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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Seeing the door causes my brain to short-circuit for a brief moment, because I've seen so many things I thought were impossible, and that is the straw that broke the camel's back. "Errrrrr." Speechless, but I still try to answer you. A shy little wave. I am here, and here is... mind-boggling.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

// Hope to be more active on here from now on, since the dear doctor will be back for season 2.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

-- where you're not needed, but wanted. I have never found that, except for a few fleeting moments, hook-ups, shallow. You seem to have something deeper. This ship provides something deeper. A home and family and purpose. I want that."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"I have to return to the past because I have a job there, duties. You have duties here, which means you belong here too, but I also imagine you have duties in your future. Maybe it's the military in me, but I believe that we belong where we are needed. It would be nice to belong to somewhere --

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I'm doing my best to keep my excitement under wraps, but I can't quite keep the smile off my face, my eyes wide as I'm trying to absorb every detail. Even the quiet of the turbolift, and I have to clamp down on a chuckle as I know that engineering will NOT be quiet.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"It makes you fight that much harder for their care. Not everybody has an advocate like you. Your patients are very lucky. Your interns too. I've seen students come and go, but your team is impressive."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

*There are a thousand questions I want to ask, or facts I want to spill, but I channel that energy into following orders and doing as I'm told*

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Chair of Neurosurgery at Bronx General Hospital Ex-Military Not cold, just competent. Pre-shipped "I'd say our odds are more like 60/40, but you've proven me wrong before." Scalpel is held by #Agent

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

-- aspect of my psyche that Spock's logic has helped me to progress beyond. It's easier to make friends knowing I won't have to permanently say goodbye to them."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"I think this era is fascinating, beyond all the knowledge I'm not allowed to learn. I'm a neurosurgeon, not an anthropologist, but the society here is so diverse and yet cohesive. I observe, as an outsider, reluctant to create social bonds knowing my intention is to leave. It's an irrational --

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If I wasn't a germaphobe before, reading the ship's logs certainly has made me one. Sex pollen and psychic slugs. Not to mention robots so realistic that only a scan would detect then. I'm still not convinced you're not an hallucination, so I'm looking forward to tangible proof.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

*excitement suddenly turns to doubt, at the thought of chaos and of death, which turns to anxiety. So many thoughts and feelings in such a brief window of time, holding my breath in anticipation*

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"I do what I can to improve a patient's mortality and quality of life, but you have to deal with them when they're awake, and find out what they really need beyond the obvious, sometimes beyond the physical."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Yeah. Time And Relative... Dimension in Space? Bigger on the inside, apparently. Much like The Library. Everything cool ends up there. I was almost a Librarian, but I wanted to go into medicine instead.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Follows, in full golden retriever mode. There's few people I get like this around, more of a lone wolf, but once I latch onto someone I can be a bit intense. I'm just excited to learn from a new perspective.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"I would say that any time spent with you is making the most of it."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"It's getting harder to hold onto hope that I will get back home, so I feel like I should make more of an effort to here and now. And if The Library's doors are compatible with the ones on this ship, Spock pointed out that I would have the choice to return here. I've never been good at R&R."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"One or two, but they're both Doctors. They've both crossed lines to help their patients, so I think they'd be mad at me for not exploiting this situation to become a better doctor. I do miss them. I wish they were here, to tell me what to do."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Well, since I'm from another era, I had to get scanned to make sure I wasn't carrying any harmful pathogens. Should be easy enough to add an MRI to your work up. These machines are amazing.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I'm used to the chaos of field hospitals, but the way he runs his Engineering Department is too hectic for me. Yet he always makes it work. He's a genius. Not surprised if you know him. He's probably invented a new physics that stretches into the past and future.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"If I were to return, it would be far too tempting to exploit the medical advances of this era. I wouldn't be able to come back here as a doctor, but as a friend. That's unlikely."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

It feels like it's now, or never. Dr. Carsen is looking into tracking the TARDIS' logs to find me, and if he is able to establish a door, hypothetically I could return whenever I wanted, I just need to know it's possible to get home first.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I have to take a beat to recover from the compliment. "It's efficient. Studies have proven how music like that actually helps you to work out harder, push yourself further. I do enjoy efficiency, although, watching you work, I'm starting to admire effectiveness over efficiency."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

