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storypaint) wrote2013-11-09 09:37 pm
storypaint) wrote2013-11-09 09:37 pm
[Star Trek: The Next Generation] sweep out the shadows (Data gen)
Title: sweep out the shadows
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Length: 326 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Trek: TNG, Data, bedtime routines on the Enterprise
Pairing: Data gen
Other: Set early in the series.
Excerpt: Data does not sleep, and his only approximation, shutting down, is not very satisfying. He volunteers for night watches and the captain gives him the maximum number allowed for any human crewmember and no more.
Data does not sleep, and his only approximation, shutting down, is not very satisfying. He volunteers for night watches and the captain gives him the maximum number allowed for any human crewmember and no more. Data appreciates that touch. Picard is always thinking about such things.
He decides that he should have a nighttime routine and spends a week talking to crewmembers about what downtime and sleep mean to them. He's seen them all in various stages of weariness, of course. In an emergency, they work long hours, and other times they are roused from sleep. He has seen Picard in his nightcap and Riker staring moodily into his coffee. Troi has a lengthy ritual involving meditation and cleansing. Worf says his prayers, but won't give Data any details about them. Geordi removes his VISOR to sleep, but not a moment before.
Data settles on a few small things. He reclines and does a bit of light reading, only a book or two. He changes his uniform so that he can re-press the older one, and perform any cleaning as necessary. He spends a few minutes organizing his to-do list for next shift. And all of this, he finds restful. It's a way to separate night from day, which is something that humans on spacecraft often have trouble with anyway.
The first time he shows up to a late-night bridge meeting with his hair artfully mussed, Geordi laughs and claps him on the back and tells him that he's trying too hard. That's okay. He trusts Geordi to help him with being human, which sometimes means reining him in.
He's still going to work on the yawn, however.
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Length: 326 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Trek: TNG, Data, bedtime routines on the Enterprise
Pairing: Data gen
Other: Set early in the series.
Excerpt: Data does not sleep, and his only approximation, shutting down, is not very satisfying. He volunteers for night watches and the captain gives him the maximum number allowed for any human crewmember and no more.
Data does not sleep, and his only approximation, shutting down, is not very satisfying. He volunteers for night watches and the captain gives him the maximum number allowed for any human crewmember and no more. Data appreciates that touch. Picard is always thinking about such things.
He decides that he should have a nighttime routine and spends a week talking to crewmembers about what downtime and sleep mean to them. He's seen them all in various stages of weariness, of course. In an emergency, they work long hours, and other times they are roused from sleep. He has seen Picard in his nightcap and Riker staring moodily into his coffee. Troi has a lengthy ritual involving meditation and cleansing. Worf says his prayers, but won't give Data any details about them. Geordi removes his VISOR to sleep, but not a moment before.
Data settles on a few small things. He reclines and does a bit of light reading, only a book or two. He changes his uniform so that he can re-press the older one, and perform any cleaning as necessary. He spends a few minutes organizing his to-do list for next shift. And all of this, he finds restful. It's a way to separate night from day, which is something that humans on spacecraft often have trouble with anyway.
The first time he shows up to a late-night bridge meeting with his hair artfully mussed, Geordi laughs and claps him on the back and tells him that he's trying too hard. That's okay. He trusts Geordi to help him with being human, which sometimes means reining him in.
He's still going to work on the yawn, however.