[Star Trek: Bridge Commander - Maximum Warp Edition Mod
Hanne Rylaarsdam
TROI: That was an incredible programme.
WORF: I am glad you approve. I have always found the Black Sea at nightto be a most stimulating experience.
TROI: Worf, we were walking barefoot on the beach with balalaika musicin the air, ocean breeze washing over us, stars in the sky, a full moonrising, and the most you can say is stimulating?
WORF: It was very stimulating.
(the turbolift arrives as Troi rolls her eyes)
WORF: What?
(exiting the turbolift into another corridor)
TROI: You know, I don't spend nearly enough time on the holodeck. Ishould take my own advice and go there to relax. Next time I'll choosethe programme. If you like the Black Sea, you're going to love LakeCataria on Betazed.
WORF: Deanna, perhaps before there is a next time, we should discussCommander Riker.
TROI: Why, is he coming along?
WORF: No, but I do not wish. I mean, it would be unfortunate if he. Ifyou and I are going to continue, I do not wish to hurt his feelings.
TROI: Worf, I think it's all right to concentrate on our feelings,yours and mine.
(they're about to kiss when)
PICARD: (in dressing gown) Counsellor! What's today's date? The date!
WORF: Stardate 47988.
PICARD: 47988.
TROI: Captain, what's wrong?
PICARD: 47988. I'm not sure. I don't know how or why, but I'm movingback and forth through time.
PICARD: I had this feeling I had physically leftthe Enterprise. I was in another time, another place. I was somewherein the past.
TROI: Can you describe where you were, what it looked like?
PICARD: You see, it's all slipping away so fast. It's like waking upfrom a nightmare. It was years ago. It was before I took command of theEnterprise. I was talking to someone, I can't remember who. And then itall changed. I was no longer in the past. I was now an old man in thefuture, and I was outside and I was doing something. I can't rememberwhat it was. I'm sorry, it's all gone. I just can't remember.
TROI: It's all right. Have you considered the possibility that this wasjust a dream?
PICARD: No, no, it was much more than a dream. The smells, the sounds,the very touch of things, much more real than a dream.
TROI: How long did you spend in each time period? Did it seem likeminutes, hours?
PICARD: You see, I can't say. At first I had a sense of confusion,disorientation. I wasn't sure where I was. And then all that passed andit all seemed perfectly natural, as though I belonged in that time. ButI can't
(Picard is bearded and working outside on a grapevine. He looks around for a moment then carries on tying them ontotheir supports.)
LAFORGE: Captain Picard to the Bridge! Captain, we've got a problemwith the warp core, or the phase inducers, or some other damn thing.
PICARD: Geordi.
(They embrace. Geordi has blue eyes and grey in his hair)
LAFORGE: Hello, Captain or should I call you Ambassador?
PICARD: Oh, I haven't been called that for some time either.
LAFORGE: How about Mister Picard?
PICARD: How about Jean-Luc?
LAFORGE: I don't think I could get used to that.
PICARD: Good Lord, Geordi. Well, how long has it been?
LAFORGE: Nine years.
PICARD: No, no, no. Since you last called me Captain, since we were alltogether on the Enterprise?
LAFORGE: Close to twenty five years.
PICARD: Twenty five years. Well, time has been good to you.
LAFORGE: IA little too good to me in some places. Can I give you a handhere?
PICARD: Oh, well, I'm just tying up some vines.
LAFORGE: You've got leaf miners. You might want to use a bacillusspray. My wife is quite a gardener. I've picked up a little bit of it.
PICARD: How is Leah?
LAFORGE: Just wonderful. Busy as ever. She's just been made director ofthe Daystrom Institute.
PICARD: What about the little ones, Brett, Alandra and er?
LAFORGE: Sidney.
PICARD: Sidney.
LAFORGE: Well, they're not so little any more. Brett is applying toStarfleet Academy next year.
PICARD: So what brings you here?
LAFORGE: Oh I just thought I'd stop by. Been thinking about the olddays on the Enterprise. I was in the neighbourhood.
PICARD: Geordi, you don't make the trip from Rigel Three to Earth justto drop by.
LAFORGE: No.
PICARD: So, you've heard?
LAFORGE: Leah's got a few friends at Starfleet Medical. Word getsaround.
PICARD: I'm not an invalid. Irumodic Syndrome can take years to run itscourse.
LAFORGE: I know. Once I heard, well, I just wanted to stop by just thesame.
PICARD: Well now that you're here, you can help me carry those tools.Well, my cooking may not be up to Leah'sstandards, but I can still make a decent cup of tea. Oh, I read yourlast novel. I thought that the protagonist a little too flamboyant, butfor the rest I
(he sees three tatty people jeering at him)
LAFORGE: Captain, are you all right? Captain!
TASHA [OC]: Captain?
(We're back to season one now)
TASHA: Will this be your first time on a Galaxy class starship? Are youall right, sir? Sir?
PICARD: I'm sorry, Lieutenant. My mind must have wandered. What wereyou saying?
TASHA: I was asking if you'd ever been aboard a Galaxy class starshipbefore.
PICARD: No. Of course, I'm familiar with the blueprints andspecifications, but this will be my first time aboard.
TASHA: Well then, if I may be so bold, sir, you're in for a treat. TheEnterprise is quite a ship.
PICARD: I'm sure she is.
