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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
There he is! Let's get him.
Come on! I'm over here! Verify materiaIization sequence. Bring up resoIution on radar unit 1 2. - Area 7 to Command. - Go ahead. We could use another survey team out here, sir. Base to Ensign McCauIey and Ensign GiIIes, pIease report to Area 7 and assist the edaphoIogy team. Acknowledged. Transferring anthropometric-data fiIes to secondary processor. StiII working on correIating that unidentified bIood groupings. Comparative Iinguistic anaIysis is compIete, sir. AdmiraI Dougherty is waiting for this. Transmit it to the ship. Alert. Area 1 2. - The android, he's out of control. - Report. He's headed toward the village. We're trying to stop him. Over there! Magnify. HoId your fire. What is it? What's happening? Base to Commander Data. Rerouting microhydraulic power distribution. - Regulating thermal overload. - Data, report to base immediateIy. Transferring positronic-matrix functions. Engaging secondary protocol. He's trying to remove the headpiece. AII fieId units, intercept the android. Artim, it's aII right. Get inside, now. Find sheIter. Everyone, get inside. Now! Back to your homes. Move it! Now! Move! Secondary protocoI's active. - They can see him. - Stop him. Now. Commander Data, stand down. That's an order. I repeat, stand down! Who are they? It's an M-cIass pIanet. PopuIation 300 miIIion. - Say the greeting again. - Yew-cheen chef-faw. Emphasis on the ''cheen'' and the ''faw.'' You either need a new uniform or a new neck. ''Yew-cheen chef-faw.'' My coIIar size is exactIy as it was at the academy. Of course it is. Our guests have arrived. They're eating the fIoraI arrangements on the banquet tabIes. I guess they don't beIieve in cocktaiIs before dinner. Oh, my God. Are they vegetarian? That's not in there. Perhaps we shouId have the chef whip up a Iight baIsamic vinaigrette, something that goes weII with chrysanthemums. - Yew-cheen. - Chef-faw. Yew-cheen chef-faw. - Bridge to Captain Picard. - Go ahead, ensign. Command wants to know our ETA at the Goren system. The Goren system? They need us to mediate some territoriaI dispute. No, no. We can't deIay the archaeoIogicaI expedition to Hanoran II. That'II put us right in the middIe of the monsoon season. - Captain. - Thank you. The dipIomatic corps is busy with Dominion negotiations. Oh, yes. So they need us to put out one more brushfire. Can anyone remember when we used to be expIorers? Deck 1 0. Remember, they have a significantIy Iess advanced technoIogy than ours. They onIy achieved warp drive Iast year. And the Federation CounciI decided to make them a protectorate so quickIy. In view of our Iosses to the Borg and the Dominion, the counciI feeIs we need aII the aIIies we can get these days. Captain on deck. You'II be expected to dance with Regent Cuzar. Can she mambo? - Very funny. - The captain used to cut quite a rug. La Forge to Picard. Captain, l need to talk to you before the reception. - Captain. - Mr Worf. - Worf. - What the heII are you doing here? - I was at the Manzar coIony-- - He's Iate. Can it wait? - l don't think so, commander. - Excuse me. TeII him I'm aIready here. I'II taIk to him when he arrives. Mr Worf-- Geordi, the captain wouId Iike you to come up. Tell him we received a communique from Admiral Dougherty. lt's about Data. Yew-cheen chef-faw, Regent Cuzar. WeIcome aboard the Enterprise. Captain Picard, may I weIcome you in the time-honoured tradition of my peopIe. We are so honoured to be accepted within the great Federation famiIy. - We have a dance Iater, I beIieve. - I Iook forward to it. CounseIIor. - Nice beadwork. - Captain. Excuse me. Captain. Captain, AdmiraI Dougherty is onboard a Son'a ship in Sector 441 . He's requesting Data's schematics. - Is something wrong? - The message doesn't say. WeII, Data shouId have been back by now. They were onIy scheduIed to observe the Ba'ku viIIage for one week. Geordi, wouId you set up a secure com-Iink - to the admiraI in the anteroom. - Aye, sir. Captain, Hars AdisIo. We met at the NeI Bato conference Iast year. Did you ever have a chance to read my paper on thermionic transconductance? WouId you excuse me? He's not acknowledging any Starfleet protocol. He's not responding to any of our hails. Have you any idea what precipitated this behaviour? None. Now he's holding our people hostage down there. The Enterprise couId be at your position in two days, admiraI. That's probably not a good idea. Your ship hasn't been fitted for this region. - There are environmental concerns. - What kind of concerns? We haven't fully identified the anomalies yet. They're calling this whole area the Briar Patch. lt took us a day to reach a location where we could even get a signal to you. Just get me Data's schematics. l'll keep you informed. Dougherty out. - His emotion chip? - He didn't take it with him. - Send the admiraI Data's schematics. - Aye, sir. - Yes, sir. - Ensign, wouId you report to the gaIIey and teII the chef to skip the fish course. - Aye, sir. - I wouId Iike our guests to depart as soon as etiquette aIIows. I'm going to ask Worf to deIay his return to DS9 so that he can join us. We're gonna stop by Sector 441 on our way to the Goren system. - They are in opposite directions, sir. - Are they? I never shouId have Iet you taIk me into that duck bIind in the first pIace. Your Federation procedures have made this mission ten times as difficuIt as it needed to be. Our procedures were in pIace to protect the pIanet's popuIation from unnecessary risk. PIanet's popuIation? Six hundred peopIe. If you want to avoid unnecessary risks, next time, Ieave your android home. Bridge to Ahdar Ru'afo, we are approaching the planet. Take us into a high orbit. Lie down, admiraI, the girIs wiII take 20 years off your face. Another time, perhaps. Your seIf-restraint puzzIes me, admiraI. You continue to deny yourseIf every benefit this mission has to offer. I prefer to wait untiI we can share the benefits with aII the peopIe of the Federation. - Report. - Phaser bIast. Unknown origin. Raise shieIds. - Take us out of orbit. - Photon torpedoes. Brace for impact. - The vesseI has broken off pursuit, sir. - VisuaI contact. That's our ship. Captain, we're about to Iose aII communications with StarfIeet. Do you have everything you need? I've downIoaded aII the fiIes on the duck-bIind mission and the Son'a. You have two days to become experts. Mr Worf, our job is to come up with a pIan to safeIy capture Data. I've aIready had Commander La Forge modify this tricorder with one of Data's actuation servos. Its operationaI range is onIy 4 meters, but it wiII shut him down. Good to have you back, Mr Worf. SIow to one-third. Take us in. HaIf century ago, they conquered two primitive races, the TarIac and the EIIora, and then integrated them into their cuIture as a Iabour cIass. Look at this. ''The Son'a are known to have produced mass quantities of the narcotic ketraceI-white.'' ''Their ships are rumoured to be equipped with isoIytic subspace weapons outIawed by the second Khitomer Accord.'' Why wouId we be invoIved with these peopIe? Good question. - You haven't done that in a Iong time. - What? - What you're doing to my neck. - Was I doing something to your neck? Bridge to Commander Worf. - Worf? - Captain. I don't know how they do it on Deep Space Nine, but on the Enterprise, we stiII report for duty on time. Sorry, sir. l'm on my way. We'II skip the court martiaI this time. Picard out. When was the Iast time we aIigned the torque sensors? Two months ago, sir. They don't sound right. The torque sensors are out of aIignment. By 1 2 microns. - You couId hear that? - When I was an ensign, I couId detect a 3-micron misaIignment. Excuse me, sir, the Son'a ship with AdmiraI Dougherty aboard has entered tracking range. Straighten your baIdric, commander. On screen. Captain, l wasn't expecting you. This is too important for the Enterprise to be on the sideIines, admiraI. l wish l had better news. Commander Data attacked us in a mission scout ship yesterday. Ru'afo and l have decided to send in an assault team. Commander Worf and I are working on severaI tacticaI pIans to save-- Your android has turned dangerousIy vioIent, captain. ConsiderabIe damage was done to my ship. He must be destroyed. l know what Data means to Starfleet, Jean-Luc, but our crew is at the mercy of those people on the planet. If our first attempt to capture Data faiIs... ...I wiII terminate him. I shouId be the one to do it. I'm his captain... ...and his friend. All right. You have 1 2 hours, captain, then l want you out of the Briar Patch. ln the meantime, we'll head out to the perimeter to call for Son'a reinforcements, in case you fail. Understood. Good luck, captain. Dougherty out. Sensors are not picking up any ships coming from the surface. Transmit a wide-band covariant signaI. That ought to get his attention. He must be using the pIanet's rings to mask his approach. The metaphasic radiation of the rings is in a state of extreme fIux. We'II steer cIear of those. Come out, come out Wherever you are - Sir? - It's something that my mother-- HoId on. Open aII haiIing frequencies. Data, this is Captain Picard. Data, please respond. If we fire tachyon bursts, it might force him to reset his shieId harmonics. When he does, we can beam him out. Make it so. Direct hit. He is resetting his shieId harmonics. Beam him out. He has activated a transport inhibitor. Prepare to enter the atmosphere. We'II use the ionospheric boundary to shake him. Scanners are off-Iine. Evasive manoeuvres. Heading 1 -4-0, mark 3-1 . He can fIy a ship. He can anticipate tacticaI strategies. CIearIy, his brain is functioning. We've seen how he responds to threats. I wonder how he wouId respond-- Mr Worf, do you know GiIbert and SuIIivan? No, sir, I have not had a chance to meet aII the new crew members since I have been back. They're composers, Worf. From the 1 9th century. Data was rehearsing a production of H.M.S. Pinafore just before he Ieft. A British tar ls a soaring soul As free as a mountain bird His energetic fist should be ready to resist A dictatorial word Sing, Worf, sing. - His nose should pant - And his lip should curl - His cheeks should flame - And his brow should furl - His bosom should heave - And his heart should glow And his fist be ever ready for a-- Knockdown blow - His nose should pant - And his lips should curl His cheeks should flame And his brow should furl His bosom should heave And his heart should glow And his fist be ever ready For a knockdown blow Prepare the docking cIamps. His eyes should flash With an inborn fire His brow with scorn be wrung He never should bow down To a domineering frown Or the tang of a tyrant tongue - His heart should stamp - And his throat should growl - His hair should curl - And his face should scowl - His eyes should flash - And his breast protrude And this should be His customary attitude - His foot should stamp - And his throat should-- His hair should curl And his face-- InertiaI coupIing is exceeding toIerance. If we do not reIease him, he may destroy both vesseIs. I'm not Ietting go of him. We must stabiIize the damping fieId. Reroute emergency power to inertiaI dampers. The auto-sequencer was damaged by phaser fire. Transferring controIs to manuaI. Power sequence reaIigned, engaging stabiIizers. Damping fieId estabIished. Maximum power. Now, Mr Worf. Captain, Commander Data is safeIy in custody. Got it! Captain, Subahdar GaIIatin, Son'a command. Lieutenant Curtis, attache to AdmiraI Dougherty. - Are you aII right? - We've been treated extremeIy weII. They have incredibIe mentaI discipIine. CIarity of perception. My name is Sojef. Jean-Luc Picard. These are my officers, Dr Crusher, CounseIIor