Not even interestingly bad.
- Vista Cabal
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> This Vista Star Trek Adventure was written by be a long time ago...
> So I am reposting it for all the new readers to enjoy, and serves as a message
> of warning to all those who still have XP:::::
>
> PART 1 A Star Trek Vista Adventure!
>
> Data: We were able to retrieve this time capsule that was launched into
> space a few hours before word war III started.
>
> It was a probe with ion propulsion and its intention was to preserve all the
> information from the global computer network they
> called the "internet". It had crashed on this large asteroid.
>
> Picard: This discovery is of monumental value... all information of that
> ancient network had been thought as lost! We can fit all that information of the
> internet onto one crystalline disk!
> Have you been able to retrieve the data?
>
> Data: No Sir. Only a decade after its launch the galaxies core went into its
> unstable radiant neutron phase, and this was not known by the scientists of
> the era, so they did not give any space vehicles the proper shielding to
> preserve data.
> We were able only to retrieve small portions of it.
>
>
> Picard: Well what did you find?
>
>
> Data: the first data we were able to get was from a newsgroup, a
> conversation network
> with people posting message in written text format, talking about a
> operating system called Vista.
>
>
> Picard: Vista? You got to be kidding.
>
>
> Data: I am incapable of kidding you Captain.
>
>
> Picard: I know Data, I know... its surprising to see that you found these
> people talking about the very reason that the war started...
> What are they saying?
>
>
> Data: The data we have is at a time a few days this operating system is to
> be released. Some people are praising it Sir as something nice or good
> for humanity.
>
>
> Picard: Yes... they could not see the future and the impact this software
> would have on the world then. Is ANYONE expressing concern of any kind?
> Its hard to believe that no one had any foresight!
>
>
> Data: There are a few people in this conversation that are expressing
> concern, some even predict some of the problems that indeed were true,
> but for some reason the other people who want this "Vista" have a universal
> name for all of them.
>
>
> Picard: What is it?
>
>
> Data: "Troll" Sir. I do not understand why they are calling them a
> mythological humanoid, but it is apparent that they find pleasure in doing
> so.
>
>
> Picard: It is a shame that all these people died soon after the release of
> that Operating System...
>
>
> Data: Indeed Sir, it was a very badly designed program, our historians have
> counted 1 million mistakes in the code.
>
>
> Picard: This was what the borg took advantage of.... its a sad story... oh
> Data, please.....
>
>
> Data: Sir?
>
>
> Picard: Make sure that the Enterprise's computers are not contaminated by
> any of that Vista code that may have leaked into the time capsule, please.
> We dont need any trouble with the borg again.
>
>
> Data: Indeed Sir....
>
>
> :-)
>
>
> Part 2 ROMULANS EVERYWHERE
>
>
> Holodeck1:
> Data: Captain, we have successfully replicated a computer of that era and
> placed it into an isolation chamber in there we have loaded all the
> remaining data from the crashed time capsule.
>
>
> Jordi: The containment field will keep this computer totally isolated from
> all our computer systems so we can study the remaining data from the ancient
> internet, including what seems to be a fully intact copy of the Vista OS.
>
>
> Picard: You have actually found an intact copy of Vista???
>
>
> Data: Affirmative Sir. The creators of the capsule were not aware at the
> moment that Vista was the cause of the Borg attacks. So they thought that
> they should preserve various software and among them is Vista.
>
>
> Picard: I want you to take extra care in handling this Vista.. if the borg
> can detect it, we may be putting our in unwarranted danger. What else did
> you find.
>
>
> Jordi: Captain we are trying to make sense of a strange language we found in
> the records we were able to retrieve.
>
>
> Picard: What kind of language? Is it not one of the known human languages?
>
>
> Data: I have stored in my positronic brain all human languages Sir, along
> with thousands of alien ones. This does not correspond to anything. The
> sounds are rather intriguing!
>
>
> Picard: Like what?
>
>
> Data: sounds something like this: google yahoo youtube ....google yahoo
> youtube
>
>
> Picard: Perhaps its some chant of some sort?
>
>
> Jordi: Perhaps, when we retrieve more information we will know....
>
>
> Worf from the Bridge on Picards COM: Captain a romulan warship has just
> decloked!
>
>
> Picard: Data, To the bridge.
>
>
> Now on the Bridge:
>
>
> Worf: They are ignoring our hailing and are powering up their weapons!
>
>
> Riker: Red Alert!
>
>
> Picard: Why here, why now? Perhaps they detected the signal of the time
> capsule when we reactivated it?
>
>
> Data: Quite possible
>
>
> Worf: They are transmitting visuals...
>
>
> Picard: On screen
>
>
> Romulan high commander: Enterprise, we know you have retrieved the Borg
> weapon, and we want you to send it to us now or be destroyed!
>
>
> Picard moved his hand across his neck, indicated to worf to cut the sound of
> the channel " Data, do you think that they may have mistaken the time
> capsule as a borg weapon for some reason?"
>
>
> Data: It is quite possible, since the romulans were monitoring the earth
> while the borg attack started world war III and at that same time this time
> capsule was launched and started sending out the signal. They may have
> thought that this device was some kind of borg weapon! It does in fact
> contain the vista, that was the Trojan horse that allowed the borg to start
> the destruction on earth.
>
>
> Picard: Worf, do we have any advantage over them?
>
>
> Worf: Sir their ship is very heavily armed... if we engage in battle we will
> probably perish but it will be an honorable death.
>
>
> Picard: Worf enable communications "Romulan vessel, you leave us no other
> option, as you know we humans care for life too much, if we give you what
> you want
> will you agree to leave us with no further hostilities?"
>
>
> Romulan high commander: Agreed Enterprise, you are wise to acknowledge our
> superiority
>
>
> Picard: Jordi... listen carefully, I want you to transmit all of the Vista
> code, DIRECTLY to their main computer.
> They want it... THEY WILL HAVE IT!!!!
>
>
> Jordi: Aye SIR!........ TRANSMISSION COMPLETE!
>
>
> Worf: Shields, weapon systems, and life support are failing on the enemy
> warship!!! Vista is giving them the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!!
>
>
> Picard: Now I have you where I want you, Jordi, beam them directly to cargo
> bay 2, Worf get a security team over there at once!
>
>
> After the crisis was over
>
>
> Data: Captain, your strategy was intrguiging... how did you know that Vista
> would disable the enemy warship?
>
>
> Picard: Data, you forget that I love reading history. Vista has gone down in
> history, as the most buggy badly written software of all times!
> If it could start a world war and destroy a planet... it could surely
> disable a warship :-)
>
>
> -K
>
>
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