TASHA: Have I done something wrong, sir?
PICARD: No. It's just that you look very familiar.
CREWMAN [OC]: Enterprise to shuttlecraft Galileo. You are cleared forarrival in shuttlebay two.
TASHA: Acknowledged, Enterprise. And there she is.
(and we get a nice look at Enterprise in her spacedock)
CRUSHER: I've finished the neurographic scan. Idon't see anything that might cause hallucinations or a psychogenicreaction.
TROI: Is there any indication of temporal displacement?
CRUSHER: No. Usually a temporal shift would leave some kind oftriptamine residue in the cerebral cortex, but the scan didn't showany. Personally, I think you just enjoy waking everybody up in themiddle of the night.
PICARD: Actually, I really like running around the ship in my barefeet.
OGAWA: (visibly pregnant) The biospectral test results, Doctor.
CRUSHER: Your blood gas analysis is consistent with someone who's beenbreathing the ship's air for weeks. If you'd been somewhere else, therewould be an indication of change in the oxygen isotope ratios. Thanks.Deanna, would you excuse us please?
TROI: Of course.
(Troi leaves)
CRUSHER: Jean-Luc, I scanned for evidence of Irumodic Syndrome, as yousuggested. There wasn't any. But I did find a small structural defectin the parietal lobe.
PICARD: A defect that you hadn't noticed before?
CRUSHER: It's the kind of defect that would only show up on a levelfour neurographic scan. It could cause you to be susceptible to severalkinds of neurological disorders including Irumodic Syndrome. Now, it'spossible for you to live with this defect for the rest of your lifewithout developing a problem. Or even if you do, many people continueto live normal lives for a long time after the onset of IrumodicSyndrome.
PICARD: If that's so, why do you look like you've just signed my deathsentence?
CRUSHER: I'm sorry. I guess it caught me off guard.
PICARD: I wouldn't worry about it. Something tells me that you're goingto have to put up with me for a long time to come.
CRUSHER: Well, it won't be easy, but I'll manage.
(Riker enters)
RIKER: Captain.
PICARD: Has Worf found anything?
RIKER: No, sir. His security scans came up negative. They're stillchecking the sensor logs but there is no indication that you ever leftthe ship.
PICARD: I wasn't dreaming. Something happened.
WORF [OC]: Worf to Captain.
PICARD: Go ahead, Mister Worf.
WORF: Sir, there is an incoming transmission from Admiral Nakamura. Itis a priority one message.
PICARD: Beverly? Mister Worf, will you route the call through to DoctorCrusher's office.
WORF: Aye, sir.
NAKAMURA [on monitor]: Captain.
PICARD: Admiral.
NAKAMURA [on monitor]: I am initiating a fleet-wide Yellow Alert.Starfleet intelligence has picked up some alarming reports from theRomulan Empire. It appears that at least thirty Warbirds have beenpulled from other assignments and are headed for the Neutral Zone.
PICARD: Is there any explanation why they would make such a blatantlyaggressive move?
NAKAMURA [on monitor]: Our operatives on Romulus have indicated thatthere appears to be something happening in the Neutral Zone,specifically in the Devron System. Our own long range scans have pickedup some kind of spatial anomaly in the area. We can't tell what it is.
PICARD: What are our orders?
NAKAMURA [on monitor]: This is a very delicate situation. I amdeploying fifteen starships along our side of the Neutral Zone. I wantyou to go there as well. See if you can find out what is going on inthe Devron System.
PICARD: Am I authorised to enter the Neutral Zone?
NAKAMURA [on monitor]: Not yet. Wait and see what the Romulans do. Youcan conduct long range scans, send probes if necessary, but do notcross the border unless they do.
PICARD: Understood.
NAKAMURA [on monitor]: Starfleet out.
LAFORGE: Captain. What's wrong?
PICARD: This is not my time. I don't belong here.
LAFORGE: What?
PICARD: I was somewhere else a few moments ago.
LAFORGE: What do you mean? You've been right here with me.
PICARD: No, no, no! I was somewhere else. I was, it was a long timeago. There was someone talking. I was talking to someone. Beverly. Iwas talking to Beverly.
LAFORGE: It's okay, Captain. Everything's going to be all right.
PICARD: I'm not senile, you know. This did happen. I was here, I wastalking to you, and then I was somewhere else. I was on the Enterprise.I was back on the Enterprise. At least, I think that's where it was. Iwas in Sickbay. Well, it might have been a hospital.
LAFORGE: Captain, I think we should go back to the house and call yourdoctor
PICARD: Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking. It's the IrumodicSyndrome. He's beginning to lose his mind, the old man. Well, it's notthat. And I'm not daydreaming either.
LAFORGE: Well, all right. All right. So, what do you want do about it?
PICARD: Data. I want to see Data.
LAFORGE: Data? Why?
PICARD: Because I think he can help.
LAFORGE: Help how?
PICARD: I don't know! I don't know! I want to see Data!
LAFORGE: Okay, then, all right, let's go see Data. He's still atCambridge, isn't he?
PICARD: Yes, I think he is.
(six tatty humans jeering)
PICARD: You see them, don't you?
LAFORGE: See who?
PICARD: They're everywhere. They're laughing at me. Why are theylaughing?
LAFORGE: Come on, Captain. Let's go see Data.
PICARD: Yes, Data. We'll go see Data.