Suddenly alarms go off all over the ship. The captain staggers out of his ready room with a bottle of vodka.
Captain: WILL SOMEBODY TURN THAT DAMN THING DOWN?
Staggers over to the viewscreen, just in time to see hundreds of spaceships zoom onto the screen.
Captain: What the. . . we’re under attack! Raise shields! Ready photon torpedoes! Secure the booze!
Ensign: There’s no power for the shields sir!
Captain: WHAT? Quick, divert power from the cuisinart!
Ensign: Yes sir!
Captain: Fire all photon torpedoes!
Chawoom chawoom chawoom.
Ensign: No effect sir!
Captain: Dammit! Prepare to abandon ship-- hey, what the hell?
Captain picks up a Playstation controller. The system itself is wired into the viewscreen.
Captain: All right, who’s been playing video games on MY screen? Stand down from red alert. Stupid freaking. . .
Captain shuts off the Playstation, revealing a bunch of floating debris on the screen.
Captain: What’s all that crap floating around out there?
Ensign: Uh. . . we seem to have blown the shit out of starbase 3, sir.
Captain: . . .
Both look at the tiny metal pieces that once were part of a multi-billion dollar starbase.
Ensign: . . . Captain?
The captain looks grim for a moment, then thoughtful.
Captain: . . . Oh well, I never liked starbase 3 anyway. To many things with tentacles.
He turns the Playstation back on.
Captain: Want to play Oddworld?
– Sylence
If a bird doesn’t sing, I’ll wait until it sings.