Star Trek 7: Generations Page #3

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my time is running out.

We leave so many things

unfinished in our lives.

I know you understand.

I'll see what I can do.

We have analyzed

the Romulans' tricorder.

They were scanning

for signature particles

-of a compound called trilithium.

-Trilithium?

Yes, an experimental compound

the Romulans have been working on.

Trilithium is a nuclear inhibitor.

In theory,

it could stop all fusion within a star.

However, the Romulans never found

a way to stabilize it.

Why would they look for it

on a Federation observatory?

That doesn't make any sense.

I do not know.

Have Geordi and Data go over

with the next away team.

Tell them to scan the observatory

for trilithium.

Aye, sir.

Well, there's no sign

of any trilithium over here.

-I get it! I get it!

-You get what?

When you said to Commander Riker,

"The clown can stay,

"but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit

has to go."

What are you talking about?

During the Farpoint mission.

We were on the Bridge. You told a joke.

That was the punch line.

Farpoint...

Data, that was seven years ago.

I know. I just got it!

Very funny.

Wait a minute.

There's a door hidden right behind you.

I can see the separation with my visor.

There appears to be a dampening field

in operation.

I cannot scan beyond the bulkhead.

There doesn't seem to be

a control panel or an access port.

It appears to be magnetically sealed.

I believe I can reverse the polarity

by attenuating my axial servo.

Open sesame.

You could say

I have a magnetic personality.

Humor, I love it!

Data, come take a look at this, will you?

Have you ever seen a solar probe

with this kind of configuration?

No, Geordi, I have not. Have you?

No, I have not. It is most unusual.

Mr. Tricorder.

Just see if you can help me

get these panels open, will you?

Make it so.

My visor's picking up something

in the theta band.

It could be a trilithium signature.

-Data, we don't have time for this.

-I cannot help myself.

I think something is wrong.

Data?

Data. Data, are you all right?

I believe the emotion chip

has overloaded my positronic relay.

We'd better get you back to the ship.

La Forge to Enterprise.

-La Forge to Enterprise.

-Gentlemen, is there a problem?

Dr. Soran.

Yeah. There seems to be

some sort of dampening field in here.

It's blocking our comm signal.

Can you shut it off for us?

Of course, I'd be only too happy to.

Please. Please. No.

Do not... Do not hurt me.

Please, please.

Yes, come.

Yes, Counselor?

Is there something I can do for you?

Actually I'm here to see

if there's anything I can do for you.

It's just family matters.

You never met my brother and his wife,

did you?

-No.

-Robert.

So opinionated.

So pompous and arrogant.

He always had to have the last word.

But he mellowed a little bit

in the last few years.

I was going to get together with them all

next month on Earth.

I thought we'd go to San Francisco.

Ren's always wanted

to see Starfleet Academy.

Ren? Your nephew.

Yes. He's so unlike his father.

He's a dreamer, imaginative.

He's so very gentle.

What's happened?

Robert and Ren, they're...

Burned to death in a fire.

-I'm sorry.

-It's all right. It's all right.

These things happen.

Captain, it's not all right.

I can't help thinking about

all the experiences

that Ren's not gonna have,

about going to the Academy,

reading books and listening to music

and falling in love,

building a life.

Well, that's not going to happen now.

I didn't realize he meant so much to you.

I'd come to feel that Ren was as close

as I would get

to having a child of my own.

Your family history is very important

to you, isn't it?

What?

From being a small child,

I can remember being told

about the family line.

The Picard who fought at Trafalgar.

The Picard who won

the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

The Picards who settled

the first Martian colonies.

And when Robert married

and he had a son, I...

You felt it was no longer

your responsibility

to carry on the family line.

Right. Yes. That's it exactly.

You know, Counselor,

recently I've become very much aware

that there were fewer days ahead

than there are behind,

but I took some comfort from the fact

that the family would go on.

But now there'll be no more Picards.

Report.

A quantum implosion has occurred

within the Amargosa star.

-All nuclear fusion is breaking down.

-How is that possible?

Sensor records show

the observatory launched

a solar probe into the sun

a few moments ago.

The star is going to collapse

in a matter of minutes.

Sir, the implosion has produced

a level-12 shock wave.

That'll destroy everything in this system.

Transporter Room to Bridge.

I can't locate Commander La Forge

or Mr. Data, sir.

-Have they come back to the ship?

-No, sir. They are not on board.

How long before the shock wave

hits the observatory?

Four minutes, 40 seconds.

Number One.

-Mr. Worf!

-Aye, sir.

Soran, transmit your coordinates.

What the hell's he doing?

Enterprise to Commander Riker.

You have two minutes left.

You hear that, Soran?

We've got a level-12 shock wave

coming in. We gotta get out of here!

Sir, a Klingon bird-of-prey

is decloaking off the port bow.

What?

-Data, see if you can get to Geordi.

-I cannot, sir.

Prepare for transport.

-Commander Riker's team is aboard, sir.

-Helm, warp 1, engage!

You've done it, Soran.

Wait!

I hope for your sake

you were initiating a mating ritual.

You got careless.

The Romulans came looking

for their missing trilithium.

Impossible.

We left no survivors on their outpost.

They knew it was on the observatory.

If the Enterprise hadn't intervened,

they would have found it.

They didn't find it! And now

we have a weapon of unlimited power.

No, Lursa, I have the weapon,

and if you ever want me to give it to you,

I would advise you to be

a little more careful in the future.

Perhaps we are tired of waiting.

Without my research,

the trilithium is worthless,

as are your plans

to re-conquer the Klingon Empire.

Set course for the Veridian system.

Maximum warp.

He's an El-Aurian, over 300 years old.

He lost his entire family

when the Borg destroyed his planet.

Soran escaped

with a handful of other refugees

aboard a ship called the Lakul.

That ship was later destroyed

by some kind of energy ribbon.

But Soran and 46 others

were rescued by the Enterprise-B.

That was the mission

where James Kirk was killed.

I checked the passenger manifest

of the Lakul.

Guess who else was on board.

Soran is a name I haven't heard

for a long time.

-You remember him?

-Yes.

Guinan, it is very important that

you tell me everything that you know.

We think that Soran has developed

a weapon, a terrible weapon,

one that might even give him

enough power to destroy an entire...

Soran doesn't care about weapons

or power.

He just cares about getting

back to the Nexus.

What is the Nexus?

The energy ribbon

that destroyed that ship

was not just some random phenomena

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