Just Another Day at the Office
Prologue
It was a normal day. Picard should have known from the begging that things were going to good to be true for the Enterprise.
Data came on to the bridge and took his shift position. As his hands flew over the panel as he sat down, a strange look came over his face. For a moment, it looked as if the android was surprised, almost complete shocked. He heaved forward in half a second and grabbed at his chest. After a loud retching noise that came out of him and he fell to the side of the chair. On all fours the android felt the closest he could to fear, not sure what was wrong with himself and the bridge staff coming to his aid. He felt Troi touch his shoulder as something came up a tract he was sure he didn't completely have. In fact it should not have existed because usually he had no need for it. As he fell back onto his behind, and took a good look at the mass of wires that had elected to release themselves from him. They were wet, and gray in color. The crew stood around it, as two prods began to rise up within the wires. Two robotic eyes peered around for a second, looking at the crew around it before moving rather quickly to an access port and disappeared into the bowels of the ship.
Riker was the first to speak after a few moments of awkward silence. "Okay....what the hell was that?"
"I do not know," was all Data could say, "I hope it was not anything I needed."
"Geordi. This is Riker we need you on the bridge. Data just puked."
"WHAT?!"The combadge responded it.
Picard rubbed his forehead. It was going to be another long day at the office.