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Data: "Commander, away team reporting in. Lieutenant Worf standing by."
Riker: "This is Riker. Go ahead, Lieutenant."
Worf: "The archaeologists have identified the markings in these caverns. This planet was apparently once home to a race known as the Koinonians."
Picard: "What do we know about them, Data?"
Data: "The Koinonians were an intelligent culture which became embroiled in a war that lasted for several generations. Our best evidence indicates they destroyed themselves."
Worf: "We have completed our survey of the third tunnel and will proceed into the ceremonial chamber."
Riker: "Affirmative. Enterprise out."
Picard: "Destroyed themselves, Data?"
Data: "According to historical records, this will be the first opportunity for a Federation team..."
Troi: "Captain! Beam them up quickly!"
Worf: "Captain! Emergency beam up! Enterprise, emergency! Severe injury!
Picard: "Transporter Room!"
O'Brien: "I've got them, Captain."
Picard: "Beam them straight to sickbay. Dr. Crusher, incoming wounded!"
Picard: "Captain's log, stardate: 43198.7. The Enterprise remains in standard orbit while we investigate the tragedy which has struck the away team. Lieutenant Marla Aster, ship's archaeologist, has been killed in what should have been a routine mission. Whatever the explanation, it will not bring back a valued and trusted officer."
Wesley: "How do you get used to it? Telling them?"
Riker: "You hope you never do."
 
Picard: "Jeremy, I have some bad news. There has been an accident. Your mother has died."
Jeremy: "How, sir?"
Picard: "An explosive device at the mission site. She died instantly."
Jeremy: "I understand."
Troi: "Jeremy, I know your mother loved you very much."
Picard: "I'm told that your father is also dead."
Jeremy: "Yes, sir. He died five years ago from a Rushton infection. I'm all alone now, sir."
Picard: "Jeremy, on the starship Enterprise, no one is alone. No one."
Data: "Excuse me, sir. Am I intruding?"
Riker: "No, sit down."
Data: "How well did you know Lieutenant Aster?"
Riker: "We spent some time together...not very well. How well did you know her?"
Data: "Why do you ask?"
Riker: "Well, you just asked me."
Data: "But why do you ask the question? Since her death, I have been asked several times to define how well I knew Lieutenant Aster, and I heard you ask Wesley on the bridge how well he knew Jeremy. Does the question of familiarity have some bearing on death?"
Riker: "Do you remember how we all felt when Tasha died?"
Data: "I do not sense the same feelings of absence that I associate with Lieutenant Yar, although I cannot say precisely why."
Riker: "Just human nature, Data."
Data: "Human nature, sir?"
Riker: "We feel a loss more intensely when it's a friend."
Data: "But should not the feelings run just as deep regardless of who has died?"
Riker: "Maybe they should, Data. Maybe if we felt the loss as keenly as we felt the death of one close to us, human history would be a lot less bloody."
Worf: "I have made my report to the Captain."
Troi: "I'm more interested in how you feel about what happened. I sense great anger."
Worf: "I cannot seek revenge against an enemy who's turned to dust centuries ago. Her death was senseless! The last victim of a forgotten war!"
Troi: "Go on."
Worf: "There's nothing more to be said!"
Troi: "A person died under your command. It may happen again. If you can't learn to release the anger and the guilt, to talk about it..."
Worf: "A leader must stand alone, as Captain Picard does."
Troi: "Captain Picard talks to me."
Worf: "Then may I seek your counsel about my plan to make the R'uustai with the boy."
Troi: "The Bonding."
Worf: "It is my right."
Troi: "It's very generous, Worf, but he's not a Klingon child. He has different sensibilities."
Worf: "He is an orphan, I am an orphan. He will understand."
Troi: "Right now, there isn't much he can understand. He's holding all his feelings inside. Children often feel they must be true to the memory of a lost parent. If you offer affection to them too soon they can feel guilty returning that affection, as if they're betraying the love of the parent."
Worf: "I only wish to honour his mother."
Troi: "I know, and I understand this means a great deal to you, but, you must be prepared. He's very angry too, but his anger is deep inside him. When he touches it, it will strike out in many directions, including yours. Be with him, talk to him, but, don't rush this. When he's ready, we'll know."
Wesley: "Hi."
Dr. Crusher: "Hi. Troi stopped by a little while ago. She was wondering if you might be willing to talk to Jeremy Aster at some point."
Wesley: "Me? What for?"
Dr. Crusher: "About your Dad."
Wesley: "What am I going to tell him?"
Dr. Crusher: "It would help him to talk with someone who's been through this. We had each other, Wes. He doesn't have anyone to lean on right now, and he might be more comfortable talking to someone who's not much older than he is."
Wesley: "Okay, I'll think about it."
Dr. Crusher: "Okay."
Wesley: "Do you ever think about him, Mom?"
Dr. Crusher: "Your father? Sure I do."
Wesley: "Sometimes I can't even remember what his face looks like. It scares me."
Dr. Crusher: "It happens to all of us, Wes. Sometimes I can't get his face out of my mind."
Wesley: "Today, today it's like I can see it all as clearly as if it were yesterday. I can remember the way Dad looked when he hugged me goodbye, Captain Picard's eyes when he came to tell us..."
Jeremy: "Lieutenant Worf! Did they tell you? It was a mistake.
She didn't die. She's alive."
Worf: "Jeremy, come here."
Marla Koinonian: "Lieutenant Worf. It's all right. I'm here for the boy."
Worf: (keys combadge) "Lieutenant Worf to Captain Picard."
Picard: "Go ahead."
Worf: "Lieutenant Aster is in her quarters."
Riker: "Repeat, Worf?"
Worf: "Lieutenant Aster is here. In her quarters with the boy."
Picard: "Do not provoke her or interfere in any way until I arrive. Picard out."

