Stardate1322.4

We're meeting up with the Constellation tomorrow to exchange personnel, so Doc Piper's retirement party is tonight. Yahoo!!
Chief medical officers change between the pilot and the rest of the series, so I figure he looked old enought to retire, so why not? Nothing like a naval retirement party...

Supplemental: What a party! I woke up wearing Sadie's underwear, she's in my shirt. Good stuff, that Romulan Ale!!
The Romulan Ale line is actually a quote from Dr Mc Coy from STWoK. I'd say it was safe to say Al and Sadie are getting pretty chummy now...

Stardate 1321.7

Sadie (Yoeman Lipshitz) and I are having a picnic on the observation deck tonight. I'm bringing a bottle of Saurian Brandy.
Sadie Lipshitz was an alias used by Hazel Stone in several Robert Heinlien novels...

Supplemental: 1 bottle of Saurian Brandy, 3 bowls of Plomeek Soup, 4 hours later and I can't find my socks...

Stardate 1320.3

Crewman Barnes prosthetic hand arrived today, just in time for tonight's bowling tournament.

Supplemental: Chief Kyle was winning the tournament, until we caught his assistant using the transporter confinement beam to cheat for him!
Geek pranks, you figure it even happens on a spaceship

Stardate 1319.1

Yoeman Lipshitz invited me to her cabin for supper. She's making Plomeek soup...

Supplemental: Plomeek soup may not taste very good, but it makes a real nice body paint…

Stardate 1317.8

Played 3D Chess with Cmdr. Spock today -- he beat me in 5 moves. Darned Vulcans!
I was originally going to do a whole series of "darned Vulcan" things, instead I decided to make Plomeek soup the running gag.

Stardate 1316.9

Crewman Barnes cut off his hand using a phaser to drill holes in his bowling ball, so I have to requisition a prosthetic one
I was a corpsman in the Navy, and the one time I was on ship I got to work on a guy who managed to cut himself pretty good, you figure in the future they'd be able to do a really good job of it...

Stardate 1316.8

Lt. Riley asked me if I want to join his bowling league. I said, only if he leaves the gravity plate settings alone.

Supplemental: The food processor gave me Plomeek soup instead of chicken noodle again. Darned Vulcans!

Stardate 1316.1

Rendezvoused with Defiant, transferred personnel, sent out departed comrades home, and got snazzy new red uniform tunics.

Supplemental: Did I mention that the women's uniforms are totally HOT?!?
Once the series was given the green light, the decided on new uniforms, always a big deal in the life of a service member...

Stardate 1315.9

2 hours from our rendezvous with the USS Defiant at Epsilon Alpha 12 and I finally have the transport paper work done.
Yes, I invented Epsilon Alpha 12 -- I'll do it even more, just to fill in the gaps. Also, on STTNG you always see the Enterprise D meeting up with other ships for this, that, and the other thing.

Stardate 1315.6

Held memorial services for the deceased today, 4 were committed to space, the rest prepared to send home. What a busy night!
In peacetime you don't always do a "burial at sea"

Supplemental: Word UFP edition keeps changing the spacing on my casualty reports, and we're almost to Epsilon Alpha 12.
See, even in the future we have to do battle with the "evil empire Microsoft"

Stardate 1314.5

Finally submitted the paperwork to have Delta Vega consecrated as a cemetery, so we don't have to dig up Lt Cmdr Mitchell.

Stardate 1313.3

Doc called and said Lt Kelso has been strangled. Now I have to find a new bridge partner
I was a little concerned that people might think the Al worked on the bridge with Lt Kelso -- I meant that they played cards together...

Supplemental: Now they tell me Lt Dehner and Lt Cmdr Mitchell are casualties. I'll be doing paperwork from here to Epsilon Alpha 12!!

Stardate 1312.8

Captain sends us past the galaxy's edge and now I have to write 9 condolence letters. Does he ever think about these things?

Supplemental: The Doc says the victims died when part of their brain was burned out. Doesn't explain Ens. Morganstern's eyebrows though.

Stardate 1312.1

Transferred aboard new assignment, USS Enterprise. Exploring the galaxy edge, should be pretty quiet...

Where no man has Gone Before: This episode is the second pilot (the first one didn't exactly knock anyone's socks off, but they were still interested enough to try again)

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