Forwarded by the ASC-VSO Posted: 12 Feb 2004 18:49:04 GMT In: alt.startrek.creative From: gojirob@aol.comendspam (Rob Morris) Summary : In 1986, Spock meets a simple sort of man... Title: That Spock Fella Author: Rob Morris 1986, San Francisco Now, there's folks as say that everybody in the city of San Fran-cis-co is gay. But when I asked around how people was feelin', they all seemed cranky. I guess its the property prices. That can make a body cranky. I took my little boy to see their aquarium, and all the big fish. I tried to sell the people as owned it some shrimp for the fish, but they told me they had that all taken care of, which was good, so the fish don't get hungry and eat each other. "Daddy--look at the man swimming with the whales!" Sure enough, there was a man swimming in the tank, but he wasn't hardly supposed to be there. Now, I'm not smart like my boy--but I think that he was talkin' to them fish. Why else would he have to get so close? Lessen he was nearsighted, but he didn't look that. I rushed up to meet him as he got out--I'm really fast, when I wanna be---and helped him up. "Mister--was you askin the fish questions?" He nodded, and he was really polite about the whole thing. "Indeed. I asked whether they wished to be relocated to the 23rd Century, where they may replenish the species." Now, that seemed like an awful lot to ask of just two fish. Heck, you want a good stock, you gotta bring in twenty--maybe even forty. But this fella seemed to know his things pretty well. "What did they say they wanted to do?" "They were curious to see if my words were sincere. Also, the female--Gracie--is with child." "That's really nice. I got me a little boy of my own." The man looked kinda sad. "Without the open sea or other whales to guide her, she may not be able to deliver the child. This is troublesome. Also, they still do not trust me." "Could I talk to em', for ya?" "Thank you, sir. But unless you are telepathic in nature, or can precisely imitate their language enough to speak or sing it, I'm afraid that you cannot help me." I nodded, and then cleared my throat while I listened to the fish. When I made noises that sounded like theirs, danged if those fish didn't come up and look at me. When they kept on, I learned what they was saying. Its really simple to do. I looked at the man again. "They'll go. I told em' you're a nice, polite man who wants to help em' out. They're still a little funny about replenishin the stock all by themselves. You better get more of em', you're gonna try that." The man looked as surprised as the Lord himself must have been, on the Third Day. "I am called--Spock Of Vulcan." "I am called---Forrest Gump. That's cause my name is Forrest Gump." "Forrest--you have my thanks." "Then you have my welcome, Mister Spock." I hope Little Forrest grows up to be as nice and polite and smart as that Mister Spock. Well, the lady runs the place took ta yellin at him, and his friend tried ta help him out of that, so we just left. I'm supposed to meet with one of Jenny's friends. Wants me to invest in somethin' called transparent alumi-num. That'll be neat, to see through the foil when you're cookin' things. He wants to use it in space, but I heard you can't cook nothing in space, cause' things won't burn. That's all I got to say about San Fran-cis-co. ---------------------------------------------- "Destiny is no guarantee of survival" - Aaron Sisko, facing the battle of Wolf 359 against King Ghidorah, Ancient Destroyer -- Stephen Ratliff ASC Stories Only Forwarding In the Pattern Buffer at: http//trekiverse.crosswinds.net/feed/ Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCL/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:ASCL-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. From ???@??? Sat Feb 14 00:56:37 2004 Status: U Return-Path: Received: from n16.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.71]) by kite (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1aRSJC3ie3NZFkD0 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:52:58 -0800 (PST) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1977044-13192-1076737751-stephenbratliff=earthlink.net@returns.groups.yahoo.