Mystery Fanfic Email 3000

Episode #101

(Turn down your lights where available)

In the not too far flung hist'ry
Last Sunday A.M.
Doctor Nicci V. and TV's Wes
Planned to shatter your peaceful dreams

They joined the mad scientist exchange programme
And got a space station from this crazy dame
Their experiment needed a good test case
So they grabbed a guy named Tom and they shot him into space

(LET ME GOOOOOOO!)

We'll send him cheesy email
The worst we can find
(la la la)
We'll make him sit and read them all and we'll monitor his mind
(la la la)

Now keep in mind Tom can't control
Where the emails begin or end
He'll try to keep his sanity
With his newfound robot friends.

ROBOT ROLL CALL!
Cambot!
(Look over here)
Gypsy!
(Hello!)
Tom Servo!
(Another new guy?)
Crooooooow!
(Bat Guano!)

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts
(la la la)
Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show
"I should really just relax."

For Mystery Fanfic Email 3000!

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[Interior, Satellite of Love, TOMR stands at the bridge while SERVO and CROW cower to one side, heads peeping up over the console from time to time.]

TOMR:  Oh!  Uh...hi everyone.  I'm Tom Russell and this is the Satellite of Love.  Dr. Vega kidnapped me and shot me up here as part of her warped experiments.  I was told I'd be trapped alone on the station but it looks like the previous occupant created these robot companions.  Right now, I'm trying to win their trust and affection.  [to 'bots]  Come on, guys, don't be frightened of me. I won't hurt you.

SERVO AND CROW:  AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

CROW:  Hold me, Servo!

SERVO:  My God, he's HUGE!  Look at his wingspan!

CROW:  Maybe he'll keep growing, just like in The Amazing Colossus, if we're lucky, he'll get so big, his heart won't be able to keep him alive!

SERVO:  We can't afford to wait that long!  We need bigger guns!

TOMR:  I can see this is going to take awhile.

[Commercial Sign begins to flash]

TOMR:  What's that?

SERVO:  Just hit that blinking button over there.

TOMR:  Oh, thanks!

SERVO AND CROW: AHHHHH!

TOMR:  We'll be right back. [hits button]

[A solid string of commericals featuring "raw edgy" commedians selling out  to hawk 10-10-20 phone numbers.  You flip over to MTV to catch a video, only to be reminded that "Music Television" no longer plays music of any kind.  Hoping to regain a shred of nostalgia before returning to the show, you flip down to WGBH 2 and catch the 4085th showing of the 18th Episode of "Are You Being Served?".   Nostalgia satiated, you flip back to the show just in time...]

TOMR:  ...and that's how I was nearly killed by cheese.

SERVO:  Wow!  You are really suited for this job!

CROW:  Yeah, I think you'll do pretty well around here once you realize that I get to decide who lives and who dies.

TOMR:  Oh I don't think so. [Mad light flashes]  What's that one?

SERVO:  Just hit that button over there.

TOMR:  Right.  Oh look, it's Vega and The Brain.

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  Very funny Great Grape Ape.  I see you're settling in well up there with the bots.

[SOL]

SERVO:  Who the hey are you?

CROW:  Yeah and where's Mike?

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  I am Doctor Nicci Vega and this is TV's Wes.  [gestures to empty space]  Uh...Wes?  WES!

WES:  [Dashing in]  Here, Dr. V.  Did you know this place has an organ vending machine?

VEGA:  That's nice, Wes.  Why don't you just stand right there and be very quiet for Mommy.

WES:  OK

VEGA:  That's better.  Anyway, I'm Doctor Vega, that is TV's Wes, and you are my pet project.  I'm part of the Mad Scientists exchange program.  We swap evil experiments to broaden our horizons and provide new insight.  Pearl and I met on EvilChat and decided it'd be fun.  So right now, Pearl is at my top-secret Long Island Headquarters forcing Mike to fill out web forms.

[SOL]

CROW:  That's an evil experiment!?

TOMR:  It is when they're forms for sixdegrees.com.

CROW AND SERVO:  Gah!

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  Anyway, I'm told that as part of the experiment, it's traditional to have an Invention Exchange of some kind.  Since I know mine is better, I'll go first.  Get the invention, Wes.

WES:  Sure thing, O Blossom-Hatted One.

VEGA:  WES!

[Wes streaks off camera and returns with a large backpack device strapped to his person.]

