| Da: |
I have traced it through sensor channels, sir. It is not a glitch or
any other form of error or mulfunction.
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| Ge: |
That's confirmed by my readings, Captain, it's a shadow something.
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| Da: |
Exactly. is it or another in or out of our dimension.
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| P: |
What is, Commander?
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| Da: |
Whatever is sitting out there without triggering our alarm relay, sir.
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| P: |
Center main viewer on that area.
I see nothing, Commander.
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| Da: |
Enterprise to object off our starboard bow. Request that you identify
yourself.
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| Ge: |
Shields and deflectos up full, sir. Main phaser banks(?) ready.
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| P: |
Hailing frequencies--Any reply?
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| Da: |
It was something unintelligible, sir. Now running through language and
logic circuits.
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| P: |
Geordi?
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| Ge: |
Sir?
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| P: |
Have a real look.
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| Ge: |
Aye, sir.
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| ?: |
Sir, my sensors read... Well, it's half there. And it does look as
if it were partly transparent.
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| P: |
Data, what the hell is it?
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| Ge: |
Lieutenant La Forge to Captain.
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| P: |
Go ahead, La Forge. What can you make out?
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| Ge: |
This is something I've never seen before, sir.
After completely spectral analysis, it's, oh, it's as if it's not
really there. I don't understand it.
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| Da: |
I've got some information on its first transmission, sir.
It translates as "Stand by."
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| ?: |
Sir, I see something coming out of that ship.
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| Da: |
Verified, sir. Something very small.
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| ?: |
Intruder alert, sir.
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| ?: |
I don't show a location.
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| Da: |
The away team signal's been cut off, Captain.
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| Da: |
We've lost contact with our people.
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| ?: |
Intruder relays do show something.
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| P: |
Why has everything become a "something" or "whatever"?
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| O: |
State the purpose! State the purpose of what you have done.
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| P: |
I'm Captain Picard, commanding this federation starship.
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| O: |
State the purpose of your visit here.
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| P: |
We have sent down what we call an away team to make peaceful contact here.
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| O: |
Do you plan to leave life-forms here?
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| P: |
No! We're merely visiting here.
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| O: |
But you did more at the world you just left. Why have you left your
own life-forms there?
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| Da: |
The colony we just planted, sir.
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| P: |
We found that world uninhabited. The life-forms we left there had,
had sought the challenge, at least that is the basic reason, had
sought the challenge of creating a new life style, a new society there.
Life on our world is driven to protect itself by seeding itself
as widely as possible.
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| O: |
Do not interfere with my children below!
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| Da: |
Captain. I do not understand how, but it is asking me if I was constructed
for information exchange.
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| P: |
If there is any way of finding out whatever it is out there, Data.
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