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 |  |  Data: "This is not an efficient method for the preparation of sustenance."
Riker: "Oh You're right, Data. The ship's computer would be more efficient, but it wouldn't allow for the subtlety needed for great cooking. It would give you all of the ingredients in predetermined measurements, it wouldn't allow for flair or individuality, and Data, as we both know... flair is what marks the difference between  artistry and mere competence."
Dr. Pulaski: "For much of the history of mankind, the breaking of bread was a symbol of friendship and community. Something we have gotten away from in the twenty-fourth century."
(Riker prepares the omelette)
Dr. Pulaski: (continuing) "Ahh! You have a practiced hand, Commander."
 Riker: "Yes I have my father to thank."
Dr. Pulaski: "Your father liked to cook?"
Riker: "No, he hated it. That's why he left the chore to me."
Worf: "It is my understanding that in most human families, the woman shares in the cooking."
Riker: "There were only the two of us. I never knew my mother. She died when I was very young." | | |  Worf: "Delicious!"
| | |  Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 42679.2. While en route to the Endicor system, we have encountered a Federation shuttlecraft which seems to have appeared out of nowhere. There are no indications of where it came from, or how it got out here." | | |  Riker: "Well, it's a Federation shuttlecraft all right."
Worf: "Yet, there are no Federation bases or vessels in this area."
Riker: "NCC one-seven-zero-one-D -- USS Enterprise, shuttlecraft five."
(Riker looks to the other shuttle sitting in the bay)
"NCC one-seven-zero-one-D -- USS Enterprise, shuttlecraft five."
Worf: "How is this possible?"
 Pulaski: "Commander! Come here!"
Riker: "Captain?"
Picard: (over comm) "Yes, Number One?"
Riker: "Captain, are you on the bridge?"
Picard: (over comm) "Where else would I be?"
Riker: "Well right now, I think you should be in Shuttle Bay Two."
Picard: "Why? What is it?"
Riker: (over comm) "This I think you should see for yourself." | | |  Data: "Adjust the inverter two percent positive."
Geordi: "Two percent positive... It's the right decision, but it's having the opposite effect."
Data: "Yes."
Geordi: "I don't understand. I can't think of anything that would cause the circuit to change so radically."
Data: "Adjust the inverter two percent negative."
 Geordi: "OK, two percent negative. That's it. It shouldn't work, but it does." (Geordi looks at the display) "Hey Data. Data, take a look at the stardate." (Data looks) "Four-two-six-seven-nine-point-five." (he touches his communicator) "Captain."
Picard: "Go ahead."
Geordi: (over comm) "Captain, we have been able to reactivate the shuttle; and the on-board clock indicates that the shuttle is six hours in front of us. Captain, did you read me? If the shuttle is from six hours into the future, then so is the other Captain Picard." | | |  Picard: "Captain's Log, supplemental. Part of the mystery has been solved. The reason there are two number five shuttlecrafts is because one of them is from the future. Six hours to be exact. And so, presumably, is the facsimile of me." | | | |  Picard: "Captain's Log, supplemental. I've been informed that Mr. Data has recovered the logs from the duplicate shuttlecraft. I am more than apprehensive to play back a log which will not be recorded for several hours." | | |  Data: "According to the shuttle log, the Enterprise was destroyed three hours nineteen minutes from now." | | |  Future Picard: "Captain's personal log, supplemental. I have just witnessed the total destruction of the USS Enterprise with the loss of all hands, save one - me." | | |  Geordi: "I just don't understand how you could have ended up in a shuttlecraft while the Enterprise was being destroyed."
Worf: "Nor I, the last thing you would do is leave the bridge of the Enterprise during an emergency."
Picard: "Yes. (pause) Alright. Let's proceed on the premise that what we have just seen happened, and in less than four hours from now, the Enterprise will be destroyed and somehow -- although this is unfathomable -- I, and I alone escaped." | | | |  Picard: "Captain's log, supplemental. We continue on course to Endicor. We are now less than two hours away from our rendezvous...with ourselves." | | |  Picard: (to future Picard) "What did you do? What happened? Why did you leave the ship?" (pause) "Don't turn away. Look at me. Picard! LOOK AT ME!"
Troi: "Captain, he doesn't understand you."
Picard: "He knows I'm here."
Troi: "Yes, but in a nightmare of disjointed images and half-heard voices. He is in another dimension -- looking at us across a great  chasm -- and he's feeling remorse at what he witnessed, and he's afraid."
