“Yeah,” Slayer agreed, “watching the show is a lot easier than actually being in it”

The students continued to walk through the corridors. Due to the Hirogen attack, most of their lessons for the day had been cancelled because repairs needed to be made first. It was a little hard to follow lessons when the remains of your classroom were floating somewhere in space.

“Hey Honney, what’s our next course?” KayB asked.

“Uhm… lemme check…Ah! Here it is! Our next course is… ‘Exobiology’ with The Doctor in Holodeck One”

5 Minutes later in front of the entrance to Holodeck One…

“Looks like the door is closed,” Firebirdgirl said.

“Thanks for stating the obvious,” Aseawen rolled her eyes sarcastically. She was still in a bad mood because the Hirogen had tried to kill B’Elanna… and B’Elanna had tried to bribe the Hirogen into killing Aseawen.

Suddenly, with a loud ‘whoosh’ and lots of that neat smoke you always see in the movies, the doors finally opened.

“Come in…” an eerie voice called them from the shadows. For some reason, all the lights in the Holodeck had been turned off.

“Uhm… that didn’t sound like the Doctor,” Darkninga whispered to the others while keeping an eye on the entrance. “Should we go inside?”

“Probably not,” Firebirdgirl mumbled. The others agreed, but somehow felt the overwhelming urge to enter the ominous place anyway. It was very strange: if the students concentrated hard enough, they could vaguely hear thousands of voices gasping or yelling things like “No! Don’t go in there you idiots!” and “Jason, are you talking to the people on TV again?”, but it was as if some kind of higher power was controlling their actions. Eerie music started to swell in the background as they slowly entered the Holodeck and the words “To Be Continued” appeared out of nowhere…

COMMERCIAL BREAK

Tuvok and Icheb were shown, playing Kal-Toh in the mess hall. The expressions on their faces were stoic as ever. Suddenly, Yannik came into view. She was just standing still like a statue, her eyes replaced with little swirls.

“Predictability getting you down?” a disembodied voice suddenly boomed.

Yannik nodded in a zombie-like manner.

“Tired of watching filler episodes where nothing really happens?”

Slowly, Yannik nodded again… sort of. A redshirt rushed onto the scene to wipe the drool from her chin.

“Wishing that you could do something to spice up those re-runs you’ve already seen over a million times?”

Yannik just blinked.

“Well, your days of boredom are over because Q Industries presents ‘OOC-ness in a can’!”

With a goofy grin on his face, Q appeared next to the authoress.

“Yes, boys and girls! ‘OOC-ness in a can’, will change your Star Trek viewing experience forever! My lovely assistant will give you all a quick demonstration.”

He flashed the camera a perfect white smile and handed Yannik the can. “Just spray for three seconds, that should be more than enough for those two,” he whispered as he pushed the brainwashed student towards the Kal-Toh playing duo. Q crossed his fingers as he watched her staggering closer to her target. Slowly, she raised the can and started to spray. Q breathed a sign of relief, but after a while his victorious expression twisted into a horrified one, when he realised that it had been well over five minutes… and Yannik was still spraying them.

“Thank you Yannik, that’ll be enough,” he said quickly, while making sure he kept smiling into the camera. The zombiefied authoress, however, kept going until the can was completely empty. Q gulped when he saw that the spray was slowly taking effect.

“Wow…” Tuvok giggled. “I feel… I feel… I feel like SINGING!”

With a girlish squeal, he leaped onto the table and was suddenly dressed a glittery pink bathing suit with a bunny tail.

“Oh, God no!” Q panicked as he desperately tried to cover his eyes. Tuvok winked at the camera and started prancing around in his costume.

“I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and gaaaaaaaaay!”

“NOW LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE!” Q yelled at Yannik, but he suddenly noticed that she had disappeared.

“Gimme 20 bucks!” he suddenly heard someone demanding.

“What the…” he turned around and saw Icheb, holding a spoon in front of Yannik’s face.

“I don’t have all day, my friend,” he said with a fake Italian accent. “Hand over the greens or you and your zombie chick here will be sleeping with the fishes, if ya know what I mean”

“Such a pretty smile, such a pretty face, such a pretty…”

“Shut up Tuvok!”

“No fair boss!” the Vulcan whined. “I never get to express myself!”

The omnipotent glanced at Yannik, who was shaking her head.

“H-hey… where am I? What’s going on? Why is Tuvok… EEEEEK!”

“SILENCE!” Icheb bellowed, pushing her away and shoving her into Q’s arms. He glared at them, aiming the spoon at them as if it were a phaser. Suddenly, he threw his head back and cackled madly.

“You thought I was just an ordinary ex-drone, huh? Thought you could mess with me, huh?” A mad grin spread across his face. “Well, let tell you something… I’m not really Icheb! It was all a trick, because I’m actually… Dr. Chaotica! Today I will take over the messhall and tomorrow… I SHALL RULE THE WORLD!”

It was then, that Q finally snapped and whacked him on the head with one of Neelix’ pans. Tuvok shrieked at the sight of so much violence and almost immediately passed out.

“Q?” Yannik asked.

“Yes?”

“What the hell just happened?”

“Trust me, you don’t want to know,” he muttered as he snapped his fingers and erased her memory.

END COMMERCIAL BREAK

“I have a feeling this won’t end well…” Sikar mumbled as he entered the Holodeck. His suspicions were confirmed when the doors suddenly closed behind him, leaving the students in complete darkness.

“Greetings!” the creepy voice suddenly exclaimed behind them. They turned around and saw…

“AAAAAARGH! IT’S A GHOST!”

The ‘ghost’ laughed at SuperSanne and turned of the flashlight he was holding under his chin, creating the eerie looking silhouette she had seen.

“You youngsters have no sense of humour… Computer, lights!”

In less than a second, the Holodeck was illuminated again… and the author and authoresses were standing face to face with the perhaps the most dangerous Betazoid in the history of Star Trek…