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 Picard:
"Captain’s Log, Stardate: 41309.5. We are in orbit
around Persephone V where I have been sent to confer
with Admiral Mark Jameson in regard to an extraordinary
situation."
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 Karnas:
"I am Karnas, governor of Mordan IV. A dissident
terrorist group has taken Federation Ambassador Hawkins
and his staff hostage. They will not discuss terms with
me. This is a crisis I cannot resolve without
assistance. The terrorists are demanding a Federation
negotiator. I feel there is only one negotiator with the
skills and understanding to resolve this situation. The
hostages' lives will depend on Starfleet delivering this
man to Mordan. Commander Mark Jameson--Admiral Jameson.
The terrorists have given you six Earth days to bring
him here -- or the hostages will die." |
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 Crusher:
"Captain, no one recovers from Iverson’s Disease. There
is no known cure, there have been no cases where it has
gone into remission. I have never heard of any therapy
that would produce results like that!"
Picard: "Then how do you account for it?"
Crusher: "I can’t! All I can tell you is that the
Admiral has been confined to his support chair for the
last four years by the effects of Iverson’s. By all the
medical facts we know, he should have never walked
again!" |
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 Anne
Jameson: "You really are looking much better."
Jameson: "It's the new treatment."
Anne Jameson: "No…come here…"
Jameson: "I hope you’re heading for the bedroom!
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Anne Jameson: "You stop it! Darling, you look
like you looked twenty years ago."
Jameson: "You flatter me." |
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 Picard:
"I couldn’t sleep either."
Jameson: "I never could before a mission; always
wound up in the observation lounge staring out at the
stars, thinking." |
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 Jameson:
"Do you know the background? The Mordanites had some
sophistication, but were still ruled by family tribal
units. Karnas's father was the ruling chief of one of
the families, and another tribe had him assassinated.
Karnas seized the passengers of a starliner and held
them hostage, demanding that Starfleet provide him with
weapons that would enable him to defeat his rivals."
 Picard: "That’s the official record?"
Jameson: "Officially, the story is that after two
other mediators were murdered, I went in and negotiated
with Karnas to bring out the hostages safely."
Picard: "Are you saying that's not the truth?"
Jameson: "It wasn't my golden oratory that saved
them, Captain. I gave Karnas the weapons he wanted."
 Picard:
"You did what?"
Jameson: "I gave exactly the same weapons to his
rivals. My interpretation of the Prime Directive. Let
them solve their problems with those arms on an equal
basis."
Picard: "And that decision plunged them into
forty years of civil war."
Jameson: "I didn't know that would happen. I
thought a minor war.
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would be settled in less than a year. How would I know
it would take four decades? But I falsified the reports
to Starfleet, and I lived with that on my soul, Picard.
Sixty-three people came away safe but millions died on
Mordan because I delivered those weapons."
Picard: "Karnas could have worked for peace
during those years instead of continuing the war. It's
not all on your head, Admiral."
Jameson: "But I started it. I lit the match. Now
finally I can
 vindicate
myself, if only in a small way. I came to negotiate, but
that isn't what Karnas wants."
Picard: "Revenge. That's why he demanded you when
he knew that you were still alive."
Jameson: "And I'm not going to give it to him,
Picard. I'm going to do what I should have
done the first time. We're taking the hostages out by
force if necessary. No deals." |
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 Picard:
"Admiral, your proper place is on the bridge."
Jameson: "I will remind you one more time, Picard,
I am the senior mission commander and I am leading this
team."
Riker: "Sir?"
Picard: "The Admiral is correct, Number One, he
has that right. But I am the captain of this ship and I
have a right to accompany him. Riker, you’re in command
of the Enterprise! Energize!" |
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 Data:
"Their phasers, sir, set on kill."
Picard: "Thank you, Mr. Data. I have heard the
sound before." |
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 Jameson:
(screaming)
Picard: "Enterprise! This is Picard! Six to beam
up, now!"
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 Karnas:
"Enterprise, there has been an armed intrusion in the
tunnels beneath the city and that smells of Jameson!
Where is
he?!"
Picard: "Karnas, this is Picard. I’m sorry to
inform you the Admiral is critically ill."
Karnas: "That is not my concern! Sick or well,
you have ten minutes to beam him down!"
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 Anne
Jameson: "Mark, can you hear me?"
Jameson: "Yes…"
Anne Jameson: "I will always love you."
Jameson: "Annie…with the golden hair…"
Anne Jameson: "Flatterer…it’s grey now."
Jameson: "I see only the gold." |
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 Picard:
"…the hostages have been freed by Karnas, unharmed, and
the body of Admiral Mark Jameson has been buried on
Mordan at the request of his widow and by the permission
of Karnas."
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