ILLUMINARRPG: LLUMINARRPG: (4 - 2000) Chief of Security Lt jg Keung Lee

[John Tsang]

NRPG:  The Bowling alley is open to anyone who want to join in.  Have fun and show off your bowling technques



Mission: A Cure Delayed

Day: 4

Stardate:  2445.10.28

(USS Illuminar - Deck 5 - Holodeck 2 – Chief of Security Lt jg  Keung Lee – 2000)

^Program complete. Please enter when ready,^ said the computer.

After spending a few hours writing the holosuite program, Keung Lee was ready to see the results. The holosuite doors swoshed open and Lee excitedly entered into the holosuite environment.

The computer had created a 12-lane bowling alley furnished with electronic scoreboards, comfortable seating, a bar and café. At the end of each lane was an automatic scoring panel and a speedometer feature displaying how fast each bowl was delivered.

The walls were adored with photographs of 20/21st Century celebrities and classic advertisements! Lee walked around the room with a sense of pride. At the moment there was no other person around other than Lee.

It was silent as there was nobody in the room which was not surprising as Lee only sent out a general invitation to the crew to join in.  There was something quite not right.  “Computer, populate the room with guests.and play background music as programmed..

"Computer... background music, as programmed."

Late 20/21st  century rock music boomed throughout the bowling alley.  The place wias filled with people eating, drinking and playing ten pin in on most of the bowling alleys.

Lee smiled thinking about the looks on the faces of his crewmates as he had discovered that ten pin bowling died out around the late 21st Century.  He suspected most people, mostly humans would have probably  read it about in their history vids.

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"The idea of the game," Lee explained to a group of onlookers, "is to knock down all those pins with this bowling ball. Each game is made up of ten frames. You get to bowl two balls per frame in turn. You take the ball, stand at the black line and bowl the ball down the lane. You gain points by knocking over the pins. Of course, you get nothing if your ball goes into the 'drain'.
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"Let me show you," Lee told the group.  Je selected a ball from the rack and cradled the ball gently in both hands. Stepping onto the lane, he aimed the ball and took four steps to the black line and swung the ball into the lane. The ball speedily rolled down the middle of the lane and collided with the pins with a loud crash. "Nothing to it," he concluded
“Let me try!” said an excitable Carol Linnis

Carol stepped up and carefully picked out a ball, before hesitantly walking out to the lane. Lee gestured for her to throw the ball.  The assistant chief of security did exactly as Lee did before - except that his ball travelled two-thirds of the lane before it plopped with a sad noise into the gutter.

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"Don't just release the ball, Carol," explained Lee. "You need to direct the ball with a small push. Here, try again."

On her second attempt, the ball managed to reach the far end and knocked over a handful of pins, and she smiled ruefully. "I'm getting the hang of this."
“I want to show you something.”  Lee picked up the ball and rolled the ball.  The ball smashed into the middle of the pins and all the pins fell.  Lee turned round at his audience, pumping his fist in the air. “Now that’s what you all a strike!  A strike is when you knock down all ten pins at your first attempt in a single frame. Two strikes in a row are called a double, three strikes in a row are called a Turkey, while four and five strikes in a row are called four/five-bagger(s) and so on and so forth. A strike is commonly indicated with an “X”.on the score board.”

“So how do you score points?” asked Crewman Kida Ekoice, one of the security officers who was  Betazoid

“The more pins you knock down, the more points you score. A single game consists of 10 “frames”, with each frame consisting of two chances to knock down ten pins (with the exception of the last frame). Each pin you knock down earns you a point, while you can also score extra points by hitting “strikes” or “spares”.explained Lee.

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