Riker: Data, you've got two minutes to break into the Borg mainframe!!

Data: Acknowledged, Captain.

big-e# telnet
telnet> open borg.big.cube.mil
Trying 301.143.45.45 ...
Conected to borg422.big.cube.mil.
Escape character is '^]'.

BorgOS UNIX (borg422.big.cube.mil)

login: root
Password:
login incorrect
login: root
Password:
login incorrect
login: locutus
Password:
Last login: Jun 25 2367 02:45:50 on console
BorgOS Release 2.1.1 (BORG422) #422: Dec 12 09:07:30 GMT 2365
Message of the day:
        Usenet is irrelevant.
        BIFF is futile.

You have mail.
borg422% sleep &
[1] 1489
borg422% ...Broadcast message at 19:02:34 from root@borg422.big.cube.mil:
System shutdown in three minutes...
borg422%
borg422% logout
Connection closed by foreign host.
big-e# 

....Next week, on an all-new episode of Staaaaaar Trek: The Next Generation!


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Article 2149 of rec.humor.funny:
From: sun@ecf.toronto.edu (Kwan Leung Andy Sun)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Next time.... (The Actual Case)
Keywords: computer, topical, smirk, original
Message-ID: 
Date: 11 Oct 90 07:20:10 GMT
Lines: 41
Approved: funny@looking.on.ca

From: rws3n@astsun8.astro.virginia.edu (Robert W. Spiker)
>big-e# telnet
>telnet> open borg.big.cube.mil
>Trying 301.143.45.45 ...
>Conected to borg422.big.cube.mil.
> ......
>You have mail.
>borg422% sleep &
>[1] 1489
>borg422% ...Broadcast message at 19:02:34 from root@borg422.big.cube.mil:
>System shutdown in three minutes...
>borg422%
>borg422% logout
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>big-e# 
>

What is actually happening over in borg422.big.cube.mil:

borg422% Usage: sleep time-in-seconds

[1] Exit 1                      sleep
borg422% /usr/etc/fastboot 
borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < tractor_beam 
borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < cutter_beam 
borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < cutter_beam 
borg422% telnet 
telnet> open big-e.uss.startfleet.mil
network unreachable
telnet>

ST fans certainly don't like this alternate ending due to Data issuing a
command without an argument ...