"All Good Things..." Line-by-Line

[Vanyel]

Picard: Home?

 

[Leandar]

Q: Don't you recognize your old stomping grounds? This is Earth, France, about, oh, three and a half billion years ago, give or take an eon or two. Smells awful, doesn't it? All that sulphur and volcanic ash. I really must speak to the maid.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard; Q is there any point to all this?

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Look. (Q looks up at the sky.)

 

[LeadHead]

Picard sees the anomaly in the sky

Picard: So the anomaly is here too, at Earth.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: At this point in history, the anomaly fills your entire quadrant of the galaxy.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: The further back in time, the larger the anomaly.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Come here. There’s something I want to show you. You see this? This is you. I’m serious. Right here life is about to form on this planet for the very first time. A group of amino acids are about to combine to form the first protein. The building blocks..haha..of what you call life. Strange isn’t it? Everything you know, your entire civilization it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn’t it? Too bad you didn’t bring your microscope it’s really quite fascinating. Oh, Look! There they go. The amino acids are moving closer, and closer, and closer. Aww, nothing happened. See what you’ve done?

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Are you saying that I caused the anomaly, and that the anomaly somehow disrupted the beginnings of life on Earth?

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Congratulations.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard, Data and O'Brien enter Engineering in the past

Picard: Lets concentrate on how this anomaly was initially formed. Speculation?

 

[Vanyel]

Data: Our tachyon pulse has been unable to completely penetrate the anomaly. If we had information on the center of the phenomenon we might have a basis for speculation.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Is there any way we can scan the interior?

 

[Leandar]

O'Brien: I've tried everything I know. There's just too much interference. There's nothing on board that'll do the job.

 

[Vanyel]

O’Brien: I’ve tried everything I know. There’s just too much interference. There’s nothing on board that’ll do the job.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Do you know what could?

 

[Vanyel]

Data: in theory, a tomographic imaging scanner capable of multiphasic resolution would be able to penetrate this much interference. The Daystrom Institute has been working on such a device but it is still only theoretical.

 

[LeadHead]

The Present

Picard: Data, do we have a Tomographic Imaging Scanner onboard?

 

[Vanyel]

Data: Yes, sir.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Can you use it to scan the interior of the anomaly?