Nazrax

Dangerous place
I start out sailing around a large wooded landmass. Now I'm driving through an untamed area. It's not the safest for me, but I'm carrying small animals with me and it's extremely dangerous for them. To help protect them from the dangers, I rig up something with a ceramic dinner plate and sticks, putting the sticks around the passenger seat cushion to hold the plate in place. The animals can then sit on top of the plate, making it much harder for the predators to get them. At first glance, my wife thinks it's silly, but she has to admit that it's effective.


DS9: Ancient plague
Kira arrives back on the station dressed in archaeologist clothes, carrying some ancient artifact she found on a new planet in the Gamma Quadrant. She's excited, gushing about the trip to Sisko, hoping they can get a full archaeologist team out there to do a proper study. Now I see three men, dressed in archaeologist clothing, doing a Power Walk (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerWalk) down some steps, Sisko at their side. Now the four are in a runabout, headed for the planet Kira was at. It turns out these guys aren't really archaeologists - instead, they're interested in the planet because they hope to find an ancient plague they can use as a bioweapon. They didn't want Sisko along, but now they're stuck with him. For a while, they hold him as a prisoner, but he eventually convinced them he could be useful. The other guys consider this a suicide run, since other teams trying something similar in the past have sometimes been infected with the plague they're hunting and have tried to come back to infect everyone. This team has made all sorts of precautions to ensure they're on a one-way trip. Sisko keeps trying to convince them that it doesn't have to be this way. He can stay in contact with DS9, keep them up-to-date on how they're doing and what sorts of precautions to take when they're on their way back.

Now the leader is watching a recorded message from his wife. Now I'm watching the wife record it. She's being played by Amanda Tapping (SG1's Carter) as a guest appearance. She's walking around their home, talking about how she knew this would happen, and she regrets not stopping him sooner, but she hopes that he's able to fulfill his dream. Now she's walking around some kind of large gathering, still recording. She tells him she's sorry their child will grow up without its father. As she walks near a table in the middle with a food line, a Ferengi child points to a mug with a picture of her husband and says something like "I want to be just like him!" She makes some kind of noncommittal reply.


Conspiracy at work
I'm in the elevator at work with one other guy. I'm heading to the fourth floor, he's heading to the fifth. The elevator doesn't seem to be working right - things are taking much too long. Suddenly, the elevator doors bulge inwards towards us, taking up about a third of the elevator's floor space. I "know" that we're currently on five, and I'm praying that the elevator doesn't fall. I'm trying to think back to what you're supposed to do in such cases. I think I once read that you're supposed to lie down flat on the floor, but it really doesn't make a difference. Finally the doors open. I'm not sure what floor we're on, but my companion and I both get out quickly. We wait for the elevator to continue going up before hitting the elevator call button to make sure we get an elevator from the other shaft. Someone else joins us on the second elevator, but it's not working right either; the doors just stay open. We all get out and take the stairs.

Now I'm walking around the floor I work on. There's some kind of conspiracy going on. As I'm walking by the cubes near the window, someone mistakenly thinks I'm part of it and gives me a binder to take somewhere, then leaves her cube. I take a quick flip through it and see that it has all their plans in it. I realize I need to get to a copy room, make a copy of everything in the binder, then get out; but I'm worried that people will think me suspicious and discover that I'm not one of them. I try to take a roundabout way to one of the copy rooms, but it's not working out well. A group of people is walking behind me. I don't think they're intentionally following me, but they've seen where I came from and they'd know if I went back. I try to take an unusual path, but they're still behind me, and I think they may be intentionally following me now. I take the stairs up to five, then almost run through some of the cube areas, trying to lose them, no longer caring that I look incredibly suspicious.