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cation between its members, and a reluctance to pay a nominal fee for membership which seriously limits the organization's progressive operation for financial reasons."

"Spock, you and Bones appear to have fared no better than I did,” Kirk said beginning his report. "I won't go into explicit details, but it appears that dressing as a woman on this planet by anyone other than a female is thought of as a criminal act. If it weren't for the emergency signal on my communicator, I would still be on the planet sitting in one of its jails. Scotty, Uhura, what you think?"

"I dun aknow why ya a' askin' me, Captain. You aknows starfleet regulations much abetter than me. This is obviously a retarded culture which is adoomed ta destruction, unless they soon make a few drastic changes. Starfleet regulation won't let us ahelp them and we acan't ask such a retarded culture to join us," Scott answered.

"Uh... Scotty . . .," Kirk stammered, searched for the right words, "this is going to be hard to believe, but . . ." Kirk was cut short by an interruption from Lt. Uhura.

"You, Spock, and McCoy are not the officers of the Genderprise?"

"That's right!" Kirk dazed by the sudden statement answered her. "But, how did you know?"

"We all knew, Captain. Even before you set foot on this ship we were expecting you." Uhura purred.

"Blazes, woman! You mean you kidnapped us and put us through this humiliation... this... this womanizing?" McCoy snapped.

"Bones!" Kirk said shooting the doctor a sharp corrective glance.

"Yes, we did 'kidnap' you, I suppose. You were about to beam down to a culture on Scyros IV that your culture wasn't exactly ready to receive." As Uhura spoke another feminine figure entered the conference room. "This is Captain Du Conniers of the USS Sexiter. She will explain to you in more detail the reasons for our actions."

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