And All 57 Have Hit The Fan
"There she is," announced Imperial Admiral Janeway of the
ISS Voyager. "The
USS Murgatroid. Helpless!" She turned to her First (but far from only) Mate Chakotay and asked, "have they seen us yet?"
"Negative," he replied. "Their sensors, and everything else, appear to be inoperative. We are picking up life signs aboard, so the lack of life support systems hasn't killed them yet."
"We can't just sit back and let asphixiation or frostbite kill them," Janeway cackled. "That's my job! And a pleasure it will be, after all of their interference! Still," she considered, "it would be rude not to announce ourselves. Fire a warning shot - through the bridge."
The ISS Voyager fired a phaser burst at the bridge of the USS Murgatroid. Because the shields were not yet repaired, the phaser penetrated the hull and hit the captain's chair, vaporizing
Mib Khan (one of his clones, at least) immediately. Fortunately, most of the energy from the phaser blast was used up against the Murgatroid's ablative armor, so there was no [additional] damage done to the bridge's control systems.
Still, an attack like that had to make people sit up and notice. And even with the Murgatroid's sensors inoperative, it was a simple matter for another Khan clone to look out of the hole in the hull to identify the attacker (after he and Lieutenant Ditzbrain quickly donned emergency spacesuits). In Doctor Khan's native language, there were fifty-seven different words for excrement. He began to recite them all, in alphabetic order.