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Data's Journey
By : K_nz
Category: Star Trek > The Next Generation
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[Author’s note: I’m a fan of ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), as I’ve always enjoyed songs with orchestration, so I made them the band for the Ahmrian ceremony. I also think their music has a futuristic feel to it, but the lyrics are obviously from this era. So if you go and listen to it, you’ll have to suspend your disbelief and just pretend the band put lyrics in the songs that the Earthlings would understand but happened to get the wrong time period. Or whatever explanation works for you.]

Picard, Troi, Riker, La Forge, Worf, Crusher, Data, and Neara were all at Chateau Picard waiting outside for Neara’s family to arrive. It was a beautiful September day, a little overcast with a slight wind blowing the scent of the grape vines across the clearing where they stood.
The shuttle came into view and gently touched down. Neara and Data were standing, hand-in-hand, a few paces in front of the group. When her family disembarked, Neara released Data’s hand and ran, then flew at her family and they all spiraled into the air together, a great hugging mass, Neara’s mother kissing her rapidly all over her face.
They were talking excitedly and joyfully in Ahmrian. Picard and the others never realized exactly how musical the Ahmrian language was until they heard it spoken. They were singing to each other, like birdsong, but in a humanoid register.
Neara gestured to Data, and the family flew down and scooped him up into the air in their whirlwind of hugs and joy, Neara’s mother kissing Data rapidly all over his face. After a minute, they touched down and walked over to the awaiting group.
Neara made the introductions, “This is my family. My mother Leyna Na Ahta, my uncle Jossa Na Ahta, my cousin Seyta Na Ahta, my brother Yara Na Ahta, and his ka’sha Erda Na Poda, and Pata Na Casta.
“This is Jean-Luc Na Picard, Geordi Na La Forge, Deanna Na Troi, Will Na Riker, Worf, and Beverly Na Crusher,” she indicated, “although they do not use the Na. I use it so you will know that is their family name.”
The Ahmriana nodded and Picard sung, “Chowna shatee esteo sa.”
“I believe you told them ‘welcome throughout being morning sit,’” Data informed.
Leyna correctly sung the phrase for Picard which she knew he meant to be ‘beings, welcome to this place.’ “We appreciate your effort. We understand Ahmrian is a difficult language for others to master.” She then sang the response phrase thanking him for his hospitality. Then she sang a special phrase thanking the Earthlings for welcoming them to their planet and blessing it. When she finished her intonation, the Ahmriana bent on one knee and placed their right hands on the ground. They all sang the universal ahm sound three times, and with each ahm, a low whoomph rattled the ground, followed by two higher chauk chauk sounds. Then a ripple of Ahmrian blue flowed over the ground.
They stood and Leyna walked to Picard. He reached out his hand in greeting and Leyna said, “It seems too formal for Data’s family. I will give you the Ahmrian greeting,” and she proceeded to place her hands on either side of Picard’s head. She tilted his head down and pressed her forehead against his, then she tilted his head up and pressed their lips together in a quick kiss. She moved over to Deanna and did the same thing, and then to each person in the group respectively. The rest of the Ahmriana followed suit.
“I thought you might like to freshen up after your journey,” Picard proffered. “I can show you to your rooms, if you like.”
“Yes, we would appreciate this,” Leyna accepted for the group.

The Ahmriana had arrived early in the day. The wedding party would have lunch together, then they would get ready for the evening bonding ceremony. It was set to start at the gloaming.
Lunch was very pleasant. As with Neara, her family were easy to talk to, and they spent a good couple hours chatting over the course of the meal. They had additional guests who joined them, a band brought from Ahmria to play at the bonding ceremony.
After lunch, everyone went to their respective rooms to prepare for the evening event. Neara’s uncle Jossa was acting as a master of ceremony, since parents were expected to relax and enjoy themselves. Before they disbanded, he had reiterated the instructions they were given before arriving to Earth – that they wear whatever formal attire they felt best in, and make themselves up in any way they wanted. They did not need to wear the Ahmrian ceremonial make-up, nor wear their ceremonial garments, but they could if they so desired. The feeling of the group was what was important to the Ahmriana. They wanted strong happy, loving feelings to create the correct vibration for the bonding. Anything the group could do to facilitate those feelings were welcome.
Picard’s room adjoined Neara and Data’s. He could hear them having sex. He decided to go down to the living room, as there was plenty of time to get dressed. He would have some tea and read for an hour, then go up and get ready. They should be done by then.
He could hear Jossa, Seyta, and Leyna chanting, their tone creating a hum through the house. He could feel it in his body. It was a pleasant sensation.
