Detained
By Colin 'Zeke' HaymanPosted at May 26, 2002 - 10:12 AM GMT
See Also: 'Detained' Episode Guide
Archer: Oh, great. Cant I go to sleep just once without waking up in jail?
Guard: Everybody out! Inspection time!
Tucker: Hey TPol, I was just thinking how --
Guard: The Colonel wants to see you.
Colonel Grat: Good morning, Captain Archer. I trust you slept well?
Archer: Yikes! A Suliban!
Sato: The Tandaran base is hailing us.
Mayweather: Welcome back. How was solitary?
Sato: Ninety-eight, ninety-nine... one hundred billion! WOO-HOO!
Sajen: What are these humans doing here?
Grat: Mind if I shed my good-guy facade for a minute?
TPol: Youre out of uniform, Ensign.
Danik: ....and they stuck her in a different prison because leaving couples together wouldnt have been mean enough for them. Well, thats my sob story. Like it?
Sajen: Quit pretending youre on our side -- Suliban terrify you.
Mayweather: Hey, whered that communicator come from?
Sato: I slept on a mattress made of caviar last night. Can you say that? No!
Archer: For the last time, Silik did not tell me what his cousins middle name was.
TPol: Bridge to Phlox. Hows the work coming?
Mayweather: Lets get one thing straight: you suck.
TPol: Hi again, Colonel. Wed like to --
Mayweather: Another Suliban. Are you okay, maam?
Archer: Hey Malcolm. Glad you could make it.
Sato: And heres the diamond collar I bought you! Like it?
Sajen: YEOW!
Grat: And furthermore, YOU SON OF A BLATCH! Why are you helping them? We have to exterminate the brutes, dammit!
TPol: Whats the prognosis?
Archer: And thus the episode ends. Everything is resolved.
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Mayweather: Yawwwn... good mornAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Archer: Whats wrong, Travis?
Mayweather: What do you think? I woke up next to YOU! Oh God... how much did I drink last night?
Archer: Oh, stop that. Not only are you being irrationally paranoid, but youre encouraging the slashers.
Mayweather: Uh oh. What do you think they inspect here?
Archer: Just relax, Travis. Ill handle this with my Eagle Scout training.
Guard: Now then, you two --
Archer: Sir, I know were not in proper uniform, but I ask that you please be lenient. My friend and I stopped to help an old lady cross the street on the way here, and as soon as she got to the other side, she gassed us and stole our clothes.
Guard: Buh?
Archer: Youll let it go just this once? Thank you so much, sir. It wont happen again.
Guard: Buh?
Mayweather: I think all you did was confuse him, Captain.
Archer: I was aiming for a Good Citizenship badge, but itll do.
TPol: Silence, fool! Were not supposed to appear yet. Its a suspense-building tactic.
Tucker: But this is important!
TPol: All right, fine. What is it?
Tucker: I forget.
TPol: Get out of my sight.
Archer: Understandable. Tell her Im flattered, but I dont really have room in my life for a relationship right now.
Guard: The Colonels a man.
Archer: Those slashers will stop at nothing, will they? Fine, tell him I --
Guard: Ill give you three seconds to stop misinterpreting me.
Archer: Seconds? Thanks, but Im full.
Guard: Okay, you just made my list.
Archer: More or less. I had this weird dream where I was the last guardian of a fallen civilization and recruited an unlikely crew to reunite the galaxies.
Grat: Pretty farfetched. Anyway, pleased to finally meet you.
Archer: Youve heard of me?
Grat: You were on the cover of GQ last month, remember? Very interesting read. At one point, you told the interviewer to take her Vulcan cynicism and bury it.
Archer: Thats just my way of being friendly.
Grat: Ah. Well, anyway, dont worry -- well have you out of here well before this becomes a ripoff of every prison drama ever made. For now, just go back to rotting in your cell.
Archer: Sounds good. Im off then... take your Vulcan cynicism and bury it.
Grat: Thanks, you too.
Danik: Whats it to you?
Archer: A seven-letter word for slimy evildoer. Found that in a crossword puzzle.
Danik: But it was a misprint. The answer was supposed to be Clinton. They printed a correction the next issue....
Guard: Thats it, you get a night in jail!
Danik: But I was just --
Guard: Move it! MOVE IT!
Archer: Wow. Tough place.
Mayweather: You think thats bad? While you were out, they repainted our room in ecru. Ecru!
TPol: Theyd better not be trying to sell us encyclopedias again. On screen.
Grat: (over the comm) Greetings. Can we interest you in --
Sato: Hey, I know you!
Grat: What? Thats impossible.
Sato: Oh no its not! You were that guy from --
Grat: Shhh! Im trying to start a new life here! How much money will it take to keep you quiet?
Sato: Just beam your vault to my quarters, Grat.
TPol: Ensign, thats enough. Starfleet regulations specifically forbid using the ships comm line for personal mail, e-mail, or blackmail.
Danik: Solitary.
Archer: How odd. Anyway, before we were interrupted, you were telling a joke... something about not being evil.
Danik: That wasnt a joke.
Archer: Not a good one, anyway. Reminded me of those lame five-minute parodies I used to read.
Mayweather: Can we get back on topic here? I think this guys going to tell us what moral were bashing the audience around with this week.
Danik: Racial profiling, mostly. Also the dangers of greed.
Archer: Huh. Where does that come up?
TPol: Thats a lot of cash all right. Grats secret must be pretty important to him.
Sato: Oh, yes. You might say he should have looked before he leapt.
Grat: (over the comm) Hey, stop that! No hinting!
Danik: They say theyre on our side.
Sajen: In other words, you cant get rid of them.
Danik: Ive tried Raid, Ive tried DDT....
Archer: We resent that!
