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Chapter eight, In which we learn the location of the bags

Scene 21

Narrator- Now we go to the bridge. Ensign Nobody-can-remember-my-name is there.

Snodgrass- It's *Snodgrass*! Why does everyone always forget? My tombstone will probably say Ensign Somebody.

Narrator- No, I doubt it.

Snodgrass- (Brightens) You mean they might remember my name?

Narrator- No, I mean they'll probably forget to give you a tombstone. Anyway, the ensign is standing at his guard post, with a brown leather suitcase.

Snodgrass- (opens suitcase) What's this? (sees the papers) Oh. I guess the fairy came again and changed my light bulbs to papers.

Narrator- The ensign goes to his room to put the brown leather suitcase away. Then, when he is going back to the bridge, he trips over a brown leather suitcase.

Snodgrass- What's my suitcase doing out here? (opens it) It's full of nothing. The fairy must have taken away my stuff. (looks at his knee) Oh no! I have a cut! This could be fatal! Should I put this bag away first? I guess so.

Narrator- Now, after Snodgrass puts that suitcase away in his room, he goes to Sickbay. There he meets McCoy.

McCoy- That's *Doctor* McCoy to you!

Narrator- Yeah, yeah, whatever.

McCoy- So what seems to be the problem, Ensign? Something fatal, I hope?

Snodgrass- (gulps) Was that a joke?

McCoy- I'm a doctor, Ensign, not a comedian! I take my work seriously! I don't joke!

Snodgrass- So you want me to die?

McCoy- I suppose you're right. We've got to watch our red-shirt supply. Jim's been using them up pretty fast nowadays.

Snodgrass-I have a cut. (shows the doctor the cut on his knee) Do you have a Band-Aid?

McCoy- I'm doctor, Ensign, not a medical cabinet! Besides, why do you need a Band-Aid? It's not bleeding!

Snodgrass- But Band-Aids always make it feel better!

McCoy- (rolls eyes) sure. There's one in that blue cabinet. (points to a blue cabinet) Usually I like to handle my own patients, but what's the fun of putting on a Band-Aid? Are you sure you don't want a shot, too?

Snodgrass- I'm fine. Besides, I'm a red-shirt. A shot would probably kill me.

McCoy- I have some physicals to schedule. Well, I must be going before something exciting happens and I'll be needed on the bridge.

Narrator- McCoy leaves. Ensign Snodgrass goes over to the blue cabinet.

Snodgrass- I just realized, that's the first time you remembered my name in the whole show!

Narrator- Actually, I always knew your name. I just did that to annoy you.

Snodgrass- (grumbles about the uselessness of narrators)

Narrator- The ensign begins walking to get a Band-Aid, then something catches his eye.

Snodgrass- Something "catches" my eye?

Narrator- It means you noticed something.

Snodgrass- Okay. Oh look! It's a brown leather suitcase! It must be mine! (opens it) Now it's filled with weird chemical stuff. The fairy must really like me! I'd better not touch it though. After all, I *am* a red-shirted ensign!

Narrator- Snodgrass goes and puts "his" bag away.

Scene 22

Narrator- Now we see Spock and Scotty in Engineering.

Spock- Mister Scott, could you change the transporter settings to pick up readings for a brown leather bag?

Scotty- Aye, sir. But why in the world would ye want ta do that?

Spock- I am trying to locate my bag. It appears to have been misplaced.

Scotty- I kin do that, sir. Just give me an hour.

Narrator- Scotty leaves, and comes back in 5 minutes.

Scotty- There ye are, sir. But the readings locate that there are seven bags fitn' that description.

Spock- Please tell me where they are.

Scotty- All seven are in one place. That ensign with the weird name's room.

Spock- I see. You mean that they are in Ensign Snodgrass's room.

Scotty- Oh aye. Snodgrass. That was it.

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