Path: newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsread.com!newsstand.newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated Approved: ascem@earthlink.net Organization: Better Living Thru TrekSmut Sender: ascem@earthlink.net Message-ID: From: "Penumbra" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list ASCEML@yahoogroups.com; contact ASCEML-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: NEW TNG A Simple Decision (D) [PG] (drabble, challenge) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 49 Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:55:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.198.142.218 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 1091796906 209.198.142.218 (Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:55:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:55:06 EDT Xref: news.earthlink.net alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated:82460 X-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:55:19 PDT (newsspool2.news.atl.earthlink.net) Title: A Simple Decision Author: Penumbra Contact: penumbra at clinched dot net Series: TNG Rating: PG Codes: drabble, D Archive: Knock yourself out. Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue. Viacom/Paraborg is god. Notes: Stephen's Call of Duty Challenge combined with extreme boredom. If you haven't seen "Nemesis", it won't make much sense. -------------------------- A Simple Decision by Penumbra (c) 2004 -------------------------- As he holds the phaser, Data thinks of Tasha and Picard, of love. He feels the thalaron radiation leak through his artifical skin and organs. Fire weapon? [y/n] [Yes.] High probability of uncontrollable chain reaction. Confirm? [y/n] He wonders why he's doing it, but only for .12 seconds. In that time, his positronic deduction matrix finds 1,748838 x 10^14 reasons. Summarise? [y/n] [Yes.] The summary begins with "The duty of any Starfleet officer[...]" Smiling, he presses the trigger. There's just enough time for him to register the beauty of destruction before the thalaron particles obliterate him. Display last thought? [y/n] [Yes.] Tasha? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ASCEM messages are copied to a mailing list. Most recent messages can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASCEML. NewMessage: