| Mike Stoker ended his restless night by falling out of bed with a thud to the floor. Although he didn't say much of anything, he was heard mumbling something inaudible from the floor. |
| Marco opened his eyes, startled. As he tried to look around the dimly lit dorm, he heard someone ask, "What was that noise?" |
| Marco sleepily answered, "It came from Mike's bunk. You OK, Mike?" |
| When he didn't answer, Chet mumbled, "He probably got kidnapped by the little green men from Mars that Susie is always gonna sic on Gage." |
| Cap then told the guys, "Shut up before we have to actually get up. Stoker, get back in bed before I put it in your record that you keep falling out of bed. Have you been drinking or what?" |
| When Mike didn't respond to the captain's order or question, Roy stumbled out of bed to check on him. He managed to find his way to Mike's side, through the bed covers tangled around him and on the floor. "Mike? You OK?" |
| Johnny muttered, "He probably ODed on the casserole he fixed last night." |
| Chet agreed, "Yeah. He did eat quite a lot of it." |
| Said Marco, "Alot? He pigged out, even for a hungry fireman." |
| "Guys," Cap snapped. "I'm trying to get some sleep over here!" |
| By this time, Roy was becoming concerned. "Mike?" |
| Mike responded with, "What happened?" |
| "You don't sound well," observed Roy. "Are you sick?" |
| "He probably has a stomach ache," muttered Chet. "Put him back to bed and give him some Pepto Bismol and he'll be alright." |
| Roy managed to untangle Mike from the covers helping him to his feet with the purpose of getting him back to bed. In the dim light from the stations' security light, Roy could see something was wrong. After he helped Mike to sit on the bed, he went to turn on a light which resulted in pillows being thrown at him. |
| As he tried to wade his way through the pillows, he heard Marco exclaim, "Oh my God, Mike!! What happened to you?" |
| Chet started to say, "Probably those little green men..." He stopped in mid sentence, stunned by what Mike looked like. |
| All the guys stared at him for a moment. Mike looked at all of them confused asking, "What happened?" |
| Cap called in a station emergency while Johnny and Roy went to check him out. The others started hovering around the bed. Johnny glanced up from his patient and muttered, "Aw, c'mon, guys, give him some air." |
| Roy then said, "Somebody get our equipment." |
| Cap ordered Chet and Marco to do so. As they headed out of the dorm, Chet asked, "Why is he green?" |
| Marco mumbled, "Maybe the little green men from Mars Susie is always threatening Gage with came & did something to him in the night. Geeze, Chet, I don't know why he's green." |
| Chet gave him a dirty look. As they gathered the stuff from the squad, he suggested, "He's probably been watching too much of the Incredible Hulk." |
| Disgusted, Marco told him, "Chet, even I know you can't turn green by watching Bill Bixby turn green every week. Chet, how dumb can you get?" |
| "Better watch it, Lopez, or you'll need a paramedic, yourself." |
| Cap over heard their arguing as they returned to the dorm, he told both, "Kelly, Lopez, if you guys don't knock it off, I'm going to have you both on latrine duty for a year!" |
| As Chet put down the box he was carrying, he muttered, "Speaking of the latrine...." |
| When Chet disappeared, Mike looked up at the guys with his sky blue eyes repeating, "What happened?" |
| Before anyone could answer, Mike blinked finding himself on the Starship Enterprise. Beside him was a funny looking Vulcan, yet, she wasn't a Vulcan. Mike wasn't sure. Puzzled, he asked, "What happened?" |
| The lady answered, "You ate too much broccoli. I told you that you'd turn green by eating too much of that stuff. But, no, you wouldn't listen to me. Now, you're green and it's all your fault." |
| Mike shuddered just listening to her lecture. Finally, he asked, "Don't I know you? Aren't you..." |
| She answered, "Of course you know me, Mike. Geeze, I may look funny, but you look even funnier." |
| Giving her a dirty look, sarcastically, he told her, "You didn't have pointed ears, only they aren't pointed, or are they? I'm a little confused." |
