Not this time.
"Have these." Bev suggets, giving me a bottle of pills when I wake up in our quarters with a sound noiser than the Notre Dame Cathedral ringing in my ears, "It will completely suppress the hangover you have and return you to normal."
I consume four of them quickly, and suddeenly feel very different. Alert and bright again.
"Err, Jean-Luc." she says with a worried look, "You were only supposed to have one of those pills. They are largely experimental, we don't know about side effects and..."
"Never mind!" I say, with a spring in my step, "I'm off to look after the Bridge. Wow! I feel so much better now!"
On the way there, I see crewmen staggering around, as if their heads have been hit by a shovel.
When I get to the Bridge, Riker looks barely awake.
"WAKEY, WAKEY, NUMBER ONE!" I yell out ou, laughing. This causes Riker to suddenly shoot up, hold his head in pain and collapse unconsious.
The Borg Queen, in the Command Chair shows surprise.
"Well I am intrigued." she says, "Usually you are too worn out to assume command and have a massive hangover, so I have to run the ship for a while. You are quite different this year."
"That's because I've had these pills, Queenie." I explain, "I feel I've got a fantastic amount of energy and could stay awake for a week."
"Most curious." she comments.
"Yes, so thanks for helping." I tell her, "But we won't need you to command until I recover this year."
"Very well, Jean-Luc." Queenie smiles, as she gets ready to leave., "Just be careful all your energy doesn't burn up in one go. Your body could wear out very soon."
"That's not gonna happ..." I start to say, before I feel my body falling to the floor, and me ready to board a First Class train to the Land of Nod.
I just about hear Queenie sighing as she turns round and goes towards the Command Chair again.
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Note to Jean-Luc: Inquire about suggested dosages henceforth before swallowing a handful of pills.
I hope you don't wind up with flashbacks (look out for the spiders!) or anything (they're crawling up your chair!).
I feel like this some days, I just want to curl up and go to sleep, and all that without pills.
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