1 00:00:07,341 --> 00:00:11,261 It's been five months since Marc's accident. 2 00:00:11,428 --> 00:00:14,431 I haven't missed a single hour of my duties. 3 00:00:14,598 --> 00:00:17,476 I've volunteered for extra time in the nursery. 4 00:00:17,643 --> 00:00:20,854 My language studies are better than they've ever been. 5 00:00:21,021 --> 00:00:24,608 Somebody else might have given in, but, uh, I didn't. 6 00:00:24,775 --> 00:00:26,151 Given in to what? 7 00:00:26,610 --> 00:00:29,029 Death is a normal part of life. 8 00:00:29,196 --> 00:00:31,698 Maybe some of us are better at facing that than others. 9 00:00:32,699 --> 00:00:35,410 Maybe some of us aren't facing it at all. 10 00:00:35,577 --> 00:00:37,037 What do you mean? 11 00:00:37,204 --> 00:00:41,667 Recovery from a great loss involves a great deal of pain. 12 00:00:41,833 --> 00:00:43,377 If we try to avoid that pain, 13 00:00:43,544 --> 00:00:46,129 we can make it harder on ourselves in the long run. 14 00:00:46,713 --> 00:00:48,840 But I feel fine. 15 00:00:50,968 --> 00:00:54,388 Today would have been your husband's 38th birthday. 16 00:00:56,139 --> 00:00:58,976 You keep excellent records, Deanna. 17 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,441 Last night, I dreamt Marc was with me celebrating. 18 00:01:06,858 --> 00:01:10,904 I was so glad that this nonsense was finally over. 19 00:01:11,405 --> 00:01:15,409 Then I woke up. Alone. 20 00:01:16,577 --> 00:01:20,539 And I knew that he was dead. 21 00:01:21,331 --> 00:01:24,042 For the first time, I knew it. 22 00:01:25,502 --> 00:01:31,008 I looked around for anything that belonged to him. Anything. 23 00:01:32,426 --> 00:01:36,471 I forgot that after the funeral, I told them to take it all away. 24 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:39,683 What in the world was I thinking? 25 00:01:55,198 --> 00:01:58,118 They didn't take everything away. 26 00:01:59,161 --> 00:02:01,246 [Music playing] 27 00:02:01,455 --> 00:02:03,874 How did you know? 28 00:02:04,249 --> 00:02:05,375 [Music stops] 29 00:02:12,507 --> 00:02:14,718 [Sobbing] 30 00:02:19,723 --> 00:02:23,810 An ancient trail along the Kabul river in the himalayas. 31 00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:25,020 It's a wonderful program. 32 00:02:25,187 --> 00:02:28,482 Will, it would do you good to have a little fresh holodeck air. 33 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:32,653 I think my horsemanship is a little rusty for the himalayas, but thanks anyway. 34 00:02:32,819 --> 00:02:36,073 Nonsense. We'd program an appropriately docile steed... 35 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:37,282 [Sensors beeping] 36 00:02:37,491 --> 00:02:39,034 Captain. 37 00:02:39,201 --> 00:02:42,162 Sensors indicate a vast field of... 38 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:44,498 Of what, lieutenant? 39 00:02:44,665 --> 00:02:46,583 It's gone. 40 00:02:47,334 --> 00:02:49,878 But something did appear directly in our path. 41 00:02:50,045 --> 00:02:53,799 Deflector shields are not encountering elevated levels of interstellar matter. 42 00:02:53,965 --> 00:02:56,343 - A sensor echo, data? - Data: Uncertain. 43 00:02:56,510 --> 00:02:58,970 I have no unusual readings, commander. 44 00:02:59,137 --> 00:03:02,766 Brooks: I promise I'll come by and see you tomorrow. 45 00:03:03,350 --> 00:03:05,060 Deanna, are you all right? 46 00:03:05,686 --> 00:03:08,188 What? What? 47 00:03:08,689 --> 00:03:10,607 You faded out there for a second. 48 00:03:11,733 --> 00:03:13,402 Oh, no, no, I'm fine. 49 00:03:13,568 --> 00:03:16,405 Um, I'm just very tired, that's all. 50 00:03:16,571 --> 00:03:19,032 Will I see you tomorrow? 51 00:03:19,741 --> 00:03:21,576 Tomorrow. 52 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:24,204 Thank you, Deanna. 53 00:03:34,756 --> 00:03:37,759 [Gasping] 54 00:03:39,428 --> 00:03:40,470 [Sensors beeping] 55 00:03:40,637 --> 00:03:43,932 An aggregate field of plane-polarized objects has just appeared. 56 00:03:44,099 --> 00:03:45,183 [Beeping stops] 57 00:03:45,767 --> 00:03:47,602 And disappeared. 58 00:03:47,769 --> 00:03:50,063 [Gasping] 59 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:53,233 Recommend we run a diagnostic on the fonnard sensor array. 60 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,153 We don't want a ghost tailing us all the way to t'ili beta. 61 00:03:56,319 --> 00:03:58,238 I'm not convinced it is a ghost. 62 00:03:58,405 --> 00:04:00,907 There may be something there, commander. 63 00:04:01,074 --> 00:04:04,411 - Ensign allenby, full stop. - Aye, sir. 64 00:04:04,578 --> 00:04:07,122 Let's investigate both possibilities. 65 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:09,374 [Panting] 66 00:04:40,864 --> 00:04:44,993 Picard: Space, the final frontier. 67 00:04:45,619 --> 00:04:49,581 These are the voyages of the starship enterprise. 68 00:04:49,748 --> 00:04:55,003 Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, 69 00:04:55,170 --> 00:04:59,549 to seek out new life and new civilizations, 70 00:04:59,716 --> 00:05:04,304 to boldly go where no one has gone before. 71 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:04,364 Picard: Captain's log, stardate 44356.9. 72 00:06:04,531 --> 00:06:06,700 Sensor diagnostics have been completed 73 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:09,536 and indicate that all systems are normal. 74 00:06:09,703 --> 00:06:10,871 There remains no explanation 75 00:06:11,037 --> 00:06:14,165 for the images which appeared in our path. 76 00:06:14,791 --> 00:06:15,834 [Sensors beeping] 77 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:18,670 I have completed another full scan of the area, sir. 78 00:06:18,837 --> 00:06:21,882 There is no further indication of the anomaly. 79 00:06:22,299 --> 00:06:25,010 Ensign, prepare to resume course to t'lli beta. 80 00:06:25,176 --> 00:06:28,680 Mr. Data, what velocity would put us back on schedule? 81 00:06:28,847 --> 00:06:30,647 The resumption of our present course at warp 6 82 00:06:30,807 --> 00:06:36,062 will place us in the t'ili beta system in six days, 13 hours, 47 minutes. 83 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:37,564 What, no seconds? 84 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:42,193 I have discovered, sir, a certain level of impatience 85 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,406 when I calculate a lengthy time interval to the nearest second. 86 00:06:46,990 --> 00:06:49,910 - However, if you wish... - No, no, minutes is fine. 87 00:06:50,911 --> 00:06:54,080 - Stand ready at warp 6, ensign. - Aye, sir. 88 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:55,999 Engage. 89 00:06:57,334 --> 00:06:58,668 [Alarm wailing] 90 00:06:59,252 --> 00:07:01,546 Riker to engineering. Geordi, what the hell happened? 91 00:07:02,047 --> 00:07:03,965 Checking. 92 00:07:04,716 --> 00:07:07,010 Looks like the field collapsed before we could enter warp. 93 00:07:07,177 --> 00:07:08,845 Recommend full stop while I check it out. 94 00:07:09,012 --> 00:07:10,597 - Back to all stop, ensign. - Aye, sir. 95 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:12,974 All decks reporting. Minor injuries only, sir. 96 00:07:13,141 --> 00:07:14,768 - Damage? - None, sir. 97 00:07:14,935 --> 00:07:16,436 Weapons and shields normal. 