VEGA:  Recently the Army developed a powerful, yet portable loudspeaker system so commanders can make themselves heard over the din of battle.  I've taken this concept to the next level and developed the Noisy Thinker.  This infernal machine will broadcast the wearer's thoughts at a lobe-burning 450 "thought-Decibels" driving all other thoughts out of people's heads.  No matter how much they may want to ignore it, they can't help but fixate on your thoughts.  By way of example, 450 thought-Decibels are louder than, say, imagining President Dan Quayle.

[SOL]

TOMR:  Gluck!

CROW:  Total brain lock!  That's evil!

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  Why, thank you.  Right now, Wes is just modeling the Noisy Thinker, but I intend to send him down to DC and have him switch on in Congress.  When 450 thought-Decibels of pure static hit those fools, no one will be able to stop me!  So, what have you got to show me, Piper's Son?

[SOL]

TOMR:  Well, ma'am, considering that I just heard about the Invention Exchange 30 seconds ago, I was a bit rushed, but I do think I came up with something you'll really like.  Cambot, if you could give me Rocket #9, I'll explain.

[Exterior shot of SOL, there appears to be yellow strands surrounding the SOL]

TOMR:  [Voice-over]  What will the flurry of activity up here in space constructing the new International Space Station, I realized that we really need to exercise more caution.  There's already debris from the station, lost tools and other assorted junk orbriting the Earth at high speed.  Someone could get hurt.  That's why I developed the "Safety Strands".  Much like that "Police Line, Do Not Cross" tape found at Fox TV crime scenes everywhere, these Safety Strands encircle the construction zone and warn off pedestrians and curious alien children.  A simple idea with live-saving potential.  What do you think ma'am?

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  I think you've been playing with your Tonka trucks too much.  Anyway, this week's email bomb is a little something I got from somewhere (possibly from Amber, but you'll never know) which I am forwarding on to you.  It's a pleasnt story involving sex...

[SOL]

CROW:  Yes!

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  ...robots...

[SOL]

CROW:  Yes!

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  ...and tribbles!

[SOL]

CROW:  NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  It's a bit of NC-17 on the NCC-1701E called "Data, Tribble and Spot -- Oh My!" and you're my little red shirt.  Beam it up, Wes!

WES:  Making it so, sir.

[SOL -- Panic reigns]

TOMR:  WE'VE GOT NEW MAIL SIGN!

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SERVO:  December 13th, a day that will live in infamy. CROW:  You've got an account on a machine named Sidehack?

TOMR:  Yeah, we named it after this great movie called "Sidehackers".

CROW:  You disgust me!

SERVO:  O great qmail 15759, I invoke thee from thy dark slumber!  Arise! SERVO:  It's still infamous. ALL:  Thank you Dr. V! ALL:  *snigger*

SERVO:  I wonder what the "F" stands for?

CROW:  I bet it stands for--

TOMR:  Too easy, Crow.  Way, way too easy.

CROW:  Geez!  You think she's ever heard of carbon copying a letter?  Or even blind carbon copies?

TOMR:  I think they're gonna go blind if they read this thing.

CROW:  Hold me.

TOMR:  Shhh, Shhh, it's gonna be ok...

SERVO:  I hear there's a new MS MIME, but it keeps speaking all the time. ALL:  Thank you, Dr. V! TOMR:  Amber has something to do with this?  Now I am worried.

CROW:  Is she another Evil Mad Scientist?

TOMR:  Not really, but she is evil.  She controls more groups than the Bavarian Illuminati.

TOMR:  Oh we will, trust us. SERVO:  My God, it's full of asterisks! CROW:  To know when to say "when".

TOMR:  When.

SERVO:  When.

CROW:  No good, we gotta read the whole thing.

TOMR:  I'm a complex carbon-based lifeform.

SERVO:  I'm a floating gumball machine.

CROW:  I'm hoping I live to see tomorrow.

TOMR:  [witch's voice]  And your little Klingon too! CROW:  Thanks for giving me your email address -- sucker! SERVO:  CODE RED!  CODE RED! [Crow shudders and his head suddenly falls off]

TOMR:  Is he OK?

SERVO:  Yeah, just stick his head back on.  Funny, that usually happens to me.

SERVO:  [as archivist]  It wasn't hard.  Just hit the delete key and presto! TOMR:  It's not intended for birdcage lining either.  In fact, I'm not sure it's fit for kindling. CROW:  Did Dr. V. get consent from Mr. Hollihan before sending this around?

TOMR:  Of course not, she's evil.

SERVO:  Spread infection and disease. TOMR:  I know a number of people who really like rats.

CROW:  Yeah, but everyone you know is a  freak.

