The show opens with Marina in her quarters humming a tune while crafting a self-portrait. Some other drawings are hung up; others lay across her desk or in piles on the floor. None of the other portraits are of her, it’s a healthy variety of artistic musings. Her musings are less than inspirational as her life and surroundings are the epitomai of monotony.
Marina's humming picks up in volume as she is seen about her day. Marina is in Sick Bay organizing medical equipment, she begins to sing. Her song is about being trapped in the middle of history, nothing she does has a notable impact on anyone or anything. Marina endures her work in sick Bay scanning frozen DNA and reading medical reports. Her song continues …show more content…
Marina is humming a tune in Sick Bay. Patrick enters the room with a sickness weighing down on him. Patrick doesn’t know it but his conscience has gotten the better of him, the worst part is if he employs his idea he must do so without consent so as not encourage five thousand years of depression. Marina scans him and finds nothing physically wrong. Marina understands what Patrick probably knew when he entered the sick bay, he wants to talk.
Marina, with medical proof, that he’s fine goats Patrick into speaking. Patrick states he has a big problem, he has an idea how to solve it but is nervous to take the first steps. She says sometimes we are given more than we can handle and the solution is to handle whatever portion of it we can and work the rest when we get to it. It’s no use to take in problems whole when large problems rarely got solved all in one go. Patrick lets go of his guilt, he tells Marina that he doesn’t know if his solutions first step is a good one. Marina takes over for Patrick she explains to him as well as herself that we don’t get to set up the game, we just play the pieces. It’s OK to lose a pawn now and again on the road to success, it was always the deal. It’s a typical mistake for a new artist to confuse bad ideas with having no ideas but bad ideas are just the first step to good