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So not to get everybody too excited, but we...

Yes! Yes! I know for the bridge crew, guys, it's been a couple months, but we... Yes! Yes! I know for the bridge crew, guys, it's been a couple months, but we have a distress signal!

Yes!

Oh my gosh!

What's happening? Murder, death, evil doings.

Am I gonna have to communicate with somebody?

Where are we going?

Cecile, go ahead and put that distress signal. Let's hear it on audio. Oh, here we go. Pressing the button. Attention, attention. Any ships in the area. That's us, that's us. Please help. Running out of air. Running out of time. Running out of space. Repeating. Running out of air. Running out of time. Running out of space. Oh, my goodness. I can send a message back to them to tell them that we're coming, huh? Yeah, go ahead and let them know that we're on our way. Bobby Lane, of course. Where is that message coming from? It's coming from the sector of space. Oh, gosh, navigation, could you help me out? It's between Centauri 2 and Ralph. It looks like Space Station Alpha. Okay, laying in a course for Space Station Alpha. And I got the photon torpedoes ready just in case shit goes out. Yeah, yeah. Yellow alert, everyone. Yellow alerts. Kevin. Yellow Alert. Engineering to the bridge. Yeah, go ahead. You got something you want to share with me? Oh, there's a distress signal. We're at Yellow Alert. We're heading... Yeah, I notice we're at Yellow Alert. Okay, we're heading... It's scared to crap out of Incent Spot. Now she's hiding under the counter. She won't come out. Okay, well we're... You gotta let me know when we're going to Yellow Alert, man. We just went to Yellow Alert, like a second ago. Okay, alright. We're going somewhere. Can we get Warp Factor 8? Yeah, sure. We can get Warp Factor 8, no problem. We're going to Space Station Alpha. Jesus Christ. What is... Sigpated Bridge? Yeah. Yeah, you want to tell me something? Yeah. I don't know, maybe I could get some medical supplies ready or there's some people. You got to give me a second here. Oh my gosh. Okay, I had an afternoon planned. Okay, there's some sort of emergency on space station alpha.

They don't have enough air, time, and space.

Well, those are not really medical.

Well, if they don't have air, that's a medical problem.

Yeah, okay, I'll prepare some respirators.

Great.

Yellow light department to the bridge. This is the captain? Hey buddy, anything you want to let me in on? Yeah, we just went to Yellow Alert. I haven't had a chance to call me, but everybody's calling up here. You know what I do on this ship? You replace all the yellow lights. Yeah, so maybe I should be letting hone if we're going to Yellow Alert.

Well, we're at Yellow Alert, and a couple of the lights here on the bridge are burned out.

Are they?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, maybe if you gave us a heads up, like I put in the memo, give me 10 minutes notice before any Yellow Alert,

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