98 00:07:16,603 --> 00:07:17,979 Go to yellow alert. 99 00:07:18,146 --> 00:07:20,273 Captain, we've started moving again. 100 00:07:20,815 --> 00:07:22,567 Something is pulling us. 101 00:07:22,734 --> 00:07:23,985 [Sensors beeping] 102 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:37,540 [Combadge chirps] 103 00:07:37,749 --> 00:07:39,793 Troi to Dr. Crusher. 104 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,169 Yes, Deanna? 105 00:07:41,336 --> 00:07:45,632 Beverly, I'm feeling very dizzy. 106 00:07:45,799 --> 00:07:47,884 Crusher: Did you hit your head? 107 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:50,178 I'm not sure. 108 00:07:50,345 --> 00:07:52,055 I'm not sure what happened. 109 00:07:52,639 --> 00:07:54,724 Lie down, breathe deeply and stay calm. 110 00:07:54,891 --> 00:07:58,186 I'm getting calls from all over the ship. I'll be there as quickly as I can. 111 00:07:59,187 --> 00:08:00,230 [Combadge chirps] 112 00:08:00,397 --> 00:08:01,773 [Gasps] 113 00:08:02,107 --> 00:08:04,818 New heading confirmed. Zero-two-five, Mark 273. 114 00:08:04,985 --> 00:08:07,320 Speed is holding at one-tenth impulse. 115 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:09,447 Whatever's pulling us sure isn't in a hurry. 116 00:08:09,614 --> 00:08:11,654 - Picard to la forge. - La forge: Go ahead, captain. 117 00:08:11,741 --> 00:08:14,369 If your engines are functioning, we'll attempt to break free. 118 00:08:14,536 --> 00:08:16,830 Everything down here seems normal enough, sir. 119 00:08:16,997 --> 00:08:18,999 But I suggest we take it a bit slower this time. 120 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,377 Ensign, bring us around 90 degrees to starboard. 121 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:25,505 New course laid in at 90 degrees to starboard. 122 00:08:26,047 --> 00:08:30,343 - One-quarter impulse. Engage. - Allenby: Aye, sir. 123 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:38,143 Nothing, captain. Speed and course are unaffected. 124 00:08:38,852 --> 00:08:40,562 One-half impulse. 125 00:08:45,525 --> 00:08:47,485 No change. 126 00:08:48,319 --> 00:08:50,947 Full impulse. Rotate heading in 5-degree increments. 127 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:53,074 Aye, sir. 128 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:58,329 La forge? 129 00:08:58,496 --> 00:09:02,167 There's nothing wrong down here. The engines are fine. 130 00:09:02,667 --> 00:09:05,503 Integrity field stress exceeding 82 million kilodynes. 131 00:09:05,670 --> 00:09:07,505 Recommend immediate shutdown, sir. 132 00:09:07,672 --> 00:09:08,715 [Systems beeping] 133 00:09:08,882 --> 00:09:10,216 Make it so, ensign. 134 00:09:11,968 --> 00:09:13,011 [Beeping stops] 135 00:09:13,178 --> 00:09:14,512 All engines down. 136 00:09:15,889 --> 00:09:20,268 We're still being pulled. Same heading, same speed. 137 00:09:20,435 --> 00:09:23,938 [Sensors beeping] 138 00:09:25,231 --> 00:09:27,776 I got here as quickly as I could. 139 00:09:28,485 --> 00:09:30,737 I've got a sickbay filled with headaches. 140 00:09:30,904 --> 00:09:32,238 How are you? 141 00:09:32,405 --> 00:09:36,409 Well, when I first called you, I was feeling intense pain. 142 00:09:36,576 --> 00:09:39,829 Now it's gone, but I'm feeling a bit foggy. 143 00:09:39,996 --> 00:09:43,291 I'd like to take you to sickbay and run an internuncio series on you. 144 00:09:43,458 --> 00:09:44,793 Can you walk? 145 00:09:44,959 --> 00:09:47,639 Riker [over com]: All senior staff report to the observation lounge. 146 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:50,215 - Are you up to that? - I think so. 147 00:09:54,594 --> 00:09:56,513 Crusher: What is it? 148 00:09:56,971 --> 00:09:59,265 Nothing. Nothing, I'm fine. 149 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:12,487 Could it be some sort of tractor beam? 150 00:10:12,654 --> 00:10:15,240 No other ship is indicated. 151 00:10:18,827 --> 00:10:20,787 Mr. Worf, what is your analysis? 152 00:10:20,954 --> 00:10:23,164 Tactical sensor readings are indeterminate. 153 00:10:23,331 --> 00:10:25,458 They don't even give us enough for an educated guess. 154 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,961 And yet all of our sensors are operating properly. 155 00:10:28,128 --> 00:10:31,214 Can there be an intelligence at work here? 156 00:10:32,006 --> 00:10:35,760 Counselor, do you sense a life form out there? 157 00:10:36,344 --> 00:10:37,846 No, I don't think so. 158 00:10:40,348 --> 00:10:42,684 No, there's nothing. 159 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:44,978 Nothing. 160 00:10:45,478 --> 00:10:47,397 I sense nothing. 161 00:10:48,231 --> 00:10:49,899 It's all right, counselor. 162 00:10:50,066 --> 00:10:51,985 Perhaps there's nothing out there to sense. 163 00:10:53,153 --> 00:10:56,364 Data: Indeed. There are many races that are not empathetically detectable. 164 00:10:56,531 --> 00:10:59,951 - The breen, the ferengi, the... - Troi: No. 165 00:11:00,118 --> 00:11:02,579 You don't understand. 166 00:11:02,745 --> 00:11:05,248 I don't sense anything. 167 00:11:05,415 --> 00:11:08,793 Not out there, not in here. 168 00:11:10,295 --> 00:11:14,924 All of you, you're all blank to me. 169 00:11:21,139 --> 00:11:24,893 There's no indication of a concussion or a blow to the head. 170 00:11:25,059 --> 00:11:27,478 Just a pattern of unresponsive neural cells 171 00:11:27,645 --> 00:11:30,190 throughout the cerebellum and cerebral cortex. 172 00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:33,568 - Unresponsive? - There's brain damage. 173 00:11:34,027 --> 00:11:37,113 How serious, I can't tell yet. 174 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,616 But I feel perfectly fine otherwise. 175 00:11:40,325 --> 00:11:43,203 - Can you treat it? - I'm not sure. 176 00:11:43,369 --> 00:11:47,624 I have to review the database on betazoid neurophysiology. 177 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:51,377 The betazoid brain has a remarkable ability to heal itself. 178 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:54,130 This condition could just reverse itself in time. 179 00:11:54,297 --> 00:11:58,635 It might. But you are half-human. That changes the map a little. 180 00:11:59,177 --> 00:12:01,888 I don't want to offer you any false hopes. 181 00:12:02,055 --> 00:12:05,600 It's just hope, Beverly. Not false hope. 182 00:12:05,767 --> 00:12:07,435 What would cause something like this? 183 00:12:07,602 --> 00:12:10,313 Because it started at the same time that we encountered the anomaly. 184 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,358 There may be a connection. I don't know. 185 00:12:13,524 --> 00:12:16,236 If you were anyone else, you know the first thing I'd do? 186 00:12:16,402 --> 00:12:18,238 I'd send you to counselor troi. 187 00:12:19,405 --> 00:12:23,576 Well, then, I have an advantage, don't I? I see her quite often. 188 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:28,039 Deanna, it's no different than one of us suddenly going blind. 189 00:12:28,456 --> 00:12:31,459 You don't have to tell me, Beverly. I understand the psychology. 