Amnesia? Wonderful!
Who: Cerebrum (alone at last)
Where: Dr Keto's office
Cerebrum had taken over Dr Keto's office to use as the new
Psychiatric Department's office. He assumed that Dr Keto would be
delighted to hand over his office. This assumption would have been
impossible to make if Cerebrum had not been completely insane.
"Holly, give me an update on the ship's situation, will you?"
Cerebrum asked, as he swept all the miscellaneous medical files,
personnel belongings and ointment jars of Dr Keto off the desk.
"Well, your counterparts from the Red Dwarf are consuming a large
amount of the moonshine you've been selling,"
"Good, good,"
"We've got some new crewmembers,"
"Splendid, I'll have to do a full psych-analysis on them."
"And Captain Niples has amensia and can't remember anything."
"And that's the best news of all," Cerebrum said, gleefully.
"Why?"
"First I'll convince him that before he lost his memories, he was
going to upgrade the psych-department's budget, and then I'll restore
his memories using the money he gives me to make new equipment, and
get another budget boost. Where is he?"
"At Parrot's bar."
Cerebrum stood up, grabbed his portable computer, some papers and was
off in a shot.
A very short period of time later, at Parrot's bar
"Ah, Captain, there you are," Cerebrum said, "Splendid to see you.
I've finished typing up that budget increase for the Psychiatric
Department that you requested two months ago, and all that's left is
for you to sign it," he held out a pen, and a form that would
increase the psych-department's budget by two and a half million
dollarpounds, quarterly.