Copyright 1999 Rob Morris
Goji Ira, Gorn, former Maquis Captain and now Federation prisoner, ran up to his jailer, Henry Carstairs. He was frantic."Henry, you're not gonna believe this, but all our jail cells came open. Everyone's wondering what to do. No jailers, either. Has anything happened?"
Henry looked at his prisoner and former Academy mate, and shook his head.
"Goji, there's been an escape. All the Maquis got away."
"Huh? No, we didn't. Everyone's just waiting in their cells, wondering what's up."
Carstairs cleared his throat, and winked at Goji repeatedly.
"Ahem-The Maquis being held on Taprizan VII staged a mass breakout. They seized an orbiting Reliant V-Class Starship, and took up harassing the Dominion again. The evil, vicious Maquis are beyond StarFleet's control. Aboard was a leftover cloak from a derelict Defiant-class. They ALL got clean away."
Goji scratched his head.
"When did all this happen? None of my people were involved, I swear. And what's wrong with your eye?"
Carstairs and his old friend stood eye-to-sectioned-eye. Suddenly, something kicked into Goji's brain.
"OHHHH!!!! We escaped--during that power outage! The one where all the doors came open! Sorry, Henry. Its prison life. Well, see ya!"
Five minutes later, Goji came back.
"Um, we forgot our things. Can we, er, seize some replicators and weapons during the breakout? It would be a real favor."
Henry just pointed, and nodded, for he was beginning to wonder how this bunch ever managed to harass StarFleet for so long.
Ten minutes later, Goji came back again.
"Um, we need some hydrospensers, and we--well, we're kind of shortstaffed. Could the evil, vicious Maquis kidnap the guards and the Warden?"
Henry laughed.
"Goji, you are just too damned much."
"Thanks, Hank. Um, you guys got any reading material?"
Later, aboard the USS Mosu Ura, named for Goji's sister, the Maquis planned their first target for revenge against the Dominion.
"We'll target their main Kitrocel White facility! That'll hit em' where they live!"
Carstairs raised his hand.
"Uh, Goji? Defiant took that out, almost a year back."
Goji's lizard jaw dropped. Starfleet had finally learned to play rough. He tried to recover.
"I, er, meant the one IN the Gamma Quadrant itself. Um, we may need to re-work these plans a mite...."
"Personal Log : Lt. Cmdr. Carstairs. While I have great confidence in Goji and his friends, and our eventual success, I now begin to see why the Maquis were sometimes derisively called, 'The Needy Rebellion.'"
"Hey, Henry!"
"Yes, Goji?"
"You bring any gum?"