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Captain's Log, Stardate 46041.1.

We have located the USS Yosemite

a Starfleet science vessel
sent to the Igo Sector

to observe
a remote plasma streamer.

The ship has not been
heard from in several days.

Magnify.

The last report we have

says they were observing
the streamer at medium range.

Maybe they went in
for a closer look...

got more
than they bargained for.

Hail them.

No response.

Life signs?

Our scanners cannot penetrate

the plasma streamer's
distortion field.

Can we tractor them out?

No, sir. Ionic interference
is too heavy.

I'll take a shuttle in.

Too risky.

You could be pulled in, too.

Bridge to Engineering.

Mr. La Forge,
can we beam an away team

onto the science ship?

We can beam them over
there, Captain

but with all this interference

we might not get a positive lock
to bring them back.

Commander, if we bridged our
transporter system with theirs

we might be able to cut through
the ionic field.

That's a good idea, Barclay.

Captain, I think we can do it.

We're going to bridge
the two transporter systems.

Acknowledged.

Meet Commander Riker
in Transporter Room Three.

Aye, sir.

Barclay, I'm going to need

a systems engineer
on this away team.

I'II...

I'll ask Ensign Dern
to join you.

I meant you, Barclay.

Shouldn't I stay here
and set up the remote link?

Dern can do that.
Come on, let's go.

Status, Mr. O'Brien?

I'll have to send you over
one at a time, Commander

because of bandwidth
limitations

and the transport cycle
will take a bit longer.

How much longer?

Four or five seconds...
about twice the normal time.

I'm afraid you're in
for a bumpy ride, Commander.

What do you...?

What, exactly, do you mean
by "a bumpy ride"?

Well, there may be
a small amount

of static charge accumulation.

You'll feel a bit of tingling.

It's nothing to worry about.

Let's do it.

Mr. Worf.

Engaging system interlock.

Pattern buffers synchronized.

Phase transition coils
at standby.

Energizing.

He's there.

I'll go next.

Engaging interlock.

Buffers synched.

Energizing.

I'm ready.

Engaging interlock.

Buffers in sync.

Oh, wait a minute.

I'm reading an ionic fluctuation
in the matter stream.

Oh. No problem.

Okay.

Energizing.

Reg, you're up.

Reg?

Aye, sir.

Engaging interlock.

Buffers in sync.

Phase coils...

I'm sorry.

I just can't do this.

Space, the final frontier.

These are the voyages
of the Starship Enterprise.

Its continuing mission...

to explore strange new worlds

to seek out new life
and new civilizations

to boldly go
where no one has gone before.

Reg, you were faced
with a difficult transport.

Anyone would have been
apprehensive

in that situation.

You tell that
to Commander La Forge

and the rest of the away team.

I'm sure they understand.

As soon as you feel up to it

you can probably
still join them.

No!

Reg, is there something
you're not telling me?

Actually...

it's, this is not the...

this is not the first time
I've been apprehensive.

Every single time
that I tried to do it

I had this certain feeling

and I guess...
you could call it...

mortal terror.

Why have you kept it a secret?

Why?!

Because my career in Starfleet
would be over, that's why.

I doubt that.

I've always managed
to avoid it somehow.

You wouldn't believe
how many hours

that I've logged
in shuttlecraft.

I mean, the idea
of being deconstructed

molecule by molecule...
it's more than I can stand.

Even when I was a child,
I always had a dreadful fear

that if ever
I was dematerialized

that I would...
never come back again whole.

I know it sounds crazy, but...

It's not crazy at all.

You are being taken apart
molecule by molecule.

Reg, you're not the first person

to have anxiety
about transporting.

We can desensitize you
to this type of fear.

It's a slow and gradual process,
but it works.

It does? How?

Well, you might first try
a relaxation technique

like plexing.

Plexing?

Yes, it's a Betazoid method.

The next time you feel nervous
about transporting

you stimulate a neural
pressure point, like this.

There's a nerve cluster
just behind the carotid artery.

It stimulates
the part of the brain

that releases
natural endorphins.

Plexing...

sounds easy enough.

Here.

There.

Hmm.

You know, I... I...

I feel better already.

I think I can do this.

There's no need to rush.

No, no, no. We talked
about confronting my fears.

"The best way out is through."

You said that once, remember?

I suppose I did.

I'm going to beam over there.

I can do it.

There's no sign
of any survivors.

No sign of anyone.

Maybe they abandoned ship.

Unlikely.

The escape pods
are still on board.

There was an explosion here.

That much we do know.

Any idea what caused it?

I ruled out
a reactor core failure

and there's no sign
of a systems overload.

