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[SEVEN NARRATING] Previously on
STAR TREK: Picard…

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[KESTRA] I don't totally get it.

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But I do know something really bad
happened to you.

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You don't have a mom and a dad.
You have Captain Picard.

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- I don't have Picard.
- But you could.

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And he could have you.
And you could both have each other.

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I already had
one grand heroic captain in my life.

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The last thing I need is another one.

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Ten years on,
I still can't close my eyes at night

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without seeing the last one's blood
and brains splattered all over a bulkhead.

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We are gonna take this Cube
away from them forever.

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That sounds like a treaty violation to me.

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Activate the Queencell.

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[SEVEN] In case you ever need a vigilante.

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[CHOKES]

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What is the nature
of your medical emergency?

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Deactivate EMH.

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[CHOKES, GASPS]

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I wish I didn't know what I know.
I wish they hadn't shown me.

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[STEADY BEEP]

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Narek, the Tal Shiar agent,

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was looking for an implanted
memory of a real place.

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And when I told him about
the lightning and the moons,

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he said, "You found home."

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I want to help you
to get back to that home.

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Somebody's tailing us.
Must be since we left the Cube.

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[BEEPS, HISSES]

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[COMPUTER BEEPS]

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[COMMODORE OH]
Our foremothers came to this system

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looking for an answer
to the riddle of the Eightfold Stars.

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What they found was
a storehouse of preserved memories

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that showed them
the grim fate of the civilization

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that perished here long ago.

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We still do not know
the name of the mighty race

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who left behind this object,

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this Admonition,

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warning us of the horror and annihilation
that came from the skies.

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When our foremothers
first endured the Admonition,

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we, the Zhat Vash, were born.

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For hundreds of years since,
we have worked in shadow

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to prevent a second coming
of the Destroyers.

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It is this dreaded work
that you must now carry on.

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What you are about to experience
will drive some of you mad.

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But those of you who endure…

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will be stronger.

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Witness the devastation
that must be prevented.

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Endure the Admonition…

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if you can.

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[CHANTING]

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[SCREAMS]

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[SCREAMING]

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No more!

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[GROANS]

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[SCREAMS]

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[SCREAMS]

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[SCREAMING]

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[CRYING]

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[CRYING CONTINUES]

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We have to stop them.

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We will.

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How?

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Where do we begin?

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On the world the humans call Mars.

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[RAMDHA CRIES]

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Auntie?

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Auntie?

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No more.

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[BREATHES SHAKILY]

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We have our work to do.

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[NARISSA] Doctor Kabath says there's
no medical reason for this, Auntie.

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I do believe you're malingering.

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You were never entirely sane
to begin with, were you?

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It was folly taking in Narek and me
after our parents died.

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And sheer madness
submitting yourself for Admonishment.

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Though, when you lost your mind,
you certainly did it with panache.

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Breaking a Borg Cube
by the sheer force of your despair.

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The Collective picked the wrong
Tal Shiar ship to assimilate that day.

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They ought to have picked mine.

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I'd have made a much better Borg than you.

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"Resistance is futile."

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Narek's located the synthetics' nest.

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I've dispatched ships.

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I'll be joining them as soon as
I've shut down this house of horrors.

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If you wake up…

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you can come along.

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We've our work to do.

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[COMM BEEPS]

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Tell me you found the freak.

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[MAN ON COMM] Yes, Colonel.

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We've tracked him to the office

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of the former director
of the Reclamation Project.

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[DOOR CLOSES]

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[ENERGY PULSATING]

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[GUARD SHOUTS]

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[GRUNTING]

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[GRUNTING CONTINUES]

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[GROANING]

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Where's Hugh?

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[GASPS]

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What is happening on this Cube?

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All right.

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I'm here.
It's all right.

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[PICARD, ECHOING] Rios?

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Rios?

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Rios, this is Doctor Asha.

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I need a secure subspace link.

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[GASPS]

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Rios?

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Hey.

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- Rios!
- What?

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I need a secure subspace link
to Starfleet Command.

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- What?
- What?

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And what's the nearest starbase?

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Deep Space 12.

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Lay in a course.

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Hey, lay in a course.

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I will lay in a course for DS12.

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But after that,
you're on your own, Picard.

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I'm done.

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You said you'd take me home.

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Yes, and I will.

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But we face a powerful enemy.

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We can't do it without support.

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Look, you have no choice but to trust me.

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And I know that would
make me angry too, but…

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I understand.

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Let me find you a cabin.

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Hi.
Raffi.

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Soji.

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Soji, I'm sorry, but your
new best friend, Jean-Luc,

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already brought us one adorable
little homicidal double agent.

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What the hell are
you talking about?

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I'm talking about how
big a fool you really are.

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Yeah. Come.
I'm sorry about her rudeness.

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Raffi!

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A neuron.
That's all you know about her.

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You built this whole giant fantasy

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of rescue and sacrifice and redemption
out of one pissant little neuron.

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Now you put that away or
be prepared to use it on me.

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Agnes Jurati had a
tracking isotope in her blood.

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She's a Romulan spy.

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Fact or theory?

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Theory.

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- Come.
- We think she killed Bruce Maddox.

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Who is "we"?

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She injected herself
with a hydrogen compound.

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She was trying to destabilize

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the viridium tracker
already present in her system.

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And as soon as she did,
we shook our Tal Shiar tail.

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Fact.
Not theory.

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But to say that she's a Tal Shiar agent?

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Maybe she didn't know about the viridium
until you picked up the tail.

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Maybe. Or maybe they put her on this ship
to kill Bruce Maddox.

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Right after they got done
killing Soji's sister.

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Tell me about Maddox.

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His injuries need not have been fatal.
She deactivated me.

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Mm-hmm.

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Then she turned off
the hematic micro repair unit

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that was stabilizing
his cardiovascular function.

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She was in distress.

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Ugh. I… I told you
it was careless to bring her along.

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Now you're telling us
that we need to trust the synth girl too?

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Tell me, JL, what is Soji really like?

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Hmm?

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Do you know?

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Does she?

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Yeah, that's what I thought.

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Where are you going, Raffi?

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To tell Rios I was right about Jurati.

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See if it feels any better
to rub his face in it.

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[SIGHS]

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[CLANCY] That's a hell of a report.

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And you thought I was a desperate old man.

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Quixotic, paranoid, possibly senile…

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Let's just leave it at "quixotic."

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And now the windmills
have turned out to be giants.

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You want an apology?

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- I want a squadron.
- Jean-Luc…

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Clancy!

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Out there, in the Vayt system, right now,

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beings who have as much right
to life and liberty as you and I

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or Commander Data

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are being hunted down by an enemy
who seeks to exterminate them…

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- Jean-Luc!
- No, Clancy.

