Things That Go Meow in the Night
| The Traks Files | |
| Episode name | Things That Go Meow In The Night |
|---|---|
| Season | |
| Episode number | 8 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2375 |
| Stardate | 53543 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | Rook Pursues Pawn; Fish Consumes Prawn |
| Next in series | Black Sphere Sinking |
| Previous in timeline | Birds of a Feather [VEX] |
| Next in timeline | Starting From Scratch [VEX] |
Dallas and Batyn head to a quarantined freighter to investigate...a cat? Remember, in space no one can hear you meow.
Summary
Dallas and Batyn travel to the S.S. Jerry's Choice, where a mysterious death has occurred. The agents find that the victim is running a bit low on blood and that she has two small holes on her neck spaced very closely together. Soon after, Dallas and Batyn are attacked by the dead woman's cat, which leaves two identical holes in Dallas' hand. Dallas decides that they have a vampire cat on their hands and contacts Wally, who tells her how to destroy a vampire. After getting the crew of the freighter to safety on the Runabout Pee Dee, the agents head back into the Jerry's Choice ready to vaporize the vampire pet with their phasers, but the cat has been busy converting all of the other pets on the ship into vampires as well. In the meantime, Wally has left Dallas a message asking how the cat became a vampire in the first place. From this Dallas is able to piece things together. Someone on the crew of the Jerry's Choice is a vampire. The ship was damaged several days earlier, taking out the replicators. Without replicators to use to produce artificial blood, the vampire was forced to get blood from other sources. Since the Jerry's Choice crew had been using the Pee Dee's replicator, Dallas is able to check the logs. She finds that a lot of Klingon food, which is filled with blood, has been ordered by one of the crew, Stanley, who is indeed a vampire. He attacked the cat in a moment of hunger, then allowed the cat to feed from him to bring it back, turning it into a vampire. He didn't think that it would attack its owner. The rest of the Jerry's Choice crew decide that Stanley is their friend and that they want to him to stay. Yes, he screwed up, but now that they know about his condition, they can help him if the replicators go down again. Batyn thinks they're all crazy for this decision, but Dallas is very pleased.
Featuring
- Agent Samantha Dallas
- Agent Batyn
Also Featuring
Admiral Gitt