"Contagion" Line-by-Line

[Leandar]

Worf: Phasers locked.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Fire!

Enterprise fires phasers, blowing up the probe easily.

Welcome to the bridge Mister La Forge.

 

[Leandar]

Geordi: Thank you, sir. If that thing had managed to scan us, we never would have had any chance of saving the Enterprise.

(Act Three - Observation lounge)

Geordi: That probe was a transmitter sending an alien computer program. The same program that is currently aboard the Enterprise trying to rewrite our software in its own image. We have two completely incompatible computer systems trying to interact.

 

[LeadHead]

Riker: So that's why the ships instruments have become so erratic.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

LAFORGE: Yes.

 

[Leandar]

Picard: What can you do?

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: Not very much. The Iconian Program is so sophisticated, I may never understand it.

 

[Leandar]

Data: Consider, Captain, this program has entered an alien database, ours, and in less than seven hours has managed to not only learn our systems, but has begun to reprogram our computer.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: So the earlier probe was responsible for the Yamato's destruction?

 

[Leandar]

Geordi: Yes, but only in as much that it was the probe that transmitted the program.

 

[LeadHead]

Riker: But we weren't scanned by that probe. How did this thing get aboard the Enterprise?

 

[Enterprise1981]

DATA: We downloaded the Yamato log, and contained in the log was the program.

 

[Leandar]

Picard: Why didn't we suffer the same fate?

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: The program affected all of the Yamato's systems simultaneously. But with us, it was deposited within a specific section of our mainframe, so it's having to work its way out of that location. That gives us a little breathing space.

 

[Leandar]

Riker: Not much. The injury reports are increasing too, sir.

 

[CoveTom]

DATA: Dr. Pulaski is unwilling to trust the turbolifts. She is sending medical teams through the access tunnels.

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: Captain, the Enterprise computer system is a lot like our own bodies, with voluntary and involuntary systems. Now probably 90% of what happens on this ship is done automatically. Completely out of our control. We're sitting on a bomb that could go off... any second. Or maybe never.

 

[Leandar]

(As Picard takes this in, in sickbay, Dr. Pulaski is chewing out a poor medic over the ship's condition)

Pulaski: The biobeds aren't working? The ship is falling apart! I've had thirty-five emergency calls scattered across twelve decks. My trauma teams are being run ragged trying to respond. Biobeds!

 

[JanewayRulz!]

MEDIC: Doctor Pulaski.

 

[LeadHead]

Pulaski: Yes.