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 Picard:
"Captain's log, stardate 41463.9. While mapping the
Pleiades cluster we have been asked by the Federation to
visit a group terraforming Velara III. Communications
have been erratic, and there is some concern about their
welfare." |
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 Data:
"Geordi, servos off."
Benson: "They are off."
LaForge: "Data what's happening?"
Data: "Too much to explain."
LaForge: "LaForge to Enterprise... we have a
problem!"
Picard: "Be specific."
LaForge: "Data's in the hydraulics room alone,
and we're hearing
 laser
blasts."
Picard: "Get him out of there!"
Benson: "It's not working again."
LaForge: "We've got to get this door open. Data!
We can't get in! Data! Data! Data!"
(The door opens on a room full of smoke)
Picard: "Away team, now. What is happening?
(over comm:) I'm going to beam him out of there."
Data: "Bridge, this is Lieutenant Commander Data. No need to beam me up Sir, the situation
is under control." |
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 Riker:
"First Officer's log, stardate 41464.3. What began as a
routine visit to a terraforming site has turned into
something far more serious. Arthur Malencon, the
hydraulic engineer, has been critically injured by a
laser drill which appears to have malfunctioned."
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 LaForge:
"Woa...what is it? Nothing but basic elements,
in-organic. No carbon, sandy texture...those flashes are
almost...musical. I see colour variations and rhythms
and complex harmonies." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, supplemental. On my order, Data's
startling discovery of a possible life-form has been
beamed aboard so that its true nature might be
uncovered. But unlike life on Earth and else where it
appears to be completely in-organic." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, supplemental. The life-form which has
significantly increased in size is again attempting to
communicate with us." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's Log, supplemental. The inorganic
lifeform from Velara III has apparently taken over our
medical lab." |
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 Worf:
"I cannot understand the patterns."
LaForge: "Hmm...neither can I."
Data: "Please show me spectral analysis
magnification 12k."
Computer: "Silicon... Germanium..."
Data: "Transistor material."
Computer: "Gallium arsenide."
LaForge: "Emits light when charged."
 Computer:
"Cadmium selenide sulfide."
Data: "Emits charge when lit."
Computer: "Water, impurities, sodium salts."
Worf: "Conductor. But is it alive?!"
Computer: "Probability positive."
Worf: "I wasn't asking you!" |
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 Translator
Voice: "Ugly...Ugly giant bags of mostly water."
Picard: "Bags of mostly water?"
Data: "An accurate description of humans, Sir.
You are over 90% water surrounded by a flexible
container." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, supplemental. We have regained visual
contact with the lab but our attempts to restore
communication with this micro-brain as we have come to
call it have been unsuccessful. One thing that is
certain however, this life-form has declared war on us." |
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 Picard:
"Captain' log, stardate 41464.8. I have declared an
indefinite quarantine for Velara III and we are now
returning to Starbase with the three surviving
terraformers. Perhaps the lessons we have learned from
this near-tragedy will prevent it from happening
elsewhere." |
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