Star Trek: Insurrection Page #3

Set a course to rendezvous with us

so you can transfer the crew

and equipment on your way out.

You're not finished here?

Just a few loose ends to tie up.

Dougherty out.

Come in.

- Hi.

- You got a minute?

Sure.

I need a IittIe counseIing.

WeII, there's a first time

for everything.

So do I Iie down or what?

WeII, whatever

makes you comfortabIe.

But this isn't one

of the usuaI therapeutic postures.

But it is comfortabIe.

Why don't you try sitting up.

Why don't you try Iying down.

WeII, you're in quite a mood today.

Do you reaIIy need counseIing,

or did you come down here to pIay?

I think I'm having a midIife crisis.

- I beIieve you.

- I'm not sIeeping weII.

Dr Crusher has something

that can take care of that.

What I need, I can't get

from Dr Crusher.

CounseIIor, do you think it's possibIe

for two peopIe to go back in time,

fix a mistake they've made?

On this ship, anything's possibIe.

- Yuck.

- ''Yuck''?

I never kissed you

with a beard before.

I kiss you, and you say, ''Yuck''?

I had to reconstruct Data's neuraI net

and repIace these.

They contain memory engrams.

- How were they damaged?

- By a Son'a weapon.

There's no doubt about it, captain.

That's what caused Data

to maIfunction.

But the Son'a report cIaims that they

didn't fire untiI after he maIfunctioned.

WeII, I don't beIieve

it happened that way.

Why wouId they fire on him

without provocation?

AII I know is that he was functioning

normaIIy untiI he was shot.

Then his faiI-safe system

was activated.

- FaiI-safe?

- His ethicaI and moraI subroutines

took over aII of his basic functions.

But you're saying he stiII knew the

difference between right and wrong.

In a sense, that's aII he knew.

The system was designed

to protect Data against anyone

who might try to take advantage

of his memory Ioss.

And yet he attacked us, and he toId

the Ba'ku that we were a threat.

- The impIants bothering you?

- I'm aII right.

I think I'm just tired.

Geordi?

- Captain?

- You're on the Enterprise, Data.

I seem to be missing

severaI memory engrams.

There they are.

Data, what's the Iast thing

that you remember?

His nose should pant

And his lip should curl

From the mission.

I was in an isoIation suit gathering

physiometric data on the Ba'ku.

My Iast memory is going into the hiIIs,

foIIowing some chiIdren.

Artim? Do you remember where

you were on the day of Iightning

when the artificiaI Iife form

appeared to us?

In the hiIIs by the dam.

Can you show us?

There is no reason to fear me.

I am now operating

within normaI parameters.

- What?

- They fixed me.

Captain, the boy is afraid of me.

It's nothing personaI, Data.

You have to remember, these peopIe

have rejected technoIogy.

I am the personification

of everything they have rejected.

UntiI this week, that young man

probabIy never saw a machine,

Iet aIone one that waIks and taIks.

Bridge to Riker.

Can I get back to you, Mr Worf?

Admiral Dougherty

is on the com-link, sir.

Patch him through.

- Yes, admiraI?

- Why haven't you Ieft orbit?

Captain Picard

is still on the surface, sir.

- Doing what?

- He didn't want to leave

until we could adequately explain

why Data malfunctioned.

His future in StarfIeet

couId depend on it.

Remind the captain

his 1 2 hours are up.

- Yes, sir.

- Dougherty out.

Your body is producing

far too many toxins.

We've reached the Iimit

of genetic manipuIation.

I won't need any more

genetic manipuIation

if our Federation friends wiII aIIow us

to compIete this mission.

Tricorder functions are Iimited

due to heavy deposits of keIbonite

in these hiIIs.

How about a passive radiation scan?

Curious.

There appear to be strong neutrino

emissions coming from the Iake.

Can he breathe underwater?

Data doesn't breathe.

Won't he rust?

No.

Captain! Captain!

I beIieve I know what is causing

the neutrino emissions.

The vesseI is cIearIy Federation

in origin, captain.

''Just a few Ioose ends to tie up.''

We're not interested in such things.

I am.

- I think it wouId be wiser--

- I'm going with you.

It is a hoIographic projection.

IncompIete, I might add.

What you're seeing is

a computer-driven image

created by photons and force fieIds.

I know what a hoIogram is, captain.

The question is, why wouId anyone

want to create one of our viIIage?

Data, if you were foIIowing the chiIdren

and discovered this ship...

It is conceivabIe I was shot to protect

the secret of its existence.

Why wouId they dupIicate this viIIage,

except to deceive the Ba'ku?

- Deceive us?

- To move you off this pIanet.

You go to sIeep one night

in the viIIage,

wake up the next morning

on this fIying hoIodeck,

transported en masse.

Within a few days,

they're reIocated on a simiIar pIanet

without ever reaIizing it.

Why wouId the Federation or the Son'a

wish to move the Ba'ku?

I don't know.

Computer, end program.

DecIoak the vesseI.

HeIp!

I can't swim!

Don't panic.

I've been shot at, thrown into the Iake

out of a ship that's come to abduct us,

what's there to panic about?

In the event of a water Ianding,

I have been designed to serve

as a fIotation device.

Mr Worf, did the hostages mention

anything about a cIoaked ship

during their debriefing?

- No, sir.

- Debrief them again.

Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf?

No, sir. It is a gorch.

Gorch?

PimpIe, sir.

Oh, weII, it's-- It's hardIy noticeabIe.

Smooth as an android's bottom,

eh, Data?

I beg your pardon, sir?

AdmiraI Dougherty wants to know

why we haven't Ieft yet.

We're not going anywhere.

Deck 5.

KIingons never do anything smaII,

do you?

Dr Crusher asked to speak

to you when you returned.

- Picard to Crusher.

- Captain,

the Son'a hostages decIined

to be examined.

I had them confined to quarters.

- And our peopIe?

- They're fine.

In fact, they're better than fine.

Increased metaboIism,

improved muscIe tone, high energy.

We shouId aII be so Iucky.

Very weII, doctor. Picard out.

Worf, don't reIease the Son'a officers

untiI I've taIked to Ahdar Ru'afo.

Aye, sir.

Commander, may I?

Computer, music.

No, no, not that. Something Latin.

- Specify.

- The mambo.

That's more Iike it.

How oId are you?

We came here from a soIar system

on the verge of seIf-annihiIation,

where technoIogy

had created weapons

that threatened to destroy aII Iife.

A smaII group of us set off

to find a new home,

a home that wouId be isoIated

from the threats of other worIds.

That was 309 years ago.

And you haven't aged

a day since then.

ActuaIIy, I was a good deaI oIder

when we arrived,

in terms of my physicaI condition.

There's an unusuaI

metaphasic radiation

coming from the pIanet's rings.

It continuousIy regenerates

our genetic structure.

You must have noticed

the effects by now.

We've just begun to.

And I suppose you're 75.

No, I'm 1 2.

The metaphasic radiation won't begin

to affect him untiI he reaches maturity.

To most offIanders,

what you have here

is more vaIuabIe than...

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