Thursday, September 15, 2005

Dude, Where's My Starship?

I know where I left it.

So where did the Enterprise go?

We all went off to the pleasure planet of Rigel IV. After all, as Geordi says, we can always have a lot of fun there.

The trouble is, he tends to get locked up for enjoying himself too much.

The Enterprise was put in standard orbit, and the entire crew went down for some fun and frivolity.

This could have been a mistake; it's wise leaving someone there, but how could I leave anyone on the ship while we were having a good time? Even Data wanted to come along.

Anyway, there we are, all ready to beam up automatically.

Nothing to beam up to.

It was fortunate that the automatic transporter spotted this, otherwise we would have been in airless space.

"Are you sure you left it there, Captain?" asks Riker.

Sarky.

"There is a Ferengi ship in orbit, Captain. No lifesigns." says Data, looking at his tricorder.

We beam up and see that everyone has gone.

Geordi looks at the ship's records.

"It looks like they all beamed aboard the Enterprise and had that instead."

We follow the warp trail and get to the Enterprise, which is returning back.

When beaming aboard, we find out that the two Ferengi are in the Brig.

A message comes in from Sickbay.

It's the holographic doctor.

"I hope you'll take a little more notice of me, Captain." he says in that irritating tone of his, "I could see they had put a couple of wires together and were on their way with the Enterprise. With my superior knowledge, I was able to beam the two of them directly into the Brig. Then I made a course correction and headed back."

"Er...well done, Doctor."

"The Holographic Union of Doctors will hear of this, of course, Captain. I'm sure us holograms will get equal recognition and pay from now on. "

It looks like we have a new member of the crew.

14 comments:

Ciera said...

Darn - he's proved himself useful...can't break him now. Can we still turn him off like Data when he gets to be too annoying?

Jon the Intergalactic Gladiator said...

Wow, not only is the holographic doc surly and snarky, it appears that he's bucking for a promotion to captain.

Heather said...

It seems a little contrived to me . . .

dddragon said...

{sigh} Poor Captain. Never a dull moment, eh?

So, does he want pay for Doctor AND Security positions?

BarbaraFromCalifornia said...

Sees as if the Enterprise is hopping with activity these days!

Kimberly said...

were you guys dippng into those cosmic mushrooms again ??;-)

Trinity13 said...

Awww, too bad for your girl, Beverly. She'll be crushed!

Shelley said...

Well it's about frickin time the Dr. got some acknowledgement. I would be interested to see just how much trouble Geordi can get into. EVERYONE has a bad day Captain, no worries, luckily you have No. 1 to keep you in line. Or to stick it to you....hey, isn't that the same thing? The sun will come out tomorrow....it's only a day away...

J Anderson said...

The Ferengi are cool!

Ciera said...

J Anderson - You wouldn't say that if you were a woman!!!

Jamie said...

Holograms ROCK!

We should just design them with better personalities!

Pirate Princess said...

What does a hologram need money for? lol!

Love that Riker... he so cheeky at times, but in a cute way. Must be the twinkle in his eye...

Although, there is something to be said for keeping your head about you in such a grave situation.
:0)

Jean-Luc Picard said...

Ciera, if we turned him off occasionally, he'd report us to HUD.

Jon, I may have to watch my back.

Jo Jo, I entered that competition. It got me humming the words...how annoying!

IL, you may well be right.

Barbara, there's never a dull moment here.

MommaK, what are you suggesting?

Trinity, I think the EMH had better be careful at crossing Beverly.

Shelley, are you in league with the EMH?

Jamie, it's the hologram designers who seem to make a mess of it all.

Fuzzbuck, thank you very much. I'll take a look now.

carmilevy said...

There's no telling what the holo-Doc will do next. Does his ambition have no limits?

Thanks for the laugh - yet again.