Chapter 1
Captain Jean-luc Picard was having a bad day. 1: A distress signal from nowhere. Just, 'the Pedrantun star system'. This 'Pedrantun' star system didn't seem to exist on his readings. Rumours said in was somewhere near the middle of the eastern spiral arm. 2: Commander Data had gone missing. Just didn't turn up for work that morning. He wasn't in his quarters and the computer confirmed that he wasn't on the ship. 3: Q! The rumours were spreading like mad! Q here, continuum overthrowing universe there. It was more than Picard could bear! CRASH!
"Damn it, we've hit some spatial disturbance! Data, put us in full reverse warp! Damn, it's pulling us in!"
"Captain, Data has gone missing, remember?"
"Who said that?"
"None of us, Captain."
"It was me, Jean-luc, remember me? Your old friend from the continuum?"
"Q," said Picard, "what have you done with Data!"
"Oh, don't you worry Picard, I have an IQ of 2,000,005. I think I can look after him."
"Q, I demand an answer!"
"OK, if you must know, he's been drowned in the great swamp of Derag-lantordi- 6, and then I threw him in the fires of Roarcor, and now he's happily having his circuits torn out by the fierce spatial disturbances of the Pedrantun star system."
"Q, you bandit!"
"Oh, come on, Picard have a sense of humour, in fact, commander Data is right here!" He clicked his fingers and Data appeared in a white flash.
"I think my left ear melted slightly on Roarcor," said Data.
