RobertScorpio
Pariah
Star Trek: The Mission
We all need Pain
THE “A” PLOT
Mylf (William Sergeant) had said what needed to be said. That an android like her, like Mylf, would never find true love. And even though Admiral Thomas Asimov (special guest star Samuel Jackson) and Mylf had been lovers in the past and had shared so much history; it didn’t matter. It was what it was, a flame in the past.
But Thomas didn’t want to hear it. As they stood alone, in the transporter room of the Explorer, Thomas couldn’t let what they shared end in such loss.
“So,” Thomas said as he reached out and touched Mylf’s cheek with his fingers, “are you saying that simply because you are an android you can never know love inside of your mechanical heart?” He let his hand drift down until it rested above Mylf’s mechanical heart.
Mylf’s usually purple skinned face was now streaked with green tears as the raw emotions of the moment enfolded her like flames on Hawaii pork barbeque.
“Oh,” Mylf replied in her deep female voice, “I want so very much to love you and hold you and take you inside of me;” Mylf said, “but I can’t.”
“Why,” Thomas pleaded, with his own tears now falling, “why can’t you? You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met. Perhaps it is me. Perhaps you can’t find yourself to love a mere man.”
“No, my love,” Mylf said, her body trembling as she did. “It is not you. Nothing has changed since we were together of Rigel-7 all those years ago. You deserve a fully operational lover, not one like me.” Mylf said. She made a fist and slightly bit on her index finger.
Thomas knew why Mylf was hesitant to leave the USS Explorer, marry him, and explore the universe together. It was the same reason they hadn’t married years earlier. An accident while loading Mylf’s programs at the Daystrom institute had caused a glitch. If Mylf became sexually aroused, which she was programmed to do so as to experience love making, her mechanical vagina would secrete an acid which would castrate any thing inside of it. The scientists at Daystrom had tried experimental condoms, with anti-acid properties; all of them failed. Mylf would have to live out her automated existence, perhaps fifty-thousand years, unable to know the feeling that only comes during sexual intercourse. She would never be able to satisfy a man, or woman, and so she could not find true love.
“Well, if the Daystrom can't upgrade you, then I must leave you,” Thomas said, “because I must indeed must have the complete love of a woman. You will always be in my heart; goodbye Mylf.”
And with that said Thomas beamed away, crushing Mylf’s heart as he had done before.
THE “B” PLOT
Vulcan science officer Soyak (William Sergeant) and Captain Dirk Benton (William Sergeant), his shirt torn across the chest, played a game of checkers.
“Captain,” Soyak said, “you play the most interesting game of Checkers. Your moves are so unorthodox that they confuse my own play.”
Benton smiled and watched as Soyak made the next move.
“My life is like that,” Benton said. “I don’t play by the rules,” Benton said as he reached down and scratched an itch in his forest of chest hair.
“Do you not find that by living such a life,” Soyak said as he watched Benton make the next move, “that you cause yourself pain?”
(The camera zooms in on Dirk Benton’s face.)
“I don’t want life to take my pain away.” Benton said. “I need my pain! Our pain is what defines us, makes us who we are. If we lose our pain then we lose…ourselves.”
Soyak slid a red Checker, preparing to win the game on the next move. But it was not to be. And then with out hesitation, Captain Dirk Benton, the legendary hero of the Federation, jumped seven of Soyak’s Checkers in one move; winning the game.
“Pain,” Dirk Benton said as he looked at the disappointment on Soyak’s face, “is part of life. The quicker you understand that simple truth, the better off you will be.”
Matt Winston, standing behind the camera, and next to the director, Naveen Andrews, could only say one thing.
“That man is an acting God.”
--
When the episode We All Need Pain aired, it garnered high ratings. Men all over the world found themselves strangely attracted to the Mylf android. Leonard Nimoy even commented that it was the same phenomenon that happened in the 60s when Spock had the same affect on women of that time.
And the TREKBBS message board was littered with posts about how great the episode was and how it had made them cry. It was the new Star Trek show’s first true classic episode; right up there with other iconic episodes like City on the Edge of Forever and Move along Home.