Blast analysis indicates
the explosion originated here

in the center
of the transport chamber.

How is that possible?

The transporter
is still functional.

Could they have beamed aboard
an explosive device?

Commander Riker?

Could you come here, please?

Excuse me.

Lieutenant Joshua Kelly.

He was the ship's Engineer.

How did he die?

He has second-
and third-degree burns

over most of his body

but I don't think they were
the cause of his death.

I'd like to take him back
to do an autopsy.

You're sure about this, sir?

Sure. Please proceed.

It'll only take a minute.

Oh, it should be
a smooth ride over.

Good. Good.

I know how you feel
about this, sir.

You're... you're afraid
of transporting, too?

No. Arachnids.

Sickening, crawly little things,
don't you think?

All those legs...

Spiders...
they've never bothered me.

A few years back,
I was called in

to reroute an emitter array
at a starbase at Zayra IV.

Turns out
the entire system was infested

with Talarian hook spiders.

You ever seen
a Talarian hook spider?

Their legs
are half a meter long.

Well, I had a choice.

Do I walk away and let the
emitter blow itself to hell

or do I crawl in the Jefferies
tube with 20 hook spiders?

Wh... what happened?

It was the hardest thing
I ever did

but I got through it.

After that, I was never
quite so afraid of spiders.

Thanks.

Energizing.

Reg.

Welcome aboard.

You ready to work?

Yes, sir.

Good. Why don't you start

by downloading the ship's
science logs over there.

Aye, sir.

Still four members
of the crew unaccounted for.

Did you come up with anything?

Well, I don't know
how these fit in

but I found them all around
the transporter platform.

What are they?

They look like pieces
of a standard sample container.

We'll take these back
to the ship

and analyze them there.

Mr. Barclay?

Glad you could join us.

Me, too, sir.

The Ferengi are claiming
two of their freighters

were destroyed by a Cardassian
warship in your sector.

Is there any evidence
to support this?

Although I'm loath to believe
the Ferengi about anything

there was evidence
of Cardassian weapons.

If the Cardassians
also attacked the Yosemite

it could indicate a large-scale
movement in this sector.

I have an away team
on board the ship.

The initial report indicates
there was an explosion on board

but we're not sure
if it was from an attack.

How soon until you know?

A few hours.

If it looks like Cardassians,
I'll contact you immediately.

Very well.

Bridge to Captain Picard.

Go ahead, Mr. Data.

The away team is returning
to the Enterprise, sir.

Acknowledged.

Have Commander Riker
come to my ready room

as soon as he's on board.

Aye, sir.

La Forge
to Transporter Room Three.

I'm ready to go.

Stand by, Commander.

Barclay to Enterprise.

One to beam back.

Stand by, sir.

See, sir?

That wasn't so bad, was it?

Mission logs, science logs,
medical logs...

they're all scrambled.

Looks like the blast wiped out
the ship's core memory.

We could try to reconstitute
the data stream.

It's worth a try.

Commander, has anything strange

ever happened to you
during transport?

Like what?

I don't know.

Anything out of the ordinary.

No, not really.

This looks hopeless.

We're not going to get
anything out of these logs.

You know, maybe...

this broken sample container
I found can tell us something.

Let's try to get this thing
back into one piece.

I mean... have...

ha-have you ever seen anything?

Where?

In the... during transport.

Sometimes my VISOR
picks up resonance patterns

from matter-energy conversion.

It's actually kind of pretty.

Why?

I'm just wondering.

Reg, what are you getting at?

Did you see something
during transport?

When I was returning
to the Enterprise

I could have sworn
I saw something

in the matter stream.

Something?

There was phased matter
all around

and, at first, I thought

it was some kind
of, uh, energy discharge

but then, it flew toward me
and touched my arm.

How could something be in there?

Molecules flying apart
half-phased, I mean...

it's impossible, isn't it?

Well, we'd better check it out.

When we're done here

we'll run a full diagnostic
on the transporter

all right?

All right.

The confinement beam subsystems
check out

so do the phase
transition coils.

The pattern buffer is fine.

Emitter pads,
targeting scanners...

they're all working fine.

This system's clean
and so is the science vessel's.

Reg, there's a lot of energy
floating around in the beam.

Maybe you saw a surge
in the matter stream.

Yeah.

I'll run a scan
on the Heisenberg compensators.

Oh, no, Chief,
you've done enough already.

It's no problem.

Why don't you give me a hand?

You know, maybe ignorance
really is bliss.

Sir?

Well, if I didn't know
so much about these things

maybe they wouldn't
scare me so much.