Picard: "What is he afraid of?" (pause) "Damn you! Help me! Why did you leave the ship?"
Troi: "It's no use, Captain. He can't answer you."
Dr. Pulaski: "When we get closer to his time he may be able to."
Picard: "Are you still convinced he is me?"
Troi: "Yes, but you're not convinced."
Picard: "Not in the slightest. Except for his features there is nothing about him that I find familiar." | | |  Picard: "Now, the Traveler moved through time with the power of his mind."
Riker: "I don't think that's the case here."
Picard: "No, and Manheim's experiments with gravity and time were rudimentary, and uncontrollable."
Riker: "Captain, I think this is one instance where you must suppress your natural tendencies."
 Picard: "Oh really?"
Riker: "One of your strengths, is your ability to evaluate the dynamics of a situation, and then take a definitive, preemptive step. Take charge. Now you're frustrated because, you not only can't see the solution... you can't even define the problem."
Picard: "Hmm, go on."
Riker: "What we're facing is neither a person or place. at least not yet... it's time."
Picard: "You're saying I should just sit down, shut up and wait?"
Riker: "Well I wouldn't put it like that..."
Picard: "It's not something I do easily." | | |  Picard: "Captain's Log, supplemental. We have apparently intersected with something." | | |  Picard: "Counselor, if I were to leave the Enterprise, would its attention still be focused on me?"
Troi: "Yes. I think it would."
Riker: "You'd never survive."
Picard: "But, in those few seconds, the Enterprise might break free. That's what he... that's what the other Picard must have thought."
Riker: "Captain, where are you going?"
Picard: "You have the bridge, Number One."
Riker: "You're leaving the ship?!"
Picard: "We may be on a road that has no turns." | | |  Picard: "Release him."
Dr. Pulaski: "Do you know what you're doing?"
Picard: "No. Release him." | | | Picard: "You have made a decision to leave the ship?"
Picard 2: "I must."
Picard: "Why?"
Picard 2: "The energy of the vortex wants me."
Picard: "You're certain."
Picard 2: "Yes... it's an entity -- a life-form which recognizes the Enterprise as an entity with me as it's brain, and it wants me." (entering the turbolift) "Shuttle Bay Two."
Picard: "What's your other option?"
Picard 2: "This is our only chance. If I leave, it may be distracted long enough for the Enterprise to escape."
Picard: "You're wrong. If you leave, the Enterprise will be destroyed. Don't you remember? You saw it happen."
Picard 2: "If I don't leave the ship, then the Enterprise, will be destroyed."
Picard: "If that's true, then help me. We want the same thing. We both want the Enterprise to be safe. But there is a piece of information which I don't have. What is it?"
Picard 2: "It's me."
Picard: "You?"
Riker: (over comm) "Captain."
Picard: "Yes."
Riker: "We are about to lose warp drive."
Picard & Picard 2: "Understood."
Picard: "When you say it wants "you," do you mean it's still you? Only you, and it's not me."
Picard 2: "You're confusing me. We're almost out of time. I must get to the shuttle."
Picard: "Wait. You can -- I'll let you, but first tell me. What is -- what was, your other choice?"
Picard 2: "Stand aside."
Picard: "You must tell me, what was it? You don't know what I'm talking about. You're locked into a single intent, unable to change, unable to alter any of your previous actions."
Picard 2: "I have to leave -- there's no other way."
Picard: "There must be."
Picard 2: "One -- but it would never work."
Picard: "What is it? What would never work?"
Picard 2: "I have to leave."
Picard: "What was the other choice? We can't fight, we can't escape, we can't go forward."
Picard 2: "No -- no... We can't go forward, that would destroy the Enterprise."
Picard: "Was that it... Was that the other choice?"
Picard 2: "I must leave."
Picard: "No." (drawing phaser) "Captain Picard! I can't allow you to leave. Before we can go forward, the cycle must end." (fires phaser) | 
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| | |  O'Brien: (over comm) "Captain Picard, this is shuttlebay two. The other Picard and the shuttle are gone."
Picard: (over comm) "Explain?"
O'Brien: "They just... vanished." | | |  Picard: "A lot of questions, Number One. Damn few answers."
Riker: "Maybe none of it was real... perhaps we were all part of a shared illusion."
Picard: "Or maybe 'he' was thrown back in time so that we would be able to take another road... make a different choice? Well, they say if you travel far enough you will eventually meet yourself. Having experience that Number One, it's not something I would care to repeat." | |
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