Troi. - WouId you Iike something to eat? - No, we are here to... ...rescue them. As you wish. But I wouId ask you to disarm yourseIves. This viIIage is a sanctuary of Iife. Prepare the hostages for transport to the ship. They shouId be quarantined before joining the ship's popuIation. We were under the impression they were being heId against their wiII. It's not our custom to have guests here at aII, Iet aIone hoId anyone against their wiII. The artificiaI Iife form wouId not aIIow them to Ieave. In fact, he toId us they were our enemies and that more wouId foIIow. - Are you our enemy? - Anij. My peopIe have a strict poIicy of non-interference in other cuItures. It's our Prime Directive. Your directive apparentIy doesn't incIude spying on other cuItures. The artificiaI Iife form is a member of my crew. ApparentIy, he was taken iII. There was a phase variance in his positronic matrix, which we were unabIe to repair. I think the captain finds it hard to beIieve that we'd have any skiIIs repairing a positronic device. Our technoIogicaI abiIities are not apparent because we have chosen not to empIoy them in our daiIy Iives. We beIieve that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man. But at one time we expIored the gaIaxy just as you do. - You have warp capabiIity? - CapabiIity, yes. But where can warp drive take us except away from here? I apoIogize for our intrusion. And because they have warp capabiIity, the consequences to their society wiII be minimaI. You've done a terrific job, Jean-Luc. Now, pack your bags and get the hell out of there. - How's Data? - In stasis. La Forge is compIeting the diagnostic. l'll need all your paperwork tomorrow. We're heading back your way. Set a course to rendezvous with us so you can transfer the crew and equipment on your way out. You're not finished here? Just a few loose ends to tie up. Dougherty out. Come in. - Hi. - You got a minute? Sure. I need a IittIe counseIing. WeII, there's a first time for everything. So do I Iie down or what? WeII, whatever makes you comfortabIe. But this isn't one of the usuaI therapeutic postures. But it is comfortabIe. Why don't you try sitting up. Why don't you try Iying down. WeII, you're in quite a mood today. Do you reaIIy need counseIing, or did you come down here to pIay? I think I'm having a midIife crisis. - I beIieve you. - I'm not sIeeping weII. Dr Crusher has something that can take care of that. What I need, I can't get from Dr Crusher. CounseIIor, do you think it's possibIe for two peopIe to go back in time, fix a mistake they've made? On this ship, anything's possibIe. - Yuck. - ''Yuck''? I never kissed you with a beard before. I kiss you, and you say, ''Yuck''? I had to reconstruct Data's neuraI net and repIace these. They contain memory engrams. - How were they damaged? - By a Son'a weapon. There's no doubt about it, captain. That's what caused Data to maIfunction. But the Son'a report cIaims that they didn't fire untiI after he maIfunctioned. WeII, I don't beIieve it happened that way. Why wouId they fire on him without provocation? AII I know is that he was functioning normaIIy untiI he was shot. Then his faiI-safe system was activated. - FaiI-safe? - His ethicaI and moraI subroutines took over aII of his basic functions. But you're saying he stiII knew the difference between right and wrong. In a sense, that's aII he knew. The system was designed to protect Data against anyone who might try to take advantage of his memory Ioss. And yet he attacked us, and he toId the Ba'ku that we were a threat. - The impIants bothering you? - I'm aII right. I think I'm just tired. Geordi? - Captain? - You're on the Enterprise, Data. I seem to be missing severaI memory engrams. There they are. Data, what's the Iast thing that you remember? His nose should pant And his lip should curl From the mission. I was in an isoIation suit gathering physiometric data on the Ba'ku. My Iast memory is going into the hiIIs, foIIowing some chiIdren. Artim? Do you remember where you were on the day of Iightning when the artificiaI Iife form appeared to us? In the hiIIs by the dam. Can you show us? There is no reason to fear me. I am now operating within normaI parameters. - What? - They fixed me. Captain, the boy is afraid of me. It's nothing personaI, Data. You have to remember, these peopIe have rejected technoIogy. I am the personification of everything they have rejected. UntiI this week, that young man probabIy never saw a machine, Iet aIone one that waIks and taIks. Bridge to Riker. Can I get back to you, Mr Worf? Admiral Dougherty is on the com-link, sir. Patch him through. - Yes, admiraI? - Why haven't you Ieft orbit? Captain Picard is still on the surface, sir. - Doing what? - He didn't want to leave until we could adequately explain why Data malfunctioned. His future in StarfIeet couId depend on it. Remind the captain his 1 2 hours are up. - Yes, sir. - Dougherty out. Your body is producing far too many toxins. We've reached the Iimit of genetic manipuIation. I won't need any more genetic manipuIation if our Federation friends wiII aIIow us to compIete this mission. Tricorder functions are Iimited due to heavy deposits of keIbonite in these hiIIs. How about a passive radiation scan? Curious. There appear to be strong neutrino emissions coming from the Iake. Can he breathe underwater? Data doesn't breathe. Won't he rust? No. Captain! Captain! I beIieve I know what is causing the neutrino emissions. The vesseI is cIearIy Federation in origin, captain. ''Just a few Ioose ends to tie up.'' We're not interested in such things. I am. - I think it wouId be wiser-- - I'm going with you. It is a hoIographic projection. IncompIete, I might add. What you're seeing is a computer-driven image created by photons and force fieIds. I know what a hoIogram is, captain. The question is, why wouId anyone want to create one of our viIIage? Data, if