Trektober Day #26: Stranded on a Planet
“How is life crash landed on a planet treating you, Mister Garak?” Julian asked teasingly. Perversely, their Jem'Hadar fighter having been shot out of orbit seemed to have had a positive impact on his grim mood.
“Well enough that I don’t want to hear any statistics about how doomed we are, Doctor,” Garak said chidingly.
Julian looked at him sideways as they picked their way through the sandy dunes of the beach.
“I don’t want us to die,” he said suddenly. “I just don’t think we should ignore the reality. I thought that was how you wanted me to start thinking.”
His tone is light, but there’s a buried edge there too. You wanted me to be this way.
“It seems I may have misjudged.”