Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last set of conversations. You are so wonderful. I truly appreciate every bit of feedback. Also, thank you for your kind words regarding my mother's passing. I really appreciated it. It's been a hard couple of weeks, but I am working through it.

Day 349: Your sister is a wedding-planning menace

From: Mommy_Susan

To: SuluHG2260

Time arrived: 2/01/2261 00:00:01

Subject: Greetings from Yorktown. Your sister is a wedding-planning menace.

Hey, I just survived my first week on Yorktown. It wasn't horrible. Although considering how awful my last assignment was, I have extremely low standards. This primarily consists of colleagues not actively participating in a conspiracy to kill me. You would think I wouldn't worry about that, but Spock did have a mini coup d'état last month. I am glad that happened once I was off the ship. That would've triggered flashbacks. I am so happy that the morons planning it on Enterprise were incompetent. They really did get a teenager involved – idiots.

Time on Yorktown has been good. I miss you, but I adore quality baby time and having my wine buddy back. The girls love sharing a room. They have princess beds and adore them. We put them in the master because there's more space for a play area. My mom snuck in another suitcase full of toys. I don't even know how but the girls have so much stuff. Also, somehow my rocking chair ended up here. I love that rocking chair. I usually hate when my mom pulls strings, but I'm okay with this.

I regret that Liz cannot regularly babysit because she's preferable to Ben's former mother-in-law. I don't think she likes me very well. It's probably the poly thing. I think she's afraid I will steal you from her pseudo-son. She doesn't understand that I adore Ben and deeply regret him being super gay. Although, at least he has voyeuristic tendencies and enjoys watching you have fun. Fun was definitely had on New Vulcan, especially after visiting some of the local shops. I got some toys to help deal with the next six months. I still won't send pictures because I'm positive my mom is reading these emails, Jim Kirk's encryption notwithstanding.

I have yet to meet many new people here. Maybe it's because work has been crazy. I am learning a completely different job. Although Liz is dragging me to Starfleet happy hour today. That might go really badly.

So, how's Enterprise? I miss you guys. How is everyone? Even though I wasn't there that long, I made a lot of friends. Your ship is so much nicer. Less backstabbing, at least. The baby coup d'état notwithstanding.

You should know your sister put us through wedding Boot Camp on the flight to Yorktown. We even picked out dresses and suits. Yes, we went with your color scheme. You are going to have an absolutely fabulous suit. I almost decided to get a suit myself but finally went with a dress.

However, we decided baby K was getting a flower girl suit instead of a dress. Katie bear likes to take her dresses off, and we think it might be harder to do that in a suit. Do you want your stepdaughter to streak at your wedding? I don't think so. We'll try to have Desi in a dress, but we're ordering a suit for her just in case. It will be adorable.

After much lobbying from your sister, your nieces will be the ring girls. We don't want to deal with the babies trying to eat the rings. Your sister says nobody under five should be the ring person. Apparently, she has stories. Most of them are trying to get a diamond ring out of a toddler's stomach. Let's not have Dr. McCoy work on your wedding. Also, you should spend your wedding night in the honeymoon Suite at Hotel Yorktown with your new husband. Not dealing with a toddler in sick bay. We should avoid that.

Yes, I have already booked a honeymoon suite for you. No, I won't be joining you, at least not the first night. I'll be with the girls. You deserve one night all alone after your wedding.

We have an entire block of rooms in that hotel for the non-Starfleet family members: your parents, your oldest sister's family, and Zoe. Did you and Ben decide to do a Starbase wedding just so you could avoid the extended Sulu family? I'm not even sure if your grandparents are coming. The travel might be too hard. I'm told we will have to live stream for them. Your sister has already made arrangements.

Liz's friend Lena is also coming. She's Josephine's aunt and Jim's lawyer. I don't know if she counts as an outside guest. Although Ben likes her because she provided sound legal advice on how to deal with Mr. Johnson.

Anyway, look at all the wedding notes and let me know if there's something you really don't like. We still have time to change it, but I was told to let you know that all decisions must be locked in by the end of February. It takes longer to get things when you have to ship them to a remote star base.

The menu is still in flux, and we're trying to finalize the caterer, which will most likely be the hotel. The plan, for now, is no traditional hors d'oeuvres, but we are getting a chocolate fountain. Is that going to be a problem for some of our guests? I know alcohol is an issue for some, so we didn't go with the champagne fountain or open bar. But I also saw Spock's foster sister trip on chocolate-covered Oreos at Christmas. That was interesting. It also left me with concerns.

PS: Do you want a bachelor party or bridal shower? Or I could combine the two: gifts of lingerie and strippers.

Xxxx

From: SuluHG2260

To: Mommy_Susan

Time sent: 2/01/2261 22:03:01

Subject: Re: Greetings from Yorktown. Your sister is a wedding-planning menace.