SERVO:  Not the fact that they're somehow born pregnant. TOMR:  Yup, Love and Reason, the two great tastes that taste like cherry cough syrup and blue cheese dressing all mixed together.

SERVO:  Ewww!

CROW:  Love, the perfect alternative to having your tribble spayed.

TOMR:  Of course not, he's British.

CROW:  Captain Picard is actually a native of France from the---

TOMR:  Simmer down, fanboy.

SERVO:  [western voice]  Howww-DEE!  And welcome to the 43rd annual Burwell Nebraska Budweiser Tribble Rodeo!

CROW:  Aren't tribbles naturally round?

TOMR:  Maybe these were fractional tribbles.

CROW:  That tribble is one bad mother--

TOMR:  Shut your mouth!

CROW:  But, Tom, I'm jus' talkin' 'bout Tribble.

CROW:  So I guess this would place this story before the Star Trek: Generations movie.

TOMR:  OK, fanboy, that's enough out of you.  Besides, do you really want to make this story cannon?

CROW:  Good point.

SERVO:  [as Data]  Still round, still furry, still pregnant.  Nothing new here.  *ZAP*! CROW:  So....Spot's sitting, wandering and rubbing his own ankles?

TOMR:  Pronoun check, little buddy.  "He" refers to Data.

CROW:  ahhhh...

TOMR:  Faster pussycat!  Kill!  Kill!

SERVO:  Are you sure you've never done this before?

SERVO:  Death! CROW:  What was Spot insistent on?

SERVO:  Data's hand.

CROW:  No, that's not right.  It's just not diagramming correctly.

TOMR:  Treat it like a dangling sentance fragment and chop it.  It's not important.

TOMR:  [terminator voice]  Crush ze Tribble! CROW:  In the shredder. CROW:  Darn. SERVO:  [as Data] It appears as though my cat is attempting to crush the life out of the tribble.

TOMR:  If only it were true...

CROW:  And that's when Spot clawed out the eyes of his unfeeling master! TOMR:  I think he should be shutting down his cognitive subroutines. CROW:  Trying to get at the soft, unprotected underbelly. SERVO:  Back and to the left.  Back and to the left.  Back...and to the left.

TOMR:  I wish I was on a grassy knoll in Texas right now...

TOMR:  Cause tribbles love the clean, refreshing taste of 7-Up.

CROW:  Huh?

SERVO:  The ramblings of an old man, pay him no mind.

CROW:  So are we! ALL:  EEEWWWWWW!!! SERVO:  [shaking violently]  ARRRRRRRRRGGGGG! SERVO:  Nooooooo!  [head explodes in a small fireball]

TOMR:  Whoa!

CROW:  It's ok.  There's a spare head on the floor there.

TOMR:  [attaching new head] He's not as resilient is he?

CROW:  No, but his underwear collection is unsurpassed.

CROW:  Ulp...that's it...no more!  [goes violently sick on the theatre floor]

TOMR:  Hey, careful there!  You're getting ram chips all over the floor!

CROW:  no more!  no more!

TOMR:  Come back to us little camper.

SERVO:  We...we're not gonna make it, Tom.  Tell Mike...we're his father.

TOMR:  What!?

CROW:  Yes!

SERVO:  Land on your head, cat!

ALL:  NO! TOMR:  Along with our misery. TOMR:  They must be big hands.

CROW:  Well, you know what they say about a robot with big hands.

TOMR:  Crow...

CROW:  He can use them as a fence.

TOMR:  Uh...I guess so...

TOMR:  Of course!  Why didn't I think of that?  [covers face with hands]

SERVO:  Hey!  No fair!

CROW:  Yeah!  My hands can't cover my face and Servo's arms aren't even functional!

SERVO:  Why don't you just tell the whole world, Crow!

CROW:  I just did!

VEGA:  [voice over]  Tom, if you don't read the letter, I'm cutting off your oxygen supply.

TOMR:  [uncovering]  Yes, Dr. V.

CROW:  Hah!  Suffer in hell with us, little man!

SERVO:  Ummm...I have a delicate, but important question here, Tom.

TOMR:  All right, Servo.  As long as you're clinical in your query.

SERVO:  The implication here is that the cat is acting out some sort of oral fixation.  But I don't believe fellatio or cunniligus are activties cats engage in.  Am I mistaken or is the author just trying to twist the knife a little harder?

CROW:  Fellow-what?  Cunning-who?  What are you guys talking about?

TOMR:  When you're older, Crow.  [to Servo]  In answer to your question, Servo, I think the author is just messing with your head some more.

