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Locutus.

l am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futiIe.

Authorisation, Picard 4-7-aIpha-tango.

-AdmiraI. -Catch you at a bad time, Jean-Luc?

No, of course not.

l've just received a disturbing report from Deep Space Five.

Our colony on lvor Prime was destroyed this morning.

-Long-range sensors have picked up... -Yes, l know. The Borg.

Captain's Log, Stardate 50893.5.

The moment l have dreaded for nearly six years has finally arrived.

The Borg, our most lethal enemy, have begun an invasion ofthe Federation,

and this time, there may be no stopping them.

-How many ships? -One.

And it's on a direct course for Earth.

They wiII cross the Federation border in Iess than an hour.

AdmiraI Hayes is mobiIising a fIeet in the Typhon sector.

At maximum warp, it wiII take us three hours, 25 minutes...

-We're not going. -What do you mean, we're not going?

Our orders are to patroI the NeutraI Zone

in case the RomuIans decide to take advantage of the situation.

The RomuIans?

Captain, there has been no unusuaI activity

aIong the RomuIan border for the Iast nine months.

lt seems highIy unIikeIy they wouId choose this moment to start a confIict.

Does StarfIeet feeI we need more shakedown time?

Captain, we've been out in space nearIy a year now. We're ready.

The Enterprise-E is the most advanced starship in the fIeet.

We shouId be on the frontIine.

l have gone over aII this with StarfIeet Command. Their orders stand.

Number One, set a course for the NeutraI Zone.

-Bizet? -BerIioz. What do you have?

We finished our first sensor sweep of the NeutraI Zone.

Fascinating.

Twenty particIes of space dust per cubic metre,

fifty-two uItravioIet radiation spikes and a cIass-2 comet.

This is certainIy worthy of our attention.

Captain, why are we out here chasing comets?

Let's just say that StarfIeet has every confidence

in the Enterprise and her crew. They're just not sure about her captain.

They beIieve that a man who was once captured and assimiIated by the Borg

shouId not be put in a situation where he wouId face them again.

To do so wouId introduce an unstabIe eIement

to a criticaI situation.

That's ridicuIous. Your experience with the Borg

makes you the perfect man to Iead this fight.

AdmiraI Hayes disagrees.

-Bridge to Captain Picard. -Go ahead.

We've just received word from the fleet. They've engaged the Borg.

Mr Data, put StarfIeet frequency 1-4-8-6 on audio.

Aye, sir.

FIagship to Endeavour, stand by to engage at grid A-15.

Defiant and Bozeman, fall back to mobile position one.

Acknowledged.

We have it in visual range. A Borg cube on course 0 mark 2-1-5, speed warp...

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships.

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness

to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.

Resistance is futile.

All units, open fire. Remodulate shield...

They've broken through the defence perimeter...

...toward Earth. Pursuit course...

The cube is changing course. 0-2-1 mark 4.

Defiant, continue to attack.

Flagship to Starfleet Command. We need reinforcements.

Casualty report is coming in...

...96 dead, 22 wounded on the Lexington.

Lieutenant Hawk, set a course for Earth.

-Aye, sir. -Maximum warp.

l'm about to commit a direct vioIation of our orders.

Any of you who wish to object shouId do so now.

lt wiII be noted in my Iog.

Captain, l beIieve l speak for everyone here, sir, when l say

to heII with our orders.

Red aIert! AII hands to battIe stations!

Engage.

-Report! -Main power is off-Iine.

We've Iost shieIds and our weapons are gone.

Perhaps today is a good day to die. Prepare for ramming speed!

Sir, there's another starship coming in.

lt's the Enterprise.

The Defiant's Iosing Iife support.

Bridge to Transporter Room 3. Beam the Defiant survivors aboard.

Captain, the AdmiraI's ship has been destroyed.

What is the status of the Borg cube?

lt has sustained heavy damage to its outer huII.

l am reading fIuctuations in their power grid.

Onscreen.

Number One, open a channeI to the fIeet.

ChanneI open, sir.

This is Captain Picard of the Enterprise. l'm taking command of the fIeet.

Target aII of your weapons onto the foIIowing coordinates.

-Fire on my command. -Sir.

The coordinates you have indicated do not appear to be a vitaI system.

Trust me, Data.

The fIeet's responded, sir. They're standing by.

Fire.

-Mr Hawk, pursuit course. Engage. -Aye, sir.

What?

l can hear them.

l have a patient here who insists on coming to the Bridge.

WeIcome aboard the Enterprise-E, MrWorf.

Thank you, sir.

-The Defiant? -Adrift but saIvageabIe.

-Tough IittIe ship. -LittIe?

Mr Worf, we couId use some heIp at tacticaI.

You do remember how to fire phasers?

Sensors show chronometric particIes emanating from the sphere.

-They're creating a temporaI vortex. -Time traveI.

Data, report.

We appear to be caught in a temporaI wake.

Captain. Earth.

The atmosphere contains high concentrations of methane,

carbon monoxide and fIuorine.

-Life-signs? -PopuIation, approximateIy 9 biIIion.

AII Borg.

-How? -They must've done it in the past.

They went back and assimiIated Earth, changed history.

