All language subtitles for StarTrek.TNG-s06e13.Aquiel

Captain's Log, Stardate 46461.3.

We have arrived at
a communication relay station

near the Klingon border

where we are scheduled
to deliver supplies.

However, the station has not
responded to repeated hails.

What's that noise?

They must have left their
audio monitoring system on.

We're hearing a few thousand
subspace messages.

I'll try and shut it off.

Got it.

Geordi, what's that?

I don't know.

It sounds like a loose panel
or something.

I think it's coming from
this service duct over here.

Here's your loose panel.

Hey, pooch.

Hey, pooch,
come on out of there.

Come on.

Come on.

Hey, pooch, what are
you doing in there?

Commander,
the shuttlecraft is gone.

There is no one on board.

Commander.

What is it?

Cellular residue.

I believe these are the remains
of one of our Lieutenants.

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.

All the blood traces I found

match those
of Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari.

I'll assume those
are her remains

but I need to take the deckplate

back to Sick Bay
just to be sure.

It would take a powerful
weapon to do that.

I'll have a better idea

once I've analyzed
the deckplate.

If that is Uhnari,
where's Rocha?

The station's shuttle's gone.

Maybe he took it.

Before Uhnari died or after?

We're ready, Commander.

You have any luck
downloading the station logs?

Not yet. I can't get past
these security lockouts

and I think I know why.

All encrypted subspace messages
are sent through this channel.

Take a look at this
signal notation.

It's out of sequence.

Looks like somebody tried to
bypass the access protocols

and break
into the coded messages.

It caused the security lockouts
to freeze right up.

Are there any messages missing?

Well, I won't know
until I get into the files.

Looks like you made a friend.

Yep.

I'm going to go
back to the ship.

Let me know as soon
as you have something.

I'm going to try
accessing the logs

from another console.

What's going on here?

Well, we can start with
repolarizing the interface.

What is it, pup?

What's the matter?

Something over here?

This doesn't look
like it belongs to you.

Ah...

this is what you want, huh?

There you go.

Computer, run station logs
in sequence.

Station Log, Stardate 46458.3.

Today we configured
the relay controller grid.

It was the last primary system
we had to overhaul.

We are scheduled to recalibrate
and align the antennae systems

in the next three days.

Computer, access visual output.

...sent in my third request
for a message delay buffer.

Until it arrives,
Lieutenant Rocha and I

have rigged a memory module
to compensate.

It better work, or about
a half million subspace messages

are going to end up drifting
through space.

Computer,
open Uhnari correspondence file.

Computer

access correspondence files,
Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari.

Hello, Shiana.

Sorry I haven't talked
to you in a while

but I've been dealing
with the new Lieutenant, Rocha.

So far he's been rude, arrogant
and condescending

and he's only been here
two days.

This might be a long year.

Come on, Lieutenant,
stick with me.

I had the dream again.

Mother's calling out my name.

She's somewhere in the house.

I get to the top
of the hill all right

but then the house is slanted.

I'm still walking uphill.

I can't find her.

Doors everywhere,
and they all look the same.

The cellular residue
is completely fused

to the metal of the deckplate.

We're trying
to micro-vaporize the metal

in order to get
a clear DNA sample.

Do you have any idea
what killed her?

Well, this is just a guess

but from the molecular
deposition of the plating

I'd say it was caused
by a high-level phaser blast.

Could it have been
a Klingon disrupter?

Possibly.

Geordi's found evidence
that the encrypted messages

have been tampered with

and we are close
to Klingon space.

There hasn't been a Klingon raid

against the Federation
for more than seven years.

I don't want to risk
a diplomatic incident

until I have more evidence.

And there's still the question

of what happened
to Lieutenant Rocha.

Get Rocha's personnel file
from Starfleet Command

and ask Starbase 212

if they will help us
to find the shuttle.

Aye, sir.

Keep me apprised, Doctor.

All right, let's try this again.

Come on, this should be working.

