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Path: ucbcad!ames!hao!boulder!cu-den!udenva!jtrim
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>From: jtrim@udenva.cair.du.edu (Jeff Trim)
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek
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Subject: Trek Classic meets New Trek - the story!
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Date: 9 Nov 87 22:58:21 GMT
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Piccard: "Star Date Unknown - The Enterpise has just come out of Warp speed
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from an appearent "accident" with our Warp Engines. I sent CMD
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Ryker down to Engineering to find out what happened"
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Ryker: [ On Communicator ] "Captain, Ensign Wesley was playing with the warp
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drive controls again - shall we toss him in the brig?"
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Piccard: "Oh no Number One - You know that ever since that Alian in the Last
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Outpost told me to encourage his learning I have let him play with
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every control system on the ship! Hehehe, poor kid was simply having
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fun. I think that even though he placed 3,100 human lives in danger
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we can let this pass as usual, right Ryker?
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Ryker: "Of course Sir - well just do the usual "naughty little child" speach
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and send him down to Transporter Control so he can dinker with that.
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Ryker out."
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Piccard: "Hehehe - Kids today, always getting in to trouble don't they?
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Reminds me when I was...."
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Troi: "CAPTAIN! Shouldn't you be thinking up a way to get us out of here?
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Piccard: "oh yes your quite right...okay so where are we Data?"
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Data: "Appoximately 25 years before our show went on Television Sir. In the
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days of the Free Speech Movement, Vietnam, Food for peace, The Cuban
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Missile Crisis, Civil Rights, Protesting, Drug Expirmenting, The
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Beetles, Woodstock..."
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Piccard: "JUST THE FACTS DATA."
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Data: "well to put it simply we have travled back in time Sir. Back to the
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days when GOD...er I mean..Gene Roddenbury first started writing these
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scripts...you know back in the dark times."
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Piccard: "Yes Data I know of it - Worf, Yar what do the scanners show?"
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Worf: "Captain unidentified craft is approaching us. It is registered as -
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CAPTAIN! The U.S.S. Enterprise!"
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Piccard: "NO! You mean the original ship with all of it's flaws and mistakes
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that we were created to improve upon? You mean the mold for which
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90% of our series has copied line for line, story for story?"
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Worf: "Yes Sir, and it is pulling into orbit around us captain."
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Piccard: "Well then i guess it's time to do the all famous, completely over
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used, everyone give a suggestion to the captain scene."
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Yar: "We should take 5 hostages from their ship and torture them until..."
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Piccard: "Thanx, Yar - anyone else?"
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Worf: "I say we fight to the last man and self destruct the ship"
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Ryker: Of course - Never says anything
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Yar: "Captain - communication from the other Enterprise"
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Piccard: "Put it on Visual Yar"
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[ The screne clears and Kirk is on viewer - Sulu, Checkov, Uhura, Spock are in
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the background ]
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Kirk "This is the USS Enterprise calling unidentified ship, can you read me"
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Piccard: "Enterprise, this is the USS Enterprise of your future. My name is
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Captain Piccard. I want you to know that I surr..."
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Troi: "NO! Captain you DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT."
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Piccard: "..Ah, yes...er I invite you over here to see what your future looks
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like. We are from the year 1987 - Where Gene is given a new job
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after 25 years and gets to recreate a New Generation of Star Trek.
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Enterprise, we are the Next Generation!"
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Spock: "Captain he refered to Gene Roddenbury. I believe he was the one that
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got all of us into this mess. I believe that he might be telling the
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truth.
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Kirk: "Commander Enterprise - Prepare to recieve us"
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[ In the Transporter Room ]
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[ Kirk Materializes with Spock, McCoy and Scotty ]
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Piccard: "Welcome to the Enterprise Captain Kirk, my name is Piccard.
