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The experience and her time with Mookow has Hawkins reconsidering her life. She realizes that she has been stagnating because she is comfortable and that she's not really going after what she wants. What she wants is a different life and to be with Mookow. She dumps Dillon (although he doesn't realize that's what's happening), tells Rydell that she is resigning, and leaves the Secondprize with Mookow. Later that night, events (and a bizaree comm from Captain [[Andrew Baxter]] of the [[USS Explorer]] has Rydell wondering if maybe Hawkins is right. He concludes that he has done all that he ever wanted to do as a Starship Captain, and, thanks to his efforts, the USS Secondprize would not dissolve into total anarchy if he left. Therefore, he's going to retire. | The experience and her time with Mookow has Hawkins reconsidering her life. She realizes that she has been stagnating because she is comfortable and that she's not really going after what she wants. What she wants is a different life and to be with Mookow. She dumps Dillon (although he doesn't realize that's what's happening), tells Rydell that she is resigning, and leaves the Secondprize with Mookow. Later that night, events (and a bizaree comm from Captain [[Andrew Baxter]] of the [[USS Explorer]] has Rydell wondering if maybe Hawkins is right. He concludes that he has done all that he ever wanted to do as a Starship Captain, and, thanks to his efforts, the USS Secondprize would not dissolve into total anarchy if he left. Therefore, he's going to retire. | ||
And the next day, he does. | And the next day, he does. | ||
Revision as of 14:30, 2 April 2008
| Star Traks: The Original Series | |
| Episode name | Quit While You're Ahead |
|---|---|
| Season | The Lost Years |
| Episode number | 19 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2377 |
| Stardate | 54994 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | For Every Action [TRK] |
| Next in series | Aftermath [TRK] |
| Previous in timeline | For Every Action [TRK] |
| Next in timeline | Aftermath [TRK] |
It looks like everybody's in trouble now. Of course, #18 wouldn't have been much of a cliffhanger if they weren't. Is it time for Alan to start cleaning up the mess, or is he going to make you wait until Lost Years #20?
Summary
This story picks up right where For Every Action left off.
On the USS Secondprize, Commander Jaroch determines that the massive, jumbled-looking ship that has decloaked in front of them has a Joegonot Befriender class destroyer at its heart, a type of ship that was decommissioned three years earlier. Meanwhile, the armed Joegonots who have captured Commander Travis Dillon, Lieutenant Commander Emily Sullivan, and Counselor Claire Webber transport them back to the huge ship. Across the planet, Lieutenant Commander Patricia Hawkins and Mookow narrowly escape being incapacitated by a drugged dessert and realize that they have been locked into a ballroom while Captain Alexander Rydell faces, Colonel Bleuda, the very angry commander of the still Joegonoty Joegonots. Bleuda's ship was away from Ugilious on a scouting mission when Rydell zapped the place with the Transference Ray five years earlier. She and her crew returned to find that they were no longer welcome on their own homeworld. Since that time, they wandered the stars, grafting improvements onto their ship and waiting for a chance to strike.
The Secondprize discovers that a scrambling field has been put up around the Federation Membership ceremony, preventing them from retreiving Rydell. They are able to get Hawkins and Mookow, though. Dillon, Sullivan, and Webber are taken to a lab on the Joegonot ship, where a Dr. Jelluly sets about trying various techniques on the officers in an attempt to turn them from humans into Joegonots. The attachments on the Joegonot ship reveal themselves to be drones, which detach and attack the Secondprize. Jaroch sends Hawkins and Mookow back to Ugilious while the Secondprize engages and destroys the drone ships. Thanks to Webber, the three captured officers are able to escape the Joegonot lab and set about taking over the ship. Hawkins and Mookow are able to take out the Joegonots on the surface, but Bleuda swears that she will not give up. She will not rest until all Joegonots are the same species again. Rydell decides to grant her wish. He sends Jaroch to borrow a Transference Ray from the Happy Universe, which is then used to convert Bleuda and her crew into humans. With that all settled the ceremony goes forward and the Joegonots are admitted into the Federation.
The experience and her time with Mookow has Hawkins reconsidering her life. She realizes that she has been stagnating because she is comfortable and that she's not really going after what she wants. What she wants is a different life and to be with Mookow. She dumps Dillon (although he doesn't realize that's what's happening), tells Rydell that she is resigning, and leaves the Secondprize with Mookow. Later that night, events (and a bizaree comm from Captain Andrew Baxter of the USS Explorer has Rydell wondering if maybe Hawkins is right. He concludes that he has done all that he ever wanted to do as a Starship Captain, and, thanks to his efforts, the USS Secondprize would not dissolve into total anarchy if he left. Therefore, he's going to retire.
And the next day, he does.
Featuring
- Captain Alexander Rydell
- Commander Travis Dillon
- Commander Jaroch
- Commander Scott Baird
- Lieutenant Commander Emily Sullivan
- Lieutenant Commander Patricia Hawkins
- Counselor Claire Webber
- Lieutenant Andrea Carr
- Dr. Elizabeth Aldridge
Also Featuring
- Karina Durham
- Mookow
- The Grand Leech
- Admiral Thomas Wagner
Author's Comments
Links
Quit While You're Ahead (text)