"The Defector" Line-by-Line

Setal: Lieutenant Worf, I like him. To be more accurate, I understand him. A warrior, proud, fearless, living only for combat. Exactly the type that'll get us all killed if we're not careful.

 

[Guest quarters]

RIKER: This is the food station. You can reach me through the comm. panel. Later, we'd like to ask you a few more questions.
(Riker leaves)

 

SETAL: Computer, water.

 

COMPUTER: Temperature?

 

Setal: 12 Onkians.

 

COMPUTER: This system is calibrated to the Celsius metric system.

 

SETAL: Any temperature at all on the cold side of whatever your system is.

(He takes a sip, has a quick look around, then sits on the bed and takes an orange disc from his boot)

 

[Bridge]

DATA: There is no unusual activity in the Nelvana System, sir.

 

PICARD: Let's isolate and magnify that system.

 

DATA: Nothing on the sensors.

 

PICARD: It is hard to believe in what one cannot see. And yet conceivably, with their cloaking technology, a fleet of Romulan warships could be passing before our eyes. There must be some way to neutralize this advantage.

 

Computer: Captain Picard, priority one message from Starfleet Command coming in on secured channel.

 

PICARD: In my Ready room. Computer, delay time?

 

Computer: 2 hours, 22 minute delay from time of transmission at Starfleet Command on Lya 3.

 

[Ready room]

PICARD: Computer, key access four one two mark eight zero. Picard, Jean-Luc. Starfleet priority code Gamma. Decode. Begin message.

 

Admiral Haden: (on desktop viewer) Captain, we have received an official protest from the Romulan Empire demanding the return of your defector. Obviously, we are refusing to comply. I join you in your skepticism, but if it is a deception, the Romulans are certainly making a good show of it. The Federation Council has convened in Emergency Session. There is no doubt in my mind that this will eventually fall on your shoulders, Jean-Luc. You've got him. You must decide if he's telling the truth. For now, I suggest that you proceed along the Neutral Zone border, toward a Federation position proximate to Nelvana 3.

 

PICARD: Picard to Lieutenant Worf.

 

Worf: (over comm) Yes, Sir.

 

PICARD: Please come to my Ready room.

 

Worf: (over comm) Aye, Sir. On my way.