540. Holiday Edition: Who would your MC kiss under the mistletoe?

No Misteltoe's survived into the 24. Century. That said kissing is a mostly Terran habit of strengthening individual immune systems, thus is recommended to kiss A LOT.
Do to the fact that a plenty of, for us, new species could be hazardous to others and us, and kissing for Terran's and Terra living Xeni is something special,* a special filtration mask was invented, it's basically a sort of mouth condom.
It needs to be fit for every species specially but allows incredible kisses without any risk or benefit like immunity boosting.

*Some age old first stories of Terrans was how they defended their foes via eating their mouthes and stealing their souls.
It was later translated into Terran Standard as Kiss me a spacer which sounds way more pleasant if miss leading...

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