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If you say
this is not a job for Starfleet,

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then I'm sorry,
but you are a waste of space!

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Admiral Picard,
with all due respect and at long last,

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shut the fuck up.

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I'm sending a squadron
to rendezvous with you at DS12.

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Now stay put until they get there.

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Clancy out.

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Hmm.

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You all right, buddy?

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You seemed a little rattled back there.

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Tell me how I can help you.

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The Tal Shiar had a tracker
inside your girl Jurati,

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and it looks like she killed Bruce Maddox.

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Well, that's bad news.

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Uh.
Yeah.

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Unless you like giant, all-encompassing,
paranoid conspiracy theories,

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then it's, you know,
kinda awesome.

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You know, in a horrible way.

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In bad situations, it's so important
to try and find something positive.

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Goddamn it.
Which one are you?

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Navigation. ENH.
Call me Enoch.

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Where is Rios?

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After he laid in the course
for Deep Space 12,

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he activated us holograms
and went to his quarters.

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Did he tell you why
he got so freaked out by that girl?

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No, but… [CHUCKLES]

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he said if I kept smiling at him,
he would punch me in the face.

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Let me see if I can identify her for you.

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Yes.

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Her name is… Jana.

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Mm-mmm.
Her name is Soji.

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- Ask me about astronavigation!
- Ugh.

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[STAMMERS] This caught my eye
while I was surveilling the Cube.

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All these Romulans sitting around
drawing this over and over.

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Eight circles. See?

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Could those be planets?

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Looks like an attempt
to depict an octonary.

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A what now?

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A planetary system
with eight component stars.

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This is Nu Scorpii,

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a septenary system,
which are extremely rare,

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- but an octonary?
- Hmm.

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There are accounts of one
in some ancient Romulan star atlases,

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but… they're considered apocryphal.

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They don't appear
in any of their modern charts.

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The gravitational mechanics
would have to be…

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incredibly complex.

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[CHUCKLES]

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A… All this time I've been
thinking that the Conclave of Eight

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was eight people
who planned the attack on Mars,

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but maybe the name
refers to the place where they met.

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[SIGHS]

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You are my favorite holo.

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[CHUCKLES]

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- [PA CHATTER]
- [NARISSA] Killed by a phaser.

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The boy has a confederate.

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[MAN ON PA] Sub-sectors gamma 8.11 through
.17 are currently in secure lockdown.

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[NARISSA] Fenris Rangers.

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And it's not hard to guess which one.

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Why didn't you go with them?

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Picard released me.

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I found a cause even more lost than his.

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Is this where the Borg Queen lived?

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No.

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She used to visit sometimes?

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I can explain, or I can steal this Cube.

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[CUBE POWERING UP]

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[ALARM BLARING]

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[BLARING CONTINUES]

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What the hell is going on?

255
00:18:02,791 --> 00:18:05,960
The Cube. It seems to be…
I would almost say it's regenerating.

256
00:18:06,878 --> 00:18:09,714
We have to get rid of every Borg
still held in stasis immediately.

257
00:18:10,381 --> 00:18:12,717
Can they be gassed?
Electrocuted?

258
00:18:13,301 --> 00:18:16,304
We can blow the seals
and jettison them directly into space.

259
00:18:16,971 --> 00:18:19,140
Oh, I like that.
See to it.

260
00:18:19,224 --> 00:18:20,308
Yes, Colonel.

261
00:18:20,391 --> 00:18:22,143
I'll get started on the xBs.

262
00:18:22,227 --> 00:18:23,728
[BLARING CONTINUES]

263
00:18:23,812 --> 00:18:25,021
I'll need this one too.

264
00:18:26,064 --> 00:18:27,065
Come.

265
00:18:54,259 --> 00:18:55,301
Is it all right?

266
00:18:56,052 --> 00:18:57,178
It's good.

267
00:18:57,595 --> 00:18:59,264
Is there something you'd prefer?

268
00:19:01,015 --> 00:19:02,725
Honestly, I don't know.

269
00:19:06,104 --> 00:19:07,814
[BREATHES SHAKILY]

270
00:19:07,897 --> 00:19:09,399
You don't know what it's like…

271
00:19:10,567 --> 00:19:13,653
to have this vacuum inside of you, Picard.

272
00:19:14,195 --> 00:19:17,907
To have someone ask if you
like eggs and have no idea

273
00:19:17,991 --> 00:19:21,911
if the answer is coming from
you or your instruction set.

274
00:19:22,412 --> 00:19:23,496
You're right.

275
00:19:24,455 --> 00:19:26,916
I don't know what that's like.

276
00:19:27,417 --> 00:19:30,795
I can only try and imagine it.

277
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,966
Your memories, your history,

278
00:19:35,049 --> 00:19:39,220
to you feel like incidents
you heard about,

279
00:19:40,013 --> 00:19:42,140
something that happened
to someone else.

280
00:19:43,850 --> 00:19:44,851
Yes.

281
00:19:45,768 --> 00:19:48,354
You feel that you don't
have a past anymore.

282
00:19:48,438 --> 00:19:50,607
- Because I don't.
- That's not true.

283
00:19:51,065 --> 00:19:52,609
You have a past.

284
00:19:52,692 --> 00:19:57,113
You have a story just
waiting to be claimed.

285
00:19:57,989 --> 00:19:59,490
You're talking about Data.

286
00:20:01,034 --> 00:20:02,827
Among other things, yes.

287
00:20:05,288 --> 00:20:06,289
All right.

288
00:20:07,957 --> 00:20:09,083
Tell me about Data.

289
00:20:09,709 --> 00:20:10,919
What was he like?

290
00:20:12,086 --> 00:20:15,506
Well, Data was brave.

291
00:20:16,466 --> 00:20:17,467
Curious.

292
00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:20,428
Very gentle.

293
00:20:21,804 --> 00:20:23,640
He had a child's wisdom…

294
00:20:24,641 --> 00:20:27,769
unclouded by habit or bias.

295
00:20:29,187 --> 00:20:30,813
He made us all laugh,

296
00:20:31,481 --> 00:20:34,400
except when he was
trying to make us laugh.

297
00:20:36,778 --> 00:20:37,779
And you loved him.

298
00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:40,823
I…

299
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,496
Yes.
In my way.

300
00:20:47,455 --> 00:20:48,539
Did he love you?

301
00:20:52,794 --> 00:20:58,633
Data's capacity for expressing
and processing emotion was limited.

302
00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:04,013
I suppose we had that in common.

303
00:21:05,056 --> 00:21:06,057
[SNIFFS]

304
00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:14,357
If I could see you with his eyes,
with his memories,

305
00:21:15,191 --> 00:21:16,401
what would I see?

