"Clues" Line-By-Line

[Kertrats47]

DATA: You have returned.

 

[Iamnotspock]

TROI: Your ship is again in our space.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

DATA: I was unable to prevent it.

 

[Iamnotspock]

TROI: Nevertheless, you are here.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

DATA: The Enterprise is not a threat to you. Give me more time. Our destruction would only ...
(Geordi enters)

 

[Iamnotspock]

LAFORGE: Data, Captain wanted me to bring you to the Bridge. Counsellor...

 

[JanewayRulz!]

DATA: One moment, if you would.

(Geordi leaves)

DATA: Do nothing. It may yet be possible to salvage the situation.

[Bridge]

DATA: Reporting as ordered, Captain.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Well, Data, as you can see, we're back where it all started.

 

[Iamnotspock]

DATA: We must leave immediately, sir.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Why?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

DATA: Any further delay would put us all at grave risk.

 

[Iamnotspock]

PICARD: Why? What is the source of that risk? The energy field?

 

[May 20]

DATA: I cannot say.

 

[Iamnotspock]

PICARD: Data, you sound as if you're stuck in a feedback loop. You certainly can say. You have free will, you have a choice.

 

[May 20]

DATA: My silence is not by choice, sir.

 

[Kertrats47]

PICARD: "Not by choice"? Are you somehow being controlled by that force? Did Geordi miss something when he examined you?

 

[May 20]

DATA: Geordi's examination was exemplary.

 

[Kertrats47]

PICARD: Then why are you compelled to disobey my orders? How? During the missing day, were you contacted by Starfleet? Did they order you to conceal the truth from us?

 

[Iamnotspock]

DATA: I cannot answer that. We must leave, sir.

 

[Kertrats47]

PICARD: This ship isn't going anywhere, not until I get an answer. Now, who gave you that order?