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TOM: Das' da' news.
>From: Praetor Corbett <sco...@gl.umbc.edu>
CROW: Oh good.. The author finally figured out that he wasn't really a
      Lieutenant Commander.
>Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
>Subject: STAR TREK : DARKEST DAYS (3)
MIKE: How many more left??
>Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 16:19:11 -0500
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TOM: F-U-M-B-C-8??? HEY, THAT'S NOT NICE!!
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TOM: Yeah yeah, we know this... Can't we just get on with it???
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>  [BEGIN PART III]
>
MIKE:[Jack Perkins.] Let's watch Part 3 of Darkest Days on the Mystery
     Science The...
BOTS:[Clearing their throats.]
MIKE: Sorry.
>
>         CHAPTER FOUR
>
TOM: FORE!!
>
>     Captains Log, Stardate 49001.3 :
CROW: He must have wrote this while in the bathroom.
MIKE: CROW!
TOM: OH, CROW! YUCK!!
CROW: Heeheehee...
>          It took me two days to discover the whereabouts of Will, but
>          I eventually tracked him down...
MIKE: Like the animal he is.
>                                          New Orleans, what a city it
>          has become... He just happened to know exactly where to 
>          contact the rest of the command crew of the now deceased
CROW: Well why did it take two days if he knew where they were?
>          Starship Enterprise.
>
>     "So, Captain, you mind telling me what this is all about?" Riker 
CROW:[Picard.]Well OF COURSE I'm gonna tell ya. Did ya think I searched
     for you, for two days for the fun of it??? I think NOT!
>said, sauntering over to stand at the bar next to his captain, and friend.
>     "Will, it's classified information...
ALL: DOH!!
> not here, not now."Picard
TOM: You and me.. later.. MY place.
>answered, "You'll just have to wait till we return to Command for the 
>formal briefing by Admiral Necheyev."
MIKE: But she doesn't wear briefs.
>     "Riker didn't like that, classified info. usually meant the 
>Romulans, and Necheyev usually meant the Borg.  But Picard was looking 
>around, keeping a shifty eye on everyone, including the members of the 
>jazz band playing in the corner.
>     "
CROW: Even the jazz band is involved.
TOM: Who said all of that, Mike?
MIKE: No one said it. I think that first quotation mark is a typo.
TOM: Typo?? In THIS story?? NO?!?
>      So what are waiting for? I told Data to round up the rest and meet 
>us at Command at 1800 hours." Will Riker, Commander of the USS Enterprise 
>NCC 1701-D said.
MIKE:[Picard.] But it's only 1756 hours.
TOM: I was wondering who said that.. and I even got a bio.
>     "Will, it takes only a moment to get to San Fransisco, and that's 
>five hours from now...Why not just sitback and relax,
TOM:[singing.] I should really just relax.
MIKE: Tom, don't ever do that again.
>                                                      it'll be the last 
>time we'll get to do that, for a while." Picard said with a smile, 
>rubbing the top of his bald, reflecting head. 
[Crow is making noises you would hear, cleaning a window.]
> Riker didn't like the sound of the last line Picard fed him. What
CROW: I hate liver!
>could he mean "for the last time for a while", he thought, it must be one 
>hell of a mission StarFleet had cooked up for them.
MIKE: Or they've given us jobs behind a desk.
>
>                              ***  ***  ***
CROW: Did I tell you guys, I can speak that?
MIKE: Don't try it Crow.
>
>     "Captain: Admiral Necheyev just passed by and told me to tell you 
TOM: Bite me.
>that the briefing is being held in Conference Room two on Level five." 
>Data announced as he stood up, leaving the the couch he had been sitting 
>on lonely.
MIKE: Who is this character named Lonely?
>      "Fine, Mr. Data."
>      "She also wishes me to inform you that the briefing will begin as 
>soon as the last person arrives." Data stated matter-of-factly.
TOM:[sarcastic.] Oh, so NOW he can speak matter-of-factly, huh?
>      "See, Will, I told you we weren't going to be late for anything." 
>Picard said looking up the foot and a half up to his first officer.
MIKE:[Riker.] Captain, are you finished looking up my foot?
>      "Actually, Captain, You are the last two scheduled that have yet to 
>arrive." Data piped in as the three began heading for the 'lift.
CROW:[Picard.] But we HAVE arrived.
>      Once they got to the fifth floor of the building that held the 
>brain of StarFleet,
TOM: That must be some gigantic brain, eh?
>                    they had nothing to do but pass three separate 
>security checkpoints,
CROW: And of course, gas.
>                      before entering the room. Seated around the black 
>marble table were the heads of StarFleet, his command crew, and the 
>Romulan Ambassador to the Federation. 
