“Ugh. Remember? When we first came to your miserable homeworld, the UN decided that ‘Flying Dutchman’ is not appropriate for humanity’s first starship. They set up an international commission to select a name, and now that group has issued a report with a preliminary list-” “Preliminary? They have been working on it the whole time, and all they have is-” “Joey, Joey, Joey,” he shook his head, the ginormous hat flopping side to side. “The point of UN commissions is not to get anything done, it is to employ friends and relatives of UN officials for as long as possible, and to skim off the
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