| Ch: |
Chakotay to Janeway.
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| Ja: |
Go ahead.
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| Ch: |
Captain. We haven't found any definite signs of Harry. But we've
encountered several holodeck characters who claimed to know what
happened to him.
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| Tu: |
Mr. Kim was running a holonovel based on a poem of Beowulf. According
to the holocharacters, he attempted to battle a creature of some kind and
was killed in the process.
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| Ja: |
Killed?
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| Tu: |
Since the safety programs are malfunctioning, we must consider the
possibility.
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| Ja: |
But, you haven't found the body?
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| Ch: |
No. If we shut down the program, we'd know he is here or not.
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| Ja: |
Run a diagnostics on the holodeck imaging control systems. If they
are not working, try to repair them. And relay your tricorder scans
to the bridge. I'd like to analyze your readings.
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| Ch: |
Aye, Captain. Chakotay out.
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| Tu: |
Primary imaging matrix should be here behind this wooden panel. I
would attempt to locate the auxiliary matrix. This ancient earth
culture seems to fascinate with monsters.
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| Ch: |
Every culture has its demons. They embodied the darkest emotions of
its people, giving them a physical form in heroic literatures of the
wave of exploring those feelings. The Voke Shur(?) of Recover(?)
Prime(?) believe that they hate that beast which lives inside
the stomach. The greatest mythical hero is a man who ate stones
for 23 days and killed the beast and became a saint.
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| Tu: |
Such fable's necessary only in culture which unduly emphasize the
emotional behavior. I would point out there are no demons in Vulcan
literature.
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| Ch: |
That might conquer(?) the popularity.
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| Ja: |
Bridge to Chakotay.
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| Ch: |
Chakotay here. Commander, we've analyzed your tricorder data. A deep
level scan shows minute quantities of a photonic energy.
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| Ch: |
How could be in the holodeck?
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| B: |
We think it happened when we beamed aboard the samples from the
protostar. There was a breach in annual(?) confinement beam. And
a photonic energy must've leaked into the transporter system.
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| Ja: |
And from there into other ship systems as well. We've already found
some in replicators.
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| Tu: |
That raises uncomfortable possibility, Captain. If the holodeck
conversion nodes were contaminated, Ensign Kim may have invertly
undergone the process of matter conversion.
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| Ch: |
You're saying he might've been converted into energy?
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| Ja: |
We have to consider the possibility. After all, the holodecks are
basically an outgrowth of transporter technology. Changing energy
into matter and back again. Every time a program has run...
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| B: |
Except that's not supposed to convert people.
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| Ch: |
Hold on, Captain. Something's coming.
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| Tu: |
It is an object of approximately 1 meter in diameter.
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| Ch: |
I think Grendel may be paying us a visit.
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| Tu: |
Captain, a holocharacter told us Kim was killed by Grendel. An
examination on this part of program might be advisable.
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| Ch: |
Proceed.
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| B: |
Captain, I'm picking up signs of matter-energy conversion.
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| Ja: |
Emergency transport. Get them out of there now.
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| B: |
I can't get them locked.
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| Ja: |
Commander Chakotay, report. Mr. Tuvok.
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| B: |
Captain, I've lost their life signs. They're gone.
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