190 00:12:31,626 --> 00:12:34,254 You may understand it, but you've never had to live with it. 191 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:36,256 I may be perfectly fine tomorrow. 192 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:39,342 And you may not. 193 00:12:40,343 --> 00:12:41,719 Now, I'll do my homework. 194 00:12:41,886 --> 00:12:43,930 I'll see what I can do to regenerate those cells. 195 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:47,267 But in the meantime, I want you to talk with someone. 196 00:12:47,934 --> 00:12:50,853 There are several people on board who have degrees in psychology, 197 00:12:51,020 --> 00:12:52,939 who are qualified therapists. 198 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:56,276 Okay, fine. If I need to. 199 00:12:56,442 --> 00:12:58,861 Right now, I just want to go back to work. 200 00:12:59,028 --> 00:13:00,697 Deanna. 201 00:13:00,863 --> 00:13:03,366 If there are no medical objections. 202 00:13:04,450 --> 00:13:06,411 No medical objections. 203 00:13:06,577 --> 00:13:09,038 Thank you, Beverly. Will. 204 00:13:10,873 --> 00:13:14,294 [Door opens then closes] 205 00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:23,219 [Door chimes] 206 00:13:24,012 --> 00:13:25,054 [Sighs] 207 00:13:25,221 --> 00:13:26,806 Come in. 208 00:13:30,685 --> 00:13:34,105 I don't have a psychology degree, but if you'd like to talk... 209 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:39,485 You know what the worst part of this is? 210 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:42,488 And I've seen it happen to so many patients. 211 00:13:42,655 --> 00:13:44,198 What? 212 00:13:44,365 --> 00:13:46,993 The way other people change. 213 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:50,038 How they start to treat you differently. 214 00:13:51,581 --> 00:13:52,874 [Scoffs] 215 00:13:53,333 --> 00:13:56,836 They walk on eggshells around you. 216 00:13:57,003 --> 00:14:00,131 Sometimes, they avoid you altogether. 217 00:14:00,298 --> 00:14:03,092 Sometimes, they become overbearing, 218 00:14:03,259 --> 00:14:06,512 reach out a helping hand to the blind woman. 219 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,557 - I'm sorry if I... - I will not be treated that way! 220 00:14:09,724 --> 00:14:11,517 Hey. 221 00:14:12,101 --> 00:14:13,144 [Speaks in betazoid] 222 00:14:13,311 --> 00:14:15,730 Oh, please. 223 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:20,193 Deanna, I have never seen you quite so scared. 224 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,236 I'm fine. 225 00:14:22,403 --> 00:14:27,241 If I get better, I get better. If I don't, I'll adapt. 226 00:14:27,408 --> 00:14:29,619 Life goes on. 227 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:34,374 [Computer beeping] 228 00:14:35,291 --> 00:14:37,293 Deanna. 229 00:14:38,544 --> 00:14:39,796 I really have to finish this. 230 00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:43,007 I have some appointments this afternoon. 231 00:14:53,643 --> 00:14:55,019 [Sighs] 232 00:14:55,937 --> 00:14:58,398 Probe launch successful. 233 00:14:59,190 --> 00:15:01,484 Telemetry transmissions are being received. 234 00:15:01,651 --> 00:15:04,237 Okay, let's see what we've got. 235 00:15:05,071 --> 00:15:08,741 Nothing unusual here. Same reading as the ship's sensors. 236 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:14,038 Expanding analysis parameters, including bayesian functions, 237 00:15:15,206 --> 00:15:19,127 broad em and subspace spectrum polling. 238 00:15:19,293 --> 00:15:21,254 Mm-mm. No change. 239 00:15:21,671 --> 00:15:25,383 I am adding virtual particle trajectories. 240 00:15:27,718 --> 00:15:28,761 La forge: Whoa. 241 00:15:30,346 --> 00:15:33,057 What is that? 242 00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:34,434 Unknown. 243 00:15:35,685 --> 00:15:39,105 I am attempting to analyze motion pattern. 244 00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:42,608 Results still inconclusive. 245 00:15:43,401 --> 00:15:45,801 La forge: The last time I saw anything that looked like that, 246 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:49,115 I was skin-diving off the coral reefs at bracas v. 247 00:15:49,699 --> 00:15:52,785 Troi: You said you woke up a new woman this morning. 248 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:54,287 That's how I feel. 249 00:15:54,662 --> 00:15:57,874 Tell me about her, this new woman. 250 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,086 She's, uh, not holding anything back anymore. 251 00:16:02,253 --> 00:16:05,548 - She's not? - Oh, I let it all out last night. 252 00:16:05,715 --> 00:16:08,092 I cried for two hours. 253 00:16:08,259 --> 00:16:12,263 I realized that I had never accepted the loss of my husband. 254 00:16:12,430 --> 00:16:14,807 I worked hard, I kept busy, 255 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:18,144 I did everything to pretend itneverhappened. 256 00:16:18,311 --> 00:16:22,273 - And you feel different now? - Completely. 257 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:27,236 Can I share something important with you? 258 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,197 Of course. 259 00:16:30,156 --> 00:16:34,118 I've temporarily lost my empathic sense. 260 00:16:34,285 --> 00:16:37,497 It's kind of like having one hand tied behind your back. 261 00:16:38,706 --> 00:16:40,666 I'm so sorry. 262 00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:44,462 - Do you want me to come back? - No, no, I'm fine. 263 00:16:44,629 --> 00:16:49,383 It's just, I feel before we continue, it's important that you know that. 264 00:16:49,550 --> 00:16:52,178 - Okay? - All right. 265 00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:55,556 Because I can't tell how you're feeling this morning. 266 00:16:55,723 --> 00:16:59,393 But it seems to me that one night of crying 267 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,230 can't make up for months of denial. 268 00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:04,440 No, you're wrong. 269 00:17:04,607 --> 00:17:07,693 I feel better today than I have in ages. 270 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:10,988 You're absolutely wrong, Deanna. 271 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,373 The probe's point of view reveals 272 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:23,000 that the objects exist entirely in two dimensions. 273 00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:24,335 On a single plane. 274 00:17:24,502 --> 00:17:27,463 They have length and width, but not height. 275 00:17:27,630 --> 00:17:29,048 Virtually flat. 276 00:17:29,215 --> 00:17:32,969 That is why the ship's fonnard sensors did not detect them initially. 277 00:17:33,135 --> 00:17:35,096 We were looking at them along their edge. 278 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:38,307 There was no surface to read. I will illustrate. 279 00:17:38,474 --> 00:17:40,142 [Computer beeping] 280 00:17:58,828 --> 00:18:00,121 Are they a life form? 281 00:18:00,746 --> 00:18:02,266 The movement pattern within the cluster 282 00:18:02,415 --> 00:18:04,250 is not a naturally occurring phenomenon 283 00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:06,586 in the newtonian sense. 