1 00:00:01,836 --> 00:00:05,464 Captain's log, stardate 41463.9. 2 00:00:05,631 --> 00:00:08,217 We have been asked by the Federation 3 00:00:08,384 --> 00:00:11,470 to visit a group terraforming Velara III. 4 00:00:11,637 --> 00:00:13,389 Communications have been erratic, 5 00:00:13,556 --> 00:00:16,058 and there is concern about their welfare. 6 00:00:16,225 --> 00:00:18,602 Entering standard orbit... now. 7 00:00:18,769 --> 00:00:21,689 It takes special people to live in such desolation. 8 00:00:21,856 --> 00:00:24,734 Visionaries who see the planet as it will be. 9 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,278 I'd love to see terraforming in operation. 10 00:00:27,445 --> 00:00:30,656 - Lt Yar, hailing frequencies. - Frequencies open, sir. 11 00:00:30,865 --> 00:00:34,952 Velara III base, this is Capt Picard of the Starship Enterprise. 12 00:00:46,088 --> 00:00:49,592 No malfunctioning equipment, sir. They are receiving us. 13 00:00:49,759 --> 00:00:53,054 Velara III base, come in, please. Over. 14 00:00:55,264 --> 00:00:56,766 Maybe no one's home. 15 00:01:00,478 --> 00:01:03,064 We are sensing life forms, sir. 16 00:01:04,398 --> 00:01:07,068 Velara III base, do you copy? 17 00:01:07,234 --> 00:01:09,904 Velara base to Enterprise. 18 00:01:10,696 --> 00:01:13,783 Yes, Captain, I'm Director Mandl, and... 19 00:01:13,949 --> 00:01:18,162 I'm sorry about the delay, but we weren't expecting visitors. 20 00:01:18,329 --> 00:01:23,084 Terraform Command has asked us to see how you were getting along. 21 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:26,045 We were behind but we're back on schedule. 22 00:01:26,754 --> 00:01:30,383 I'd like to hope we'd be allowed to maintain that schedule. 23 00:01:31,342 --> 00:01:33,552 We alarm him for some reason. 24 00:01:35,846 --> 00:01:38,391 Your staff are well, I presume, Director? 25 00:01:38,557 --> 00:01:42,436 Understandably tired. We're working very hard, Captain. 26 00:01:42,853 --> 00:01:45,523 If there is anything we can do... 27 00:01:45,690 --> 00:01:49,318 You and your staff are very welcome aboard for a rest. 28 00:01:49,485 --> 00:01:52,530 - We have holodecks you'll enjoy. - No disrespect, 29 00:01:52,697 --> 00:01:55,074 but we cannot afford the time. 30 00:01:56,617 --> 00:01:59,412 - Channel closed. - His fear is escalating. 31 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:02,998 If you’ll excuse me, I must get back to work. 32 00:02:03,165 --> 00:02:05,334 I sense deliberate concealment, sir. 33 00:02:05,501 --> 00:02:08,546 - Of what? - I don't know, but it's intense. 34 00:02:10,172 --> 00:02:14,301 We've heard of your remarkable achievements in terraforming. 35 00:02:14,468 --> 00:02:16,762 My crew would appreciate looking around. 36 00:02:16,929 --> 00:02:22,184 This is not really the best time. We are at a very critical phase. 37 00:02:22,351 --> 00:02:24,353 We require no special attention. 38 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,731 I'm trying not to be rude, sir, 39 00:02:26,897 --> 00:02:30,735 but this is really very inconvenient. 40 00:02:32,486 --> 00:02:36,574 He is concealing something. It's more than being too busy. 41 00:02:36,741 --> 00:02:41,078 Your announcement about coming down has sent him to a point of panic. 42 00:02:42,038 --> 00:02:44,248 Well, whether he wants us or not. 43 00:02:44,415 --> 00:02:49,545 Unless you're absolutely refusing us permission to land at your station, 44 00:02:50,129 --> 00:02:52,173 prepare to receive our away team. 45 00:02:53,257 --> 00:02:54,925 As you wish. 46 00:02:59,055 --> 00:03:01,640 - Counselor, you'd better go too. - Aye, sir. 47 00:03:01,807 --> 00:03:05,895 Someone that tense can be unpredictable. Stay on your toes. 48 00:03:32,254 --> 00:03:35,257 Space, the final frontier. 49 00:03:37,009 --> 00:03:40,680 These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. 50 00:03:40,846 --> 00:03:45,685 Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds... 51 00:03:46,894 --> 00:03:50,564 ...to seek out new life and new civilizations... 52 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,277 ...to boldly go where no one has gone before. 53 00:05:14,106 --> 00:05:16,942 Welcome to Velara III. Please... 54 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,655 Remember it as it is now. 55 00:05:21,864 --> 00:05:24,992 In two decades, you won't recognize it. 56 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:29,330 Luisa Kim. Gardener of Edens. 57 00:05:29,455 --> 00:05:34,001 Cmdr Riker, USS Enterprise. This is Counselor Troi, Lt Yar, 58 00:05:34,168 --> 00:05:36,587 Lt La Forge, Lt Cmdr Data. 59 00:05:37,630 --> 00:05:39,882 Arthur Malencon, hydraulics specialist, 60 00:05:40,049 --> 00:05:42,510 and Bjorn Bensen, Chief Engineer. 61 00:05:44,845 --> 00:05:45,763 An android? 62 00:05:46,597 --> 00:05:48,683 And third-in-command of the Enterprise. 63 00:05:49,433 --> 00:05:52,687 Where were you manufactured? Are there others like you? 64 00:05:53,229 --> 00:05:56,023 Both matters are subjects of protracted discussion. 65 00:05:57,358 --> 00:05:58,776 Remarkable. 66 00:06:00,027 --> 00:06:01,278 Excuse me. 67 00:06:04,949 --> 00:06:08,536 We don't get many visitors. It's exciting to have you here. 68 00:06:08,703 --> 00:06:11,455 We weren't sure how we would be received. 69 00:06:11,622 --> 00:06:15,710 Director Mandl was less than enthusiastic about our interest. 70 00:06:15,876 --> 00:06:19,672 I should apologize for him. We are at a critical phase. 