306
00:21:17,026 --> 00:21:18,361
How would I know that?

307
00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:20,780
What do you hope I would see?

308
00:21:20,863 --> 00:21:23,116
How do you wish he would remember you?

309
00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:28,454
You mean, if he had survived me
rather than the other way around?

310
00:21:29,664 --> 00:21:35,211
I hope he would remember Jean-Luc Picard
as someone who believed in him,

311
00:21:35,837 --> 00:21:38,006
who believed in his potential.

312
00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:41,217
Celebrated his successes.

313
00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,303
Counseled him when he fell short.

314
00:21:44,387 --> 00:21:46,014
Helped him if he needed help,

315
00:21:46,097 --> 00:21:49,892
and if he didn't need it,
got out of his way.

316
00:21:52,353 --> 00:21:53,855
Words to that effect.

317
00:22:05,616 --> 00:22:06,617
He loved you.

318
00:22:20,465 --> 00:22:21,591
Chris?

319
00:22:22,216 --> 00:22:23,301
Are you Chris?

320
00:22:23,718 --> 00:22:27,430
No, lassie.
I'm the Emergency Engineering Hologram.

321
00:22:27,513 --> 00:22:28,598
But I go by Ian.

322
00:22:28,681 --> 00:22:31,100
First of all, I'm gonna ask you
never to call me "lassie" again.

323
00:22:31,184 --> 00:22:32,268
Duly noted.

324
00:22:32,894 --> 00:22:34,187
Have you seen Rios?

325
00:22:34,812 --> 00:22:38,107
No. Captain's still hiding out
in his cabin.

326
00:22:39,484 --> 00:22:41,819
Hiding out?
From what?

327
00:22:41,903 --> 00:22:43,071
From Soji?

328
00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:46,324
I dinnae ken for sure,
but I wouldn't be surprised.

329
00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:49,494
Sight of that lassie's bound to
stir up unwelcome memories.

330
00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:53,122
And why is that? Where
does he know her from?

331
00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:58,836
I dinnae have
the faintest notion.

332
00:22:59,670 --> 00:23:02,548
I ken it's true, but
I dinnae ken why.

333
00:23:03,341 --> 00:23:04,342
Mm.

334
00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:05,551
Lot of that going around.

335
00:23:07,303 --> 00:23:10,973
Uh, engineering, right?
Let me ask you something.

336
00:23:11,057 --> 00:23:12,266
What are the chances

337
00:23:12,350 --> 00:23:15,228
that an octonary star system
would occur naturally?

338
00:23:15,311 --> 00:23:16,646
Close to…

339
00:23:18,064 --> 00:23:19,357
Close to nil, I'd say.

340
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,776
Meaning it would have to be built.

341
00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:25,113
You'd have to capture eight suns.

342
00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:29,200
Move them across light-years of space
and set them in motion.

343
00:23:29,784 --> 00:23:31,661
[BREATHES SHAKILY]

344
00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:33,246
Why would you want to do that?

345
00:23:33,329 --> 00:23:34,330
[SCOFFS]

346
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:37,333
Showin' off. Saying,
"Look what I can do."

347
00:23:37,959 --> 00:23:38,960
[CHUCKLES]

348
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:43,131
Or maybe you had something
really important to say,

349
00:23:43,214 --> 00:23:45,550
and you wanted to make sure
that people were paying attention.

350
00:23:46,801 --> 00:23:50,429
Like, if you wanted to
leave them a warning.

351
00:23:50,888 --> 00:23:51,889
[RAFFI GASPS]

352
00:23:51,973 --> 00:23:55,601
I'm getting closer.
Ian, I can feel it.

353
00:23:56,185 --> 00:23:59,188
Aye.
And how's it feel?

354
00:24:01,065 --> 00:24:02,483
Absolutely terrifying.

355
00:24:05,069 --> 00:24:06,070
Burgundy.

356
00:24:06,154 --> 00:24:07,363
[BEEPING]

357
00:24:09,824 --> 00:24:11,117
- Red wine.
- [BEEPING]

358
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,704
What is the nature
of your hospitality emergency?

359
00:24:14,787 --> 00:24:16,664
I need a glass of red wine.

360
00:24:16,747 --> 00:24:19,792
You disabled alcohol service
from your quarters two days ago.

361
00:24:19,876 --> 00:24:21,794
Reinstate it.
Override.

362
00:24:21,878 --> 00:24:25,423
You locked yourself out of override and…

363
00:24:26,174 --> 00:24:27,550
out of meta-override.

364
00:24:29,010 --> 00:24:30,720
Then shoot me in the head.

365
00:24:32,263 --> 00:24:33,264
[SIGHS]

366
00:24:33,347 --> 00:24:36,058
What's with Rios?
Should I be worried about him?

367
00:24:36,517 --> 00:24:38,519
He could use someone to talk to.

368
00:24:38,603 --> 00:24:42,940
Someone who doesn't look exactly like him,
only better groomed.

369
00:24:43,316 --> 00:24:44,859
How do you know that?

370
00:24:44,942 --> 00:24:47,403
Are you all networked directly to Rios?

371
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:51,949
When Captain Rios acquired La Sirena,
he selected the self-scan option.

372
00:24:52,033 --> 00:24:56,120
He claims it was an accident,
but he never bothered to revert it, so…

373
00:24:56,204 --> 00:24:58,206
So, you're all Rios?

374
00:24:58,289 --> 00:25:00,333
Overlaid on the five basic installs?

375
00:25:00,416 --> 00:25:02,418
Not, not, not precisely.

376
00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:05,963
He went in later and made some
deletions. Careless ones, I must say.

377
00:25:06,047 --> 00:25:08,674
Ask me the proper temperature
for making Yridian tea.

378
00:25:08,758 --> 00:25:12,803
I no longer have any idea. In
any case, it's hard to explain.

379
00:25:12,887 --> 00:25:14,555
But I am aware, or rather

380
00:25:14,639 --> 00:25:17,892
my algorithms allow me to predict
with a high degree of confidence,

381
00:25:17,975 --> 00:25:24,565
that Captain Rios is in sore need
of a confidant right about now.

382
00:26:05,815 --> 00:26:06,816
[GRUNTS]

383
00:26:27,295 --> 00:26:28,212
[COMM BEEPS]

384
00:26:28,296 --> 00:26:30,673
[ON COMM] Rios?
Honey, it's Raffi.

385
00:26:31,215 --> 00:26:33,009
Thought you might need some company.

386
00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:34,593
Piss off.

387
00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:37,722
- [RAFFI] Pissing off.
- [COMM BEEPS]

388
00:27:19,513 --> 00:27:20,681
[GASPS]

389
00:27:25,144 --> 00:27:27,063
These are the ones Hugh reclaimed.