284 00:18:06,752 --> 00:18:09,005 They appear to be alive. 285 00:18:10,464 --> 00:18:12,633 Can you explain why they're pulling us along with them? 286 00:18:13,259 --> 00:18:16,846 Somehow, they're able to polarize the graviton field as they move about. 287 00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:18,347 We're caught in the wake. 288 00:18:18,514 --> 00:18:19,557 How do we get out of it? 289 00:18:19,724 --> 00:18:20,964 La forge: The best idea for now 290 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:23,185 is to try a controlled overload of the warp drive. 291 00:18:23,352 --> 00:18:24,979 Jump directly to warp 6. 292 00:18:25,187 --> 00:18:27,815 The laws of a three-dimensional universe say it should work. 293 00:18:27,982 --> 00:18:30,484 Don't know about a two-dimensional universe though. 294 00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:41,954 Fascinating. So many questions. 295 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:43,956 How can a two-dimensional entity have access 296 00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:46,834 to a three-dimensional universe? 297 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:49,503 And are they aware of us? 298 00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:54,759 Number one, if we can put off the t'ili betans, 299 00:18:54,925 --> 00:18:56,485 I would like to investigate this further 300 00:18:56,636 --> 00:18:58,554 as soon as we're free of the graviton field. 301 00:18:58,721 --> 00:19:00,765 It's a shame we can't tell if they're sentient. 302 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:02,975 What do you mean by that? 303 00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:07,605 I'm doing the best that I can. 304 00:19:07,772 --> 00:19:09,815 No one suggested othennise, counselor. 305 00:19:11,942 --> 00:19:15,154 Mr. Data, try to isolate any signal patterns from the cluster. 306 00:19:15,321 --> 00:19:17,239 Perhaps there'll be a basis for communication. 307 00:19:17,406 --> 00:19:20,167 Mr. La forge, we'll attempt your warp jump as soon as you're prepared. 308 00:19:20,326 --> 00:19:22,161 That'll be all. 309 00:19:22,828 --> 00:19:24,330 Counselor... 310 00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:39,970 - Crusher: How are you feeling? - Beverly, I can't do my job. 311 00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:43,099 I'm absolutely lost. You have to do something. 312 00:19:43,265 --> 00:19:47,228 I cross-referenced your scan results with the baseline files in the computer. 313 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:49,188 Nothing helpful has turned up. 314 00:19:49,355 --> 00:19:51,899 And so far, the lab work is inconclusive. 315 00:19:52,066 --> 00:19:54,026 Inconclusive? What does that mean? 316 00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:57,363 It means there is nothing I can do now. 317 00:19:57,947 --> 00:19:59,115 I am still trying. 318 00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:01,534 How do you people live like this? 319 00:20:03,494 --> 00:20:07,540 We get by pretty well, actually. And so will you in time. 320 00:20:07,707 --> 00:20:11,168 You have no idea, no idea what this is like. 321 00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:14,046 How can you know what it's like to lose something you never had? 322 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:15,256 I don't claim to. 323 00:20:15,423 --> 00:20:19,218 And yet you're telling me that I'm supposed to get used to it. 324 00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:22,054 If our positions were reversed, what would you tell me? 325 00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:24,557 If our positions were reversed, 326 00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:27,601 I wouldn't have been in here treating skinned elbows 327 00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:30,604 while you were lying passed out on your office floor. 328 00:20:30,771 --> 00:20:32,148 I'd have been there a lot sooner, 329 00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:36,235 perhaps in time to prevent this from ever happening! 330 00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:18,611 I've been working with ensign Brooks since the death of her husband. 331 00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:23,783 She's avoided the reality of what happened, denied it to herself. 332 00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:27,912 And I realize I've been doing the same thing about my condition. 333 00:21:28,913 --> 00:21:30,122 It's perfectly understandable. 334 00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:36,462 It's time I accept the truth, captain, and resign as ship's counselor. 335 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:38,214 Resign? 336 00:21:38,380 --> 00:21:41,842 I can no longer fulfill my obligations. What other option is there? 337 00:21:50,893 --> 00:21:52,770 Deanna, 338 00:21:54,647 --> 00:21:57,900 I've been fortunate to have access to your betazoid abilities. 339 00:21:58,067 --> 00:22:04,323 Most starship captains have to be content with a human counselor. 340 00:22:04,824 --> 00:22:09,119 Empathic awareness is not a requirement of your position. 341 00:22:09,578 --> 00:22:11,038 It is for me. 342 00:22:11,205 --> 00:22:13,874 I'm sure that after a while you'll be able to adjust. 343 00:22:14,041 --> 00:22:16,168 They say when one loses a sense, 344 00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:18,254 the other senses become stronger to compensate. 345 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:21,507 Uh, a blind man develops better hearing... 346 00:22:21,674 --> 00:22:23,968 With all due respect, captain, 347 00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:26,136 you don't know what you're talking about. 348 00:22:26,679 --> 00:22:30,140 That is a common belief with no scientific basis, 349 00:22:30,307 --> 00:22:32,393 no doubt created by normal people 350 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,438 who felt uncomfortable around the disabled. 351 00:22:36,647 --> 00:22:38,399 I am disabled. 352 00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:41,610 And I'm telling you I cannot perform my duties. 353 00:22:50,411 --> 00:22:52,051 There was a teacher of mine at the academy 354 00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:54,290 who had been confined to a wheelchair from birth. 355 00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:55,916 - She was a woman... - Captain! 356 00:22:56,083 --> 00:23:00,129 Spare me the inspirational anecdote 357 00:23:00,296 --> 00:23:03,924 and just accept my resignation. 358 00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:21,233 [Door chimes] 359 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,319 Come in. 360 00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:31,911 I really would rather be alone right now. 361 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:48,093 [Sobbing] 362 00:23:48,886 --> 00:23:52,640 Riker: Shh... shh... 363 00:23:57,186 --> 00:24:00,773 Is this how you handle all your personnel problems? 