Then he heard Yara, Erda, and Pata having sex. It sounded like something thumped against the wall. There was laughing. Was all this sex in preparation for the ceremony?
Then he heard Troi and Riker having sex. He would have to leave the house. He made ready to go when Leyna, Jossa, and Seyta came down to join him.
“Seems our work is bearing fruit. I believe that is the Earth saying,” Leyna commented. “We chant for joy, happiness, and sexual pleasure.”
Leyna could see Picard’s discomfort. She would take him away before that affected the vibration they had struck, “Shall we take a walk in your vineyard?” Picard readily agreed to escape his home’s erotic saturation.

The group was dressed and downstairs for the Ahmrian bonding ceremony. They all wore formal attire, but no uniforms, as Neara had requested. Loose-fitting clothing with leggings was suggested, and everyone had complied. Worf was wearing Klingon ceremonial garb.
The Ahmriana and Data were wearing outfits made of Ahmrian blue colored fabric, which looked like satin. It had a swirling pattern on it which Leyna explained represented the harmonic of the universe. The clothes looked comfortable and flowing. A mid-thigh length tunic with a low collar and gathered cuffs and waist and loose pants gathered at the ankles. The collar, cuffs, waist, and ankles were adorned with Ahmrian blue jewels.
Their make-up consisted of a small Ahmrian blue colored spiral starting at the bridge of their nose and turning inward to end in the third eye area. There was a larger spiral on their neck and their lips were colored the same blue. Leyna explained it was to amplify the sending and receiving of harmonic. Data and Neara did not have the neck spiral, but Leyna informed the group they had spirals on other areas of their bodies specific to this ceremony.
The first order of business was the bonding intonation. It was meant to send love and joy to the bonding pair, or group, depending on how many were bonding together. Jossa instructed them that Leyna would intone to bring forth the proper frequency, then the rest should choose a note to sing and they would sing their notes at the same time. The note was to be sung with an ‘ah’ sound. While singing this note, they were to think about all the love, joy, and good wishes they would bestow on the couple.
The gloaming had started on a beautiful night. They went outside onto the grass and formed a circle with Data and Neara in the middle. They linked hands. Data and Neara stood facing each other, holding hands. Leyna started. She chanted in Ahmrian, the sound creating a palpable vibration in the air. Then she sang six quick notes and another a third down. She nodded up, taking a deep breath indicating to the group it would be time to start. She nodded down and the group sang their respective notes.
They were holding their notes and taking breaths in between, but because they took breaths at different times, the effect was a single, uninterrupted harmonic. They poured all of their love and good feelings into their intonation. The couple started glowing an Ahmrian blue color. Neara smiled at Data and laughed softly at the ticklish sensation. Data was looking at her in awe.
The blue increased in vibrancy, Data and Neara’s eyes remained locked on each other. The sound was vibrating the surrounding air and stretching out further. Neara and Data’s bodies were like tuning forks, the blue increasing as the power of the sound increased.
Leyna decided it was time. She nodded slowly, and when her head came down, the singing stopped. Data and Neara were left with an exhilarating buzz in their bodies.
“It is now time to eat,” Jossa announced. There was a long table set outside and the party made their way over to it. The Ahmriana had humans prepare the food, but when it came to serving it, they levitated the dishes out themselves. The food hovered over the middle of the table and then it began.
There was a mad flight of dishes about the table with the Ahmriana’s voices raised in boisterous Ahmrian conversation with wide gesticulations and raucous laugher. Flying spoons plopped food onto the guests’ plates. Neara levitated her spoon, scooped up some food and flung it at Yara’s face. Yara stopped it before it hit him and it dropped to his plate. They laughed hysterically. The Ahmriana’s spoons were flying around the table, taking food from the other plates and feeding it to themselves.
Geordi was sitting to one side of Neara with Data on her other. He was watching the scene in wide-eyed astonishment. The other non-Ahmriana guests were equally stupefied.
The whirling dishes gathered momentum and then they dropped to the table. At the same time, the Ahmriana stopped talking, put their right forearms on the table, then banged three times in quick succession. They then started speaking English in a normal volume and began eating.
Neara turned to Geordi, “Decorum,” she laughed.
Geordi sat looking at his plate, dumbfounded. It was full of food. All items he enjoyed in his childhood.
Neara noticed, “Did you not get everything you wanted?”
“Yeah, this looks great,” he replied, “but how did you know what I liked?”
“We read your mind,” Neara said, tapping the side of her head conspiratorially.
Everyone was very happy with their meal. They all had the dishes they most enjoyed. Worf even had his favorite Klingon foods and prune juice. They ate with gusto, and when the meal was through, the Ahmriana floated the dishes away.