I can still remember the day

in Dr. Olafson's
Transporter Theory class

when he was talking
about the body

being converted into billions
of kiloquads of data...

zipping through subspace

and I realized
there's no margin for error.

One atom out of place and...
poof!

You never come back.

It's amazing people aren't lost
all the time.

With all due respect, sir

I've been doing this
for 22 years

and I haven't lost anybody yet.

Yes, but...

you realize
if the imaging scanners are off

even one-thousandth
of a percent...

That's why each pad
has four redundant scanners.

If any one scanner fails,
the other three take over.

Reg, how many
transporter accidents

have there been
in the last ten years?

Two? Three?

There are millions of people

who transport safely every day
without a problem.

I've heard of problems.

What about
transporter psychosis?

Transporter psychosis?!

There hasn't been a case of that
in over 50 years...

not since they perfected
the multiplex pattern buffers.

Reg, transporting really is
the safest way to travel.

I'd like to take a closer look
at those burns.

Take a tissue sample, please.

Yes, Doctor.

Damage to the epidermis only.

Initiate a circulatory probe.

Dr. Crusher!

His heart's beating.

Cardio-stimulator.

Now.

It's gone.

Neuro-electrical activity
in the cerebral cortex.

Nothing.

Now his respiratory
system's active.

What the hell is going on?

Here you are, Lieutenant.

Water... ten degrees Celsius.

Computer, access
Starfleet medical database

and tell me about, um...

Describe the disorder
"transporter psychosis."

Transporter psychosis
was diagnosed in the year 2209

by researchers on Delinia II...

No, no, stop.

All I need is...

What causes it?

It is caused by a breakdown

of neurochemical molecules
during transport

affecting the body's motor
functions, autonomic systems

and the brain's
higher reasoning centers.

What are the symptoms?

Victims suffer
from paranoid delusions

multi-infarct dementia,
hallucinations...

Hallucinations?

What...
what kind of hallucinations?

Victims experience somatic,
tactile

and visual hallucinations

accompanied
by psychogenic hysteria.

Peripheral symptoms
include sleeplessness

accelerated heart rate

diminished eyesight
leading to acute myopia

painful spasms
in the extremities

and in most cases, dehydration.

Computer, what is the treatment
for transporter psychosis?

There is no known treatment.

The autopsy showed
residual ionization

in every one of
Lieutenant Kelly's systems.

I think that's what caused

the muscular and systemic
contractions.

From where
did the ionization come?

There's evidence
of electrical burns

on the victim's body

as if he was exposed
to ionized gas

or high-energy plasma.

Plasma?

There's no way they could
have been exposed...

unless it was matter
from the streamer.

Is there evidence
of a hull breach?

Could the plasma
from the streamer

have found its way
onto the ship?

No.

Data, what's the report

on that broken
sample container?

The analysis of the fragments
is not yet complete.

Captain, if there's evidence

of similar ionization
in those fragments

it could mean that they tried

to beam aboard material
from the streamer.

If the plasma exploded,
that would explain a few things.

Let me know when the analysis
is complete.

Aye, sir.

From the look of these
fracture patterns

I'd say that the explosive force
came from within the container.

The container does show evidence
of residual ionization.

I believe your hypothesis
was correct.

It was used to store
high-energy plasma.

So they were collecting samples
from the plasma streamer.

But they had
the proper container.

How could it have exploded?

Perhaps we should attempt
to re-create their experiment

to see what happens to matter
when it is beamed aboard

under similar conditions.

It's a good idea.

We'll prepare a new container.

Reg, I don't want
to take any chances here.

Start setting up a level-5
containment field

here in Engineering, okay?

Aye, sir.

Are you all right, Lieutenant?

I'm fine.

Yes, thank you.

Geordi?

Hmm?

Lieutenant Barclay appears
inordinately preoccupied

with his physiological
condition.

I have seen him
check his pulse rate

as well as his visual acuity

several times over
the last 20 minutes.

Thanks, Data.

Reg?

Yes, sir?

You okay?

I'm just fine, sir.

You look a little pale.

I do?

Look, Reg,
it's been a long couple of days.

Why don't you get some rest?

We've got everything
under control here.

I think I'll do that, sir.

Thank you.

La Forge to Counselor Troi.

Go ahead, Commander.

Counselor, do you have a minute?

Lieutenant Barclay,
I've been calling you.

Why haven't you responded?

Reg, what are you doing?

I'm walking.

I can see that.
Where are you going?

Nowhere.

I just don't get to see
these decks very often.

Look, there's
Stellar Cartography.

I thought that was deck 11.

Mr. Barclay...

I was having trouble sleeping

and I'm trying
to wear myself out.