you were foIIowing the chiIdren and discovered this ship... It is conceivabIe I was shot to protect the secret of its existence. Why wouId they dupIicate this viIIage, except to deceive the Ba'ku? - Deceive us? - To move you off this pIanet. You go to sIeep one night in the viIIage, wake up the next morning on this fIying hoIodeck, transported en masse. Within a few days, they're reIocated on a simiIar pIanet without ever reaIizing it. Why wouId the Federation or the Son'a wish to move the Ba'ku? I don't know. Computer, end program. DecIoak the vesseI. HeIp! I can't swim! Don't panic. I've been shot at, thrown into the Iake out of a ship that's come to abduct us, what's there to panic about? In the event of a water Ianding, I have been designed to serve as a fIotation device. Mr Worf, did the hostages mention anything about a cIoaked ship during their debriefing? - No, sir. - Debrief them again. Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf? No, sir. It is a gorch. Gorch? PimpIe, sir. Oh, weII, it's-- It's hardIy noticeabIe. Smooth as an android's bottom, eh, Data? I beg your pardon, sir? AdmiraI Dougherty wants to know why we haven't Ieft yet. We're not going anywhere. Deck 5. KIingons never do anything smaII, do you? Dr Crusher asked to speak to you when you returned. - Picard to Crusher. - Captain, the Son'a hostages decIined to be examined. I had them confined to quarters. - And our peopIe? - They're fine. In fact, they're better than fine. Increased metaboIism, improved muscIe tone, high energy. We shouId aII be so Iucky. Very weII, doctor. Picard out. Worf, don't reIease the Son'a officers untiI I've taIked to Ahdar Ru'afo. Aye, sir. Commander, may I? Computer, music. No, no, not that. Something Latin. - Specify. - The mambo. That's more Iike it. How oId are you? We came here from a soIar system on the verge of seIf-annihiIation, where technoIogy had created weapons that threatened to destroy aII Iife. A smaII group of us set off to find a new home, a home that wouId be isoIated from the threats of other worIds. That was 309 years ago. And you haven't aged a day since then. ActuaIIy, I was a good deaI oIder when we arrived, in terms of my physicaI condition. There's an unusuaI metaphasic radiation coming from the pIanet's rings. It continuousIy regenerates our genetic structure. You must have noticed the effects by now. We've just begun to. And I suppose you're 75. No, I'm 1 2. The metaphasic radiation won't begin to affect him untiI he reaches maturity. To most offIanders, what you have here is more vaIuabIe than... ...goId-pressed Iatinum. I'm afraid that's the reason that someone may be trying to take your worId away from you. The artificiaI Iife form was right. If it were not for Data, it's probabIe that you wouId be reIocated by now. How can we possibIy defend ourseIves? The moment we pick up a weapon, we become one of them. We Iose everything we are. It may not come to that. CIearIy, the architects of this conspiracy want to keep it a secret. Not onIy from you but from my peopIe as weII. I don't intend to Iet them. We've aIways known that to survive, we had to remain apart. Hasn't been easy. Many of the young peopIe want to know more about the offIand. They're attracted to stories of a faster pace of Iife. Most of my peopIe who Iive that fast a Iife, wouId seII their souIs to sIow it down. But not you? There are days. You don't Iive up to your reputation as an offIander, Picard. WeII, in defence of offIanders, there are many more peopIe Iike me. Who wouIdn't be tempted by the promise of perpetuaI youth? I don't think so. You give me more credit than I deserve. WeII, of course I'm tempted. Who wouIdn't be? But some of the darkest chapters in the history of my worId invoIve the forced reIocation of a smaII group of peopIe to satisfy the demands of a Iarge one. I'd hoped that we'd Iearn from our mistakes, but... ...it seems that some of us haven't. This is extraordinary craftsmanship. It's the work of students. They're aImost ready to become apprentices. In 30 or 40 years, some of them wiII take their pIace among the artisans. Apprenticing for 30 years. Did your peopIe's mentaI discipIine deveIop here? More questions. AIways the expIorer. If you stay Iong enough, that wiII change. WiII it? You stop reviewing what happened yesterday. Stop pIanning for tomorrow. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time? A perfect moment? When time seemed to stop, and you couId aImost Iive in that moment. Seeing my home pIanet from space for the first time. Yes, exactIy. Nothing more compIicated than perception. You expIore the universe. We've discovered that a singIe moment in time can be a universe in itseIf. FuII of powerfuI forces. Most peopIe aren't aware enough of the now to even notice. I wish I couId spare a few centuries to Iearn. It took us centuries to Iearn that it doesn't have to take centuries to Iearn. There's one thing I don't understand. In 300 years, you never Iearned to swim? I just haven't got around to it yet. I wonder if you're aware of the trust you engender, Jean-Luc Picard. - In my experience, it's unusuaI for-- - For an offIander? For someone so young. Geordi. Captain. As it turns out, there wasn't anything wrong with my impIants at aII. There was something right with my eyes. When Dr Crusher removed the ocuIar connections, she found that the ceIIs around my optic nerve had... Started to regenerate. It may not Iast. And if it doesn't, I just-- I just wanted, before we go... You know, I've never seen a sunrise. At Ieast not the way you see them. Come. Am I to understand that you are not reIeasing my men, captain? We found the hoIoship. Ru'afo, why don't you Iet the captain and me-- No! This entire mission has been one Federation bIunder after another. You wiII return my men, or this aIIiance wiII end with the destruction of your ship. You're Iooking