Drunk Trek
"Woa!" said Kirk as he stepped out of Deanna Troi's quarters
and leaned back against the wall outside. Her door slid shut after
he had exited but he turned to look back as if he could still see
her through the doors. "Woa," he breathed, "It may not have
completely lived up to the mission of my Enterprise, but at least
it was Boldly Going!" As Kirk caught his breath he looked around.
The ship seemed strangely empty. "Hmmmm..." thought Kirk, "Maybe
I was a little hard on Captain Picard. He probably looked better
as an Orian Slave Girl than I would have anyway. Computer," Jim
Kirk addressed, "Where is Jean-Luc Picard?"
The voice which responded seemed strangely familiar, sort of
the way Christopher Pike's First Officer had seemed after he met
her again after a few months of the Enterprise, "Captain Picard is
not on the Enterprise. He left you a voice mail message."
"Activate voice mail," ordered Kirk.
"Hello, this is the voice mail. If you are calling from you
own ship please say Pound, otherwise enter your extension or your
last name followed by first until recognized."
"Kirk, James T."
"Identification Secure. You may listen to your messages..."
"Let me listen to them!" Kirk cut the machine off.
"You have one new message. Message one from Jean-Luc Picard,
was received at Star Date 242731.3."
Then Picard's voice came over the speakers, "I'm afraid that
we've all been taken away to be assimilated. I don't know when
we'll be back. If you get a chance would you mind saying 'Make it
so' a few times in my absence? Thanks! Picard out."
"Assimilated?" breathed Kirk.
"Then he felt Deanna's hand on his shoulder. "The Borg," she
whispered.
The ship was not completely empty. Down in the bowles of the
ship Scotty and Geordi were making up for their spats in that Next
Generations episode over a bottle of very fine Scotch.
Unfortunately for La Forge, he hadn't realized that this was not
synthahol until way too late. At the moment he had his visor over
his head as a hair band and Scotty was taking apart the main Warp
Flux Control Computer in hopes of finder some sort of gizmo to
bridge a circuit gap in the warp coils to perfect an experiment he
had long been working on.
"What are you doing Scotty?" asked Geordi.
"I'm going to perfect somethin' they've been workin' on for
quite a spell, lad, but I canna find the right piece. Oh well."
Geordi slid the visor back over his eyes and looked over at
Scotty standing in a pile of Warp Chips. "Scotty! Do you know
what you just did?"
Mr. Scott pulled his lips off the bottle he was gulping from
and said, "No lad what's that?"
"You went and finished the Scotch!"
"Aye lad, but donna worry! I've got lots more where that came
from!"
"I wonder," thought Geordi out-loud, "If we adjust the syth
switch in the quasi-mode of the iso-link in the replicators and
send one one-billionth if we could produce Scotch right out of the
replicators!"
"Why don't you just pull this wire?" asked Scott as he yanked
a cable from the wall and another bottle of the stuff materialized
in his hand.
"Mister Scott, you're amazing!"
Just then a Borg walked into the room and raised a horrible
looking arm ending in a deadly claw of spikes and weapons toward
the good guys.
"You," it said pausing for effect, "Will be assimilated!"
To Be Continued...