1 00:00:04,463 --> 00:00:07,591 Picard: Captain's log, stardate 435391 2 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:10,636 we have moved into orbit around bre'El iv. 3 00:00:10,844 --> 00:00:13,244 With the assistance of the planet's emergency control center, 4 00:00:13,430 --> 00:00:16,266 we 're investigating a catastrophic threat to the population 5 00:00:16,475 --> 00:00:18,560 from a descending asteroida/ moon. 6 00:00:20,437 --> 00:00:23,774 The satellite's trajectory is continuing to deteriorate, captain. 7 00:00:23,982 --> 00:00:27,861 This orbit will put it within 500 kilometers of the planet's surface. 8 00:00:28,070 --> 00:00:29,905 Garin: We are predicting the atmospheric drag 9 00:00:30,113 --> 00:00:31,865 will bring it down on the next orbit. 10 00:00:32,074 --> 00:00:35,244 Have you been able to find any explanation for this? 11 00:00:35,452 --> 00:00:38,789 No, doctor. It is a most unusual phenomenon. 12 00:00:38,997 --> 00:00:40,832 Won't the moon disintegrate prior to impact? 13 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:43,710 No, it has a ferrous crystalline structure 14 00:00:43,919 --> 00:00:47,756 and it will be able to withstand tidal forces, captain. 15 00:00:47,965 --> 00:00:49,633 Could we blow it into pieces? 16 00:00:49,841 --> 00:00:52,427 The total mass of the moon would remain the same, commander. 17 00:00:52,636 --> 00:00:54,221 And the impact of thousands of fragments 18 00:00:54,429 --> 00:00:56,640 would spread destruction over an even wider area. 19 00:00:56,848 --> 00:01:00,143 - How long before impact? - Twenty-nine hours, sir. 20 00:01:00,352 --> 00:01:02,521 Projecting it somewhere on the western continent. 21 00:01:02,729 --> 00:01:05,983 That would destroy an area 800 kilometers in radius. 22 00:01:06,191 --> 00:01:08,860 That damage would be insignificant, captain, 23 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:12,281 compared to the seismic repercussions, 24 00:01:12,489 --> 00:01:16,451 massive land quakes and Tsunami. 25 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:19,162 The force would raise a cloud of dust around the planet, 26 00:01:19,371 --> 00:01:21,957 leading to a significant temperature reduction. 27 00:01:22,165 --> 00:01:25,168 We could be looking at our own ice age. 28 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:32,301 Mr. La forge, is there any way that the enterprise 29 00:01:32,509 --> 00:01:35,012 could coax that satellite back where it belongs? 30 00:01:35,220 --> 00:01:38,932 We need to apply a delta-v of about 4 kilometers per second. 31 00:01:39,141 --> 00:01:40,741 Even with warp power to the tractor beam, 32 00:01:40,934 --> 00:01:43,437 it would mean exceeding the recommended impulse engine output 33 00:01:43,645 --> 00:01:45,230 by at least 47 percent. 34 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:49,484 It'd be like an ant pushing a tricycle. A slim chance at best. 35 00:01:49,693 --> 00:01:52,946 Given a choice between slim and none, I'll take slim any day. 36 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:55,365 - Make it so. - Lieutenant worf? 37 00:01:55,574 --> 00:01:59,202 Contact all ships in this sector to rendezvous and join us in relief efforts. 38 00:01:59,411 --> 00:02:01,788 We'll keep you advised of our progress. Picard out. 39 00:02:05,834 --> 00:02:07,169 Can you give us any more, geordi? 40 00:02:07,377 --> 00:02:09,713 La forge: Not without burning out the tractor beam emitter. 41 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,174 The circuits are already beyond the thermal limit. 42 00:02:12,382 --> 00:02:15,093 Delta-v is 92 meters per second. 43 00:02:15,302 --> 00:02:16,678 The mass is too great. 44 00:02:16,887 --> 00:02:18,687 We are having an effect, but it is negligible. 45 00:02:21,224 --> 00:02:24,269 - What is that? - Data: Unable to identify source. 46 00:02:24,478 --> 00:02:26,813 Impulse engines passing safety limits. 47 00:02:27,022 --> 00:02:28,774 We're seconds from automatic shutdown. 48 00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:31,985 Reduce engine power. Tractor beam off. 49 00:02:32,194 --> 00:02:34,196 Lieutenant worf, what the hell does the sensor say? 50 00:02:34,404 --> 00:02:36,698 The sound is not registering, commander. 51 00:03:18,365 --> 00:03:22,619 Picard: Space, the final frontier. 52 00:03:23,245 --> 00:03:27,165 These are the voyages of the starship enterprise. 53 00:03:27,374 --> 00:03:32,587 Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, 54 00:03:32,796 --> 00:03:37,008 to seek out new life and new civilizations, 55 00:03:37,426 --> 00:03:41,805 to boldly go where no one has gone before. 56 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:42,365 Picard: Captain's log, supplemental. 57 00:04:42,532 --> 00:04:47,370 We are no closer to a solution to the deteriorating orbit of the bre'El moon. 58 00:04:47,579 --> 00:04:49,164 But with the arrival of q, 59 00:04:49,372 --> 00:04:52,125 we now have a good idea of the cause. 60 00:04:52,334 --> 00:04:53,376 Our options? 61 00:04:53,585 --> 00:04:55,712 We've done everything by the book and a little extra. 62 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:59,049 We need more time or power, and we're short on both. 63 00:04:59,257 --> 00:05:02,302 I'll take a look and see if there are any rules I haven't broken. 64 00:05:02,511 --> 00:05:03,637 Keep me informed. 65 00:05:05,806 --> 00:05:08,141 We know you're behind this, q. 66 00:05:08,350 --> 00:05:10,894 These aren't my colors. 67 00:05:11,102 --> 00:05:13,814 And what are you blathering about, riker? 68 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,650 What kind of twisted pleasure does it give you 69 00:05:16,858 --> 00:05:18,777 to bring terror into their lives? 70 00:05:18,985 --> 00:05:20,946 - Whose lives? - The millions of people down there 71 00:05:21,154 --> 00:05:23,824 who are watching as their moon falls out of the sky. 72 00:05:24,032 --> 00:05:26,112 I haven't the vaguest idea what you're talking about. 73 00:05:26,284 --> 00:05:28,245 And I have a much more serious problem. 74 00:05:28,453 --> 00:05:30,664 I'm no longer a member of the continuum. 75 00:05:30,872 --> 00:05:33,083 My superiors have decided to punish me. 76 00:05:33,291 --> 00:05:35,544 And punish us as well, it would seem. 77 00:05:35,752 --> 00:05:38,296 They say I've spread chaos through the universe, 78 00:05:38,505 --> 00:05:41,424 and they've stripped me of all my powers. 79 00:05:42,843 --> 00:05:44,511 You don't believe me, do you? 80 00:05:44,719 --> 00:05:46,763 Do you think I would humiliate myself like this? 81 00:05:47,430 --> 00:05:49,432 If it served your purpose, yes. 82 00:05:49,641 --> 00:05:51,560 It's the truth. 83 00:05:52,143 --> 00:05:54,813 I stand before you defrocked. 84 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:58,024 Condemned to be a member of this lowest of species. 85 00:05:58,233 --> 00:06:01,486 A normal, imperfect, lumpen human being. 86 00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:05,115 They made you human as part of your punishment? 87 00:06:05,824 --> 00:06:07,409 No, it was my request. 88 00:06:07,617 --> 00:06:10,370 I could have chosen to exist as a markoffian sea lizard 89 00:06:10,579 --> 00:06:11,955 or a belzoidian flea. 90 00:06:12,163 --> 00:06:16,042 Anything I wished, as long as it was mortal. 91 00:06:16,251 --> 00:06:18,587 And since I had only a fraction of a second to mull, 92 00:06:18,795 --> 00:06:22,048 I chose this, and asked them to bring me here. 93 00:06:22,257 --> 00:06:24,968 - — Why? - Because in all the universe, 94 00:06:25,176 --> 00:06:28,138 you are the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean-Luc. 95 00:06:29,431 --> 00:06:32,058 Sir, he is reading as fully human. 