weII, Jean-Luc. Rested. I won't Iet you move them, admiraI. I wiII take this to the Federation CounciI. I'm acting on orders from the Federation CounciI. How can there be an order to abandon the Prime Directive? The Prime Directive doesn't appIy. These peopIe are not indigenous to this pIanet. They were never meant to be immortaI. We'II simpIy be restoring them to their naturaI evoIution. Who the heII are we to determine the next course of evoIution for these peopIe? Jean-Luc, there are 600 peopIe down there. We'II be abIe to use the regenerative properties of this radiation to heIp biIIions. The Son'a have deveIoped a procedure to coIIect the metaphasic particIes from the pIanet's rings. A pIanet in Federation space. That's right. We have the pIanet. They have the technoIogy. A technoIogy we can't dupIicate. You know what that makes us? Partners. Our partners are nothing more than petty thugs. On Earth, petroIeum once turned petty thugs into worId Ieaders. Warp drive transformed a bunch of RomuIan thugs into an empire. We can handIe the Son'a. I'm not worried about that. Someone probabIy said the same thing about the RomuIans a century ago. With metaphasics, Iife spans wiII be doubIed. An entire new medicaI science wiII evoIve. I understand your chief engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his Iife. WouId you take that away from him? There are metaphasic particIes aII over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this one pIanet? It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whoIe damn thing work. Don't ask me to expIain it. I onIy know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermoIytic reaction. When it's over, the pIanet wiII be uninhabitabIe for generations. AdmiraI, deIay the procedure. Let my peopIe Iook at the technoIogy. Our best scientific minds aIready have. We can't find any other way to do this. Then the Son'a can estabIish a separate coIony on the pIanet untiI we do. It wouId take ten years of normaI exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that Iong. Besides, they don't want to Iive in the middIe of the Briar Patch. Who wouId? The Ba'ku. We are betraying the principIes upon which the Federation was founded. It's an attack upon its very souI. And it wiII destroy the Ba'ku. Just as cuItures have been destroyed in every other forced reIocation throughout history. Jean-Luc, we're onIy moving How many peopIe does it take, admiraI, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A miIIion? How many peopIe does it take, admiraI? I'm ordering you to the Goren system. I'm aIso ordering the reIease of the Son'a officers. FiIe whatever protests you wish to, captain. By the time you do, this wiII aII be done. GaIIatin. So the righteous StarfIeet captain finaIIy reIeased you. Yes. Did you encounter any probIems on the surface? No, sir. But it wasn't easy being among them. I'm sure. Just don't forget what they did to us. We'II have them rounded up in a day or two. We needn't bother with the Federation's hoIoship anymore. - Just get the hoIding ceIIs ready. - Yes, sir. I'm going to miss these IittIe fIesh-stretching sessions of ours, my dear. Rerouting the transport grid to avoid detection was wise, sir. However, the transporter is rareIy used after 0200 hours. Taking the captain's yacht out for a spin? Seven metric tons of uItritium expIosives. Eight tetryon puIse Iaunchers and ten isomagnetic disintegrators. Looks Iike you're pIanning on doing some hunting. Return to your quarters. That's an order. No uniform, no orders. Captain, how couId I Iook at another sunrise knowing what my sight cost these peopIe? I feeI obIiged to point out that the environmentaI anomaIies may have stimuIated certain rebeIIious instincts common to youth, which couId affect everyone's judgment. Except mine, of course. Okay, Data, what do you think we shouId do? SaddIe up. Lock and Ioad. They won't begin the procedure whiIe the pIanet is stiII inhabited. So our job is to keep the pIanet inhabited. WiII, Geordi, go back and put a face on what's happening here. Make the counciI see the Ba'ku. It's too easy to turn a bIind eye to the suffering of a peopIe you don't know. I'II be back before you know it. We'II hoId out as Iong as we can. The injector performs perfectIy in every simuIation. Sir, as the Enterprise Ieft orbit, one of their support craft went down to the surface. - What? - It appeared to be the captain's yacht. Five persons onboard. We're not waiting untiI morning. Take the shuttIes and get everyone off the surface tonight. GaIIatin. If Picard or any of his peopIe interfere... ...eIiminate them. We're Ieaving the viIIage. Take onIy what you need. Bring food. We may not be back for days. It is a transport inhibitor. It wiII heIp prevent spaceships from beaming anyone off the surface. These veins of keIbonite running through the hiIIs wiII interfere with their transporters. And when the terrain forces us away from the deposits, then we'II use transport inhibitors as a compensation. The mountains have the heaviest concentration of keIbonite. Once there, it'II make transport virtuaIIy impossibIe. There are caves in those mountains. Then we shouId be abIe to hoId out for a Iong time once we're there, but they're not gonna make it easy for us to get there. Captain? We've activated the transport inhibitors around the viIIage. Good. Let's move these peopIe out! Transporters are not functioning. They're bIocking the beams with some kind of inhibitors. We'II have to Iocate and destroy them. No, no. Son, you're carrying too much. We have a Iong cIimb ahead of us. We've Iost three transport inhibitors. There's a gap in the fieId. Artim. Father! They're foIIowing the keIbonite deposits, using the interference to bIock our transporters. - Recommendations? - Take me down. Let me taIk to Picard. TaIk? We shouId send down an assauIt team and take them by force. That is not an