Original subtitles

HeImsman's Log, Stardate 50252.3.

WhiIe Voyager takes on suppIies,

Lieutenant Torres and I are investigating

some intermittent sensor readings

we picked up this morning.

We've been out here aImost five hours

and we haven't seen any sign of those energy signatures.

Isn't it time to admit they were nothing more

than gaIactic background noise?

I want to keep Iooking a whiIe Ionger.

Just to be sure.

Aah!

What's wrong?

Cramp.

KIingon bodies weren't meant to sit in a cockpit

for five hours at a stretch.

You have a big dinner date or something?

What's that supposed to mean?

WeII, you've been angIing to get back to Voyager

for about two hours now.

Just thought maybe there was a reason.

Like Ensign Bristow.

What?

WeII, I've noticed he's been making any excuse

to hang around Engineering.

Around you.

Freddy Bristow... is a chiId.

Oh, reaIIy?

WeII, he Iooks Iike a grownup to me.

TaII, good-Iooking...

and I hear he pIays a mean set of parrises squares.

I pIayed one game with him and I whipped him.

Look, he has a crush on me.

I can handIe it.

Why are you so interested?

Oh, I'm just curious...

how someone with KIingon bIood

seems to Iive the Iife of a Tabran monk.

Lieutenant, that is none of your business.

WeII, if you ever have a free evening,

I have a hoIodeck program you might enjoy--

saiIing on Lake Como.

I'd rather take my chances with Freddy Bristow.

Those energy signatures are back.

We must have crossed into a tachyon fieId.

What's that?

A ship has Iocked onto our huII.

Why didn't we detect it?

The tachyon fieId must have disrupted our sensors.

I'm Lieutenant Tom Paris of...

O soave fanciulla

O dolce viso

Di mite circonfuso alba lunar

ln terra, vivo ravviso

ll sogno ch'io vorrei sempre sognar

Fremon gia nell'anima

Le dolcezze estreme

Tu sol commandi, amore

Computer, pause pIayback.

Excuse me, but your entrance was earIy.

You're rushing the tempo.

I am not rushing.

You are Iagging behind Iike a tired donkey.

I assure you, I have studied

the finest recordings of this opera--

Caruso and GaIIi-Curci; Pavarotti and Freni;

SoraI and T'Penna of VuIcan.

My tempo is accurate.

GaIIi-Curci... Freni... T'Penna... they are aII fallite

They are mere dust baIIs.

Sono niente!

They are nothing.

Giuseppina PentangeIi-- the greatest soprano lirico

of the 22nd century transcends them aII.

And conductors take their tempi from me.

Capisci?

In this instance, they take it from me.

I've programmed the orchestraI pIayback.

Who aIIows you to make this choice?

You are an amateur.

You have no sense of rubato,

no rallentando it's Iike singing with a computer.

Madam, I may be an amateur,

but I'm aIso known as a quick study.

And as I am in charge of this program,

you wiII do it my way.

ShaII we try it again?

Computer, start pIayback.

O soave fanciulla

O

Stop pIayback.

What now?

Non ? possibile

I couIdn't remember the words.

In aII of my career, I have never forgotten the Iyrics.

This is the difference

between amateur and professionali

Just a momentary Iapse. No need to overreact.

Piu cretino non esiste

This is infuriating!

I want another partner!

Lo voglio subito

I'm the one who needs another partner.

You've got me so upset I can't sing.

Computer, deIete...

Janeway to the Doctor.

We have a medicaI emergency.

Report to Sick Bay.

Right away, Captain.

Addio, madam.

Next time I'II take my chances with Maria CaIIas.

Computer, deIete the diva.

lmbecille! Pensa veramente

Their nervous systems suffered trauma

from some type of neuroeIectric weapon.

It must have been extremeIy painfuI.

It certainIy was.

Do you know why they attacked you?

No idea. They seemed to be trying to communicate with us,

but we couIdn't understand them.

Then they just Iifted their weapons.

The injuries are treatabIe. It shouIdn't take Iong.

Tuvok, send a message on aII subspace bands.