96 00:06:32,267 --> 00:06:33,602 What, is there an echo in here? 97 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:37,188 I am sensing an emotional presence, captain. 98 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:40,692 I would normally describe it as being terrified. 99 00:06:40,901 --> 00:06:42,235 How rude. 100 00:06:42,444 --> 00:06:44,112 What is it you want, q? 101 00:06:44,321 --> 00:06:46,031 Your compassion. 102 00:06:47,991 --> 00:06:50,827 All right. Sanctuary on this ship, 103 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:53,121 dreary as it may sound to the both of us. 104 00:06:53,622 --> 00:06:55,290 Return that moon to its orbit. 105 00:06:55,498 --> 00:06:59,002 I have no powers. Q the ordinary. 106 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:00,795 Q the liar. Q the misanthrope. 107 00:07:01,004 --> 00:07:03,006 Q the miserable. Q the desperate. 108 00:07:03,214 --> 00:07:05,425 What must I do to convince you people? 109 00:07:05,634 --> 00:07:06,927 Die. 110 00:07:08,303 --> 00:07:10,597 Oh, very clever, worf. 111 00:07:10,805 --> 00:07:12,557 Eat any good books lately? 112 00:07:12,974 --> 00:07:15,769 Fine. You want to be treated as human. 113 00:07:15,977 --> 00:07:17,520 Absolutely. Picard: All right. 114 00:07:17,771 --> 00:07:20,315 Mr. Worf, throw him in the brig. 115 00:07:21,066 --> 00:07:23,193 Delighted, captain. 116 00:07:23,818 --> 00:07:26,446 You can't do this to me, Jean-Luc. 117 00:07:26,821 --> 00:07:28,907 You will walk or I will carry you. 118 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:31,660 Given the option, I'll walk. 119 00:07:32,369 --> 00:07:34,955 You've disappointed me, Jean-Luc. I'm very disappointed. 120 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:37,415 Hey, I'm claustrophobic. I don't like it in here. 121 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:42,504 It was a mistake. I never should have picked human. 122 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:44,464 I knew it the moment I said it. 123 00:07:44,673 --> 00:07:46,633 To think of a future in this shell. 124 00:07:46,841 --> 00:07:48,468 Forced to cover myself with a fabric 125 00:07:48,677 --> 00:07:50,929 because of some outdated human morality. 126 00:07:51,137 --> 00:07:53,807 To say nothing of being too hot or too cold, 127 00:07:54,015 --> 00:07:56,643 growing feeble with age, 128 00:07:56,851 --> 00:07:58,687 losing my hair, 129 00:07:58,895 --> 00:08:00,730 catching a disease, 130 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:03,608 being ticklish, sneezing, 131 00:08:03,817 --> 00:08:08,238 having an itch, a pimple, bad breath. 132 00:08:09,447 --> 00:08:11,491 Having to bathe. 133 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:17,872 Klingon. I should have said klingon. 134 00:08:18,081 --> 00:08:21,376 In my heart of hearts, I am a klingon, worf. 135 00:08:21,584 --> 00:08:22,919 Sorry. 136 00:08:23,128 --> 00:08:25,463 So you understand, I could never survive in confinement. 137 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:28,299 I mean, this is cruel and unusual punishment. 138 00:08:28,508 --> 00:08:30,719 The universe has been my backyard. 139 00:08:30,927 --> 00:08:35,223 As a fellow klingon, if you would speak to the captain on my behalf, 140 00:08:35,432 --> 00:08:37,308 I would be eternally grateful. 141 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:39,227 Which doesn't mean as much as it used to. 142 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:41,146 Be quiet! 143 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:42,939 Or disappear back where you came from. 144 00:08:43,148 --> 00:08:47,277 I can't disappear any more than you could win a beauty contest. 145 00:08:50,697 --> 00:08:53,158 If I were to ask you a very simple question, 146 00:08:53,366 --> 00:08:57,454 do you think you might answer it without it troubling your intellect much? 147 00:08:57,662 --> 00:08:59,414 Ready? Here goes. 148 00:08:59,622 --> 00:09:02,959 Would I permit you to lock me away if I still had all my powers? 149 00:09:03,168 --> 00:09:05,170 You have fooled us too often, q. 150 00:09:05,378 --> 00:09:08,882 Oh, perspicacity incarnate. 151 00:09:09,090 --> 00:09:10,467 Please, don't feel compelled now 152 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:12,927 to tell me the story of the boy who cried "worf." 153 00:09:14,220 --> 00:09:17,265 Computer, activate forcefield. 154 00:09:18,558 --> 00:09:20,894 I demand to be let out of here, do you hear me? 155 00:09:21,478 --> 00:09:25,440 You'll deactivate this cell immediately. 156 00:09:26,858 --> 00:09:29,069 Romulan! 157 00:09:30,487 --> 00:09:34,449 I should have said romulan, that klingon goat. 158 00:09:34,657 --> 00:09:39,120 The question is, what sort ofjaded game is he up to this time? 159 00:09:39,329 --> 00:09:40,609 Maybe he just wants a big laugh. 160 00:09:40,789 --> 00:09:42,624 He'll take bre'El iv to the edge of disaster, 161 00:09:42,832 --> 00:09:44,626 and then pull the moon back. 162 00:09:46,336 --> 00:09:49,255 Or he may have nothing to do with it at all. 163 00:09:49,547 --> 00:09:51,187 You honestly think q is telling the truth? 164 00:09:51,382 --> 00:09:52,822 Oh, I agree this is highly unlikely. 165 00:09:53,009 --> 00:09:54,849 But we have to proceed with our current dilemma 166 00:09:55,053 --> 00:09:56,973 as though q is powerless to prevent it, don't we? 167 00:09:57,180 --> 00:10:01,059 - There he sits, he watches us struggle. - I don't see that we have any choice. 168 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:04,771 Mr. Worf, will you hail the bre'El iv science station? 169 00:10:04,979 --> 00:10:07,482 Worf: They're standing by, captain. 170 00:10:09,484 --> 00:10:10,860 Gari n: Yes, captain picard. 171 00:10:11,069 --> 00:10:14,697 I'm sorry, but I have to report that our first attempt to restore the moon 172 00:10:14,906 --> 00:10:17,909 to its proper orbit has failed. 173 00:10:21,621 --> 00:10:24,958 We have less than 25 hours before impact, captain. 174 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:28,013 Our chief engineer is working on ways to reinforce the tractor beam. 175 00:10:28,211 --> 00:10:29,838 So there is a hope. 176 00:10:30,046 --> 00:10:32,632 But if you have an evacuation plan... 177 00:10:32,841 --> 00:10:35,201 We have already started moving people from the coastal areas 178 00:10:35,385 --> 00:10:36,636 of the western continent. 179 00:10:36,845 --> 00:10:38,721 We are gonna make another attempt shortly. 180 00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:40,640 Picard out. 181 00:10:41,182 --> 00:10:43,262 I've gotta tell you, geordi is not at all optimistic. 182 00:10:45,270 --> 00:10:47,147 What the devil...? 183 00:10:47,981 --> 00:10:49,566 Data? 184 00:10:50,441 --> 00:10:52,861 Sensors are showing broad-band emissions, 185 00:10:53,069 --> 00:10:54,362 including berthold rays. 186 00:10:54,571 --> 00:10:56,364 - Lethal? - No, commander. 187 00:10:56,573 --> 00:10:59,075 Overall exposure is less than 75 rems. 188 00:10:59,284 --> 00:11:01,995 Very low intensity, more like a soft medical scan. 189 00:11:02,203 --> 00:11:04,581 I would speculate we are being probed. 190 00:11:04,789 --> 00:11:05,999 By whom? 191 00:11:06,207 --> 00:11:08,626 Sensors cannot identify the point of origin. 192 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:11,796 It seems to be coming from all around us. 193 00:11:36,196 --> 00:11:38,948 Aw, you've come to apologize. How nice. 194 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:40,408 All's forgiven. 195 00:11:40,617 --> 00:11:41,910 - No offense taken. - Enough. 196 00:11:42,118 --> 00:11:44,579 Q, what exactly is going on? 197 00:11:44,787 --> 00:11:46,372 Well, how could I know what's going on? 198 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:48,541 I've been in this dungeon of yours, 199 00:11:48,750 --> 00:11:52,879 alone, helpless, bored to tears. 