Doreen & Julian: Star Trekking

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Doreen corners Julian about the Star Trek movie.

Doreen was on a mission. She didn’t have her license yet, so first off she needed a driver. Secondly, she might as well corner a friend. Three, it was a movie! Everyone loved movies! Four, it was absolutely horrific that she hadn’t seen said movie yet. Doreen wanted, wanted so very, very badly, to go see the new Star Trek movie.

Her “victim” in this matter was Julian. Who was there. Down the hall. Doreen leapt, clearing fifteen feet easily and tackling her friend, “JULIAN!”

Coming out of his suite, the last thing Julian expected was to be tackled by one of his friends. "AH!" he fell forward into the soft, thick carpet which fortunately cushioned the fall. Scrambling up he flipped around and stared at Doreen, "A little warning next time?"

“Sorry,” Doreen said, her tail not dropping at all, “You're coming with me to the movies today. …Oh, and the sorry is for jumping you. You won’t be sorry you went to the movies.”

"Movies?" There hadn't really been anything that came out lately that Julian had wanted to see. "Well you're in a better mood than yesterday at least, but I don't know, I have a lot of homework. What's the movie?"

“Star Trek!” Doreen said excited, “I have to see it. I would’ve gone last week, but I forgot it was coming out so soon and sent all my working money from Miss Monet to Mom so I didn’t have any but now I have a bit of money because I kept the price of two tickets and some pop corn and I really really really have to go and see it Julian! PLEASE!”

He stared at her, "Star Trek?" She had to be joking, "Seriously?" Julian could tell that this was important to her, she'd actually saved money to go see it. "I dunno Dori, that's kinda...dorky."

Doreen’s face fell, looking like someone had pulled her tail, the appendage in question even dropped, “Dorky? It’s not dorky! And this movie isn’t like the old series. It doesn’t even have William Shatner in it. Come on, Julian! Don’t shoot it down without giving it a chance! It’s going to be the best movie of the summer and if I don’t go soon I’m going to start reading about it on every forum I go on and I want to see it first! It has the guy from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and Run Fat Boy Run in it. And that guy that played Sylar, the brain eating mutant, from heroes on it and a lot of other really cool actors and you HAVE to see it!”

"Simon Pegg? Huh, he's usually pretty good." Julian thought about it for a moment, or at least pretended to. In all honesty, he knew that this was important to her and for that reason alone, he'd be going. But he wasn't going to make this easy on her. "Well, I did see one of the movies a long time ago, but it wasn't very good...Insurrection or something like that?"

“Yeah! He plays Scotty!” Doreen said, jumping up and down, at least almost. She was almost popping with energy, “Oh my gosh, then you have to go! Though you should’ve seen First Contact. First Contact was good! Did you see First Contact?” Doreen questioned, “Well, anyway, we really, really have to go! You can bring your girlfriend too if you want!” Doreen said, “But I can’t pay for her if you do.”

'Would Angel want to go?' "No, that's okay," he sighed, "okay, let's go. But on one condition!" he held up a finger.

Doreen froze, as if that one finger suddenly held dominion over her, “What?” she gasped. So close! He couldn’t make it an insane condition, she’d just die!

"I pay, for everything- got it?" he let the finger drop and started for the stairs, not giving her the chance to respond or argue the point. "Come on, Green, we'd better get going if you want to catch the next show."

She paused for a moment, “Huh?” she said and then had to take a couple big steps to catch up. She was too twitchy to argue. Star Trek! Monkey Joe would be okay, he had food and she had told him where she was going. And it was Star Trek!

***A Few Hours Later***

Walking out into the daylight, Julian couldn't help but be stunned. It was good. It was a little confusing with the time travel aspects, but...it was good. "Huh," was all he could think to say.

“OH MY GOSH!! That was SO awesome!” Doreen said, she was so excited that even her tail was fluffed out. Of course, the two sodas she had downed during the movie might have had something to do that, “Did you see how they offed the Red Shirt? And they had Leonard Nemoy in it! And Chekov! Oh my gosh! I wanna go again!”

Julian stopped walking for a second, when Doreen didn't he started up again, hurrying to catch up with the over energized squirrel girl. "Wait, what's a red shirt?"

“The red shirt! The guy who’s destined to die? Basically every time there’s a mission and they can’t kill off the main characters it was always a guy in a red shirt,” Doreen explained.

"So why would they let them keep wearing red? I'd think they'd change the color or something."

“It was just a gag in the original series. In the Next Generation officers wear red,” Doreen pointed out. “He died really badly, this red shirt.” Doreen who was too sweet to ever get a kick out of the suffering of others had been giggling like mad when the red shirt bit the dust.

"Was that the one on the mining...laser...ray thing?" Julian said, still trying to take in how good the movie was.

“Yeah! He got fried!” Doreen said, “Really badly!”

"Doreen, I'm not sure you should repeat this, but I really enjoyed that movie," Julian turned to her and smiled. "Thanks for dragging me to it."

Doreen skipped backwards in front of him, “No problem. Didn’t I say it was awesome?”

Julian smiled and started toward the car again, "I have a feeling I'm going to be hearing 'I told you so," a lot from now on."