FAIR HAVEN
Episode 131
Part D
the blurred view that Tuvok sees as he
looks across to the serving counter in the messhall | In the messhall, Tuvok's vision is impaired - what he sees is blurred. |
 | Seven notices and approaches him.
Seven: "Are you ill, Commander?"
He admits: "I am experiencing a slight loss of equilibrium and some gastro-intestinal distress." |
 | Seven: "Space sickness."
Tuvok: "Unlikely. I am not prone to that condition."
Seven takes a seat. "Perhaps you should go to sickbay."
Tuvok: "I'll be fine." |
 | Kim and Paris enter, deep in debate about Fair Haven.
Kim: "I'm telling you: we should add more fog."
Paris: "Fog is depressing."
Kim: "It's authentic."
Paris: "It's dangerous!"
Kim: "Alright, we could add a lighthouse."
Paris: "It's Fair Haven, Harry: sunshine."
Kim: "Tuvok, what do you think? Irish sea coast - fog or no fog?"
Tuvok: "I have no opinion."
Paris explains to Kim: "He hasn't visited our little paradise yet."
Tuvok: "Nor do I intend to."
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Kim: "I think you'd like it, Commander. It's a great place to meditate."
As Paris elaborates, Kim makes rough miming gestures to illustrate his words: "Imagine yourself sitting high on a bluff overlooking the ocean, salt air," Kim mimes the wafting of the tangy salt air towards the nostrils and exaggerates breathing it in, "the rhythm of the waves rising and crashing against the rocks, a tiny fishing boat bobbing on the water below, up and down, up and down."
Seven watches, both bemused and amused by the pair's double act, as Kim makes sweeping gestures with his hands to imitate the fishing boat bobbing up and down, up and down.
 | Tuvok: "I get the idea, Ensign, thank you."
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 | Neelix comes over to them.
Neelix: "Mutton. Creamed cabbage or blood pudding?"
Seven: "Explain."
Neelix: "I'm preparing a traditional Irish meal at The Ox & Lamb this afternoon and I cannot decide on a main course."
Paris: "Blood pudding. You can't lose."
Neelix: "Well, that was my first choice too, but replicating the lamb's intestines," he screws up his face in disgust as he pictures the gory lamb intestines - the others are picturing it too, including Tuvok, "it could be tricky, and every time I try to heat the blood it coagulates in the milk." |
 | Tuvok finally has had too much. "If you will excuse me." He rises. "I think I will consult the Doctor." He leaves, unsteady on his feet. |
 | Fair Haven. |
 | Grace is at the fruit and vegetables cart-stall. Janeway comes out of Sullivan's pub, sees her and approaches. |
 | Janeway: "Excuse me, ma'am. Have you seen Michael Sullivan?"
Grace: "You might try the pub."
Janeway: "I've just come from there."
Grace: "Oh, he'll be at the train station." She indicates the direction.
Janeway: "Thank you."
Grace: "Sure." |
 | Sullivan is at the railway station, reading. |
 | Janeway: "Excuse me, sir, is the train to Galway running on time?" |
 | Sullivan looks up. "I'm, I'm afraid you just missed it. Have a seat, wait for the next one." |
 
| She sits down next to him. He asks: "Do you know Jane Eldon?"
Janeway: "Eldon? No, I've never met her."
Sullivan: "I'd be terrified if you had. She's been dead seventy years."
Janeway laughs.
Sullivan: "No, I was thinking about her poetry. It's too pastoral for my taste, don't you agree?"
Janeway: "I'm not familiar with her work."
Sullivan: "Really. Well, how about Sean Gogarty? They have a similar rhyming scheme." Janeway's reaction shows she has not heard of his work either. "You've some catching up to do. Well, I'm here every afternoon. You should join me sometime. I try talking poetry with Seamus but all he can do is recite limericks."
Janeway: "I'd love to. Strange place to read, though."
Sullivan: "I love the sound of the trains coming and going. Gets me thinking about places I'd like to visit. Have you travelled much yourself?"
She has travelled many thousands of light years. "As a matter of fact... But there's one place I haven't been yet - Castle O'Dell." |
 | "It's a steep climb, but from the top of the battlement you can see all the way to Dublin. We'd better be moving." He gets up and offers her his arm to take her there.
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 | The stroll through the street, at ease together and enjoying each other's company. "They say, when the sun goes down the king of the faeries reclaims the castle."
Janeway: "Maybe he'll invite us to supper."
Sullivan: "Oh, you'll be dining alone, without me. One taste of a faery's banquet and you never return to this world."
Janeway: "Don't tell me you believe those stories?"
Sullivan: "Believe? No. But I do respect them."
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 | Sullivan: "Can I ask you something, Katie."
Janeway: "Please."
Sullivan: "Have you have a man waiting for you at home?"
Janeway: "No." |
 | Sullivan: "Are you looking for one?"
Janeway laughs. "No, why do you have someone?"
Sullivan: "In Fair Haven? Not unless you fancy a pig-farmer."
Janeway: "Oh, not my type." |
Sullivan: "Or what about a bar-keep who reads poetry in strange places?"
Chakotay: "Captain? I thought that was you."
Janeway is embarrassed. "Just getting in the spirit."
Chakotay: "I can see that." To Sullivan: "I don't believe we've met."
Sullivan extends a hand. "Sullivan, Michael Sullivan."
Chakotay: "Chakotay."
Sullivan: "That's a fine tattoo. Are you off a ship?"
Chakotay: "You could say that."
Sullivan: "We're on our way up to the old castle. You're welcome to come with us."
Chakotay: "Thanks, but um...I'm meeting Neelix at The Ox & Lamb. You two have fun." He leaves through the door.
 | Sullivan: "Is it my imagination or did he call you 'captain'?"
Janeway feigns surprise: "Did he?" She does not answer his question. |
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