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 Riker:
"The exercise is over!"
Worf: (growling)
Riker: "At ease, Lieutenant! (beat) Exit
holodeck. You do this everyday?"
Worf: "No, Commander. Usually my callisthenics
are more...intense! But, those are too personal to be
shared." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, stardate: 42193.6. We're on a long reach
to toward the Morgana Quadrant, a section of the galaxy
which is yet to be visited by a manned Federation
vessel. We're using the time to further detail the
charts of this region." |
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 Worf:
"My thoughts were of an old Klingon legend of a
gigantic black space creature which was said to devour
entire vessels."
Riker: "Devour vessels?"
Worf: "I'm sorry, Commander. I agree these are
thoughts hardly worthy of a trained and practical
security officer." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, supplemental. While exploring a strange
void in space without any form of matter or energy, we
have apparently moved past its outer boundary and
entered it. After a brief disruption, our ship's
communications have returned to normal." |
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Pulaski:
"Increase by one thousand, Mr. Data. (beat) By ten
thousand! (beat) It does know how to do these things,
doesn't it?"
Picard: "Commander Data knows precisely what he
is doing."
Dr. Pulaski: "Forgive me, Mr. Data. I'm not
accustomed to working with non-living devices
that...forgive me, again. Your service record says that
you are alive. I must accept that." |
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 Data:
"This void has a total lack of dimension.
Therefore, by any accepted standard it does not exist,
yet, being within it, denies that conclusion."
Riker: "Might we have moved into another
dimension?"
Data: "Could a lack of dimension be another
dimension in itself?"
Dr. Pulaski: "That's an interesting question."
Picard: "Hmm, yeah, for a later discussion." |
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 Worf:
"Captain, sensors indicate a disturbance in sector
1-0-8. Possibly a vessel."
Picard: "Perhaps some answers, at last. On
screen."
Worf: "The ship is equipped with a cloaking
device!"
Riker: "Romulans!"
Worf: "It's closing!"
Riker: "Shields up, go to red alert."
Dr. Pulaski: "I'll be at my duty station."
Worf: "Main viewer locked onto coordinates."
Riker: "Arm the photon torpedoes, Mr. Worf."
Picard: "Hold for my orders."
Wesley: "There!"
Worf: "It's uncloaking!" (torpedo blast, ship
shakes) "Direct hit, sir! Our shields are weakening!"
Picard: "Warn them we'll return fire."
Worf: "Transmitting...they've armed another full
spread, sir."
Picard: "Fire torpedoes."
(torpedo blast, Romulan ship explodes)
Geordi: "Yeah!"
Picard: "Ohhh, that was too easy!" |
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 Riker:
"It's a Federation ship. NCC-1305-E. It's the
Yamato, our sister ship." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, supplemental. We remain like a fly in
amber; trapped in the void. We have encountered a vessel
which appears to be the U.S.S. Yamato. All its systems
are shown as functioning, yet it seems devoid of life.
Commander Riker is leading an away team, hopefully the
answer lies over there." |
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 Worf:
"I am acquainted with the Yamato, Commander.
Recommend the aft station of their bridge. When in
doubt, surprise them."
Riker: "Them? Who's them?"
Worf: "Whoever may be there."
Riker: "Our sensors indicate no life forms."
Worf: "Still, the tactic is sound."
Riker: "Agreed. Aft station, Lieutenant."
O'Brien: "Aye, sir." |
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 Riker:
"If we go through there, where will we be?"
Worf: "On the bridge."
Riker: "But, we are on the bridge!" |
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"One Riker, one bridge! Raaaahhhhhhh! Grrrraahhhhhhaa!!"
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 Picard:
"We still have no idea what you represent."
Nagilum: "Data..."
Data: "Nagilum..."
Nagilum: "You are of different construction than
the others. Interesting. Picard...Riker...Geordi...Haskell...what
are you? Your construction also differs."