The phase inducers are aligned.

Come on, Lieutenant,
I know you're in here somewhere.

Computer, run me
a subsystems diagnostic

with a frequency range
of ten to 100 megahertz.

Diagnostic cycle
will be complete in 20 seconds.

Iced coffee.

What is it, girl?

Hello, Shiana.

There you go.

By the time you get this,
the Batarael will be over.

This is the first time
I haven't been there.

I've been wondering.

Who's singing the Horath
in my place?

Jomiael hahnalia ma marou
nitalia

Rumael tavariel fatra di va

Jomiael...

I had that dream again...

the one where mother
is screaming.

I climb the hill to our house

but I, I can't get to her.

Shiana, this time I ran away.

I was so scared
I ran back down the hill.

I, I think I know why I've been
having the dreams about danger.

It's because of what's been
happening with that Klingon.

He's getting more aggressive
all the time.

Not just the usual threat...

It's because of what's been
happening with that Klingon.

He's getting more aggressive
all the time.

Not just the usual threat.

Morag actually locked
his disruptors

to the station this time.

I don't think
there'll be any trouble.

It just... brings up
those feelings of... panic

of wanting to run,
wanting to get away from danger.

Shiana, I couldn't say this
to anyone but you

but the panic...

is the same thing I used to feel
whenever Father got angry

when I knew
he was going to punish me.

Only now,
I'm out here in space...

and there's nowhere to run.

There are three references
to a Commander Morag

a Klingon officer who patrols
this section of the border.

Apparently, he would pass
by the station

every few days and harass them.

Perhaps this Morag was
the one who was interested

in obtaining
the encrypted messages.

Could be.
She didn't say.

But I do have several
more days of logs to watch.

I'm hoping to learn more.

Very well.

In the meantime, I'll speak
with the Klingon governor

about Commander Morag.

Are you saying
we attacked your outpost?

I'm merely saying
that I'm following up

on evidence that my officers
discovered on board.

Evidence.

So you are making an accusation.

The Klingon Empire will not
stand for these kinds of lies.

Governor Torak, I apologize.

I can see that you
honestly didn't know

what happened
aboard the station.

I will just have to take
this matter up with Gowron.

I'm really sorry
that we bothered you.

Gowron won't bother
with such a minor incident.

Well, ordinarily he wouldn't

but, of course,
I was his Arbiter of Succession.

I'm sure that he will be happy

to come here and investigate
this matter.

You needn't worry about it
any longer.

Gowron will come here?

Oh, yes.

So, once again,
thank you for your help.

Oh, I will be sure
to mention your name

to Gowron when I speak to him.

I will investigate
this further, Picard.

You need not bother Gowron

with this matter.

That's very kind.

Qapla'!

Qapla'!

Computer,
access the personal logs

of Aquiel Uhnari.

Logs accessed.

Begin playback.

Shiana, you always said
I'd look great in a wig

so... here it is.

What do you think?

Hmm?

Definitely not you.

Okay, maybe I'm getting
a little crazy.

You would, too

if you were stuck
on a relay station

in the middle of nowhere

with no one for company

except an egomaniac
like Keith Rocha.

I took a big risk today.

I countermanded an order
he gave.

I agreed to handle
the com traffic

for Relay Station 194

while they shut down
for maintenance.

Rocha said we couldn't handle
the additional signal load

but I think he's wrong.

When he finds out,
he'll be furious.

It's days like this
I wish I was home.

You know what I miss most?

Muskan seed punch.

Real Muskan seed punch.

You can get it
from the replicator

but it's not the same.

I'd give anything

for some of the punch
Mother used to make

with chunks of the seed
still in it.

Keith, is that you?

Keith?

Commander.

There are DNA traces
here... Klingon.

So Klingons did board
this station.

Yes, but I only found DNA
from one Klingon so far.

I will continue to scan.

How could she read this stuff?

How's it going?

I've managed to access all
of Lieutenant Uhnari's logs.

