| Ge: |
Still no response from the Enterprise.
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| Wo: |
They would answer if they could. Someone else has control of the ship.
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| Da: |
Do you think I am responsible?
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| Ge: |
Responsible? How could you possibly've known?
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| Da: |
My station is on the Bridge.
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| Ge: |
You can't be on the Bridge every second, Data.
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| Da: |
You are wrong, Geordi. I can. I do not need rest or diversion.
I should not be painting. I was negligent.
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| Ta: |
That's a pointless discussion, Data. If you could've been on the
Bridge, it still might have happened. Commander Ken Tales, you have
three ship in here. We need one of them now.
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| Ke: |
We're rushing repairs of USS Melbourne. But it's still 18 hours until
she would be ready. There's nothing else you can do.
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| P: |
Cancel autodestruct.
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| Co: |
Does the First Officer agree?
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| R: |
Affirmative.
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| Co: |
Autodestruct cancelled.
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| R: |
We are over the Biners. How are they?
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| P: |
They appear dead. See if you get some answers from the Biners.
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| R: |
Their main computer's off. All sensors reveal that all their
equipment in their planet inert. They cannot send or receive any
messages.
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| P: |
What about all these people down there totally dependent on
their computer. They're still functioning?
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| R: |
They're probably like these Biners here. Dying. What is this all
about? Why did they steal our ship and bring it here? What is their
purpose?
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| P: |
They want to overload the trouble to clear computer space. Let's see
what they stored?
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| R: |
Captain, it's enormous. Every bite of free space in the computer
has been filled. They must be core dump from their world to our
computer. We can't get in. Where they left a note. Maybe they did.
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| P: |
Menuet.
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| R: |
Tell me what this is all about.
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| Me: |
A star in the Biner system went to supernova. And they miscalculated.
The electric magnetic pulse from the explosion was going to knock
out their main computer.
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| P: |
So their only choice was to transfer all stored information and
shut down until it?? past. And then reactivate their system and
transfer the information back to the main computer?
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| R: |
The Enterprise has the only mobile computer large enough to handle
over the information?
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| P: |
So what they can drown. Why are they dying?
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| Me: |
Star went to supernova before it was expected. And you were late
arriving at Starbase 74.
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| P: |
Why didn't they say something? Why didn't they just ask our help?
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| Me: |
I don't know. I don't have the answers.
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| P: |
Is there anything we can do?
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| Me: |
Yes. Return the data stored in the Enterprise's computer back to
the one on Biners.
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| R: |
How can we do that?
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| Me: |
You don't know?
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| R: |
Yes, if I had the file name. But we don't. Do you?
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| Me: |
I don't know what you are talking about.
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| P: |
They wouldn't intentionally hide it, make it difficult for us to find.
Must be right in front of our phases.
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| R: |
We wish to contact Starbase 74 to see if we can decipher this.
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| Me: |
They are dying. They mentioned no harm. It was their world they
were trying to save. Help them, Wil. Hurry. Please.
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