Dr. Pulaski: "My construction?"
Data: "Perhaps referring to your gender, Doctor."
Dr. Pulaski: "Yes, well, there are minor
difference. I'm what we call a female."
Nagilum: "I understand; the masculine and the
feminine."
Picard: "It is the way in which we propagate our
species."
Nagilum: "Please, demonstrate how this is
accomplished."
Dr. Pulaski: "Not likely." |
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 Nagilum:
"You exist and then you cease to exist. Your minds call
it death..."
Haskell: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Nagilum: "How interesting..."
Dr. Pulaski: "He's gone!"
Picard: "We cannot allow you to do that! We will
fight you."
Nagilum: "To understand death, I must amass
information on every aspect of it. Every kind of dying.
The experiment shouldn't take more than a third of your
crew. Maybe half..." |
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 Picard:
"Captain's log, stardate: 42194.7. It is obvious that
whatever we have met sees no value in our kind of life
form. How do we fight something that both is, and is not
there?" |
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 Picard:
"Under the circumstances, I think there is only one
decision. I will not stand by while half my crew is
slaughtered."
Data: "Sir, I do not believe there is anything
you can do to prevent it."
Picard: "Yes, there is."
Dr. Pulaski: "What?"
Picard: "Destroy the Enterprise."
Dr. Pulaski: "Isn't that a little like curing the
disease by killing the patient?"
Riker: "It's better than standing around
helplessly."
Dr. Pulaski: "Why do I get the feeling that this
was not the time to join this ship?" |
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Voice: "Recognize Picard, Jean-Luc. Recognize Riker,
William T."
Picard: "Initiate auto-destruct sequence."
Computer Voice: Does Riker, William T. concur?
Riker: "I do. Initiate auto-destruct sequence."
Computer Voice: "Desired time interval?"
Picard: "Stand by. Interesting question; how long
to prepare to
die?"
Riker: "What would be least painful for our crew?
Move to it quickly or allow them time to prepare for it
thoroughly? Hell...twenty minutes, nice round figure."
Picard: "Initiate auto-destruct. Interval: twenty
minutes."
Computer Voice: "Twenty minutes to
auto-destruct...nineteen minutes, fifty seconds..." |
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 Fake
Data: "I have a question, sir. What is death?"
Picard: "Oh, is that all? Well, Data, you're
asking probably the most difficult of all questions.
Some see it as changing into an indestructible form,
forever unchanging. They believe the purpose of the
universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like
garden which will give delight and pleasure through all
eternity. On the other hand, there are those who hold to
the idea of our blinking into
nothingness. (snaps) With all of our experiences and
hopes and dreams merely a delusion."
Fake Data: "Which do you believe, sir?"
Picard: "Considering the marvellous complexity of
the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of
this against that, matter, energy, gravitation, time,
dimension...I believe that our existence must be more
than either of these philosophies; that what we are goes
beyond Euclidean and other practical measuring systems
and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what
we understand now as reality." |
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Computer
Voice: "Fifty seconds to auto-destruct...forty
seconds to auto-destruct..."
Riker: "Captain?"
Picard: "Could all be part of the
illusion...Commander Data, report."
Data: "All navigational systems confirm we are at
warp six, on course, sir."
Computer Voice:
(overlapping) "Thirty seconds to auto-destruct..."
Picard: "Counselor Troi?"
Troi: "Captain, it has gone. I no longer feel its
presence."
Computer Voice: "Twenty seconds to
auto-destruct...ten seconds to auto-destruct..."
Riker: "Captain?"
Picard: "Abort auto-destruct sequence!"
Computer Voice: "Riker, William T. do you
concur?"
Riker: "Yes! Absolutely! Indeed! I do concur,
wholeheartedly!"
Computer Voice: "Auto-destruct cancelled."
Picard: "A simple 'yes' would have sufficed,
Number One."
Riker: "I didn't want there to be any chance of
misunderstanding." |
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