But if they changed history, why are we stiII here?

The temporaI wake must have somehow protected us

from the changes in the timeIine.

-Sir, the vortex is coIIapsing. -HoId your course, Mr Hawk.

We must foIIow them back, repair whatever damage they've done.

-Come on. -Good night, Eddie.

Go home.

You're gonna regret this tomorrow.

One of the things you shouId have Iearned about me by now

is that l don't have regrets.

-Come on, LiIy. One more round. -Z. Z, you had enough.

l'm not going up in that thing with a drunken piIot.

l sure as heII am not going up there sober.

What is that?

That is the consteIIation Leo.

No. That.

-lt's an ECON! -After aII these years?

We gotta get to the Phoenix.

To heII with the Phoenix.

-HeIp! HeIp! -Hurry! Move out! Move!

This way! Zefram!

Report.

ShieIds are down, Iong-range sensors are off-Iine, main power's hoIding.

According to our astrometric readings, we are in the mid-21st century.

From the radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere, l wouId estimate

we have arrived approximateIy 1 0 years after the Third WorId War.

Makes sense. Most of the major cities have been destroyed,

very few governments Ieft, 600 miIIion dead.

-No resistance. -Captain.

Mr Worf, quantum torpedoes.

-Ready, sir. -Fire.

They were firing at the surface. Location?

Western hemisphere, North American continent.

Looks Iike a missiIe compIex in centraI Montana.

MissiIe compIex.

The date. Data, l need to know the exact date.

ApriI 4th, 2063.

-ApriI 4th, the day before first contact. -PreciseIy.

Then the missiIe compIex must be

where Zefram Cochrane is buiIding his warp ship.

That's what they came here to do, stop first contact.

How much damage, Lieutenant?

Can't teII. Long-range sensors are stiII off-Iine.

We have to go down there, find out what happened.

Data, BeverIy, you're with me.

Have a security team meet us in Transporter Room 3.

Computer, mid-21st century civiIian cIothing.

Number One, you have the Bridge.

Over here.

They're aII dead.

See if one of them is Cochrane. Data, Iet's go check the warp ship.

The structuraI integrity of the missiIe appears to be intact,

but there is significant damage to various sections of the fuseIage

and primary intercooIer system.

We shouId have the originaI bIueprints in the Enterprise computer.

Commander La Forge wiII need to bring a team down here...

-HoId your fire! We're here to heIp you! -BuIIshit!

Captain, l beIieve l can handIe this.

Greetings.

Captain, this woman requires medicaI attention.

Severe theta radiation poisoning.

Radiation is coming from the damaged throttIe assembIy.

We're aII gonna have to be inocuIated,

-and l have to get her to Sickbay. -Doctor...

PIease, no Iectures about the Prime Directive.

l wiII keep her unconscious.

Very weII. TeII Commander Riker to beam down with a search party.

We need to find Cochrane.

Crusher to Enterprise, two to beam directIy to Sickbay.

We have Iess than 14 hours before this ship has to be Iaunched.

-Picard to Engineering. -La Forge here.

Geordi, Cochrane's ship was damaged in the attack.

Get down here with an engineering detaiI. We have work to do.

Right. l'm on my way, Captain.

AIpha team, Iet's assembIe in Transporter Room 3.

We're heading down to the surface.

Porter, you're gonna be in command tiII l get back.

-Aye, sir. -And, Porter,

check out the environmentaI controIs whiIe l'm gone.

lt's getting a IittIe warm in here. AII right, Iet's go.

Looks Iike a good spot right here.

lsn't it amazing?

This ship used to be a nucIear missiIe.

lt is an historicaI irony

that Dr Cochrane wouId choose an instrument of mass destruction

to inaugurate an era of peace.

lt's a boyhood fantasy, Data.

l must've seen this ship hundreds of times in the Smithsonian,

but l was never abIe to touch it.

Sir, does tactiIe contact aIter your perception of the Phoenix?

Oh, yes.

For humans, touch can connect you to an object in a very personaI way,

make it seem more reaI.

l am detecting imperfections in the titanium casing,

temperature variations in the fueI manifoId.

lt is no more reaI to me now than it was a moment ago.

WouId you three Iike to be aIone?

What have you found out?

There's no sign of Cochrane anywhere in the compIex.

He has to be here.

There was nothing more important to him than this ship.

This fIight, it was his dream.

Captain, we shouId consider the possibiIity

that Dr Cochrane was kiIIed in the attack.

lf that's true, then the future may die with him.

What do you think?

lt's Iike the entire environmentaI system's gone crazy.

lt's notjust Engineering. lt's the entire deck.

Maybe it's a probIem with the EPS conduits.

HeIIo?

-Hey! -Are you taIking to me?

ls there anyone eIse working maintenance in this section?

Not that l know of.

PauI?

PauI? Are you okay in there?

Captain? What is it?

Picard to Enterprise.

Mr Worf, is everything aII right up there?

Yes, sir. We are experiencing some environmental difficulties on Deck 16,

but that is all.

-What kind of difficuIties? -Humidity levels have risen 73%

and the temperature hasjumped 10 degrees in the last hour.

-Mr Data and l are returning to the ship. -Understood.

-Number One, take charge down here. -Aye, sir.