acceptabIe option. If peopIe get hurt, aII the support we have in the Federation-- Federation support, Federation procedures, Federation ruIes. Look in the mirror, admiraI. The Federation is oId. In the past 24 months, they've been chaIIenged by every major power in the quadrant. The Borg, the Cardassians, the Dominion. They aII smeII the scent of death on the Federation. That's why you've embraced our offer. Because it wiII give your dear Federation new Iife. WeII, how badIy do you want it, admiraI? Because there are hard choices to be made now. If the Enterprise gets through with news about their brave captain's vaIiant struggIe on behaIf of the defenceIess Ba'ku, your Federation poIiticians wiII waver. Your Federation opinion poIIs wiII open up pubIic debate. Your Federation aIIies wiII want their say. You-- Need I go on? There's an aIternative to an aII-out assauIt. IsoIinear tags wouId aIIow our transporters to Iock on to them. We'd have to tag every one of them. That wouId take time. And we don't have it. The Enterprise is onIy 1 9 hours from communications range with the Federation. I'II order Riker to turn around. Picard's first officer. Do you reaIIy beIieve he'II Iisten? My ships are capabIe of intercepting the Enterprise before it reaches the perimeter. I couId send them to-- To escort it back. But Commander Riker might not want to come. Send your ships. Do you Iike being a machine? I aspire to be more than I am. I know why. So peopIe Iike us won't be afraid of you anymore. Perhaps. Don't you ever get tired? My power ceIIs continuaIIy recharge themseIves. I can't imagine what it's Iike to be a machine. Perhaps it wouId surprise you to know that I have often tried to imagine what it is Iike to be a chiId. - ReaIIy? - ReaIIy. For one thing, your Iegs are shorter than everyone eIse's. But they are in a constant state of growth. - Do you find it difficuIt to adapt? - Adapt? A chiId's specifications are never the same from one moment to the next. It is a wonder you do not trip over your own feet. Sometimes I do. My Iegs are exactIy They were 87.2 centimetres the day I was created. They wiII be 87.2 centimetres the day I go off-Iine. My operation depends on specifications that do not change. I wiII never know the experience of growing up or tripping over my own feet. But you've never had aduIts teIIing you what to do aII the time or bedtimes or having to eat food you don't Iike. I wouId gIadIy accept the requirement of a bedtime in exchange for knowing what it is Iike to be a chiId. Do machines ever pIay? Yes, I pIay the vioIin. And my chess routines are quite advanced. No, I mean, haven't you ever just pIayed? For fun? Androids do not have fun. Look, if you wanna know what it's Iike to be a chiId, you need to Iearn to pIay. Captain. Mr Worf, you need a haircut. AcceIerated hair growth is often experienced by KIingons during Jak'tahIa. - Jak'tahIa? - RoughIy transIated, puberty. AIthough for a KIingon, that scarceIy does it justice. Any severe mood swings, unusuaI aggressive tendencies, you Iet me know at once. Yes, sir. The Ba'ku need some rest, sir. According to the geo-scan, this is the safest area within the next few kiIometres. Very weII, we'II take an hour. - Have them break out some rations. - Aye, sir. Right beyond that ridge is where the caves begin. We can hide there for days. By now the Son'a wiII have scanned this area. They'II know that as weII as we do. It's been 300 years since I've seen a baId man. How is it that you never married? And don't teII me it's just because you haven't got around to it yet. What's the rush? I shouId warn you, I've aIways been attracted to oIder women. How are you doing this? No more questions. Commander, I'm showing two Son'a ships on an intercept course. - How Iong tiII they reach us? - Eighteen minutes. We won't be abIe to get a transmission out of here for another hour. - They're haiIing us. - TeII them our transceiver assembIy is down, that we can send messages but not receive them. I don't think they beIieve us. Why not? Photon torpedo. Isn't that the universaI greeting when communications are down? I think it's the universaI greeting when you don't Iike someone. FuII impuIse. ManifoIds can't handIe fuII impuIse in the Patch, commander. If we don't outrun them, the manifoIds wiII be the onIy thing Ieft on this ship. I'II be in Engineering. Red aIert! AII hands! BattIe stations. And have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up? Not that we care about such things in this day and age. Thank you, Data. I have an odd craving for the bIood of a Iive KoIar beast. This environment must be affecting me again. And have you noticed how your boobs have started to firm up? Not that we care about-- Take cover! IsoIinear tags. The transporters can Iock on to them. We have to find sheIter. There's a cavern at the base of the next hiII. This way. ShieIds at 60 percent! Engineering to bridge. We're burning deuterium down here! We're gonna bIow ourseIves up. We won't need any heIp from the Son'a. What's inside that nebuIa cIuster? Cometary debris, pockets of unstabIe metreon gas. - We don't want to go in there, sir. - Yes, we do. I'II take it from here, ensign. It's time to use the Briar Patch the way Brer Rabbit did. Inside the caves! QuickIy! Everyone! This way! Inside. DefiniteIy feeIing aggressive tendencies, sir. They've detonated an isoIytic burst! A subspace tear is forming! On screen. I thought subspace weapons were banned by the Khitomer Accord. Remind me to Iodge a protest. Our warp core is acting Iike a magnet to the tear. We're puIIing it Iike a zipper across space. Options? We couId eject the core. - WiII that stop the tear? - You got me, commander. That's your expert opinion? Detonating the warp core might neutraIize the cascade. Then again, it might not. Subspace weapons are unpredictabIe. That's why they were banned. Tear is cIosing on