Seven Words in TNG

"What's a Klingon doing here?" Robau asked

 

"Well," replied Picard smuggly, "He WAS going

 

to hit you, but that's clearly not

 

what's going to happen now!" Bellowed Picard.

 

Riker asked Robau, "Who are you, Mister?"

 

"Don't you read history? I'm Captain Robau!"

 

"Excellent!" said Picard. "I'm taking two weeks

 

vacation, who better to command the Enterprise

 

- certainly not you, Wil !" Jean-luc snorted derisively.

 

Riker pouted, but acknowledged Picard's correctness. Robau

 

took the big chair, entered a course,

 

and watched Picard depart the bridge. "Now,

 

Riker, take the Bridge. Troi, report to

 

Picard's, er, my Ready Room." The bulge

 

on Riker's forehead caused Data to wonder

 

what extra curricular activities Riker had indulged

 

in while on vacation in Risa. Riker

 

pleaded the fifth, as in a fifth

 

of scotch. Data, who enjoyed scotch as

 

much as the next Soong-type android,