"Guinea Pigs"
(The Phoenix-X docks at Starbase
55. Admiral Theseus looks out his office window to see the ship)
Theseus: Ahhhh yes. My guinea
pigs. Heh, heh, heh. Hahaha! AAaahahahahaha!!--
Cid(sitting at the table):
--Uhhh, I don't get it.
Theseus: Shut up, you!
(Armond approaches the Commander
on the Bridge of the Phoenix-X)
Armond: Commander, we've
sucessfully docked with the Starbase. What is the Starbase's shield configuration
so that we may match it?
Gotens(playing the new Star
Wars Pod Racer game on the control panel): Huh? The what?
Armond: The configuration!
Gotens(thinks about it):
Hmm... I don't think I remember.
Armond: But you're the only
person who is authorized to that information!!
Gotens: Oh, I'm sure I'll
recall if I keep playing this game for another couple hours. I'll get back
to you.
Armond: Arrggh.
(The Doctor holds a device
above Ensign Billy's forehead and heals a wound)
Ensign Billy: Uhhh... you're
a real Doctor, right?
Lox: Oh yeah. Definitely.
(Ensign Billy starts growing
a third eye on his forehead)
Lox(holds a mirror up to
his face): There, all better.
Ensign Billy: Ahh, ahhh, ahhhhhh!!!!!!!
(He runs away)
EMH(appears): You are such
a failure as a Doctor.
Lox: I am not! That is a
work of art.
(Theseus and Daniel enter
the Phoenix-X's Captian's Ready Room. They take a seat)
Theseus: Captian, you may
know that the Federation doesn't entirely trust you and your judgement.
Daniel: Who, me? Admiral,
you shock and appaul me.
Theseus: You constantly
go behind our back and do your own thing!
Daniel: Hey, it's a free
country.
Theseus: We're in space!!
Daniel: Oh, right.
Theseus: Just last week
you let an entire subspace alien race colonize in your shuttle bay!!
Daniel: Oh come on. We had
the space, they were invisible, we were horny, they ate Klingon cheese;
those were just the times.
Theseus: And the week before
that, you told the Klingon Empire that Deep Space 4 was under attack by
Romulan-Klingon-vestites!
Daniel: I was just demonstrating
to my crew that we were faster than the Klingon ships any day. It took
them 4 days and us only 2 hours to get there!
Theseus: Then explain why,
the week before that, you joined a space ship parade in the other Quadrant.
Daniel(shrugs): We got 3rd
place for the most naked people on a ship. Are you here to Court Marshal
me?
Theseus: No. I'm here to
let you redeem yourself. You will once and for all win the trust of the
Federation.
Daniel(laughs): And how
am I gonna do that? I've already tried flirting with Admiral Coocheka;
it turned out that she was really a man.
Theseus: I'm here to give
you an important and dangerous mission.
Daniel: Oooo, those are
my favorite.
Theseus(leans in): You are
to invade Corollas 6 and retrieve a Trill prototype for a multi-spacial
shield genorator.
Daniel: But Corollas 6 is
located deep within Breen space. The Breen are walking dinosaurs!!
Theseus: Do not worry. I
have downloaded all 34 Jurassic Park movies into your computer for you
to study.
Daniel(turns on his computer):
Heh. That Spielberg just went too far.
Gotens(walks over to Armond):
Hey, did you ever find out what those shield configurations were?
Armond: No. Do you know?
Gotens: No. I was just trying
to make conversation. So how's that wife of yours?
Armond: I don't have a wife.
Gotens: You don't? Phew,
thank God; then I guess I'm really not having an affair.
Armond: But I do have a fionce!!
Gotens: Oops.
(The Phoenix-X undocks the
Starbase and heads out into deep space. The Captian takes a stroll around
the ship.)
Daniel: My feet are getting
tired.
(He shapeshifts his feet
into wheels. He enters the Cloaking Device room)
Gewdeque: Captian! I had
no idea you were going to be here! Let me just fix my hair.
Daniel: No, no. At ease,
Ensign. I was just seeing how things are going in here.
Gewdeque(accidentally knocks
over her coffee): Oops.
GoyCho(walks over): Here,
let me get that for you--
(They both bend down and
hit eachothers heads)
Gewdeque/GoyCho: Owe!!
(Daniel just watches in
disappointment. GoyCho loses his balance and falls backward onto the Cloaking
Device. GoyCho suddenly goes invisible)
GoyCho: Aaahh!!! Where am
I!?