I'm still looking
for Lieutenant Rocha's.

Whatever happened
to the encrypted messages

had a cascade effect
on the whole storage system.

I can't find his files
anywhere

but I'm running
a level-3 diagnostic now.

Well, maybe Rocha didn't make
the official logs.

Uhnari could have been
responsible for them.

I don't think so.

Aquiel was
the junior officer here.

Aquiel?

Lieutenant Uhnari.

I've been up all night
watching her personal logs.

I guess I'm starting to feel
like I know her.

What was she like?

Well, she was Haliian.

She had one sister named Shiana.

She drank Muskan seed punch.

She... had
a quirky sense of humor.

She liked to sing.

She... had questionable taste
in literature.

Enterprise to Commander Riker.

Riker here.

The Klingon ship Qu'Vat
has arrived with Governor Torak.

Please report
to the observation lounge.

We're on our way.

Governor Torak, sir.

Governor, welcome aboard.

Do not bore me
with your human pleasantries.

I told you
we did not kill the woman.

Now I will prove it to you.

GhoS!

This is
Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari.

We were running
a level-2 diagnostic

of the message buffer...
nothing special.

Rocha had been on edge
all morning

but he'd been irritable
ever since he got there

so I didn't think anything
of it.

We were halfway
through the procedure

when suddenly he...
attacked me.

He grabbed me,
threw me against a bulkhead.

I yelled at him to stop,
but he wouldn't listen.

He took me by the throat.

I broke free and tried to get
to the weapons locker.

I'm not sure what happened next

but somehow, I got
aboard the shuttle and left.

We found her
on our side of the border

heading toward Sector 2520.

She is lucky my patrol ship

did not destroy her vessel
on sight.

Lieutenant...

why didn't you contact
Starfleet?

Let them know what had happened
on board the station?

I don't know, sir.

Maybe I passed out.

I'm not even sure how long
I was on the shuttle

before the Klingons
picked me up.

46 hours.
You've been gone 46 hours.

We presumed you were dead.

Your bloodstains
were found at the murder scene.

I must have cut my head

when he pushed me
against the bulkhead.

Then the remains we found

must be
those of Lieutenant Rocha.

I can't confirm that.

Until we're able to separate

the cellular residue
from the deckplate

I won't be able to do
a clear DNA scan.

You said you were trying
to get to the weapons locker.

Is there a possibility
that you did?

No, I... didn't.

You're sure?

I don't remember
exactly what happened to me

after I was attacked.

I'm sorry.

It's as if all my memories
were drained out of me.

Your log said
that a Commander Morag

had been harassing you.

Did you let him
or any other Klingon

onto the station?

Absolutely not.

If that is true, then Morag
or some other Klingon

must have boarded the
station after she left.

We found traces of Klingon DNA
on the station.

You still try to blame us!

Have the courage
to admit your mistakes.

Or are you a lo'Be Vos?

At least I do not wear
the uniform of the P'tak!

Governor, we're merely exploring
all the possibilities.

Lieutenant Uhnari's logs
reported that Commander Morag

had been harassing the station.

He was doing his job.

If he was only doing his job

then I'm sure you would not mind
if we spoke with him.

Very well.

In the interests of diplomacy

I will allow you
to speak to Morag

but my patience has limits!

Lieutenant, I know
a friend of yours

who's very eager to see you.

Who?

Come with me.

Maura! Come here, girl!

Come on, Maura!

Maura! That's the name, huh?

Yes, it's from
Cold Moon Over Blackwater.

Have you read it?

I'm not much for gothic fiction.

Well, not many people are,
nowadays.

Oh, your shoe.

Uh, yeah. Maura got
a little restless.

Maura, shame on you.

That's not like you.
What a naughty dog.

It's all right.

Don't worry about it.

At least she's chewing them up
in pairs.

I'll arrange quarters for you.

I'm sure you want
some time alone.

Well, actually, I've been stuck
on that station

for over nine months.

