The Pinafore's crew will gladly do a passenger run. They're sick of Hospital Ship duty. She's big enough to handle 12 passengers comfortably beyond her crew complement for LONG distances. 24 if they're friendly and willing to sleep in shifts. Her amenities are fairly typical for a luxury yacht, allowing for 'waved drives, medbay, etc.
And for "Tabitha", who I hadn't gotten around to detailing, yet: She's demure, devoted, and everything a Victorian romantic interest should be. She refers to herself dramatically. "Good Captain, 'tis I, your Tabitha, who loves you well!" Before her capture, she had developed a sleep-teacher device and had taught herself several Foreign Languages by loading Pimsleur CDs into it.
Her captor had figured out how to use it to train Boskone slaves (What he loaded into it is best left to the imagination of the reader) and was testing the procedure on Tabitha when Captain Corocoran effected their rescue. Tabitha herself loaded several of Captain Corcoran's Gilbert and Sullivan DVDs and modified herself to better please her master. Sadly the multiple rewrites to her personality make it unlikely, should her previous identity be discovered, that she'd ever be able to be restored to status ante bellum.
But if these events take place well before SOS-con, then It's just Cap'n Corcoran and his AIs, adding space for two more passengers.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
And for "Tabitha", who I hadn't gotten around to detailing, yet: She's demure, devoted, and everything a Victorian romantic interest should be. She refers to herself dramatically. "Good Captain, 'tis I, your Tabitha, who loves you well!" Before her capture, she had developed a sleep-teacher device and had taught herself several Foreign Languages by loading Pimsleur CDs into it.
Her captor had figured out how to use it to train Boskone slaves (What he loaded into it is best left to the imagination of the reader) and was testing the procedure on Tabitha when Captain Corocoran effected their rescue. Tabitha herself loaded several of Captain Corcoran's Gilbert and Sullivan DVDs and modified herself to better please her master. Sadly the multiple rewrites to her personality make it unlikely, should her previous identity be discovered, that she'd ever be able to be restored to status ante bellum.
But if these events take place well before SOS-con, then It's just Cap'n Corcoran and his AIs, adding space for two more passengers.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll