By Tricia Thomas
Date: 3 October 1999

Survival Skills

Red alert! Man your stations, crew.
The intruder has breached her force field.
 Let’s shut her down to save what we can.
>check.

Sector one-feelings secured? 
Slam!
>Check.
Sector two-emotions secured? 
Slam!
>Check.
Sector three-heart shut down? 
Whrrrrr.
>Check.
Sector four-disengage brain. 
Clank.
>check. 

She’s impenetrable,Captain.
A fortress.
If the intruder breaks through,
set the relationship for a
60 second self-destruct,
and let’s get the hell outta’ here!
>check.  

all clear.
Erase memory.  Repair all bad sectors.
Reboot.
>check.
T2