EPISODE CV - CONDENSED MILK AND PORK RINDS



"Sick Bay to Engineering."

"Go Sick Bay.", Ensign Hibbard replied, looking up from the panel he'd been soldering together.

"Hi Hibbard", Nurse Yahbo said, "I'm looking for Mr. Jeffy, but can't seem to get him on his communicator."

"Sorry ma'am", Hibbard informed her, "but I haven't seen him since he left here a couple of hours ago."

"Where was he going?"

"No idea, ma'am", Hibbard maintained, "he just said there was something he had to do?"

"Were those his exact words?", Nurse Yahbo asked urgently.

"Well, yeah", Hibbard confirmed, "why?"

But there was no answer, because Nurse Yahbo was already calling the bridge.

"Bridge here.", Schultz's disquietingly calm voice announced.

"Yes, Mr. Schultz", Nurse Yahbo began, trying to keep her voice as even as the science officer's, "have you heard from Mr. Jeffy?"

"Affirmative, Nurse Yahbo", Schultz confirmed, "he was posing as a shuttle pilot to gain access to the surface of Earth."

"Did you stop him?"

"Negative.", Schultz advised.

"Well why not?"

"He was trying so hard to disguise his voice", Schultz explained, "that it seemed a shame to ruin it for him."

Nurse Yahbo was stunned.  "What if something happens to him down there?"

"Ma'am", Schultz began, "Mr. Jeffy is a highly trained Space Fleet officer, I think he can handle a little excitement.  Plus", he added, "if he's down there, he's not my problem anymore.  He's Reed's."