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Jim smiles the appropriate amount - enough warmth to seem friendly, enough muted sorrow to seem appropriate for the knowledge of why the party is here - and tries not to feel flayed alive. As the fleet flagship, the Enterprise is the natural choice to deliver this delegation to Tarsus IV: the staff of the museum Starfleet has funded, five admirals to attend the opening, and an entire fleet of holo-technicians to scan every inch of the museum and its environs to create simulations for the rest of the universe. Jim’s fought and scraped and demanded his place aboard Enterprise despite his weak heart and shit liver and kidneys, his chronic dry eyes and limp that becomes too obvious when he’s tired. He’s learned other styles of self-defense to compensate for his weakened bones, excelled in enough courses to make up for the disabilities that tried to keep him from the captain's chair, earned it, and yet if he could be a captain of some freighter right now, he’d prefer that.

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