[SCENE:  Deep space.  We see the newly-minted ISS Pegasus  floating out amongst the stars.  The senior staff having transferred over, Poseidon  and Apparition  have warped back towards Realm™ territory.
Cut to Pegasus’  bridge, where the staff is gathered around Admiral Darth Venomous in the command chair.]
VENOMOUS:  So once they found out who I was, they actually offered to rebuild Pegasus  for us…
KORRIOTH:  “Us”, m’liege?
VENOMOUS:  Well…they actually knew me from my association with you.  You & Kha have quite the fan club over there, y’know.
K’HADIBAK’H:  Indeed.  One wonders why we’re not the stars of this show, rather than you.
VENOMOUS:  Because it’s my blog, bumpy.
K’HADIBAK’H:  (grunt)
VENOMOUS:  And with that, let’s get underway, shall we?  Stations, please, and set course for the Badlands.
[All take their seats, and K’hadibak’h programs his course.  He turns toward the admiral after a few moments.]
K’HADIBAK’H:  Course laid in, Admiral.
VENOMOUS:  Very well, Mr. K’hadibak’h.  Warp four whenever you’re ready.
[Kha touches a couple of controls, then pushes the drive lever forward to engage the engines.  The ship’s great engine rev up…
…then rev back down & quit as the lights go out on the bridge.]
VENOMOUS:  Soon as I find that damned ribbon again, some engineer is gonna lose his head.
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No sooner do I pronouce my machine as fit, then it dies on me.
Then again, near as I can tell, it appears to have been of my own doing this time.  Looks like I changed an access permission I wasn’t supposed to.
Oh, well.  That’s how I learned Windoze; it’s how I’ll learn Linux.
I have already learned one thing, though: Whereas it takes about three to six hours to rebuild a Windoze box, it takes all friggin’ weekend to rebuild a Linux distro. (And fully half of that  was spent coaxing the video driver to give me something slightly better than 640×480.)
Sigh.
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Ummm, the folks down in the radar room just reported to me that they have detected a large quantity of tribbles located in your computer core.
Better start the inquisition.
Damn  Enterprise…!!!!! 
You also MIGHT want to check your transporter logs. I bet you’ll find that someone had big party where that Romulan stuff was flowing like a river and thought those “little balls of purring fur” would make a real funny practical joke.
But then again I might just be thinking out loud…..