They sat and talked for a little while longer and then Jossa indicated it was time to get up. Once clear, he floated another long table to adjoin the first. He then floated all of the chairs to one side of the table, facing out at the clearing. The band came out and assembled to one side. They did not have instruments, using only their Ahmriana abilities to vibrate the air to create the required sound.
“Now Leyna will seat you for ideal harmonic,” he announced. Leyna proceeded to assign seats with the formation Riker, Troi, Seyta, Jossa, Leyna, Picard, Neara, Data, La Forge, Crusher, Worf, Erda, Yara, then Pata. They took their seats, Jossa was still standing.
“It is now time for the dancing,” Jossa began. “The Ahmriana will ask you to dance. They will be the only ones to ask. They will take turns. I understand Worf does not wish to dance, so we will not ask him. All the evening, you will send your good wishes to the bonding pair. Every good feeling you have, you will offer it up to the bonding pair.” He demonstrated by taking his hands, palms down, and then pushing the backs of his fingers against each other and rotating them around until they parted and his hands were facing upwards. He then bowed to the couple.
“It is of utmost importance you send all of your good feelings to them. You must think of them this entire time. You must send them all of the joy and love inside of you. I cannot stress this enough,” he instructed.
“Now Leyna, as the mother, will be the first to ask to dance,” and Jossa sat down as Leyna got up. She walked in front of the table and looked up and down it. She went over to Troi.
“You have been such a help to my daughter, would you do me the honor of this dance?” she asked.
“I’d be delighted,” Troi responded, “but I don’t know any Ahmrian dances.”
“Do not worry,” Leyna assured and then turned to Data and spoke to him in Ahmrian.
He replied, “You would say, ‘I am a very good lead.’”
She turned back to Troi and said, “I am a very good lead,” with an infectious smile. She held out her hand and Troi came around the table and took it.
As they walked a few paces in front of the table into the clearing, Neara turned to Picard with a big smile and said, “You are in luck! My mother is a wonderful dancer.”
Leyna nodded to the band and the music started. The song was “Tightrope” and as the beginning chords slid up then down, Leyna’s arms went from the side of her body over her head and they lifted off the ground. When the chords slid down, she put them down, and Deanna and Leyna were left hovering in the air.
Leyna started moving Deanna in an elegant dance. Deanna was astounded, her body was literally being moved and she was flying. When the violins started playing, Leyna threw her arms up and Deanna went into the air above and in front of her and started spinning like a top. Her arms moved, making the top change shape. Leyna danced elegantly around her.
When the strings started going down the scale, Leyna took Deanna’s hands and they slowly spun down like a propeller seed. When the strings were staccato, they put their arms out and flipped with each note. The strings paused for a moment and then played very fast, at which point Leyna held Deanna and spun her. The spin was so fast they were a blur.
When the guitar came in Leyna let Deanna go and, hovering in the air, Deanna let out a peal of delighted laughter and doubled over with it. The non-Ahmriana group were relieved. Although it was a wonder to watch, they didn’t know how Deanna would react to being spun like that. She was laughing so hard, her joy was contagious.
The dance went on, elegant moves, fast spinning, clapping. At one point in the song, Leyna ‘pushed’ Deanna and she fell backward, gravity taking her. She screamed and was stopped a meter above the ground. She laughed hysterically – what a rush!
The song ended with them gracefully twirling to the ground. Once there Deanna said with a huge smile, “That was the most exhilarating experience of my life!” She laughed in sheer delight.
“I am so glad,” Leyna responded happily and indicated Deanna needed to turn to the couple and give them this gift. They both made Jossa’s hand gesture to the couple and bowed repeatedly. Neara was smiling at them with beaming joy in her eyes and Data had his mouth slightly open, smiling softly in a look of absolute wonderment.
“You have to try it Will,” Deanna encouraged and Jossa spoke up, “OK Will, let us dance!”
The two danced to “Turn to Stone.” Jossa was a very powerful dancer, easily able to flip and turn Will. He flung Will like a clock hand around him, then spun him like a gyroscope. When the song stated “turn to stone” Jossa would freeze the two men in whatever pose they were currently in, whether that be upside down or sideways. Before the end of the song where the chords started progressing upwards, Jossa asked Will if he was ready. Will nodded and Jossa wrapped his arms around him and spun him even faster than Leyna had spun Deanna, unbelievably fast. Everyone laughed. The two came down and gave their gift of joy to the couple.
“Ah, it is my turn now,” Yara said, “and I am going to pick two people!”
“Of course you will,” Neara laughed, “you are greedy.” Yara smiled and winked at his sister and asked Geordi and Beverly to dance.
