Star Trek - the Next Generation - Warped; an Engaging Guide to the Never-aired 8th Season

Informationen zum Autor Mike McMahan Klappentext The official parody guide to the unaired eighth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, based on the @TNG_S8 Twitter account from Mike McMahan!Warped EPISODE 08-001 “Crushers Not Included” Stardate 47995.8 The U.S.S. Enterprise-D zooms through space, narrowly avoiding lots of little rainbow streaks. On the bridge, Counselor Deanna Troi is halfway through a pretty impressive waffle cone sundae when, struck by a massive ice cream headache, she screams, bumps into a console, and rolls on the deck. Revived in sickbay, she describes an intense mint chocolate chip vision: Wesley Crusher and the Traveler both plugged into electronic chambers, surrounded by menacing sugar cones. She’s pretty sure the cones and the dancing cherries were constructs of her imagination, but the rest was far too convincing: it had to be real. The previous year, Wesley forwent his Starfleet career to join the Traveler’s exploration of the dimensionverse as a being of pure energy. Wes should be floating around space, examining different cultures, appearing in cloud form doing cloud things (hanging out, observing, drifting)—but Troi thinks her premonition is clear: he’s in danger. She tries to convince Captain Jean-Luc Picard that her vision is a creamy cry for help, but they’re interrupted by a red alert: the Enterprise sensors have detected one of the worst things they can detect—the Borg. Troi is starting to understand what her dream actually meant; she knew those damn sugar cones were up to no good. Now they have to rescue Wes. As massive and glorious a vessel as the Enterprise is, it still manages to be really good at hiding; the crew tucks her in behind a large asteroid while her sensors peek out to detect dozens of Borg cones swirling around a starship factory. Troi was right, these Borg have upgraded from their usual cubes to the pointier, deadlier, conier shapes swirling before them. Wes and the Traveler must be trapped inside. Confident that daily yoga and meditation has subdued his Locutus identity, Picard and an away team beam into the factory and find Wesley and the Traveler plugged into the main power relay. The Borg are harvesting their interdimensional energies to power their entire operation; Wes and the Traveler yelp as little diodes zap their heads. Picard climbs up on their enclosure and frees them by pushing down on the lid of their prison and turning it clockwise—back in his Locutus days, he learned the Borg use simple child-safety mechanisms to keep drones from opening containment chambers, getting under the sink, etc. Alerted to their escape, Borg drones now attack in full force. After some wrist chopping and corridor running, they’re all surrounded. As they’re about to be prodded by the whirring mechanical tidbits on the Borg’s hands, the Traveler sacrifices himself, overloading the factory by scattering its matter across an infinity of parallel space dimensions, giving Wes and the captain the time to beam over to the Enterprise. Back in sickbay, Troi offers Picard and Wes sundaes (she can sense they need to relax, and nothing relaxes like Rocky Road). Picard and Wes are appreciative, but they decide to hook up to medical equipment and get treated anyway because Troi isn’t the best authority when it comes to third-degree burns. While the purple lights repair their skin, Picard and Wes discuss the future. The captain consoles his young friend for his loss—he knows Wesley really cared for the Traveler. Wes thanks him, but admits that he’s tired of floating around the universe: he misses normal corporeal stuff like eating, cracking knuckles, and...

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• Autori: Mike Mcmahan, Mike McMahon
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.05.2015
• EAN: 9781476779058
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-7905-8
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Star Trek, The Next Generation; Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Categorie: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto