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Picard:
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?

Must have left
the 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. Sounds like
a loose panel or something.

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

Here's your loose panel.

La forge: 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.

Crusher: Commander.

What is it?

Cellular residue.

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

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.

All of the blood traces I found match
those of lieutenant aquiel uhnari.

I'll assume those are her remains,

but I need to take the deck plate
back to sickbay just to be sure.

It would take a powerful weapon
to do that.

I'll have a better idea
once I've analyzed the deck plate.

If that is uhnari, where's Rocha?

The station 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 the security
lockouts, and I think I know why.

All encrypted subspace messages
are sent through this channel.

Take a look at this signal notation.

Riker: It's out of sequence.

La forge: Like somebody trying
to bypass access protocols

and break into the coded messages.

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've made a friend.
- Yeah.

I've got to go back to the ship. Let me
know as soon as you have something.

I'm gonna try accessing the logs
from another console.

What's going on here?

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.

This is what you want, huh?

There you go.

Computer, run station logs
in sequence.

Aquiel:
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.

Aquiel: 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.

Aqu I El: Hello, shianna.

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.

Aquiel: 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 deck plate.

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 disruptor?

Possibly.

Geordi's found evidence 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 find the shuttle.

- Aye, sir.
- Picard: 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 10 to 100 megahertz.

Computer: Diagnostic cycle
will be complete in 20 seconds.

Iced coffee.

What is it, girl?

- Hello, shianna.
- 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?

I had that dream again.

The one where mother
is screaming.

I climb the hill to our house,
but I can't get to her.

Shianna, this time I ran away.

I was so scared,
I ran back down the hill.

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 will be any trouble.

It just brings up
those feelings of panic,

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

Shianna, I couldn't say this to anyone
but you, but the panic,

it's 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'd 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'll 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.

Computer, access the personal logs
of aquiel uhnari.

- Computer: Logs accessed.
- Begin playback.

Shianna, 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
of 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 seeds still in it.

Keith, is that you?

Keith?

Commander.

There are DNA traces here. Klingon.

So klingons did board the station.

But I only found DNA
from one klingon so far.

I will continue to scan.

Oh, 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 three 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 shianna.

She drank muskan seed punch.

She had a quirky sense of humor.

She liked to sing.

She had questionable taste
in literature.

Picard:
Enterprise to commander riker.

- Riker here.
- Picard: The klingon ship qu'vat

has arrived with governor torak.

Please report
to the observation lounge.

Riker: 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.

This is lieutenant aquiel uhnari.

We were running
a level two diagnostic

of the message buffer,
nothing special.

Rocha had been on edge
all morning,

but he'd been irritable
ever since he'd 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 the 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.

Forty-six 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 deck plate,

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
on to 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 io'be vos?

Torak: At least I do not wear
the uniform of the petaq.

Governor, we are 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.

Aquiel: 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.
- Ah.

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.

Wouldn't mind going some place
with some activity.

I know just the place.

Man 1: Here you are, sir.

Man 2: All right.
Woman: Oh, yes. Thank you.

- Thank you. Ah.
- You're welcome.

Ah. Have you ever tried
muskan seed punch?

- It nearly made me sick.
- Heh.

You have to be raised on it.
It's very nutritious.

The taste grows on you.

You speak haliian.

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

I picked up a couple of languages
along the way.

We never traveled.

My family lived in the same house
for five generations.

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?

Actually, 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.

You seemed to delight in doing things
that you knew would upset him.

Why take on extra com traffic

when you knew
it was gonna 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.

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.

Do 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.

Mm. I know I'm a suspect
in the murder.

Let me ask you something.

You 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.

And I think you need some sleep.

You called me complicated.

You're right,
I don't make friends easily.

Commander.

It is set to kill.

We found this type two 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 at 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 as the murder weapon yet.

And even at level ten,
I don't see how it could have done

the damage medical evidence
says it did.

A phase disruptor
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.

If you weren't so personally involved
with aquiel right now.

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

There's a lot about her
that I do know.

And if she's innocent,
I wanna 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?

Computer:
The logs have been deleted.

Who deleted them?

Unknown.

Picard:
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 on 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? Morag: 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've 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.

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.

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?

- 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 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.

Crusher:
Medical officer's log, supplemental.

I've isolated the cellular residue
from the deck plate,

but the DNA has destabilized.

I'm attempting to re-form it.

All right, initiate
the resonance frequency burst.

I'm beginning to get
a stable DNA scan.

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 percent.

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 deck plates.

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?

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're saying 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.
- Crusher: 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.

Now, 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.

Computer: 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.

Worf: Aye, sir.

I can see you.

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.

Crusher:
Medical officer's log, supplemental.

Commander morag
and lieutenant uhnari

are being kept
under close observation.

So far, no sign
of coalescent behavior has sun'aced.

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.

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 was 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 re-assignment.

You know, I had a conversation

with chief Pendleton
in communications,

and there's an opening
for a level two specialist.

Really?

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.