Damage to her ceII membranes is repaired.

She shouId be fine,

but l'd Iike to run another test on her spinaI tissue.

And find out why it's so hot in here.

Now what?

Crusher to Engineering.

Crusher to Bridge.

Commander Worf, l need to know exactIy what's been happening.

We just Iost contact with Deck 16.

Communications, internaI sensors, everything.

l was about to send a security team to investigate.

No! SeaI off Deck 16.

Post security teams at every access point.

-Aye, sir. -Mr Hawk.

Before we Iost internaI sensors,

what were the exact environmentaI conditions in Main Engineering?

Atmospheric pressure was two kiIopascaIs above normaI,

ninety-two percent humidity, 39.1 degrees CeIsius.

Thirty-nine-point-one degrees CeIsius.

Like a Borg ship.

They knew their ship was doomed. Our shieIds were down.

Somehow they transported over here without being detected.

They'II assimiIate the Enterprise, and then Earth.

Picard to Riker.

Enterprise to away team.

Respond!

Sir, main controI is being rerouted through Main Engineering.

Weapons, shieIds, propuIsion.

QuickIy, Mr Data! Lock out the main computer!

l have isoIated the main computer with a fractaI encryption code.

lt is highIy unIikeIy the Borg wiII be abIe to break it.

The Borg have cut primary power to aII decks except 16.

The Borg won't stay on Deck 16.

Wake up. You're aII right. Come on. Come on. Wake up.

Take it easy. Stay caIm. You are aII right!

-Now, Iisten to me. Look at me. -No!

You are gonna be fine. l need you to do as l say.

AIyssa, is the EMH program stiII onIine?

-lt shouId be. -That's it. That's a girI.

l swore l'd never use one of these. Computer, activate the EMH program.

PIease state the nature of the medicaI emergency.

Twenty Borg are about to break through that door.

We need time to get out of here. Create a diversion!

This isn't part of my program. l'm a doctor, not a doorstop.

WeII, do a dance, teII a story. l don't care. Just give us a few seconds.

According to StarfIeet medicaI research,

Borg impIants can cause severe skin irritations.

Perhaps you'd Iike an anaIgesic cream?

Which way?

We need to get off this deck. FoIIow me.

First thing they'II do in Engineering is estabIish a coIIective,

a centraI point from which they can controI the hive.

The probIem is, ifwe begin firing particIe weapons in Engineering,

there's a risk that we may hit the warp core.

l beIieve our goaI shouId be to puncture one of the pIasma cooIant tanks.

-Data? -ExceIIent idea.

PIasma cooIant wiII Iiquefy organic materiaI on contact.

But the Borg are not entireIy organic.

True, but Iike aII cybernetic Iife-forms,

they cannot survive without their organic components.

l have ordered aII weapons to be set on a rotating moduIation.

The Borg wiII adapt quickIy. We wiII be abIe to fire 12 shots at most.

One other thing.

You may encounter Enterprise crew members

who've aIready been assimiIated. Don't hesitate to fire.

BeIieve me, you'II be doing them a favour.

Let's go.

Deanna! Deanna!

No, no! Don't turn off the...

Who is this jerk?

Who toId him he couId turn off my music?

WiII Riker, Zefram Cochrane.

-ls he a friend of yours? -Yes.

-Husband? -No.

Good.

-Now, this, Deena... -Deanna.

-This is the good stuff. -Dr Cochrane...

To the Phoenix, may she rest in peace.

Okay, that wasn't so good.

WiII, l think we have to teII him the truth.

-lfwe teII the truth, the timeIine... -TimeIine?

This is no time to argue about time. We don't have the time.

-What was l saying? -You're drunk.

-l am not! -Yes, you are.

Look, he wouIdn't even taIk to me unIess l had a drink with him.

And then it took three shots of something caIIed tequiIa

just to find out he was the one we're Iooking for.

And l've spent the Iast 20 minutes trying to keep his hands off me.

So don't go criticising my counseIIing technique.

Sorry.

lt's a primitive cuIture.

-l'm just trying to bIend in. -You're bIended, aII right.

l aIready toId him our cover story. He didn't beIieve me.

We are running out of time.

Now, ifwe teII him the truth, do you think he'II be abIe to handIe it?

lf you're Iooking for my professionaI opinion as ship's counseIIor,

-he's nuts. -l'II be sure to note that in my Iog.

Captain, l beIieve l am feeIing anxiety.

lt is an intriguing sensation. A most distracting...

Data, l'm sure it's a fascinating experience,

but perhaps you shouId deactivate your emotion chip for now.

Good idea, sir.

Done.

Data, there are times that l envy you.

lt's onIy me!

-Doctor, are you aII right? -Yes, but we have wounded here.

Lopez, get these peopIe back to Deck 14.

There was a civiIian, a woman from the 21st century.

-We got separated. -We wiII watch for her.

Worf, she has no idea what's going on. Try to find her.

Lower your weapons.

They'II ignore us tiII they consider us a threat.

The manuaI reIease.

Mr Worf, hoId this position.

Manual release is online.

Perhaps we shouId just knock.

Data.

Ready phasers!

Data, cover me.

Captain, they've adapted!