It is a perfectly normal thing
to be doing, isn't it?

Commander La Forge
said you seemed

a little nervous this morning.

I'm always nervous.
Everybody knows that.

He also mentioned
that you said

you saw something
in the transporter beam.

Well, I was wrong.

They checked the transporter
and there wasn't...

I mean, there was nothing there.

I imagined the whole thing.

You don't sound
very convinced of that.

Listen, Counselor

I really appreciate
your concern in this matter

but I wish you wouldn't continue
with this conversation.

I'm really perfectly fine.

Mr. Barclay, you're exhausted
and highly agitated.

And I cannot allow
a member of this crew

to endanger himself or others.

I'm not endangering
anyone else

and I really wish you...

I think it would be
in your best interest

to take a leave of absence.

Reg, I'm temporarily
relieving you of duty.

Fine.

Fine.

Do what you have to do,
Counselor.

Computer, more birds.

End stress reduction program.

Water.

Specify temperature.

I don't care.

Just give me water.

Calm. Calm. Stay calm.

All right, computer,
let's try some music.

Something soothing.

Sir, begging your pardon

but couldn't this wait
till the morning?

No.

Chief, I've just...

I've been reviewing
the transport logs.

What are these... these energy
variations that keep appearing?

There was one
when I was transported

to the science ship, you see?

Yeah, they're just, uh...

Sorry. They're just
ionic fluctuations...

a result of our interlock

with the Yosemite's
transporter system.

So a fluctuation occurred

while I was inside
the matter stream.

It's nothing
to worry about, sir.

I need you to transport me

to the science ship and
then directly back again

and while I'm in the beam,
can you re-create

one of those ionic fluctuations?

I guess so

but if you don't mind
my asking, sir, what for?

Well, I...
Commander La Forge

wants some tricorder readings
on those fluctuations.

We can do that from right here.

No, I...
The transporter sensors

may not be sensitive enough.

Now, I'm giving you an order,
Mr. O'Brien.

Aye, sir.

If you don't mind my making
an observation, sir

you forgot to bring a tricorder.

Either there's something
in there

or I'm going crazy

and I've just got to know.

You can understand that,
can't you?

Yes, sir, I can.

Stand by, sir.

I want you to wake
the senior staff.

...and, and then I saw it
again just 20 minutes ago.

It was the same exact thing

just moving around
in the transporter beam.

Let me get this straight.

You think this thing was alive?

It... it... it was...

dark and distorted

and it had what looked
like a mouth.

A mouth.

I don't see anything
wrong with his arm.

Reg, why did you wait so long
to tell anybody about your arm?

Well...

I...

I thought I was hallucinating.

That I... had, um...

that it was
transporter psychosis

but I know what I saw
in there was real.

I was the only one
who experienced

ionic fluctuations
in the transport.

Maybe that's why
no one else saw it.

Mr. Barclay,
I've been told that you've

been under considerable strain
during the past few days.

Isn't it possible
that you simply imagined...?

I know what you're going
to say, Captain.

I know I've been acting
strange lately

but you've got to believe me

that I would never
have called you in here

unless I was absolutely certain.

Mr. La Forge, get Mr. O'Brien.

Take that transporter
system apart

piece by piece if you have to.

Mr. Worf

I want a level-3 security alert
until further notice.

Aye, sir.

I'll run a micro-cellular scan
of Mr. Barclay's arm.

It might take some time, but if
there's a problem, I'll find it.

Keep me apprised.

Dismissed.

I'm picking up minute levels
of residual ionization

from the subdermal tissue
of his left arm.

The patterns correspond exactly

to those we measured
in Lieutenant Kelly's body

and in the sample container
from the science ship.

There's no question...
you have been exposed

to the same high-energy
plasma they were.

So, something did happen to me
in the transporter beam.

You might have been exposed

to something
from the science ship.

You did say something
touched your left arm

during transport.

And that's exactly where
the ionization is focused.

Does this ionization pose
a threat to Mr. Barclay?

It might. I'll have to run
a base-pair correlation

to see if there's any sign
of DNA breakdown.

Sir, Commander La Forge and I

were planning to re-create
the circumstances

of the explosion
on the Yosemite.

And that might
give us some answers.

Permission to continue
with the experiment?

Granted. Tell Mr. O'Brien

to take all the primary
transporters off-line.

I don't want to risk
any further contaminations.

Make sure you take all the
necessary safety precautions.

Aye, sir.

I'd like you to wear
this monitoring device.

It will tell me
if there is the slightest sign

of increased ionization.

Yes, Doctor.

Structural reinforcement
is at 240%.

Activating containment field.

Well, that should do it.