364 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:02,691 Sure. 365 00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:05,903 You'd be surprised how far a hug goes with geordi or worf. 366 00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:07,529 [Tro| laughs] 367 00:24:08,656 --> 00:24:10,950 Will... 368 00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:14,119 I don't know what to do. 369 00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:20,376 So you resign? 370 00:24:20,542 --> 00:24:24,004 You walk away from all the people who care about you? 371 00:24:27,049 --> 00:24:34,056 I look around me and all I see are surfaces without depth. 372 00:24:34,223 --> 00:24:37,476 Colorless, hollow. 373 00:24:37,643 --> 00:24:40,229 Nothing seems real. 374 00:24:40,396 --> 00:24:43,691 - I'm real. - No, you're not. 375 00:24:43,857 --> 00:24:45,693 You're a projection, 376 00:24:45,859 --> 00:24:49,947 with no more substance to me than a character on the holodeck. 377 00:24:50,114 --> 00:24:52,658 I don't believe that. 378 00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:57,788 You have no idea how frightening it is 379 00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:00,332 to just be here 380 00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:05,045 without sensing you, without sharing your feelings. 381 00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:08,215 [Tro| sobbing] 382 00:25:10,467 --> 00:25:12,636 That's it, isn't it? 383 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:15,848 We're on equal footing now. 384 00:25:16,932 --> 00:25:17,975 What? 385 00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:20,102 You always had an advantage, 386 00:25:20,644 --> 00:25:22,563 a little bit of control of every situation. 387 00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:25,065 That must have been a very safe position to be in. 388 00:25:27,901 --> 00:25:30,112 To be honest... 389 00:25:31,655 --> 00:25:34,241 I'd always thought there was something 390 00:25:34,408 --> 00:25:37,661 a little too aristocratic about your betazoid heritage. 391 00:25:37,828 --> 00:25:40,789 As if your human side wasn't quite good enough for you. 392 00:25:40,956 --> 00:25:42,541 That isn't true. 393 00:25:43,208 --> 00:25:44,668 Isn't it? 394 00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:47,421 [Over com] La forge to riker. 395 00:25:47,588 --> 00:25:48,714 Riker: Go ahead, geordi. 396 00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:50,340 [Computer beeping] 397 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:53,761 We are ready to attempt a controlled overload jump to warp 6. 398 00:25:54,094 --> 00:25:56,430 Acknowledged. I'm on my way to the bridge. 399 00:25:56,597 --> 00:25:57,806 [Combadge chirps] 400 00:26:00,309 --> 00:26:02,853 I'll check in on you later. 401 00:26:03,312 --> 00:26:05,189 Really, you don't have to. 402 00:26:07,733 --> 00:26:09,943 I will check in on you later. 403 00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:20,621 [Sobbing] 404 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:29,213 Setting new course at optimal shearing angle. 405 00:26:29,379 --> 00:26:31,799 Bearing 217, Mark 203. 406 00:26:31,965 --> 00:26:35,969 Engaging impulse engines now. 407 00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:42,184 - Mr. La forge, go to warp. - La forge: Aye, sir. 408 00:26:43,227 --> 00:26:45,145 - Status? - Unchanged. 409 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:47,815 We have not broken free of the graviton field. 410 00:26:47,981 --> 00:26:51,777 Integrity field pressure has increased by 217 percent, captain. 411 00:26:51,944 --> 00:26:53,584 Co m p ute r: Warning. Differential stress 412 00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:56,281 will exceed upper limit in 15 seconds. 413 00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:57,950 Disengage all engines. 414 00:26:58,117 --> 00:27:01,703 Computer: Warning. Differential stress will exceed upper... 415 00:27:02,496 --> 00:27:04,039 Engines disengaged, sir. 416 00:27:04,957 --> 00:27:06,208 Report, la forge. 417 00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:08,561 La forge: The energy we wanted to transfer to the nacelles 418 00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:10,546 was absorbed by the graviton wake instead. 419 00:27:10,712 --> 00:27:13,257 It set up a torsional wave that rebounded back to the ship. 420 00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:15,634 We 're lucky the hull is still in one piece. 421 00:27:15,801 --> 00:27:18,637 This little nuisance is beginning to lose its fascination. 422 00:27:18,804 --> 00:27:21,098 Sir, during our attempt to break away, 423 00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:23,505 I recorded a momentary alteration in the movement pattern 424 00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:24,768 within the cluster. 425 00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:27,104 Do you think we got their attention, data? 426 00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:30,107 Perhaps. Butjust for an instant. 427 00:27:30,274 --> 00:27:33,110 The pattern immediately returned to its previous dynamic. 428 00:27:34,903 --> 00:27:36,697 Follow up on it, Mr. Data. 429 00:27:36,864 --> 00:27:37,906 [Picard sighs] 430 00:27:38,073 --> 00:27:40,284 Input your observations into the universal translator. 431 00:27:40,450 --> 00:27:41,493 Aye, sir. 432 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:45,831 Perhaps these movements themselves are an attempt at communication. 433 00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:53,213 [Woman speaking indistinctly] 434 00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:00,804 More tea? I didn't mean to startle you. 435 00:28:00,971 --> 00:28:02,055 [Tro| exhales sharply] 436 00:28:02,222 --> 00:28:04,016 That's all right. 437 00:28:04,183 --> 00:28:06,393 I'm getting used to it. 438 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,188 - May I? - Sure. 439 00:28:14,234 --> 00:28:16,445 Are you really getting used to it? 440 00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:24,536 - Do you wanna talk about it? - No. 441 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:28,874 Good. I get so tired of people coming in with their problems. 442 00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:30,876 They come in, they want a shoulder to cry on, 443 00:28:31,043 --> 00:28:33,170 and generally, it turns out to be mine. 444 00:28:33,337 --> 00:28:34,379 [Tro| chuckles] 445 00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:36,340 You'd make a good counselor. 446 00:28:36,506 --> 00:28:40,677 I think so too. So I'm going to talk to picard about it. 447 00:28:40,844 --> 00:28:43,180 About what? 448 00:28:43,764 --> 00:28:45,224 You becoming counselor? 449 00:28:45,891 --> 00:28:47,726 Well, yes, you're leaving. 450 00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:50,687 That means there won't be a counselor on board. 451 00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:54,566 And I suppose I'll have a very long line at that bar. 452 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:57,527 It would be nice to have a nice office too. 453 00:28:58,904 --> 00:29:03,408 It's more than just letting them cry on your shoulder. 