I want to find out why my peopIe were attacked.

Aye, Captain.

I'II ask NeeIix if he knows anything about these peopIe.

Doctor, keep me posted.

It wouId heIp if you didn't fidget so much.

I'm reaIIy feeIing better.

Can't I get out of here?

When you're ready to Ieave, I wiII teII you.

Doctor,

Tom doesn't seem to be responding to the treatment.

I'II Iook at him.

Where's my retinaI imager?

I haven't seen it.

Did you move it from the instrument tray?

I haven't been near the instrument tray.

I've just had the most unpIeasant encounter

with a madwoman on the hoIodeck.

She must have upset me more than I reaIized.

Lieutenant, you're perfectIy aII right.

What are you stiII doing here?

Thank you.

I think he must have suffered some very deep tissue damage.

The regenerator isn't heIping.

Doctor?

Hmm?

I've made numerous haiIs on wide-band subspace.

The onIy response has been a singIe repeating message.

What's that?

I'd guess it's a Ianguage so unIike ours

that the universaI transIator can't interpret it.

Harry, remoduIate the transIator.

See if we can decipher those sounds.

NeeIix, what can you teII us?

If these peopIe are who I think they are,

I can teII you this is very bad news.

I've never actuaIIy encountered them...

but from what I've heard, I'm gIad I didn't.

Most ships that enter their space

are never heard from again.

Some have returned with everyone on board dead.

They're a compIete mystery.

No one knows their name, how many of them there are,

what their cuIture is Iike.

Just that they reaIIy don't want peopIe

vioIating their territory.

If this is any indication of their borders,

it's a huge area of space-- hundreds of sectors.

If we were to go around it, it wouId take months.

I'd say over 15 months,

even if we couId sustain maximum warp, which we can't.

I'm not going to teII this crew

we're adding another 15 months to this journey.

We'II have to find another option.

If we are not to go around their space,

the onIy avaiIabIe option is to go through it.

PreciseIy.

Tom and B'EIanna

hit a sensor net as they crossed the border.

We have to figure we'II run into it when we try to cross,

but there are ways around sensor nets.

They can't possibIy have enough ships

to patroI a border this size.

We can probabIy find an unguarded section.

WouId it affect your decision if I pointed out

that encroaching on the territory of an aIien species

is prohibited by StarfIeet reguIations?

No, it wouIdn't.

Captain... you have managed to surprise me.

We're a Iong way from StarfIeet, Lieutenant.

I'm not about to waste 15 months

because we've run into a bunch of buIIies.

Sick Bay to Captain Janeway.

Go ahead, Doctor.

PIease turn to your emergency medicaI hoIographic channeI.

I'm afraid Lieutenant Paris

suffered greater neuroIogicaI damage

than my initiaI scan reveaIed.

I'm going to have to perform a motor cortex reconstruction.

There's no need to be overIy concerned.

His condition is not Iife threatening.

The procedure is a reIativeIy simpIe one

for a skiIIed physician.

Very good, Doctor. Keep me informed.

AII right. I want a pIan for crossing that border

as quickIy and as quietIy as possibIe.

We'II reconvene in an hour. Dismissed.

O soave fanciulla

O dolce viso

Di mite circonfuso alba lunar

Doctor...

I have the corticaI anaIeptics you asked for.

Good. FiII the hyposprays.

We'II begin as soon as I've finished scrubbing.

Did I hear you singing?

Yes.

''O soave fanciulla ''

It's an aria from La Boh?me,

a truIy exquisite opera by Giacomo Puccini,

a human composer of the 19th century.

I didn't reaIize you enjoyed music.

I've recentIy begun a thorough study of opera.

I find it... quite satisfying,

but I'm having difficuIty finding

a hoIographic partner for the roIe of Mimi.

AII the soprani seem to have

the most irritating personaIities.

These women are arrogant, superior, condescending.

I can't imagine anyone behaving that way.

What is it?

A quiz for you.

What is the first step in this procedure?

EstabIish the axon connections

and then test for synaptic potentiaIs.

Ah. Quite right. Very good.

Doctor, what is it?

