All language subtitles for Star Trek The Next Generation S03E02

Captain, doctor,
I am honored by your presence,

but may I suggest
you attend the second concert?

Why, data?

Ensign Ortiz will perform
the violin part.

- My rendition will be less enjoyable.
- Oh?

Data:
Although I am technically proficient,

according to my fellow performers,
I lack soul.

Data, telling us why you're going to fail
before you make the attempt

is never wise.

But is not honesty
always the preferred choice?

Excessive honesty can be disastrous,
particularly in a commander.

Indeed?

Knowing your own limitations
is one thing,

advertising them to a crew can
damage your credibility as a leader.

Because you will lose
their confidence.

And you may begin to believe
in those limitations yourself.

Riker:
Captain, we 're receiving a message

from the sheliak corporate.

Origin point of the message
confirmed, sir.

It is from the sheliak star system.

The sheliak have not attempted
to communicate with the federation

for 111 years.
Why are they doing it now?

On-screen.

Sheliak: Federation creatures,

there are humans
on the fifth planet of tau cygna.

This planet was ceded
to the corporate in section 133,

paragraph 77
of the treaty of armens.

We will begin settlement
of this world in four days.

- Remove the humans.
- What the devil...?

Federation creatures,
there are humans

- on the fifth planet of tau cygna.
- Cancel message.

Tau cygna v is in the de laure belt.

Heavy concentrations
of hyperonic radiation.

Humans can't survive
in that environment.

Exposure to hyperonic radiation
is fatal.

Then the sheliak are asking us
to chase ghosts.

Picard: No, number one.

The sheliak haven't broken
a century of silence

to send us after phantoms.

An investigation is in order.

Set course for tau cygna v.

Picard:
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.

Captain, human life form readings
from the planet.

- So the sheliak weren't hallucinating.
- Numbers.

Impossible to get
an accurate reading.

High levels of radiation
are disrupting our sensors.

Hyperonic radiation also interferes
with ship's transporters.

They are now inoperable.

So are the ship's phasers.

How can humans survive
down there?

They must have found a way
to adapt.

Mylant's work with radiation sensitivity
suggests it is possible.

Perhaps with extensive virotherapy.

Well, whoever they are,
however they survive,

we've got to get them off the planet.

By treaty,
that world still belongs to the sheliak.

Who are within their rights
to demand the removal

of these trespassers.

If we don't remove them,
the sheliak will, forcefully.

How forcefully?

The sheliak consider humans
a lower life form.

They would have no compunctions
about exterminating the intruders.

Mr. Data, as you're unaffected
by hyperonic radiation,

I'd like you to go down to the planet
via shuttlecraft

and commence
evacuation procedures.

Aye, sir.

Number one.

Any speculation
on what we might find down there?

My guess would be
a lone survey craft,

maybe a dozen or so survivors.

I think it's some sort of shuttlecraft.

- Where is it from?
- Look at the markings.

It must be from the federation.

Greetings, gentlemen.

We saw your ship.

- You're the first visitor we've had in...
- The first visitor we've ever had.

You're not human?

That is correct. I'm an Android.

I'm lieutenant commander data
of the federation starship enterprise.

Our great-grandparents
were citizens of the federation.

You don't wanna waste your time
talking to us.

You want to speak to gosheven.
We'll take you to him.

I'm sure the federation
will be very proud of us.

Wait until you see
all we've accomplished.

And who precisely is "us"?

Don't you know?
Oh, no, I don't guess you would.

We're descendants
of the original settlers,

from the colony ship Artemis.

Got it. The Artemis.

Launched 92 years ago.
Destination, Septimus minor.

When they failed to check in,
starfleet began an extensive search.

What carried the Artemis
so far off course?

My local informant
does not have that information.

In the early days on tau cygna v,

survival was more important
than history.

Picard:
Understood. How many are they?

Fifteen thousand
two hundred fifty-three, sir.

Fifteen thousand?

Three days, no transporters.

We'll never get them out in time.

Shuttles?

Loading all the enterprise shuttlecraft
to capacity,

evacuation will take

four weeks, four days.

We need more time.

Mr. Data, prepare the colonists
for an evacuation.

Data: Aye, sir.

Get me the sheliak.

Their home world is quite distant,
captain.

This will take some time.

Gosheven, look what's come.

Lieutenant commander data
of the starship enterprise.

He's an Android.

So he is.

Well, now that you're here,
what do you want?

My mission is to prepare this colony
for evacuation.

Why?

Because this planet belongs
to the sheliak.

And who is this sheliak?

The term is plural.
The sheliak are a non-humanoid,

intelligent life form,
classification r-3.

Well, this colony's been here
over 90 years.

We've never seen a sheliak.

I'd say that makes tau cygna v
our planet.

The original destination of the Artemis
was Septimus minor.

The guidance system
on the Artemis failed.

Took them off course,
far off course.

Our ancestors were lucky
to find any place to land.

And when they did,
the radiation started killing them.

The hyperonic radiation took the lives
of a third of the colonists

before they could adapt to it.

But our colony survived
and prospered.

Look around.

We have brought water to the desert,
built a community.

Your accomplishments
are truly remarkable,

yet the sheliak and the federation
have a treaty

which clearly makes this planet
sheliak domain.

Then change the treaty.

That may not be possible.

The sheliak wish
to colonize this planet

and are unwilling
to share it with humans.

If you are still here
when the sheliak colony ship arrives,

they will eradicate you.

They'd kill all of us?

They have little regard
for human life.

Thus, the most sensible course
of action

is to prepare a contingency plan
for the evacuation of your people.

We're not evacuating.

- Perhaps I've not made myself clear.
- Gosheven: Yes, you have.

Let me be equally clear.

There is going to be no evacuation.

You've delivered your message,
so go back to your ship.

I have work to do.

Woman: Nice catch.

Wonderful reflexes.

Sorry to test you like that
but I was curious.

Found a new toy, have we, ardy?

Toy?

This is the most incredible Android
I've ever seen.

Have you seen many?

Actually, no. You're the first.

Only you would get this excited
over a walking calculator.

Cybernetic intelligence
fascinates me.

Are your neural pathways duotronic?

No, positronic.

I didn't know that was possible.

What's your memory capacity?
How many operations per second?

I have a million questions.

I am afraid I have no time
to answer a million questions.

I have a mission to accomplish.

I need to know more
about your people,

and gosheven seems unwilling
to talk to me further.

I'm ard'rian McKenzie.

Perhaps I can help you.

Gentlemen,
we're giving you an assignment.

The one thing we don't want to hear
is that it's impossible.

I need the transporters to function
despite the hyperonic radiation.

Yeah, but that's im...

Yes, sir.

Even if we get the sheliak to talk,
they're not likely to be accommodating.

Captain, when the treaty
was first negotiated,

the federation
sent 372 legal experts.

What do we have?

Thee and me.

No response.

Try them again.

Boost the signal strength.

Sheliak corporate,
this is the starship enterprise.

Respond, please.

Conversation is
neither required nor desired.

Conversation is necessary

if we are to find a solution
to our mutual problem.

Our involvement in federation
illegality is not indicated.

Both parties are involved, sir.

Remove the humans
from the tau cygna system.

Three earth days remain.

Let us negotiate in good faith.

Negotiate to what purpose?
The treaty is signed.

There is a thriving colony
on that planet.

Rather than uproot these people,
may I offer a compromise?

- Denied. — why?

The law is Paramount.
We are entitled.

This is not a law. It is a treaty.

It is designed to smooth relations
between races,

not to act as a strait

jacket.

You really think
we'll have to leave tau cygna v?

The possibility does exist,

yet gosheven seems unwilling
to prepare for it.

- — Why?
- Maybe because you're an Android.

I don't think gosheven likes the idea
of machines ordering him around.

I'm not ordering him to do anything.
I am merely trying to persuade him

that his people should prepare
to evacuate.

Do you believe my suggested course
of action should be followed?

Of course.

In spite of the fact
that I'm an Android.

Because of that fact.

I don't have any silly prejudice
against computers. I like them.

Not that any computer we have
is half as sophisticated as you are.

No, I would say not.

People can be selfish, irrational,
stubborn, malicious, you name it.

But computers don't have
those failings.

And you conclude, because of this,
that I am impartial.

Hence, you accept
my recommendations.

Yet gosheven does not.

Picard:
Picard to commander data.

- Data here.
- The sheliak won't bargain.

Understood, sir.

I'm contacting starfleet
to arrange transport.

Get those people prepared
to evacuate.

We may have to move quickly.

Aye, sir.

We must speak to gosheven
immediately.

La forge: Mm, mm, mm.

Gentlemen, how's it coming?

- What the hell is that?
- Our first attempt.

Keep at it.
We need those transporters.

You see this?

Do you have any idea what it is?
Or what it means?

It is water.

A substance composed
of two atoms of hydrogen...

It's not water.

It's blood and it's sweat.

It's the result of 90 years
of combined effort.

This isn't a town. It's a monument
to every man, woman and child

who's lived and died
on tau cygna v.

- Gosheven, you're talking nonsense.
- Gosheven: Am I?

My grandfather is buried
on that mountain.

He died in a rock slide
surveying the route for this aqueduct.

This colony exists
because of his sacrifice

and the sacrifice
of thousands of others.

No, we are not leaving.

The sheliak will not accept humans
on their planet

and they will not hesitate
to use force to remove you.

We'll not be bullied off our land.
Not by you and not by the sheliak.

Stubborn and irrational.

Now what do we do?

Are his sentiments typical
of the colonists?

I hope not.

If I can convince enough of the people
of the necessity of leaving...

Don't you mean
if "we" can convince?

Come.

Riker: Yes, sir?

Three weeks.

Starfleet is profuse in its apologies
but it will still be three weeks

until the arrival
of a colony transport ship equipped

with dedicated personnel shuttles.

We can't wait three weeks.

Then the sheliak must agree
to extend our deadline.

If they plan to settle tau cygna v
two days from now...

One of their ships
must already be en route.

We're going to intercept that ship.

The sheliak may interpret that
as a hostile act.

A risk we have to take.

The enterprise is going to intercept
the sheliak colony ship.

Now your job...

- Well, you know what your job is.
- Data: Commander,

in human parlance,
I do not believe I can get the job done.

My training has prepared me
for starship command duties.

As a cultural contact,
I am proving to be

- less than exemplary.
- What's the situation?

Their leader refuses my counsel.

He denies the logic
of my arguments

and speaks of structures
they have built.

- Then try something else.
- I have, sir.

In the last three hours
and eight minutes,

I have spoken with 56 colonists.

Ten of those refused to believe
a threat exists.

Twenty-two favor staying
and fighting the sheliak.

Sixteen prefer negotiation
or some sort of passive resistance.

Only eight were willing
to consider evacuation,

- and of those eight...
- Data, I can't help you.

I don't know these people,
I haven't talked to them. You have.

Use that fancy positronic brain
of yours and carry out your mission.

Sir, if I do not succeed,

how violent is the sheliak reaction
likely to be?

The treaty is the only thing
that prevented them

from eradicating the colony
the moment they discovered it.

- Ah.
- "Ah" is right, data.

The lives of 15,000 people
are riding on you.

You'd better get innovative.
Riker out.

McKenzie: Data?

We've having an effect.

So many people are asking questions
about the sheliak

that gosheven has called
a public meeting.

Is there any indication that gosheven
has changed his position?

No, but a meeting
will give you a chance

to present your recommendations.

So far my attempts at persuasion
have been ineffective.

Why did you do that?

You appeared to need it.

Among humans, a kiss usually serves
to seal a friendship

or indicate support,
attraction, affection.

In this context,
I must assume that your intention

was to express support.

You really don't understand
human behavior, do you?

That is something
of an understatement.

Well, sometimes I don't either.

Androids are a lot more rational.

Thus far, that quality has not
helped me to accomplish my mission.

A rational argument
isn't always enough.

Maybe to be more persuasive,

you need to use
a little reverse psychology.

Ah. Elicit a desired behavior
by advocating its opposite.

That implies deception, does it not?

A little, but if it helps us
get our point across...

Perhaps this is a situation
where excessive honesty

can be detrimental.

Now, are we progressing,
Mr. La forge?

- About like you'd expect, sir.
- Splendid, splendid. Carry on.

He wants the impossible.

That's the short definition of "captain."

You've all heard of the Android
starfleet has sent here

and you've been discussing
why he's come.

I called this meeting
to replace misinformation

with cold, hard fact.

I wish to speak. Gosheven: No.

Leave now.

Do you consider your position so weak
that it cannot withstand a debate?

Let him speak.

Man 1: Let him speak, yes.

Starfleet wishes to evacuate you
for your own protection.

Yet gosheven
has decided othennise.

That is his right,

and I will not waste time
trying to reverse that decision.

I admire your conviction
in the face of certain defeat.

Though doomed,
your effort will be Valiant.

And when you die,
you will die for land and for honor.

Your children will understand
that they are dying for a worthy cause.

Long after the battle is over,

their courage will be remembered
and extolled.

Remembered by who?

Yes, that is true.

There will be no one left alive
to remember.

A Valiant try, Android.

But what a low opinion
you must have of us.

I was simply attempting to describe
your inevitable destruction

in a manner
that would have an emotional effect.

And he describes it pretty damn well.

Are you ready to follow this machine?
Give up without a fight?

He says we're going to lose.

But I think
that's just his cowardice talking.

What if he's right and you're wrong?
Shouldn't we consider that possibility?

This colony exists because
generations gave their lives for it.

Many died before we found a way
to adapt to the radiation.

And many more died
bringing water to this desert.

- My grandfather...
- Is buried on that mountain.

Well, who'll be left to Bury you?

Have you considered
what this evacuation means?

Everything we have, we abandon.

Everything that we have built
turns to dust.

Everything that we have accomplished
means nothing.

Well, I say no.

You elected me your leader.
Follow me now.

I don't think our chances
are as hopeless as he says.

And I'm willing to stake our lives
on it.

Any objections?

Because here we stand.

Woman: Aye.
Man 2: We stand with you, gosheven.

Then here you die.

Mr. Data, I just want you to know

that gosheven doesn't speak
for all of us.

I see no reason to die needlessly.

- And you?
- I'm not sure.

Gosheven's done well for us.

But I'd like to hear more
of what you have to say.

There are many others
that feel the same way,

but they're very uneasy
about confronting gosheven.

Get them together
and we'll meet at my house.

In our dealings
with other non-humanoid races,

there's always been
some point of reference.

Not so with the sheliak.

But we must have something
in common. We communicate.

Barely.

They have learned
several federation languages

but theirs continues to elude us.

- Telepath.
- Attempted and failed.

Actually, the fact that any alien race
communicates with another

is quite remarkable.

We are stranded on a planet.

We have no language in common
but I want to teach you mine.

- What did I just say?
- Cup.

- Glass.
- Are you sure?

I may have meant liquid,
clear, brown, hot.

We conceptualize the universe
in relatively the same way.

Point taken.

In your talks,
you must be extremely accurate.

The treaty is 500,000 words.

The length was to accommodate
the sheliak.

They consider our language irrational
and demanded this level of complexity

to avoid any future
misunderstandings.

Riker:
Captain, we have the vessel

carrying the sheliak colonists
on visual.

On my way.

So it begins.

- Hailing frequencies.
- Worf: Open.

This is captain Jean-Luc picard
of the starship enterprise.

Your purpose, enterprise?

We desire face-to-face negotiations
to settle the crisis on tau cygna v.

Meaningless.

We are entitled to consultation
under paragraph 653, subparagraph 9.

- Was that an invitation?
- I am taking it as such.

Counselor.
You have the bridge, number one.

Helm, maintain relative position.

Mr. Worf, tell transporter room 2
to stand by.

Aye, sir.

And once the federation resettles us,
we'll be left alone?

If you so desire.

We do.
We like to do things on our own.

The federation will offer as little
or as much help as you dictate.

Kentor, are you with us?

The question is,
how do we convince gosheven?

Well, why do we need to?

Because he's respected.
Most people will do what he says.

They respect you too.
If you take a stand, they'll fall in line.

I don't know.
Gosheven's got a lot of supporters.

Gosheven:
Don't forget that, kentor.

I'm disappointed.
I thought we'd settled this.

Apparently, that is not correct.

Still stirring up trouble?

Since when is talk trouble?

It's over.

Don't you get it?

You had your say. You lost.

- I appear to be reversing that defeat.
- No, you're not.

You're just stubborn.
Well, let me tell you something.

So am I.

Damn you, gosheven.

- You killed him.
- I've killed no one.

I merely shut down a machine.

That's it, everyone.
It's time to go home.

You'll see that I'm right.

Sheliak: Advance and speak.

Director,

we will comply with your request

to remove the colony
from tau cygna v, but we need time.

Sheliak:
The given time has elapsed.

We carry the membership and
we will proceed with their debarkation.

The temporary presence
of these humans

should not interfere with your plans.

Unacceptable.
You must remove the creatures.

I'm trying, but the needed ship
will not be available for three weeks.

Sheliak:
Then you are in violation.

I have admitted that.

I am only asking for a little flexibility.

Section 501, paragraph 716,
subparagraph 5:

"Unwanted life forms inhabiting
h-class worlds may be removed

at the discretion
of the sheliak corporate."

We will remove them,

but you must Grant us
the time we require.

You need time,
picard of the enterprise.

We will save you time.

We will eradicate
the human infestation.

They are not vermin.
They are citizens of the federation.

I will not permit this outrage.

Sheliak:
Intelligent converse is impossible.

You do not discuss, you jibber.

Between intelligent species
of good will...

I take it the sheliak
just hung up on us again.

I was afraid your neural pathways
were scrambled beyond repair.

I am equipped
with diagnostic circuits

and am able to correct
many malfunctions.

I'm not surprised
at gosheven's behavior.

But kentor and the others,
they said they were with us.

I guess words don't mean
very much.

Perhaps that is a part
of our difficulty.

Words are all we have been using.

Humans seem to take
much stronger notice of actions.

I require a phaser.

What's a phaser?

A type of weapon.

Unfortunately, it does not function
in the presence of hyperonic radiation.

I will have to be innovative.

Hyperonic radiation
randomizes phaser beams.

But I believe I can improvise
a servo circuit which will compensate

by continuously recollimating
the output.

You're using your own
neural sub-processors

to build a smarter phaser.

Essentially correct.

Get word to gosheven.

Tell him I am coming
to the pumping station.

Tell him I am going to destroy
the aqueduct.

He'll try to stop you.

I sincerely hope so.

- Go to yellow alert. Shields up.
- Aye, sir.

Mr. Riker, put us nose-to-nose
with the sheliak vessel.

- Any move she makes, match it.
- Aye, sir.

Mr. Worf, hailing frequency.

Open.

They are not responding.

They don't have to answer.
They just have to listen.

Sheliak vessel,
you will have to get past me

to get at the colony on tau cygna v.

No response.

Close channel.

And get me that treaty.

They've been beating us
over the head with it for three days.

Let's see
if we can't find something in it

that we can turn
to our own advantage.

Data: Stop.

That was the stun setting.

This is not.

I can reduce this pumping station
to a pile of debris,

but I trust my point is clear.

I am but one Android
with a single weapon.

There are hundreds of sheliak
on the way,

and their weapons
are far more powerful.

They may not offer you a target.

They can obliterate you from orbit.

You will die

never having seen the faces
of your killers.

The choice is yours.

There are other places,
other challenges!

Man 1: Listen to kentor.
Man 2: Yes.

I really was willing to stay here
and die for this.

I know that.

This is just a thing
and things can be replaced.

Lives cannot.

Worf: This is hopeless.

Fighting would be preferable.

That's it.

I don't follow you, sir.

- Mr. Worf, get me the sheliak.
- Yes, sir.

Coming through, sir.

Pursuant to paragraph 1290,

I hereby formally request
third-party arbitration of our dispute.

You have the right.

Furthermore,
pursuant to subsection d-3,

I name the grizzelas to arbitrate.

Grizzelas?

Unfortunately, they are currently
in their hibernation cycle.

However,
they will awaken in six months,

at which time,
we can get this matter settled.

Now, do you want to wait,

or give me my three weeks?

We carry the membership.
We can brook no delay.

Then I hereby declare this treaty
in abeyance.

Wait. Negotiation is permissi...

You enjoyed that.

You're damned right.

Captain, they are hailing us.

On-screen.

You may have your three weeks,
picard of the enterprise.

Thank you.

Captain, we can do it.

- We can modify the transporters.
- Excellent.

It'll take 15 years
and a research team of a hundred...

Mr. La forge,

I believe we will postpone.

Yes, sir.

Lieutenant commander data
to enterprise.

I am preparing to leave tau cygna v
and await rendezvous instructions.

Worf: Acknowledged. Stand by.

The evacuation plan is going well.

When the ship arrives,
we'll be ready to leave.

You succeeded.

I could not have succeeded
without your support and insight.

I am grateful for your assistance.

Good. Then you won't forget me.

I am incapable of forgetting.

I will remember every detail
of my visit here with perfect clarity.

But nothing more?

I do not understand.

I guess what I really wanna know is

do you have any feelings for me?

I have no feelings of any kind.

No, of course you don't.

What was that for?

You appeared to need it.

So you saw that I was unhappy

and did what you concluded
would make me feel better.

Rational to the last.

Come.

Welcome home, Mr. Data.
Well done.

Thank you, sir.

The good doctor was kind enough

to provide me
with a recording of your concert.

Your performance shows feeling.

As I have recently reminded others,
sir, I have no feeling.

It's hard to believe.

Your playing is quite beautiful.

Strictly speaking, sir,
it is not my playing.

It is a precise imitation
of the techniques

of jascha heifetz
and trenka bronkin.

Is there nothing of data
in what I'm hearing?

You see, you chose the violinists.

Heifetz and bronkin
have radically different styles,

different techniques,

and yet you combine them
successfully.

I suppose I have learned to
be creative, sir, when necessary.

Mr. Data, I look foward
to your next concert.