Seven Words in TNG

of me cooking my famous omelette, Data."

 

Data quickly obeyed making Picard snicker. He

 

didn't understand the concept of teasing or

 

the appeal of a perfectly made omelette

 

wearing nothing but an open-assed pink apron.

 

Beverly Crusher, on the other hand, did.

 

At least, when Jean-luc wore the apron.

 

Beverly preferred wearing black leather boots and

 

a sheer black, satin-trimmed baby doll nightie

 

, she began singing "Fever," like Peggy Lee,

 

gyrating and bumping to the music of

 

Nurse Ogawa's accordion playing. "Can you get

 

a fever that's so hard to bear?",

 

"Fever! Fever Las Vegas, turning day into

 

nighttime and turns of the Dabo wheel

 

, as the world turns," Riker whispered calmly.

 

Four years ago on Risa, Riker was

 

given some bad acid, during which he

 

actually became likable and a competent officer

 

, not the lumbering boor he turned into.