390
00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:29,523
Thousands more are still in stasis.

391
00:27:30,316 --> 00:27:32,360
- Wake them up.
- They'll be useless,

392
00:27:32,443 --> 00:27:34,487
lost without the voice of the Collective.

393
00:27:38,741 --> 00:27:43,287
I could reactivate
and reconnect their transceivers.

394
00:27:44,038 --> 00:27:47,583
Create a kind of micro-collective
of just the Borg on this Cube.

395
00:27:48,334 --> 00:27:52,380
Coordinate their movements,
deploy them against the Romulan troops.

396
00:27:52,463 --> 00:27:54,131
That sounds amazing.
Do that.

397
00:27:55,132 --> 00:27:56,300
Assimilate them.

398
00:27:57,259 --> 00:27:59,929
Invade their minds.
Suppress their identities.

399
00:28:00,012 --> 00:28:02,264
Enslave them again.

400
00:28:02,348 --> 00:28:03,808
You can release them when we win.

401
00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:07,478
They won't want to be released, and I…

402
00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:13,109
I might not want to release them.

403
00:28:18,114 --> 00:28:19,156
Hmm.

404
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,283
Maybe this was a mistake.

405
00:28:24,328 --> 00:28:26,163
All right.
Somewhere,

406
00:28:26,247 --> 00:28:30,793
underneath this absurd
spectacle I see before me,

407
00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:34,338
are five broken
pieces of Captain Rios.

408
00:28:35,256 --> 00:28:37,883
It's like you each
got dealt a hole card.

409
00:28:39,135 --> 00:28:40,886
How about you turn
them over, hmm?

410
00:28:43,764 --> 00:28:45,057
Sit up.

411
00:28:45,641 --> 00:28:47,518
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

412
00:28:47,601 --> 00:28:50,187
- [SIGHS]
- Okay. L… Let's start with the girl.

413
00:28:50,271 --> 00:28:54,316
Um, Ian, you called her "Jana."
You said you recognized her.

414
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,943
I did.
I do.

415
00:28:56,026 --> 00:28:57,319
- I do too.
- Huh?

416
00:28:57,403 --> 00:28:59,029
Yes, Jana.
Poor thing.

417
00:28:59,113 --> 00:29:01,907
It was just so tragic.

418
00:29:02,533 --> 00:29:03,534
I…

419
00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:07,163
- No. Sorry.
- [SIGHS]

420
00:29:07,246 --> 00:29:10,374
It's like my knowledge of Medusan
astrogation techniques, totally gone.

421
00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:14,670
It's something to do with his time
on the ibn Majid with his captain.

422
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:17,673
Aye.
Captain Alonzo Vandermeer.

423
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:20,176
[RAFFI] Oh… What about him?
Were they close?

424
00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:22,511
Is he alive?

425
00:29:22,595 --> 00:29:23,888
It's, um…

426
00:29:24,889 --> 00:29:26,056
[GROANS]

427
00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:28,517
The information's there somewhere.
I can feel it…

428
00:29:31,228 --> 00:29:32,438
but I can't quite get at it.

429
00:29:32,521 --> 00:29:34,482
[SNORING]

430
00:29:34,565 --> 00:29:35,691
Emmet!

431
00:29:37,318 --> 00:29:38,319
[SIGHS]

432
00:29:39,361 --> 00:29:41,447
- [GRUNTS] What?
- [RAFFI] Ugh.

433
00:29:44,116 --> 00:29:45,451
What happened to Vandermeer?

434
00:29:45,951 --> 00:29:47,661
- Capitán Vandermeer?
- [RAFFI] Mm.

435
00:29:47,745 --> 00:29:48,913
[SIGHS]

436
00:29:49,622 --> 00:29:50,873
[IMITATES GUNSHOT]

437
00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:53,042
Oh.
Well, that's awful.

438
00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:55,711
- Do we know why?
- [IAN] It's one of those things

439
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:57,671
you ken but you do not say.

440
00:29:58,339 --> 00:29:59,340
[EMMET GRUNTS]

441
00:29:59,924 --> 00:30:04,470
- Turns out we don't actually "ken."
- [CHUCKLES]

442
00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:08,557
I can feel the answer,
or a ghost of it.

443
00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:11,310
This may violate my Hippocratic coding,

444
00:30:11,393 --> 00:30:14,188
but after the whole thing was over,

445
00:30:14,271 --> 00:30:16,607
Captain Rios suffered
some kind of breakdown.

446
00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:17,816
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

447
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:19,318
- [EXHALES]
- That's why he was discharged.

448
00:30:19,401 --> 00:30:22,363
Wh… Um. "Whole thing"?
What whole thing?

449
00:30:23,614 --> 00:30:26,492
[SIGHS]
Something happened on the ibn Majid,

450
00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:31,163
something that had to do with
Vandermeer and a girl named Jana.

451
00:30:31,247 --> 00:30:34,792
Don't bother searching for ship's logs
or personal records on the ibn Majid.

452
00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:36,585
- Why?
- It was all classified.

453
00:30:36,669 --> 00:30:37,670
[RAFFI] Because?

454
00:30:39,505 --> 00:30:43,467
Oh. [GRUNTS] Oh, come on.
One of you knows.

455
00:30:43,968 --> 00:30:46,262
What happened on the ibn Majid?

456
00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:48,931
- One of us knows.
- [BLUSTERS]

457
00:30:49,014 --> 00:30:52,142
And he's sae fou as a piper
an' awfu aff the fang.

458
00:30:53,435 --> 00:30:54,395
So true, Ian.

459
00:30:55,312 --> 00:30:56,313
I mean…

460
00:30:57,314 --> 00:30:59,066
it's not even a language.

461
00:31:09,076 --> 00:31:10,160
Did it work?

462
00:31:10,828 --> 00:31:14,999
You neutralized the viridium,
if that's what you mean.

463
00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:18,627
We're no longer being
tracked by the Tal Shiar.

464
00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:22,673
We are now headed
for Deep Space 12.

465
00:31:22,756 --> 00:31:26,343
When we arrive, you will
surrender yourself to the authorities

466
00:31:26,427 --> 00:31:28,429
for the murder of Bruce Maddox.

467
00:31:34,435 --> 00:31:35,603
[SIGHS]

468
00:31:37,688 --> 00:31:40,107
I have been trying to work it out.

469
00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:41,275
[EXHALES SHAKILY]

470
00:31:41,358 --> 00:31:44,278
How you could have done such a thing.

471
00:31:45,613 --> 00:31:46,989
He was your mentor.

472
00:31:48,032 --> 00:31:50,993
Your…
lover?