71 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,050 - Usually he's charming. - We'll stay out of the way. 72 00:06:23,217 --> 00:06:25,678 We've never seen a terraforming station and... 73 00:06:25,845 --> 00:06:27,847 ...we appreciate the opportunity. 74 00:06:28,514 --> 00:06:30,182 How much do you know? 75 00:06:30,349 --> 00:06:33,477 Theories, reports, but nothing first-hand. 76 00:06:33,644 --> 00:06:37,523 Wonderful. Let me show you what we do. Newcomers find this... 77 00:06:37,690 --> 00:06:41,360 The other two are secretive, but she is open. 78 00:06:41,527 --> 00:06:44,280 What we're doing is so exciting, so inspiring. 79 00:06:44,447 --> 00:06:46,240 We take a lifeless planet... 80 00:06:46,949 --> 00:06:50,661 ...and transform it to an M-Class environment, 81 00:06:50,870 --> 00:06:52,872 capable of supporting life. 82 00:06:53,664 --> 00:06:54,749 Terraforming... 83 00:06:54,915 --> 00:06:57,752 ...makes you feel a little God-like. 84 00:06:58,502 --> 00:07:03,132 The first phase involves selecting the planet. That's very important. 85 00:07:03,299 --> 00:07:06,052 It must have the right mass, gravity, 86 00:07:06,218 --> 00:07:09,722 correct rate of rotation, and a balanced day and night. 87 00:07:09,889 --> 00:07:12,141 The planet must also be without life 88 00:07:12,308 --> 00:07:14,977 or the prospect of life developing naturally. 89 00:07:15,102 --> 00:07:20,524 The Federation determines if that's so. Then, we take over. 90 00:07:22,318 --> 00:07:26,989 This station is phase two. Phase three involves water. 91 00:07:27,156 --> 00:07:30,034 Usually we create basins using hydraulic landscaping, 92 00:07:30,201 --> 00:07:32,953 but the water on this planet is subsurface, 93 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,456 and extremely high in salt content. 94 00:07:35,623 --> 00:07:39,543 We're just about to begin pumping and filtering the water. 95 00:07:39,710 --> 00:07:43,464 Removing the salt, oxygenating and replacing. 96 00:07:43,881 --> 00:07:48,511 Next... we introduce micro-organisms. 97 00:07:49,679 --> 00:07:54,517 And when the process is complete, we'll have a lush, arable biosphere. 98 00:07:55,851 --> 00:07:57,311 You make it sound poetic. 99 00:07:57,478 --> 00:08:00,314 I think it's the best job in the universe. 100 00:08:04,944 --> 00:08:08,823 The efficiency of your hydraulic landscaping is quite elegant. 101 00:08:08,989 --> 00:08:11,325 It isn't yet, but it will be. 102 00:08:11,492 --> 00:08:15,287 Right now I'm disturbed by the erratic power surges 103 00:08:15,496 --> 00:08:19,291 in the servo-mechanisms that control the hydraulic probes. 104 00:08:19,458 --> 00:08:22,628 Could it be caused by the high saline content? 105 00:08:22,795 --> 00:08:25,506 - That was my first thought, but... - Arthur! 106 00:08:26,382 --> 00:08:29,218 The factors do not support that conclusion. 107 00:08:30,636 --> 00:08:35,975 I'm Director Mandl, and I'm sorry about having been so abrupt earlier. 108 00:08:36,100 --> 00:08:39,437 Being isolated, one forgets the social graces. 109 00:08:40,062 --> 00:08:43,983 - Are you seeing everything? - What you're doing is miraculous. 110 00:08:44,150 --> 00:08:47,987 What we're doing is working a demanding timetable, 111 00:08:48,195 --> 00:08:50,239 and there will be no miracle 112 00:08:50,406 --> 00:08:54,869 unless Malencon here gets the hydraulic probes back on line. 113 00:08:56,370 --> 00:09:01,709 We are set to step up to full conversion immediately. 114 00:09:03,085 --> 00:09:06,714 Shouldn't you be in the hydraulic chamber? 115 00:09:06,881 --> 00:09:07,798 Now? 116 00:09:08,424 --> 00:09:09,383 Yes. 117 00:09:12,470 --> 00:09:15,264 - Alright, Kurt. - Geordi. 118 00:09:15,473 --> 00:09:18,309 This appears to be the master subsurface pump. 119 00:09:18,476 --> 00:09:20,186 You're right. Very impressive. 120 00:09:20,353 --> 00:09:23,105 It's interesting. The water table is a thin ribbon 121 00:09:23,272 --> 00:09:25,733 between the surface layer and the rocks below. 122 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:28,861 And the two surfaces follow that contour so precisely, 123 00:09:29,028 --> 00:09:31,322 the water maintains a consistent depth between them. 124 00:09:31,489 --> 00:09:34,617 Which would require extreme precision from the probe controls. 125 00:09:34,784 --> 00:09:37,995 Here we have something that may be of interest to you. 126 00:09:38,162 --> 00:09:40,414 A vegetation graph. 127 00:09:41,290 --> 00:09:46,462 It is, really, the key centre for successful terraforming. 128 00:09:47,129 --> 00:09:48,130 Incredible. 129 00:09:48,297 --> 00:09:50,966 It's planned month by month, decade by decade? 130 00:09:51,092 --> 00:09:55,680 Every single thing is specific and exact. 131 00:09:55,846 --> 00:09:59,225 You see grand, Romantic concepts. 132 00:10:00,184 --> 00:10:04,355 I see unyielding rock under an ocean of sand. 133 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:08,025 - Commander! - What is it, Deanna? 134 00:10:08,192 --> 00:10:10,111 Malencon. He's in trouble! 135 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:13,322 Help! 136 00:10:17,118 --> 00:10:18,327 Can you open it? 137 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:20,496 It's jammed! 138 00:10:47,581 --> 00:10:51,376 First Officer's log, stardate 41464.3. 139 00:10:51,543 --> 00:10:54,087 A routine visit to a terraforming site 140 00:10:54,254 --> 00:10:56,590 has turned into something more serious. 141 00:10:56,756 --> 00:11:00,635 Arthur Malencon has been critically injured by a laser drill, 142 00:11:00,802 --> 00:11:02,804 which appears to have malfunctioned. 