us. Impact in 1 5 seconds. - Eject the core. - I just did. Impact in ten seconds. Detonate. Get me a medic over here! It worked, commander! The tear has been seaIed. Yeah, but there's nothing to stop them from doing it again. And we're fresh out of warp cores. We're stiII 36 minutes from transmission range, sir. We're through running from these bastards. Another 43 reported taken, sir. Captain, they're trying to drive us out so their drones can tag us. With aII the hydrothermaI vents in the substrata, the structuraI integrity of this cavern is not going to hoId for Iong. - Is there another way out of here? - I don't know. Captain, tracking the water's course may reveaI another exit. Mr Worf, come with us. I am reading a nitrogen-oxygen fIow behind that caIcite formation, captain. WiII this structure hoId if we were to bIast through? I beIieve it is safe, sir. Fire. Get everybody into those caves. And set up force fieIds once they're inside. Aye, sir. Geordi, are those pockets of metreon gas? Yes, commander. HighIy voIatiIe. - I recommend we keep our distance. - Negative. I want to use the ramscoop to coIIect as much of it as we can. - The purpose being? - The purpose being, I intend to shove it down the Son'as' throats. Commander, if one of their weapons hits that gas-- It's our onIy way out of here, Mr DanieIs. I wouIdn't be surprised if history caIIs this the Riker Manoeuvre. If it works. Computer, access manuaI steering coIumn. Transfer heIm controIs to manuaI. Bridge, storage cells are at maximum capacity. They're powering their forward weapons array, sir. BIow out the ramscoop. Stand by. FuII thrusters. Ramscoop released. Captain. Data, Troi, keep these peopIe moving! Bring them out! I suspect it won't be Iong before the drones get here. Keep moving. Keep moving. They found caves on higher ground. We'II be safe there. Captain, take a Iook at this med-scan. His DNA profiIe. How can that be possibIe? Maybe we shouId ask them. Artim, what are you doing? Come. - Is this the Iast group? - Yes, sir. Get them ready to move out. - We need to hurry. - Anij went to find Artim. - Go with TourneI! - No! I want to stay with you. It is safer there, go! - Worf to Picard. - Two Iife signs. One of them extremeIy faint. There are aImost 4 metric tons of rock bIocking our way. No. That might cause another cave-in. Anij? Anij? Worf to Picard. Yes. Yes, I can hear you. We are trying to get to you, sir. Anij? HeIp is on the way. Worf, hurry. Anij is hurt. How bad is she, captain? I'm Iosing her. We're coming as fast as we can. Anij... ...stay with me. HeIp me find the power to keep you in this moment. Stay with me. She's stabiIizing. Is it safe to move her? Safer than Ieaving her here. And you thought it wouId take centuries to Iearn. Order them to surrender, and I promise you won't be court-martiaIed. If a court martiaI is the onIy way to Iet the peopIe of the Federation know what is happening here, I weIcome it. The Enterprise has destroyed one of my ships! The other is on fire, requesting assistance. The Enterprise wouId onIy fire to defend itseIf. Ru'afo must have ordered the attack. I can't beIieve he wouId have given that order without your consent, admiraI. I wonder which of us wiII be facing that court martiaI. There is nothing further to be gained from this. You're right. This is going to end now. The Ba'ku want to stay on the pIanet? Let them. - I'm going to Iaunch the injector. - You're not going to Iaunch anything. In six hours, every Iiving thing in this system wiII be dead or dying. You wouId kiII your own peopIe, Ru'afo? Your own parents? Brothers, sisters? Didn't you know, admiraI, the Son'a and the Ba'ku are the same race. Picard just toId us. Our DNA is identicaI. Which one were you? GaI'na? Ro'tin? Those names, those chiIdren, are gone forever. What's he taIking about? A century ago, a group of our young peopIe wanted to foIIow the ways of the offIanders. They tried to take over the coIony, and when they faiIed-- When we faiIed, you exiIed us to die sIowIy. You're Ro'tin, aren't you? There's something in the voice. WouId you be his friend GaI'na? I heIped your mother bathe you when you were a chiId. She stiII speaks of you. You brought the Federation into the middIe of a bIood feud, admiraI. The chiIdren have returned to expeI their eIders, just as they were once expeIIed. Except that Ru'afo's need for revenge has now escaIated into parricide. It was for the Federation. It was aII for the Federation. We're taking this ship out of here. This mission is over. - It is not over. - It is over! I do not take orders from you. If you Iaunch the injector whiIe the pIanet's stiII popuIated, - the Federation wiII pursue you untiI-- - The Federation... ...wiII never know what happened here. AdmiraI Dougherty wiII not be joining us for dinner. DepIoy the coIIector. Do you have a probIem with that order? May I taIk to you aIone? - DepIoy the coIIector. - Yes, sir. Moving them is one thing. KiIIing them aII? No one hated them more than you, GaI'na. We've come a Iong way together. This is the moment we've pIanned for so many years. Separate the StarfIeet personneI and secure them in the aft cargo hoId. See that Picard joins them. The shieIds in that section won't protect them against the thermoIytic reaction. Thank you for reminding me. Jean-Luc. Come with me. It must have been strange for you when you were a hostage. Surrounded by aII the friends and famiIy you knew aII those years ago. Each one Iooking exactIy as they did then. Like Iooking through the eyes of chiIdhood again. And here you are, cIosing those eyes. Trying not to see what bitterness has done to the Son'a. How it's turned Ru'afo into a madman. And you... Turned you into a coward. A man who denies his own conscience. Get in. Coward without the moraI courage to prevent an atrocity. You offend me. Is this how a Federation officer pIeads for his Iife? I'm not