The Characters:
Lt. Carey
Lt. Nicoletti
Ensign Samantha Wildman
Meghan Delaney
Jenny Delaney
Chell
=/\=
Chell: I’m bored.
Carey: You’re always bored.
Chell: I’m not always bored.
Sue: Chell, you’re always bored,
and you know it.
Chell: Fine, so I’m bored. Is
there anything wrong with that?
Sam: Only if you have five bottles
of 2335 Burgundy sitting in front of you.
Jenny: (grinning)
Oh, you’re good...
Sam: Yeah, I know. I’ve had
these in storage since Naomi was born. Tonight, she’s
with Neelix and I’m on my
own.
Sue: You traded your little baby
for five bottles of Burgundy?
Sam: She’s not a baby anymore.
She turned five last month.
Meghan: I know, I was there.
She’s such a big thing, isn’t she?
Sam: (smiling) Yeah,
she is. She’s great. I can’t believe how lucky I am
to have her here with me.
Carey: I miss my kids.
Sam: You’ll see them soon.
Didn’t you get a transmission last month?
Carey: Yeah, but it’s not the
same...(sighs)
Jenny: Well, at least you have
kids. I’ll probably be single forever.
Sam: Aw, Harry still not giving
in?
Meghan: (laughing)
Not at the speed Harry’s running in the
opposite direction!
Jenny: Well, rumor has it that he
has the hots for you.
Meghan: The gossip concerning the
romantic interest of Harry Kim have been greatly
exaggerated.
Jenny: Uh huh...
Meghan: Hey!
Sue: Ok, break it up. Let’s
crack open one of these before we get desperate.
(Joe opens a bottle and pours
six glasses and passes them around.)
Carey: Mmmmm, Sam, you’ve been
holding out on us.
Sam: Shhhh, don’t say anything
to anyone else. We’ll have a mutiny on our hands.
Chell: Ah, like we almost had with
the Bajoran mind meld person whoever he was.
Carey: Oh, don’t remind me.
I’ve never seen so much hysteria in my life.
Jenny: I’m sure we could come up
with some more exciting moments from our past that
greatly surpass the
Maquis being taken over by a Bajoran.
Chell: Like?
Jenny: One doesn’t need to go
far to go straight to the Borg.
Sam: (shudders) Don’t
remind me. That is one part of our history that
continues to plague me.
Sue: You mean with Naomi?
Sam: With Naomi, with Neelix, with
the Captain, with Seven herself. I am so sick of it.
Carey: I’ve never had much
interaction with Seven. I mean, we’ve worked together
a couple of times on missions
and things like that. But normally it’s
Lt. Torres who works with her.
Jenny: Well, take it from Stellar
Cartography, you’re lucky.
Meghan: The woman can be a royal
pain in the you-know-what most of the time.
Sam: Sometimes I wonder if the
Captain made a good decision when she brought her on
board.
Carey: You think the Captain was
wrong?
Sam: Possibly. I mean, sure,
Seven’s done a lot of good on board, but…yeah, I
don’t know. (shrugs)
Jenny: No, I think I know what you
mean. Captain Janeway’s not perfect, you know.
Sam: I feel bad talking about her
like that, though.
Sue: (laughs) You think
you’re the first person who has ever questioned what
the Captain’s done?
Sam: Of course not.
Sue: Don’t worry about it,
nothing leaves this room.
Chell: Right, nothing leaves the
room.
Carey: Nothing.
Jenny: Not nothing, not nobody.
Meghan: Zip, nada, ex-nay on the
alking-tay.
Sam: Huh?
Meghan: (laughing)
Nevermind...
=/\=
(Second bottle is opened...)
Chell: I wanna go home...
Carey: Me too.
Sam: Anyone here get a letter in
the last transmission?
Jenny: I did.
Sue: From who?
Meghan: Our mom.
Sue: What was it about?
Meghan: Our dad died.
Sue: Oh...I’m so sorry.
Jenny: Me too.
Meghan: He was old, though. Very
old.
Jenny: I wanna go home.
Chell: Anyone know how much longer
until we get home?
Carey: 28 years and eleven months.
Chell: Wow.
Carey: Yeah.
Sue: I suppose that’s an
improvement from 75 years, though. I mean, I thought I
was going to die when I heard
that.
Sam: I wonder how Earth is going
to be in 28 years. We’ve missed so much already. It
hardly seems right for
us to just come back to Earth and the
Federation after everything we’ve been through.
Jenny: After what we’ve been
through, you should say.
Sue: You think they’ll make the
Maquis go to jail?
Sam: What in the world would
possess you to think that?
Sue: They’re criminals, you
know.
Chell: But damn resourceful
criminals.
Sue: I didn’t mean to insult
you...
Chell: I know.
Carey: I don’t think they’ll
go to jail. (pauses) Nah, life in the Delta Quadrant’s
been punishment enough. They
won’t go to jail.
Chell: I certainly hope not.
=/\=
(Third bottle is opened)
Sam: So does anybody know what Lt.
Paris and Lt. Torres are going to name their baby?
Carey: I work with the woman
everyday and I haven’t heard a thing.
Jenny: Harry hasn’t mentioned
anything to me, so I don’t know.
Meghan: Me either.
Chell: I think they’re naming it
something human. But I don’t really know.
Sue: I think a human name would be
a good thing. I heard Neelix was offering Talaxian names
or something
bizarre like that.
Sam: Naomi is so excited about the
baby coming. She keeps asking me everyday to ask Lt.
