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Super Size Me is the fourteenth episode of the third RIS Bouteina season.

Tagline[]

Taev Radaik, while on an away mission, conducts an experiment with a local and himself, as well as other crewmen, in which they only have the right to eat fast-food for thirty days. But can all subjects stay focused on their experiments?

Summary[]

Act One[]

Rolindra reports that the ship has arrived in the 43 Lindum system, a system who has strayed from the Interstellar Concordium in the early 24th century. The inhabited planet was at the edge of being a class Y planet and its occupants asked the ship to identify themselves. Annika Hansen replies that she leads a Romulan survey team. Once clearance is given, the ship is in orbit over 43 Lindum. A hungry away team is formed on the ship and they take a shuttle to go down to the surface. Upon descending to the planet, they stumble across a day camp full of children, singing about food, as the sensors detected.

Act Two[]

Once they make their descent towards the day camp, they hear more clearly what the dancing was about: fast food. Once they have landed in the intended location, Taev Radaik had an idea: eating nothing but fast food for the next thirty days. Meanwhile, on the bridge, Dhiemm cooks gagh for the crew that remained on the ship. Vaebn Mairex, as well as Brianna, were angry because Dhiemm cooked gagh quite ill. In the meantime, the rules of the experiment are established: they must eat nothing but fast food, and the only outside consumption of food authorized is that of water. Also, Larugo sets up an air taxi service.

Act Three[]

The first customer of the air taxi service purchased some works from the Bajoran painter and its proceeds were enough to fund the entire experiment from A to Z. The Cardassian test subject then finds a restaurant called Turbo Pizza in an old castle. Unsettled by the food, they buy the food anyway. Dared by some of her crew to cook better gagh, and others that did not want it, Annika settled to cook three-cup tribbles. Also, everyone involved in the away mission got into Turbo Pizza for shelter during a thunderstorm, while Rovas comments on the mission being a bit cheesy. Accersitus then comments on the age of the planet itself.

Act Four[]

The people in the away mission have realized that the pricing scale of Turbo Pizza was a bit unorthodox, although the global costs of eating at that restaurant were similar to those of other restaurants. The day after, Turbo Pizza takes delivery of a new popcorn machine as Taev edicted a new rule: they must try everything on the restaurant's menu at least once during the next thirty days. They use the local test subjects so that they get a medicine inspection of weight midway through the experiment. They ate everything differently from their last meal, depressed, and their experiment catches the eyes of the local media.

Act Five[]

Three days after, the restaurant takes delivery of Mark II pastries and colas, prompting them to eat the new pastries and colas with the locals telling them that Mark IV of either kind were the best. S'arah also wondered if it really made people fatter. Also Larugo saw the restaurant for the first time and she found that the restaurant was more like a canteen than a restaurant. She also commented that she could get cheaper food at the Kresge. In the Romulan shuttle, they got weighted and Larugo took the most weight, meaning that Kresge food could make one fatter than Turbo Pizza would.

Background[]

The fast-food restaurant that serves as the focal point of the experiment, as well as the events surrounding the restaurant, is the restaurant prominently featured in the first half of the video game Turbo Pizza.

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RIS Bouteina episodes
Season 1
"The Departure" • "Distress Call" • "Take Me Out to the Zoo" • "Marianela" • "What about some D'oh!" • "Fundraiser" • "Declaration of Warcraft" • "No Child Left Untested" • "Manhunt" • "Eidolon" • "Four Redshirts and a Shirt" • "Merry Christmas" • "We're All In This Together" • "Marriage and Honeymoon"
Season 2
"Cloak, baby, Cloak!" • "Fury of the Prison Ships" • "Women's Dark Frontier" • "Easter Eggs" • "Bowser Shakedown" • "Sphere of Influence" • "Broken Bread" • "Extraordinary Summit" • "My Carpet, Tis of Thee" • "The Whole Kitten Kaboodle" • "Battle at the Grave of Thoughts" • "Redshirt Distribution" • "Bottle to Throttle" • "Quantic Fissure" • "Quantic Return" • "Blackrock and Roll" • "Kingdom Hospital" • "Monster-in-a-Box" • "A Tale of Two Holodecks" • "Grinch and Scrooge" • "Miracle in Whoville" • "Battle of Eight Beat" • "Planet of the Cheaters" • "How the Charter Was Won"
Season 3
"Yesterday's Lyrans" • "The Measure of a Romulan" • "Cost of Captivity" • "Hussade Contract" • "Degree of Liberty" • "Days of Wine and D'ohses" • "Doctor Rihanna" • "Grade Inflation, Part One" • "Grade Inflation, Part Two" • "Grade Inflation, Part Three" • "Holographic Family" • "There's no Coffee in the Nebula" • "Tobacco Quest" • "Super Size Me" • "Super Size Me Again" • "Limit at Plus Infinity" • "The Day Where Students Have Stopped Calculating" • "If At First You Don't Succeed" • "Going, going, gone" • "Drug Wars" • "Monopolis" • "TV Dinner" • "Love Plan" • "Spoiled Rotten"
Season 4
"Humans, Romulans and Space-Beasts" • "Vosteage" • "Ice Cream Parlor" • "Gogmagog" • "Relief and Refuge" • "Real Estate Liberty" • "High Priestess of Evacuation" • "Limit at Minus Infinity" • "Low-Cost Vacation" • "Back to School" • "Tribble Resupply" • "Midwife" • "Night of the Were-Hawks" • "Forlorn Hope" • "Party Quest" • "Combinatorics Nightmare" • "Redshirt Computer" • "Party School" • "Just Cause" • "Kathelet"
Season 5
"Resolution on Krant" • "Hilbert Hotel" • "New York Convention" • "Propane Dream" • "Hospital Blues" • "Home Sense" • "Homeward" • "Dr Jekyll and Dr Hyde" • "Varlamov Steak" • "Credit Card Scholarship" • "Black Sox" • "Jockship" • "Two-Speed Intellect" • "Toy Dream" • "A Hockey Game Broke Out" • "Ultimate Wager" • "Cigarette Redshirt" • "Rator III Awaits" • "Hystelic Kingdom"
Sequel: Star Trek: The Stoneship Files
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