Well, I'm certainly embarrassed.

[qcontinuum]

I've spent more time than I probably should in a particular alternate universe, and now that I've come home and gotten some distance from the whole thing, I'm beginning to realize that I'm just as affected by the properties of a universe that makes people behave in ludicrous ways as anyone else. The difference being, I don't live there, so *I* have the opportunity to come home and realize I've made a fool of myself.

I am really absolutely mortified. I did something I've sworn up and down I had no interest in doing, and I might well have stuck the Continuum with the results for the rest of eternity. Which was bad enough when I offered Riker a chance to join us, but I thought I'd learned better since then.

I think I'm going to stay here for the time being. Besides, my son from the future is there. (If there's ever any more evidence I needed that that universe warps the judgment of even the Q, it's the fact that I will, at some point, allow my son to go back in time where he can actually interact with the me from his past. This is considered very bad form in the Continuum. The temptation to do something, anything, to prevent him from turning out the way he's apparently going to turn out is nearly overwhelming. Did I mention he's apparently going to be a gendered heterosexual? Great, my child is destined to be a pervert.)

Guinan, by the way, is a twit no matter what universe she's in.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tom_paris_/]

Q, next time I get a free moment:

I don't know why I am, but I'd like to offer to maybe keep an eye on him sometime, when he comes back from the future I mean.
Maybe he needs less supervision and more "guy time" to sort his life out.

A few games of pool, some pizza, a game or two of Proton...

I'm sure Harry'd love to join in the fun too(wouldn't you Harry?).

A trio of guys having a big night out.

It wouldn't hurt to try.

[paristorres.livejournal.com]

This is EXACTLY the problem. Someone comes up with something new and exciting, and you drop me like the proverbial hot potato. At least I'm *consistent*, but there are days when you don't even remember I exist. We're supposed to be in LOVE, and here you're volunteering what little free time we have to spend together as a babysitter?

Q, you can have him.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tom_paris_/]

Wait! B'Elanna!

I'm not dropping anything! It's just that wouldn't hurt to help qjr out though. It sounds like he needs the kind of friendly support that...well, that his folks can't provide.

No offense Q, but he looks and acts like how I remember my teens/twenties, and I never wanted my folks around while I went out and about.

And B'Elanna, I meant free time after our free time, not anywhere near taking the time from us.

You know you always come first. Nothing else does, not the Flyer, not Voyager, not even the Captain.

That's how much I love you B'Elanna Torres.

[harrykim.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Harry'd love to join in the fun too(wouldn't you Harry?).

No.

Sorry, Tom.

[paristorres.livejournal.com]

Harry, why didn't you ever ask me out?

[harrykim.livejournal.com]

That's a good question...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tom_paris_/]

You two...I...

I'm speechless.

I'm going to go...fix the Flyer.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tom_paris_/]

B'Elanna, I enter all that, and you ask Harry why he didn't ask you out...?!

I...

[IDLE 5 MINUTES - TIMEOUT - END ADDITION.]

Could you people stop having your relationship meltdowns in my journal?

[qcontinuum.livejournal.com]

I realize that my time is infinite and therefore you have no respect for it, but my patience is not. If you don't want me taking the two (or maybe three) of you and dropping you into an abandoned reality to work things out for yourselves or else spend eternity stuck with each other, you should avoid coming into *my* livejournal and whining about your idiotic relationship problems.

Paris, you're the one who decided to date a Klingon. Don't whine at me when she's temperamental, overly emotional, and idiotic. It's in her species' nature. (And yes, I am aware she is half-human. Sadly it appears to be recessive.)

Torres, if you can't get over the fact that your mate is not, in fact, joined to you at the hip and might actually occasionally have an interest that doesn't involve having sex with you, you need a doormat, not a human. However, never fear, I'm not letting any of you anywhere near my kid at the age he is right now, mostly because he hasn't gotten over thinking mortals without powers are nifty toys. What my or his future self may do, I choose not to know, because life is boring enough without knowing your personal future.

Kim, I applaud your sanity and sense of self-preservation in romantic matters if nothing else. Avoiding dating Torres was probably as brilliant an idea as turning down Seven when she was about half a week out of being Borg. Too bad this sense of self-preservation doesn't extend to your professional life.