From the Buwler-Lytton (You know, the "dark and stormy night" guy whose appallingly bad writing has inspired an annual contest for the worst opening line in a possible fiction piece) results for 2001, the winner for best opening statement in a science fiction story: Winner: Science Fiction Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the manuals trying to find a way to save them all, Kirk vowed, as he stared at the solid blue image filling the main view screen, that never again would he allow a Microsoft operating system to control his ship.