473
00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:54,622
[PICARD SIGHS]

474
00:31:58,125 --> 00:31:59,376
Why?

475
00:31:59,877 --> 00:32:01,962
[BREATHES SHAKILY]

476
00:32:03,964 --> 00:32:05,090
I had to.

477
00:32:06,008 --> 00:32:08,844
When Commodore Oh
came to find me that day, she…

478
00:32:12,431 --> 00:32:14,391
She did something to me.

479
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:16,101
Poisoned me.

480
00:32:16,185 --> 00:32:22,191
So, the head of Starfleet Security
had you ingest a viridium tracker?

481
00:32:22,274 --> 00:32:23,275
Yes.

482
00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:26,111
But that's not what I'm talking about.

483
00:32:29,239 --> 00:32:31,950
She put poison in my mind, Picard.

484
00:32:32,034 --> 00:32:33,035
She…

485
00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:38,165
put her hands on my head and poured in…

486
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:40,793
[CRIES]

487
00:32:44,254 --> 00:32:47,341
She put in a psychic block
to keep me from talking about it.

488
00:32:47,424 --> 00:32:49,259
Oh… you must fight…

489
00:32:49,343 --> 00:32:50,844
I don't want to talk about it!

490
00:32:54,682 --> 00:32:56,058
Do you believe in hell?

491
00:32:57,059 --> 00:32:58,394
[CLICKS TONGUE]

492
00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,312
Yeah, neither did I.

493
00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,065
Until I saw it.

494
00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:04,733
Now…

495
00:33:06,276 --> 00:33:08,362
I think about suicide every day.

496
00:33:09,613 --> 00:33:11,281
That's how I comfort myself.

497
00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:16,286
Was this experience,

498
00:33:16,370 --> 00:33:20,833
this… vision of Oh's,

499
00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:23,836
one that she lived through herself?

500
00:33:23,919 --> 00:33:25,713
No.
No.

501
00:33:26,255 --> 00:33:27,423
It happened…

502
00:33:30,634 --> 00:33:33,303
thousands of centuries ago.

503
00:33:34,179 --> 00:33:37,015
Because of hubris.
Hubris like Bruce's.

504
00:33:37,099 --> 00:33:39,685
Because of synthetic life?

505
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:42,521
We are at a threshold.

506
00:33:43,522 --> 00:33:45,774
I saw it, Picard.
Oh showed me.

507
00:33:47,276 --> 00:33:52,114
Unless we act quickly and destroy
even the possibility of synthetic life…

508
00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:54,950
Hell will come again.

509
00:33:57,536 --> 00:34:00,205
And this threshold…

510
00:34:00,289 --> 00:34:02,124
[SOJI] Is the coming of Seb-Cheneb…

511
00:34:03,167 --> 00:34:04,585
the Destroyer.

512
00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:10,257
Me.

513
00:34:10,758 --> 00:34:13,844
[♫ BLUES MUSIC PLAYING]

514
00:34:31,779 --> 00:34:32,613
[BEEPING]

515
00:34:56,553 --> 00:34:57,554
So…

516
00:34:59,014 --> 00:35:02,100
Captain Alonzo Vandermeer.

517
00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:07,648
Is that his Walkman?

518
00:35:11,944 --> 00:35:14,029
I used to pretend he was my father.

519
00:35:16,156 --> 00:35:17,991
Called him "Pops" in my head.

520
00:35:18,575 --> 00:35:20,661
Couple of times, it almost slipped out.

521
00:35:22,037 --> 00:35:25,332
Kind of a surprise when he
turned out to be a cold-blooded murderer.

522
00:35:26,458 --> 00:35:27,459
Who?

523
00:35:28,085 --> 00:35:29,711
Who did he murder?

524
00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:32,714
[JURATI] Do you sleep?

525
00:35:34,424 --> 00:35:35,425
Every night.

526
00:35:36,343 --> 00:35:37,719
[CHUCKLES]

527
00:35:37,803 --> 00:35:40,472
You sleep every night.
My God.

528
00:35:43,016 --> 00:35:44,101
Do you eat?

529
00:35:44,852 --> 00:35:46,019
When I'm hungry.

530
00:35:48,021 --> 00:35:49,731
What do you do when you're sad?

531
00:35:50,232 --> 00:35:51,233
Cry.

532
00:35:52,109 --> 00:35:53,402
Thirsty?

533
00:35:54,319 --> 00:35:55,404
Drink.

534
00:35:56,655 --> 00:35:58,407
[CHUCKLING] You drink when you're thirsty.

535
00:36:00,576 --> 00:36:01,577
[SNIFFS]

536
00:36:02,286 --> 00:36:03,912
That is so beautiful.

537
00:36:05,122 --> 00:36:07,541
We were way the hell out
in the Vayt sector.

538
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:10,836
Picked up a diplomatic mission
out of nowhere.

539
00:36:11,336 --> 00:36:14,006
Tiny ship.
Unknown design.

540
00:36:14,756 --> 00:36:16,049
Two passengers.

541
00:36:16,133 --> 00:36:18,260
We scanned them.
They checked out.

542
00:36:18,343 --> 00:36:23,432
We sent the info to Starfleet
and notified them of a first contact.

543
00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:25,267
Then we beamed them on board.

544
00:36:26,101 --> 00:36:28,854
The ambassador, Beautiful Flower…

545
00:36:30,731 --> 00:36:32,441
and his young protégé.

546
00:36:33,317 --> 00:36:34,568
Jana.

547
00:36:36,403 --> 00:36:40,908
You have a constellation
of three beauty marks on your right cheek.

548
00:36:41,909 --> 00:36:43,577
Which is a good thing?

549
00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:44,995
Which is artistry.

550
00:36:46,079 --> 00:36:49,541
Noonien Soong, who made Data,
thought of himself as an artist, but…

551
00:36:51,126 --> 00:36:53,337
he never gave Data three beauty marks.

552
00:36:54,421 --> 00:36:58,592
I also have a mole on my chest.
And a crooked pinkie toe.

553
00:36:59,051 --> 00:37:01,136
[CHUCKLES] You are a wonder.

554
00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:05,182
A… technological masterpiece
and a work of art.

555
00:37:05,265 --> 00:37:06,600
Am I a person?

556
00:37:07,935 --> 00:37:09,102
[RIOS] We shake hands.

557
00:37:09,603 --> 00:37:12,189
We sit down, have a bite to eat.

558
00:37:12,272 --> 00:37:15,943
Few hours later, Alonzo Vandermeer
kills them both in cold blood.

559
00:37:17,277 --> 00:37:19,947
Takes them both out
with two quick pops of a phaser.

560
00:37:20,030 --> 00:37:21,031
Why?

