She... could climb that. She won't though.

"Oh no, how careless. Maybe if I remember I'll come back to get it later but if it's not there I'll have no idea where to look."

"It is very tall. The best climber is somewhere else right now," says the goblin, bobbing up and down.

"Yes, and I am too tired to try myself. So long as humans don't see it I guess it might end up lost here. With all the books and movies and information it has."

"Humans are not as tall as that mushroom and cannot see the top of it."

"They might be able to from the shuttle when they take off."

"Oh, that is true. The shuttle goes up."

"Should I retrieve it from the mushroom now? And then perhaps I might lose it somewhere else. Underneath some leaves and dirt maybe."

"Oh, Commander Lia should not have to climb. Probably a goblin can get it later on."

But she wanted to climb. Well-being of a species Lia, prioritize. She can climb later. For now she can wander back to the camp to see what the other goblins are up to learning, making sure to head off anyone liable to find the missing data pad.

If she checks later it is no longer on the mushroom.

How unfortunate!

Tragic equipment loss!

Eventually it is time to go and three goblins are selected at random to come with.

Would the humans help them have names?

They can provide options of names humans might use? Or Vulcans or other aliens if those sound better.

Or just words or whatever, they're not picky, but humans can't say their real names.

Well they have badges that can do translations but that doesn't really solve the name issue. 

If the goblins don't actively want word names that aren't going to get them. They will instead get a list of the most common names on various planets as well as some suggestions of names people think are particularly neat.

They're very suggestible and each goblin adopts the first name suggested to them. Now they have a Darcy and an Ariel and a Marius.

Probably this is the sort of thing people are afraid of when they talk about the cultural assimilation of contacted civilizations, but after taking every meeting with a goblin who wanted to talk to him, to beg to allow more of them to go into space or to leave behind someone to teach them, he finds it difficult to worry about the names.

"They... just wanted to learn from us," he says to Lia as they enter warp. It's not worth risking his career for, not when there are so many others. But it still hurts.

"Yeah..."

"By the way, I'm sorry to report that I lost my data pad. I'll need to reacquisition one of the spare ones."

"We only have a limited suppl- oh."

"Thank you."

"No problem Lucien."