothing. I just end up in the Gamma Quadrant. When I interact with the Time Orb, I just find myself displaced in time. When my grandparents left Bajor,

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Uh, yeah. A few. More than a few. My mom's a vedek, so there was one at my adulthood ceremony, a couple more when I was getting my doctorate, when I started working with this specialty I was given special permission to work with the Time Orb when it isn't needed elsewhere.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Oh, me? Ugh, no. I don't even like getting my blood taken. I'm working in what I'm calling comparative xenoextemporalism. Life that isn't limited by time or dimension. Like the Prophets, or Travelers, or Q. If I get to meet them. You're... gonna call me some mirror equivalent of nerd.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Well, you know, strange sensations, altering of neural pathways, limbs falling asleep when they shouldn't, headaches, visual aura, unexpected personality changes, new sensitivities... time and dimensionally displaced people are subject to a lot of side effects.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A Cardassian... well, that's interesting. So, you've been here more or less since I was three. Have you experienced any discomfort or instability over the years? Sometimes things aren't caught by the scans. Have you had any orb encounters in this dimension?

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Well, "mirror people" is my phrasing. We already have multiple samples of your variations from our quantum mechanics, thankfully. Sorry. It's just. Did you have a Celestial Temple over there? That you could go into? Vedeks don't really talk about you guys.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I didn't mean to say that it didn't matter. You did a lot of good. The entire war is a blur for me. I don't live there, maybe that's why they didn't show it to me.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Oh, you know. Just. The standard. Quark will try to swindle you, the Klingon bar is rowdy, the mirror people... actually! Don't worry about it! I'm definitely not an unsuspecting researcher who skipped combat training!

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

@intendantkira.bsky.social You are... not who I was looking for. Sorry. I'll just. Leave.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

It's fine, a lot of my friends had parents who never came back at all. Not that I have to tell you about it. I've interfaced with the time orb three times. The Prophets never take me back to the war, so maybe it isn't as important in the flow of time as we think it is right now.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I know. My father was relieved from duties a few months before the Dominion War ended, under some ugly circumstances, so we just avoid the topic at home. You understand.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I don't really remember him. My dad worked here under Odo and he blessed me a couple times, but it's so weird coming back here as an adult.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Really? I've only talked to a couple humans who had encounters. It's absolutely understandable to not talk about it; it's actually a taboo to talk about your encounters.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I wasn't sure if you ever had an encounter, but you've seen people who experienced them, and you have a distance I don't. Ah, no offense.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Yes, I know, but you're also the person who's lived longest by the Celestial Temple who isn't Bajoran. I just have... a few reported encounters with the time orb here. Identifying information redacted, of course. I was looking for some eyes on these comparisons.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Nobody ever chooses to be occupied. Occupation was too kind a word for it. I just... it was hard enough spending the past decade or so away from the orbs and the Temple. My mom's a Vedek, they make me Bajoran. I couldn't imagine our culture coming back from their destruction.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

They... the Orbs over there are destroyed? There's no Emissary? That's horrible. I know we only got the orbs back when I was a kid, but I just couldn't imagine being separated from them like that. Why would anyone want to live like that?

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Don't worry, I've been fully briefed on how not to talk to people from the other universe. It just kind of boils down to "don't" because researchers are "soft". Do you know if bajorans from that universe encounter the Prophets from their universe?

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Well, with all the frequent crossover with the other universe, not to mention the Celestial Temple, it made sense for them to position a scientist studying spacial and temporal phenomenon here. It was either that or SB-80, and I do NOT like covering myself in vague fluids.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I know some Bajorans who have it a bit more strict than I did. I spent most of my time in stellar cartography between my research on away teams. Believe me. NOBODY pays attention to us except maybe the whales. Well. We had dolphins. Did the enterprise have cetacean ops?

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Federation replicators function but it just doesn't taste the same as home. And I need a cultural exemption for the jumja stick code because the sugar isn't nutritious for humans and I'm usually only home for the Days of Atonement since I'm technically still a pylar so I can't eat.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

He's doing okay. The monastery is good for him. He's not the same, but it could be worse. I don't remember the Dominion War, really, but I know it was hard for him. So, any family visits, obviously, will be at home, which I don't mind because I do remember these replicators' attempts at food.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Oh, well, my research actually requires me to visit my mother quite a bit. She's on the Yadi Monastery. But my dad, he worked under Odo and then you. Patyu Yitzin? He has a few good stories.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Oh! Yeah, of course! I just have to... get out of my messenger here, Mom's been reaching out constantly since she found out I was coming home.... and into work, and... here! *hands Ro the PADD with the transfer order.* If I can just say, it's a huge honor to be serving here.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

@drjulianbashir.bsky.social Hello, sir! I was just hoping you could, uh, give me some feedback on research? I need some fresh eyes on this.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

@ensignro.bsky.social Hello, sir. I was just reporting to complete my transfer from the Ithaca. Lieutenant Patyu.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I haven't had any issues, but I keep a Bajoran communicator on me, so I might be picking up on that. It's a little outdated, but it's more for sentimental purposes than anything else.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Unless your Ancient Bajoran is better than mine and the three vedeks I have poring over this artifact, I'm afraid not. Sorry, I'm new. Lieutenant Patyu.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I enjoy the cartography, I just don't... like working a 12 hour shift with two other people for a ship of 400. I mean, the whales get more time off.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Well, science is all about luck! The discovery of the Celestial Temple was luck!

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Well, I was practically a baby when Bajor was liberated and we came home. My mother is a Vedek, so I was given a lot of free reign, as far as education was concerned. I don't want to deal with a Q either, but unfortunately the science demands it. More than one, preferably.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Not just cultural, extratemporal life hasn't been researched through a comparative lens, it's just nice to get out of stellar cartography for once.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Honestly, I hardly remember it. I was only six when the war started and mother decided it was safer I live in the monastery with her. It would be a lot of help, I know that I need to have some studies with a Q, but they obviously don't take well to being contacted.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

That's a lead I've been hoping to follow up on a little, my studies are mostly on extratemporal life. I'm lieutenant Patyu Chanak. I grew up here a little before the war, my father was on the Militia security detail under Odo.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Well, more like a homecoming than a transfer. The Traveler search ran up dry for now.

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Patyu Chavak @farbeyondthestxrs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

In a way, I suppose. I try to look more at the Prophets than the wormhole.

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