200 00:11:53,087 --> 00:11:56,049 We have a moon inexplicably falling out of orbit. 201 00:11:56,257 --> 00:11:59,594 And just now this ship was probed with berthold radiation. 202 00:12:00,136 --> 00:12:01,512 I wasn't aware of this. 203 00:12:03,389 --> 00:12:05,099 Truthfully, Jean-Luc. 204 00:12:05,308 --> 00:12:07,268 I have been entirely preoccupied 205 00:12:07,477 --> 00:12:10,730 by a most frightening experience of my own. 206 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:13,358 A couple of hours ago, 207 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:16,819 I realized that my body was no longer functioning properly. 208 00:12:17,028 --> 00:12:20,240 I felt weak. I could no longer stand. 209 00:12:20,448 --> 00:12:23,868 The life was oozing out of me. I lost consciousness. 210 00:12:24,202 --> 00:12:25,245 You fell asleep. 211 00:12:26,412 --> 00:12:28,164 Oh, terrifying. 212 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:30,375 How can you stand it day after day? 213 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:34,671 - You get used to it. - What other dangers await me? 214 00:12:34,879 --> 00:12:37,298 I'm not prepared for this. I need guidance. 215 00:12:37,507 --> 00:12:39,884 Q, I'm not gonna play along with this. 216 00:12:40,218 --> 00:12:43,137 If you want to continue this charade, you can do it alone. 217 00:12:43,554 --> 00:12:45,473 Jean-Luc, wait. 218 00:12:45,682 --> 00:12:49,936 This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them. 219 00:12:50,144 --> 00:12:53,022 You have a moon in a deteriorating orbit. 220 00:12:53,231 --> 00:12:55,400 I've known moons through the universe. 221 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:58,611 Big one, small ones. I'm an expert. 222 00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:02,073 I could help you with this one, if you'll let me out of here. 223 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:06,327 Q, there are millions of lives at risk. 224 00:13:06,536 --> 00:13:10,415 - If you have the power... - I don't have any powers. 225 00:13:10,623 --> 00:13:15,795 But I have the knowledge, locked up in this puny brain. 226 00:13:16,838 --> 00:13:20,133 You cannot afford to not take that advantage, can you? 227 00:13:22,969 --> 00:13:25,847 Mr. Data, report to detention cell 3. 228 00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:27,974 Data: On my way, sir. 229 00:13:31,436 --> 00:13:33,104 Computer, remove the forcefield. 230 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:37,775 If you are human, which I seriously doubt, 231 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:40,236 you will have to work hard to earn our trust. 232 00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:44,324 I'm not worried about that, Jean-Luc. You only dislike me. 233 00:13:44,532 --> 00:13:47,827 There are others in the cosmos who truly despise me. 234 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:55,752 Mr. Data, you are hereby assigned to q for the remainder of his stay. 235 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,087 You'll escort him to Mr. La forge in engineering. 236 00:13:58,296 --> 00:14:01,966 - Aye, sir. - Can I have a starfleet uniform? 237 00:14:04,093 --> 00:14:06,054 What are you looking at? 238 00:14:06,262 --> 00:14:09,390 I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth, 239 00:14:09,599 --> 00:14:12,977 - that you really are human. - It's the ghastly truth, Mr. Data. 240 00:14:13,186 --> 00:14:15,438 I can now stub my toe with the best of them. 241 00:14:15,646 --> 00:14:16,689 An irony. 242 00:14:16,898 --> 00:14:18,649 It means that you have achieved in disgrace 243 00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:20,818 what I have always aspired to be. 244 00:14:30,745 --> 00:14:33,581 Humans are such commonplace little creatures. 245 00:14:33,790 --> 00:14:37,001 They roam the galaxy searching for something they know not what. 246 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:40,004 The human race has an enduring desire for knowledge, 247 00:14:40,213 --> 00:14:42,048 and for new opportunities to improve itself. 248 00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:44,976 Well, there's certainly room for improvement, but the truth is, data, 249 00:14:45,176 --> 00:14:47,136 they're a minor species in the grand scheme. 250 00:14:47,345 --> 00:14:48,638 Not worth your envy. 251 00:14:48,846 --> 00:14:51,182 - Oh, I do not feel envy. - Well, that's good. 252 00:14:51,391 --> 00:14:53,518 I feel nothing at all. 253 00:14:53,810 --> 00:14:55,520 That is part of my dilemma. 254 00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:57,855 I have the curiosity of humans, 255 00:14:58,064 --> 00:15:00,566 but there are questions that I will never have the answers to. 256 00:15:00,775 --> 00:15:03,694 What it is like to laugh or cry. 257 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:06,364 Or to experience any human emotions. 258 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:09,617 Hmm. Well, if you ask me, these human emotions 259 00:15:09,826 --> 00:15:11,536 are not what they're cracked up to be. 260 00:15:13,621 --> 00:15:15,873 La forge: The moon will hit its perigee in ten hours. 261 00:15:16,082 --> 00:15:18,376 Now, we match its trajectory, 262 00:15:18,584 --> 00:15:20,545 increase emitter coolant rate so that we can apply 263 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:23,756 continuous warp-equivalent power nine to the tractor beam. 264 00:15:23,965 --> 00:15:28,428 We can push it for nearly seven hours, and I think that just might do it, 265 00:15:28,636 --> 00:15:30,763 but there's a problem. 266 00:15:30,972 --> 00:15:33,599 The enterprise will be dangerously close to the atmosphere. 267 00:15:33,808 --> 00:15:35,768 - That's the problem. - This is incredible. 268 00:15:35,977 --> 00:15:39,313 - You see something here, q? - I think I just hurt my back. 269 00:15:39,522 --> 00:15:43,151 I'm feeling pain. I don't like it. 270 00:15:43,359 --> 00:15:45,820 What's the right thing to say? Ow? 271 00:15:46,028 --> 00:15:48,489 Data and la forge: Ow. — ow! 272 00:15:48,739 --> 00:15:50,533 I can't straighten up. 273 00:15:50,741 --> 00:15:52,285 Medical assistance to engineering. 274 00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:54,537 Q, I've got a few people down on bre'El iv 275 00:15:54,745 --> 00:15:56,080 - who are gonna be hurt... - Yes. 276 00:15:56,289 --> 00:15:58,570 Your marvelous plan will not only tear the moon to pieces, 277 00:15:58,749 --> 00:16:00,251 but your precious ship as well. 278 00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:01,711 You got a better idea? 279 00:16:02,170 --> 00:16:03,546 Well, I would certainly begin 280 00:16:03,754 --> 00:16:06,132 by examining the cause and not the symptom. 281 00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:08,100 We've already done that. There's no way to... 282 00:16:08,259 --> 00:16:11,179 This is obviously the result of a large celestial object 283 00:16:11,387 --> 00:16:14,682 passing through at near-right angles to the plane of the star system. 284 00:16:14,891 --> 00:16:16,100 Probably a black hole. 285 00:16:16,309 --> 00:16:18,811 Can you recommend a way to counter the effect? 286 00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:21,814 Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe. 287 00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:23,065 What? 288 00:16:23,274 --> 00:16:25,526 Change the gravitational constant of the universe, 289 00:16:25,735 --> 00:16:27,570 thereby altering the mass of the asteroid. 290 00:16:27,778 --> 00:16:30,239 Redefine gravity. And how am I supposed to do that? 291 00:16:30,448 --> 00:16:32,366 You just do it. Agh! 292 00:16:32,575 --> 00:16:34,619 Where is that doctor, anyway? 