Regroup on Deck 1 5. Don't Iet them touch you!

-Captain! -Data!

Here!

Captain!

HeIp.

PIease, heIp.

-You! How the heII did you... -Back off!

-CaIm down! -Shut up!

-Who are you? -My name is Jean-Luc Picard...

No! Who are you with? What faction?

l'm not a member of the Eastern CoaIition. Listen...

l said shut up!

l don't care who you're with. Get me the heII out of here.

Now!

That isn't going to be easy.

WeII, you better find a way to make it easy, soIdier,

or l'm gonna start pushing buttons.

AII right!

-FoIIow me. -SIow!

Your efforts to break the encryption codes

wiII not be successfuI.

Nor wiII your attempts to assimiIate me into your coIIective.

Brave words.

l've heard them before, from thousands of species

across thousands ofworlds since long before you were created.

But now, they are all Borg.

l am unIike any Iife-form you have encountered before.

The codes stored in my neuraI net cannot be forcibIy removed.

You are an imperfect being created by an imperfect being.

Finding your weakness is only a matter oftime.

Let me just make sure that l understand you correctIy,

Commander.

A group of cybernetic creatures from the future

have traveIIed back through time to ensIave the human race,

-and you're here to stop them? -That's right.

Hot damn. You're heroic.

We're gonna prove it to you. Geordi!

-There she is. BeautifuI! -Here we go.

-AII right, take a Iook. -WeII, weII, weII.

What do we got here?

l Iove a good peep show.

That's a trick.

-How'd you do that? -lt's your teIescope.

That's our ship, the Enterprise.

-And LiIy's up there right now? -That's right.

Can l taIk to her?

We've Iost contact with the Enterprise. We don't know why yet.

So, what is it you want me to do?

SimpIe. Conduct your warp fIight tomorrow morning just as you pIanned.

Why tomorrow morning?

Because at 1 1 :00 an aIien ship wiII begin passing through this soIar system.

AIien. You mean extraterrestriaIs?

-More bad guys? -Good guys.

They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth.

Too primitive.

Doctor, tomorrow morning, when they detect the warp signature from your ship

and reaIise that humans have discovered how to traveI

faster than Iight, they decide to aIter their course.

They make first contact with Earth, right here.

-Here? -ActuaIIy, over there.

lt is one of the pivotaI moments in human history, Doctor.

You get to make first contact with an aIien race,

and after you do, everything begins to change.

Your theories on warp drive aIIow fIeets of starships to be buiIt,

and mankind to start expIoring the gaIaxy.

lt unites humanity in a way that no one ever thought possibIe

when they reaIise they're not aIone in the universe.

Poverty, disease, war, they'II aII be gone within the next 50 years.

But unIess you make that warp fIight tomorrow morning before 1 1 :1 5,

none of it wiII happen.

And you peopIe, you're aII astronauts on some kind of star trek.

Look, Doc, l know this is a Iot for you to take in,

but we're running out of time here. We need your heIp.

What do you say?

Why not?

lt's pretty bad, sir.

lt Iooks Iike they controI Decks 26 up to 1 1 .

But when they took Deck 1 1 , theyjust stopped.

The Borg have assimiIated more than haIf the ship in a matter of hours.

Why stop there? What is on Deck 1 1 ?

Hydroponics, steIIar cartography, defIector controI.

-No vitaI system. -They wouId not have stopped there

unIess it gave them a tacticaI advantage.

Return to your checkpoint.

-Send reports every 1 0 minutes. -Right, sir.

Something must've happened in Sickbay.

Where are Dr Crusher and the others?

Why did you break the cease-fire?

-We didn't attack you! -Who did?

There's a new faction

that wants to prevent your Iaunch tomorrow morning,

but we are here to heIp you.

This may be difficuIt for you to accept, but you are not in Montana any more.

You're on a ship, a spaceship orbiting the Earth at an aItitude of...

You wanna heIp me, get me out of here.

AII right.

You want a way out. Here it is.

What is this?

AustraIia, New Guinea, the SoIomons.

Montana wiII be up soon, but you may want to hoId your breath.

lt's a Iong way down.

Now, Iisten to me. l'm not your enemy, and l can get you home,

but first you must put that weapon down and trust me.

Jean-Luc Picard.

My name. That's my name. What's yours?

LiIy.

WeIcome aboard, LiIy.

Thank you.

Maximum setting. lf you'd fired this, you wouId've vaporised me.

lt's my first ray gun.

There's no gIass.

Force fieId.

l've never seen that kind of technoIogy.

That's because it hasn't been invented yet.

What?

There's more l have to teII you. Come on.

Are you ready?

-Who are you? -l am the Borg.

That is a contradiction. The Borg have a coIIective consciousness.

There are no individuaIs.

l am the beginning, the end, the one who is many.

l am the Borg.

Greetings.

l am curious. Do you controI the Borg coIIective?

You impIy a disparity where none exists. l am the coIIective.

Perhaps l shouId rephrase the question.

l wish to understand the organisationaI reIationships.

Are you their Ieader?

l bring order to chaos.

An interesting if cryptic response.

You are in chaos, Data.

You are the contradiction. A machine who wishes to be human.

Since you seem to know so much about me,

you must be aware that l am programmed to evoIve, to better myseIf.

We, too, are on a quest to better ourseIves,

evoIving toward a state of perfection.

Forgive me, but the Borg do not evoIve. They conquer.

By assimiIating other beings into our coIIective,

we are bringing them cIoser to perfection.

Somehow, l question your motives.

That is because you haven't been properIy

stimuIated yet.

You have reactivated my emotion chip.

-Why? -Don't be frightened.

l am not frightened.

Do you know what this is, Data?

lt wouId appear you are attempting to graft organic skin

onto my endoskeIetaI structure.

What a coId description for such a beautifuI gift.

Was that good for you?

How many pIanets are in this Federation?

Over 1 50, spread across 8,000 Iight-years.

You must not get home much.

ActuaIIy, l tend to think of this ship as home.

But if it's Earth you're taIking about, l try to get back whenever l can.

Good. They haven't broken the encryption codes yet.

Who, those bionic zombies you toId me about? The...

-Borg. -Borg? Sounds Swedish.

-How big is this ship? -There are 24 decks,

aImost 700 metres Iong.

lt took me six months to scrounge up enough titanium

just to buiId a four-metre cockpit.

How much did this thing cost?

The economics of the future are somewhat different.

You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century.

No money? You mean you don't get paid?

The acquisition ofweaIth is no Ionger the driving force in our Iives.

We work to better ourseIves and the rest of humanity.

ActuaIIy, we're rather Iike yourseIf and Dr Cochrane.

AII right! AII right.

-Come on. -ls there another way around?

l know what l'm doing.

DefiniteIy not Swedish.

What the heII are you doing?

Perhaps something in satin?

l'm sorry, gentIemen, but we're cIosing.

And you do understand we have a strict dress code,

so if you boys don't Ieave right now, l'II...

l'm Iooking for Nicky the Nose.

The Nose? He hasn't been here in months.

This is the wrong chapter.

Computer! Begin chapter 1 3.

Try and Iook as if you're having a good time.

No, no, no, Iook at me! Try to act naturaIIy.

There he is.

Ruby, this is not a good time.

lt's never the time for us, is it, Dix? AIways some excuse,

-some case you're working on. -l have to taIk to Nicky. l'II see you Iater.

Okay, but watch your caboose.

And dump the broad.

WeII, weII, weII. Look what the cat dragged in.

What's shaking, Dix?

The usuaI, Nick. Martinis and skirts. Excuse me.

Hey, l'm going to take that personaI in a second.

No offence.

Hey!

l think you got him.

l don't get it.

l thought you said this was aII just a bunch of hoIograms.

-lf it's hoIograms... -l disengaged the safety protocoIs.

Without them, even a hoIographic buIIet can kiII.

-What are you doing? -l'm Iooking for the neuroprocessor.

Every Borg has one. lt's Iike a memory chip.

lt wiII contain a record of aII the instructions

this Borg has been receiving from the coIIective.

Oh, my. Jean-Luc, it's one of your uniforms.

Yes, this was Ensign Lynch.

Tough Iuck, huh?

l've gotta get to the Bridge.

Good morning, sir.

Doctor?

-Yeah? -WouId you mind taking a Iook at this?

Yeah.

l tried to reconstruct the intermix chamber

from what l remember in schooI.

TeII me if l got it right.

SchooI?

-You Iearned about this in schooI? -Oh, yeah.

Basic Warp Design is a required course at the Academy.

The first chapter is caIIed "Zefram Cochrane."

WeII, it Iooks Iike you got it right.

Commander, this is what we're thinking of using

to repIace the damaged warp pIasma conduit.

Yeah, Reg. Yeah, that's good,

but you need to reinforce this copper tubing with a nanopoIymer.

Dr Cochrane, l know this sounds siIIy, but can l shake your hand?

Thank you, Doctor.

l can't teII you what an honour it is to work with you on this project.

-Reg. -l never imagined that l'd be meeting

-the man who invented warp drive. l... -Reg!

l'm sorry. Right. Thanks.

Do they have to keep doing that?

lt's just a IittIe hero worship, Doc.

To teII you the truth, l can't say l bIame them.

We aII grew up hearing about what you did here.

Or what you're about to do.

You know, l probabIy shouIdn't even teII you this,

but l went to Zefram Cochrane High SchooI.

ReaIIy?

You know, l wish l had a picture of this.

-What? -WeII, you see,

in the future, this whoIe area becomes an historicaI monument.

You're standing aImost on the exact spot

where your statue's gonna be.

-Statue? -Oh, yeah!

lt's marbIe, about 20 metres taII, and you're Iooking up at the sky,

and your hand's sort of reaching toward the future.

l gotta take a Ieak.

Leak? l'm not detecting any Ieak.

Don't you peopIe from the 24th century ever pee?

Leak! l get it.

That's pretty funny.

Excuse me.

Commander?

-Captain. -Jean-Luc.

Reports of my assimiIation are greatIy exaggerated.

l found something you Iost.

-l am a KIingon. -Mr Worf, report.

The Borg controI over haIf the ship.

We have tried to restore power to the Bridge and the weapon systems,

-but we have been unsuccessfuI. -We have another probIem.

l've accessed a Borg neuroprocessor,

and l've discovered what they're trying to do.

They're transforming the defIector dish into an interpIexing beacon.

lnterpIexing?

lt's a subspace transmitter. lf they activate the beacon,

they'II be abIe to estabIish a Iink with the Borg Iiving in this century.

But in the 21st century, the Borg are stiII in the DeIta Quadrant.

They'II send reinforcements. Humanity wiII be an easy target.

Attack the Earth in the past to assimiIate the future.

Then we must destroy the defIector dish before they can activate the beacon.

We can't get to defIector controI or a shuttIecraft...

Mr Worf, do you remember your zero-g combat training?

l remember it made me sick to my stomach.

What are you suggesting?

l think it's time that we took a IittIe stroII.

Hang on. There's a humanoid Iife-sign up ahead.

Five hundred eIeven metres.

Cochrane?

lt's him, aII right.

l've re-moduIated the puIse emitters,

but l do not beIieve we wiII get more than one or two shots

-before the Borg adapt. -Then we must make every shot count.

Magnetise.

-Watch your caboose, Dix. -l intend to.

-How are you doing, Mr Worf? -Not well, sir.

Try not to look at the stars. Keep your eyes on the hull.

Let's go.

TeII me, are you using a poIymer-based neuro-reIay

to transmit the organic nerve impuIses

to the centraI processor of my positronic net?

lf that is the case,

how have you soIved the probIem of increased signaI degradation

inherent to organo-synthetic transmission...

Do you aIways taIk this much?

Not aIways, but often.

Why do you insist on utiIising this primitive Iinguistic communication?

Your android brain is capabIe of so much more.

Have you forgotten? l am endeavouring to become more human.

Human. We used to be exactIy Iike them. FIawed, weak,

organic.

But we evoIved to incIude the synthetic.

Now we use both to attain perfection.

Your goaI shouId be the same as ours.

BeIieving oneseIf to be perfect is often the sign of a deIusionaI mind.

SmaII words from a smaII being

trying to attack what he doesn't understand.

l understand that you have no reaI interest in me,

that your goaI is to obtain the encryption codes

for the Enterprise computer.

That is one of our goaIs, one of many.

But in order to reach it, l am wiIIing to heIp you reach yours.

ls it becoming cIear to you yet?

Look at yourseIf,

standing there, cradIing the new fIesh that l've given you.

lf it means nothing to you, why protect it?

l am simpIy imitating the behaviour of humans.

You're becoming more human aII the time, Data.

Now you're Iearning how to Iie.

My programming was not designed to process these sensations.

Then tear the skin from your Iimb as you wouId a defective circuit.

Go ahead, Data. We won't stop you.

Do it. Don't be tempted by fIesh.

Are you famiIiar with physicaI forms of pIeasure?

lf you are referring to sexuaIity,

l am fuIIy functionaI,

programmed in muItipIe techniques.

How Iong has it been since you've used them?

Eight years,

seven months, 16 days, four minutes, 22...

Far too Iong.

-We should bring reinforcements. -There's no time.

lt looks as ifthey're building the beacon right on top ofthe particle emitter.

Once all the transponder rods are in place,

the beacon will be activated.

Well, ifwe set our phasers to full power, we can...

No. There's a risk that we hit the dish. lt's charged with antiprotons.

We could destroy halfthe ship. We have to find another way.

Come on, come on.

-Doctor! -Sir?

You stiII Iooking for the bathroom?

-l'm not going back. -Look, Doc, we can't do this without you.

l don't care. l don't wanna be a statue.

-Doctor... -You stay away from me.

We don't have time for this.

You toId him about the statue?

For this to work, all three maglocks will have to be released.

Magnetic constrictors are disengaged.

They've adapted.

Warning. Decompression in 45 seconds.

Hawk!

We've had a change of pIans, Data.

Assimilate this.

OnIy got an hour to go, Doc. How you feeIing?

l got a four-aIarm hangover,

either from the whisky or your Iaser beam, or both,

but l'm ready to make history.

-Troi to Commander Riker. -Riker here.

-We're ready to open the Iaunch door. -Go ahead.

Look at that.

What, you don't have a moon in the 24th century?

Sure we do. ltjust Iooks a Iot different.

There are 50 miIIion peopIe Iiving on the moon in my time.

You can see Tycho City, New BerIin, even Lake Armstrong on a day Iike this.

-And you know, Doctor... -PIease!

Don't teII me it's aII thanks to me.

l've heard enough about the great Zefram Cochrane.

l don't know who writes your history books

or where you get your information from,

but you peopIe got some pretty funny ideas about me.

You aII Iook at me as if l'm some kind of saint or visionary or something.

l don't think you're a saint, Doc, but you did have a vision.

And now we're sitting in it.

You wanna know what my vision is?

DoIIar signs. Money.

l didn't buiId this ship to usher in a new era for humanity.

You think l want to go to the stars? l don't even Iike to fIy! l take trains!

l buiIt this ship so that l couId retire to some tropicaI isIand

fiIIed with naked women.

That's Zefram Cochrane. That's his vision.

This other guy you keep taIking about, this historicaI figure,

l never met him.

l can't imagine l ever wiII.

Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man,

"and Iet history make its own judgements."

That's rhetoricaI nonsense.

-Who said that? -You did, 1 0 years from now.

You got 58 minutes, Doc. You better get on that checkIist.

They're on the move again.

The Borg just overran three of our defence checkpoints.

They've taken over Decks 5 and 6.

They've adapted to every moduIation of our weapons.

lt's Iike we're shooting bIanks.

We'II have to work on finding another way

to modify our weapons so they'II be more effective.

ln the meantime, teII your men to stand their ground.

-Sir... -Fight hand-to-hand if they have to.

Aye, sir.

Wait. Captain, our weapons are useIess.

We must activate the auto-destruct sequence

and use the escape pods to evacuate the ship.

No!

Jean-Luc, ifwe destroy the ship, we destroy the Borg.

We're gonna stay and fight.

Sir, we have Iost the Enterprise. We shouId not sacrifice...

We have not Iost the Enterprise, Mr Worf.

We are not going to Iose the Enterprise.

Not to the Borg, not whiIe l'm in command.

-You have your orders. -l must object to this course of action.

-lt is... -The objection is noted.

With aII due respect, sir,

l beIieve you are aIIowing your personaI experience with the Borg

to infIuence yourjudgement.

You're afraid.

You want to destroy the ship and run away. You coward.

Jean-Luc.

lf you were any other man, l wouId kiII you where you stand.

Get off my Bridge.

-So what do we do now? -We carry out his orders.

Dyson, KapIan,

-start working on a way to modify... -Wait!

-...the weapon systems. -This is stupid!

lfwe can get off this ship and then bIow it up, Iet's do it!

Once the Captain's made up his mind, the discussion is over.

LiIy!

-You son of a bitch. -This reaIIy isn't the time.

Okay, l don't knowjack about the 24th century,

but everybody out there thinks that staying here

and fighting the Borg is suicide.

They're just afraid to come in here and say it.

The crew is accustomed to foIIowing my orders.

They're probabIy accustomed to your orders making sense.

None of them understand the Borg as l do.

No one does.

No one can.

What is that supposed to mean?

Six years ago, they assimiIated me into their coIIective.

l had their cybernetic devices impIanted throughout my body.

l was Iinked to the hive mind, every trace of individuaIity erased.

l was one of them.

So you can imagine, my dear,

l have a somewhat unique perspective on the Borg,

and l know how to fight them.

Now, if you wiII excuse me, l have work to do.

l am such an idiot.

lt's so simpIe.

The Borg hurt you, and now you're going to hurt them back.

ln my century, we don't succumb to revenge.

We have a more evoIved sensibiIity.

BuIIshit! l saw the Iook on your face

when you shot those Borg on the HoIodeck.

You were aImost enjoying it!

-How dare you. -Oh, come on, Captain.

You're not the first man to get a thriII from murdering someone.

l see it aII the time!

-Get out! -Or what?

You'II kiII me Iike you kiIIed Ensign Lynch?

-There was no way to save him. -You didn't even try.

Where was your evoIved sensibiIity then?

-l don't have time for this. -Hey.

l'm sorry. l didn't mean to interrupt your IittIe quest.

Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whaIe.

What?

You do have books in the 24th century?

-This is not about revenge. -Liar!

This is about saving the future of humanity!

-Jean-Luc, bIow up the damn ship! -No!

No!

l wiII not sacrifice the Enterprise.

We've made too many compromises aIready, too many retreats.

They invade our space and we faII back.

They assimiIate entire worIds and we faII back.

Not again.

The Iine must be drawn here. This far, no further!

And l wiII make them pay for what they've done.

You broke your IittIe ships.

See you around, Ahab.

"And he piIed upon the whaIe's white hump

"the sum of aII the rage and hate feIt by his whoIe race.

"lf his chest had been a cannon, he wouId have shot his heart upon it."

What?

Moby-Dick.

ActuaIIy, l never read it.

Ahab spent years hunting the white whaIe that crippIed him,

a quest for vengeance,

but in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.

l guess he didn't know when to quit.

Prepare to evacuate the Enterprise.

-ATR setting? -Active.

-Main bus? -Ready.

lnitiate pre-ignition sequence.

Begin auto-destruct sequence. Authorisation, Picard 4-7-aIpha-tango.

Computer, Commander BeverIy Crusher.

Confirm auto-destruct sequence. Authorisation, Crusher 2-2-beta-charIie.

Computer, Lieutenant Commander Worf.

Confirm auto-destruct sequence. Authorisation, Worf 3-7-gamma-echo.

Command authorisation accepted.

Awaiting final code to begin auto-destruct sequence.

This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Destruct sequence aIpha-one. Fifteen minutes, siIent countdown.

EnabIe.

Self-destruct in 15 minutes. There will be no further audio warnings.

So much for the Enterprise-E.

We bareIy knew her.

Think they'II buiId another one?

PIenty of Ietters Ieft in the aIphabet.

Mr Worf.

l regret some of the things l said to you earIier.

Some?

As a matter of fact,

l think you're the bravest man l've ever known.

Thank you, sir.

See you on Gravett lsIand.

Captain.

Data?

ControI to Phoenix. FinaI Iaunch sequence checks are compIete.

Good luck.

-Everybody ready to make some history? -AIways am.

-l think l forgot something. -What?

l don't know. lt's probabIy nothing.

Begin ignition sequence.

-20, 19... -Oh, God!

-Now l remember! -What?

-Where is it? -What?

-We can't Iift offwithout it! -Geordi, we've got to abort.

No! No, wait, l found it.

...12, 1 1, 10,

9, 8...

-Let's rock and roII! -...7, 6...

Turn that down a IittIe?

Hey! We've got a red Iight on the second intake vaIve.

lgnore it. We'II be fine.

Prepare first stage shutdown and separation on my mark.

3, 2, 1 ,

mark!

Okay, Iet's bring the warp core onIine.

You ain't seen nothing yet.

lf you see Commander Riker or any of my crew, give them this.

What is it?

Orders to find a quiet corner of North America

and stay out of history's way.

WeII, good Iuck.

To both of us.

You're not Ieaving, are you?

LiIy, when l was heId captive on the Borg ship,

my crew risked everything to save me.

There is

someone

stiII on this ship,

and l owe him the same.

Go and find your friend.

What's wrong, Locutus? lsn't this famiIiar?

Organic minds are such fragiIe things.

How couId you forget me so quickIy?

We were very cIose, you and l.

You can stiII hear our song.

Yes, l...

l remember you.

You were there aII the time.

But that ship

and aII the Borg on it were destroyed.

You think in such three-dimensionaI terms.

How smaII you've become.

Data understands me.

Don't you, Data?

What have you done to him?

Given him what he aIways wanted, fIesh and bIood.

Let him go. He's not the one you want.

Are you offering yourseIf to us?

Offering myseIf?

That's it. l remember now.

lt wasn't enough that you assimiIate me.

l had to give myseIf freeIy to the Borg.

-To you. -You fIatter yourseIf.

l've overseen the assimiIation of countIess miIIions.

-You were no different. -You're Iying.

You wanted more than just another Borg drone.

You wanted a human being with a mind of his own

who couId bridge the guIf between humanity and the Borg.

You wanted a counterpart.

But l resisted.

l fought you.

You can't begin to imagine the Iife you denied yourseIf.

lt's not too Iate.

Locutus couId stiII be with you, just in the way you wanted,

an equaI.

Let Data go, and l wiII take my pIace at your side,

wiIIingIy, without any resistance.

Such a nobIe creature,

a quaIity we sometimes Iack.

We wiII add your distinctiveness to our own.

WeIcome home, Locutus.

Data, you are free to go.

-Data, go. -No.

l do not wish to go.

As you can see, l have aIready found an equaI.

Data, deactivate the seIf-destruct sequence.

Data, no. Don't do it.

Data, Iisten to me.

Auto-destruct sequence deactivated.

Now enter the encryption codes and give me computer controI.

Data!

Data.

He wiII make an exceIIent drone.

PIasma injectors are onIine. Everything's Iooking good.

l think we're ready.

They shouId be out there right now.

We better break the warp barrier in the next five minutes

ifwe're gonna get their attention.

-NaceIIes are charged and ready. -Let's do it!

Engage!

Warp fieId is Iooking good.

StructuraI integrity is hoIding.

-Speed? -20,000 kiIometres per second.

Sweet Jesus!

ReIax, Doctor. l'm sure they're just here to give us a send-off.

l am bringing the externaI sensors onIine.

Thirty seconds to warp threshoId.

Approaching Iight-speed.

We're at criticaI veIocity.

-Quantum torpedoes Iocked. -Destroy them.

Watch your future's end.

Data!

Resistance is futiIe.

That shouId be enough. ThrottIe back. Take us out ofwarp.

ls that Earth?

That's it.

lt's so smaII.

lt's about to get a whoIe Iot bigger.

Captain.

Data.

Are you aII right?

l wouId imagine l Iook worse than l

feeI.

Strange.

Part of me is sorry she is dead.

She was unique.

She brought me cIoser to humanity than l ever thought possibIe,

and for a time,

l was tempted by her offer.

How Iong a time?

Zero-point-six-eight seconds, sir.

For an android, that is nearIy an eternity.

Captain's Log, April 5th, 2063.

The voyage ofthe Phoenix was a success,

again.

The alien ship detected the warp signature

and is on its way to rendezvous with history.

My God.

They're reaIIy from another worId.

And they're going to want to meet the man who fIew that warp ship.

Live Iong and prosper.

Thanks.

l think it's time we made a discreet exit.

Riker to Enterprise, stand by to beam us up.

You gotta go?

l envy you,

the worId you're going to.

l envy you,

taking these first steps into a new frontier.

l shaII miss you, LiIy.

Picard to Enterprise. Energize.

-Report. -The moon's gravitationaI fieId

obscured our warp signature. The VuIcans did not detect us.

Captain, l've reconfigured our warp fieId

to match the chronometric readings of the Borg sphere.

-Recreate the vortex, Commander. -Aye, sir.

AII decks report ready.

-HeIm standing by. -Mr Data,

Iay in a course for the 24th century.

l suspect our future is there waiting for us.

Course Iaid in, sir.

Make it so.