Stardate: 50836.2
Captain’s log. We open in what feels like a parody of a 1950s sitcom household, as a perky blonde housewife named Charlene lines up her son Jeffrey and daughter Belle so they can wish their father Kenneth well on his way to work. The kids argue (politely) over who gets to speak to him first.
We then discover that Kenneth is the EMH, who has created this family on the holodeck to try to give himself the family experience.
Voyager arrives at a rendezvous with a scientific research station run by the Vostigye only to find it destroyed. They find a subspace trail and follow it, hoping to find out who’s responsible.
A serial thug who brought a five-foot extendable baton to court can’t take the ‘stick’ he’s been getting from Sunday World readers after we exposed him.
Stefan Ralston threatened a couple in the Republic that he’d tracked them down and would “meet them for a nice chat” and also threatened to run an internet campaign labelling them paedophiles.
The bizarre circumstances saw the Antrim career criminal turn up to the same court last year to answer a drug charge but did a ‘runner’ on his bicycle after court security staff discovered he had a weapon in his jacket.