Thanks,
LeadHead and we're glad to have you back.
Picard: Some problem, Riker?
Riker: Just hoping this isn't the usual way our missions will go, sir.
Picard: Oh no, Number One. I'm sure most will be much more interesting.
Riker: How so, Sir?
Picard: I don't know. Maybe we'll all contract a similar disease to the one that Kirk's
Enterprise that makes everyone drunk. Or perhaps we'll meet the Ferengi or Worf, Doctor Crusher, and I will become possessed by an electrical alien creature, or we'll have to save Wesley from the death penalty on a planet because he steps on some flowers, or a Ferengi will force me to relive the "Battle of Maxia, or Q might give you powers like his, or...
Riker: I think I get it. Like, what if Yar is abducted and forced to fight for her freedom. Or what if an alien creature that looks like tar kills her.
Picard: First of all, Number One, those are ridiculous ideas. Secondly, what do you have against Tasha?
Luisa Kim: Progress is going slowly, but it's amazing to see a planet gradually be terraformed.
Riker: Genesis could do it overnight.
Luisa Kim: I'm sorry? Genesis?
Riker: Sure David Marcus used protomatter, but we've had the better part of a century to figure that out.
Troi: Ignore him. That smug look means he's been reading classified material again.
LaForge: Right this way, sir. I have your table prepared for you. Your waiter will be right with you. Until then, for a cocktail, I suggest our very own "Warp Core Coolant" signature drink and and for an appetizer, perhaps some isolinear chips?
Data: ...and this was my room. I used to come down here, blast some Beethoven, read some engineering manuals. Really cut loose. I was such a rambunctious adolescent!
Picard: Captain's Log--When I have a "senior moment" and forget what order I wanted to give, I like to comment on just how beautiful space is and how we should all take a moment and just enjoy the view. However, during the Red Alert, it probably wasn't the best of times to point out the lovely vista. Incidentally, I must remember to write to the families of the 218 crew members who died today when I didn't give my order quickly enough. Oh well, space really is pretty.