Okay, I don't know what happened here. This was supposed to be just an episode addition for "Abyss". Short. Simple. Silly. But somehow this thing headed in a completely different direction and just dragged me along with it. So after numerous re- writes, cancelled lunch-breaks, a lot of cursing about that so-called german-english dictionary, and at least twenty bottles of diet-coke we finally reached our destination. Big thanks to Lydia and TrinCarter for providing a road-map when I threatened to get lost on the way :)