my trick is to tell them stories that go nowhere. Like the one time I caught the teletransporter to Maryland? I needed some crawdads for my jabalayah. Thing about teletrasporters back in those days is that they used to be free. “Take me to Maryland for free you’d say”, and they’d beam you away. Now, the important thing is that I tied and onion to my belt. We didn’t have the sweet ones because of the war with the Borg, just the big white ones