感情チップがオーバーロード
感情チップにより、昔のジョークに笑いが止まらないデータ。しかし、それと同時に
恐怖という感情も持ちコントロールができません。
登場人物
| Jean-Luc Picard: | エンタープライズD艦長 |
| William T. Riker: | 副長（「副長」は英語でnumber oneだそうです） |
| Data: | アンドロイド（科学主任で第二副長） |
| Worf: | セキュリティー・チーフ |
| Geordi La Forge: | 技術チーフ（「機関部長」とも。恋多き青年です^^;） |
| Tolian Soran: | ドクター |
| Ge: | Well, there's no sign of any trilithium over here. |
| Da: | Ha, ha, ha ... I get it. Ha, ha, ha ... I get it. |
| Ge: | You get what? |
| Da: | When you said to Commander Riker, "the clown can stay, but a Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go." Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ... |
| Ge: | What are you talking about? |
| Da: | During the Farpoint mission. We were on the bridge. You told a joke. That was the punch line. |
| Ge: | The Farpoint? Data, that was 7 years ago. |
| Da: | I know. I just got it. Aha, ha, ha ... Very funny. Ha, ha, ha ... |
| Ge: | Wait a minute. There's a door hidden right behind you. I can see the separation with my visor. |
| Da: | There appears to be a dampening field in operation. I cannot scan beyond the bulkhead. |
| Ge: | There doesn't seem to be a control panel or an access port. |
| Da: | It appears to be maginetically sealed. I believe I can reverse the polarity by attenuating my axial servo. Open sesame! You could say I have a magnetic personality. Ha, ha, ha ... Humor! I love it! |
| Ge: | Data, come take a look at this, will you? You've ever seen a solar probe of this kind of configuration? |
| Da: | No, Geordi, I have not. Have you? No, I have not. It is most unusual. Mr. Tricorder. Ha, ha, ha ... |
| Ge: | Just see if you can help me get these panels open, will you? |
| Da: | Make it so. |
| Ge: | Whoa. My visor's picking up something in the theta band. It could be a trilithium signature. Data, we don't have time for this. |
| Da: | I cannot help myself. Ha, ha, ha ... I think something is wrong. Ha, ha, ha ... Ah! Ha, ha, ha ... |
| Ge: | Data? Data, Data, are you all right? |
| Da: | I believe the emotion chip has overloaded my positronic relay. |
| Ge: | We'd better get you back to the ship. La Forge to Enterprise. La Forge to Enterprise. |
| So: | Gentlemen, is there a problem? |
| Ge: | Doctor Soran, yeah, there seems to be some sort of dampening field in here. It's blocking our com signal. Can you shut it off for us? |
| So: | Of course. I'd be only too happy to. |
| Ge: | Oh! |
| Da: | Please, please, no, do not, do not hurt me. Please, please. |
| Pi: | Yes, come. Yes, Counselor Troi(?). Is there something I can do for you? |
| Tr: | Actually I'm here to say if there's anything I can do for you. |
| Pi: | Oh, it's just family matters. You never met my brother and his wife, did you? |
| Tr: | No. |
| Pi: | Robert, so opinionated, so pompous and arrogant. He always had to have the last word. But he, he mellowed a little bit in the last few years. I was gonna get together with them all next month on Earth. I thought we'd go to San Fransisco. Rene's always wanted to see Starfleet Academy. |
| Tr: | Rene? Oh, your nephew. |
| Pi: | Yeah, he's so unlike his father. He's a dreamer, imaginatively. He's so ... very gentle. |
| Tr: | What's happened? |
| Pi: | Robert and Rene--they ... burned to death in a fire. |
| Tr: | I'm sorry. |
| Pi: | It's all right. It's all right. These things happen. |
| Ti: | Captain, it's not all right. |
| Pi: | I can't help thinking about ... about all the experiences that Rene is not gonna have, not going to the Academy, reading books, and listening to music, falling in love, building a life. Well, it's not going to happen now. |
| Tr: | I didn't realize he meant so much to you. |
| Pi: | I had come to feel that Rene was so closest I would get to having a child of my own. |
| Tr: | Your family history is very important to you, isn't it? |
| Pi: | What? Oh, from being a small child, I can remember being told about the family line, the Picard who fought at Trafalgar, the Picard who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Picards who settled the first Martian colonies. And when Robert married and he had a son, I ... |
| Tr: | You felt that it was no longer your responsibility to carry on the family line. |
| Pi: | Right. Yes. That's it, exactly. You know, Counselor, recently I've become very much aware that there were fewer days ahead than they were behind. But I took some comfort from the fact that the ... our family would go on. But now there would be no more Picards. |