CROW:  I think we all lose. TOMR:  Funny, we're in the same situation. CROW:  Call 1-976-BIG-LOCO for hot railroad action.

TOMR:  Crow!

SERVO:  [as Spot]  WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAVE I DONE!?!?!? SERVO:  I think I'd be making supersonic noises.

CROW:  If you had a vagina.

SERVO:  Who says I don't?

TOMR:  Uh...guys, this is a real weird area and I do NOT want to go here.

CROW:  It's dead!  Hooray! CROW:  Darn. TOMR:  [as Spot]  Yeah, I'm the cat.  Hoo-yah! TOMR:  Oh, so Spot can chew through metalic android like it was tissue paper and not even get electrocuted.

CROW:  Wow!  Just like a genestealer!

TOMR:  You play Space Hulk too?

SERVO:  That's not how I'd describe it! TOMR:  Looks like Data was messing around with Spot's genetic structure again. CROW:  It's the new exhibition sport at the 2000 Olympics.

SERVO:  Crow!

TOMR:  No...no, I'll give him that one -- this time.

CROW:  Kill 'em both, let God sort 'em out. SERVO:  I know we didn't want to read this.
  TOMR:  What's that?

CROW:  Break sign.

TOMR:  We get breaks?

SERVO:  Union rules, come on.

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[SOL]

[SERVO has a goatee on his globe and is dressed in a Starfleet uniform.  He reminds one of Riker.  In his stubby, useless hand is propped some sort of dowel with a ball of fur on the end.  CROW, is dressed up in a security uniform and his Klingon bandolier marks him as Mr. Worf.  He's also holding a fur-tipped dowel.  Enter TOMR, as Capt. Piccard...]

TOMR:  Riker!  What's that you're eating?

SERVO:  It's the new taste sensation that's sweeping the Federation -- Tribble On A Stick!  Here, try some.

TOMR:  [taking Servo's stick and taking a bite]  Mmmm...that's good eating!

CROW:  Tastes just like fuzzy chicken!  Truly a warrior's snack!

ALL:  New Tribble On A Stick!  Try some today!

[Deep 13]

VEGA:  Ha!  My plan is working.  Soon they will crack and I will spam every email account on Earth!

[TV's Wes enters, tufts of fur clinging to the edges of his mouth]

WES:  Hey, Dr. Vega, you've gotta try this new Tribble On A Stick!  It's Tribbl-icious!

VEGA:  Wes....nevermind.

[still more commercials...]

[Theater inside the SOL, TomR and the 'bots return...]

CROW:  That was fun.

TOMR:  Yeah, I've had that idea kicking around for awhile now.

SERVO:  Too bad we gotta go back to this crap.

CROW:  I wonder what you get when you cross a cat and a tribble.

TOMR:  I think we're gonna find out...

SERVO:  They all hated him anyway. TOMR:  Pizza or Grinder....pizza or grinder.... CROW:  That palooka owes me 2 stacks of High Society! TOMR:  Quietly stacking a wall of empty cans in front of the door to come crashing down on him in the morning.

SERVO:  What a lame gag.

TOMR:  When you go to WPI, you take your fun where you can.

SERVO:  It is we who want to assist you, Data.  Have you heard the call of our Lord and Savior? CROW:  [as Geordi] And then get me a martini. CROW:  [as Geordi]  Maybe a rum and coke then? ALL:  Ohhhhhhhh.... TOMR:  The fact that she's concerned confuses her. SERVO:  [as Troi]  But Data, we've got the homework problems from last year's class! CROW:  You really gotta watch out for those automatic floor buffers on the Enterprise.  They're lethal! TOMR:  Try not to give in to the Mr. Scott Syndrome there, Geordi.

CROW:  [as Geordi]  I'm the god!  I'm the god!

TOMR:  Must be finals week. SERVO:  [as Troi]  Nice tushy, Data. TOMR:  Only to find it was locked.  She was trapped!  Trapped in a bad fanfic with the rest of them! CROW:  I guess he hasn't been reading his email lately.

TOMR:  It's waiting for him.

CROW:  He disobeyed orders!  That's treason!  He should be court martialed!  He should be cast adrift in space!  Face a phaser squad!

TOMR:  The "enlightened" Federation doesn't believe in capital punishment, Crow.

CROW:  They will after they read this email!

SERVO:  You really don't want to.  You don't know where it's been. CROW:  That's not all he took to it.

TOMR:  Crow -- one more crack like that and I'm making you re-read some Ratliff.

CROW:  I'll be good.

ALL:  Please don't. ALL:  You did. SERVO:  They're abominations that should be purged from the universe!

