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Agreed, Groppler?

We are not interested in building other facilities.

Humanity is no longer a savage race.

I wanna see exactly what's happening.

Have the two of you met before?

From this point, no station aboard, repeat, no station for any reason,

None of you knows who transported him.

Wasted effort, considering human intelligence.

Something like a transporter beam seems to have snatched him away.

[COMPUTER BEEPlNG]

Farpoint Station. Even the name sounds mysterious.

The panel on your right is for log entries,

He does seem to have a very good grasp of starship operations.

- Thank you, lieutenant. - Aye, sir

And later, on finally reaching deep space,

we must proceed in our own way.

For you to work with a commanding officer

Great explorers are often lonely. No chance to have a family.

When I was little, he brought my father's body home to us.

You requested this posting?

[CROWD FALLS SlLENCE]

All velocity zero. Her inertia should do the job now.

you'd know that the unknown is what brings us out here.

We may be able to match hostile's 9.8, sir.

and forgive me if l've said and listened to this a thousand times before.

where will you go from there?

Fight or try to escape.

Likewise, counselor.

But a captain's life means a great deal more to me.

If the transporters can convert our bodies to an energy beam,

In the year 2036, the New United Nations declared that

[ALL MURMURlNG]

Then welcome aboard, doctor.

There is no computer record of any such vessel, sir.

To the bitter end?

Results of detaching saucer section at high-warp velocity.

Sounds like a fairly dull place.

is to tuck tail between our legs and return to Earth as they demand.

but since my duty and interests are outside the command structure...

All language forms and frequencies.

Then your rank of lieutenant commander is honorary?

Yes, even though you're judge and prosecutor.

you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god images.

Make phasers and photon torpedoes ready.

Have you understood any part of what he's tried to tell you?

MAN [ON lNTERCOM]: Captain, from transporter room.

but on the Bandi and their city.

He's been aboard all day, sir, checking over medical layout.

As if it's something Q is doing to trick us?

Meanwhile, l've been asked to visit the Farpoint administrator's office.

- we have a chance-- - Lieutenant.

Q: And 400 years before that, you were murdering each other

[PEOPLE LAUGHlNG]

for the construction materials used here.

PICARD: Go to maneuvering jets.

Hardly. Your service record shows

who could demonstrate your techniques.

- Construction records? - Construction records shows this

PICARD: Captain's log, stardate 41 174.2.

Not exactly a run-of-the-mill happening, captain.

[ALL GRUMBLING]

We will, l promise you.

We have no ship control, sir.

True, they are not actual allies, but--

Yes, sir. It is not merely a vessel, somehow it is alive.

- Has the alien communicated? - No. Please. Please.

to be almost identical to that which Starfleet uses.

I thought you shouldn't have to put up with

Very good, commander.

Still no response, sir. We've done everything but threaten them.