Gewdeque(picks up the coffee
mug): Ahhh!!! Where'd you go!?
Daniel(shakes his head):
I can't have my crew with me on this mission. They'll just goof everything
up!
Gewdeque(groping around
to try to find GoyCho): No we won't.
(Gewdeque accidentally hits
the invisible GoyCho in the face with the mug)
GoyCho: Owe!!
Gewdeque: Oh, there you
are.
(The Commander takes a seat
in the Captian's chair. Kayl enters the Bridge with a new haircut)
Gotens(playing with a finger
trap): Hey, Kayl, that's a really nice haircut.
Kayl: Oh thank you, Commander.
Gotens: Now all you need
is a nose job and brest implants.
Kayl(cries): What!?
(The Captian steps off the
turbolift. Kayl runs away to the turbolift, crying.)
Daniel: What's wrong with
her? Commander, are we there yet?
Gotens: Yes, sir! Here we
are at Sector 259, the Disney Planet.
Daniel: I said Sector 952!!
Gotens: Oh. But are you
sure you don't wanna stay here for a while? They're showing the new version
of Bambi. Bambi's verses the Lion King.
Daniel: No! I have an important
mission. Helm, take us to Sector 952. Commander, evacuate Vector 3 and
prepare it for deep space travel. Armond, bring my bucket to Deck 25.
Armond: Yes sir!
Gotens: Why do you want
me to evacuate Vector 3?
Daniel: Are you questioning
my actions!?
Gotens: Yes.
Daniel: Argh. Well, I can't
cloak the ship and bring it into Breen space because when we're cloaked
the transwarp drive leaves a certian quantum trail that only the Breen
can detect. Since Vector 2 has the Transwarp drive and Vector 3 has the
Cloaking Device, I can bring just Vector 3 and I won't be detected. Hense
forth and forth hense I will, alone, bring Vector 3 with me on this important
and dangerous mission to Breen space.
Gotens(playing with the
finger trap): Huh? Oh I'm sorry, did you say something?
Daniel(snatches the toy
away from him): I said I'm going alone into Breen space!!
Gotens: But, sir, the Breen
are dangerous; you will be killed! I order you not go on this mission.
Daniel: Listen, I am Captian
and you are Commander.
Gotens: Come again?
Daniel: You can't order
me around!!!
Gotens: Well then take me
along.
Daniel: No! You'll just
play with the finger trap!!
Gotens: Yeah, but I'll help
too.
Daniel(gives the finger
trap back): Arrghhh...
(Daniel leaves the Bridge)
Gotens: Was it something
I said?
(The Phoenix-X re-enters
normal space at the Breen space border. Vector 3 detaches and cloaks. The
rest of the Phoenix-X turns around and parks at a safe distance from Breen
space. Captian Daniel stands, alone, on the battle bridge of Vector 3 as
it heads deep into Breen space.)
Daniel(talking to himself):
Must have a sucessful mission. Must have a sucessful mission. Must not
talk self. Must not tak to self--
(The invisible Vector finally
approaches the planet and two Breen warships that are guarding it.)
Daniel(paraniod): Ahh!!
I better make sure that the cloak is working at peek effiencency.
(He liquifies and pours
through the floor)
(The Commander and Doctor
sit on top of the cloaking device, invisible)
*Lox(nervous): Are you sure
that this is a good idea?
*Gotens: Heh, heh. Of course.
The Captian practically asked me to sneak aboard.
*Lox: But what do you need
me for?
*Gotens: I needed you to
saduce the security guard, remember?
*Lox: Oh yeah... That was
fun.
(Daniel pours through the
ventalation and takes shape on the floor. He walks over to a control panel)
*Gotens: Shh!! Be quiet,
here he comes.
*Lox: Well get your elbow
off my hip!
*Gotens: Then get your finger
out of my nose!!
(Daniel reaches over the
cloaking device and pulls the two off it. They become visible)
Gotens: Oh... hi.
Daniel: What are you two
doing here!?
Gotens: We're here to help,
Captian. We'll do anything you want--except oral sex-- Well, maybe. I'd
have to think about it.
Daniel: I thought I ordered
you not to--
*Computer: --Warning, now
entering planetary atmosphere.
Daniel: Oh no. What am I
gonna do??
Lox: Do you need a third
eye?
(Daniel liquifies and goes
through the ventation. Fire engulfs Vector 3 as it goes through the thermosphere.