TOMR:  I wonder if the Borg assimilate tribbles.

CROW:  They would, but all the cybernetic bits fall off.

ALL:  DATA NO! ALL:  AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

TOMR:  Mind...reeling!

SERVO:  Head containment system cracking un-der pressure!!!  [head flies off]

CROW:  I WANT MY MOMMY!!!

TOMR:  Don't look at it Troi!  Keep your eyes shut and turn away!  Don't look at the Ark! [sudden shocked silence]

SERVO:  I didn't know Geordi was...that way.

TOMR:  Reading Rainbow Power my friend.  Reading Rainbow Power.

CROW:  I wish I could read a good book right now...

TOMR:  Of course not, he has no human emotions or feelings. ALL:  Thank you, Geordi! CROW:  Michael Roy Hollihan -- I curse you! TOMR:  Is that what they're calling it nowadays... ALL:  *squeak*! CROW:  So I guess she was strokin' some pu--

TOMR:  [grabbing Crow]  Ratliff, Crow.  Ratliff.

CROW:  I sorry.  I be good.  Promise.

TOMR:  You better.

TOMR:  Well, when a cat and a tribble love each other very much... SERVO:  All right!  That's it!  Two species of animals, which independantly evolved on completely different planets, separated by light-years of space and time, whose anatomical structure is nowhere near the same, somehow have DNA pattens similiar enough to allow for this level of interspecies breeding.  I refuse to accept it!

TOMR:  Then keep in mind it's Star Trek Fanfic...

CROW:  You should really just relax.

TOMR:  Dy-No-MITE! SERVO:  So now he claims that Tribbles produce no waste products of any kind!  How is that possible!?  What freakish sort of biology does this man use to justify this patent absurdity!?!?

TOMR:  Deep breaths, Servo.  Deep breaths....

CROW:  Priapic peg?

TOMR:  It's the uh...name for the special connecting rod that holds Data's upper torso and armature together.

CROW:  You have no idea do you?

TOMR:  None.

SERVO:  I'd say we've all expired from revulsion. TOMR:  Yeah...a bad meaning. CROW:  You got that right!

TOMR:  [minister voice]  And yea, there shalt be a time for laughing and a time for weeping.  And this sure ain't the time to be laughing.

[Crow begins shuddering]

SERVO:  Looks like it's too much for Crow too.

TOMR:  [to Crow] One crack and it's page after page of Marrissa and the Kid's Crew, my friend.

TOMR:  Lunchmeat.

SERVO:  Roadkill

CROW:  Skeet Target

SERVO:  Rosebud! TOMR:  Yup.  Klingons go crazy for the taste of Kibbles and bits. SERVO:  Finally!

CROW:  Yeah that was really bad.  Does Dr. V always send you drek like this?

TOMR:  Sometimes it's ASCII art.

CROW:  I weep for you.  Come on, let's go.

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[SOL -- TOMR and the 'bots at the bridge]

TOMR:  So there you go.  A typical experiment for me.

SERVO:  There was nothing typical about that!

CROW:  Well...actually...

SERVO:  Shhh...I'm trying to blot it out of my memory.

CROW:  Yeah, but Dr. V's gonna unleash this on the world unless we do something.

SERVO:  I'm disavowing any knowledge of your activitiy.

CROW:  As usual.

TOMR:  What is it guys?

CROW:  *ahem*  Well, Tom, if you enjoyed this fanfic.

TOMR:  I didn't.

CROW:  Yeah, but say you did.  If you enjoyed it, then the library of MST3K recommends this URL.

SERVO:

CROW:  It's got pretty much everything this post had and more.

SERVO:  More evil.

TOMR:  Well, we'll see.  Dr. V's got pretty high standards.  What do you think, ma'am?

[Deep 13 -- VEGA is checking out the URL on her computer.  Her eyes go wide with shock and her mouth gapes wide.  TV's WES wanders in, still wearing the Noisy Thinker.  Making small strangling noises, VEGA reaches out and activates the Noisy Thinker filling Deep 13 with WES's thoughts.]

VEGA:  [smiling slightly] ahhhhhhh....

[Both stare vacantly into space as VEGA's hand slips down and hits the button]

*whoosh*

TOM'S DISCLAIMER:  Mystery Science Theater 3000 and all it's elements belong to Best Brains and the Sci-Fi channel.  All of the Star Trek stuff belongs to Paramount and the actual story is Michael Roy Hollihan and he really should've kept it to himself.  Please don't sue me.  It's all Nicci's fault.