“Crew, we have with us today a … what did you say your title was?”
“A ‘Documentarian’. It’s like a Historian, but the history I’m writing about is happening now, so it’s not history yet. My mate Paul says it will be history in about a hundred years or something, but we’re not waiting around for that because it would be boring. But I’m also speaking into a little recorder-thingy, so there’s no documents either. Just speaking now instead of documenting a hundred years from now. So really it’s just a Speakery-Now sort of position.”
I feel like Lower Decks could make this happen.
Yes!
“Crew, we have with us today a … what did you say your title was?”
“A ‘Documentarian’. It’s like a Historian, but the history I’m writing about is happening now, so it’s not history yet. My mate Paul says it will be history in about a hundred years or something, but we’re not waiting around for that because it would be boring. But I’m also speaking into a little recorder-thingy, so there’s no documents either. Just speaking now instead of documenting a hundred years from now. So really it’s just a Speakery-Now sort of position.”