Captain's log, star date 2856.9. The Enterprise is trapped in a space-time vortex. As a result, the ship's engine has been malfunctioning. Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott, Enterprise's chief engineer, created a script to re-adjust the engine's parameters, but the script didn't produce the expected results. Find out how Captain James T. Kirk and the rest of the Star Trek crew get out of this predicament while discovering firsthand how bad assumptions about data types can cause errors in VBScript and PowerShell code. You can read this adventure in "Script Trek". This article is open for all to read.