"Cause and Effect" Line-by-Line!

[Vanyel]

Crusher: I’m fine.

 

[LeadHead]

Observation lounge

Data: I have isolated 3 segments of the recording to be crucial.

 

[Vanyel]

Recording playback.
Worf: …a highly localized distortion in the space time continuum.

 

[LeadHead]

Data: (recording) Collision course, impact in 36 seconds.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: (recording) All hands abandon ship! Repeat, all hands aband….

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: Worf refers to a distortion. If this were a temporal distortion and if we were close enough to it, it's possible that a large enough explosion might've ruptured the space time continiuum. We collided, exploded then got caught in this repeating loop of time.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: If you’re right about this perhaps we can escape from the loop by avoiding the collision.

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: That's our guess.

 

[Vanyel]

Worf: Perhaps we should reverse course.

 

[LeadHead]

Riker: For all we know, reversing course may be what leads us into the crash.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: We can’t afford to start second guessing ourselves. We’ll stay on this course until we have reason to change it. But in the mean time I think we should do what we can to avoid a collision.

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: Captain, we've been seeing the number 3 all over the ship. On consoles, in a poker game.

 

[Vanyel]

Data: To date we have encountered 2,085 (a multiple of 3) conspicuous examples of the number 3.

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: Al these 3's can't be popping up by accident.

 

[Vanyel]

Crusher: Maybe someone’s trying to tell us something?

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: We came to the same conclusion so we ran a shipwide diagnostic. The only unusual thing we found was a dekyon field modulation in Data's positronic sub processors.

 

[Vanyel]

Riker: What could be causing it?

 

[Enterprise1981]

LAFORGE: I don't know, but if I wanted to send information from one loop to the next I might use a method like a dekyon emission.

 

[LeadHead]

Troi: You think we sent ourselves a message?

 

[Vanyel]

LaForge: It would make sense. Maybe we are trying to tell ourselves something.