Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Lt. Cmdr. Smegg - \"Mmm... starship\"
Star Trek, the original one.
>From: e.kolis@...
>Reply-To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@egroups.com
>To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@egroups.com
>Subject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Lt. Cmdr. Smegg - "Mmm... starship"
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:21:44 -0500
>
>The asteroid that's being mined
>Whenever we're mining it
>
>"I wanted to explore strange new worlds," Smegg grumbled, "and now I end
>up mining them!"
>
>Actually he wasn't doing the mining, but doing the slightly less
>strenuous and monotonous work of operating the machinery that turned the
>raw ore into much-needed supplies. He recalled that once he'd considered
>how the ship could virtually refit itself like this; he didn't know he'd
>actually have to do it!
>
>Then some sort of creature that sort of looked like a two-foot-long slug,
>only it was made of almost red-hot rock, chewed its way out of the
>ground.
>
>"YOU KILLED OUR BABIESSS!" the monster somehow hissed.
>
>------------------
>Inside Smegg's brain
>A bit before
>
>"How is the plan working?" Yellow blinked to Cerulean.
>
>"This demon-god is ready for the first phase!" Cerulean blinked back.
>"Activate the nidomene transmitters!"
>
>Immediately thousands of other micros each moved toward a neuron and
>emitted the hallucinatory fear-producing neurotransmitter.
>
>------------------
>Back on the asteroid
>
>"Eep!" Smegg gulped. Why was everyone else off duty?!
>
>"YESSS YOU KILLED OUR BABIESSS!!!" the rock creature hissed again.
>
>"Killed - killed your babies?!?" Smegg stammered.
>
>"YESSSSS!!!!! AND SO WE ARE EATING YOUR SSSHIP!!!"
>
>Smegg looked up...
>
>only to see two ships in the sky...
>
>the Blue Dwarf...
>
>and the Red Dwarf!
>
>The Blue Dwarf looked pretty damaged, but the Red Dwarf was in even worse
>shape - even from ten miles below, its hull appeared to be... CHEWED on!
>
>------------------------------------
>
>Are the rock-monsters real or only a hallucination?
>Is the Red Dwarf really an orbital snack bar?
>Will anyone figure out where I stole the ideas of the rock-creatures and
>the micros from?
>
>Find out sometime in the future on...
>
>BLUE DWARF
>
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