Our scene opens on the bridge of the USS Moreau, a space ship traveling through the solar system in the year 2417. Captain Lion is getting a debriefing from Commander Bear and Lieutenant Aardvark after their return from the surface of the newly discovered ninth planet in the system, Mickezemutt.
Lion: What's it look like, Commander? Any chance of colonization?
Bear: Moy verst empwesson es dat eates do cald, Zir.
Lion: What about you, Lieutenant?
Aardvark: It remindth me of the happieth playth on Earth, Thir.
Lion: Disneyland?
Aardvark: I wath referring to ANTarctica.
Bear: Da loo-et-tin-net es gwite droll, Cupton.
Lion: I see he drools a lot.
Ensign Mink enters the room with a message and a tray of snacks.
Mink: Pardon me, Gentlemenimals. Captain, here is a directive from HQ.
Aardvark: Hector Quartzenhammer?
Bear: Homosexual Queer?
Lion: I'm relatively certain it's headquarters.
Bear: I was reverring do da loo-et-tin-net.
The captain reads the message and heads for the doorway.
Lion: Follow me!
Everyone files into the briefing room and has a seat. Captain Lion sits in a throne with the letters MGM engraved on it. Commander Bear had a chair that was too hard for anyone else to want to sit in. Lieutenant Aardvark sat on a pile of sand that seemed to be covered with termites. Ensign Mink simply stood in a provocative pose.
Lion: This message states that our discovery of this new planet coincides with ancient stories of a ninth planet named Pluto.
Bear: You mean like the god of the underworld?
Aardvark: Wathn't that Hadeeth ?
Mink: I thought the god of the underworld was Bluto?
Aardvark: No, he wath Popeyeth ANTagonithst.
Lion: At any rate, this discovery is simply a first landing on a body that is already known. It was dropped from most recorded archives as it was supposedly too small to be called a planet and too big to simply explode.
Bear: What is to be done now, Cupton?
Lion: HQ has an idea.
Both Commander Bear and Ensign Mink look at Lieutenant Aardvark.
To be continued...
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