"Time's Arrow" Line-by-Line

Picard: Cheat fate? Perhaps we can't, Mister Data. But at least we can give it a try.

 

[Devidia cavern]

(a strong light source casts the away teams shadows on a sheer rock wall)

La Forge: The concentration of triolic waves falls off about here. It increases exponentially the closer in we go.

 

RIKER: What's the source? Something underground?

 

La Forge: Negative, Commander.

 

RIKER: What's the explanation?

 

La Forge: I don't have one yet. La Forge to Enterprise.

 

DATA [OC]: Go ahead.

 

La Forge: Data, run a spectral field correlation for me. Let's find out if these triolic readings are in any way related

 

[Bridge]

LAFORGE [OC]: To the temporal distortions.

 

Data: Acknowledged.

 

(Devidia cavern - moving to a natural amphitheater, with columns around supporting the roof)

Riker: Deanna?

 

Troi: There's life here. A child. An old woman. Dozens more. Hundreds. Terrified.

 

RIKER: Terrified?

 

Troi: My God, Will. They're human.

 

[Bridge]

RIKER (over comm): Whatever they are, Troi's convinced they're human. They may be trapped somehow. We're not sure.

 

Data: Captain, the results of my temporal analysis may be pertinent.

 

PICARD: Go ahead.

 

Data: Geordi, it indicates a synchronic distortion in the areas emanating

[Devidia cavern]

Data [OC]: Triolic waves.

 

LAFORGE: That explains a few things. How much, Data?

 

Data [OC]: A positive displacement of point zero zero four percent.