Riker: "Damage report!" Beverly: "Casualty reports coming in from all over the ship..." Data: "The starboard nacelle has sustained a direct impact. We are venting drive plasma." Geordi: "Initiating emergency core shutdown." Ro: "Inertial dampers failing... we're losing attitude control..." Riker: "This is the bridge. All hands to emergency escape pods."
	Riker: "Sometimes I wonder if he's stacking the deck." Data: "I assure you, Commander, the cards have been sufficiently randomized." Worf: "I hope so."
	Picard: "Even with all these uncertainties, we've got to try. Take whatever steps are necessary to send a message. Dismissed." Geordi: "It's possible we've tried this a thousand times and it's never worked." Beverly: "Do you have the feeling you've done it before?" Geordi: "No, I don't." Beverly: "Neither do I. Maybe that's a good sign."
	Picard: "All hands abandon ship. Repeat, all hands abandon --"
	Picard: "Captain Bateson... do you know what year it is?" Bateson: "Of course I do -- it's twenty-two seventy-eight." Picard: "Captain... perhaps you should beam aboard our ship. There's something we need to discuss."

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