The Breen ship detects them, fires torpedos at them and misses. Vector
3 uncloaks, raises shields, and heads down to the surface. The Vector soars
downward through a couple clouds in the sky and then flies a low 10 feet
above the ground. Two Breen ships come down, and follow closely behind
Vector 3.)
Daniel: On screen.
(The two ships, chasing
them, goes on screen.)
Daniel: They're ten times
bigger than us, do you think you can out run them?
Gotens(sitting at the helm):
Yeah, it's just like that game I was playing. But if I don't, you can have
my finger trap collection.
(One Breen ship speeds ahead
of Vector 3.)
Lox: We're surrounded!
(Daniel gets behind the
weapon control panel, fires two torpedos and the Breen ship at the back
takes minimal damage. The Breen at the back fires back, misses Vector 3,
and accidentally hits the Breen at the front. Electrical bands engulf the
Breen ship and the ship explodes; the two remaining ships fly through it.
Speed increases as the Breen chases Vector 3 towards the mountians in the
distance.)
Gotens: Lox, divert as much
power as you can to the shields.
Lox: Aye, sir; diverting
power away from shields.
(The Breen fire again and
miss. Vector 3 slows down, rises, and hovers above the Breen ship. The
mountians are seconds away. Vector 3 attaches a tractor beam to the Breen
ship and pushes it downward. The Breen ship scrapes along rocky surface
of the planet and begins to tear apart. Vector 3 gets behind the Breen
and pushes them faster. The Breen ship smashes into the mountian wall and
Vector 3 flies right through the explosion.)
Daniel: Alirght!
(Vector 3 loses control
and heads downward towards the mountians. Daniel impulsively fires a hole
in the mountian and the Vector flies through it, crashing inside the mountian.
Everyone falls down.)
Gotens/Lox/Daniel: AAAAaaaaaahhh!!!
(The smoke and chaos go away)
Gotens(gets up with bruises
all over him): We're alive!! I really thought we were gonna die there.
Daniel(gets up): Yeah, but
that wouldn't be consistant with these episodes.
Gotens: ...
Daniel: I'm glad you guys
came... Except for Lox. You're the nutty professor.
(The viewscreen suddenly
goes on)
Gotens: Hey, Lox. Did you
do that?
Lox: No, but I'll take credit
for it.
(They look at the screen.
There's a huge cavern full of technical equiptment. A man lies on a bed
in the middle of the room; tubes and wires are connected to him. The Captian,
Commander and Doctor beam into the room and begin tri-quarter readings)
Lox(approaches the man):
This guy is dead.
Gotens: Oh my gosh!!
Lox: What!?
Gotens: I just remembered
the shield configurations for Starbase 55!
Lox: Wow, great. That'll
really help us.
Gotens: Oh my gosh!!
Lox: What!?
Gotens(notices the spots
on the man's neck): This guy's a Trill.
Lox(continues more tri-quarter
readings): Yeah, just like you. These devices seem to be connected to his
cerebral cortex and other such parts of the brain that I have no names
for.
Daniel(on the other side
of the room): Yes!! I found the multi-spacial shield generator!! Respect,
here I come.
(He tries pulling the generator
out)
Daniel: Ugh! It's--stuck--
Lox: Captian, the Symbiont
in this man's system is still alive. But it will die in a couple hours
unless I can find a suitable host for it.
Daniel(still trying to pull
the generator out): Argghh-- huh? Well, don't look at me.
Gotens: I'll do it.
Daniel: Oh, thanks. I'm
having a H. E. double hockey sticks of a time, trying to get this stupid
thing out.
Gotens: No! I'll be the
host.
Daniel: What do you think
this is, a dinner party with Regis and Cathilee? You're already hosting
a Symbiont.
Gotens: Yeah, but I'll take
my Symbiont out, and put this guy's Symbiont in me.
Daniel: This isn't lego.
What are you gonna do with yours!?
Gotens: Keep it in a glass
case; and when we get home, there'll be another Trill waiting and then
we can make the switch again!
Lox: Brilliant. But who's
gonna do the surgury?
Gotens: You will.
Daniel: No he won't! He's
Doctor Kevorkian!!
Gotens: Trust him.
*Daniel: Captian's log, Stardate 527789213485603218653--well, you get the point. It's been 4 hours and the untrustworthy Doctor Lox has been in surgury switching the Gotens host for the Xen host. Commander Night Gotens will now be known as Commander Night Xen--waitaminute, according to Starfleet regulations, he's not a Federation officer anymore. Wohoo!!
