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Time Period: Sometime in season one.
Beating Around the Bush
by: Mezoti
Captain's Log July 18th, 2153:
Have I ever said how much I hate plants? Well if I didn't hate them before I really, really, really hate them now.
It all started on the away mission yesterday. An away team consisting of Ensign Barrows, Lt. Reed,
Sub-Commander T'Pol and myself were exploring a new M class planet 'Enterprise' had come across.
(It looked amazingly like the one we were exploring three months ago with the killer pollen.)
Once we got down there, T'Pol started running scans and Malcolm was looking for something to blow up.
Basically normal behaviour for those two. Ensign Barrows was muttering under his breath something that sounded
like "I don't want to die. I don't want to die." He must have been playing some type of pocket game. Either that or
he was in dire need of psychiatric help. Anyway, we all started to split up. Well, T'Pol and Lt. Reed were splitting
up. Ensign Barrows was cowering behind the shuttle and I still didn't know what I was going to do yet. Then, out of
the corner of my eye I spotted a plant the likes of which I've never seen before. It looked like a cross between a
forsythia bush that had been died fuschia and a black and orange Tirellian Wono flower. Not exactly the most
pleasant mixture, yet very eye-catching. I decided to take of closer look, not taking any scans first. After all how
was I supposed to know a plant can be dangerous? I walked over to it and just as I'm bending over to look at one
of it's flowers, it grabbed me around the waist! It started trying to pull me into the midst of its branches and I think
it was going to try and eat me. This was not exactly the best situation for a StarFleet Officer to be in. I still shudder
to think that my listed cause of death could have been 'eaten by a begonia'. I needed to try something, so I started
hitting the plant. Which had absolutely no effect. I kept trying anyway, not wanting to go out without a fight.
Just as I thought things couldn't get worse, the damn plant let go of me. Now that in itself wasn't the worse point.
That was something rather good. The problem was it took awhile for my brain to register that I was free. So when
T'Pol came around from the other side of the bush I was still hitting it. Should've known the Vulcan was the only
thing that could scare the hell out of a plant. So there she is standing, watching me with that left eyebrow of hers
disappearing into her hairline. I can just see her adding this incident to her report for Ol' Ambassador Pointy Ears.
I remember thinking at the time that maybe she would let me off easy for once. Yeah, right. "Captain, I was not
aware it was an Earth custom to hit random foliage." Someone should really tell her that amusement is an emotion.
"It isn't." That was the only answer she was going to get out of me. "It is time to return to 'Enterprise', Captain.
We must return to the shuttle craft." The walk back to the shuttle was rather quiet. I still think that was because
T'Pol couldn't quite repress her amusement. Well getting back to the ship was uneventful. We only stopped once
so Lt. Reed could use the planet as target practice. Finally we were back in the shuttle bay and going into de-con,
when I think Ensign Barrows finished his game because he shouted "I'm still alive!" and started kissing the ground.
It really was a pity when in the next moment a cargo container fell on his head and killed him. That was the end of
that away mission. Although I'm still trying to blackmail T'Pol out of telling what she saw to anyone.
End Log.
Time Period: Sometime in season one.
Beating Around the Bush
by: Mezoti
Captain's Log July 18th, 2153:
Have I ever said how much I hate plants? Well if I didn't hate them before I really, really, really hate them now.
It all started on the away mission yesterday. An away team consisting of Ensign Barrows, Lt. Reed,
Sub-Commander T'Pol and myself were exploring a new M class planet 'Enterprise' had come across.
(It looked amazingly like the one we were exploring three months ago with the killer pollen.)
Once we got down there, T'Pol started running scans and Malcolm was looking for something to blow up.
Basically normal behaviour for those two. Ensign Barrows was muttering under his breath something that sounded
like "I don't want to die. I don't want to die." He must have been playing some type of pocket game. Either that or
he was in dire need of psychiatric help. Anyway, we all started to split up. Well, T'Pol and Lt. Reed were splitting
up. Ensign Barrows was cowering behind the shuttle and I still didn't know what I was going to do yet. Then, out of
the corner of my eye I spotted a plant the likes of which I've never seen before. It looked like a cross between a
forsythia bush that had been died fuschia and a black and orange Tirellian Wono flower. Not exactly the most
pleasant mixture, yet very eye-catching. I decided to take of closer look, not taking any scans first. After all how
was I supposed to know a plant can be dangerous? I walked over to it and just as I'm bending over to look at one
of it's flowers, it grabbed me around the waist! It started trying to pull me into the midst of its branches and I think
it was going to try and eat me. This was not exactly the best situation for a StarFleet Officer to be in. I still shudder
to think that my listed cause of death could have been 'eaten by a begonia'. I needed to try something, so I started
hitting the plant. Which had absolutely no effect. I kept trying anyway, not wanting to go out without a fight.
Just as I thought things couldn't get worse, the damn plant let go of me. Now that in itself wasn't the worse point.
That was something rather good. The problem was it took awhile for my brain to register that I was free. So when
T'Pol came around from the other side of the bush I was still hitting it. Should've known the Vulcan was the only
thing that could scare the hell out of a plant. So there she is standing, watching me with that left eyebrow of hers
disappearing into her hairline. I can just see her adding this incident to her report for Ol' Ambassador Pointy Ears.
I remember thinking at the time that maybe she would let me off easy for once. Yeah, right. "Captain, I was not
aware it was an Earth custom to hit random foliage." Someone should really tell her that amusement is an emotion.
"It isn't." That was the only answer she was going to get out of me. "It is time to return to 'Enterprise', Captain.
We must return to the shuttle craft." The walk back to the shuttle was rather quiet. I still think that was because
T'Pol couldn't quite repress her amusement. Well getting back to the ship was uneventful. We only stopped once
so Lt. Reed could use the planet as target practice. Finally we were back in the shuttle bay and going into de-con,
when I think Ensign Barrows finished his game because he shouted "I'm still alive!" and started kissing the ground.
It really was a pity when in the next moment a cargo container fell on his head and killed him. That was the end of
that away mission. Although I'm still trying to blackmail T'Pol out of telling what she saw to anyone.
End Log.