A Taste of Spam

A Taste of Spam
Attribution
Series:	Voyager
Author(s):	L. E. Doggett
Publication information
Printed:	Strange New Worlds 10

Summary

For three weeks Voyager has been plagued by a computer virus, or "Trojan horse", picked up in a sector of the Delta Quadrant dominated by businesses. The virus allows "spam" advertising messages to penetrate the ship's systems, first interfering with communications and Janeway's log, then appearing on the bridge viewscreen, and even being delivered by the Doctor. Janeway sets Kim and Tuvok to work on the problem. Meanwhile, Neelix is intrigued by all the references to "spam" and replicates several dishes made with Spam. Voyager finally returns to the space station where the virus originated, and Janeway persuades the virus' designer to remove it from the ship's systems.

References

Characters

Rando Setten Curlu • The Doctor • Kathryn Janeway • Harry Kim • Neelix • Tom Paris • Tuvok • Suddon Blyth Conction Ulllma

Starships and vehicles

USS Voyager (Intrepid-class)

Locations

Alpha Quadrant • Earth • Sinton Space Wheel • Windu sector

Races and cultures

Human • Hologram • Suddon's species • Talaxian • Vulcan • Unnamed races and cultures

States and organizations

Beautiful Being Institute • Bong, Bong and Biennium • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Other references

21st century • advertisement • alien • asteroid • asteroid belt • bread • bridge • captain • chemical XY • commander • communications • computer • conference room • dentist • e-mail • egg • engine • English language • ensign • firewall • holodeck • holomatrix • humanoid • jalapeño • law • lieutenant • log entry • mess hall • music • omelet • phaser • pilot • pornography • replicator • rice • sandwich • sector • security officer • sensor • sickbay • society • spam • Special American Pressed Meat • species • squirrel • star • starship • terabyte • teriyaki • transporter • "trojan horse" • universal translator • viewscreen • virus • warp drive • warrior group • weapon

Appendices

Connections

Star Trek: Voyager collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The Amazing Stories	"A Night at Sandrine's" • "When Push Comes to Shove" • "The Space Vortex of Doom"
Distant Shores	"Da Capo al Fine" • "Command Code" • "Winds of Change" • "Talent Night" • "Letting Go" • "Closure" • "The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" • "Isabo's Shirt" • "Brief Candle" • "Eighteen Minutes" • "Or the Tiger" • "Bottomless"
Strange New Worlds	I ("Good Night, Voyager" • "Ambassador at Large" • "Fiction" • "I, Voyager" • "Monthuglu") • II ("A Ribbon for Rosie" • "Touched" • "Almost... But Not Quite" • "The Healing Arts" • "Seventh Heaven") • III ("The Ones Left Behind" • "The Second Star" • "The Monster Hunters" • "Gift of the Mourners") • IV ("Iridium-7-Tetrahydroxate Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend" • "Uninvited Admirals" • "Return" • "Black Hats" • "Personal Log" • "Welcome Home" • "Shadows, in the Dark") • V ("Final Entry" • "The Difficulties of Being Evil" • "Restoration" • "On the Rocks" • "Witness" • "Fragment" • "Who Cries for Prometheus?") • VI ("Homemade" • "Seven and Seven" • "The End of Night" • "Hidden" • "Widow's Walk") • VII ("Redux" • "The Little Captain" • "I Have Broken the Prime Directive" • "Don't Cry") • 8 ("Transfiguration" • "This Drone" • "Once Upon a Tribble" • "You May Kiss the Bride" • "Coffee with a Friend") • 9 ("Choices" • "Unconventional Cures" • "Maturation") • 10 ("The Fate of Captain Ransom" • "A Taste of Spam" • "Adjustments" • "The Day the Borg Came") • 2016 ("The Last Refuge" • "Life Among the Post-Industrial Barbarians" • "Upon the Brink of Remembrance")
Misc. short stories	"Seduced" • "Bitter Fruit" • "Seven v Seven" • "Retribution" • "Kill Captain Proton!" • "Summer Days Can Last Forever" • "The Kellidian Kidnapping" • "See and Seen"
Misc. novellas & short novels	"In the Queue" • "The Mirror-Scaled Serpent" • "Places of Exile"

Timeline

published order
Previous story: The Fate of Captain Ransom	Strange New Worlds 10	Next story: Adjustments
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