: Posted by Captain Jacqueline Sparrow (CO) in Bridge
: : Posted by Admiral Q in Bridge
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: : : : : : : : : =^=Captain to all senior officers. We have just received new orders which I have forwarded to each of you. We are now in route to Alpha Centauri. Please brief the members of your department and your cadets.=^=
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: : : : : : : : : Captain Jacqueline Sparrow, CO
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: : : : : : On the Bridge as Jacqueline was passing off the orders, and perusing them, there was a flash of light beside her. A moment later the PaDD that she was viewing disappeared from her hand in a smaller, though similar, flash. It reappeared in the hand of a male whose form was quite distinctive to Starfleet logs - to their great irritation. Q.
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: : : : : : And at the moment, Q, dressed in Starfleet uniform with Admiralty bars, was looking at the PaDD with the look of one who just ate something that totally disagreed with him. "Ewwww," he said. "You agree with this .. this plethora of patronizing banality? You would consent to these tasks? Jean Luc wouldn't have agreed to this."
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: : : : Jackie gave Q a skeptical look.
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: : : : "From what I know of Captain Picard, he is a man of duty and follows orders," Jackie said. "As Star Fleet officers we follow orders no mater how mundane they may be. It's something we humans like to call responsibility. It's a valuable lesson for cadets to learn."
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: : Q gave a 'tired' look and made the gesture with his free hand of a 'get on with it' as she spoke. "A valuable lesson? All that you'll get here is a sickbay full of cadets dying of boredom. What ever happened to 'boldly go where no man has gone before'? Or did that end with one finally venturing into the ladies room?" He glanced over at the entrance of the counselor.
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: : : : : As soon as the counselor received the message from the CO about the new assignment, she took the PaDD and raced to see the Captain. Monique considered necessary to ask supplementary tasks for some cadets and she needed to have a word with Jacqueline before the DHs were about to issue the final assignments of their cadets.
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: : : : : As the doors opened and she stepped on the bridge, the unfamiliar silhouette of Q made her stop. She looked from the CO to Q and back, rolling her eyes with a comical expression on her face.
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: : : : : "Q?" she babbled. "I though it was all some kind of urban legend, kind of... kind of giant squids eating ships at sea in the middle age... or ... or Nessie?"
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: : "In the flesh," he said, then beamed. "You mean I am now a legend? Splendid!" He looked to the Jacqueline. "See, at least someone appreciates me."
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: : : : : Suddenly, an idea stuck her. She started to laugh, looking at Jacqueline, obviously relieved. "Is this some prank of the new cadets? I bet he`s as real as superman. Spiderman and Hulk are cute too, but superman is my favorite." she nodded toward the CO.
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: : : : : CNS Lambert
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: : "Oh?" Q said and without a snap of the fingers the place where he stood flared for a moment. When the flare ended he was in a more 'skin tight' suit of starfleet colors - crimson tunic with a large golden 'Q' emblazoned on the front. A black set of trunks, tall boots and cape finished the image - the cape flowing behind him as though within a breeze that was non-existent. "He would be better if he didn't hold himself to such ideals as he had. They inspire such duties as that which your captain and I were discussing."
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: : : : "Thank you counselor," Jackie said trying to restore a sense of decorum to the bridge. "Q if you don't mind we have things to do and cadets to train. I'm sure we are much to boring and routine to peak your interest."
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: : : : Captain Jacqueline Sparrow, CO
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: : "That's it! Brilliant, Captain!" Q said moving around to be before the large viewscreen where the starfield flashed by. "Things to do. Cadets to train." He clapped his hands together. "So much to do. So little time. Oh Captain, if you must have them do their dreary dreaded drudgery then lets add some spice to it."
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: : : : The turbo lift doors opened to reveal Sherman stepping on the bridge. He recognized Q from his visit to DS5 a few ears ago. "She's not Captain Picard, Q." Sherman said studying Q's features, "What kind of sick game are you up to now? We have no time for this." he said as he motioned for security to be ready for anything.
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: : : : Commander Sherman Winchester, XO
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: : "Games," Q said with an ecstatic look on his face. "You are all simply full of ideas." He turned serious for but a moment. "You are right. She isn't Captain Picard. Such an observant nature to successfully tell them apart."
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: : : Seron threw his uniform on in a heart beat as soon as the captain had given the orders. He tapped his COMM badge =/\=Lt. Seron to Security, secure engineering and any junctions of possible entry to this ship=/\=
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: : : =/\=On my way to engineering now Sir=/\= Bailey replied as she got together a security team and headed towards engineering.
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: : : Sanchez your with me cadet, Lt. Seron motioned to a security cadet. He and Sanchez boarded the turbo lift as they stepped onto bridge an unfamiliar face was straight ahead of them, Seron's hand immediately went to his phaser on his right hip as he got ready for the unexpected.
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: : : Lt. Seron (Chief of Security) / NE Bailey (Security) / NC Sanchez (Security)
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: : : OOC: I've merged the response from the XO and the COS back into the main thread to keep the thread from splitting. To continue the events in engineering, start a new thread in Engineering.
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: : The unexpected was Q speaking to the Captain in saying, "Shall we?" and snapping his fingers. The bridge flared blinding everyone for a moment and giving everyone a sense of vertigo. This cleared as the flash cleared - so did the starfield. Instead of stars passing by in the warp effect there were no stars. Before them, instead, was a myriad of gleaming blue-orange lights reminiscent of an overdecorated Christmas tree.
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: : "Bon appetite, Captain. I'll be around," he said then in a flash he disappeared. The PaDD of the Captain's reappeared back in her hand. On the face of it Q's face appeared and said, "Shout if you need me. Lets do dinner." Then it was gone.
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: Jackie was not surprised or phased by their sudden transport to what appeared to be some place unknown. This was the sort of behavior Q was famous for.
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: "Q, we refuse to play your game," Jackie said. "You might as well take us back."
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: The silence was not unexpected either.
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: "Commader Winchester, get status reports from all departments," Jackie said. "Helm, any idea where we are?"
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: Captain Jacqueline Sparrow, CO

"Working," came the Bolian Cadet on the helm. His voice had gone up an octave with this transition. "Captain, the computer is working on it. I don't understand, did Q do something to the computers to make it this slow?" A pause. "No, wait. This can't be right." He shook his head. "Running a diagnostic now. Its .."

Another pause then he turned. His eyes were wide. "Captain, the computer is saying that we're, we're in the Canes Venatici constellation in the Whirlpool Galaxy. That's 23 million light years away from home."

Freaked out Bolian Cadet on Helm