Brilliant fic. I really liked the idea of the ship being buried and the "core" having to be moved to another home. Perfect portrayel of Adam and Megabyte's friendship, they're the best characters. Although to be fair I have to agree with Lorcan - there was a lack of "girls" in the story. I tend to find that myself when I write, focusing on the male characters. Anyway, great story, really interesting idea for the continuation of the tommorrow people

"Somewhere in the South Pacific, on a tiny uncharted sand island, a parakeet blown far from her natural habitat by a freak storm, gratefully alighted on a palm." I'm afraid silly me thought this was...a palm of a person's hand. Perhaps it would better clarify things if you said palm tree, or palm leaf or something?

"He woke.

He raised a hand to his head and softly pawed at the bandages there. Once he realised what the irritation on his forehead was, he stopped and moaned slightly as his eyes tried to focus on something, anything."

I really like this bit. The writing here, I thought, was really good and I liked the use of 'paw'. And then, later, "in case it was sentient" I liked as well.

There were some places where you put commas in, but I thought two separate sentences would have been better, or more words could be put in to make the sentence easier to understand. For instance:

"The waitress lent across the counter conspiratorially, her long black hair dipped into a tiny bowl of brown sauce."

- "The waitress leaned across the counter conspiratorially, but/and as she did so her long black hair dipped into a tiny bowl of brown sauce."

Could be just me, but I took a while to register that sentence properly.

"Adam yawned, 2am bedtimes and 5am starts aren't a good idea."

- "Adam yawned. 2am bedtimes and 5am starts weren't a good idea."

"He surveyed the tables of cattle happily chewing their cud." That line absolutely cracked me up, lol.

The short scene with Duke being annoyed at Adam and getting up was very nicely written, I loved his monologues as well.

And the scene with Duke and Adam bantering back and forth was great! I loved the dynamics between the two. Also, I haven't ever heard of this fandom before so I have no idea how accurate your portrayal of the characters are, but I loved the exchange anyway.

I enjoyed this chapter overall, I think it was well written, and it especially pulled me in towards the ending. It was also interesting, especially the ending. Oh, and like cathrl, I noticed the dialogue tags, as well.

Wow, a fandom I know! Well...a fandom I watched a decade or so ago.

This is very nicely written, with good characterisation (as far as I remember :) ) and people who are presented as individuals, who speak and think differently and have different objectives.

Just a few nitpicks:

You're consistently presenting dialogue tags wrong:
"I can't.. get it." He said weakly.
"What?" He exclaimed.
should be
"I can't.. get it," he said weakly.
"What?" he exclaimed.
The tag isn't a sentence of its own, it doesn't get a capital letter and the speech shouldn't end in a full stop (but it does keep a ? or an !).

The POV wanders a bit occasionally. For instance, the boy in the hospital is confused and can't see more than blurs - but suddenly you say that the nurse adjusts an IV drip above his head. You're in the boy's POV, he shouldn't know this sort of detail.

I was very confused by the sudden flashback (where Duke gets called Megabyte again). Who's having it? I did wonder if it was the boy in the bed, but there's no hint. As a flashback purely for the reader, I think it needs more introduction.

But in general it's very well written. It sucked me in to the extent that I'm off to read the rest of it :) And now I'm feeling all nostalgic for a show that ended much too soon.

I liked your story. It made me laugh, and the canon characters were well-drawn and sympathetic. Lorcan didn't seem very well-defined, but coma patients rarely are, and I realize they're a staple of the TP genre...I liked the concept of using quantum string theory to design non-stick cookware, and General Bill Damon (retired)'s lonely dining table, and the shout-out to the machine that goes "ping", and Adam's boss' uncertainty about what the tank was for...it had that very NS mood, as it all walked a fine line between very silly and very serious...I missed Ami, and I wondered what had caused the rift between Adam and Megabyte and the other TPs. And I found it hard to believe that Megabyte would fall so far as to be using a dial-up connection, and I still can't think of him as "Duke". But I liked the story.

If you want to look at a story of older TP, try mine.