Seven Words in TNG

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Mott present himself to the nearest airlock.

 

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"What changed your mind?"

"Deanna said I

 

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wasn't allowed to vent my frustrations out

 

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until I shave-"

Suddenly, the captain issued

 

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a phaser to every man saying, "Take

 

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this, there is a possibility that someone

 

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will need to heat a few rocks

 

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I prefer the ancient Greek scholar--Thales of Miletus, I think--who said just 4 words: "Moderation in all things."

If we lived in moderation--following the main course, rather than allowing the pendulum to swing to extremes--we would be better off.

One passage in The Bible says that, too--in Proverbs?--but I haven't been able to find it again, perhaps due to various translations and editions. It speaks about turning neither to the right hand nor to the left.

 

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^(If you haven't caught on varek, this thread is a continuous story told seven words at a time, not individual seven word stories. If you have caught on, the OP just went with seven, not four. Anyway...)

Days later Geordi sighed as he reconfigured

 

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his visor to be able to detect

 

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the color red again. O'brien pranked him

 

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by painting everything on the ship red.

 

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The captain was not amused. It took

 

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Geordi hours to realize his visor wasn't

 

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working properly. He figured everyone else was

 

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crazy. Whenever he tried telling everyone that

 

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he didn't see red, they seemed confused

 

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because everything was red.

"Geordi, you appear

 

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to be at the center of a

 

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practical joke," Data said. "I would suggest