Seven Words in TNG

novels. When the Red Shirt Comes Off

 

was a personal favorite of CDR Riker

 

and Thomas. They would read it together

 

on those lonely, boring nights when they

 

compared the methods in which Counselor Troi

 

tried to avoid getting pregnant. She preferred

 

to use a catcher's mitt as a

 

diaphragm, but found that it irritated and

 

sometimes fell in and got lost among

 

Worf's collection of vintage stuffed animals and

 

Hummel figurines. Will was constantly amazed at

 

the number of salami, baseball bats, and

 

rectal thermometers that Deanna had collected over

 

the day. "The day is still young,"

 

said Troi, pulling an eggplant out of

 

of her cleavage and asking Will to

 

"be a good boy." Sighing, Wil plunged

 

his teeth into the eggplant and bit

 

into disaster.

"Deanna, what did I just bite

 

into? This isn't an eggplant!!" He spat