293 00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:35,870 Geordi is trying to say 294 00:16:36,078 --> 00:16:38,278 that changing the gravitational constant of the universe 295 00:16:38,456 --> 00:16:41,209 - is beyond our capabilities. — ow. 296 00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:45,213 Well, in that case, never mind. 297 00:16:45,963 --> 00:16:48,799 Ah. Dr. Crusher. 298 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:51,552 I see starfleet has shipped you back into exile. 299 00:16:51,761 --> 00:16:54,013 Q says he has hurt his back. 300 00:17:00,895 --> 00:17:03,981 Well, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it. 301 00:17:04,190 --> 00:17:06,817 According to this, he has classic back trauma. 302 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:09,028 Muscle spasms. 303 00:17:09,237 --> 00:17:11,948 I've been under a lot of pressure lately. Family problems. 304 00:17:12,156 --> 00:17:14,659 Mm. Well, don't expect too much sympathy from me. 305 00:17:14,867 --> 00:17:16,869 You have been a pain in our backside often enough. 306 00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:21,707 Your beside manner's admirable, doctor. 307 00:17:21,916 --> 00:17:25,336 I'm sure your patients recover quickly, just to get away from you. 308 00:17:27,713 --> 00:17:29,257 You know, this might work. 309 00:17:29,465 --> 00:17:31,801 We can't change the gravitational constant of the universe, 310 00:17:32,009 --> 00:17:34,178 but if we wrap a low-level warp field around that moon, 311 00:17:34,387 --> 00:17:36,389 we could reduce its gravitational constant, 312 00:17:36,597 --> 00:17:38,349 make it lighter so we can push it. 313 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:41,310 Glad I could help. 314 00:17:44,855 --> 00:17:46,357 Now what? 315 00:17:47,191 --> 00:17:48,818 There's something wrong with my stomach. 316 00:17:49,193 --> 00:17:50,403 It hurts? 317 00:17:50,778 --> 00:17:52,363 It's making noises. 318 00:17:53,364 --> 00:17:55,825 Maybe you're hungry. 319 00:18:01,247 --> 00:18:03,416 I've never eaten before. What do I ask for? 320 00:18:03,624 --> 00:18:06,294 The choice of meal is determined by individual taste. 321 00:18:06,502 --> 00:18:08,254 What do you like? 322 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:10,715 Although I do not require sustenance, 323 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:14,176 I occasionally ingest semi-organic nutrient suspension 324 00:18:14,385 --> 00:18:16,012 in a silicon-based liquid medium. 325 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:17,972 Is it good? 326 00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:20,933 It would be more appropriate to say it is good for me, 327 00:18:21,142 --> 00:18:22,977 as it lubricates my bio-functions. 328 00:18:23,185 --> 00:18:25,313 It doesn't sound very appealing. What else is there? 329 00:18:25,521 --> 00:18:27,648 A wide variety of items. 330 00:18:27,857 --> 00:18:30,651 The replicator can make anything you desire. 331 00:18:30,860 --> 00:18:33,404 How do I know what I desire? 332 00:18:34,572 --> 00:18:38,075 I have observed that the selection of food 333 00:18:38,284 --> 00:18:41,078 is often influenced by the mood of the person ordering. 334 00:18:41,287 --> 00:18:44,874 I'm in a dreadful mood. Get me something appropriate. 335 00:18:45,416 --> 00:18:50,713 When counselor troi is unhappy, she usually eats something chocolate. 336 00:18:51,881 --> 00:18:53,382 - Chocolate? - Mm. 337 00:18:53,591 --> 00:18:55,801 A chocolate sundae, for example. 338 00:18:56,010 --> 00:18:58,471 Although I do not speak from personal experience, 339 00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:02,433 I have seen it have a profound psychological impact. 340 00:19:03,517 --> 00:19:05,728 I'll have ten chocolate sundaes. 341 00:19:05,936 --> 00:19:07,229 Woman: Ten? 342 00:19:07,438 --> 00:19:10,858 I have never seen anyone eat ten chocolate sundaes. 343 00:19:11,067 --> 00:19:12,777 I'm in a really bad mood. 344 00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:16,989 And since I've never eaten before, I should be very hungry. 345 00:19:20,951 --> 00:19:24,413 This is not a moment I've been looking forward to. 346 00:19:33,756 --> 00:19:37,093 I hear they drummed you out of the continuum. 347 00:19:37,301 --> 00:19:40,763 I like to think of it as a significant career change. 348 00:19:40,971 --> 00:19:42,431 Just one of the boys, eh? 349 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,894 One of the boys with an IQ of 2,005. 350 00:19:47,645 --> 00:19:49,814 The captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced 351 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:51,982 he is truly human. 352 00:19:52,650 --> 00:19:54,485 Really? 353 00:20:02,785 --> 00:20:04,370 Seems human enough to me. 354 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:08,833 This is a dangerous creature. You have no idea. 355 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:11,836 Why picard would make her a member of the crew and not me... 356 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:15,798 It must be terribly frightening for you to be totally defenseless 357 00:20:16,006 --> 00:20:19,218 after all of those centuries of being omnipotent. 358 00:20:19,427 --> 00:20:22,012 I'm warning you, I still have friends in high places. 359 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:26,684 Frightening one race after the other, teasing them like frightened animals, 360 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:30,896 and you enjoying every moment of your victims' fears. 361 00:20:31,105 --> 00:20:33,566 From now on, I'll do missionary work, okay? 362 00:20:34,316 --> 00:20:36,360 That would be a most noble cause, q. 363 00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:38,028 You could learn a lot from this one. 364 00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:41,323 Sure, the robot who teaches the course in humanities. 365 00:20:41,532 --> 00:20:43,659 I am an Android, not a robot. 366 00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:44,910 I beg your pardon. 367 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,329 I'd enjoy that, and you better get used to it. 368 00:20:47,538 --> 00:20:48,998 - What? - Begging. 369 00:20:49,206 --> 00:20:51,000 You're a pitiful excuse for a human. 370 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:54,920 The only way you're gonna survive is on the charity of others. 371 00:21:04,972 --> 00:21:08,058 Ugh. I'm not hungry. 372 00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:12,646 Captain, sensors are picking up a cloud of energetic plasma, 373 00:21:12,855 --> 00:21:14,899 bearing 341, Mark 20. 374 00:21:15,107 --> 00:21:18,194 Range, 12 kilometers and closing. 375 00:21:18,402 --> 00:21:20,196 On-screen. 376 00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:27,828 Energy patterns are reading as highly organized. 377 00:21:30,539 --> 00:21:32,750 Attempt to make contact, Mr. Worf. 378 00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:35,169 Receiving a signal, sir. On speaker. 379 00:21:37,713 --> 00:21:39,006 Computer, analyze signal. 380 00:21:39,215 --> 00:21:41,300 Computer: Signal patterns indicate intelligence. 381 00:21:41,509 --> 00:21:47,181 Unable to derive necessary referents to establish translation matrix. 382 00:21:48,182 --> 00:21:50,434 Woman: What's that? Man: I don't know. 383 00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:56,273 Calamarain. 384 00:22:05,115 --> 00:22:07,396 Captain, we're being hit by a field of energetic tachyons, 385 00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:08,702 penetrating the hull. 386 00:22:08,911 --> 00:22:11,163 Location, deck 10, forward. 