SD 11/15/03 - "Attack of the Nine-Foot Lera"
PAAD Message - 129.426.892.442179 @ 88460002 mail/StarFleet Headquarters/San Francisco/Terra
Greetings,
If your electronic mails have been mysteriously absent for the past few weeks, we should have found the reason. There was a foul-up in the Starfleet databanks here and at a number of starbases, and we lost a number of names of personel, including yours. Regrettably, the person in charge of recordkeeping backups felt it would be a credit-saving measure to erase and reuse storage chips rather than buy more, so we could not get your name from backup files.
We then called your Sector Commander on the matter, Admiral Ironbottom. You must have made quite an impression on him. When asked who the First Officer of the USS Freedom was, he promptly answered with enthusiasm, "HE'S A PAIN!!"
And so, we recovered your identity and put it back on the databanks:
Captain A. Payne.
In the past, there would have been a one week waiting period as mistakes had a not-undeserved reputation of being notoriously difficult to correct, a few cases taking years (curiously, your ship gets more than any other ship in the fleet). But with recent safeguards, we have gone ahead and forwarded your corrected file to all databanks in the Federation so you can continue to get your mail as soon as possible. After all, what could possibly go wrong now that new managment is in charge of the databanks?
Reguards, Commander Sinclair, StarFleet Head&)(&*()&-
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NARRATIVE: The curse continues to inflict its chaos as T'Kee is transformed into a giant moth, and being female her phermones attract males, much to her revolsion. Meanwhile, M'Rander is alerted to the strange happenings and returns to unbelievable scenery. Ferrengified Tarra goes after a nine foot version of Lera, whom is just as resistant to energy discharges as the real one.