Mayweather: Actually, Im kinda flattered. Being an insect would be a step up for me.
Archer: Oh, quit your whining. Its not for us to choose who gets the most lines -- theyre meted out by the Powers That Be.
Mayweather: Groaaan. Do we have to do an Angel reference every single week?
Archer: Be my guest.
Grat: Then let the interrogation begin. What do you know about Silik?
Archer: Hmmm... well, he can survive in the vacuum of space.
Grat: What? Thats preposterous! I can think of at least five scientific problems with --
Archer: Oh, and he has this room where time goes wonky.
Grat: Enough! Theres no point in interrogating you if youre just going to make stuff up!
Sato: Youre just jealous because you cant afford a solid platinum Armani. So where do we beam this communicator to?
TPol: The captains cell. The hard part will be finding --
Sato: No problem. I bought something from Grat thatll help us out.
TPol: A map of the prison?
Sato: A set of encyclopedias. Lets see... Archer, Jon: Earths answer to Buzz Lightyear. Currently residing in Cell K9.
TPol: Heheheh. They stuck him in the kennel.
Archer: Im... Im moved to tears.
Mayweather: Youre not crying, Captain.
Archer: Did I say my tears? Well, Im convinced. Im making a plan to free all the Suliban.
Mayweather: I thought you decided not to interfere with other cultures.
Archer: Geez, what show have YOU been watching?
Mayweather: Well, duh. Rabbits terrify me. Kleenex terrifies me.
Sajen: You can stop now.
Mayweather: Fantasia terrifies me. Those hippos in tutus... shudder.
Sajen: I said stop!
Archer: It must be one of those spontaneous communicators. Lets see whos calling.
TPol: (over the comm) Captain! Are you there?
Archer: No, youve reached the Vulcan Theatre Guild, where monotony meets soliloquy.
TPol: Ill introduce you to the rudiments of tact later. First, theres someone here who misses you.
Porthos: (over the comm) Ruff! RUFF! Ruffruffruff!
Archer: Oh, hi Trip! Howre you doing?
Reed: Dont you think youre being a little shortsighted with all this money?
Sato: No, I think youre being a little shortsighted with all this money.
Reed: That doesnt make sense.
Sato: You dare to criticize the logic of Queen Hoshi? I punish you with a dangerous and foolhardy away mission!
Reed: Queen Hoshi?
Sato: Youd be surprised how far fifty million pounds will get you at Buckingham Palace.
Grat: Youre lying! You just want to conceal information from us!
Archer: I wont deny that last part, but....
Grat: That does it! Guard, beat up Mayweather!
Guard: Roger. Ill go get the Stick of Whuppin.
Grat: So, Captain... feeling a little less reticent now that your friend is in danger?
Archer: Youd think so, wouldnt you?
Phlox: (over the comm) Im already done, Subcommander, and I believe Ms. Reed will be very pleased when she wakes up.
TPol: What the--? You were supposed to make him look like a Suliban!
Phlox: And you didnt specify the gender, now did you?
Sajen: This is the comeuppance I was scheduled for?
Grat: (over the comm) No. She cant have any more money. Ive given her everything I own.
TPol: I was wondering what the nudity was about. But dont worry, were just here to destroy your prison.
Grat: With the prisoners in it?
TPol: Hmm, let me think about that. No.
Grat: Can I at least attack Archer in a genocidal frenzy?
TPol: Sure, on condition that you put some clothes on!
Reed: Its me, Travis! And -- hey, wait a minute. Did you say maam?
Mayweather: Yeah....
Reed: Dammit! Not again! Ive already HAD a sex change this season!
Tucker: (over the comm) Just be glad youre not pregnant.
Reed: Mind your own business.
Reed: Hoshi paid my air fare. I cant believe she wouldnt spring for first class....
Archer: All right, lets discuss strategy. Basically, Im gonna do Lets move these people out la Picard in Insurrection.
Mayweather: Oh, I get it. Youre trying to get stuck in a cave-in with some babe.
Archer: Am not.
Mayweather: Are too.
Archer: Am not.
Sajen: These humans sure do have maturity under fire.
Porthos: Ruff.
Sato: Something wrong, Porthos? You havent touched your solid gold dog food.
Porthos: Ruff... ruff ruff....
Sato: Oh, cant any of you people just accept that Im rich now? Always with the be careful or youll lose it all junk! Im sick of it!
Porthos: Ruff!
Sato: Yeah? Sos your mother!
Porthos: GRRRRRRRR....
Sato: Uh oh.
Danik: Problems?
Sajen: Im shot!
Danik: What does that have to do with problems?
Mayweather: Oh, just go back and help him, you meathead.
Archer: Are you just about through? Im on a deadline here. Also, where in Gods name are your pants?
Grat: Thats not impAAAAAAAAA!
Archer: Wow. Ive never seen someone choke on his own bigotry before.
Phlox: Porthos didnt exactly pull his punches -- Ensign Sato needs massive surgery. Im confident that I can rebuild her....
TPol: Dont tell me: you have the technology.
Phlox: Ahem. Yes. But the operation will cost one hundred billion dollars.
TPol: Well have to sell back all the stuff she bought, but that should be enough.
Phlox: Theres a valuable lesson to be learned here about greed.
TPol: Not as valuable as the lesson about insulting Porthos mother.
Mayweather: But we never found out what happened to Danik and Sajen.
Archer: In what way does that affect my observation that everything is resolved?
(Enterprise heads off at Ludicrous Speed)
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Colin 'Zeke' Hayman has been parodying Trek for over a year now at his website, Five-Minute Voyager, where ST episodes are reduced to "fivers" of one-twelfth their original length. He didn't need Hoshi to show him the danger of insulting Porthos' mother, but he's afraid of dogs anyway.