387 00:22:12,706 --> 00:22:14,500 Geordi, increase power to shields. 388 00:22:14,708 --> 00:22:17,461 La forge: Increasing power by 20 percent. 389 00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:19,088 No effect. 390 00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:20,923 Increasing to 40 percent. 391 00:22:21,882 --> 00:22:23,133 Still no effect. 392 00:22:25,636 --> 00:22:27,096 Aah! 393 00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:37,106 Adjusting shield harmonics, diverting power to the forward grids. 394 00:22:38,524 --> 00:22:41,610 The added harmonics are blocking the tachyon field. 395 00:22:44,572 --> 00:22:45,823 Help me! 396 00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:48,576 Somebody help me. 397 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:51,620 How the mighty have fallen. 398 00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:56,482 Picard: Captain's log, supplemental. 399 00:22:56,625 --> 00:22:59,920 We have sustained light damage from an attack by an alien species 400 00:23:00,129 --> 00:23:01,714 known as the calamarain. 401 00:23:01,922 --> 00:23:04,884 They apparently have a grievance with q. 402 00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:07,595 No doubt one of many life-forms that do. 403 00:23:07,803 --> 00:23:10,890 The, uh, calamarain are not very hospitable creatures. 404 00:23:11,098 --> 00:23:13,976 They exist as swirls of ionized gas. 405 00:23:14,184 --> 00:23:16,186 What did you do to them, q? 406 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,522 Oh, nothing bizarre. 407 00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:20,524 Nothing grotesque. 408 00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:22,693 You tormented them. 409 00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:24,904 A subjective term, riker. 410 00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:28,032 One creature's torment is another creature's delight. 411 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,867 They simply have no sense of humor. 412 00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:33,954 A character flaw with which you can personally identify. 413 00:23:34,163 --> 00:23:36,874 - I say we turn him over to them. - Oh, well, I take it back. 414 00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:39,919 You do have a sense of humor, a dreadful one at that. 415 00:23:40,127 --> 00:23:41,462 I'm serious. 416 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:42,922 Of course. 417 00:23:43,130 --> 00:23:45,674 You knew this would happen, didn't you? 418 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,677 One can never anticipate the calamarain. 419 00:23:48,886 --> 00:23:51,263 They're very intelligent but very flighty. 420 00:23:51,472 --> 00:23:55,267 Yes, but you must have so many enemies. 421 00:23:55,476 --> 00:23:58,896 Certainly you knew that if once you became mortal, 422 00:23:59,104 --> 00:24:01,106 some of them might look you up. 423 00:24:02,358 --> 00:24:04,443 - It had occurred to me. - Mm-hm. 424 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,779 And for all your protestations of friendship, 425 00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:10,783 your real reason for being here is protection. 426 00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:15,454 You're very smart, Jean-Luc. 427 00:24:15,663 --> 00:24:17,706 But I know human beings. 428 00:24:17,915 --> 00:24:21,460 They're all sopping over with compassion and forgiveness. 429 00:24:21,669 --> 00:24:26,131 They can't wait to absolve almost any offense. 430 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:28,300 It's an inherent weakness of the breed. 431 00:24:28,509 --> 00:24:30,469 On the contrary. It is a strength. 432 00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:33,514 You call it what you will, but I think you'll protect me, 433 00:24:33,722 --> 00:24:35,808 even though I've tormented you now and again. 434 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:38,102 Fighting off all the species which you've insulted 435 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:41,146 would be a full-time mission. That's not the one I signed up for. 436 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:42,940 Indeed. 437 00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:45,567 Human or not, I want no part of you. 438 00:24:45,776 --> 00:24:48,904 We will deposit you at the first starbase. Let them deal with you. 439 00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:51,907 Uh, but I could be a valuable member of the team. 440 00:24:52,116 --> 00:24:54,201 I'm human. I can learn. 441 00:24:54,410 --> 00:24:56,704 He has provided important theoretical guidance 442 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:59,415 for geordi's analysis of the bre'El satellite, captain. 443 00:24:59,623 --> 00:25:01,667 It seems you have an advocate, q. 444 00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,920 I am merely stating a fact, counselor. 445 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,007 Mr. La forge, your status? 446 00:25:08,215 --> 00:25:10,015 La forge: I've been putting together a program 447 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:11,969 to extend the forward lobe of the warp field. 448 00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:15,055 The field coils aren't designed to envelop such a large volume, 449 00:25:15,264 --> 00:25:17,474 but I'm attempting to modify their alignment parameters. 450 00:25:17,683 --> 00:25:20,185 Data: Maintaining field integrity will be difficult, geordi. 451 00:25:20,394 --> 00:25:22,771 Well, I'm pretty sure that we can do it manually. 452 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:26,316 The moon will come to its perigee in 14 minutes. 453 00:25:26,692 --> 00:25:29,570 Mr. Data, you will escort q to engineering. 454 00:25:29,778 --> 00:25:31,447 You will assist Mr. La forge. 455 00:25:31,655 --> 00:25:34,700 Mr. Worf, hail the bre'El iv science station. 456 00:25:34,908 --> 00:25:36,660 Wo rf: Aye, sir. 457 00:25:39,580 --> 00:25:42,082 Picard thinks I can't cut it on his starship. 458 00:25:42,291 --> 00:25:45,419 I can do anything his little trained minions can do. 459 00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:48,297 I do not perceive your skills to be in doubt, q. 460 00:25:48,505 --> 00:25:50,507 The captain is merely concerned with your ability 461 00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:54,386 to successfully interact with his little trained minions. 462 00:25:54,595 --> 00:25:57,931 Human interpersonal relationships are more complex. 463 00:25:58,140 --> 00:26:01,435 Your experience may not have adequately prepared you. 464 00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:04,480 I'm not interested in human interpersonal relationships. 465 00:26:04,688 --> 00:26:08,150 I just want to prove to picard that I'm indispensable. 466 00:26:10,486 --> 00:26:12,362 Engineering. 467 00:26:12,780 --> 00:26:16,200 To function aboard a starship, or in any human activity, 468 00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:18,660 you must learn to form relationships. 469 00:26:18,827 --> 00:26:20,579 Ugh, it's so hard. 470 00:26:20,788 --> 00:26:24,875 And of more immediate importance is your ability to work within groups. 471 00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:27,252 I'm not good in groups. 472 00:26:27,461 --> 00:26:30,798 It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. 473 00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:35,427 The tides reached 10 meters on the last orbit. 474 00:26:35,636 --> 00:26:37,971 They are already beginning to swell again. 