"Contagion" Line-by-Line

[Enterprise1981]

VARLEY [on viewscreen]: None. They are affecting every system simultaneously. It's like the ship has suddenly decided to fall apart. It's beginning to make me think we should have run these Galaxy Class ships across a few more drawing boards before we built one.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: You believe it's a deign flaw?

 

[Enterprise1981]

VARLEY [on viewscreen]: I don't know. I'm grasping at straws here. All I know is we've got to get it fixed, and before I lose more than an engineering team.

 

[LeadHead]

Riker: Do you wish to evacuate any non-essential personnel to the Enterprise Sir?

 

[Leandar]

Varley: No. No, that would be premature.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Donald, we'll get our teams working on it immediately. I'm sure neither of us feels too comfortable sitting around in the Neutral Zone.

 

[Leandar]

Varley: I know what you're thinking, what the hell am I doing here? Well, I had heard rumors about a couple of archaeological digs that started making the Iconians sound a lot less like legend. I did a little investigating, and I located their homeworld.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: In the Neutral Zone?

 

[Leandar]

Varley: In the Neutral Zone.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Donald, that was quite a risk to run to satisfy archeological curiosity.

 

[Leandar]

Varley: The risk would be in allowing the Romulans to locate Iconia. (signal breaks up then stabilizes) Fortunately, I got there first. It's a virtually dead planet, but enough technology remains to give the Romulans an edge if they should find it. (The picture starts to break up again)

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Donald, your signal is breaking up. Mister Data, try and clean that up.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: Sir, there is an energy buildup in the Yamato's engineering section.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Yamato, this is the Enterprise. Yamato, come in.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: Captain, magnetic seals on the antimatter chamber are decaying!

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Captain! Donald, Come in!

The frozen static image of Captain Varley cuts out and the viewscreen shows the Yamato's Engineering Section explode.

Shields up.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: Sir!

(A piece of the Yamato hits the Enterprise as the Yamato saucer glides by as it burns up)

 

[LeadHead]

Data: Sensors indicate... no life readings Sir.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: Captain. Another vessel is coming within sensor range. It is Romulan.

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.

 

[LeadHead]

"Contagion"

Captains Log, supplemental. The Yamato's entire crew and their families, more than a thousand people, have been lost. Circumstances unfortunately permit us no pause for grief.