Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
After meeting with "Evil" Storvik, Captain
Storvik decided that he needed to take some form of precautions to "cover his posterior" (as the humans say) in the event that the other Vulcan left the
USS Murgatroid. He went to the bridge and consulted with the
Mib Khan clone currently on the command shift. "If at all possible," he began, "I would request that you develop a method for rapidly growing and removing facial hair. I may need to impersonate my analog." If Starfleet called the Murgatroid, Storvik figured that he could pretend to be "Evil" Storvik in order to convince them that the other Vulcan was still under his control.
After meeting with Captain Storvik,
Evil Storvik decided that he needed to take some form of precautions to "cover his posterior" (as the humans say) in the event that he was discovered away from the
USS Murgatroid. He went to the sickbay and consulted with the
Mib Khan clone currently on medical duty. "If at all possible," he began, "I would request that you develop a method for rapidly removing and regrowing facial hair. I may need to impersonate my analog." If Starfleet caught him off of the Murgatroid, "Evil" Storvik figured that he could pretend to be Storvik, because the other Vulcan still had his freedom.
Moments later, in his quarters, a third
Mib Khan clone sat up in surprise. He had just received his memory updates from the other clones on the Murgatroid, and was suffering from something similar to deja vu. A glitch in the ansible system perhaps, or maybe a form of mnemonic echo, had caused him to receive two almost identical memories simultaneously. "Am I seeing double?" he asked himself aloud.
"You're not seeing double," replied his Orion nurse Pooky, who lay to his left in bed.
"You're getting us in stereo," added his other Orion nurse Shiny, who lay to his right.
"As long as I'm not getting mono," murmured Khan, who had decided that any investigation of the flaws in his ansible update system could wait…