454 00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:05,869 It takes an enormous commitment. 455 00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:08,121 I can do that. 456 00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:14,878 Guinan, people come to talk to you about things they want to reveal. 457 00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:16,088 As ship's counselor, 458 00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:20,008 you have to get them to talk about things they don't want to reveal. 459 00:29:20,175 --> 00:29:22,094 I could do that too. 460 00:29:22,261 --> 00:29:24,429 What are you do...? 461 00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:26,807 [Chuckles] 462 00:29:27,349 --> 00:29:29,977 You don't really want to be ship's counselor. 463 00:29:30,143 --> 00:29:31,979 What would make you say that? 464 00:29:32,479 --> 00:29:34,523 I just know you're not serious. 465 00:29:35,357 --> 00:29:38,777 Have I given you any indication that I might not be serious? 466 00:29:38,944 --> 00:29:42,281 - Not really, but... - Then how do you know? 467 00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:45,325 Are your empathic abilities coming back? 468 00:29:48,996 --> 00:29:51,665 I suppose it's just instinctive. 469 00:29:54,334 --> 00:29:56,169 I get it. 470 00:29:56,336 --> 00:30:00,966 You're trying to make me see that I have other abilities to draw on. 471 00:30:01,133 --> 00:30:05,178 Human intuition, instincts. 472 00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:11,727 Guinan, those skills only develop after years of experience. 473 00:30:12,436 --> 00:30:14,563 It's not that easy. 474 00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:17,024 No one said it was easy. 475 00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:20,027 It's much harder than you think. 476 00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:25,240 Human intuition and instinct are not always right. 477 00:30:25,407 --> 00:30:28,493 But they do make life interesting. 478 00:30:31,038 --> 00:30:33,832 So I'm discovering. 479 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,224 - Riker: Problem, data? - Yes, commander. 480 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:54,895 Sensors are detecting highly accelerated interstellar gases. 481 00:30:55,062 --> 00:30:57,564 - Suggesting? - Uncertain, sir. 482 00:30:57,731 --> 00:30:59,524 The phenomenon is within visual range. 483 00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:01,693 On-screen. 484 00:31:02,903 --> 00:31:04,529 Magnify. 485 00:31:06,323 --> 00:31:08,700 Data: It appears to be a cosmic string fragment. 486 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:12,371 Only 107 kilometers long. 487 00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:14,790 A cosmic string? 488 00:31:14,956 --> 00:31:16,291 No wider than a proton, 489 00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:19,503 but with gravitational fields as powerful as a black hole. 490 00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:21,389 The two-dimensional beings seem to be caught 491 00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:23,146 in the gravitational pull of the string. 492 00:31:23,298 --> 00:31:26,093 Their course is taking them directly toward it. 493 00:31:26,468 --> 00:31:29,096 And us right along with it. 494 00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:38,605 Picard: Captain's log, stardate 44359.5. 495 00:31:38,772 --> 00:31:40,899 What began as a curious inconvenience 496 00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:43,318 has turned into a serious threat. 497 00:31:43,485 --> 00:31:45,445 At current speed, the two-dimensional beings 498 00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:48,657 and the enterprise will be drawn into the cosmic string fragment 499 00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:50,325 in seven hours. 500 00:31:52,244 --> 00:31:53,620 The entities offer no indication 501 00:31:53,787 --> 00:31:55,747 they are aware of the string fragment, sir. 502 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:57,999 Their course and speed remain constant. 503 00:31:58,166 --> 00:32:02,045 Sir, I recommend we fire a spread of photon torpedoes into their field. 504 00:32:03,213 --> 00:32:04,631 [Sighs] 505 00:32:06,299 --> 00:32:09,052 Must we destroy them to save ourselves? 506 00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:12,431 It is unclear what effect a photon torpedo 507 00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:14,558 would have on two-dimensional beings, sir. 508 00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:16,351 Nevertheless. 509 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:19,438 Well, we wouldn't necessarily have to fire at them. 510 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:21,982 Half a dozen photon torpedo bursts directly in their path 511 00:32:22,149 --> 00:32:24,526 could make them change course. 512 00:32:25,068 --> 00:32:26,236 Make it so. 513 00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:28,155 [Console beeping] 514 00:32:28,363 --> 00:32:31,241 Torpedoes armed. Fire distribution set. 515 00:32:31,408 --> 00:32:34,119 Detonation at seven kilometers ahead of the cluster. 516 00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:35,662 Data, launch another probe, 517 00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:37,998 patch the monitor through to the main viewer. 518 00:32:38,165 --> 00:32:40,876 Probe is launched. On-screen. 519 00:32:46,131 --> 00:32:47,674 Proceed, Mr. Worf. 520 00:32:47,841 --> 00:32:49,217 Launching torpedoes. 521 00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:51,887 Detonation in five seconds. 522 00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:56,516 Three, two, one. 523 00:32:58,393 --> 00:32:59,436 [Sensors beeping] 524 00:32:59,603 --> 00:33:01,203 There is no change in the graviton field. 525 00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:04,107 The torpedoes are having no effect, sir. 526 00:33:04,274 --> 00:33:05,734 [Picard sighs] 527 00:33:07,027 --> 00:33:12,491 Fire another volley directly into that field, Mr. Worf. 528 00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:16,578 Worf: Launching torpedoes. 529 00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:19,372 Detonation in five seconds. 530 00:33:19,539 --> 00:33:22,584 Three, two, one. 531 00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:24,836 [Explosion] 532 00:33:26,505 --> 00:33:30,383 Data: Matter-antimatter explosions appear to be ineffective, sir. 533 00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:48,276 [Door chimes] 534 00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:50,111 Come in. 535 00:33:52,239 --> 00:33:56,993 Janet. Oh, I'm sorry. I meant to cancel your appointment today. 536 00:33:57,744 --> 00:34:01,540 Actually, I'm resigning as ship's counselor. 537 00:34:01,706 --> 00:34:02,749 Why? 538 00:34:02,916 --> 00:34:06,419 I think it was fairly clear during your last appointment. 539 00:34:06,586 --> 00:34:09,005 It was obviously non-productive. 540 00:34:09,172 --> 00:34:11,800 I couldn't sense what you were feeling. 541 00:34:11,967 --> 00:34:15,762 Deanna, you were right about me. 542 00:34:15,929 --> 00:34:19,432 I had to go back and look at what I was doing. 543 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:21,893 See why I was trying to convince myself, 544 00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:24,145 and you, that I was a new woman. 545 00:34:24,938 --> 00:34:27,774 You made me realize I was doing exactly the same thing 546 00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:32,237 to myself as I was before, trying to hide from the pain. 547 00:34:33,113 --> 00:34:37,409 Maybe you couldn't sense what I was feeling, 548 00:34:37,576 --> 00:34:40,495 but you helped. 549 00:34:45,959 --> 00:34:47,002 [Door chimes] 550 00:34:47,168 --> 00:34:48,211 Come. 551 00:34:52,215 --> 00:34:53,425 You wanted to see me, captain? 552 00:34:53,592 --> 00:34:56,052 Picard: Yes, counselor. Sit down, please. 553 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:05,395 Our situation has become critical. 554 00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,897 The cluster remains completely unresponsive. 555 00:35:08,064 --> 00:35:09,691 We have not been able to alter its course 556 00:35:09,858 --> 00:35:12,235 towards the cosmic string fragment. 557 00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:16,823 - How much time do we have? - Less than five hours. 558 00:35:17,824 --> 00:35:19,743 Which is why I have called you. 559 00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:26,416 All that remains is the possibility of communication. 560 00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:27,667 There might be some way 561 00:35:27,834 --> 00:35:30,503 that we can warn them of their impending destruction. 562 00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:35,508 I thought data had already tried to establish communication 563 00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:37,510 through the universal translator. 564 00:35:37,886 --> 00:35:41,181 He has tried every technical means at our disposal to reach them. 565 00:35:42,515 --> 00:35:44,392 I wish I knew how to help, captain. 566 00:35:44,768 --> 00:35:46,353 But under the circumstances... 567 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:49,272 If there is a psychology to these creatures, we must discover it. 568 00:35:49,439 --> 00:35:51,524 If there is an explanation for their behavior, 569 00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:54,486 we must know what it is. 570 00:35:55,028 --> 00:35:56,446 Even in your current condition, 571 00:35:56,613 --> 00:36:00,992 you are the most qualified person aboard this ship to assist. 572 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,440 Data is in observation attempting to formulate a strategy. 573 00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:05,038 I want you to join him. 574 00:36:09,918 --> 00:36:11,544 Deanna... 575 00:36:12,754 --> 00:36:15,048 We need you. 576 00:36:23,223 --> 00:36:24,683 Picard: Captain's log, supplemental. 577 00:36:24,849 --> 00:36:27,060 If our speed and course remain unchanged, 578 00:36:27,227 --> 00:36:29,479 in one hour, the enterprise will be torn apart 579 00:36:29,646 --> 00:36:33,024 by the gravitational forces of the cosmic string fragment. 580 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:40,490 - Are your signals reaching them? - Possibly. 581 00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:42,117 However, the beings may perceive them 582 00:36:42,283 --> 00:36:46,621 as negligible noise rather than an attempt at communication. 583 00:36:46,788 --> 00:36:49,332 Is there any evidence at all that they're sentient? 584 00:36:49,499 --> 00:36:50,750 Negative. 585 00:36:50,917 --> 00:36:54,421 The nature of their movements suggests a simple order of intelligence. 586 00:36:58,383 --> 00:37:00,468 I'm sorry, data. 587 00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:04,097 I don't seem to be much help without my empathic abilities. 588 00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:08,768 I just don't know how to draw on my human instinct. 589 00:37:09,436 --> 00:37:14,816 As I do not have human instinct per se, I cannot advise you, counselor. 590 00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:18,653 Right now, 591 00:37:19,112 --> 00:37:23,533 I feel as two-dimensional as our friends out there. 592 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:28,705 In the universe but barely aware of it. 593 00:37:28,872 --> 00:37:31,833 Just trying to survive. 594 00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:36,254 On instinct. 595 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,803 What if they're simply acting instinctively? 596 00:37:44,763 --> 00:37:49,976 There are inherent inborn forces in every species. 597 00:37:50,143 --> 00:37:53,813 What they need. What they fear. 598 00:37:54,439 --> 00:37:58,151 We have to discover what drives this species. 599 00:37:59,194 --> 00:38:02,489 I do not believe there is any way we can know for certain, counselor. 600 00:38:02,655 --> 00:38:05,742 We can speculate on the available evidence. 601 00:38:06,326 --> 00:38:09,078 The only evidence we have at present is the brief interruption 602 00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:12,165 in their movement pattern during our last attempt to break away. 603 00:38:12,332 --> 00:38:15,752 Which may suggest some kind of awareness of our presence. 604 00:38:16,961 --> 00:38:20,381 Othen/vise, their course and speed have been constant. 605 00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:22,175 [Sighs] 606 00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:25,178 On a straight line to the cosmic string. 607 00:38:26,179 --> 00:38:29,015 You're convinced the string's gravitation is pulling them in? 608 00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:31,476 Because the cluster is two-dimensional, 609 00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:34,771 I do not have enough direct evidence to support that assumption. 610 00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:39,400 However, it is the most reasonable hypothesis. 611 00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:41,528 Why? 612 00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:45,031 It is unlikely they would intentionally move toward a destructive force. 613 00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:48,368 Moths fly toward a flame. 614 00:38:48,827 --> 00:38:51,955 Horses sometimes run into a burning barn. 615 00:38:52,121 --> 00:38:53,998 Data, don't you see? 616 00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:56,876 We've been thinking in three dimensions. 617 00:38:57,043 --> 00:38:59,212 We have to get two-dimensional. 618 00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:02,841 Pardon me? 619 00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:07,303 Subspace signals, photon torpedoes, nothing's had an impact. 620 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:11,057 It's reasonable to wonder if a gravitational pull, 621 00:39:11,224 --> 00:39:15,061 even as strong as a cosmic string's, would affect them. 622 00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:17,856 Please continue. 623 00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:22,026 What if they've chosen a course to the cosmic string? 624 00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,821 A case of pure stimulus response. 625 00:39:24,988 --> 00:39:29,993 Driven by instinct, just like the moth to a flame. 626 00:39:31,077 --> 00:39:33,246 Data: If counselor troi's supposition is correct, 627 00:39:33,413 --> 00:39:35,915 a replica of the string projected behind the cluster 628 00:39:36,082 --> 00:39:38,001 could induce them to reverse course, 629 00:39:38,167 --> 00:39:40,920 disrupting the graviton wake long enough for us to escape. 630 00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,464 How do you simulate a cosmic string? 631 00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:46,926 It has the gravitational force of a hundred stars. 632 00:39:47,093 --> 00:39:48,511 I do not suggest simulating 633 00:39:48,678 --> 00:39:51,055 the gravitational field of the string fragment. 634 00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:52,765 Rather the string's vibration. 635 00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:55,435 Vibration? We're not talking about a violin, data. 636 00:39:55,602 --> 00:39:58,479 No, data's right. The principle is still the same. 637 00:39:58,646 --> 00:39:59,772 A cosmic string emanates 638 00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:01,659 a characteristic set of subspace frequencies 639 00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:04,402 as atomic particles decay along its event horizon. 640 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:06,529 I could use the ship's parabolic dish to amplify 641 00:40:06,696 --> 00:40:08,823 and reflect those frequencies back toward the cluster. 642 00:40:08,990 --> 00:40:11,951 The enterprise itself would echo the cosmic string. 643 00:40:12,118 --> 00:40:13,620 How much time do we have, Mr. Worf? 644 00:40:13,953 --> 00:40:15,204 Twenty-three minutes, sir. 645 00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:18,124 Make it so. 646 00:40:23,630 --> 00:40:27,634 - Frequency scan detectors engaged. - La forge [over com]: Receiving. 647 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:28,843 [Static crackling] 648 00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:32,305 Data, we're picking up frequencies across the entire electromagnetic 649 00:40:32,472 --> 00:40:36,809 and lower subspace spectrum. Trying to isolate. 650 00:40:38,311 --> 00:40:40,688 Data, can you focus the reflector field for me? 651 00:40:40,855 --> 00:40:42,065 Data: Stand by. 652 00:40:42,231 --> 00:40:46,194 I am differentiating particle emission signatures now. 653 00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:52,450 Good. Good, that's doing it. Patterns are converging. 654 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:55,578 [High-pitched whirring] 655 00:40:56,371 --> 00:40:59,165 Same course, same speed. No change, sir. 656 00:40:59,332 --> 00:41:02,710 We are beginning to encounter the gravitational effects of the string. 657 00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:05,129 Impact is in four minutes. 658 00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:08,049 Sir, shear force turbulence is impairing our ability 659 00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:10,385 to create an accurate simulation. 660 00:41:10,551 --> 00:41:14,180 Geordi, fire up the impulse engines, activate the ship's stabilizers. 661 00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:15,598 Stabilizers on. 662 00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:18,351 Electromagnetic and subspace wave fronts 663 00:41:18,518 --> 00:41:20,645 approaching synchronization. 664 00:41:25,024 --> 00:41:26,401 Three minutes to impact. 665 00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:28,236 Status? 666 00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:31,781 Allenby: The cluster is unaffected. Same course, same speed. 667 00:41:32,782 --> 00:41:36,786 Let's try turning up the volume. Increase the intensity, Mr. Data. 668 00:41:37,453 --> 00:41:39,414 Increasing by 50 percent. 669 00:41:40,999 --> 00:41:43,751 [Sensors beeping] 670 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,380 They're slowing. 671 00:41:48,089 --> 00:41:50,341 Graviton wake field is collapsing. 672 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:54,429 - Mr. La forge, get us out of here. - La forge: With pleasure, sir. 673 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,104 The beings have resumed their course into the string. 674 00:42:03,730 --> 00:42:05,982 Three seconds to impact. 675 00:42:06,149 --> 00:42:07,191 [Gasps] 676 00:42:18,578 --> 00:42:20,580 It's all right. 677 00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:22,582 They're home. 678 00:42:23,708 --> 00:42:25,293 We were wrong. 679 00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:27,378 The cosmic string was never dangerous to them. 680 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:31,758 It was the one place in the galaxy they most wanted to be. 681 00:42:32,675 --> 00:42:33,885 Deanna? 682 00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:39,307 [Sighs] 683 00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:41,476 Isensedit 684 00:42:51,152 --> 00:42:53,654 Such ovennhelming intensity of emotion. 685 00:42:53,821 --> 00:42:55,281 When we first encountered them, 686 00:42:55,448 --> 00:42:57,825 it must have been more than my senses could process. 687 00:42:57,992 --> 00:42:59,535 A short circuit. 688 00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:01,954 Something like that. 689 00:43:02,121 --> 00:43:05,541 - Oh, Beverly... - Apology accepted. 690 00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:08,544 Therapists are always the worst patients. 691 00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:10,713 Except for doctors, of course. 692 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,135 Come by and see me in my office later, okay? 693 00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:20,598 I was so awful to her. 694 00:43:20,765 --> 00:43:22,975 Well, you were just being human. 695 00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:30,775 I never fully appreciated how difficult and how rewarding it is to be human. 696 00:43:30,942 --> 00:43:32,652 But I had a lot of help. 697 00:43:35,571 --> 00:43:39,117 Now, is that counselor position still open aboard ship? 698 00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:41,661 It's been taken. 699 00:43:42,328 --> 00:43:46,999 I just thought I'd ask. Better hours. Excuse me. 700 00:43:49,085 --> 00:43:50,545 Troi: And you. 701 00:43:51,254 --> 00:43:54,298 Thank you for making me face my other half. 702 00:43:54,799 --> 00:43:57,176 - Frightening, wasn't it? - A little. 703 00:43:58,553 --> 00:44:00,138 You were right though. 704 00:44:00,304 --> 00:44:01,584 There is something to be learned 705 00:44:01,722 --> 00:44:04,684 when you're not in control of every situation. 706 00:44:05,685 --> 00:44:07,603 Welcome to the human race. 707 00:44:08,855 --> 00:44:14,527 By the way, the next time you call me aristocratic...