| Ch: |
Mr. Tuvok is on the surface now, Captain. He says the remaining away
teams should be on board within 15 minutes.
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| Ja: |
Are all the food supplies secured?
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| Ch: |
Aye, Captain. As soon as the last of the crew gets back, we'll be
ready to leave.
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| Ja: |
Bridge to engineering.
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| B: |
Torres, here.
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| Ja: |
We'll be leaving orbit within minutes. Ready all propulsion systems.
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| B: |
We're ready now, Captain.
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| Se: |
Where's Tuvok?
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| B: |
He will be here. We certainly won't leave without him.
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| Se: |
Oh, what's keeping him?
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| B: |
Calm down. You're going to draw attention to yourself.
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| Tu: |
Do not attempt to activate the device until I 've spoken to the
Captain Janeway.
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| B: |
What are you doing? He said not to activate it.
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| Se: |
I'm not. I'm just going to try the interface simulation. We don't
even know if it will interface. We can give ourselves a head start by
testing it now.
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| B: |
All right. But just a simulation.
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| Se: |
It's working.
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| Ca: |
I was right. And it operates within a neutrino envelope.
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| Se: |
The trajector field's bigger than anything we've created by 10 orders
of magnitude.
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| Ca: |
To get a field that size, you need an amplifier as big as a planet.
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| Se: |
I don't understand. How do they get that kind of amplification?
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| B: |
I'll show you. Sikaris has a mantle of tetrahedral quarz
20 kilometers of thick. The crystalline structure of the mantle
serves to focus and amplify the trajector field.
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| Ca: |
If that's how the power transfer occurs, then once we leave orbit,
we lose the ability to traject.
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| B: |
We don't have time to test it. We'll have to try it now, or forget it.
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| Se: |
Do it.
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| B: |
If there's any compatibility problems...
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| Se: |
Then we can abort. This is our only chance.
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| Ja: |
Bridge to engineering.
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| B: |
Torres, here.
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| Ja: |
We're ready to leave orbit. Thrusters on-line.
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| B: |
Aye, Captain.
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| Se: |
We have to do something.
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| Ja: |
Mr. Paris, take us out of orbit. 4,000 kph.
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| Pa: |
Aye, Captain. There is no response. Thrusters are off-line.
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| Ja: |
Janeway to engineering. What's going on, Lieutenant?
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| B: |
We've got a phase variance in plasma conduit 3. I'll have to check it
out before we can engage thrusters.
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| Ja: |
When did this problem show up?
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| B: |
Just now, Captain. It's only a slight variance. I'll have it fixed
in a minute.
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| Ja: |
Keep me advised.
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| B: |
All right. The matrix is activating.
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| Se: |
The trajector field's forming.
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| Ca: |
And it's amplifing. Look how fast it's expanding.
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| B: |
That's the effect of the quartz mantle.
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| Se: |
We're nearly at full field strength. This is going to work.
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| Ca: |
What is it?
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| B: |
The plasma manifold's becoming unstable.
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| Se: |
I can compensate for that.
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| Ca: |
The manifold is being bambarded by anti-neutrinos from the
trajector field.
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| Se: |
Anti-neutrinos?
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| B: |
They must be the catalyst for the space-folding process.
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| Se: |
It's not working. I can't compensate for the instability.
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| Ca: |
There's no way to compensate for a field that size.
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| Ki: |
Captain, I'm showing an unstable plasma manifold. We're headed
for a breach.
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| Ja: |
Bridge to Torres. What's happening? We're reading a warp core breach
up here.
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| B: |
We're on it, Captain. No time to talk. Shut down the matrix.
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| Se: |
I can't. It's not responding.
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| Ca: |
It's fused.
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| Se: |
Plasma temperatue at 43 million kelvin.
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| B: |
Carey, get everybody out.
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| Ca: |
All right. People, let's go right now. Move it out. Move up. Come on.
Let's go right now. Let's go. Come on. Move it out. Fast. Right now. Keep
moving.
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