Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

[PEOPLE LAUGHlNG]

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

I wanna see exactly what's happening.

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

In the year 2036, the New United Nations declared that

To the bitter end?

We have no ship control, sir.

Results of detaching saucer section at high-warp velocity.

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

- Thank you, lieutenant. - Aye, sir

who could demonstrate your techniques.

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

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

We are not interested in building other facilities.

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

[ALL MURMURlNG]

Make phasers and photon torpedoes ready.

Likewise, counselor.

None of you knows who transported him.

Hardly. Your service record shows

True, they are not actual allies, but--

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

I thought you shouldn't have to put up with

Then your rank of lieutenant commander is honorary?

Fight or try to escape.

Sounds like a fairly dull place.

- we have a chance-- - Lieutenant.

for the construction materials used here.

to be almost identical to that which Starfleet uses.

Wasted effort, considering human intelligence.

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

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

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

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

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

PICARD: Captain's log, stardate 41 174.2.

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

Humanity is no longer a savage race.

where will you go from there?

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

but on the Bandi and their city.

Agreed, Groppler?

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

All language forms and frequencies.

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

You requested this posting?

- Construction records? - Construction records shows this

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

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

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

And later, on finally reaching deep space,

PICARD: Go to maneuvering jets.

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

[ALL GRUMBLING]

[CROWD FALLS SlLENCE]

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

[COMPUTER BEEPlNG]

Yes, even though you're judge and prosecutor.

Farpoint Station. Even the name sounds mysterious.

we must proceed in our own way.

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

For you to work with a commanding officer

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

Then welcome aboard, doctor.

We will, l promise you.

The panel on your right is for log entries,

Have the two of you met before?

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

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

Very good, commander.