BramP's Characters

(USS Atlantis - Shuttlebay - 2393.12.06, 2110)

"You know what is funny?" Dmitri said as the team boarded the USS Elbe.

Dawson sighed. "Alright, let's get this over with so we can leave. What is funny?"

"The Elbe," Dmitri said. "It's a Danube class."

"Yes, positively hilarious." Dawson sat down next to the pilot. "What do you think, is the Danube a funny class of runabouts?"

(Reply pilot)

"You both don't get it?" Dmitri said, looking from the pilot to Dawson and back. "Buckling, tell me you get it?"

(Reply Bugling)

Dmitri sighed. "Danube. The Blue Danube, anyone?" He paused. "Computer, play The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss II." The computer started playing the music he requested. "Still not ringing any bells?"

(Reply any)

"2001: A Space Odyssey," Dmitri explained cryptically. "A so-called science-fiction movie from Earth, twentieth century? Where they discovered a big magnetic anomaly on Luna, and as they show the main character travelling there, this music is heard." He looked at the other members of the away team as if the connection had been obvious without his explanation.

Dawson rolled her eyes. "Can we just go before this nut case finds even more connections to old Earth movies, like he always does, and which will invariably end with us being eaten by spacelizards or something."

(Reply pilot, Bugling)

"Well, there is this other movie, where..." Dmitri started.

"Dmitri, just shut up until we get to that moon, please?" Dawson said.

(Reply Bugling, pilot, any)