475 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:41,517 We have a lot of frightened people down here, captain. 476 00:26:41,725 --> 00:26:43,644 Your moon has begun moving toward its perigee. 477 00:26:43,852 --> 00:26:45,354 We're preparing to make our attempt. 478 00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:48,398 Our population has already taken shelter. 479 00:26:48,607 --> 00:26:52,486 But I'm afraid no shelter will be adequate if you fail. 480 00:26:52,694 --> 00:26:56,532 Especially for the people on the western continent. 481 00:26:56,990 --> 00:26:58,575 Whatever the results, 482 00:26:58,784 --> 00:27:01,620 we know you've done your best, picard. 483 00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:04,623 It's appreciated. 484 00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:06,917 We'll keep you advised, doctor. Picard out. 485 00:27:07,126 --> 00:27:10,045 Captain, sensors are picking up an increased energy output 486 00:27:10,254 --> 00:27:12,005 from the calamarain. 487 00:27:12,214 --> 00:27:13,882 La forge: La forge to bridge. 488 00:27:14,258 --> 00:27:16,885 The moon has reached its minimum orbital distance. 489 00:27:17,094 --> 00:27:18,303 It's time, captain. 490 00:27:18,512 --> 00:27:21,098 - We'll have to lower shields. - Proceed. 491 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:24,643 Mr. Worf, keep a close eye on q's friends out there. 492 00:27:24,852 --> 00:27:26,228 Understood. 493 00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:31,733 All right, everyone, this is what we're going to be doing. 494 00:27:31,942 --> 00:27:34,987 Q, everybody already knows what they're going to do except for you. 495 00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:36,780 - Now here's what I need... - La forge, 496 00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:39,575 obviously my knowledge and experience far exceeds yours, 497 00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:41,994 by about a billion times. 498 00:27:42,202 --> 00:27:44,663 So if you'll just step aside, gracefully. 499 00:27:44,872 --> 00:27:47,249 Q, your experience will be most valuable to me 500 00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:49,418 if you can manually control the field integrity. 501 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:52,004 Don't be foolish. That would be a waste of my talents. 502 00:27:52,212 --> 00:27:54,464 Q, get to the controls or get the hell out of here. 503 00:27:57,885 --> 00:28:01,263 Data, you're my liaison to the bridge. I'll need you with me. 504 00:28:01,972 --> 00:28:04,641 Who does he think he is, giving me orders? 505 00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:09,271 Geordi thinks he is in command here. And he is correct. 506 00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:16,361 Engineering, holding at station keeping. Range, 640 meters. 507 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:18,728 Data: Containment fields to flight tolerance. 508 00:28:18,864 --> 00:28:20,949 Warp core to 90 percent. 509 00:28:21,158 --> 00:28:24,369 Engage field coils. Tractor beam to stand by. 510 00:28:24,578 --> 00:28:26,663 Field output? 511 00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:28,999 Field output? 512 00:28:29,208 --> 00:28:30,709 Two-seventeen. 513 00:28:30,918 --> 00:28:33,629 Impulse engines to full. 514 00:28:34,755 --> 00:28:36,548 Ready to engage tractor beam. 515 00:28:36,757 --> 00:28:38,926 Lowering shields. Engage tractor beam. 516 00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:44,890 Extending warp field forward. 517 00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:47,338 Picard: Engineering, is that the forward limit? 518 00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:50,604 Yes, captain. We are unable to encompass the entire moon. 519 00:28:50,812 --> 00:28:52,412 Picard: Do you recommend that we proceed? 520 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:55,400 The two parts of the moon will have different inertial densities. 521 00:28:55,609 --> 00:28:57,819 Stand by, captain. 522 00:28:58,028 --> 00:28:59,828 I can adjust the field symmetry to compensate. 523 00:29:01,281 --> 00:29:03,575 You don't know what this ship can do, mister. 524 00:29:03,784 --> 00:29:06,078 Yes, captain, I still believe it'll work. 525 00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:08,956 Increasing power to warp field and tractor beam. 526 00:29:09,164 --> 00:29:10,916 And if you're wrong, the moon will crumble 527 00:29:11,124 --> 00:29:12,626 due to subspace compression. 528 00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:14,711 - Don't say I didn't warn you. - Shut up, q. 529 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,089 I will not be spoken to in this manner. 530 00:29:19,216 --> 00:29:23,095 Q, I strongly suggest that you cooperate. 531 00:29:26,598 --> 00:29:28,517 Inertial mass of the moon is decreasing 532 00:29:28,725 --> 00:29:31,812 to approximately 2.5 million metric tons. 533 00:29:32,020 --> 00:29:34,773 It is working. We can move it. 534 00:29:34,982 --> 00:29:36,733 Firing impulse engines. 535 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:45,158 Data: Captain, the moon's trajectory has moved 0.3 percent, 0.4 percent. 536 00:29:45,742 --> 00:29:47,577 Emergency. Shields up. 537 00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:49,121 Disengage tractor beam. 538 00:29:49,329 --> 00:29:50,414 Calamarain attacking. 539 00:29:52,874 --> 00:29:55,627 Shields holding. Tachyon field repelled. 540 00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:57,994 La forge: Captain, the impact of the blast is pushing us 541 00:29:58,130 --> 00:29:59,256 into the upper atmosphere. 542 00:30:04,845 --> 00:30:08,890 Hull temperature rising, 2,000 degrees, 2,500 degrees. 543 00:30:09,099 --> 00:30:10,726 La forge: Moving to full impulse power. 544 00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:12,644 Calamarain resuming attack. 545 00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:18,025 They've overpowered the shields. 546 00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:20,569 Hull penetration, deck 36, engineering. 547 00:30:20,777 --> 00:30:23,238 Geordi, can you direct any more power to the shields? 548 00:30:23,447 --> 00:30:26,208 We need all the power we have to get out of the atmosphere, commander. 549 00:30:33,749 --> 00:30:35,334 No, no, no. 550 00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:39,869 - Try activating structural integrity field. - Yes, sir. 551 00:30:45,927 --> 00:30:48,680 It's not working. Structural field harmonics on manual. 552 00:30:50,891 --> 00:30:53,811 Riker: La forge, hull temperature falling. We 're in the clear. 553 00:30:53,894 --> 00:30:56,688 Diverting power to forward sections now. 554 00:31:12,621 --> 00:31:15,749 La forge: That charge nearly knocked out his positronic net. 555 00:31:15,957 --> 00:31:17,084 What can you do for him? 556 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:20,295 We can try to discharge and reset the motor pathways, 557 00:31:20,504 --> 00:31:22,631 recouple the autonomic nodes. 558 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,133 There's overpressure in his fluidic systems. 559 00:31:25,342 --> 00:31:28,261 Thermal shock. If he was mortal, he'd be dead. 560 00:31:28,470 --> 00:31:31,056 Well, let's not overstate the matter here, doctor. 561 00:31:31,264 --> 00:31:34,142 I'm mortal and I survived. 562 00:31:36,061 --> 00:31:37,562 The cheers are overwhelming. 563 00:31:37,771 --> 00:31:40,816 Q, you exceed your own standards of self-preoccupation. 564 00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:44,069 You have no concern for an officer who may have saved your life. 565 00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:46,279 He's strong, he'll survive. 