Torres when the
baby is coming.
Jenny: I can’t imagine having a
baby on a starship. I don’t know how you do it, Sam.
Sam: Oh it’s easy when you have
friends as great as you guys.
Meghan: Awwwwwww shucks. (grins)
Chell: I wonder if any other kids
will be born on Voyager. We’ve still got about thirty
years to go until we reach
Earth. It’d be interesting to see what
kind of generation we create on this ship.
Jenny: Can you imagine having
little rugrats running around the ship? Gettin’ into
warp cores and shield
matrices and other stuff.
Sue: Oh gee, I don’t think you
can get more cynical than that.
Jenny: I’m not being cynical,
I’m being....
Sam: Annoying?
Jenny: Hey! (gasps) That
was not nice. True, but definitely not nice.
=/\=
(Fourth bottle is opened)
Chell: Is it me or is the room
starting to spin a bit?
Carey: Can’t hold your liquor,
Chell?
Chell: Oh, no, I’ll be fine.
Sam: You sure?
(Chell nods his head)
Jenny: Well, I’m certainly
enjoying myself. Haven’t had this much fun in months.
Meghan: Yeah, we really should do
this more often.
Carey: I’m not sure how much
longer we should be doing this. I’ve got work tomorrow
morning starting at 0800
hours. My head is gonna kill me, and I just
know I’m gonna defuse a plasma coil or something.
Meghan: I’ll tell the Doctor to
expect another broken nose. (breaks into giggles)
Carey: Oh, very funny, Meg.
That’s terrific. Go and throw salt on the wound.
Sam: My God, that was like, what,
seven years ago?
Meghan: Hey, I’m sure there have
been times B’Elanna’s wanted to pop you one again.
Carey: Not at sixth months
pregnant she won’t.
Jenny: Nah, she’d probably get
Tom to beat you up.
Sue: Or Commander Chakotay. I’ve
heard he’s got a pretty mean left hook.
Jenny: Exactly. Commander Chakotay.
He studied boxing, you know.
Carey: Yeah, rumor has it he stuck
B’Elanna on the ship so he could go watch the
Tsunkatse game last year.
Sue: That game was weird. I never
really understood the game very well. Just looked like
punching, nothing
special about that. But then Seven shows up
and everything changed.
Jenny: I know. We’ve had some
pretty incredible adventures. The Kazon, the Borg, the
Hirogen. I’m gonna
miss this place.
Chell: You’re kidding right?
Jenny: No. I’m serious. So much
stuff has happened here. I mean, ok, what is one
adventure we’ve been on
that you honestly can say you’ll never
forget?
Sam: All of them, honestly. Ok, if
I had to narrow them down…let’s see. Probably when
Naomi was born.
When the ship was split into two parts and
my Naomi died and our Harry died. But then the other
Naomi and
Harry came. Changed my life. Changed the
way I looked at life and how things worked in the
universe.
Carey: When Hogan died. Being on
that God-forsaken planet in the middle of nowhere,
dumped by the Kazons.
Then having one of my friends die. It was
horrible. Sometimes I still don’t believe it happened.
Sam: He was a good friend to all
of us.
Sue: Our first real encounter with
the Borg. When we were working with Seven, as Borg, and
we had all those
other Borg on board. It was the first time
I had really seen one, up close and in person. Scared me
to death.
Jenny: Yeah, that was definitely
scary. But now, when we see Borg, it’s almost like, no
big deal. We’ll defeat
them. We’ve done it before.
Meghan: Captain Proton! Oh, those
were fun. I can’t believe Tom ended them. I was so
mad. But, we can’t
exactly do The Adventures of Captain Proton
without Captain Proton. But I suppose all good things
must come
to an end.
Chell: That horrible Bajoran who
tried to make all the Maquis turn against the Captain
and Voyager. I can’t
believe that happened. It was so strange.
It was like we went back and time and were re-living the
good ole days.
Jenny: Do you miss being a Maquis?
Chell: Well, yes, in some ways I
do. Out on our own, defending what we believed in. But
now I believe in
Voyagers mission and we’re still out on
our own, so I guess not much has changed.
Jenny: Ok, my turn. I think the
adventure I’ll remember the most is…is…the first
one. The Caretaker and the
first time we met the Kazon. I remember I
was denial about the whole thing. I didn’t believe we
were really
70,000 light years away. I didn’t believe
it. I couldn’t. And now that we’re 30,000 light
years away, I still can’t
believe it. We’re going home.
=/\=
(fifth bottle is opened)
Carey: Last one.
Sam: Already? Wow. Time flies when
you’re having fun, I guess.
Jenny: Yeah, wow. What time is it?
Chell: Oh, it’s only 0100 hours.
Meghan: 0100 hours! I have to be
at work in seven hours.
Carey: Me too.
Sue: Me three. We should finish
this bottle up and then all head to bed.
Carey: Oh, yes, and then we look
forward the monstrous hangover tomorrow, er, today,
actually.
Sam: Maybe the Doctor can give us
something.
Sue: I hope. Otherwise I’m not
going to be functional.
Meghan: This really has been fun
though.
Sue: But nothing leaves this room.
Chell: Right, nothing leaves the
room.
Carey: Nothing.
Jenny: Not nothing, not nobody.
Meghan: Zip, nada, ex-nay on the
alking-tay.
Sam: What is that?!?
Meghan: (laughing) Ask Naomi.
The End
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