561
00:37:21,865 --> 00:37:22,991
Am I a person?

562
00:37:25,702 --> 00:37:27,037
Not in theory.

563
00:37:28,205 --> 00:37:31,541
To you, right now,
looking at me, talking to me.

564
00:37:34,086 --> 00:37:36,505
Do you consider me to be
a person like you?

565
00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:41,802
It was a black-flag directive,
straight from Starfleet Security.

566
00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:45,806
- [SCOFFS]
- He told me they said if he disobeyed,

567
00:37:45,889 --> 00:37:48,475
the ibn Majid would be
destroyed with all hands.

568
00:37:48,558 --> 00:37:49,559
What?

569
00:37:49,643 --> 00:37:50,811
I went at him hard.

570
00:37:51,979 --> 00:37:52,980
Pretty hard.

571
00:37:57,818 --> 00:38:00,028
[BREATHES SHAKILY]

572
00:38:00,112 --> 00:38:01,780
[WHIMPERS]

573
00:38:01,863 --> 00:38:04,449
That's when he put the phaser in
his mouth and pulled the trigger.

574
00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:07,953
Oh, Chris.

575
00:38:09,746 --> 00:38:11,748
Raffi, then I covered it up.

576
00:38:13,166 --> 00:38:14,167
[SIGHS]

577
00:38:15,043 --> 00:38:16,795
Like he was supposed to do.

578
00:38:19,715 --> 00:38:21,425
So it wouldn't all be for nothing.

579
00:38:21,508 --> 00:38:24,720
So they wouldn't blow up
the ibn Majid and everyone on it.

580
00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:29,141
I beamed the bodies into space,
deleted it from the transporter log.

581
00:38:31,935 --> 00:38:34,521
Let the whole fleet know
that Alonzo Vandermeer

582
00:38:34,604 --> 00:38:36,940
had killed himself
for no fucking reason at all.

583
00:38:42,029 --> 00:38:43,238
[CHUCKLES]

584
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,322
[SNIFFS]

585
00:38:44,406 --> 00:38:46,491
Six months later, I was out of Starfleet.

586
00:38:47,492 --> 00:38:51,580
They called it "post-traumatic dysphoria."

587
00:38:53,915 --> 00:38:55,417
- But I was just…
- Broken.

588
00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:01,882
I'm so sorry, babe.

589
00:39:05,302 --> 00:39:07,387
When that girl beamed aboard today…

590
00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:09,973
I mean, Raffi…

591
00:39:11,892 --> 00:39:13,477
it's the same girl.

592
00:39:15,020 --> 00:39:17,397
The other one sketched it
while we were talking.

593
00:39:18,148 --> 00:39:19,608
They were synths.

594
00:39:20,567 --> 00:39:21,902
That's why they had to die.

595
00:39:22,402 --> 00:39:23,445
[SIGHS]

596
00:39:24,196 --> 00:39:25,197
Chris.

597
00:39:26,782 --> 00:39:27,991
Who gave the order?

598
00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:31,703
Commodore Oh ordered you to kill me too.

599
00:39:36,666 --> 00:39:38,668
I would never give you the opportunity.

600
00:39:39,836 --> 00:39:41,588
[JURATI] Now that I've met you,

601
00:39:41,671 --> 00:39:43,673
I would never take it.

602
00:39:43,757 --> 00:39:46,510
Never, ever again.

603
00:39:50,806 --> 00:39:51,807
Okay?

604
00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:57,437
[ALARM BLARING]

605
00:39:57,521 --> 00:39:59,022
[PA CHATTER]

606
00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:01,691
[xBS GRUNTING]

607
00:40:08,365 --> 00:40:09,908
[BLARING CONTINUES]

608
00:40:15,497 --> 00:40:16,832
I'm afraid I broke your gun.

609
00:40:17,666 --> 00:40:19,251
Someone get me another weapon.

610
00:40:21,253 --> 00:40:22,462
The lights are going out.

611
00:40:25,841 --> 00:40:27,676
Are those Borg life signs?

612
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,598
[MAN ON PA] This is not a protocol drill.

613
00:40:34,099 --> 00:40:36,935
If you will not reach your evac station
in the allotted time,

614
00:40:37,018 --> 00:40:39,646
seek immediate shelter
and employ all possible measures…

615
00:40:39,729 --> 00:40:41,481
- Do they frighten you?
- …to avoid detection.

616
00:40:41,565 --> 00:40:43,066
I'd be a fool if they didn't.

617
00:40:45,402 --> 00:40:47,904
Something far worse is coming,
Centurion…

618
00:40:49,406 --> 00:40:50,991
if I fail in my work.

619
00:40:59,666 --> 00:41:00,834
[GRUNTS]

620
00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:03,753
[GRUNTS]

621
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,142
[AS BORG COLLECTIVE] We are Borg.

622
00:41:17,809 --> 00:41:22,230
[CHANTING]
We are Borg. We are Borg. We are Borg.

623
00:41:22,314 --> 00:41:23,940
- We are Borg.
- Now.

624
00:41:24,024 --> 00:41:25,108
We are Borg.

625
00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:29,321
[SCREECHING]

626
00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:30,488
[ECHOING] No!

627
00:41:30,572 --> 00:41:31,823
No!
No!

628
00:41:48,798 --> 00:41:50,884
[DOOR OPENS]

629
00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:04,981
Well…

630
00:42:06,691 --> 00:42:08,568
I'm done murdering people.

631
00:42:10,403 --> 00:42:12,822
So, that's a good thing.

632
00:42:16,493 --> 00:42:19,079
When we get to Deep Space 12,
I'm gonna turn myself in.

633
00:42:20,622 --> 00:42:22,249
[SIGHS]

634
00:42:23,833 --> 00:42:24,918
Are you all right?

635
00:42:40,141 --> 00:42:41,142
I'm sorry.

636
00:42:43,353 --> 00:42:46,314
You all are the closest
I've come in a long time…

637
00:42:47,774 --> 00:42:50,527
maybe ever, to having a…

638
00:42:53,405 --> 00:42:54,406
crew.

639
00:42:56,950 --> 00:42:58,827
I'm sorry I had to fucking ruin it.

640
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:06,835
Should we get into it?

641
00:43:07,377 --> 00:43:09,170
[REPLICATOR BEEPS]

642
00:43:18,263 --> 00:43:19,681
I'm sorry too.

643
00:43:20,265 --> 00:43:22,475
Peppermint. French fries.

644
00:43:22,559 --> 00:43:26,646
To me it looks kinda disgusting,
but you love it, right?

645
00:43:26,730 --> 00:43:28,648
How did you know?

646
00:43:29,858 --> 00:43:31,526
We'll get there, honey.

