Date: 27 Jun 94
From: LizBeth258@aol.com
Subject: Q o' Lights

hehehehehe

Steve gave me SUCH an evil idea. Please forgive me for stealing it.....  ;)

Q-o' Lights.
hehehehehe

And yeah. I did notice the VOICE.  :)
Ahhhh, to have only seen his face. I woulda been funny, in retrospect.......

[Cue scene: Starbuck is watching the destruction he's just wrought on two
transports and eight people lying stunned on the ground. He leans against
viper and expresses hope that he doesn't have to pay for the machines.
John, unseen by Starbuck, walks among the stunned victims. He stops short
upon seeing one of the soldiers]

John (surprised) Q! What are you doing here, ol' boy?

Q (sits up and upon seeing John, his face breaks into a smile. He sounds
pleased to see him): Johnny! Oh, just hanging about. I had to check out these
Terrans. Not as much fun as the humans from earth, but amusing in their own
little way.

Starbuck (befuddled by the fact that one of the guys he shot is still
standing): Did you say earth? And who in hades hole are you talking to?

[John and Q look at Starbuck and then look at each other]

Q: You're going to have to deal with him.

Starbuck: WHO'S going to have to deal with me?

John: Q, old bean, you're not helping the situation. [He sighs] I'm afraid we
have to keep him. My first agent just got locked in a cell.

Q: See. You shouldn't send a human to do the Continuum's job...

Starbuck: Continuum?

Q (ignoring him): And if you HAD to send a human, I could've given you
Picard. He would've LOVED this.

John: Picard? I thought he hated you. Really, Q, sometimes your sense of
humor can really get us into quite a lot of trouble.

Q: Picard LOVES me. He just THINKS he hates me. After all, I bring a lot of
color to his otherwise boringly organized existence.

Starbuck (losing it): WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!?

John (amused): Temper, temper.

Q (sighing): Humans. Really. John, you're going to have send him off to the
city now if he's going to play "hero in the nick of time."

Starbuck (frustrated): Nick of time for WHAT?!

Q (turning to Starbuck): Lieutenant, didn't anyone tell you that it's rude to
interrupt? Children should be seen....

Starbuck (cowed): Sorry. [He thinks about it] HEY! I am not a child!

John: Oh? You're not? [Q sniggers while John addresses him] You're going to
have to deal with it. I'm not in corporeal form right now.

Q (sighing as he walks up to Starbuck): Now, lieutenant, look at me.

Starbuck (annoyed): Who in the frak are you? This is getting way too... [He
looks at Q's face and freezes, his expression blank]

Q (calmly): You're going to forget everything you've just seen, starting with
when you saw me stand up. Then, you're going to walk down this road behind
you and keep going till you reach a city. When you get there, you will stop
and wait for instructions.

John (quickly): Tell him that he'll be able to hear my voice.

Q: You'll be able to hear John when you get there. Do you understand?

Starbuck (dully): Yeah. I do.

Q: Then go, already.

Starbuck (dully as he heads for the road): I'm going. I'm going. Sheesh.

[Q and John watch after Starbuck]

Q: Are you sure it's wise to use them? The Colonists are not exactly known
for their subtlety. Must be from all those years fighting Cylons.

John: Did you have another agent in mind? Wait, wait. Let me guess. Picard.

Q: Or anyone from the Federation. Well, maybe not Worf. A Klingon's idea of
subtlety is hitting someone who annoys them with their fist instead of
beating them to a pulp. But the Federation people are MUCH better at this
sort of thing.

John (amused by Q's bias): Don't they have that Prime Directive?

Q (snorting): Never stopped them before....

Sorry. Couldn't resist....

Liz ;)