(Daniel sits in his ready
room, contacting the Federation)
Daniel: I found the prototype.
*Theseus(on screen): Good.
But the real reason I sent you down there was to retrieve the Xen Symbiont.
Daniel: What!? You lied!?
*Theseus: Yeah, pretty much.
Captian, you haven't heard of the Xen Symbiont? Legend says that it's lived
for more than fifteen centuries, it's the oldest Symbiont to live ever;
and it is said that it has achieved complete wisedom and knowledge of the
entire universe!! This is our key to the universe!!
Daniel(cuts the transmission):
Fruitcake.
(Daniel enters sickbay)
Daniel: Report.
Lox: I am just about done.
I finally did something right.
(The Doctor steps away from
the medical bed. Night Xen sits up.)
Xen: Oh heaven of heavens.
I have achieved ultimate wisedom and knowledge; The universe's equation
is so simple that I have the power to create heaven and earth!!! I am the
new messiah!!!!!
Daniel: ...Sooooo... how
do you feel?
Xen(shrugs): Pretty much
the same. Is it dinner time yet?
(They go to the Bridge)
Daniel: So, supposedly,
you know everything?
Xen: Yup.
Daniel: Okay... then tell
me the square root of 61045281.
Xen: It's 4.769558125 to
the 11th power.
Daniel: Ha! Any dimwit knows
that. What's the secret ingredient to Papa Louigie's secret sauce?
Xen: Dog hairs.
Lox: Eeeuu. What's the missing
chromosone factor in the gene thereapy of a flea?
Xen: The chromosone, dextorious,
can be easily found if you reconvert a piece of cheese's anti-matter flux
field to 0.
Daniel: Wow, Commander,
I never thought you'd have so much knowledge.
Lox: Who's the first President
of the United States?
Xen: Washington.
Daniel: Hold it. We have
to ask questions that count. Night, how far does space go?
Xen: Space comes to an end
at about 5 billion hypertime-inches from here.
Lox: Well... what shape
is space?
Xen: Almost like a circle,
but it's shape always changes; like a sun.
Lox: What's beyond space?
Xen: God's bedroom. We're
his science experiment, you know.
Lox: Oh really? What did
he get?
Xen: His teacher gave him
a C minus.
Lox: Damn.
Xen: Hate in the universe
is overcoming caring. He gave up. Some night's when he's bored, he'll work
on the universe; but other than that, he's out playing basketball with
his friends.
Daniel: This is bull %$@*.
Lox: This is not bull percent-dollar-at-star
sign.
Daniel: The Xen Symbiont
isn't wise, he's crazy!
Xen: Captian, you should
not fear the truth. You must accept that of what you can't help and or
understand.
Daniel(steps up): Oh man,
I can't wait until the Gotens Symbiont is back in you.
Xen: But I do not want the Gotens Symbiont anymore. I choose to stay like this. This is what I planned.
Daniel: Planned? You're
more crazy than Doctor Lox!
Xen: You do not understand,
do you? Haha! Do you really think that getting here is all coincidence?
Think about it. Your eagerness to please the Federation; Commader Gotens's
stowing away with the Doctor; your landing in these mountians!!! I even
had to turn off the multi-spacial shielding so you could come to the room.
I set all these events in motion so that you could come to me, so that
I could have a host!! Hahaha!! All I had to do is stimulate certian chemicals
in your brains!!
Daniel: But I'm a Changeling,
I don't have any brains.
Xen: Captian, you should
know by now that there is no such thing a luck. Beings like me control
the universe!! Hahahahahahahahahaaa!!! --Although, in my calculations,
I made the Doctor wear a tutu.
Lox: Yeah, an' I took it
off!
Xen: Let's go.
Daniel: No, we're not going
until you give up the Xen Symbiont.
(The ship suddenly shakes)
Daniel: Oh my gosh, did
you do that with the power of thought?
Xen: No.
Lox(checks sensors): There
are twenty Breen soldiers coming this way!!
Daniel: Through the caves?
They must've beamed off thier ship before it blew up.
Xen: Wow, you're a smart
one.
Daniel: The Breen have a
weapon that disables our systems and destroys the ship; there's no way
we'll be able to escape the solar system. We have to beam the multi-spacial
shielding onto the Vector.
Xen(runs over to a control
panel): I'll get on that.