I wouldn't mind going someplace
with some activity.

I know just the place.

There you are, sir.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Ah!

Mmm! Oh.

Have you ever tried
Muskan seed punch?

Uh... it nearly made me sick.

You have to be raised on it.

It's very nutritious.

The taste grows on you.

Batar al nalia.

You speak Haliian?

We traveled around quite a bit
while I was growing up.

I picked up a couple
of languages along the way.

Hmm. We never traveled.

My family lived
in the same house

for five generations.

Mm-hmm.
The one on the hill.

How do you know about that?

Well, to be honest,
when we thought you were dead

I needed to review your logs
and personal correspondence

for any possible clues
about what happened.

All of it?

Most of it, yeah.

You... you need to understand

that we thought
you'd been murdered.

We needed information.

I'm sorry.

It's just that I tell my sister

things I wouldn't
tell anyone else.

I guess I was feeling
a little... exposed.

I'd feel the same way.

Especially if I had
seen you in that wig.

It really wasn't you.

I'm curious.

Now that you've met me

am I what you expected?

Hmm...

Actually, I'm... I'm not sure.

The woman I saw on those logs
is very complicated.

I think there's more to you
than meets the eye, Lieutenant.

In what way?

Well, your relationship with
Lieutenant Rocha, for example.

He was only there for five days

and yet there was evidence
of plenty of friction.

And you seemed to delight

in doing things that...
you knew would upset him.

Why take on extra com traffic

when you knew
it was going to make him angry?

Is this a personal question

or part
of a murder investigation?

I don't know.

Maybe both.

Keith Rocha was obnoxious

from the minute
he reported to duty.

He treated me as though
I was beneath contempt.

I felt like I had to battle him
to hold my own

but I didn't want
to see him dead.

Why do you think
he attacked you?

I don't know.

Rocha's file is spotless.

Two decorations for valor

three outstanding evaluations
from his previous commanders.

It doesn't sound
like the same man

that Lieutenant Uhnari
described.

What did you find
out about Uhnari?

I checked into her record, too.

Her last posting
was on Deriben V.

I spoke
to her commanding officer.

He said she was argumentative,
quick to take offense.

He also told me

he transferred her
to that relay station

because she was
"hampering their efforts."

To be honest, I'm having trouble
believing her story, sir.

Why?

I sent Worf to check
the weapons locker

on the relay station.

There's a phaser missing.

You think that she lied?

Lied, conveniently forgot...
I'm not sure.

I think it's something
we have to consider.

As of now we don't have

sufficient evidence,
one way or the other.

I want you
to examine her shuttle.

You might find something there
that will shed some light

on her story.

Aye, sir.

How much longer do you think
the investigation will take?

Three, maybe four days.

It's tough to tell.

I know I'm a suspect
in the murder.

Let me ask you something.

You've watched my logs.

You know me better
than anyone here.

Do I seem
like the kind of person

who would murder someone?

No, you don't.

I don't think I realized
how much I needed to hear that.

Look, Aquiel, it's been
a rough couple of days.

I think you need some sleep.

You called me complicated.

You're right.

I don't make friends easily.

Oumriel.

Oumriel.

Commander.

It is set to kill.

We found this type-2 phaser
in your shuttlecraft.

It was taken from the weapons
locker on the station.

I told you I don't remember
what happened.

Maybe I did make it
to the weapons locker.

It was set to level ten.

Standard procedure
requires that all phasers

are set on level one when
they're put in storage.

That means that somebody

deliberately changed
the setting.

And then there's the matter

of your conflict
with Lieutenant Rocha.

Rocha and I
had our disagreements

but that does not mean
I would kill him.

Have you been able to remember

anything that happened
after he attacked you?

No.

Nothing.

I suppose, maybe

in self-defense, I...

Dr. Crusher tells me
that in order to inflict

the type of molecular damage
found in Rocha's remains

it would take a sustained
phaser discharge

of at least 30 to 40 seconds.