| "That's because you ate too much broccoli." |
| Mike sighed, rolling his eyes skyward. "Susan, if you were a man..." |
| "If I were a man," she grinned, "You guys wouldn't love me so much." |
| "What happened to you?" |
| "Here? Or there?" |
| Mike gave her a very confused look muttering something about women being a guy's worst nightmare. |
| It was Susan's turn to roll her eyes skyward. She managed a big sigh and spoke in a tongue unrecognizable by any human. Finally, after a few exhausting moments, she said to Mike, "You ate too much broccoli, but, I think maybe the doctor can turn you orange or something. C'mon, let's go to sickbay." |
| Cautiously, Mike asked, "Which doctor? I don't wanna be orange or something. I don't even wanna be green. C'mon, Susie. You've been threatening Gage for weeks, not me. You're the alien and time traveler, not me." |
| "I just happen to be Joe Early's daughter, who gets kicked around the universe so much, it's not funny. I just wanna be like the rest of the guys." |
| Mike grinned as he looked over her body. He teased, "Honey, if you looked like the rest of the guys, you wouldn't be that babe we all check out when you're not looking." |
| Susan felt all blushed as her face turned red and punched Mike in the arm. She had forgotten just how much strength she could have in this Vulcan form. |
| Mike felt something give way in his arm as both heard the snap which in turn caused him to grimace with pain. Susan whispered, "Oh my, God, Mike. I'm so sorry. Let's get to sickbay." |
| He had no choice but to follow her to sickbay. Upon their arrival, Susan asked, "Is there a doctor in the house?" |
| A voice from somewhere answered, "Be right there." |
| Mike looked at Susan confused and told her, "My arm hurts. How in the world did you manage to make it hurt so much?" |
| She frowned, saying, "I'm a humavulcan." |
| "A what?" |
| "OK, I'll give you the short version. I'm a human altered by surgery to be a Vulcan." |
| "What's the long version," he asked without thinking. |
| "I'm a 20th century human, accidentally transported into the 23rd century. Surgically altered to be Vulcan, retransformed human by surgery and retransformed again naturally, thus resulting in this---three fourths human and one fourth Vulcan…a humavulcan." |
| Mike muttered, "I had to ask." |
| About that time, the doctor arrived. Mike's eyes almost bulged out of his head. "Roy, "he exclaimed, "What are you doing here?" |
| "I'm the doctor." |
| "And I'm the King of Siam." |
| Susan said, "Dr. DeSoto, I broke Mike's arm. Can you fix it?" |
| "I'm sure I can. Let me get my handy dandy thingamajig here." |
| Roy started messing with instruments on the table next to him. He picked up one gadget, looked at it funny, asking, "You sure you aren't pregnant, Mike? I can probe you to what kind of baby you're gonna have." |
| Mike began to get nervous blurting out, "What kind of hellhole is this? And since when are you a doctor, Roy?" |
| "Could be worse, Mike. Johnny could be the doctor." |
| "Did somebody call my name?" At that moment, Johnny appeared out of thin air, wearing a nurse's cap on his head. |
| Susan muttered, "You had to mention his name, didn't you, Roy?" |
| "Don't start," demanded Roy. "I have enough problems without you and Johnny giving me a headache." |
| Johnny wanted to know, "What's wrong, Roy? Maybe I can help?" |
| "There's too much broccoli in the fridge and Marco won't give up the ship." |
| "Marco took over the ship again?" Susan wanted to know. |
| "Yeah and he has Chet in Engineering, doing some rewiring or something." |
| Johnny wanted to know, "Where's the captain?" |
| "Cap took the last shuttle for the coast and won't be back until next week." |
| Mike managed to interrupt, "Guys, I have a broken arm and I'm green" |
| All three said in harmony, "That's because you ate too much broccoli, Mike." |
| Mike moaned out the words, "What the hell does my eating broccoli have to do with firefighting or this strange story?" |
| Susan told him, "You can't eat broccoli and fight fires, Mikey." |
