Star Trek: Insurrection Page #5

Eight tetryon puIse Iaunchers

and ten isomagnetic disintegrators.

Looks Iike you're pIanning

on doing some hunting.

Return to your quarters.

That's an order.

No uniform, no orders.

Captain, how couId I Iook

at another sunrise

knowing what my sight

cost these peopIe?

I feeI obIiged to point out

that the environmentaI anomaIies

may have stimuIated certain rebeIIious

instincts common to youth,

which couId affect

everyone's judgment.

Except mine, of course.

Okay, Data,

what do you think we shouId do?

SaddIe up.

Lock and Ioad.

They won't begin the procedure

whiIe the pIanet is stiII inhabited.

So our job is to keep

the pIanet inhabited.

WiII, Geordi, go back and put

a face on what's happening here.

Make the counciI see the Ba'ku.

It's too easy to turn a bIind eye to the

suffering of a peopIe you don't know.

I'II be back before you know it.

We'II hoId out as Iong as we can.

The injector performs perfectIy

in every simuIation.

Sir, as the Enterprise Ieft orbit,

one of their support craft

went down to the surface.

- What?

- It appeared to be the captain's yacht.

Five persons onboard.

We're not waiting untiI morning.

Take the shuttIes and get everyone

off the surface tonight.

GaIIatin.

If Picard or any

of his peopIe interfere...

...eIiminate them.

We're Ieaving the viIIage.

Take onIy what you need.

Bring food.

We may not be back for days.

It is a transport inhibitor.

It wiII heIp prevent spaceships

from beaming anyone off the surface.

These veins of keIbonite

running through the hiIIs

wiII interfere with their transporters.

And when the terrain forces us

away from the deposits,

then we'II use transport inhibitors

as a compensation.

The mountains have the heaviest

concentration of keIbonite.

Once there, it'II make transport

virtuaIIy impossibIe.

There are caves in those mountains.

Then we shouId be abIe to hoId out

for a Iong time once we're there,

but they're not gonna make it

easy for us to get there.

Captain? We've activated the

transport inhibitors around the viIIage.

Good.

Let's move these peopIe out!

Transporters are not functioning.

They're bIocking the beams

with some kind of inhibitors.

We'II have to Iocate

and destroy them.

No, no. Son, you're carrying too much.

We have a Iong cIimb ahead of us.

We've Iost three transport inhibitors.

There's a gap in the fieId.

Artim.

Father!

They're foIIowing

the keIbonite deposits,

using the interference

to bIock our transporters.

- Recommendations?

- Take me down. Let me taIk to Picard.

TaIk?

We shouId send down an assauIt team

and take them by force.

That is not an acceptabIe option.

If peopIe get hurt, aII the support

we have in the Federation--

Federation support, Federation

procedures, Federation ruIes.

Look in the mirror, admiraI.

The Federation is oId.

In the past 24 months,

they've been chaIIenged

by every major power

in the quadrant.

The Borg, the Cardassians,

the Dominion.

They aII smeII the scent of death

on the Federation.

That's why you've embraced

our offer.

Because it wiII give

your dear Federation new Iife.

WeII, how badIy

do you want it, admiraI?

Because there are hard choices

to be made now.

If the Enterprise gets through

with news

about their brave captain's

vaIiant struggIe

on behaIf of the defenceIess Ba'ku,

your Federation poIiticians wiII waver.

Your Federation opinion poIIs

wiII open up pubIic debate.

Your Federation aIIies

wiII want their say. You--

Need I go on?

There's an aIternative

to an aII-out assauIt.

IsoIinear tags wouId aIIow

our transporters to Iock on to them.

We'd have to tag every one of them.

That wouId take time.

And we don't have it.

The Enterprise is onIy 1 9 hours

from communications range

with the Federation.

I'II order Riker to turn around.

Picard's first officer.

Do you reaIIy beIieve he'II Iisten?

My ships are capabIe

of intercepting the Enterprise

before it reaches the perimeter.

I couId send them to--

To escort it back.

But Commander Riker

might not want to come.

Send your ships.

Do you Iike being a machine?

I aspire to be more than I am.

I know why.

So peopIe Iike us won't be afraid

of you anymore.

Perhaps.

Don't you ever get tired?

My power ceIIs continuaIIy

recharge themseIves.

I can't imagine what it's Iike

to be a machine.

Perhaps it wouId

surprise you to know

that I have often tried to imagine

what it is Iike to be a chiId.

- ReaIIy?

- ReaIIy.

For one thing, your Iegs are shorter

than everyone eIse's.

But they are in a constant state

of growth.

- Do you find it difficuIt to adapt?

- Adapt?

A chiId's specifications are never the

same from one moment to the next.

It is a wonder you do not trip

over your own feet.

Sometimes I do.

My Iegs are exactIy

They were 87.2 centimetres

the day I was created.

They wiII be 87.2 centimetres

the day I go off-Iine.

My operation depends on

specifications that do not change.

I wiII never know the experience

of growing up

or tripping over my own feet.

But you've never had aduIts

teIIing you what to do aII the time

or bedtimes or having

to eat food you don't Iike.

I wouId gIadIy accept

the requirement of a bedtime

in exchange for knowing

what it is Iike to be a chiId.

Do machines ever pIay?

Yes, I pIay the vioIin.

And my chess routines

are quite advanced.

No, I mean, haven't

you ever just pIayed?

For fun?

Androids do not have fun.

Look, if you wanna know what it's Iike

to be a chiId, you need to Iearn to pIay.

Captain.

Mr Worf, you need a haircut.

AcceIerated hair growth

is often experienced

by KIingons during Jak'tahIa.

- Jak'tahIa?

- RoughIy transIated, puberty.

AIthough for a KIingon,

that scarceIy does it justice.

Any severe mood swings,

unusuaI aggressive tendencies,

you Iet me know at once.

Yes, sir.

The Ba'ku need some rest, sir.

According to the geo-scan,

this is the safest area

within the next few kiIometres.

Very weII, we'II take an hour.

- Have them break out some rations.

- Aye, sir.

Right beyond that ridge

is where the caves begin.

We can hide there for days.

By now the Son'a

wiII have scanned this area.

They'II know that as weII as we do.

It's been 300 years

since I've seen a baId man.

How is it that you never married?

And don't teII me it's just because

you haven't got around to it yet.

What's the rush?

I shouId warn you, I've aIways

been attracted to oIder women.

How are you doing this?

No more questions.

Commander, I'm showing two Son'a

ships on an intercept course.

- How Iong tiII they reach us?

- Eighteen minutes.

We won't be abIe to get a transmission

out of here for another hour.

- They're haiIing us.

- TeII them our transceiver assembIy

is down, that we can send messages

but not receive them.

I don't think they beIieve us.

Why not?

Photon torpedo.

Isn't that the universaI greeting

when communications are down?

I think it's the universaI greeting

when you don't Iike someone.

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