143 00:11:05,932 --> 00:11:07,893 Situation report, Number One. 144 00:11:09,853 --> 00:11:14,274 We're shutting off all power before entering to recover the body. 145 00:11:14,482 --> 00:11:16,443 We'll beam him up to sickbay, 146 00:11:16,610 --> 00:11:19,446 but looking at his wounds, it's probably hopeless. 147 00:11:19,613 --> 00:11:20,739 Keep me informed. 148 00:11:20,906 --> 00:11:23,617 - Data? - Go ahead, Geordi. 149 00:11:24,492 --> 00:11:25,452 All set. 150 00:11:25,619 --> 00:11:27,495 Data, the section is powered down. 151 00:11:27,662 --> 00:11:30,749 Bensen has locked the master servomotor drive, 152 00:11:30,916 --> 00:11:32,834 so it should be safe. 153 00:11:33,293 --> 00:11:36,046 - I'm going in. - I will too. 154 00:11:40,383 --> 00:11:44,429 Transporter room, this is Lt Yar. Two to beam up to sickbay. 155 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:54,773 I want to go. We should be with him. 156 00:11:57,359 --> 00:11:59,486 Kurt, please come too. 157 00:12:08,036 --> 00:12:12,249 Transporter room, this is Riker. Beam up four, at my coordinates. 158 00:12:17,128 --> 00:12:21,633 Geordi, this is intriguing. I've seen malfunctions. 159 00:12:23,051 --> 00:12:24,427 But this... 160 00:12:25,428 --> 00:12:30,767 It's almost as if the laser drill seemed to operate 161 00:12:31,351 --> 00:12:35,480 with a will separate from its control console. 162 00:12:37,148 --> 00:12:38,567 I can't explain it. 163 00:12:39,234 --> 00:12:43,655 The laser blasts seemed to end when the yelling stopped. 164 00:12:45,323 --> 00:12:48,368 Maybe Arthur stopped it, only not in time. 165 00:12:49,786 --> 00:12:50,787 Not possible. 166 00:12:50,954 --> 00:12:53,790 - Then what are you suggesting? - Uncertain. 167 00:12:53,957 --> 00:12:58,670 Geordi, please return power to the control console in this room. 168 00:12:58,837 --> 00:13:02,257 - I will reactivate the program. - You got it. 169 00:13:15,395 --> 00:13:18,607 I am now running the base-drilling program. 170 00:13:25,405 --> 00:13:28,283 - Geordi! Servos off! - They are off! 171 00:13:28,450 --> 00:13:30,994 - What's happening? - Too much to explain. 172 00:13:36,666 --> 00:13:40,378 Can you open that? La Forge to the Enterprise. We have a problem. 173 00:13:40,545 --> 00:13:41,463 Be specific. 174 00:13:41,630 --> 00:13:44,633 Data's under fire in the hydraulics room. 175 00:13:44,799 --> 00:13:46,134 Get him out of there! 176 00:13:46,718 --> 00:13:50,388 - It's not working! - We've gotta get this door open! 177 00:13:52,015 --> 00:13:54,684 Data! 178 00:14:02,234 --> 00:14:04,528 Away team, now! What is happening? 179 00:14:05,904 --> 00:14:10,325 - I'll beam him out of there. - Bridge, this is Lt Cmdr Data. 180 00:14:10,492 --> 00:14:14,287 No need to beam me up. The situation is under control. 181 00:14:20,085 --> 00:14:21,920 - Are you alright? - Yes. 182 00:14:22,087 --> 00:14:24,673 Well, what happened? Did you set it off? 183 00:14:24,839 --> 00:14:27,842 No, but the firing program was dynamic. 184 00:14:28,051 --> 00:14:30,804 The firing...? In what way? 185 00:14:30,971 --> 00:14:34,850 It adjusted to my tactics. It tracked with me, anticipating. 186 00:14:35,058 --> 00:14:37,018 A fixed program could not do that. 187 00:14:37,686 --> 00:14:40,730 Someone was controlling the aiming-and-firing sequence? 188 00:14:40,897 --> 00:14:45,360 That is how it appeared. There was a mind working against me. 189 00:14:45,527 --> 00:14:48,196 What did you do to this laser drill? 190 00:14:49,364 --> 00:14:53,785 A year's work destroyed! 191 00:14:54,369 --> 00:14:56,288 I had no choice. 192 00:15:02,878 --> 00:15:06,590 We were attempting to trace the malfunction when it attacked me. 193 00:15:06,756 --> 00:15:10,427 How much of this useless fantasy do I have to listen to? 194 00:15:10,594 --> 00:15:15,015 None. I have provided temporary quarters for you and your staff. 195 00:15:15,182 --> 00:15:16,808 Make use of them. 196 00:15:16,975 --> 00:15:21,563 You're overstepping your authority. You have no right to interfere. 197 00:15:21,730 --> 00:15:24,649 An attack on my crew gives me the right. 198 00:15:24,858 --> 00:15:27,986 - I have a schedule to meet. - It's on hold, 199 00:15:28,153 --> 00:15:30,322 till I have an explanation of this. 200 00:15:34,602 --> 00:15:37,438 Lt Yar, escort the Director to his quarters. 201 00:15:37,605 --> 00:15:38,898 Aye, sir. 202 00:15:42,489 --> 00:15:44,032 Go on with your report. 203 00:15:44,199 --> 00:15:47,327 The laser's drilling system was reprogrammed, sir. 204 00:15:47,494 --> 00:15:49,329 When its memory bank received power, 205 00:15:49,496 --> 00:15:51,748 it turned itself on and went after me. 206 00:15:52,249 --> 00:15:56,503 - I was able to cope. - Not by much, from what I saw. 207 00:15:56,670 --> 00:16:00,340 I believe it was programmed to destroy any person in that room. 208 00:16:01,091 --> 00:16:02,926 Certainty? Speculation? 209 00:16:03,093 --> 00:16:04,094 Certainty. 210 00:16:04,261 --> 00:16:06,805 That would require a master programmer's talents. 211 00:16:06,972 --> 00:16:08,140 But it was done. 212 00:16:08,307 --> 00:16:10,684 So the question is not who, 213 00:16:10,851 --> 00:16:14,104 since it was one of the three terraformers. 214 00:16:14,271 --> 00:16:17,357 The question is, why? What are they hiding? 215 00:16:17,524 --> 00:16:19,067 What could be so important 216 00:16:19,234 --> 00:16:23,322 that one or all of them could be desperate enough to kill? 217 00:16:24,781 --> 00:16:26,700 Shall I have them brought in? 218 00:16:28,785 --> 00:16:30,245 Not yet. 219 00:16:32,289 --> 00:16:34,583 - Malencon? - I couldn't save him. 220 00:16:34,750 --> 00:16:37,085 The injuries were too severe. Damage too extensive. 