That doesn't sound
like self-defense to me.

Now, wait a minute.

We haven't even established

this phaser is
the murder weapon yet.

And even at level ten,
I don't see

how it could have
done the damage

the medical evidence
says it did.

A phase disrupter like
a Klingon weapon, maybe...

Look, we're not here
to make accusations.

We're trying to find out
what happened.

Commander Morag is due here
in two hours.

Let's see what he has to say.

Fine. In the meantime

I'd like to go back
down to the station

and see if I can access
Rocha's personal logs again.

Good idea.

Geordi, wait a second.

Thank you, Mr. Worf.

Aye, sir.

This is off the record.

I'm saying this to you
as a friend...

not your superior officer.

I think it would be best

if you weren't
so personally involved

with Aquiel right now.

There's a lot about her
we don't know.

And there's a lot
about her that I do know

and if she's innocent

I want to help her prove it.

I think you've let

your personal feelings
cloud your judgment.

I'm not the one
making judgments.

Got it.

Computer, display the personal
records of Lieutenant Rocha

from Stardates 46455 to 46460.

Computer, what happened
to the log entries

for Stardate 46459?

The logs have been deleted.

Who deleted them?

Unknown.

Captain's Log, supplemental.

The Qu'Vat has arrived
with Commander Morag.

We are preparing
to question him

regarding his involvement

in the murder
of Lieutenant Rocha.

I killed no one!

We found your DNA on the
bulkheads and the console.

We know you were there.

Answer their questions.

Yes...
yes, I was there.

My patrol route takes me
near the station every six days.

Three days ago, I hailed them.

There was no response.

I was... concerned.

Concerned.

Yes.

I went aboard
to see what had happened.

There was no one there,
so I left.

Is that all?

That's all.

Commander Morag

we have discovered that
the encrypted message bank

on the station
has been tampered with.

Our analysis indicates that 27
priority Starfleet messages

are missing.

What of it?

Your DNA was also found

on the message control module.

This is outrageous!

We will not tolerate
these ridiculous accusations.

This is a diplomatic matter

Morag!

Do not make me search your ship.

Yes... I did take the messages.

Did you kill Lieutenant Rocha?

No, I killed no one.

There was no one there.

I took the codes,
but I killed no one.

Governor, we would like
Commander Morag

to remain on board
the Enterprise

until this investigation
is completed.

Take him.

This way.

Last night, after I dropped you
off at your quarters

you established a subspace
link with this console.

You deleted some of Rocha's
personal files, didn't you?

Yes.

I did.

Why?

I found a letter

Rocha was planning to send
to Starfleet Command about me.

The letter said I had become
belligerent and insubordinate.

He was going to ask
for a formal hearing.

Geordi, I know how this looks.

Yeah, it looks bad.

I find out
that you've erased a letter

that contained a possible
motivation for murder...

I didn't kill him!

Then explain this.

I was afraid
that if they found the letter

they'd blame me for the murder.

I'm not a model officer.

I realize that.

Sometimes I act on impulse

instead
of thinking things through.

Aquiel... this really
complicates things.

What are you doing?

Getting out of here.

Aquiel, running away

isn't going
to prove your innocence.

Facing the situation will.

I'm scared, Geordi.

Look, we'll get through this.

I promise you, okay?

Then you believe me?

Yes, I do.

Medical Officer's Log,
supplemental.

I've isolated the cellular
residue from the deckplate

but the DNA has destabilized.

I'm attempting to reform it.

All right, initiate
the resonance frequency burst.

I'm beginning to get
a stable DNA scan.

This is odd.

The nucleotide sequences
are beginning to fluctuate.

The DNA is becoming motile.

Let's try another frequency
burst, but increase

the resonance level by 20%.

I haven't been
this close to someone

in a long time.

I don't want to let go of it.

Neither do I, but...

we've got 600 logs
to go through.

All right.

But first there's something
I want to share with you.

What?

A way that we can
become more intimate.

My people
are partially telepathic.