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Kirk "Hello Mr. Piccard, this is my first officer Mr. Spock, Chief Medical
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officer McCoy and Engineer Mr. Scott"
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Scott: [ See's Worf ] "A Klingon! [ Pulls his phaser ] "I canna believe it
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how'd this nastly little beastie get on 'er ship? Captain I knew this
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was a Klingon trap.
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Kirk: "Easy Scotty, lets let Piccard explain to us about this - Captain?"
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Piccard: "Well..um..ah - you see, Gene Decided that there would be this new
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alian in 1987 and it would be named the Ferengi..and uh...we would
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pretend like all the agressions of the past didn't happen and we
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are all friends now and there is no real explaination..uh"
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Kirk: "I see. You mean to tell me that we have to be friends!!! After all
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I've gone through - and now Gene makes us friends!! Were's the script
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writer..LET ME AT 'EM, LET ME AT 'EM!!!!
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Spock: "Hypo him doctor!"
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McCoy: " [ Hypo's Him ] - Easy Jim. Here's a sedative."
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Scotty: "Alright Klingon - at ease. I guess Gene has his reasons, but someday
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I'll get even."
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Kirk: "Whew - I am okay now - shall we tour the ship gentlemen?"
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[ Piccard leads them to the bridge ]
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Piccard: "This is the bridge gentlemen -"
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Spock: " [ See's Wesley ] Facinating Captain they use teenagers on the bridge!
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Kirk: "Piccard - why do you let allow teenagers on the bridge?"
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Piccard: "Well..uh captain, you see Gene has determinded that todays viewing
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audience is below the age of 13 years old. Therefore all of us
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that have spend years and years working for Star Fleet and attending
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the academy have been outclassed by - you guessed it - someone that
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is 1/5 of our age. Let me show you - Wesley?"
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Wesley: "Yes Captain?"
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Piccard: "I want you to turn my communicator into a combination phaser rifle
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and grenade launcher, okay?"
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Wesley: "But of course Captain, right away!"
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McDougal: "Captain, I have been an Engineer for 27 years and I am absolutely
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positive that that cannot possably be done!"
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Wesley: "What? You must be the dumbest, stupidest person I know!! All you have
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to do is push these three buttons, turn this dial, pull down this
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lever, turn this gidget [ okay - this goes on for another 30 seconds ]
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and presto - what is absolutely, positively impossible is done!
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Piccard: "Isn't that amazing! I mean my Engineer now looks like the biggest
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dolt on the ship - but boy - doesn't Wesley look intelligent!"
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Spock: "Facinating Captain - the kid actually does "steal the show" as the
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20th century producers used to call it."
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Scotty: "Ay - but if he was in my Engineer'in section and double talked my like
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that I'd have 'em placed into the matter/anti-matter condenser to
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be sure."
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Kirk: "Uh-huh - well I tell you what I think we'd better be getting back now"
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Piccard: "So soon, I was going to let Ryker show you the rest of the ship"
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Spock: "This unit..er..person seems to serve no perpose - what does he do?"
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Piccard: "..er..uh well he takes over for people when they should be doing it
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themselves. He's like a Wesley in reverse - he takes over someone
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elses job and screws it up worse than they would have done otherwise.
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But he always looks like a hero in the end.
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Kirk: [putting on a faked smile] Well isn't that helpful!"
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[ Pulling his Communicator ]
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Kirk: "Sulu 4 to transport back"
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Wesley: "Wait - Remember I made modifications to our transporter! Can I
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transport you back, can I, can I?"
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Kirk: "Well..uh..okay - Sulu belay that order - we'll let use the New Enterprise
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transporters instead.
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Wesley: "Weeeeeeeeee! Okay here we go! Locking on to your coordinates - okay
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beaming!"
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COMPUTER: MALFUNCTION, MALFUNCTION, MALFUNCTION -
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Kirk: "Hay uh - AAARRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!"
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[ And the Rest is - uh hummm - history! ]
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Please E-MAIL ALL Flames - Don't post to the NET!
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From ucbcad!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!miq Fri Jan 15 14:30:20 PST 1988
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Article 6956 of rec.arts.startrek:
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>From: MIQ@PSUVMA.BITNET (Jim Maloy)
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek
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Subject: Picard's last stand, and the new Captain
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The scene: A full-brass competency hearing, called after Captain
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Picard surrenders to a crippled Ferengi shuttle that
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has two mortally wounded crew members on board.
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Picard has been stripped of his rank and transferred
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to an ore-freighter. The top brass are now discussing
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the issue of who should take command of NCC-1701D.
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Attending the meeting are:
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Fleet ADM Montague, Commander of Starfleet
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ADM Abdallah, Chairman of Picard's competency board
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ADM Wu, CIC of the First Exploration Fleet
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VADM Phillips, Surgeon General of Starfleet
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RADM Solok, Starfleet Personnel Records Officer
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Montague: So then, Mr. Solok, it is your opinion that we should not
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give command of the Enterprise to Commander Riker?
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Solok: It is my logical conclusion that the Commander would not
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be able to perform the duties of a starship captain.
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Phillips: I'm forced to agree with Admiral Solok, sir. Riker's
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psychological profile shows that he would be forced into
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a nervous breakdown within two weeks. He would be torn
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apart by the contradictory needs to lead the away teams
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and to protect his own life. In one simulator run, he
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put himself on report for trying to beam down to a
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hostile planet.
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Montague: So we must choose another officer. Any recommendations?
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Abdallah: During the hearings, Picard spoke very highly of Lieutenant
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Commander Data's knowledge of starship operations. I would
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consider him first.
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Solok: Mr. Data also has a highly logical mind, aside from his
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peculiar desire to be human.
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Phillips: I'm afraid I have to dissent with you on this one. Despite
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Data's qualifications, he just doesn't have the intuitive
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inspiration it takes to command a starship.
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Solok: I fail to see the logic in...
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Phillips: Besides which, his judgement circuits need a major overhaul.
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He rattles off an entire thesaurus entry at the slightest
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provocation.
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Wu: I'd have to go with Phillips too, sir. We just can't have
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him stop in the middle of a critical situation with a
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monologue of similar events in history.
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Montague: Very well then, Data is out. Is there anyone left worth
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considering?
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Solok: For obvious reasons, Lieutenant Commander Troi cannot
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be considered.
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Wu: Absolutely not. We can't have a starship commander freeze
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every time an unexpected emotion appears.
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Phillips: Lieutanants Worf and Yar are out, too. Much too aggressive.
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Wu: Yes, that would get us into more trouble than someone who
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surrenders all the time.
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Ensign Crusher has proven his ability there, too. In a
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simulator run, he faced five Ferengi vessels in what was
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intended to be a "Kobayashi Maru" test.
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Montague: ...and?
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Wu: The first thing he did was request visual communication,
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and demand an immediate surrender. The Ferengi, after
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getting over their initial shock at seeing a 15-year-old
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Terran commanding, collapsed laughing and babbling about
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the moronic practices of us Terrans.
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Ensign Crusher took advantage of the 30-second delay and,
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rigging the ship's phasers for a simultaneous five-way
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burst, disabled all of the Ferengi opponents.
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(Montague is silent for a long while, then slumps his shoulders in
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defeat)
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Montague: Very well, then. Let the record show a unanimous decision
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to promote Ensign Crusher to Captain, and assign him to
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command the U.S.S. Enterprise.
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(The other panel members file out, leaving Montague alone in the
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conference room. He mutters something incoherent about wanting to
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beam the young captain into an antimatter pod.)
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-------
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James D. Maloy The Pennsylvania State University
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Bitnet: MIQ@PSUECL, MIQ@PSUVM Aerospace Engineering, '87
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UUCP : {akgua,allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!miq
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Disclaimer:-) The preceding opinions were fictitious. Any resemblance
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to any actual opinions, living or brain-dead, is purely
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coincidental.
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