STAR DREK: the Final Degeneration 1.01

Episode 1.02: What kind of crap is this?

Since the team on the surface of the planet hadn't reported back yet, the captain and the counselor were getting quite anxious about them. Soon other members of the crew would realise that something was not exactly to the captains wishes and so the captain decided to talk with counselor D. Ploy, a Fatazoid.

Captain du Merde: "D. Ploy, this is not good, surely the crew would have contacted us by now? I mean the last time we heard from them was when Georgie had contacted us to tell us he had found a suitable landing spot!"

D. Ploy, trying to sound calm, replies: "Well, it could be that they haven't got to the specific spot yet, captain. It could also be that getting to it is a bit harder than they realised."

Captain du Merde: "Hmm, what you say does make some sense, but even so, I would have expected them to at least tell us that they've encountered some difficulties. It would make waiting so much easier."

D. Ploy: "Yes, this is strange, indeed, still I'm sure that they can handle whatever situation they're in."

Captain: "It's bloody strange, that's what it is and I'm sure they can handle most things, but suppose the locals have better weapons or are impervious to whatever the team can throw at them? What then?"

D. Ploy: "I don't know, captain, but maybe you could try to hail them on their comm sigils? Then you would know for sure if they needed some help or not."

Captain: "You know perfectly well, that these things don't work like that. The best thing that engineering could do with them is let these things monitor their life-signs of the crew and with Slingons it hardly seems to have any effect."

D. Ploy: "Well there you have the answer to our problem! Try it now, captain!"

Captain: "We still won't know if they need any help or not, so this still isn't a good idea. Oh well, I guess we'll wait for a few more hours and if they haven't contacted us yet, we'll have to find a way to contact them!"

D. Ploy: "That's the spirit, captain! I think we should find something usefull to do until then."

Captain: "Yes, I should be on my rounds and make sure nothing else happens, but before I do that, I'm visiting a small chamber to relieve a different sort of tension."

"These are the misadventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Traumatized."

While the captain and the counselor were trying to get rid of their anxiety, Georgie realised that he might never have a chance to tell these people that he recognized them so he started talking to them.

Georgie: "Wait a minute I think I know you people, you are the most famous people in all the galaxies!"

(this is true: they are very famous: The famous 38 morons who stole an untried starship!)

The leader replies: "Really? We are famous? Wow... hey, wait a minute! Are you trying to fool us or is this the truth?"

Georgie: "Well, I was trying to fool you people, but it is true, you are the most famous people of our generation. Well, the only exception is our cap--"

Commander Hiker steps in and gives Georgie a knock on the head with his own head. This has the result Hiker was looking for as Georgie gets annoyed and directs his next words to the commander.

Georgie: "Hiker, why did you do that? Now my head hurts and a few seconds ago it was just fine."

Hiker: "It seemed like you needed it, besides you were just rambling on and possibly you forgot what our mission is."

Georgie: "Our mission? I know what our mission is, thank you very much! I was just trying to have a little conversation with these people, that's all."

The leader of the 31 people holding them hostage said: "Your mission? I would certainly like to hear more about it, if it isn't to try to recapture us, that is."

Georgie: "Why in all the galaxies would we try to return you people when the last that the United Federation Academy knew was that you people had destroyed yourselves?"

The leader: "They truly think were dead? Hmm, I'm not sure but if I let you go, then they'll definitely know that we're still alive. Anyway, what I'm interested in is: what is your mission, then?"

Hiker: "Well, since we spilled the beans, so to speak, anyway, our mission is to discover new territories for the Academy and see if they are capable of supporting life for intelligent species."

Georgie: "Yes, and if there is a native race that's intelligent we must not interfere with it."

H'Rorf: "But I thought that our mis--, whoa," he gets out before he trips over doctor Flush's foot and lands face first in the mud.

Doctor Lena Flush: "Sorry about that, H'Rorf! I guess I wasn't paying attention to where I was going," she says with a false tone of regret.

Hiker: "Hmmf! Anyway, you people seem to know a lot about the United Federation Academy, so why don't you tell us something about yourselves!"

The leader of the group: "Why don't we let the talkative one tell you about us since he seems to know all about us."

Georgie: "All I know is that you people were supposed to be the next generation soldiers and that scientists had tried to emulate a deity by trying to create a new breed of humans. The result is what you have become and they realised their mistake when you broke out of those Bio-Chemical Labs and took a new spaceship that had not yet been tested and left earth! There is just one question, however and that is: where is the rest? There used to be 38 of you and now I see that there are only 31 people in your group!"

Leader of the group: "Well done, indeed! You left out one thing, however, that after leaving earth we jumped out using a germhole. Little did we know that our jump-drive was not quite operational, when we discovered that, Nosey our best engineer went to fix the problem. This time he stuck his nose just a little too far and after a loud noise we were knocked unconscious.When we awoke, we found ourselves adrift in space and Nosey was no longer with us. The other six gave their lives trying to get us here."

Hiker: "So that's what happened, we wondered how that germhole had collapsed! Everyone thought that it was due to the unstable natures of the germholes, themselves!"

Georgie: "That was 20 years ago, so why does it look like your ship has been buried for only 3 years?"

Leader of the group: "What 20 years? We left earth and arrived here 3 and a half years back! Take a good look at us, dude, do we look 20 years older?"

End of part 3

See you next time when we see the answer to this mystery!