647
00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:35,196
Now listen.

648
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,742
200,000, 300,000 years ago,

649
00:43:38,825 --> 00:43:42,412
somebody drags eight suns together.

650
00:43:42,996 --> 00:43:45,874
They hang a planet in the middle.

651
00:43:45,957 --> 00:43:48,960
And on this planet, they place a warning.

652
00:43:49,044 --> 00:43:52,547
The Romulans call it the Admonition.

653
00:43:52,630 --> 00:43:56,468
This warning says, "Don't do what we did.

654
00:43:57,469 --> 00:44:00,221
We created synthetic life-forms, and"…

655
00:44:00,305 --> 00:44:01,348
And they evolved.

656
00:44:02,766 --> 00:44:06,019
And it did not go well… at all.

657
00:44:07,270 --> 00:44:08,271
Meaning?

658
00:44:08,355 --> 00:44:13,568
Apparently, these people believed there
was a threshold of synthetic evolution.

659
00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:14,819
A dividing line.

660
00:44:15,779 --> 00:44:18,073
Like the Zefram Cochrane warp drive?

661
00:44:18,156 --> 00:44:21,701
When you cross that line,
somebody shows up.

662
00:44:21,785 --> 00:44:23,203
Somebody really bad.

663
00:44:24,579 --> 00:44:28,792
The Romulans, it seems,
took this Admonition very seriously.

664
00:44:28,875 --> 00:44:31,753
They created a group,

665
00:44:32,462 --> 00:44:34,464
the Zhat Vash,

666
00:44:35,048 --> 00:44:37,050
dedicated to finding

667
00:44:37,967 --> 00:44:40,929
and terminating all synthetic life.

668
00:44:42,097 --> 00:44:45,308
[RAFFI] So, imagine 30, 40 years ago,

669
00:44:45,392 --> 00:44:48,645
Doctor Noonien Soong
starts turning out synthetic life

670
00:44:48,728 --> 00:44:52,899
that's equal to human beings,
superior in some ways.

671
00:44:54,567 --> 00:44:56,986
The Romulans send in a mole,

672
00:44:57,445 --> 00:45:01,449
a half-Romulan Vulcan named Oh.

673
00:45:03,451 --> 00:45:05,078
She burrows into Starfleet,

674
00:45:05,161 --> 00:45:08,456
rises through the ranks
and becomes head of Security.

675
00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:12,335
And all the while she has one mandate…

676
00:45:13,503 --> 00:45:17,799
to put a stop to the Federation's research
and development of synthetic life-forms.

677
00:45:19,092 --> 00:45:20,176
To this end,

678
00:45:20,677 --> 00:45:25,890
she decides to engineer
a situation so terrifying

679
00:45:25,974 --> 00:45:28,184
that the Federation's only response

680
00:45:28,268 --> 00:45:31,521
will be to ban synths forever.

681
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:35,108
The Romulans were
behind the attack on Mars.

682
00:45:35,191 --> 00:45:36,192
[SIGHS]

683
00:45:36,276 --> 00:45:37,444
[CHUCKLES]

684
00:45:37,527 --> 00:45:39,904
Has a certain ring to it.

685
00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:42,031
Am I right?

686
00:45:42,115 --> 00:45:43,241
Carry on.

687
00:45:43,324 --> 00:45:45,994
[RAFFI] But the commodore's
work wasn't done.

688
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,415
Nine years ago,
a Starfleet vessel had first contact

689
00:45:50,498 --> 00:45:53,543
with a pair of emissaries
from a strange new world.

690
00:45:54,127 --> 00:45:56,087
One called himself Beautiful Flower.

691
00:45:57,881 --> 00:45:59,299
- The other one was…
- Jana.

692
00:46:03,845 --> 00:46:04,846
How do I know that?

693
00:46:04,929 --> 00:46:08,016
The same way I know you like to dip
french fries in peppermint ice cream.

694
00:46:10,018 --> 00:46:12,103
[RAFFI] Jana and this Flower

695
00:46:12,687 --> 00:46:15,523
came from the world
that Bruce Maddox fled to

696
00:46:15,607 --> 00:46:17,525
when he left Earth after the ban,

697
00:46:17,609 --> 00:46:20,778
bound and determined
to carry out his work.

698
00:46:21,863 --> 00:46:26,659
And the Zhat Vash have been
searching for this world ever since.

699
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,037
Which they have now
found because of me.

700
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:32,165
[GRUNTS]

701
00:46:35,877 --> 00:46:38,296
[BREATHES SHAKILY]

702
00:46:38,379 --> 00:46:39,380
Excuse me.

703
00:46:45,136 --> 00:46:48,473
[POWERING UP]

704
00:46:48,556 --> 00:46:50,892
[BEEPING]

705
00:46:50,975 --> 00:46:52,227
[RIOS] Soji, what are you doing?

706
00:46:54,229 --> 00:46:55,230
Emmet, ayuda.

707
00:46:57,649 --> 00:46:59,817
- Emmet!
- [SOJI] I deactivated them. Don't worry.

708
00:46:59,901 --> 00:47:02,320
I'm not going to hurt anybody.
I just need to get back home.

709
00:47:02,403 --> 00:47:04,405
You'll get your ship back, Rios,
the minute we're there.

710
00:47:04,489 --> 00:47:06,533
Kid, I understand why you're
doing this, but it's not right.

711
00:47:06,616 --> 00:47:09,202
- We wanna help you. You cannot just…
- How can you possibly understand?

712
00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:13,373
Is someone trying to wipe out your family?
Do you even have a family?

713
00:47:14,165 --> 00:47:15,333
I do not.

714
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:20,755
Wh… What is that?
Is that some kind of subspace tunneling?

715
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:23,007
It's a map of the Borg
transwarp conduit network.

716
00:47:23,091 --> 00:47:25,218
At this speed, we're about nine
hours from the nearest node.

717
00:47:26,469 --> 00:47:28,221
I don't actually know how I know that.

718
00:47:28,721 --> 00:47:32,225
I must have picked it up on the Cube
while I was busy being Doctor Soji Asha.

719
00:47:32,976 --> 00:47:36,229
The second I heard the truth
about the ban, the Admonition,

720
00:47:36,312 --> 00:47:38,398
and what happened to my brother
and sister on the ibn Majid,

721
00:47:38,481 --> 00:47:40,149
I suddenly seem to know
a whole lot of things.

722
00:47:42,485 --> 00:47:43,736
Do you know this?

723
00:47:43,820 --> 00:47:46,573
[SINGING IN SPANISH]

724
00:47:49,409 --> 00:47:51,953
[SINGING CONTINUES]

725
00:47:52,036 --> 00:47:53,621
[SHIP POWERS DOWN]

726
00:47:56,708 --> 00:47:58,835
It's a lullaby
my mother used to sing to me.