I vote for a combo party. Will we be having a party together or separately? If Winona comes, it will have to be a dry party. Which is not my preference. However, I know Ben would like to have his friend there, especially if she is his best person. This means we need to keep her sober for the sake of the wedding.

Speaking of sobriety, I don't think Spock's sister realized she would react that way to the chocolate. She thought she would have a minor reaction because she's a hybrid like Spock. Unfortunately, she did not realize that a Vulcan Romulan hybrid is different from a Vulcan human hybrid regarding chocolate. I'm sure it would be easy to keep all underage Vulcans away from the chocolate fountain.

I'm more worried about the toddlers. Do we really want to risk our toddlers with a chocolate fountain? You know what they did to the birthday cake at the not really a birthday party. They'll be six months older, but that's not enough time to get them out of their cake-diving habit. You know that's going to translate to a chocolate fountain. I will write my sister and see what safety precautions she's taking to prevent that. I hope it involves a force field. If not, I'm going to have to veto the chocolate fountain.

I absolutely agree that you should go with flower girl suits. It's safer that way. No, I do not want streaking at the wedding, and it is much easier for Katie bear to get a dress off. At least with pants, we have a higher chance of stopping her before she is completely naked.

Also, good call on the nieces being in charge of the ring. I do not want to spend my honeymoon in sickbay because one of our children decided that wedding rings are tasty.

I've been looking at rings, and I found the perfect one. I'm sending it to you. Please don't show Ben yet; I want it to be a surprise. I'm sending you a picture of it in three days, so you'll get this letter first.

I made arrangements with Lena to pick mine up. I want it to be a surprise for Ben. I didn't want to risk Liz bringing it up early and hiding it for six months. Lena has also helped me with some legal stuff, so I trust her. Mostly related to the unauthorized likeness lawsuit. I'm just grateful I don't have a sex toy yet.

I looked at the dresses chosen, and I loved everything. Also, good choice on the suit. Did you decide that, or did Ben? You are both better at this sort of thing than me.

We decided that a starbase wedding would work better because Ben will already be there. Also, it's easier for Enterprise to get to a star base than for me to get leave back to Earth. Also, I didn't want to wait five years for my wedding. Especially if ship Family assignments become a thing again. I want to be with you guys as soon as possible. I would love it if that would be in fewer than five years, but we'll see how that goes. There might still be a minimum age limit.

The fact that most of the extended family will be live streaming the wedding is a bonus. Honestly, it's preferable. I've got some not-so-nice emails from the part of the family that hates me since mom emailed everybody about the engagement. Have you gotten any of those emails? I really regret not having those addresses blocked. They are blocked now, and Jim added extra filters.

I'm glad your new job is better than your old one, even if it's marginally so. Although I am sure everything's better now that you have your people with you. I know Enterprise is more fun with you here. I miss having someone to come home to. Yes, I have friends, but I see them less because work has been weird and busy.

I got to lead an away mission recently. Unfortunately, it was on a planet with primarily carnivorous plants. Why was this not picked up during the early scouting missions? Were things kept out of the report on purpose? We almost had a Prime directive violation on the other planet that could support life. We barely avoided screwing that up.

Thankfully nobody died on my mission. Unfortunately, an ensign lost a hand. I have discovered another instance where fencing became a valuable skill. It helped me save my team member's life. Although I'm never telling my mom that because she was the one who forced me to do eight years of fencing when I would've preferred something cooler. My mom wanted to avoid traditional Asian stereotypes related to martial arts, so she chose fencing. I know your mom did that, too, but at least you got to do Brazilian jujitsu.

You think we would've left the planet after someone lost a hand, but we had to return to get plant samples. We mostly used robots after that. I hope my lab doesn't become a 23rd-century remake of Little shop of horrors.

Anyway, we're back to really boring moons. Jim is leading those missions. He is bored and deeply regrets agreeing to go down on this mission. At least it's day trips. I actually had to spend 3 days in a tent. Don't worry, we were very far from the carnivorous plants at that point.

Anyway, I hope you had a fabulous happy hour. Please tell me the food is good. I'm okay with going with the hotel, but have you looked into other options? I know from my own letter from my sister that she was going to try a few of the restaurants while she was on Yorktown to see who would be best for the wedding. Or were they all horrible, and that's why you're going with the hotel? I was surprised that there were options.

Anyway, give my love to Ben always. I miss you both so much. Keep writing and sending pictures. The next part is for the girls.

Dear babies:

Hey babies. I miss both of you. I hope you're being good for mom and dad. Also, make sure you visit Aunt Liz more because she misses you. Be good for grandma three.

So what have you been doing on Starbase? Hopefully not terrorizing everybody. Do you like being all together? Are you happy mommy is back? Anyway, I miss you guys. Love you, and I'll see you again in a couple of months.

To be continued…