(Daniel and Lox glance at eachother)
Lox: Well, at least he's
helpful.
(Two Breen soldiers beam
onto the Bridge)
Daniel: Watch out!!
Breen1(swings at Lox): Arrghh!!
Lox(ducks it): Ahh!!
Breen1: Aaaaaarrgghh!!!!
Lox: Aaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!
Breen1: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!
Lox: Oh alright, fine, you're
louder. Happy?
(The Breen fires phasers
at Daniel. Daniel creates a hole in his stomach so the phaser goes right
through. Daniel liquifies, and then wraps around the Breen guy, squeezing
him. Daniel's head forms in front of the Breen's face. Sharp knives shoots
out of the Daniel liquid into the Breen, killing it. Daniel moves onto
the next Breen)
Lox: Well done, sir. I might
be a coward, but at least I'm a coward on your side.
Xen(paraniod): There's no
time for the multi-spacial shield. We have to get out of here before someone
kills me!!
Lox: Jeez, you'd think having
all that wisedom would make you a little nicer.
(Vector 3 rises and hits
the cieling of the cave. The Breen soldiers fire phasers at it. Daniel
approaches the last Breen guy. The Breen speaks; Daniel and Xen are the
only people who's universal translator work.)
Breen: Dfjire g[wprv,dmwi
gor fcmskar.
Lox: What did he say?
Breen: Captian, you cannot
let the Xen Symbiont live.
Daniel(stops): Explain.
Xen: Captian, don't listen
to him! He's just telling you what you want to hear!!
(Vector 3 backs out through
the hole of the mountian and goes outside.)
Breen: The Xen Symbiont
is dangerous. Many decades ago, he shared knowledge with one of our leaders;
and that leader used unimaginable power to control our people.
Daniel: Dinosaur people.
Breen: It took years to
drive Xen away and assasinate the leader. Xen finally hid in these mountians
and we have not been able to break through his multi-spacial shielding
until you came.
Xen(crying on a control
panel): Oh my God!! Why does he have to tell the whole story!! Aaaahhhh!!
Why!? Why!?
Breen: My men have mutinied
against thier greedy Captian because they know how much of a threat the
Xen is.
Daniel(glances at Night Xen): I see....
Lox: You see what? Do I
gotta bugger in nose?
Xen: Do not believe him,
it is a trick! Do not forget that the Breen are at war with the Federation!!
Daniel: You're right, Xen.
Xen: I am? I mean, I am.
Daniel: There's only one
way to kill this dinosaur Breen scum.
Breen: Hey, that's my feelings
your hurting.
Daniel: Computer, depleet
95 percent of the oxygen in this room. Authorization, Daniel-Alpha-3-4.
(The computer complys. Xen
and Lox faint from lack of oxygen. The Breen doesn't faint because he is
wearing an environmental suit. Daniel doesn't faint because he's a changeling
and changeling's don't need to breathe.)
Daniel: Haha. That's two
birds with one stone.
Breen: You believe me?
Daniel: Yup. Now, let's
take these two to sickbay.
Breen(nods): Very well.
Just do not make fun of me anymore.
*Daniel: Captian's log, supplimental. Xen's equiptment room was destroyed in all the chaos, so we lost the multi-spacial shielding; it is not such a big loss if getting it is just to impress the Federation. Doctor Lox succesfully put the Gotens Symbiont back into the Night host. After shaking hands with our so called enemy, the Breen, the dinosaur people, they have taken the Xen Symbiont with them in exchange for safe passage home. Vector 3 has returned to the Phoenix-X.
(Daniel sits in the Ready
Room. The doorbell beeps)
Daniel: Shane, I told you
before, I am not doing the funky chicken with you!!
Gotens(walks in): It's me.
Daniel: Oh, you. Kayl got
your apology, she's swinging by your quarters later on to slap you.
Gotens: Great, right after
Armond's fionce slaps me when I break up with her. I wanted to let you
know that I don't know everything anymore.
Daniel(looks out his window):
That's a relief. Do you really think that there are beings out there that
know everything and have the power to control us?
Gotens: You mean use us
like guinea pigs? Nah.
(Admiral Theseus looks out
his office window at Starbase 55)
Theseus: Heh, heh, heh,
heh. Hahahaha! AAaaaaahahahahahaha!!--
Cid(sitting at the table):
--Uhhh, I don't get it.
Theseus: Shut up, you!
THE END
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