221 00:16:37,252 --> 00:16:39,588 The Velara III facility has been powered down. 222 00:16:39,755 --> 00:16:43,342 We have a power feed to the life-support systems. 223 00:16:43,508 --> 00:16:47,429 Data, I want you and Geordi to return for more careful inspection. 224 00:16:47,596 --> 00:16:50,807 - What are we to look for? - Evidence of negligence. 225 00:16:50,974 --> 00:16:53,310 Sabotage, whatever. The answer's there. 226 00:16:53,477 --> 00:16:57,814 Tasha, I want you to provide personnel records of our guests. 227 00:16:57,981 --> 00:17:01,151 Profiles, training. I'm looking for motive, intent, 228 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,404 the psychological capacity to commit murder. 229 00:17:04,571 --> 00:17:05,322 Aye, sir. 230 00:17:05,489 --> 00:17:07,866 We are becoming detectives, Number One. 231 00:17:27,548 --> 00:17:29,466 Not much left of this drill. 232 00:17:43,981 --> 00:17:46,817 Geordi, I need some visual assistance. 233 00:17:52,573 --> 00:17:54,032 What is it? 234 00:17:58,620 --> 00:18:00,747 Nothing but basic elements. 235 00:18:01,498 --> 00:18:03,083 Inorganic. 236 00:18:04,042 --> 00:18:06,753 No carbon. Sandy texture. 237 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,551 Those flashes are almost... musical. 238 00:18:14,845 --> 00:18:21,226 I... see color variations and... rhythms, in complex harmonies. 239 00:18:26,565 --> 00:18:30,444 Speculation. Could it be alive? 240 00:18:31,695 --> 00:18:34,156 How could it be alive? It's inorganic. 241 00:18:35,073 --> 00:18:39,286 Whatever it is, it could be what they are covering up. 242 00:18:40,162 --> 00:18:42,915 And the reason someone killed Malencon. 243 00:18:49,237 --> 00:18:50,905 Captain's log, supplemental. 244 00:18:51,072 --> 00:18:53,908 Data's startling discovery of a possible life form 245 00:18:54,075 --> 00:18:57,954 has been beamed aboard so that its true nature might be uncovered. 246 00:18:58,162 --> 00:19:02,834 But unlike life elsewhere, it appears to be completely inorganic. 247 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,170 - A test for inorganic life. - It has never been done. 248 00:19:06,337 --> 00:19:08,381 There are basic definitions for organic life. 249 00:19:08,548 --> 00:19:11,426 Must have the ability to assimilate, respirate, reproduce, 250 00:19:11,592 --> 00:19:14,720 grow and develop, move, secrete and excrete. 251 00:19:14,887 --> 00:19:18,141 - Would any apply here? - Perhaps growth and development. 252 00:19:18,307 --> 00:19:20,852 - Reproduction? - Yes. 253 00:19:21,018 --> 00:19:23,855 Those may be basic for any definition of life, 254 00:19:24,021 --> 00:19:25,773 organic or inorganic. 255 00:19:25,982 --> 00:19:29,193 You're charting unknown seas. How do we proceed? 256 00:19:29,902 --> 00:19:32,905 Let's use the basic scientific method. 257 00:19:33,072 --> 00:19:37,577 Observe, theorize, and attempt to prove it. Activate. 258 00:19:37,744 --> 00:19:41,456 Let's be sure of what we're dealing with. Is the sample organic? 259 00:19:41,622 --> 00:19:45,418 Negative carbon. Negative known life components. 260 00:19:45,585 --> 00:19:47,295 Substance inorganic. 261 00:19:48,379 --> 00:19:51,132 - Recheck analysis, please. - Rechecking. 262 00:19:51,299 --> 00:19:54,010 Analysis verified. Not organic. 263 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,138 Magnify the screen. 264 00:20:01,142 --> 00:20:02,101 Factor five. 265 00:20:03,895 --> 00:20:05,271 Hold surface. 266 00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:08,357 Factor ten. 267 00:20:13,279 --> 00:20:17,116 - What are we looking at? - It's beautiful, whatever it is. 268 00:20:21,245 --> 00:20:22,455 What's that hum? 269 00:20:23,456 --> 00:20:26,876 It started after Dr Crusher ordered the scanner to magnify. 270 00:20:27,043 --> 00:20:30,463 Computer, demagnify. Resume normal scan. 271 00:20:36,302 --> 00:20:38,346 Everyone stand back. 272 00:20:40,681 --> 00:20:42,475 Step back again. 273 00:20:45,686 --> 00:20:47,397 It's us! 274 00:20:48,815 --> 00:20:52,485 - Yes. We're causing it. Why? - Unknown. 275 00:20:52,693 --> 00:20:55,696 But it is definitely reacting to our presence. 276 00:20:55,863 --> 00:20:59,033 Perhaps it is picking up the electrical impulse of our systems. 277 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,871 The flashes haven't changed. Could the hum be connected to them? 278 00:21:05,373 --> 00:21:07,250 Computer, magnify. 279 00:21:09,585 --> 00:21:10,962 What is the magnification? 280 00:21:11,129 --> 00:21:13,631 2,500 diameters. 281 00:21:15,091 --> 00:21:17,927 Analyze the pattern of the flashes. 282 00:21:18,970 --> 00:21:23,433 Not repetitive or sequential. Pattern not recognized. 283 00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:26,144 What is the flashes' source? 284 00:21:26,310 --> 00:21:31,441 Unable to specify. Theoretically not possible from this substance. 285 00:21:32,024 --> 00:21:37,447 Disregard incongruity... and theorize as to source. 286 00:21:40,366 --> 00:21:41,534 Life. 287 00:21:54,497 --> 00:21:57,667 What do you mean, a life form? What life form? 288 00:21:58,835 --> 00:22:03,173 A Federation recon expedition certified Velara III lifeless. 289 00:22:03,340 --> 00:22:08,094 Understandable, given this particular life form's novel nature. 290 00:22:08,261 --> 00:22:09,596 What is that nature? 291 00:22:10,180 --> 00:22:13,767 Dr Crusher is still making her determination. Mr. Mandl... 292 00:22:13,934 --> 00:22:15,727 ...you know the Prime Directive. 293 00:22:16,895 --> 00:22:19,731 Are you saying that I knowingly defied it? 294 00:22:19,940 --> 00:22:22,609 You're a man obsessed with what you do. 295 00:22:22,734 --> 00:22:27,739 Who knows what an obsessed man will do to keep going. Kill, perhaps? 296 00:22:28,823 --> 00:22:30,825 I create life. 297 00:22:34,287 --> 00:22:36,039 I don't take it. 298 00:22:43,838 --> 00:22:45,465 You hit him hard, Captain. 299 00:22:46,842 --> 00:22:49,928 - What do you think, Counselor? - It was useful. 300 00:22:50,095 --> 00:22:52,055 I felt two levels. 301 00:22:52,222 --> 00:22:56,560 He did know about the life form. But the idea of murder shocked him. 302 00:22:56,726 --> 00:23:00,355 The idea, or just being accused, I can't tell. 303 00:23:01,356 --> 00:23:03,191 What about his file, Lt Yar? 304 00:23:03,358 --> 00:23:06,236 Could he have accomplished the reprogramming Data described? 305 00:23:06,403 --> 00:23:10,824 Mandl has degrees in computer science and artificial intelligence. 306 00:23:10,991 --> 00:23:11,950 It's possible. 307 00:23:12,117 --> 00:23:14,077 What about the others? The victim? 308 00:23:14,244 --> 00:23:17,330 Only the victim had the required expertise. 309 00:23:17,539 --> 00:23:21,209 Malencon did work where the... whatever it is was found. 310 00:23:21,376 --> 00:23:24,546 Suppressing that knowledge would be motive for murder. 311 00:23:24,754 --> 00:23:27,340 If Mandl were obsessed enough. 312 00:23:27,507 --> 00:23:32,012 Terraformers are often obsessive. It goes with the career profile. 313 00:23:32,179 --> 00:23:34,389 How do you read the designer? 314 00:23:34,556 --> 00:23:38,643 She is possessed of highly abstracted reality. Lovely visions. 315 00:23:38,810 --> 00:23:40,103 Little data. 316 00:23:40,729 --> 00:23:43,398 But you might do better than I. 317 00:23:53,950 --> 00:23:55,660 It's not locked. 318 00:24:04,294 --> 00:24:06,087 Mind a visitor? 319 00:24:09,758 --> 00:24:11,551 Is it true? 320 00:24:14,930 --> 00:24:17,390 Did you really find a life form? 321 00:24:17,557 --> 00:24:23,104 The debate is still going on in some quarters, but I think so, yes. 322 00:24:24,814 --> 00:24:26,191 What's it like? 323 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,489 We have nothing we can compare it with. It's microscopic. It... 324 00:24:32,656 --> 00:24:38,286 It seems colonial, simple. But it's inorganic. 325 00:24:38,453 --> 00:24:42,666 Which is why the recon scouts missed it. It was not your mistake. 326 00:24:47,879 --> 00:24:51,508 Everything I've worked so hard for... 327 00:24:55,554 --> 00:24:57,889 ...is falling apart. 328 00:25:06,481 --> 00:25:07,649 Luisa... 329 00:25:09,442 --> 00:25:11,570 It's very beautiful. 330 00:25:12,863 --> 00:25:15,282 I could arrange for you to see it. 331 00:25:17,492 --> 00:25:19,744 Perhaps later. 332 00:25:36,595 --> 00:25:40,390 Captain, this is Dr Crusher. You'd better come to the Medical lab. 333 00:25:47,814 --> 00:25:50,233 - What is it? - Geordi observed movement. 334 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,069 Not movement, but a shift in the energy pattern. 335 00:25:53,236 --> 00:25:56,364 - Without external influence. - The hum has gone. Why? 336 00:25:56,531 --> 00:25:59,201 Unknown, sir. Perhaps it is scanning us. 337 00:25:59,367 --> 00:26:02,370 Why? What could it hope to learn? 338 00:26:02,537 --> 00:26:06,374 - Unknown at this time, sir. - It's changing. 339 00:26:08,627 --> 00:26:12,047 - I don't see anything. - The infrared range is increasing. 340 00:26:14,841 --> 00:26:16,927 Warning. Input overload. 341 00:26:17,969 --> 00:26:20,805 - The hum is back. - Projecting an energy field. 342 00:26:20,972 --> 00:26:22,557 And it's intensifying. 343 00:26:26,436 --> 00:26:28,480 Magnification deactivated. 344 00:26:41,243 --> 00:26:43,036 Two of them! 345 00:26:45,956 --> 00:26:49,000 Only life can replicate itself, Doctor. 346 00:26:49,668 --> 00:26:53,129 Inorganic or not, it is alive. 347 00:27:00,262 --> 00:27:02,055 Activate quarantine field. 348 00:27:07,143 --> 00:27:08,854 Quarantine field full. 349 00:27:10,647 --> 00:27:12,524 Full shield backup. 350 00:27:16,069 --> 00:27:17,279 Evacuating lab. 351 00:27:17,445 --> 00:27:19,614 Translation request being patched. 352 00:27:20,532 --> 00:27:21,950 Translation? From whom? 353 00:27:25,829 --> 00:27:27,163 Evacuate! 354 00:27:30,584 --> 00:27:32,836 What's wrong with the translator circuit? 355 00:27:33,003 --> 00:27:34,963 Bridge, this is the Captain. 356 00:27:35,130 --> 00:27:38,967 Request emergency power to initiate lab quarantine seal. 357 00:27:40,093 --> 00:27:42,470 - Do it, Mr. Worf. - Aye, sir. 358 00:27:42,637 --> 00:27:47,726 - What's the problem, Captain? - We know Data's discovery is life. 359 00:27:48,226 --> 00:27:52,063 But more than that, it is intelligent life. 360 00:27:55,108 --> 00:27:56,776 How do you know, sir? 361 00:28:01,615 --> 00:28:03,950 It's trying to communicate with us. 362 00:28:08,580 --> 00:28:10,415 Captain's log, supplemental. 363 00:28:10,582 --> 00:28:15,629 The inorganic life form has taken over our Medical lab. 364 00:28:16,004 --> 00:28:19,174 Its energy is interfering with surrounding systems. 365 00:28:19,341 --> 00:28:21,843 - Can we see into the lab? - Negative. 366 00:28:22,010 --> 00:28:24,304 Reducing backup to the quarantine seal might help. 367 00:28:24,471 --> 00:28:26,181 - Doctor? - I wouldn't. 368 00:28:26,348 --> 00:28:28,225 - Continue quarantine. - Aye, sir. 369 00:28:28,391 --> 00:28:31,895 Director Mandl and the others are in the observation lounge. 370 00:28:32,062 --> 00:28:35,482 Counselor, I need you. You have the bridge, Number One. 371 00:28:39,194 --> 00:28:43,865 Director Mandl, once again, what do you know about these life forms? 372 00:28:44,032 --> 00:28:46,326 - Not a thing. - Enough! 373 00:28:49,329 --> 00:28:50,997 Sit down, Lieutenant. 374 00:28:51,164 --> 00:28:53,750 You are deliberately evasive and it must stop! 375 00:28:53,917 --> 00:28:56,711 You have kept information from me. 376 00:28:56,878 --> 00:29:01,091 An alien life form has taken possession of my Medical lab. 377 00:29:03,426 --> 00:29:06,805 - You knew of its existence. - Yes. 378 00:29:07,305 --> 00:29:11,601 Is this true? You knew there was life on Velara III? 379 00:29:11,768 --> 00:29:15,897 I knew that there were random energy patterns, yes. 380 00:29:16,064 --> 00:29:21,403 But not life. Not by any definition that I've ever heard. 381 00:29:21,528 --> 00:29:24,406 You kept that knowledge from us. 382 00:29:24,573 --> 00:29:29,911 No! They are meaningless silicon crystals, which rebroadcast sunlight. 383 00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:32,747 It is a life form, and has intelligence. 384 00:29:36,293 --> 00:29:39,963 - Why do you say that? - It's trying to communicate with us. 385 00:29:40,130 --> 00:29:42,340 Communicate with you? 386 00:29:43,508 --> 00:29:45,927 When did you become aware of them? 387 00:29:47,596 --> 00:29:49,806 Tell them about the pattern in the sand. 388 00:29:49,973 --> 00:29:52,642 Yes, do tell us. 389 00:29:55,979 --> 00:29:59,399 When we first arrived, we noticed that in certain areas 390 00:29:59,566 --> 00:30:01,902 the sand had a sparkling effect, 391 00:30:02,068 --> 00:30:06,114 like... sunlight bouncing off new fallen snow. 392 00:30:06,323 --> 00:30:11,328 - What did you think it was? - We did not give it any thought. 393 00:30:12,370 --> 00:30:15,540 Picard, I must point out again 394 00:30:15,707 --> 00:30:19,753 that we were assured, not once but many times, 395 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,839 by the best scientific minds in the Federation, 396 00:30:23,006 --> 00:30:26,843 that this planet has no life. No life! 397 00:30:28,261 --> 00:30:31,848 And we were not looking... and therefore we did not see. 398 00:30:32,057 --> 00:30:33,975 Alright. At first you dismissed it. 399 00:30:34,142 --> 00:30:38,355 But then you began to understand that there was something 400 00:30:38,522 --> 00:30:40,815 that was different about them. 401 00:30:40,982 --> 00:30:42,359 You can't know that. 402 00:30:42,526 --> 00:30:45,946 Your apprehension suggested it, when we first arrived. 403 00:30:46,863 --> 00:30:48,323 Tell me about these patterns. 404 00:30:49,449 --> 00:30:53,203 At first we thought it was just a natural phenomenon of Velara III. 405 00:30:53,370 --> 00:30:57,457 Refraction and a thin atmosphere is interesting. 406 00:30:57,624 --> 00:31:01,670 - But certainly not life. - Why was I never told about this? 407 00:31:02,295 --> 00:31:04,464 Because it's not particularly important. 408 00:31:05,715 --> 00:31:08,426 As the building of the terraforming station went forward, 409 00:31:08,593 --> 00:31:12,889 the patterns in the sand ceased being random and became specific. 410 00:31:13,056 --> 00:31:17,185 Geometric shapes suddenly appearing, disappearing, 411 00:31:17,352 --> 00:31:19,729 changing location, changing size... 412 00:31:19,896 --> 00:31:23,567 Did you ever feel that these patterns 413 00:31:23,733 --> 00:31:25,902 were attempting to communicate? 414 00:31:28,947 --> 00:31:30,991 No. Never. 415 00:31:32,909 --> 00:31:33,910 Bensen? 416 00:31:34,077 --> 00:31:38,957 I don't know. At the time, I didn't think so. 417 00:31:39,124 --> 00:31:42,627 But now, after hearing what you just said... 418 00:31:42,794 --> 00:31:45,463 Now, I don't know. 419 00:31:45,589 --> 00:31:49,759 We've regained magnification of the life form. It's divided again. 420 00:31:49,926 --> 00:31:51,970 Patch visual to observation lounge. 421 00:31:58,977 --> 00:32:03,023 There was no indication of any of this on Velara III. 422 00:32:03,190 --> 00:32:04,816 Absolutely none. 423 00:32:08,778 --> 00:32:10,989 I cannot understand the patterns. 424 00:32:11,156 --> 00:32:12,407 Neither can I. 425 00:32:12,574 --> 00:32:16,161 Show me spectral analysis, magnification 12K. 426 00:32:16,328 --> 00:32:19,247 - Silicon, germanium. - Transistor material. 427 00:32:19,414 --> 00:32:22,250 - Gallium arsenide. - Emits light when charged. 428 00:32:22,417 --> 00:32:25,545 - Cadmium sulphide. - Emits charge when lit. 429 00:32:25,712 --> 00:32:28,089 Water, impurities, sodium salts. 430 00:32:28,298 --> 00:32:29,508 Conductor. 431 00:32:32,677 --> 00:32:35,764 - But is it alive? - Probability positive. 432 00:32:35,931 --> 00:32:37,516 I wasn't asking you. 433 00:32:37,682 --> 00:32:41,436 - Engineering to bridge. - Cmdr Riker. Go ahead. 434 00:32:41,603 --> 00:32:45,398 The backup on the lab seal is fluctuating, sir. 435 00:32:45,565 --> 00:32:47,359 I think you should come down. 436 00:32:47,526 --> 00:32:49,319 On my way. 437 00:32:50,529 --> 00:32:54,074 Data, you've got the bridge. Inform the Captain. 438 00:32:59,788 --> 00:33:01,039 Status, Ensign? 439 00:33:01,206 --> 00:33:03,500 The quarantine seal is getting weaker, sir. 440 00:33:03,667 --> 00:33:06,920 Every time I try to redirect backup, it goes somewhere else. 441 00:33:07,087 --> 00:33:08,964 I think I've... No... 442 00:33:09,130 --> 00:33:11,424 It's locked three people in a turbolift 443 00:33:11,591 --> 00:33:14,344 and two more in the programmers' restroom. 444 00:33:14,511 --> 00:33:17,764 There is no seal. Give me lab interior image. 445 00:33:17,931 --> 00:33:18,723 Yes, sir. 446 00:33:23,186 --> 00:33:24,396 Magnify. 447 00:33:28,066 --> 00:33:29,860 Picard, this is Riker. 448 00:33:30,026 --> 00:33:32,070 We see it too, Number One. 449 00:33:38,785 --> 00:33:40,495 Get that seal back up. 450 00:33:40,662 --> 00:33:44,165 No matter what I do, the energy goes somewhere else. 451 00:33:44,332 --> 00:33:46,167 What if it hits the sickbay? 452 00:33:46,334 --> 00:33:49,421 Hold on. Impossible, Captain. We haven't got the power. 453 00:33:51,882 --> 00:33:53,675 Captain's log, supplemental. 454 00:33:53,842 --> 00:33:56,720 The life form, which has significantly increased in size, 455 00:33:56,928 --> 00:33:59,306 is again attempting to communicate with us. 456 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,727 The universal translator is coming on line, sir. 457 00:34:03,894 --> 00:34:09,774 Ugly... giant bags of mostly water. 458 00:34:10,525 --> 00:34:12,110 "Bags of mostly water"? 459 00:34:13,028 --> 00:34:18,033 An accurate description of humans, sir. You are over 90 percent water. 460 00:34:20,994 --> 00:34:24,581 Life force, do you understand us? 461 00:34:27,876 --> 00:34:29,377 We understand. 462 00:34:29,544 --> 00:34:36,301 We ask that you be gone. We call. We talk. You do not listen. 463 00:34:36,468 --> 00:34:39,846 We didn't hear you. We come in peace. 464 00:34:40,013 --> 00:34:42,557 Ugly bags of mostly water. 465 00:34:42,724 --> 00:34:47,771 We try at peace. You still do not listen. 466 00:34:48,855 --> 00:34:53,109 Bags who drill in sand of home have to die. 467 00:34:53,318 --> 00:34:55,237 It killed Malencon. 468 00:34:56,988 --> 00:35:01,993 We see and hear you now. We didn't know you were there. 469 00:35:03,453 --> 00:35:05,705 You are beautiful to us. 470 00:35:07,249 --> 00:35:09,584 All life is beautiful. 471 00:35:09,751 --> 00:35:17,592 Bag in dome did know. Caused much death. Made us kill. 472 00:35:18,385 --> 00:35:21,221 War is now with you. 473 00:35:24,057 --> 00:35:26,059 The translator is off line, sir. 474 00:35:27,644 --> 00:35:28,937 Can you hear us now? 475 00:35:33,066 --> 00:35:35,610 - Mr. La Forge? - Restabilizing, Captain. 476 00:35:35,777 --> 00:35:39,739 Sir... that chaos when we were studying it in the lab 477 00:35:39,906 --> 00:35:43,285 must have been the energy surge of a reproductive cycle. 478 00:35:43,451 --> 00:35:47,080 It is now a colony of single cells organized as a computer. 479 00:35:47,247 --> 00:35:51,209 - And like any computer... - More is stronger. 480 00:36:01,636 --> 00:36:03,054 Captain's log, supplemental. 481 00:36:03,221 --> 00:36:05,390 We regained visual contact with the lab 482 00:36:05,599 --> 00:36:09,436 but our attempts to restore communication with this "microbrain" 483 00:36:09,603 --> 00:36:11,438 have been unsuccessful. 484 00:36:11,605 --> 00:36:16,693 One thing that is certain. This life form has declared war on us. 485 00:36:16,860 --> 00:36:19,905 Their influence is concentrated in the Medical lab. 486 00:36:20,113 --> 00:36:23,575 Non-essential personnel have gone to distant areas of the ship. 487 00:36:23,742 --> 00:36:26,536 Any analysis on those bolts of light it emits? 488 00:36:26,703 --> 00:36:29,206 A method of reprogramming. 489 00:36:29,372 --> 00:36:32,417 Each bolt consists of negatively and positively charged ions. 490 00:36:32,584 --> 00:36:34,711 A series of program instructions. 491 00:36:35,837 --> 00:36:38,590 It has a rapport with our computers. 492 00:36:38,757 --> 00:36:41,551 What do you expect? It is a computer. 493 00:36:41,718 --> 00:36:44,429 Have we disabled the Medical lab computer console? 494 00:36:44,596 --> 00:36:47,432 As soon as Data determined its method of operation. 495 00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:50,936 Captain, picking up a decrease in infrared intensity. 496 00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:53,980 Maybe it reached its energy level. 497 00:36:54,147 --> 00:36:56,024 Or maybe it's not the end. 498 00:36:56,983 --> 00:36:58,693 With single-celled life forms, 499 00:36:59,361 --> 00:37:01,112 at least organic ones, 500 00:37:01,279 --> 00:37:04,074 cell division is preceded by a resting state. 501 00:37:04,574 --> 00:37:06,576 The calm before the storm? 502 00:37:06,743 --> 00:37:10,080 Medical lab on main viewer. Let's use this calm. 503 00:37:15,669 --> 00:37:17,671 It does seem dormant, Captain. 504 00:37:20,340 --> 00:37:22,133 Tasha... 505 00:37:24,553 --> 00:37:27,806 Set coordinates to beam it back where it came from. 506 00:37:29,349 --> 00:37:32,435 - Coordinates set, sir. - Energize. 507 00:37:41,611 --> 00:37:46,741 Transporter power being redirected, sir. We are unable to affect it. 508 00:37:55,959 --> 00:37:58,044 Life form or not, intelligent or not, 509 00:37:59,129 --> 00:38:03,216 the safety of this ship is my primary responsibility. Data! 510 00:38:05,135 --> 00:38:08,805 Evacuate the air from the lab. I want a vacuum there. 511 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,228 Environmental systems failed to respond to command. 512 00:38:15,937 --> 00:38:19,566 It appears the microbrain has interfaced with our computers. 513 00:38:25,780 --> 00:38:29,075 If it did try to communicate, we didn't understand! 514 00:38:29,242 --> 00:38:32,495 It has declared war and we are on the defensive! 515 00:38:32,662 --> 00:38:36,917 We are without a lab or a computer. It has the power to destroy this ship 516 00:38:37,083 --> 00:38:38,835 and everybody on it! 517 00:38:39,336 --> 00:38:41,713 - I need your help. - Unbelievable! 518 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,466 It said you were trying to kill them. How? 519 00:38:44,674 --> 00:38:46,384 I don't know! 520 00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:49,804 What was Malencon doing when he was killed? 521 00:38:49,971 --> 00:38:54,142 There is a thin layer of saline water under the topsoil. 522 00:38:54,309 --> 00:38:55,894 He was siphoning that off. 523 00:38:56,978 --> 00:39:00,065 Perhaps somehow that saline water sustained them. 524 00:39:00,232 --> 00:39:01,316 It connected them. 525 00:39:01,483 --> 00:39:05,237 - I don't understand. - They may be like our brain cells. 526 00:39:05,403 --> 00:39:08,156 A cell has life, but not intelligence. 527 00:39:08,323 --> 00:39:12,577 Yet interconnected, their combined intelligence is formidable. 528 00:39:12,744 --> 00:39:15,288 The saline fluid is their circuitry. 529 00:39:15,497 --> 00:39:18,750 To prevent its loss, they killed Malencon. 530 00:39:22,212 --> 00:39:25,340 If we had continued to remove that water, 531 00:39:27,551 --> 00:39:29,636 we would have destroyed them all. 532 00:39:29,803 --> 00:39:33,014 Reason enough for anyone to go to war. 533 00:39:35,225 --> 00:39:39,187 Captain, it's happening again. You'd better get in here. 534 00:39:50,907 --> 00:39:52,993 It'll tear up the Enterprise. 535 00:39:53,159 --> 00:39:55,328 - What can you determine? - Captain, 536 00:39:55,495 --> 00:39:58,748 the microbrain expends a tremendous amount of energy 537 00:39:58,915 --> 00:40:00,834 during its reproductive cycle. 538 00:40:01,001 --> 00:40:03,712 Yet there is no power drain on our systems. 539 00:40:03,879 --> 00:40:07,090 - What is feeding it? - We found traces of cadmium salts. 540 00:40:07,257 --> 00:40:10,719 Cadmium converts infrared into electricity. 541 00:40:10,886 --> 00:40:14,431 - Meaning? - It might be photoelectric. 542 00:40:15,974 --> 00:40:20,770 Kill the lights in the lab. See if darkness will neutralize it. 543 00:40:21,438 --> 00:40:24,983 It still has control of the computer. We can't do it. 544 00:40:25,150 --> 00:40:26,902 Number One, lights. 545 00:40:29,070 --> 00:40:30,906 The life form must have evolved 546 00:40:31,072 --> 00:40:34,659 where the light got through the sand to the water. 547 00:40:35,535 --> 00:40:39,414 Drop the water a centimeter below the light-penetration level 548 00:40:40,123 --> 00:40:41,958 and they starve. 549 00:40:52,052 --> 00:40:55,096 Killing the lab lights... now. 550 00:40:59,309 --> 00:41:01,102 It's slowing down. 551 00:41:02,771 --> 00:41:04,898 It's getting dimmer, too. 552 00:41:06,733 --> 00:41:09,569 More light, please. 553 00:41:09,778 --> 00:41:11,863 Only if you will talk to us. 554 00:41:12,030 --> 00:41:17,410 We die. Bags of water kill us. 555 00:41:17,994 --> 00:41:21,248 You are like others. 556 00:41:22,165 --> 00:41:25,377 We have no wish to kill you. We never have. 557 00:41:25,544 --> 00:41:27,963 You do not say truth. 558 00:41:28,964 --> 00:41:32,717 We will end this war, if you will end the war. 559 00:41:33,677 --> 00:41:37,264 Darkness. Death. Terrible. 560 00:41:38,014 --> 00:41:41,560 Must go home to wet sand. 561 00:41:43,061 --> 00:41:45,105 War over. 562 00:41:46,231 --> 00:41:50,610 Agreed. We will send you home to your wet sand. 563 00:41:51,528 --> 00:41:53,154 Picard to Riker. 564 00:41:54,281 --> 00:41:57,033 Bring up the lights in the lab... a bit. 565 00:42:03,524 --> 00:42:04,900 Are you better? 566 00:42:05,067 --> 00:42:06,402 Better. 567 00:42:07,028 --> 00:42:08,654 We mean you no harm. 568 00:42:09,947 --> 00:42:12,616 - Do you believe me? - Yes. 569 00:42:12,783 --> 00:42:17,079 Good. It is important that you trust us. 570 00:42:18,122 --> 00:42:19,874 Not yet. 571 00:42:20,541 --> 00:42:23,836 You are still too arrogant. 572 00:42:24,503 --> 00:42:26,464 Too primitive. 573 00:42:27,298 --> 00:42:30,509 Come back three centuries. 574 00:42:32,303 --> 00:42:35,431 Perhaps then we trust. 575 00:42:39,393 --> 00:42:41,771 We understand what you are saying. 576 00:42:43,189 --> 00:42:45,191 We will leave you. 577 00:42:47,318 --> 00:42:49,654 We will send you home. 578 00:43:11,467 --> 00:43:13,552 Riker to Transporter Chief. 579 00:43:14,345 --> 00:43:17,223 Pick up the coordinates of the jar in the lab 580 00:43:17,390 --> 00:43:20,643 for return to Velara III. 581 00:43:20,810 --> 00:43:22,978 Coordinates entered, sir. 582 00:43:30,111 --> 00:43:31,404 Riker to bridge. 583 00:43:32,947 --> 00:43:37,952 Captain... we're ready to beam it back to the planet. 584 00:43:40,287 --> 00:43:44,750 - I wish we learnt more about them. - In time, Mr. Data. 585 00:43:44,917 --> 00:43:47,044 When we're better prepared. 586 00:43:48,462 --> 00:43:52,675 I wanted to create a place where living things could thrive, 587 00:43:52,842 --> 00:43:58,389 and all the while I was about to destroy the life that is there. 588 00:43:59,598 --> 00:44:02,852 - Our apologies. - And respects. 589 00:44:03,769 --> 00:44:06,063 - Lt Yar? - Coordinates set, sir. 590 00:44:09,108 --> 00:44:10,359 Energize. 591 00:44:20,703 --> 00:44:24,415 Captain's log, stardate 41464.8. 592 00:44:24,582 --> 00:44:28,002 I have declared an indefinite quarantine for Velara III. 593 00:44:28,169 --> 00:44:31,881 We are returning to Starbase with the surviving terraformers. 594 00:44:32,089 --> 00:44:35,176 Perhaps the lesson we learned from this near-tragedy 595 00:44:35,343 --> 00:44:38,220 will prevent it from happening elsewhere.