I do not own any of the characters used or mentioned in this story. If I did, I wouldn't be here writing this. I would be on vacaction on a beach somewhere living a better life than this one.
NOW HE KNOWS HOW I FEEL!
Aaron always wondered if John was unique for an Erpman or if they were all as farbot as he seemed to be most of the time. The one time that they had visited Earth the government there had kept them under close guard and she couldn't really tell under such controlled conditions. She thought that would have been her only chance to find out. It never occurred to her that she would meet Erpmen all the way out here in the uncharted territories. Than, they started to hear rumors of a strange ship commanded by a crew of people calling themselves humans. It seemed a likely trap but the rumors always came with stories of this ship and crew performing heroic deeds. Saving people and ships, rescuing the stranded and fighting every pirate and slaver they came across. John was a little mystified and a little ticked off when some pirates came looking for that 'human' John Crichton to get some payback. That was enough to make John decide to find the source of these rumors and deal with them.
It took them a quarter cycle to track down the strange ship. John started acting weird (even for him) from the moment he got a visual on the ship. Aaron had to admit, it was certainly an odd design with that long tapered cyllindrical body with the tiered structures on top and the propulsion wings coming up from below mid ship to sweep back in two gracefull curves. Much to everyones surprise the ships did have humans on it, but only five making up the command staff.
When they contacted the ship and got a visual Aaron was almost as surprised as John seemed to be when he said "I know you". They quickly got aboard and were welcomed by the crew who seemed nice enough and almost Sibacean except for their pale skin. After a long conversation with the captain of the ship and the four other humans on board Aaron was actually feeling very selfsatisfied at Critchons predictament.
John was talking to the ships commander(humans really liked styling themselves "commander") while the rest of the command crew was getting to know Moia's crew. The one human who colled himself "Rock" almost got killed by D'ahgo when he made a pass at Chiana but now he and Rigel were getting along like kindred spirit. While, D'ahgo and Chiana seemed to be hitting it off with this Tech Sgt. Chen and his wife Jane.
All these cycles, he had confused the hasmat out of her with his bizzar sayings and his insane plans! Again and again, she had declared how totally farbot he was and he would just shrug it off and continue into one more lunatic plan after another. Now finally, he knew how she felt.
Critchon: "So, these termeans…"
The Captain: "Thermians."
Critchon: "Whatever,.. no matter what you say they refuse to believe you are anyone except that character from the show."
The Captain: "That's right, we have tried but they just think it is some brilliant deep strategy of mine."
Critchon: "And you have been out here since 99?!... but that is a whole year before I even launched the FARSCAPE! Why didn't you say anything to anyone?!"
The Captain: "Well, we mostly figured they wouldn't believe us, of lock us up as lunatics, or worse believe us and try to take advantage of the Thermians. Just look how people and the government reacted when you showed up last year. Besides, we figured we would never get a chance to go out again."
Aaron couldn't hope but smirk as John couldn't get the look off his face as if someone had hit him between the eyes with a qualta blade. Critchon couldn't seem to make up his mind weather to be happy, amazed out of his mind, or furious that the captain of this ship couldn't stop smiling in the most smug way possible about all his adventures in space. Aaron knew how Critchon felt. It was how she felt every time he came up with another insane plan to save the day, or reason for going in to explore some part of space any sane sentient would stay away from. But, now Aaron had her answer. She looked across the room at the other ramaing human a blond woman who was looking at her commander with the same look of exasperation the Aaron often had about Chriton. They might not all be, but way to many of these humans where just as farbot as Critchon. She almost broke down laughing at the thought of all the trouble they were going to cause the Scarrens, and Peacekeepers! Well, whatever they did Aaron had no doubt that they would be hearing more of Captain Taggert and the spaceship GALAXY QUEST!