Okay, Reg, we've locked on

to the coordinates
of the plasma streamer.

Go ahead and beam aboard
a sample, will you?

Aye, sir.

Okay.

What would they have done first?

Standard analysis begins
with a resonance frequency scan.

That sounds like
a good place to start.

Let's do that.

Initiating resonance sweep.

Frequency range at...

Barclay!

Check the containment field.

The field
is at its maximum limit

but it is holding!

My VISOR's picking up
biomagnetic energy.

Highly complex patterns.

You know, I think
these things are alive.

Reg?

Reg!

Reg...

Life-forms?

That is correct.

They appear to be
quasi-energy microbes

that exist within
the distortion field

of the plasma streamer.

We didn't detect them
until we tried to run

the resonance frequency scan.

Apparently, they didn't
like it very much.

They shattered
the sample container.

Which caused a plasma explosion

similar to the one
on the science ship.

Exactly.
When we linked up

with their transporter system,
one or more of the microbes

must have gotten
into our system.

We think they're still
caught in the buffer.

It might explain what you saw.

But what I saw
was much bigger than a microbe.

Normal spatial relationships
are often distorted

within the matter stream.

Your perceptions
may have been exaggerated.

Some of these microbes
are also in your body, Reg.

In... inside me?

They were in Lieutenant Kelly's
body as well.

That's what caused the
contractions during the autopsy.

The biofilters should have

screened them out,
but it didn't.

The microbes exist
simultaneously

as both matter and energy.

The biofilter
cannot distinguish them

from the matter stream.

Right, but... if we
held Barclay suspended

in mid-transport, at the point

where matter starts to lose
molecular cohesion...

The molecules would begin
to emit nucleonic particles.

We may be able
to derive a pattern

the computer would recognize.

And then reprogram
the biofilters

and screen the microbes out.

I think this will work, Reg.

Suspend me?

I don't like the sound
of this.

Well, we would have to keep
you in there for a while.

How long?

30, 40 seconds,
it's tough to tell

but I think it would be safe.

But if-if-if I'm
in the matter stream too long...

Your pattern would degrade
to the point

where your signal
would be permanently lost.

After 15 seconds or so
in the beam

you may start
to feel lightheaded.

Try to stay calm.

Oh, and it's important
not to move around too much.

Right.

Initializing
the backup pattern buffer.

Holding at standby.

You ready, Reg?

Energize.

Molecular resolution at 60%.

Engaging static mode.

His pattern is locked
and holding.

Starting biofilter scan.

Signal's holding.

The imaging scanners still
haven't isolated the microbes.

I'll try increasing
molecular dispersion.

His signal resolution
is down to 55%.

Don't worry,
I can hold him together.

Commander, his signal
resolution's down to 50%.

We need to bring him back.

I know, I know.
Just give me one more second.

We need more dispersion.

Increase phase-transition
frequency.

Aye, sir.

The imaging scanners
are actuating.

Got it.

Pattern acquisition positive.

Programming biofilter.

Don't worry, Reg,
this won't hurt a bit.

I'm reading
a 92% increase in mass.

There's something
in the beam with him.

Security
to Transporter Room Three.

Right away.

I'm setting up a force field
around the chamber.

Drop the force field.

There are more crew
members in the beam.

You have to grab them
and hold on.

Understood.

Follow me.

Reg, what happened?

Well, when I... when I saw that
there was more than one of them

I-I thought maybe
the other crew were trying

to do the same thing
that we were.

We were infected with something.

Lieutenant Kelly tried
to... reprogram the biofilter.

Well, it looks like he pushed
molecular dispersion

past the integrity point.

Your patterns got caught
in the beam.

The residual energy
from the plasma streamer

it must have amplified
the charge in the buffer

enough to keep
your patterns from degrading.

Captain's Log, Stardate 46043.6.

The reprogrammed biofilter

was effective in removing
the alien microbes

from Mr. Barclay
and the four crew members.

The microbes have been returned
to the plasma streamer.

Chief.

Lieutenant,
glad you could make it.

You know, I think this
is the first time

we've ever spoken
outside of the transporter room.

Well, to be honest,
I've always avoided you.

Why?

Because you run
the transporters

and I hate the transporters...

at least, I used to.

So, what's in the box?

I thought you might like
to meet Christina.

Christina, Lieutenant Barclay.

It's your pet spider.

Lycosa tarantula.

Don't worry, she won't bite.

She's...

very large.

I found her on Titus IV.

I almost stepped on her
by accident.

Oh, I'll get us
a couple of drinks, okay?

Keep an eye on her, will you?

Sure.

Uh, Chief?