SD 07/19/03 It's All in the Head aka "MiT - Men in Trek" #9 - Well, at least they feed their prisoners. Cheeseburger and fries. A tad greasy, but considering my surroundings, not bad.
The two interogators haven't been back yet. It may be the "truth serum" they were threatening to use on me was a bluff, and they're discussing what to do next. Maybe it's finally starting to dawn on them I'm telling the truth ... I hope.
I keep wondering about the others. Were they able to keep track of me as I was whisked away? As the hours pass, I keep thinking more and more that they did not. Even if they did, if I was taken too far away they wouldn't be able to get to me in time. While I realize they would reluctantly leave me behind if getting to me in time was obviously impossible, suppose I was at a borderline distance, one they decided was worth a shot. What if whatever is blocking my comm badge from working also blocks transporter signals, even with the booster? I don't know how many assistants the Gary Seven of this world managed to recruit, and going on to their home ground, the team could find more than they bargined for. Without the booster to lock on to, any rescue team could be beamed who-knows-where on the planet.
Why did they shoot first to begin with? Gary Seven, although willing to resort to vandalism and painlessly knocking someone out, disliked violent measures. Could Seven's counterpart here have been killed and a less subtle assistant took over? If so, there's no real telling what will happen to us if we all become captured. That "Neuralizer" comment, even though it was mentioned in the same breath as releasing me, does not sound assuring. And what of Lynx, Tarra, and T'Kee, who will not be able to "blend into a crowd" outside October 31st?
Even if we escape capture, what would we do? I suppose with Lynx, Tarra, and T'Kee, we wouldn't forget where we came from unlike those Melvin was talking about, but what then? We could very well end up buying one of the "shelters" in some backwoods area that nervous folks built or bought in the months leading up to January 1 2000, of fears what the "rollover" would do to computers, and after the date passed began selling them dirt cheap to get at least some of their money back. ...
If Tempres were still with us, he'd be making "Starfleet Hillbillies" jokes.
NARRATIVE: While Lynx, Dammers, T'Kee, and Brundle take the lead, Lera, Tarra, and Lott in the slower van are joined once again by Cosmo via a beamdown. They soon noticed they're being followed by a civillian vehicle with what looks like three odd but harmless-looking local humans. Stopping at a gas station, their tailers do otherwise. One gets some chips from a vending machine, and after eating them starts to choke. Lott does CPR, and discovers it's actually a tiny alien with a robot! Calling itself an "Argellian," it asks about a "peice of the treaty, saying without it, a lot of it's people could die. Before they can discuss long, the three Argellians get a call and have to leave.