566 00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:48,240 La forge: Osmotic pressure still rising. 567 00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:50,867 Maybe we can bypass the flow regulator. 568 00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:54,413 It would be helpful if everybody just got out of here now. 569 00:31:58,208 --> 00:32:00,168 Picard: Stay with q. 570 00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:04,589 - Geordi? - Mm. 571 00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:06,883 The moon's trajectory. 572 00:32:08,051 --> 00:32:11,012 All we did was buy ourselves another orbit, at most. 573 00:32:11,221 --> 00:32:13,557 We can try again when the moon comes back to its perigee. 574 00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:16,245 And when we drop our shields, the calamarains go after q again. 575 00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:19,813 Commander, he's not worth it. 576 00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:28,738 Come. 577 00:32:31,658 --> 00:32:35,454 You're right, of course. I'm extraordinarily selfish. 578 00:32:35,662 --> 00:32:38,540 But it has served me so well in the past. 579 00:32:38,748 --> 00:32:41,293 It will not serve you here. 580 00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:43,503 Don't be so hard on me, Jean-Luc. 581 00:32:43,712 --> 00:32:46,798 You've been a mortal all your life. You know all about dying. 582 00:32:47,007 --> 00:32:49,259 I've never given it a second thought. 583 00:32:49,468 --> 00:32:51,970 Or a first one, for that matter. 584 00:32:52,554 --> 00:32:54,723 I could have been killed. 585 00:32:55,015 --> 00:32:56,433 If it hadn't been for data 586 00:32:56,641 --> 00:33:00,020 and that one brief delay he created, I would have been gone. 587 00:33:00,437 --> 00:33:03,106 No more me. 588 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,276 And no one would have missed me, would they? 589 00:33:09,738 --> 00:33:12,199 Data may have sacrificed himself for me. 590 00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:13,867 Why? 591 00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:16,536 That is his special nature. 592 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:19,581 He learned the lessons of humanity well. 593 00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:23,001 When I ask myself if I would have done the same for him, 594 00:33:23,210 --> 00:33:26,963 and I am forced to answer no, 595 00:33:29,758 --> 00:33:31,760 I feel ashamed. 596 00:33:31,968 --> 00:33:34,262 Q, I'm not your father confessor. 597 00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:37,224 You will receive no absolution from me. 598 00:33:37,432 --> 00:33:40,143 You have brought nothing but pain and suffering to this crew. 599 00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:42,687 And I'm still not entirely convinced 600 00:33:42,896 --> 00:33:47,275 that all this isn't your latest attempt at a puerile joke. 601 00:33:47,484 --> 00:33:50,862 It is a joke. Joke on me, joke of the universe. 602 00:33:51,071 --> 00:33:53,448 The king who would be man. 603 00:33:53,657 --> 00:33:56,368 As I learn more and more what it is to be human, 604 00:33:56,576 --> 00:33:59,120 I am more and more convinced that I would never make a good one. 605 00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:01,873 I don't have what it takes. 606 00:34:02,082 --> 00:34:05,252 Without my powers, I'm frightened of everything. 607 00:34:06,086 --> 00:34:08,004 I'm a coward. 608 00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:10,257 And I'm miserable. 609 00:34:11,841 --> 00:34:14,344 And I can't go on this way. 610 00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:27,941 He's going to be all right. 611 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,540 We're recalibrating his language circuits, 612 00:34:30,735 --> 00:34:31,945 so he can't talk yet. 613 00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:37,742 There are creatures in the universe 614 00:34:37,951 --> 00:34:41,705 who would consider you the ultimate achievement, Android. 615 00:34:41,913 --> 00:34:47,460 No feelings, no emotions, no pain. 616 00:34:47,669 --> 00:34:51,006 And yet you covet those qualities of humanity. 617 00:34:51,256 --> 00:34:53,842 Believe me, you're missing nothing. 618 00:34:56,303 --> 00:35:01,016 But if it means anything to you, you're a better human than I. 619 00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:13,612 Where's the main shuttlebay? 620 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:15,905 Computer: Main shuttlebay is located on deck 4. 621 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:18,241 Take me there. 622 00:35:19,034 --> 00:35:23,204 Captain, an unscheduled shuttle has just been launched. 623 00:35:23,747 --> 00:35:25,624 On main viewer. 624 00:35:30,837 --> 00:35:34,299 - Hailing frequency. - Frequencies open. 625 00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:36,843 Shuttle occupant, identify yourself. 626 00:35:37,761 --> 00:35:39,888 Don't try and talk me out of it, Jean-Luc. 627 00:35:40,096 --> 00:35:41,681 Q, return to the ship immediately. 628 00:35:41,890 --> 00:35:44,309 I just can't get used to following orders. 629 00:35:44,643 --> 00:35:46,102 Captain. 630 00:35:46,311 --> 00:35:48,438 The plasma cloud is moving toward the shuttle. 631 00:35:48,647 --> 00:35:52,984 It's easier this way. They won't bother you after I'm gone. 632 00:35:53,193 --> 00:35:55,070 Engineering, prepare to extend shields. 633 00:35:55,278 --> 00:35:58,073 Please, don't fall back on your tired cliché 634 00:35:58,281 --> 00:36:01,368 of charging to the rescue just in the Nick of time. 635 00:36:01,576 --> 00:36:03,828 I don't want to be rescued. 636 00:36:04,037 --> 00:36:07,123 My life as a human being has been a dismal failure. 637 00:36:07,332 --> 00:36:10,085 Perhaps my death will have a little dignity. 638 00:36:10,293 --> 00:36:12,879 Q, there is no dignity in this suicide. 639 00:36:13,088 --> 00:36:16,800 Yes, I suppose you're right. Death of a coward then, so be it. 640 00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:20,345 But as a human, I would have died of boredom. 641 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:40,156 This goes against my better judgment. 642 00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:42,659 Transporter room 3, log on to shuttle 1. 643 00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:44,035 Beam it back into its bay. 644 00:36:44,202 --> 00:36:45,995 Transport chief: Aye, captain. 645 00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:50,166 It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft. 646 00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:52,133 Transport chief: Captain, unable to transport. 647 00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:55,380 For some reason, I can't lock on to the shuttlecraft. 648 00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:58,133 Worf, are you sensing any interference from the calamarain? 649 00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:00,760 No, sir. But they are still moving toward the shuttle. 650 00:37:00,969 --> 00:37:03,138 Geordi, extend shields around shuttle 1. 651 00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:05,098 La forge: Extending shields. 652 00:37:05,890 --> 00:37:07,642 Commander, the shields are frozen. 653 00:37:07,851 --> 00:37:09,519 Rhqer: Cause? 654 00:37:10,812 --> 00:37:11,855 Unknown. 655 00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:14,482 Riker: Look on tractor beam. 656 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,861 Tractor beam is not functioning either. 