 

Picard: "Hello, Jeremy. How are you? Are you frightened?"
Jeremy: "No. Well, a little, sir."
Picard: "Of course. These are frightening things that are happening, but, we won't let anyone harm you. Counselor, why don't you take the boy to my quarters?"
Marla Koinonian: "No!"
Geordi: "Let's just hope it doesn't blow us to Kingdom Come while it's figuring out how to blow us to Kingdom Come."
Picard: "Do you honestly believe he would be happy in this total fiction which you wish to create? What reason would he have to live? What you're offering him is a memory, something to cherish, not to live in. It is part of our life cycle that we accept the death of those we love. Jeremy must come to terms with his grief. He must not cover it or hide away from it. You see, we are mortal. Our time in this universe is finite. That is one of the truths that all human must learn."
Picard: "Jeremy, Wesley's father died on a Starfleet mission when he was younger than you are."
Troi: "Wes, your mother told me you were finding it difficult to talk to Jeremy. Why is that?"
Wesley: "I don't know. I just didn't want to think about it any more. All this has reminded me so much of that day".
Picard: "The day I told you your father had been killed. As I recall, Wesley, you took it very well."
Wesley: "My parents taught me about the dangers of Starfleet missions. I knew what could happen."
Picard: "So you were prepared?"
Wesley: "No, I wasn't prepared at all. How could anyone be prepared to hear that a parent is never coming home again? I tried to be what everybody expected of me; brave and mature."
Picard: "Wesley, are you saying that you didn't want anybody to see what you were really feeling? What were you really feeling?"
Wesley: "Like somebody had kicked me in the head."
Picard: "Somebody?"
Troi: "Go on. You've wanted to tell him for a long time."
Wesley: "I was angry at you."
Picard: "Why angry? Why were you angry at me, Wesley? Were you angry at me because I was the one who told you your father was dead?"
Wesley: "No."
Picard: "Then why?"
Wesley: "Because you led the mission. You came home and my father didn't."
Troi: "How long were you angry with the Captain, Wes?"
Wesley: "For a long time, but, not any more, sir. Not even a little."
Troi: "So, Jeremy, you must be very angry at Lieutenant Worf. He was in charge of your mother's mission, just as Captain Picard was in command when Wesley's father was killed. Isn't that right? Worf came back. Your mother didn't."
(Tears begin streaming down Jeremy's face)
Jeremy: "Why? Why weren't you the one who died?! Why did it have to be her?"
Troi: "He can't answer that. None of us can."
Picard: "Lieutenant Worf also lost his parents."
Worf: "They were killed in battle when I was six. When I was alone, humans helped me. Let me help you. The Marla Aster I knew and honoured is not in this room. Nor does she await you on the planet. Now she lives only here...(indicates his heart) ...and here. (indicates Jeremy's heart) Join me in the R'uustai; the Bonding. You will become part of my family now and for all time. We will be brothers."
Worf: "SoS jIH bat'lh SoH."
Jeremy: "What does that mean?"
Worf: "It honours the memory of our mothers. We have bonded and our families are stronger."
Jeremy: "SoS jIH bat'lh SoH."