This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...It took quite a while for Ship to process all the alien women, but as Diana directed, Ship completed the task before she brought the alien males aboard. While the females were being processed, Diana had a quick meeting with her sister-wives, including Aiko and Tosha, to get everyone involved in what had to be done. Most of the alien women were afraid and expecting to be killed - except for two that seemed to understand things much better. In the short while that the Clan Queen had with them, she realized that those two were much more aware of what was going on, and it took only a few minutes for her to learn from them how much they cared for the First Officer, and generally what he had done for them.
Jeff and Diana were standing in the hallway near where the First remained in the lounge. Her boil hadn't been for what the First had done, but for what had apparently been done to the female population of the Miadax race - probably for generations.
"I know, Baby," Jeff said, "The First told me. He isn't the bad guy in this. He apparently found out about it when he rewarded the two females he liked by giving them some of his food. I gather that was a major no-no with his race."
Diana stared up at her husband. "What do we do? I will not stand to have these women treated like this. And by the way, other than their faces being a little flatter, which is not that far out of the norm for humans, the brow ridges, and having three vertically spaced breasts, they could almost pass for human."
"Uh, yeahhh," Jeff tentatively agreed while stretching out the word, obviously amused...
Have a goodun;
Roust