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