#001 - You were dead the minute you fired on that holo-emitter.
I feel like I should note here that (a) the Aquans really are an alien race in the Star Trek universe and (b) they are in fact fish people, and (c) they only ever appeared in one episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and (d) that apparently qualifies as series canon, and (e) I only know any of this because I looked it up on Memory Alpha when I needed some aliens for Picard to blow up.
I like Star Trek a lot — I have watched more of it than the average person, that much is safe to say — but I’m not an encyclopedic superfan, so it’s handy that there is an actual encyclopedia maintained by actual superfans. Because I’m gonna be leaning on that thing a lot.
Picard: Cease fire. Report!
Wes: Sir, we’ve completely disabled the rogue Aquan ship. They aren’t any danger now.
Worf: Two crewmen injured on deck 7. Minor hull damage, repair team has been dispatched.
Geordi: Engineering here! Our deflector took a couple of hits, but I should have it fixed up in a jiffy, Captain.
Picard: Very good. Stand down red alert. Hail the Aquan ship, offer them medical assistance and anything they–
Wes: Also, sir, uh…the holodecks are completely off-line.
Picard: …
Riker: …
Troi: …
Picard: Continue firing!"
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Okay, good. Right. Hi there! Been a while, let's revisit this old pile of jokes together, see how it held up, chat a bit about what I remember about the whole thing.
Of which: this is a strip that started with a premise (TNG crew roleplays DS9) and then needed to get there somehow, and as rocky pilots go having Picard fire at helpless, outgunned fish people because he's big mad about the holodeck is up there for wildly incoherent character writing. Ah well, I was finding my feet. Give me a few strips to actually get things going and we can forget all about this one.