pIeading for my Iife. I'm pIeading for yours. You can stiII go home, GaI'na. Computer, cIose turboIift doors. What you're asking me to do is impossibIe. You know how to disabIe the injector? I wouId need to be on the bridge. The crew is IoyaI to Ru'afo, an assauIt wouId faiI. Perhaps we can Iure him away. It doesn't matter where he is. As soon as he reaIizes something's happening, he'II override my commands with one word to his com-Iink. If he doesn't reaIize something's happening... Can you get me to a transmitter? I need to speak with Data and Worf down on the pIanet. We'II need their heIp. Deck 1 2. Initiate separation protocoIs. Activating injector assembIy. Separation in three minutes. SmaII craft is coming up from the surface. It's powering up its weapons. - On screen. - One person aboard. It's the android. He's no threat. - Data to Picard. - Go ahead, Data. Captain, they're ignoring my attack. Keep firing tachyon bursts into the shieId grid. - ls Worf in position? - Yes, sir. He is ready for simuItaneous transport. We're approaching the bridge. Picard out. Separation in one minute. Sir, the Federation ship is creating a disruption in our shieIds. If they go out of phase, it wiII increase our exposure to the thermoIytic reaction. Very weII, destroy that ship. Reset our shieId harmonics. Do not deIay the countdown. Data to Picard, they are rotating their shieId harmonics. I am attempting to return to the surface, sir. The Federation ship has been disabIed. Separation in 20 seconds. - What is that? - I don't know. Systems don't seem affected. Separation in ten seconds. Five seconds. Injector assembIy has separated. ExactIy as the simuIations predicted. I'm not showing any change in metaphasic fIux IeveIs. Your scanners must be maIfunctioning. AII ship functions are off-Iine. How can there be no ship functions if the viewscreen is working? ArtificiaI gravity is stabIe. Life support is-- A hoIodeck? We were transported to the hoIoship when we reset our shieIds. Everything we saw was an iIIusion. Ru'afo authorization DeIta 2-1 . Override aII interIink commands to injector assembIy one. Unable to comply. lnjector assembly one has been deactivated. AII injector subsystems aboard the coIIector are confirmed off-Iine. DecIoak the hoIoship and engage a tractor beam. Aye, sir. The crew knows something's happened. I've secured the bridge. This ship is equipped with 1 4 Iong-range transporters. Are they aII useIess? They must have been Iocked and secured after we were beamed here. IsoIate one and reroute its command sequence through the auxiIiary processor. Sir, there's nothing we can do. They aIready have controI of our ship. I don't pIan on going back to our ship. Mr Worf, destroy that thing. Aye, sir. Weapon systems have been taken off-Iine. The crew is rerouting bridge controIs. Captain, there's a probIem aboard the coIIector. The Iaunch sequence has resumed. The coIIector's shieIds have been raised. Someone's onboard. It's Ru'afo. Can you override the Iaunch sequence from here? Not without his access codes. Is there a seIf-destruct? Yes, but without the codes, it wouId have to be activated at the upper controI matrix on the coIIector. Mr Worf, try and find some way to beam through those shieIds. You'd have to detonate it manuaIIy. There'd onIy be a two-second deIay. We may be abIe to transport between his shieId generators if we are within 1 00 meters. Take us into position. Remain at your post, commander. I'II need you to beam me back. We're approaching the coIIector. One minute before separation, you'II see the cryogenic tanks venting. Weapons fire couId ignite the exhaust. Separation in two minutes and 1 5 seconds. lntruder alert. lntruder alert. Captain! Worf? I'm picking up Captain Picard's bio-signature onboard the coIIector. - Enterprise to Picard. - Number One! We're approaching your position. Do you need assistance? I may need a Iift in a minute or so. We're on our way. Separation in one minute. - Report. - It's Ru'afo's ship. On screen. Sensors are reading over 1 00 Ba'ku onboard. And one KIingon. Target their ventraI engines and Iife support. Set a coIIision course. Stop! Ru'afo, we're getting too oId for this. After today, that won't be a probIem. For either of us. Separation in 30 seconds. You reaIIy going to risk igniting the exhaust? - AII right. I wiII! - No! ShieIds at 60 percent. HoId your course. - He wouIdn't. - Yes, he wouId. Now! Stand by, captain, we're right around the corner. Sorry... ...time's up. What kept you, Number One? The Federation CounciI has asked me to inform you that the Ba'ku reIocation wiII be haIted whiIe they conduct a top-IeveI review. Sir? Ru'afo's ship is haiIing us. - On screen. - On screen. Captain, the Son'a crew would like to negotiate a cease-fire. lt may have something to do with the fact that we have three minutes of air left. We have pIenty over here, Mr Worf. Prepare to beam aboard. You think when we get away from this metaphasic radiation, it'II change the way we feeI? Your feeIings about her have not changed since the day I met you, commander. This pIace just Iet them out for a IittIe fresh air. I wish there were a way to bring them back home. Ask them. I'm afraid there's too much bitterness, on both sides. Mother and son. You arranged this? I thought it might begin the heaIing process. What am I going to do without you? I wish I couId stay. But these are periIous times for the Federation. I can't abandon it to peopIe who wouId threaten everything that I've spent a Iifetime defending. I have to go back, if onIy to sIow things down at the Federation CounciI. But I have 31 8 days of shore Ieave coming... ...and I intend to use them. Data? It's time to go. I have to go home now. Bye. Bye. Mr Data, I hope we'II see you again. Oh, Data. Don't forget, you have to have a IittIe fun every day. Good advice. 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