Seven Words in TNG

to which stars? And what signal?"

Picard

 

and the Ferengi montage-ly learned the moves

 

loved a challenge.

"I'll teach you acting

 

the best way a captain knows how,

 

by making you an intern and not

 

making you submit to the casting couch."

 

"What's this casting couch you speak of?"

 

asked the Ferengi, more lazy than titillated.

 

"Well, if you insist." Picard led him

 

in a dramatic recreation of the history

 

of the infamous casting couch.

"Many producers

 

seek throughout the quadrant for

 

suddenly, a Romulan Warbird decloaked at port bow

 

and a transporter beam took the Ferengi

 

away, but not before sending a sub-space

 

raspberry to the Enterprise crew and launching

 

some cream filled pies from the forward

 

side of the ship, and warped away.

 

"What, exactly, the hell?" said Riker, who

 

couldn't decide whether to rescue the Ferengi