| Ja: |
We can assume the Voyager will be looking for a way to reach us. I'll
set my combadge to emit the subspace beacon. If they get close, maybe
they'll pick it up.
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| Pa: |
Hu!
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| Ja: |
I know.
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| Pa: |
Maybe there're some ways...
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| Ja: |
Don't even think about it, Tom. The Prime Directive is clear. We cannot
allow our presence to alter this planet's natural course of events.
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| Pa: |
Even if the natural course of events is annihilation?
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| Ja: |
Yeah.
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| Pa: |
My father used to talk at length to us about the Prime Directive
once a year like a holiday sermon.
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| Ja: |
He considered it a guiding principle of space exploration.
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| To: |
To be honest, I tuned out most of his sermons years ago.
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| Ja: |
Now tune back into the back this one. Because I agree with them. You
have no idea what the consequence might be once you're involved
yourself...
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| Pa: |
The consequence will have to be better than the mass destruction.
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| Ja: |
You're not to warn these people. That's an order.
Oh, God, com'on.
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| Ch: |
I know you're lying.
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| Ja: |
Young man, we're here on a business trip and we have a lot of work to do.
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| Ch: |
The officer told me you came here on a continental transport.
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| Ja: |
That's right. We're from Kalto province.
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| Ch: |
Yeah, oh I've just talked to the transport attendant. He told me four
people came today from Kalto. Two of them were older than you and
they had a child with them.
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| Ja: |
Well, the attendant was wrong. That was us.
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| Ch: |
So? Where's the child?
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| Pa: |
We ate him. Because we're demons and we eat children. And I haven't
had my supper yet.
Sorry. I just figured it out as the quickest way.
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| Ja: |
Let's concentrate and I'm getting out of here.
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