They danced to “Livin’ Thing” in an elegant, graceful fashion. First Yara spun and dipped Beverly, then he went to Geordi and did the same thing, then he spun them both. They floated through the air like fish swimming through water, spiraling and snaking around each other. It was beautiful and sensual. As the song ended, they linked arms and Yara made it look like they were kick-stepping their way down invisible stairs to the ground. It was so fun, everyone laughed. With elated smiles, they gave their gifts to the couple.
Leyna turned to her daughter and said, “I think it is time for the ka’sha to dance.” Neara nodded and led Data by the hand to the clearing. Their song was “Shine a Little Love” and they stood, Neara waiting for the explosive first chords to play before starting to dance.
Picard saw Leyna and Jossa plant their elbows on the table with their hands raised and outstretched. Leyna saw him looking and explained, “We are helping Neara to lift Data. He is very heavy. Since his material is not DNA, he is difficult to make fly. This is why Neara has not flown anyone on your ship – she did not want Data to be left out. She is a kind and good Ahmriana,” she said with love and admiration. They went back to looking at the couple.
When the awaited chords played, Neara flung her arms up and Data shot into the air, then came down slightly. Then Neara shot into the air and came down to Data’s level. Then she flung him up again and she went up again to meet him. They twirled quickly and flew around in the air like acrobats. When the song got to the lyrics, “Can you understand?” Neara floated in front of Data and did the ka’sha touch and mouthed the questions with Data mouthing the answers. Later in the song when the lyrics recurred, they did the same thing, but that time Data asked the questions and Neara answered.
The song contained a repeated two-clap sequence. When it started, Leyna and Jossa placed their forearms on the table and banged twice. Leyna nodded to Picard indicating he should do the same and with a twist of her head, let him know he should inform the rest of the table. The next two-clap sequence occurred and with each bang the group did on the table, the couple flashed Ahmrian blue. Neara smiled and laughed when it happened and Data smiled back at her.
Their song ended and as they came around the table to sit, Leyna asked Picard to dance with her. Although he did not dance, he decided not to opt-out as Worf had done. It was a special occasion and he also considered himself an unofficial emissary in this situation, so he felt it more decorous to dance.
The music started as Leyna escorted Picard to the clearing. Once there, she gently floated them into the air where they hovered during what sounded like a music box playing. The music changed becoming tense, urgent, and Leyna flew around and behind him. A voice like thunder boomed and with an expansive stroke of her arm, Leyna lit up the night sky with lightning bolts of Ahmrian blue. With each thunder clap, Leyna would do the same thing.
When they ended, she flew with Picard gracefully. The strings started playing at a rapid tempo, and Picard and Leyna were parallel to the ground, spinning very fast. Holding his hand, she would drop him until their arms were stretched, then come down to meet him, then spin him again and drop him. She did this move repeatedly when the fast string section played.
At different points in the song, she would fly him about pushing against his chest. She would then fling him to the far end of the clearing. She flew with him elegantly, gracefully, then she would do the spin and drop move again.
The onlookers were amazed. It was a very active dance, and they were surprised Picard was able to handle it. The dance ended with them gracefully turning together until they reached the ground, and Picard seemed no worse for the wear.
Everyone, except Worf, took turns dancing. A great joyful, loving harmonic had been struck, the last dance being Neara and Data dancing to “Midnight Blue.”
They floated down and Jossa indicated that the group should stand up. He placed Data and Neara by the entrance to the house. He then instructed the guests, “It is now time for the bonding ceremony to end. We ask that everyone give the couple an Ahmrian kiss, the same as we gave you in greeting. After the kiss, you will draw a half circle on the left side of the ka’shas’ face using your thumb going from the forehead around and down to the chin. This is a very powerful symbol in Ahmria. The half circle wishes to complete itself and draws energy in. As they are with each other tonight, their half circles will come together with every kiss to become whole. We ask that all guests do this, even if you feel some discomfort giving them the Ahmrian kiss,” Jossa looked pointedly at Worf. “Remember, you are doing this for the bonding ka’sha. Please send them thoughts of joy and love. You may then go in for the evening, if you wish.”
They made a line. Leyna was first, followed by Jossa, then Geordi and so on. When it was time to kiss, Data came before Neara. Geordi thought, what the heck, and gave him the Ahmrian kiss. “Wow,” he commented to the group, “I’ve never kissed Data before.” He directed his next comment to Data, “Your lips are surprisingly soft.”
“Thank you,” Data nodded, and everybody laughed. Geordi completed the half moon gesture and moved on to Neara.
The rest of the group gave the Ahmrian kiss and half moon gesture to the couple. Even Worf complied with the request. It was late, and everyone decided to go in for the night.
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Data's Journey