| Johnny and Roy snickered. It was Roy who told him, "When you eat too much of anything, Mike, it'll give you nightmares." |
| "Yeah," said Johnny with a grin. "And Susan claims I'm her worst nightmare." |
| Roy heaved a big sigh. "You both are mine." |
| "Umm...guys, my arm is broke. Isn't anyone around here gonna fix it?" |
| "Why," asked Johnny. "Wouldn't that be kinda silly?" |
| "Besides," said Roy. "You're also green." |
| Before anyone could say anything else, Marco's voice came over the intercom. He said, "Susan Stone or West or whatever your name is, please report to the bridge as soon as possible." |
| Susan looked at the guys saying, "He commands, I respond." |
| Johnny told her, 'Yeah, you go lusting after Marco and you won't give me the time of day." |
| She gave him the dirtiest look. Roy stepped in between them before she could slug him as she did Mike. As Roy held his breath, waiting for the two to get into an argument, Susan said, "Hey, Johnny, up your nose with a firehose. It's 2:30." |
| Mike watched in bewilderment as she disappeared in thin air. He managed to say when he found his composure, "My arm is broke and it hurts like hell." |
| Said Johnny, "And you're green, too." |
| Roy picked up another gadget, waving it around Johnny. "Hmmm….looks like you'll live, Johnny." |
| "Gee, thanks, Roy. I do feel great." |
| "Isn't anyone going to fix my arm? What kind of place is this, anyway," complained Mike. |
| "You're the one who ate too much broccoli," Roy reminded him. "You are the one who created your own worse nightmare." |
| "That's why you're so green," agreed Johnny. "And you know what, Mike? You look better this color. I think maybe you think about keeping it." |
| Mike couldn't believe their indifference. He thought as paramedics, Roy and Johnny were great. He even knew he could trust his life in their hands, but, whatever this place was he found himself in, he knew things could not be as they seemed. No one seemed to care if he was green or not or even if his arm was killing him. All they kept reminding him of was he had been eating too much broccoli. |
| Roy picked up another gadget. After he looked it over a moment, he turned to Mike and asked, "Does your arm still hurt, Mike?" |
| At last, thought Mike. He's going to help me. "Yeah," he answered. |
| "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning." |
| Before Mike could respond, Marco's voice came over the intercom. He said, "All personnel report to the bridge on the double. And I don't mean last year. I mean NOW!" |
| Roy exchanged glances with Johnny. Johnny said, "I guess that means us, too, huh?" |
| "Yeah," said Roy. "Let's go." |
| As they were leaving, Mike yelled, very aggravated, "My arm is broke and I'm green!!" |
| Johnny turned to Mike saying, "Then, wake up, Mike." |
| "Huh?" |
| "Wake up, Mike," Johnny's voice said. "You're having a bad dream." |
| Mike opened his eyes startled. He glanced around him. He was in the rec room and had fallen asleep on the couch next to Henry. The other guys were gathered around, concerned. |
| "My arm is broke and I'm green," he complained in a semi conscience state. |
| Johnny tapped him on the face to wake him up more. Roy said, "You must've had some dream, Mike." |
| "I'm green," he told them. |
| Marco said, "Anybody who had five helpings of Broccoli Casserole ought to be green." |
| Chet snickered making some pig noises. |
| Mike was confused. "What's going on?" |
| Cap finally told him, "You fell asleep and had a bad dream." |
| "Where's Susan?" |
| "Who," they all asked together. |
| "Susan Stone or West or whatever her name happens to be. Where is she?" |
| Cap sighed, asking, "Roy, Johnny, will he be alright?" |
| "Yeah," answered Roy. |
| Johnny added, "Once he gets over his broccoli binge." |
| Marco asked, "Mike, you been holding out on us? Who's Susan? Do we get to meet her or what?" |
| Mike was very confused. He finally said, "Don't think I ever want to eat broccoli again." |
| About that time, the alarm rang. The station cleared out except for Henry who decided he had too much broccoli, too. |