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All right.

Lieutenant Mercury.

Yeah.

Performance review time.

I am ready for this.

Yes, and I am your manager, and I am going to manage you today.

Okay.

So I just have a few questions for you about your time here as the transporter chief.

Sure.

First of all, have you ever merged DNA from two separate individuals?

Super easy, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, cool, cool, marking it that down.

It's fun to do.

That's a nine out of ten then.

Have you ever kept someone locked in a transporter buffer for hundreds of years?

Oh.

No, but I thought about doing that. Yeah, it would be cool, right? That'd be so cool. I mean, that's really just a factor of the fact that you're still pretty new and having been around for hundreds of years. Yeah, like I don't even know how I would get around the whole trying to like keep that pattern from degrading. It's a freak kind of thing, right? Yeah. Okay, have you ever made a transporter double of yourself or anyone else? Oh, I've done it twice this morning. Sweet. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Who did you do it to? Oh, I did it to myself. I don't do it without the consent of the other person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't do it. Oh, no, I get it, I get it, man. There's too many morrow and... You make a transporter double of yourself and then, you know, every morning... It's easier. And also, like, I... I have a self-loathing thing, so like, kind of like making something on myself and then destroying it, I have no problem with it. Oh, cool, cool, cool. Rip... Rip? yeah.

There's been a murder on the ship.

I found the body of Lieutenant Mercury.

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