Guest Poster: Ro Laren
My boyfriend and I are in a fix!
He is Ambassador Vorak, a Cardassian, and as I'm a Bajoran, we are not supposed to have any sort of relationship, as our races despise each other.
Captain Picard has sent me on an assignment to check what Vorak is doing when he vanishes, as Starfleet suspect he may be a spy. What they don't know is that when he disappears, he is secretly with me on one of our dates!
What a fix! If my Bajorian friends knew, no one will speak to me and they would stop sending me copies of Bajor Today.
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"What are we going to do, sweetie?" Vorak asks, as we sit in the discreet restaurant Chez Silente.
"I've no idea." I reply, "Somehow, I've got to give a good reason for you staying out of sight, without exposing me as your girlfriend."
Things then get even worse as the restaurant door opens to show the last two people I wanted to see.
Captain Picard and Beverly Crusher enter. They are dressed in their favourite 1940's outfits. I know the Captain likes to play the PI Dixon Hill in his holodeck program. So, a secret date for the Captain and Doctor Crusher!
I dive under the table rapidly and crawl across the floor to where the tall plants are. The waiters merely raise an eyebrow as they step over me while carrying plates.
The Captain has seen Vorak. He and Beverly walk over to him. I am watching the scene from behind a Salassa plant from the planet Fawna.
"Greetings, Ambassador." Picard says to Vorak, "I was unaware you went to Chez Silente. Are you waiting for someone?"
"Ahh...er..." Vorak hesitantly answers, and looks to the empty chair that I was sitting on.
"Expecting company?" Picard continues, thinking that he is about to meet a spy there.
"Err...yes...." Vorak continues.
"Don't mind if we wait do you." the Captain continues, and then drifts off into some Federation small-talk that would bore people to tears.
Now I've got to make a big choice. Do I come forward and declare that I'm Vorak's date and end both our careers, do I leave Vorak behind....or is there a third alternative?
To be continued...
14 comments:
Well, are any of the waiters cute?
No? Well, then, here's a suggestion: Report back to the Enterprise that persons looking very much like Capt. Picard and Dr. Crusher have made contact with the Cardassian subject you've been tailing. Of course the ship will have to notify the Captain right away... oh no! not another doppelganger! ...and the Captain and Dr. Crusher will have to leave the table to take the call... lest the Cardassian Ambassador learn that he's being spied upon... and in the confusion you and he can make good your escape.
But are you sure you'd rather not check out one of the waiters?
Um...third option.... Blackmail
I want my eyebrows like hers!
Awkward! Bad enough to see the Captain on a date, but to be seen with someone who'll get you rejected by your whole race? Tsk!
Bajor Today has too many ads anyway. I say publicly declare your love!
Curmudgeon, you do have an ingenious solution. One that Ro won't think of!
Batgirl, that is another option indeed!
I think they should get it out in the open.
That's quite a dilemma. Blackmail might just work!!
Uh Oh
Hmm, what if the whole situation in there devoloves into a pie fight? Just a suggestion.
Ohhhhhhh, eeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr.
Ah, what a tangled web we weave indeed! Be interesting to see how Ro gets herself out of this one but I think it's just too darned bad that in a society that has evolved as much as this one that one still has to skulk around with someone from another race. I guess it's true that "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
Now, Ro, make like a country song and "Stand By Your Man"!!
Linda, good thoughts there. It's so true that even in the 24th Century, there is animosity.
Jon, a pie fight would have been a good alternative ending!
Beverly and I have the same style in clothes. She looks terrific.
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