We use something
called the Canar

to help focus our thoughts.

We also use the Canar

for a stronger emotional link
during love.

I was wondering
what that was for.

Do both of us
have to be telepathic

for it to work?

Let's find out.

Like this.

Think of me.

It's an exact reproduction
of my hand

right down to the DNA structure.

Doctor, you said
that this was formed

from the organic matter
taken from the deckplates.

When I infused the matter

with a resonance
frequency burst

it activated its DNA.

Then it touched my hand

and it began to mimic
my cellular structure.

Doctor, what exactly is this?

This is going to sound
very far-fetched

but have you ever heard
of a coalescent organism?

No.

They're rare
microscopic life-forms

which need to absorb
other organisms

in order to survive.

Now, that in itself
isn't so unusual

but coalescents
become the organisms

they've absorbed...

right down
to the cellular level.

Do you think this is
what happened with your hand?

There have been reports

that these organisms can exist
on a larger scale.

Certainly
what happened to my hand

seems to support that theory.

So you think that Rocha

was killed
by one of these organisms?

It's possible that
something happened to him

before he reported for duty
on the relay station.

I do not understand.

I've checked the records.

Before he was posted
to the relay station

Rocha served on an outpost
in the Triona system.

Now, that is a remote sector.

Maybe he was absorbed

by a coalescent
during that mission.

So, what boarded the station

could have been an organism
that looked

and acted like Lieutenant Rocha.

How often do they
have to change bodies?

The microscopic organisms

have a cycle of no more
than five to ten seconds.

We can only assume

that a larger,
more complex coalescent

would have a cycle of days...

even weeks.

Doctor, if what you're saying
is true

then Rocha
attacked Lieutenant Uhnari

to find a new body.

Right.

That means Uhnari
is a coalescent.

There was one other person
on the station...

Morag.

It is possible
he was the one who was...

absorbed.

Computer, locate Commander Morag
and Lieutenant Uhnari.

Commander Morag
is in his quarters.

Lieutenant Uhnari
is not aboard the Enterprise.

Where did she go?

Lieutenant Uhnari transported
to Relay Station 47

at 1830 hours.

You get Morag.

I'm going to the station.

Aye, sir.

Geordi?

I can see you.

Oh...

And I can... feel you.

Do not move.

What is this?

You will come with me.

You've never been
as close to someone

as you are about to be.

Think of me.

Step away from him, Lieutenant.

What are you doing, Commander?

That may not be
Lieutenant Uhnari.

What?

What are you saying?

Step away... now.

Medical Officer's Log,
supplemental.

Commander Morag
and Lieutenant Uhnari

are being kept
under close observation.

So far, no sign of coalescent
behavior has surfaced.

Aquiel and Morag
will be transferred

to a secure medical facility
on Starbase 12.

Maybe we'll know more
by the time we get there.

Yeah. Right.

It could be Morag.

We don't know for sure.

Sure.

Get some rest.

You've had a rough
couple of days.

Thanks.

Computer...

display the engineering duty
roster for the next three days.

Maura, come on.

Not now.

Maura, I said not now.

Come on, give me a break here!

Not...!

Go lay down!

Maura?

Maybe the reason
you don't remember

anything that happened
after Rocha attacked you

is that the coalescing
process had begun.

Thank you.

Remember when you said
you felt like the memories

had been drained
right out of you?

Well, that's probably
exactly what was going on.

Then maybe I did take
the phaser.

Well, whatever happened,
at least you got away

before the process took hold.

So, he turned on Maura.

Right.

Well...

what now?

I guess I'll be going
to Starbase 212

for reassignment.

You know, I had a conversation

with Chief Pendleton
in Communications

and there's an opening
for a level-2 specialist.

Really?

Oh, I'm sure the waiting list
is so long

I'd be gray before I got here.

I could put in a good word.

It's an appealing offer

but I think I'd rather
get here on my own merits.

Don't be surprised
if you see my name on that list.