That's fantastic. Don't tell Doctor McCoy, but I've figured out a few of the medical instruments on the Enterprise. I know I'm not allowed to learn any medicine from the future, but a scan is a scan. It's so cool to see technology change, even if biology hasn't, mostly.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Scotty told me that the TARDIS navigations are unreliable at best, but I really hope there's a record, although that's probably like looking for a needle in a haystack. Or an... artron in all of space.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"That's good. Sometimes people need that change, that fresh start so they can move on. I wonder if I'm doing the right thing, staying here until I can get home. Might be too hard to leave, once the time comes."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Glad to hear it. You're going to have a blast with Doctor Carsen, once you get him here. I can't wait to pick his brain. He has written so many papers, on so many things. Man is a genius.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"I should probably make more of an effort to meet them all, but I can not afford to make bonds knowing I must break them. I have to focus on getting home. I can't get too used to this place, or the amazing people here."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

that it likes to dock at. The Enterprise is usually more of a happy accident than intentional. The idea of regeneration is fascinating to me, especially since the personality changes but the memory remains. The archives indicate it was the tenth incarnation. I can't fathom living that long.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Enterprise has a file on him. I was pretty disoriented when I first arrived, and by the time I pieced it together he had gone. If I had just been a little quicker, smarter, processed my situation sooner, he might have been my ticket home. As far as I can figure out the TARDIS has a few ports

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Not many people have the range of curiosity and intelligence you have. Vast and deep. Your brain is amazing. I'd love to see an MRI.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

-- assessing the room for any danger or action that needs to be taken. But here, now, I'm just enjoying the peace, and spending time with you."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I open my mouth, but pause, to give you an opportunity to retract the question, worried you'll regret it. "I am always thinking of 3 things, usually simultaneously. 1) my next surgery. 2) whatever white noise helps me not think, although I know you disapprove of my musical tastes, and 3) --

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"Every team needs at least one unhinged member that you would trust with your life and your equipment. Keeps things interesting AND efficient."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"I don't know how you're supposed to bond with someone you could lose at any moment. Do you get many transfers due to grief? Is that possible on a ship like this?"

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

There are doors. Automatic doors that make a cool sound. You're the Librarian? Like The Doctor? He was here a little while ago too. I'm just a Doctor. Neurosurgeon. Josh Nichols.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

You can't be an hallucination, because you're smarter than me. I just have the one doctorate, and I took that rather literally.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"This is a big ship, but I guess some things are unavoidable. I'm surprised you don't have a psychologist on board. If you're exploring, you're bound to run into situations that are hard to process."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Lieutenant Lum, @whataweirdo.bsky.social. How would I calculate where our location will be so a genius academic who fell off the grid can come visit us through a magic door? If he can come here, maybe I can get back home. Maybe we all can.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Usually, it would make me nervous, to be seen without a scalpel in my hand, or to be hiding behind a thumping beat. Here, I feel seen AND I feel safe.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Mostly. A brief amount of time in engineering, trying to understand. I feel like if they break one more law of physics then we might all turn into lizards. Not my kind of chaos."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"I've always been a quick study. I must admit that most of my interactions here have been with your redacted database. Knowledge is easier than meeting new people."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

*It is unbelievable how quickly this place has come to feel like home. I've never really had that feeling before, always struggled to understand the concept. Still takes some getting used to. A place where I can just exist. I like existing in Wolf's glances. It's a good place to be.*

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I don't care if you lie to me, Wolf, as long as you're still talking to me.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My brow furrows as I read, because I do understand most of it. "I was never able to calculate why people arrived here from multiple locations, but this makes sense."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The same way you say that I don't know you. By lying.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Very peaceful, but it feels like a peace that I haven't earned. My place is among the chaos, doing what I can to help and restore order."

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We don't choose who we fall for, but letting someone in on our feelings, that's a choice. Maybe I screwed up.

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Dr. Josh Nichols (roleplay) @neuronichols.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"I don't think emotion would help me get home any quicker. Maybe it's the ... er, 'military, in me.'" I fondly smile at the memory of Wolf saying that to me, even if I don't quite understand it.

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