>      "Nice of you to show up," a voice called out from halfway up the 
MIKE: You know, I'm beginning to hate this admiral also.
>table, a familiar voice that sent shudders down the spine of the chrome-
>domed captain. 
CROW: Obviously, Captain Picard isn't Corbett's favorite character on
      Star Trek.
> "Admiral Necheyev, it's a pleasure to see you again," Picard said,
MIKE: You big kiss up!
>knowing that the last time they spoke was directly after the destruction 
>of the Enterprise, something she was not the least bit happy about.
TOM: Like we give a care, what she thinks???
>       "Captain, we would like to get started as soon as possible...So if 
>you and your men would take your seats, we could get started."She said, 
CROW:[Picard.] Where should we take them?
TOM:[Necheyev.] DOH! Would you just sit down! 
>trying to assert her power over the older man.
MIKE: Assert THIS!
>       Picard, Riker, and Data moved around the table to take their 
>seats, directly across from the Admiral, obviously she wanted to get so 
>close to the captain that she smell his fear when word of the mission was 
CROW:[announcer.] But it wasn't fear that she smelled.
>told.
>      Turning to his right, he could see that someone, an admiral he 
>didn't recognize, had taken to the podium at the oppisite end of the 
>table. "Ladies and Gentlemen,
MIKE: ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?????
>                              this meeting is being held to discuss a 
>situation that is becoming all but too obvious to us at StarFleet 
>Headquarters." The Admiral began. He seemed to babble, Picard drifted 
TOM: off to sleep.
>back to his encounter with Dr. Soran and Captain Kirk on Virdian III. 
>      When he came back to present, the admiral was finally getting to 
>the jest of the meeting, "That's where you come in, Captain Picard."
CROW: WOAH! How did she know that??
>      Oh no, he thought, I've been caught off guard. What's he talking 
>about, damn. "Excuse me, Sir." was all he could come out with.
>      "Captain, perhaps I didn't make it clear" the Vulcan Admiral 
MIKE: No dosing off to sleep in my class Mr. Picard.
>said, "At the joint request of the Romulan Ambassador and Ambassador 
>Spock, we at StarFleet command have decided to send a full task force 
>into Romulan space so help defend against the Borg.". So that's what 
>it was all about.
TOM: Even *I* couldn't tell, with all of those plot points mentioned.
> Romulans versus the Borg, how couldn't I see that
CROW:[sports announcer.] It's an all out BRAWL!!
>coming, Picard thought.  Sitting next to him was Will Riker, who actually 
>had seen that coming.  
MIKE: Even the blind could've seen that.
>       "I realize that, Admiral, but what exactly does this have to do 
>with me and my command crew." Picard said. Jean-Luc was beginning to 
TOM: Picard really isn't at his best, today. Is he?
>feel a little overwhelmed when he finally got the fact that he was going 
>to be the leader of that task force. "From what I've gotten from 
>StarFleet Command, the next ship out of Utopia Planitia has already been 
>assigned a crew." 
MIKE:[Necheyev.] Who said anything about using them in this mission?
>      "True, Captain. That's why we've decided to split you're command 
>crew into two separate groups. You will lead one ship into Romulan 
TOM: Group A and Group B.
>space, while Commander Riker is given command of The Enforcer." the 
>Vulcan said.
MIKE:[Picard.] Oh yeah, send ME into uncertain doom.
>      The Enforcer was the next ship to come out of Utopia Planitia, 
>although not completed construction, she was combat ready. As for 
CROW: But not leak proof.
>Picard," Begging the Admirals pardon, What ship am I going to command?"
>      "As of this time, that information is classified and will be 
>handed out when StarFleet deems it ready."
TOM: Jeez, I just thought since I'm commanding a ship, I should know what
     that ship IS, and how it works.. That's all.
>                                           Admiral Necheyev said from 
>her seat across from Picard. He could see the dislike she had for him 
>in her eyes.
TOM:[Necheyev.] Chrome-dome.
MIKE:[Picard.] Nimrod.
TOM:[same.] Jerk.
MIKE:[same.] Weiner.
>      "That will be all... Thank You." the Vulcan Admiral said from the 
>podium, before turning to his right and exiting before any further 
>questions could be asked.
>       "That was surely eye opening..."
CROW: No it wasn't.
TOM: Zzzzzzz...
>                                        Riker said cynically into Picards 
>ear.
BOTS: Oh.
MIKE: Along with bittersweet nothings.
>
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>    [END PART III]
>    [GOTO PART IIII]
>
TOM: She doesn't even know her Roman Numerals. Doooohhhh.
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CROW: MORE PADDING????
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