alex: i don't look at legal anything - that isn't my job or profession; i hand it off to the people whose job it IS and then sign where i'm told to once i'm sure i'm not being roped into anything i never intended to agree to
alex: and you couldn't have told me your 'contract' consisted of 20 words or less of extremely simplistic language BEFORE i flamed it over to my ship and now have to flame back? i don't appreciate wasting time OR energy
alex: however long it takes me to be done here, get back to the capital, find a lawyer, have them read over the PADD, hunt you down again and return with it are we done here?
alex: i couldn't even begin to tell you, but since she seems keen on TRIBBLE with me...i am TRIBBLE her right back - i hope she gets raked over the coals once she gets back *he snarls viciously, his eyes glowing a bright gold, almost nephilim-like*
alex: i don't know about that...*he says flatly, before suddenly grabbing his head and groaning in pain, stumbling against one of the wall monitors in ops*
alex: yeah, lucky for me, i missed the entire war, so i have no grudges...they might have some with me, though, because i snuck into the gamma quadrant and raided their genetic engineering databases after i got back to the alpha quadrant aboard voyager past!alex: *takes the PADD and flames it back to his quarters aboard…
alex: um, are there going to be any...issues with cardassians helping the dominion? i know there are still many serving in the CDF for whom lakarian city, among other things, is still an oozing wound in their minds past!alex: just give me the damn contract so i can have a lawyer look over it
(funnily enough...the same thing that caused nick to become an immortal is what caused alex's brain to become untethered from the timestream - a close encounter of the Timelord kind)
(he's aware of it because the message said so, and current alex is aware of it because his mind exists outside the timestream, and has ever since he got exposed to a major dose of chroniton radiation, so he recalls any and all alterations to the timeline that personally affect him or those close to him as the change occurs…
alex: the message didn't mention a meeting with you at all before your 'official' meeting in 2418 - so this is the first time i'm meeting you here, so you've already altered my past from that first encounter at yavin...i mean, you ARE altering my past, which is actually the present for me i really TRIBBLE hate time travel
alex: you know...what you said earlier - this isn't a predestination paradox...otherwise that message of myself you gave me would've indicated prior knowledge of you before meeting you a year before, his time
(well, if we use STO's example...the average ship costs around 300-500 million with certain specialty ships that are exceedingly rare costing 3-4 times that now compare that to a shiny new star destroyer costing 150 million, we can see the federation energy credit is rather inflated compared to the imperial credit)
(he already has trillions upon trillions...you really think an extra few million is going to upset anything? and, last i checked...a dollar's a dollar, no matter what year it comes from)
alex: most of the mandalorian clans are allied with the rebellion now...either way, this ship's ending up in their hands - now, i suggest you leave, before you cause even MORE disruption to the timeline than you already have
alex: i still don't trust you, so...no deal - you take the amount i offered or you get nothing (and frankly...25% of an impstar deuce is MORE than she paid for all of that anyway, by a SIGNIFICANT amount - she paid under 200,000 and would be getting 36,417,500 for the ship) either way...if anyone among the crew of this…
alex: ...no - why the hell would i ever agree to something like that, especially since i don't actually know if i ever WILL personally see you in the future - for all i know, that ship could be stolen or salvaged or some such rot and even on the off-chance you DID buy it legitimately, what good will having the money you…
(no, we were going with legends, aside from the few bits of disney that doesn't totally TRIBBLE all over the franchise especially given current alex has already made one or two references to the yuuzhan vong and other such things from NJO onward in the past few years)