657 00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:20,321 What the hell is going on? 658 00:37:20,530 --> 00:37:22,741 Not bad, q. 659 00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:27,495 Not great. 660 00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:39,632 Sacrificing yourself for these humans? 661 00:37:39,841 --> 00:37:43,303 Do I detect a little selfless act? 662 00:37:43,511 --> 00:37:44,554 You flatter me. 663 00:37:44,763 --> 00:37:48,892 I was only trying to put a quick end to a miserable existence. 664 00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:52,854 - What a dreadful color. - Yeah. 665 00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:54,647 What are you doing here? 666 00:37:56,316 --> 00:37:57,650 I've been keeping track of you. 667 00:37:57,859 --> 00:37:59,694 I always thought you were in my corner. 668 00:37:59,903 --> 00:38:03,114 Ha, no, no. See, actually, I was the one who got you kicked out. 669 00:38:03,865 --> 00:38:05,992 You know, you're incorrigible, q, you're a lost cause. 670 00:38:06,201 --> 00:38:11,164 I can't go to a single solar system without having to apologize for you, 671 00:38:11,372 --> 00:38:12,624 and I'm tired of it. 672 00:38:12,832 --> 00:38:16,419 I wasn't the one who misplaced the entire deltived asteroid belt. 673 00:38:16,628 --> 00:38:18,505 Hey. This isn't about me. 674 00:38:18,713 --> 00:38:21,800 I got better places to be. Somebody had to keep an eye on you 675 00:38:22,008 --> 00:38:25,345 to make sure you still didn't find a way to cause trouble. 676 00:38:25,553 --> 00:38:30,934 Even as a member of this, hmm, limited species. 677 00:38:31,142 --> 00:38:34,312 Well, I hope I've been entertaining you. 678 00:38:35,396 --> 00:38:37,106 Barely. 679 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:40,652 But I find these humans rather interesting. 680 00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:42,821 I'm beginning to understand what you see in them. 681 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:46,658 After all the things that you've done, they're still intent on keeping you safe. 682 00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:49,035 A genetic weakness of the race. 683 00:38:49,244 --> 00:38:52,914 And they're still at it. They just tried to, um, 684 00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:55,959 beam you up, back, whatever it is they call it. 685 00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:59,295 - Really? - I stopped them. 686 00:38:59,504 --> 00:39:01,589 Well, if the calamarains hurry up and finish me off, 687 00:39:01,798 --> 00:39:04,884 - we can get you back on your way. - Afraid I had to put them on hold too. 688 00:39:05,093 --> 00:39:09,722 You see, there's still this matter of the selfless act. 689 00:39:10,974 --> 00:39:13,476 Now you and I both know the calamarain would have eventually 690 00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:16,062 destroyed the enterprise to get to you. 691 00:39:16,271 --> 00:39:19,232 And that's really why you left, right? 692 00:39:19,774 --> 00:39:21,484 It was a teeny bit selfless, wasn't it? 693 00:39:21,651 --> 00:39:24,654 Ah! Yeah. And there's my problem. I can't go back to the continuum 694 00:39:24,863 --> 00:39:27,144 and tell them you committed a selfless act before the end. 695 00:39:27,323 --> 00:39:28,908 If I do, there's gonna be questions, 696 00:39:29,117 --> 00:39:31,703 there's gonna be explanations for centuries. 697 00:39:31,911 --> 00:39:33,955 I've learned my lesson, q. 698 00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:36,457 Remember who you're talking to. 699 00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:40,086 All-knowing, all-seeing. 700 00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:47,760 Hmm, fine. Hmm. You got your powers back. 701 00:39:49,387 --> 00:39:52,056 Try and stay out of trouble. 702 00:39:58,187 --> 00:40:01,900 So they wanted to destroy me, did they? 703 00:40:05,028 --> 00:40:08,156 If you think I tormented you in the past, my little friends, 704 00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,700 wait until you see what I do with you now. 705 00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:17,582 I was just seeing if you were still watching. 706 00:40:20,793 --> 00:40:23,671 Captain, the aliens have disappeared. 707 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,214 And so has the shuttle. 708 00:40:25,423 --> 00:40:28,426 - Scantheseckw. - I have, sk. 709 00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:34,307 Well, I suppose that is the end of q. 710 00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:43,107 He's back. 711 00:40:59,082 --> 00:41:01,000 I'm forgiven. 712 00:41:01,209 --> 00:41:04,212 My brothers and sisters of the continuum have taken me back. 713 00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:07,966 I'm immortal again, omnipotent again. 714 00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:10,843 Don't fret, riker. 715 00:41:11,052 --> 00:41:13,805 My good fortune is your good fortune. 716 00:41:17,809 --> 00:41:19,936 I don't need your fantasy women. 717 00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:23,314 Oh, you're so stolid. You weren't like that before the beard. 718 00:41:26,609 --> 00:41:27,652 Very well. 719 00:41:32,532 --> 00:41:35,535 - Q! - But I feel like celebrating. 720 00:41:37,829 --> 00:41:39,497 All right. 721 00:41:44,043 --> 00:41:45,086 All of it. 722 00:41:51,342 --> 00:41:53,428 Now, at the risk of being rude... 723 00:41:53,636 --> 00:41:55,888 Yes, once again, I've overstayed my welcome. 724 00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:57,932 As a human, I was ill-equipped to thank you. 725 00:41:58,141 --> 00:42:01,894 But as myself, you have my everlasting gratitude. 726 00:42:02,103 --> 00:42:03,688 Until next time. 727 00:42:04,313 --> 00:42:07,483 Ah, but before I go, 728 00:42:07,692 --> 00:42:09,652 there's a debt I wish to repay 729 00:42:09,861 --> 00:42:12,238 to my professor of the humanities. 730 00:42:12,447 --> 00:42:16,617 Data, I've decided to give you something very, very special. 731 00:42:16,826 --> 00:42:18,506 If your intention is to make me human, q... 732 00:42:18,661 --> 00:42:19,871 No, no, no, no, no, no. 733 00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:22,749 I would never curse you by making you human. 734 00:42:22,957 --> 00:42:28,212 Think of it as a going away present. 735 00:42:45,605 --> 00:42:46,647 La forge: Data? 736 00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:58,659 Data, why are you laughing? 737 00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,172 I do not know. 738 00:43:13,925 --> 00:43:17,553 But it was a wonderful feeling. 739 00:43:19,555 --> 00:43:22,350 Captain, bre'El iv is hailing us. 740 00:43:22,558 --> 00:43:24,352 On-screen, lieutenant. 741 00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:27,855 Captain picard, you've done it. 742 00:43:29,148 --> 00:43:30,191 I'm sorry? 743 00:43:30,399 --> 00:43:33,444 The moon. It's back to its normal orbit. 744 00:43:33,653 --> 00:43:37,115 However you did it, thank you. 745 00:43:40,284 --> 00:43:42,203 Let's see it, worf. 746 00:43:48,334 --> 00:43:50,128 Mr. Data, your analysis. 747 00:43:50,336 --> 00:43:52,797 The moon's altitude is 55,000 kilometers, 748 00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:54,882 projected orbit is circular. 749 00:43:55,091 --> 00:43:57,176 There is no further danger to the planet. 750 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:05,810 Ensign. 751 00:44:06,227 --> 00:44:09,564 - Set course for station nigala iv. - Ensign: Aye, sir. 752 00:44:15,987 --> 00:44:22,743 Perhaps there's a residue of humanity in q after all. 753 00:44:25,246 --> 00:44:27,999 Ensign, en... 754 00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:30,793 Don't bet on it, picard.