727
00:48:00,086 --> 00:48:02,672
She didn't like other people
playing with her things either.

728
00:48:05,174 --> 00:48:08,011
She's done it Maddox's way.
She's done it my way.

729
00:48:08,094 --> 00:48:10,096
Let's try doing it her way

730
00:48:10,597 --> 00:48:12,932
and hope we get there
in time to warn them.

731
00:48:15,977 --> 00:48:16,978
[SIGHS]

732
00:48:26,279 --> 00:48:27,280
Actually…

733
00:48:28,489 --> 00:48:29,991
I don't know how to work this.

734
00:48:30,074 --> 00:48:31,242
[CHUCKLES]

735
00:48:32,285 --> 00:48:35,955
So, your plan is just fly
into a transwarp conduit,

736
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:39,292
don't set up a structural integrity field,
no chroniton field,

737
00:48:39,375 --> 00:48:42,462
just jump right in,
gravimetric shear be damned?

738
00:48:45,673 --> 00:48:48,217
Sirena is my goddamn ship, hija.

739
00:48:51,971 --> 00:48:55,850
Captain Rios, please take me home.

740
00:48:58,645 --> 00:49:00,271
For Jana's sake.

741
00:49:24,170 --> 00:49:25,296
I got you.

742
00:49:26,255 --> 00:49:28,675
[SHIP POWERS UP]

743
00:49:32,929 --> 00:49:35,556
[CENTURION] The fleet has the coordinates
for the synthetic homeworld.

744
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:36,849
They're leaving now.

745
00:49:36,933 --> 00:49:38,768
- Have all the Borg been jettisoned?
- Yes, Colonel.

746
00:49:38,851 --> 00:49:41,354
In an hour, we'll have the xBs
mopped up and be ready to embark.

747
00:49:41,437 --> 00:49:43,106
And is my ship ready for departure?

748
00:49:45,900 --> 00:49:46,901
[SPEAKING ROMULAN]

749
00:49:47,652 --> 00:49:48,945
[XBS GRUNT]

750
00:49:54,325 --> 00:49:55,493
[GRUNTS]

751
00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:59,247
[GRUNTING]

752
00:50:00,289 --> 00:50:01,290
[SCREAMS]

753
00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:20,435
They are gone.

754
00:50:21,978 --> 00:50:24,564
It is over.
The Cube is ours again.

755
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:26,441
So…

756
00:50:28,526 --> 00:50:30,194
are you gonna assimilate me now?

757
00:50:33,281 --> 00:50:35,283
Annika still has work to do.

758
00:50:38,494 --> 00:50:39,495
[GRUNTS]

759
00:50:41,330 --> 00:50:44,292
[PANTING]

760
00:50:52,425 --> 00:50:55,970
[PICARD] You know, I remember
standing the night watch

761
00:50:56,053 --> 00:50:58,681
as a young ensign
on the bridge of the Reliant,

762
00:50:59,223 --> 00:51:02,894
feeling I was the only one awake…

763
00:51:04,270 --> 00:51:07,398
in all that emptiness,

764
00:51:08,024 --> 00:51:09,525
all that silence.

765
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:12,445
I'd forgotten,

766
00:51:13,196 --> 00:51:14,197
until…

767
00:51:15,615 --> 00:51:16,699
just now…

768
00:51:18,117 --> 00:51:19,619
how much I loved it.

769
00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,833
I knew Alonzo Vandermeer slightly.

770
00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:30,838
He was first officer to an
Academy classmate of mine.

771
00:51:30,922 --> 00:51:33,216
Captain Marta Batanides.

772
00:51:33,883 --> 00:51:34,884
You knew her?

773
00:51:34,967 --> 00:51:37,887
No, but… I felt like I did.

774
00:51:38,596 --> 00:51:41,724
She was a legend to
the old man, my old man…

775
00:51:42,892 --> 00:51:44,310
Captain Vandermeer.

776
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:46,521
Hmm.

777
00:51:55,321 --> 00:51:59,116
Did he know they were synthetic?

778
00:52:00,034 --> 00:52:01,661
I have to believe that he did.

779
00:52:02,870 --> 00:52:05,289
He must have thought
that because of that…

780
00:52:06,541 --> 00:52:08,209
he'd be able to live with it.

781
00:52:08,292 --> 00:52:11,170
I didn't know him well, as I said, but…

782
00:52:13,381 --> 00:52:15,383
I felt he was a good man.

783
00:52:15,967 --> 00:52:18,553
One of the best
that Starfleet had to offer.

784
00:52:19,053 --> 00:52:20,054
He was.

785
00:52:21,556 --> 00:52:22,557
I, um…

786
00:52:23,516 --> 00:52:27,103
I hate that he died thinking it was
really Starfleet that betrayed him,

787
00:52:27,770 --> 00:52:28,855
betrayed itself.

788
00:52:28,938 --> 00:52:31,399
But Starfleet did betray him.

789
00:52:31,482 --> 00:52:34,193
We did betray ourselves,

790
00:52:34,277 --> 00:52:38,030
long before Oh gave Vandermeer that order.

791
00:52:39,031 --> 00:52:41,868
The ban itself was a betrayal.

792
00:52:41,951 --> 00:52:45,329
Oh, the Zhat Vash, they set the trap.

793
00:52:45,413 --> 00:52:48,040
But we could merely have sidestepped it.

794
00:52:48,124 --> 00:52:50,084
Instead, we gave way to fear.

795
00:52:52,753 --> 00:52:55,923
It took her all of five minutes
to hack my ship, Picard.

796
00:52:56,007 --> 00:52:59,719
And now maybe there's
a whole planet of them?

797
00:53:00,303 --> 00:53:03,055
Raffi said the Romulans
call her The Destroyer.

798
00:53:05,141 --> 00:53:06,559
What if they're right?

799
00:53:06,642 --> 00:53:11,647
They may be right about what
happened 200,000 years ago.

800
00:53:11,731 --> 00:53:16,652
The past is written,
but the future is left for us to write,

801
00:53:16,736 --> 00:53:18,988
and we have powerful tools, Rios.

802
00:53:19,071 --> 00:53:22,033
Openness,
optimism

803
00:53:22,116 --> 00:53:25,411
and the spirit of curiosity.

804
00:53:25,912 --> 00:53:28,497
All they have is secrecy
and fear.

805
00:53:28,581 --> 00:53:31,751
And fear is the great destroyer, Rios,
not…

806
00:53:33,419 --> 00:53:34,420
We're there.

807
00:54:08,037 --> 00:54:11,415
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