Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Lt. Cmdr. Jason Smegg - \"Double, double, toil \'n\' trouble\"

Just one note, don't introduce Efof Yuwankers counterpart yet, I know
EXACTLY wot he's gonna be like. I'll post tomorrow.
>From: e.kolis@...
>Reply-To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@egroups.com
>To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@egroups.com
>Subject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Lt. Cmdr. Jason Smegg - "Double, double, toil 'n'
>trouble"
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:55:19 -0500
>
>On the other Blue Dwarf
>Shortly after boarding
>
>The engineer found the other ship fascinating; so fascinating that he was
>almost envious of the other engineer who kept it in shape. All the
>perfectly aligned bearing struts, the stellar fuel-intake system that was
>twice as efficient as the one on his own ship... Starship Starship
>burning Bright, In the Nebulae of the Night, What Ingenious Hand or Eye,
>Could Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry?
>
>While he admired the warp propulsion system, a young man walked up to
>him. Smegg noticed that this man looked a whole lot like himself, only...
>well, slimmer and more relaxed.
>
>"Hello," the counterpart said, "you must be one of the visitors from the
>other dimension? We'd heard about you."
>
>"Um, yes," Smegg replied, not knowing what to say to this version of
>himself. "Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Lt. Cmdr. Jason Smegg. You must be
>Lt. Cmdr. Jason Smegg? As well?"
>
>"Yes," Smegg-2 said calmly, "although we really don't need to use titles
>around here. All of us are equal. You may call me Jason. May I call you
>Jason as well?"
>
>"I suppose..." Jason said.
>
>"Would you like to join me for a cup of tea?" Jason-2 inquired.
>
>"Umm, sure."
>
>
>The other Smegg's quarters
>10 minutes later
>
>The two Smeggs set down their teacups they had received from the food
>dispenser. Jason-2 then reached into his pockets and pulled out four
>individually packaged pink tablets.
>
>"What are those?" Jason asked.
>
>"Artificial sweetener," Jason-2 said. "Here you go," and handed 2 of them
>to Jason.
>
>Jason looked at the tablets. He'd never seen this brand of sweetener
>before. "SOMA"? Oh well... He dropped the pills into the drink and
>swirled them around with a stirrer. They dissolved faster than he could
>have expected. He took a sip - and spit it out.
>
>"Don't you like the tea?" Jason-2 asked. "It's a blend of Pekoe-Mon and
>Earl Grey Poupon."
>
>"It tastes like --" Jason sputtered, "-- like... TEA!"
>
>"Well it IS tea..."
>
>"Yes, and where I come from, tea is supposed to taste like week-old
>chicken soup!"
>
>"I'm sorry, then; our food replicators aren't programmed for week-old
>chicken soup. I suppose I could fix that for you, but that would distract
>us from our conversation."
>
>"Oh well," Jason said, setting the teacup down. "Did I tell you about
>earlier today when I got stuck in a jefferies tube and Efof Yuwanker had
>to come and pull me out?"
>
>"Efof Yuwanker?"
>
>"Hey, I thought you guys were supposed to be polite!"
>
>"I'm terribly sorry, Jason! Who is this Mr. or Ms. Yuwanker, whichever
>the case might be?"
>
>"You don't have a counterpart for him?" Jason said. "He's this alien we
>picked up when we got a distress call from the planet Ffion. He's the
>last surviving member of his race."
>
>"The Ffionians are extinct in your universe?!" Jason-2 exclaimed. "What
>did you do to them?! Over here they're founding members of the
>Interstellar Peace Concordium!"
>
>"We didn't do anything. Their planet irradiated them 600 years ago. Efof
>was sealed inside a stasis capsule when the accident occurred."
>
>"What a terrible, terrible pity. I should like to meet Efof as soon as
>possible."
>
>Jason decided to move on to another subject. "What a fine ship you have
>here."
>
>That was not apparently the best choiceof subject, for Jason-2's eyes
>suddenly seemed to glow. "The better to assimilate you with, my dear!"
>
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>One grizzled old sailor to another:
>"Well, excuse me for saying so, 'Admiral' Phineas Q. Crunch,
>but I still don't quite believe that yarn of yours
>about the 'dreaded Cereal Pirates of Azhakbania'!"
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