We all need Pain
THE “A” PLOT
Mylf (William Sergeant) had said what needed to be said. That an android like her, like Mylf, would never find true love. And even though Admiral Thomas Asimov (special guest star Samuel Jackson) and Mylf had been lovers in the past and had shared so much history; it didn’t matter. It was what it was, a flame in the past.
But Thomas didn’t want to hear it. As they stood alone, in the transporter room of the Explorer, Thomas couldn’t let what they shared end in such loss.
“So,” Thomas said as he reached out and touched Mylf’s cheek with his fingers, “are you saying that simply because you are an android you can never know love inside of your mechanical heart?” He let his hand drift down until it rested above Mylf’s mechanical heart.
Mylf’s usually purple skinned face was now streaked with green tears as the raw emotions of the moment enfolded her like flames on Hawaii pork barbeque.
“Oh,” Mylf replied in her deep female voice, “I want so very much to love you and hold you and take you inside of me;” Mylf said, “but I can’t.”
“Why,” Thomas pleaded, with his own tears now falling, “why can’t you? You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met. Perhaps it is me. Perhaps you can’t find yourself to love a mere man.”
“No, my love,” Mylf said, her body trembling as she did. “It is not you. Nothing has changed since we were together of Rigel-7 all those years ago. You deserve a fully operational lover, not one like me.” Mylf said. She made a fist and slightly bit on her index finger.
Thomas knew why Mylf was hesitant to leave the USS Explorer, marry him, and explore the universe together. It was the same reason they hadn’t married years earlier. An accident while loading Mylf’s programs at the Daystrom institute had caused a glitch. If Mylf became sexually aroused, which she was programmed to do so as to experience love making, her mechanical vagina would secrete an acid which would castrate any thing inside of it. The scientists at Daystrom had tried experimental condoms, with anti-acid properties; all of them failed. Mylf would have to live out her automated existence, perhaps fifty-thousand years, unable to know the feeling that only comes during sexual intercourse. She would never be able to satisfy a man, or woman, and so she could not find true love.
“Well, if the Daystrom can't upgrade you, then I must leave you,” Thomas said, “because I must indeed must have the complete love of a woman. You will always be in my heart; goodbye Mylf.”
And with that said Thomas beamed away, crushing Mylf’s heart as he had done before.
THE “B” PLOT
Vulcan science officer Soyak (William Sergeant) and Captain Dirk Benton (William Sergeant), his shirt torn across the chest, played a game of checkers.
“Captain,” Soyak said, “you play the most interesting game of Checkers. Your moves are so unorthodox that they confuse my own play.”
Benton smiled and watched as Soyak made the next move.
“My life is like that,” Benton said. “I don’t play by the rules,” Benton said as he reached down and scratched an itch in his forest of chest hair.
“Do you not find that by living such a life,” Soyak said as he watched Benton make the next move, “that you cause yourself pain?”
(The camera zooms in on Dirk Benton’s face.)
“I don’t want life to take my pain away.” Benton said. “I need my pain! Our pain is what defines us, makes us who we are. If we lose our pain then we lose…ourselves.”
Soyak slid a red Checker, preparing to win the game on the next move. But it was not to be. And then with out hesitation, Captain Dirk Benton, the legendary hero of the Federation, jumped seven of Soyak’s Checkers in one move; winning the game.
“Pain,” Dirk Benton said as he looked at the disappointment on Soyak’s face, “is part of life. The quicker you understand that simple truth, the better off you will be.”
Matt Winston, standing behind the camera, and next to the director, Naveen Andrews, could only say one thing.
“That man is an acting God.”
--
When the episode We All Need Pain aired, it garnered high ratings. Men all over the world found themselves strangely attracted to the Mylf android. Leonard Nimoy even commented that it was the same phenomenon that happened in the 60s when Spock had the same affect on women of that time.
And the TREKBBS message board was littered with posts about how great the episode was and how it had made them cry. It was the new Star Trek show’s first true classic episode; right up there with other iconic episodes like City on the Edge of Forever and Move along Home.
