Q: Why? Why to give you a taste of your future a preview of things to come. Con permiso, Capitan. The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It’s now time to see if you can dance.
Captains Log: Stardate 42761.9 Despite Guinan's warning, I fell compelled to investigate this unexplored sector of space before turning back.
DATA: There is a system of roads on this planet, which indicates a highly industrialised civilisation. But where there should be cities there are only great rips in the surface.
Worf: It is as though some great force just scooped all the machine elements off the face of the planet.