[SCENE:  On the bridge of Pegasus.  When last we left Our Intrepid Heroes™, Chief Engineer Lt. Commander Ozymandias McCool had just announced an imminent warp core breach.  Admiral Darth Venomous immediately ordered all hands to escape pods.]
VENOMOUS:  Shit!  RED ALERT!!!  All hands to escape pods!!  ABANDON SHIP!!!
[Pegasus’  bridge begins to clear as personnel scurry for the pods.]
VENOMOUS:  Captain, see to the safety of all hands!  Move your ass!
KORRIOTH:  Yes, Admiral.  [He hurries aft.]
VENOMOUS (to speaker):  McCool, can you give us any more time?  Slow down the rate of decay in the matter/anti-matter chamber?
OZY MCCOOL (over speaker):  I’m trying, m’liege, but I need the computer for that, and it’s in the process of frying, too!  All my control displays down here have locked up tight, and three of them have turned solid blue and started spouting gibberish!
VENOMOUS (mostly to himself):  Blue screen?  What the fuck…???  [1.76 seconds later, the light bulb goes off in His Rudeness’ head.  His eyes grow wide as he realizes what it has to be.]  Pipe it up here, Ozy, now!
OZY MCCOOL:  But, Admiral—
VENOMOUS:  Now, Commander!!!!!
[The chief engineer obliges, most fearfully.]
VENOMOUS:  Holy fuckin’ shit!!!  Shut it down, McCool!  Shut the motherfucking computer down immediately!!!!!
OZY MCCOOL:  But Admiral, what about—
VENOMOUS:  NOW, Lieutenant!!!
[McCool is too terrified by the Admiral’s desperate tone to even notice that he’s just been demoted.  He runs to his personal console and begins pounding buttons.
The response is what you’ve probably figured out it would be – which is to say, nothing.]
OZY MCCOOL:  No response, Admiral!  She won’t shut down and the breach could happen any second!
VENOMOUS:  I don’t care what it takes, McCool!  Destroy it with a phaser if you have to, but get that fucking computer down!!!
UNKNOWN VOICE (over speaker): 90 seconds to breach, Commander!
VENOMOUS (to himself):  Dammit, dammit, dammit…!!!  [He sprints off the bridge, headed towards Engineering.]
(To be continued…)
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Maybe it is time to move to linux?