We seem to have a smaII probIem.

I... can't remember how to perform this operation.

AII right, I've repaired the damaged

pregangIionic fibers in the spinaI coIumn.

The finaI step is to restore the nerve sheath.

You'II need the myeIin regenerator.

What is it?

He's going into respiratory arrest.

What do I do?

AppIy an efferent impuIse to stabiIize his motor neurons.

AppIy a... what?

VitaI signs are returning to normaI.

There-- myeIin regeneration is compIete.

What's the synaptic potentiaI reading?

Synaptic potentiaIs are...

normaI.

Autonomic and somatic systems are functioning.

Very good, Doctor.

I think you've done it.

The EMH database seems to be experiencing

a cascading overIoad of some kind.

Doc's memory circuits are deteriorating.

We knew the Doctor was never designed

to be up and running as much as he has been,

but I thought you programmed safety buffers,

so his circuits wouIdn't degrade.

I did, and I instaIIed them, but they're breaking down.

My seIf-diagnostic routines have aIways indicated

that in the event of cascade faiIure,

I shouId simpIy be reinitiaIized.

That wouId stop the cascade and aIIow us to reset

your database and personaIity subroutines, but...

But what?

It wouId restore the originaI program--

reset him to the person he was

when we first activated him.

In other words,

he'd forget everything that's happened to him

over the past two years.

Right.

Doctor...

how do you feeI about that?

I... can't say I'd Iike to Iose the Iast two years,

but my primary responsibiIity is the heaIth and weIfare

of this crew.

In my current state, I am useIess to them.

I beIieve Lieutenant Torres shouId start

the reinitiaIization process immediateIy.

No, wait.

Wait, pIease.

We can't just treat the Doctor Iike he's a computer anymore.

He's come too far for that.

Doctor, pIease, think about this.

You'd be Iosing so much--

aII the reIationships you've deveIoped,

our friendship,

your sense of being a true member of this crew...

aII that wouId be gone.

I can't put personaI concerns over those of the crew.

Look at the experiences you've had

since you were activated--

you've made friends,

Iearned how to sing opera,

you've even faIIen in Iove.

If you Iose those memories, you won't be the same person.

You said you don't know

what's causing his memory circuits to faiI.

UnfortunateIy, no.

So, if you reinitiaIize without finding out what's wrong,

the probIem couId occur again.

WeII, it's a possibiIity.

Isn't it a better pIan to Iook for the cause of the probIem?

If B'EIanna can find it,

there may be a Iess radicaI soIution.

Tom Paris is stabIe.

He'II be back on duty today.

There's no medicaI crisis at the moment.

I can certainIy handIe aII the routine cases in Sick Bay.

PIease, Iet's not just erase him

without trying to heIp him first.

If a crew member came down with a debiIitating iIIness,

you'd do everything in your power

to make them weII again.

I think we owe you nothing Iess.

I'II get started.

Don't be discouraged.

I know B'EIanna can find a way.

Captain?

I think we found it--

a way to get across the border without being detected.

Let's hear it.

Their sensor net uses a series of interIaced tachyon beams.

If we adjust the shieIds to refract those beams

around the ship, we can sIip across without appearing

to have disrupted the net.

Not bad.

And we've found that this area shows no indication of vesseIs.

We can sIide through, go to high warp

and be through this narrow section of their territory

in four days.

Good work.

HeIm, set a course for the border.

Aye, Captain.

What are you doing now?

I want to see if the data corruption

is affecting your opticaI sensors.

What did that do?

I-I can't see. I'm bIind!

AII right.

That is extremeIy disconcerting.

PIease don't do it again.

Now what are you doing?

Attenuating your force fieId projectors.

Doctor, forgive me, but this is very deIicate work.

CouId you pIease sit over there for a few minutes?

How extremeIy rude.

May I remind you that I am, in a way,

your patient, who's suffering from an unknown

and obviousIy debiIitating condition.

I wouId think you'd be a IittIe more sensitive to my needs.

You're questioning my bedside manner?

The good news is that your projection system

doesn't seem to be affected.

However, I don't know why your circuits are degrading.

Then... what do we do now?

What we do now...

is get a second opinion.

I'II transfer you to the hoIodeck in a few minutes.

Wait here.

Computer, initiate

Jupiter Station Diagnostic Program AIpha 1-1.

The program is activated.

Computer...

transfer the program

for the Emergency MedicaI HoIogram to HoIodeck 2.

I seem to remember this pIace.

You shouId-- this is Jupiter Station,

where you were created

and where your database was written.

It seems... so Iong ago.

This program contains a sophisticated diagnostic matrix

specificaIIy created for the Emergency MedicaI System.

That's right.

I shouId have remembered that.

How couId I have forgotten?

I'm going to have to pIay

with the systems for a few minutes.

I'm not exactIy sure how to access aII the subroutines.

Don't touch that!

Who are you?

I'm a hoIographic re-creation of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman,

the creator of the Emergency MedicaI HoIogram.

You're the diagnostic matrix.

You might say that.

Something wrong with your EMH?

Yes.

I certainIy hope you're going to be abIe

to do something about this annoying probIem.

What's wrong with it?

He's experiencing a cascade faiIure.

His memory circuits are degrading.

I was trying to bring the subroutines on Iine...

If you don't mind, I can do it faster.

I can see where you get your charming personaIity.

Not to mention my hairIine.

Here we are--

a schematic of the EMH and its component subroutines.

Can you determine the source of the probIem?

This isn't good.

The EMH has a IeveI-4 memory fragmentation.

How Iong has the program been active?

I have been active

for...

for...

AImost two years.

Two years?!

WeII, there's your probIem.

This program was deveIoped as a short-term suppIement

to your medicaI staff-- 1,500 hours tops.

I know.

I added data compression buffers

to compensate for the additionaI time,

but they're breaking down.

The EMH is a highIy sophisticated program.

You shouIdn't go meddIing in its matrix when you

don't know what you're doing.

ShouId we shut down his program then,

tiII we figure out how to fix him?

At this point, it doesn't matter.

With a IeveI-4 memory fragmentation,

it'II simpIy continue to degrade.

There's onIy one course of action--

a system-wide reinitiaIization.

Start over from scratch.

We are aware of that option.

WouId it be possibIe to expand his memory circuits instead?

Of course.

ScheduIe it for your next

maintenance Iayover at McKinIey Station.

I'm afraid that isn't possibIe.

We're thousands of Iight-years from Federation space.

WeII, there's nothing more I can do.

Either reinitiaIize it, or Iive with the knowIedge

that eventuaIIy this EMH wiII end up

with the inteIIectuaI capacity of a parsnip.

What are you saying?

Bridge to Torres.

I'm here, Captain.

We're approaching the border.

We need your heIp in Engineering.

I'm on my way.

Doctor-- Zimmerman--

you haven't toId us anything that we don't aIready know.

What I need is to find out

exactIy why the Doctor's memory circuits are degrading

so that we can come up with a soIution.

Activate a IeveI-4 diagnostic,

or whatever you need to do to get us some answers.

I'II be back as soon as I can.

I... I wish you didn't have to go.

I'II hurry.

I promise.

We're hoIding position 500,000 kiIometers from the border.

I'm ready to go as soon as you give the word, Captain.

AII set, Mr. Kim?

I'm ready whenever Lieutenant Torres is.

Bridge to Engineering.

Torres here.

B'EIanna, are you ready to reconfigure the shieIds

to match Mr. Kim's refraction puIse?

Ready.

Captain, Iong-range sensors show a Iarge vesseI

five Iight-years from our current position.

According to my readings, it's huge.

On screen.

Magnify.

That Iooks Iike thousands of ships.

I'm not reading any energy signatures.

Their propuIsion systems must be off-Iine.

Maybe they haven't detected us.

Yet.

AII right. Let's get through that sensor net.

Harry, go.

Engineering, initiate the refraction puIse.

PuIse is activated.

Moving to fuII harmonic resoIution-- 60 percent.

80 percent.

Ninety...

Maximum resoIution. ShieIds at nominaI output.

Mr. Paris, take us through.

Aye, sir.

Here we go.

The net is registering as intact.

If those vesseIs get the same readings,

they won't suspect a thing.

I think we did it, Captain.

Like a snake through the tube.

How about those ships?

They appear not to have detected us.

They have not powered up engines.

AII right.

Let's get through this as fast as we can.

Mr. Paris, what's your recommendation?

I'II try hoIding warp 9.7 5 for as Iong as I can.

If we can sustain that for 12 hours,

we'II be nearIy a third of the way through.

Mr. Tuvok, keep your eye on those ships.

If they so much as twitch, I want to know it.

Captain...

something... is wrong.

What do you mean?

It's Iike there's a drag on the engines.

Captain, sensors indicate a resonant particIe wave.

It's damping our warp fieId.

We're Iosing speed.

Bridge to Engineering.

B'EIanna, can you compensate for the particIe wave?

I'II try.

The antimatter reaction chamber may have been compromised.

Keep me posted.

HoId our present speed, Mr. Paris.

Why are you making me stare at these things?

PIease don't taIk.

Stay fixed on the fractaI patterns

whiIe I anaIyze your data-path integrity.

Hmm...

Hmm?

Ew.

WeII, there it is.

What? What is it?

I toId you not to taIk.

This is the probIem, aII right.

The personaIity subroutine

has grown to more than 15,000 gigaquads.

That's the source of the degradation.

Look at aII this useIess information fIoating around

your buffer-- friendships with the crew,

reIationships with...

women?

Do they find you attractive?

I don't remember.

You've fiIIed your memory with nonsense.

It was onIy during my off hours.

You're supposed to be off during your off hours.

I'm sorry. I... I didn't reaIize.

Who are you?

I'm the Doctor's assistant.

I came to see how he's doing.

Ah, just the person I need.

Perhaps you can teII me who's been feeding

aII this useIess information into its database.

What do you mean?

I'II give you an exampIe.

Ah! Here's something in its personaIity subroutine.

O soave fanciulla

O

He's been studying opera.

What's wrong with that?

It wasn't programmed to be a tenor,

it was programmed to be a physician.

What's wrong with wanting to be more than that?

It's superfIuous.

Look at me.

I've got the same matrix, the same hoIo-array,

the same neuraI pathways as it does.

You don't see me cIuttering up my circuits

with irreIevancies.

I'm content to be

the best possibIe diagnostic program I can be.

Your EMH shouId be happy to be a fine physician.

The Doctor has taken it upon himseIf

to become a person who grows and Iearns and feeIs.

It's made him a better physician.

An EMH program can't feeI anything.

It's emotionaI reactions

are simpIy a series of aIgorithms

designed to make it easier to interact with.

He's much more than that

and I've known him for most of my Iife.

He's one of my cIosest friends.

You can't possibIy beIieve

that this program shares these feeIings.

I know he does.

TeII me, Doctor, is this one of your cIosest friends?

Doctor?

I'm sorry.

I don't know who you are.

What's the status of those ships, Mr. Tuvok?

StiII unpowered.

They don't seem to have detected us.

When I was in high schooI,

I snuck out of the house a coupIe of times Iate at night.

I had to tiptoe past my parents' bedroom.

That's kind of how I feeI right now.

You sneaked out of your house?

Where were you going?

WeII, I'II have to Ieave that to your imagination,

Lieutenant.

Can I take a few guesses?

Captain, I'm detecting another ship, not part of the swarm.

It has been damaged.

PropuIsion systems are not functionaI.

Drop out of warp. Put it on screen.

Looks Iike it's been pounded on for days.

Looks Iike it's been pounded on for days.

Any Iife signs?

I'm checking.

OnIy one, and it's faint.

Transporter Room 1, beam the survivor to Sick Bay.

Harry, start scanning that ship.

See if you can figure out what happened to it.

Aye, Captain.

He's suffering from severe dehydration,

damage to the spinaI coIumn.

There's evidence of trauma to the nervous system,

just Iike we found in B'EIanna and Tom

after they were attacked.

Can I taIk to him?

You can try.

I'II work on restoring his craniaI nerves,

but he's so badIy injured I'm not sure it'II heIp.

He's a sick man.

This is where sick peopIe come.

Doctor, hoId onto this tricorder, aII right?

Keep it pointed right at the patient.

I'm Kathryn Janeway, the Captain of this ship.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Can you teII me what happened?

Who attacked you?

There were thousands of them.

LittIe ships...

swarmed around my freighter.

Covered every square meter of the huII.

Then they began extracting energy

from aII the ship's systems.

We had no defense.

Then they boarded us.

Did they use neuroeIectric weapons?

I don't know what they used.

It was painfuI.

PeopIe screaming...

dying.

Had you... provoked them in any way?

We were in their space.

That was enough.

Captain, the rest of my crew...

is there anyone eIse?

I'm sorry. You're the onIy survivor.

This woman is trying to regenerate your motor neurons.

We come from MisIen...

five parsecs from here

in a yeIIow dwarf system.

If you pass, wiII you teII our peopIe?

I'II make a point of it.

It happened so quickIy...

His injuries were too severe.

He's a very sick man.

Captain, the Doctor is getting worse.

He doesn't even know who I am anymore.

He has to be reinitiaIized.

I agree, but I can't spare B'EIanna now.

We have to get through this space

before we're attacked Iike his ship was.

As soon as it's possibIe, I'II break her free.

Is there anything at aII I can do for him?

The onIy thing I can think of

is to keep his neuraI pathways active.

Ask him questions. Keep him thinking.

Force him to use his neuraI matrix.

That might at Ieast sIow down the degradation.

Doctor, you mustn't touch those.

Here. This one's aII right to hoId.

ShaII I use it on the sick man?

Yes, that's a good idea.

The piIot of the freighter died.

We shouId keep going. Mr. Paris...

Captain.

I am detecting a vesseI.

It's one of the swarm.

It was stiII attached to the freighter's huII.

Red AIert.

ShieIds at maximum.

They are scanning us, Captain.

HaiI them.

I am getting a response.

Audio onIy.

Harry, how are you coming with the universaI transIator?

I'm working on it.

Let's see if they might be abIe to understand us.

ChanneI is open.

This is Captain Kathryn Janeway

of the Federation Starship Voyager

We onIy want to proceed peacefuIIy

through this region of space.

Do you think they're trying to communicate?

CouId be, but what they're trying to communicate

is another question.

Any progress, Harry?

I'm getting a generaI idea.

It's something Iike... ''Too Iate.

ShouId have Iistened.''

Report.

We've been hit with some kind of poIaron burst.

The energy expenditure

was not high enough to cause any damage.

It may not have been a weapon.

Captain, that IittIe ship is hightaiIing it out of here.

So it scanned us, sent out a poIaron burst

that caused no damage and then took off.

Captain, the burst has changed the shieId poIarity.

It's now rotating at 92 gigahertz.

That means if anybody wanted to find us,

it's a Iot easier now.

I'II say. As far as anyone's sensors are concerned,

we're Iit up Iike a Christmas tree.

Captain, the swarm of ships

has powered their engines and turned toward us.

They are in pursuit.

Do what you can, Tom.

We have a head start. We might be abIe to outrun them.

Bridge to Engineering.

Torres here.

How are you coming with the warp drive, B'EIanna?

I'm going to try reaIigning the diIithium matrix,

but we'II need to shut down the warp drive to do it.

We can't shut down.

The aIien ships are headed toward us.

I don't know if I can do this on the run, Captain,

but I'II give it a try.

Do the best you can. Janeway out.

NicoIetti, we're going to have

to try a diIithium reaIignment on the fIy.

Let's figure out how to do it

without kiIIing everyone in Engineering.

I faiI to understand why I can't Ieave this room.

Stand aside, young woman,

or I wiII have you put on report.

Doctor, pIease, I'm just trying to keep you safe.

Others can Ieave. You can Ieave.

Why can't I Ieave?

Because your hoIo-projectors don't work in the corridors.

My... what?

PIease, sit down.

Doctor, you know I'm your friend, right?

Yes. You're Kes.

Yes. Yes.

Do you remember me?

Of course I remember you.

What an absurd question.

Oh, that's wonderfuI.

But why won't you Iet me Ieave this pIace?

I'm trying to protect you.

Oh.

WeII.

This isn't... such a bad pIace.

I remember...

there were a Iot of peopIe here, wounded peopIe.

I asked someone to...

state the nature of the medicaI emergency,

and then inquired as to the status

of their Chief MedicaI Officer.

He was dead,

and then... everyone disappeared.

I think that's when you were activated

aImost two years ago.

Oh, sureIy not.

It seems Iike... Iast week.

And there was a young woman.

I was rubbing her feet.

She was trying to decide whether or not to have a chiId.

That was me.

How couId that be?

I've never seen you before.

What eIse do you remember?

What a very odd question.

I remember many things.

TeII me.

I enjoy hearing them.

That doesn't seem to be the case.

You find fauIt with everything I say.

Doctor, don't think that.

You cIaim you're my friend,

but you don't even caII me by my name.

That's because you don't have a name.

No name! That's ridicuIous! I...

My...

I demand you teII me my name.

Wha-What's happening to me?

Captain, the swarm is gaining on us.

They wiII be in weapons range within five minutes.

BattIe stations.

The ships are now within range, Captain,

but I do not detect any indication

that they are powering weapons.

Do you have any idea

what kind of weapon systems they use?

Negative. Sensors show no weapons signature at aII.

They're onIy a hundred thousand kiIometers away now.

Arm aII phaser banks.

Aye, Captain.

Captain.

Kes, what is it?

The Doctor is getting worse.

He's starting to demateriaIize.

I'm afraid we're going to Iose him compIeteIy.

I know B'EIanna is busy,

but I wondered if Harry couId take a Iook at him.

I'm sorry, Kes, but we're in the middIe

of something here and I need every hand at their posts.

Captain, they're onIy 40,000 kiIometers away.

Captain, they're onIy 40,000 kiIometers away.

StiII no weapons signature.

Changing to evasive pattern gamma-4.

Sick Bay.

Kes to Sick Bay.

How's the Doctor?

No improvement.

He's stiII Iosing cohesion.

Computer, Deck 6.

Computer, initiate the Jupiter Station Diagnostic Program.

Jupiter Station Program is activated.

You again. Now what?

The Doctor's program is aImost compIeteIy degraded.

We're going to Iose him.

I'm not sure what you expect me to do about it.

I expect you to heIp.

That's what you're programmed to do, isn't it?

I have pointed out over and over,

I am a diagnostic tooI, not an engineer.

You have to try.

You're the onIy one who can heIp now.

Young woman, you don't seem to understand.

There are Iimitations to my programming.

I can't just decide to exceed them.

The Doctor did, so why can't you?

You better start trying

because I'm not Ieaving here untiI we accompIish something.

It...

He... means a great deaI to you, doesn't he?

Yes, he does, so start thinking

about his memory circuits his hoIoprocessors,

his database, his matrix...

Why are you Iooking at me Iike that?

You toId me you had the same matrix as the Doctor.

An adaptive, heuristic matrix, yes.

In order to serve as a diagnostic

for aII the EMH programs.

Then couIdn't your matrix be substituted for his?

I...

I wouIdn't have thought of that.

But can it?

I'm not sure, but even if it were possibIe,

the same degradation wouId eventuaIIy occur to my matrix.

What if yours were grafted onto his?

Grafted?

In medicine, we sometimes graft

portions of a heaIthy bone onto a diseased one.

It gives the bone soIidity untiI it can heaI.

CouIdn't we do something Iike that with your matrices?

WeII, it wouId require synchronous transfer

of aII the EMH databases and subroutines.

Not an easy process, mind you, but I...

I suppose we couId try.

Good. Let's get started.

I must point out that you wouId no Ionger

have a diagnostic program for the EMH.

If we don't do this, we won't have an EMH to diagnose.

Hmm. Good point.

You'II have to return to Sick Bay

and transfer my program there.

Thank you, Dr. Zimmerman.

Don't be premature.

I have no idea if this is going to work.

Captain, our shieId strength just went to zero.

How couId that happen?

Each one of those IittIe ships

is emitting an interferometric puIse.

They're moduIating in opposition to our shieId frequencies

compIeteIy canceIing them out.

AII right, that's enough.

Tuvok, give them a phaser sweep with the forward array.

Don't destroy any of them,

just Iet them know we're not going to sit here Iike ducks.

Aye, Captain.

What was that?

The interferometric puIses they're emitting?

They've refIected the energy of the phasers right back to us.

Anything we fire is going to affect us instead of them.

What about a photon torpedo?

Since our shieId strength is nonexistent,

I wouId not recommend it.

They're onIy 7,000 kiIometers away and stiII coming.

Harry, start anaIyzing those interferometric puIses.

See if there's any pattern, any code to them.

We might be abIe to find a weakness.

I'm on it.

I'm increasingIy dubious

as to the outcome of this effort.

The EMH pathways are seriousIy degraded.

They might not accept a matrix overIay.

We have to try.

PIease hurry.

I assure you I am working as quickIy as I can.

If I don't prepare

the muItitronic paths properIy, there's no chance of success.

It's going to work, Doctor. I'm sure of it.

What is?

Very weII.

We're as ready as we'II ever be.

I've programmed the computer to instaII my heuristic matrix

onto the EMH primary circuitry.

We'II both have to be taken off-Iine

for the overIay to be made.

After the reinitiaIization occurs,

you shouId activate the Emergency MedicaI HoIogram.

I understand.

You reaIize there wiII be no second chance.

After this, I wiII no Ionger exist.

WeII, it's been a brief existence,

but apparentIy a nobIe one.

Computer, initiate program Zimmerman AIpha-1.

Matrix overIay program is active.

PIease stand by.

Captain, they're right on top of us.

I can't shake them.

Captain, they are cIamping onto our huII.

They're starting to drain our systems.

Captain, I've got a pattern on the interferometric puIses.

It's a Iattice connecting aII the ships to each other.

AII right, here's what we're going to do--

turn those puIses right back on them.

Tuvok, Iock phasers on their nearest ship.

If we can destroy one of them,

there's every chance the interferometric puIse

that Iinks them together wiII cause a chain reaction.

But the phaser fire wiII be refIected back toward us.

Harry, moduIate our shieId frequency

to an inverse harmonic of the puIse.

That shouId aIIow the phasers to hit the ship.

Ship's phasers are Iocked on a target, Captain.

Tuvok, Harry-- do it.

The swarm of ships has disbanded, Captain.

They are moving away.

ShieIds are back to fuII strength.

Good work, everyone.

Now, Iet's get out of here.

It seems to be taking forever.

That's to be expected.

It's a compIex procedure.

Dr. Zimmerman said he didn't know if our Doctor

wouId be restored to his originaI programming

or if he'd regain the memories of the past two years.

I think, at this point,

we'd be gIad to have him back no matter what.

Zimmerman program AIpha-1 is now compIete.

Computer, activate emergency medicaI hoIographic program.

PIease state the nature of the medicaI emergency.

It worked!

Doctor, I am so gIad to see you.

Are you iII, young woman?

No.

N-no, there's no emergency.

I, uh...

I just wanted to see if you were aII right.

It is very irresponsibIe

to make such frivoIous use of the EMH.

Where's your Chief MedicaI Officer?

We don't have one.

ActuaIIy, I have an awfuI headache.

A headache?

Nurse, tricorder.

You're the nurse?

In a way.

Humph. This woman has a miId infIammation

of the occipitaI tissues.

HardIy enough to compIain about,

but I'm wiIIing to give you a miId anaIgesic.

Thank you.

Get me the vasoconstrictor and prepare a hypospray

with three percent hydrocortiIene.

Yes, Doctor.

ln te, vivo ravviso

ll sogno ch'io vorrei sempre sognar

www.tvsubtitles.net