"Contagion" Line-by-Line
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(The coast becomes the Acropolis, or similar)
WORF: What is that?
WORF: What is that?
PICARD: A gateway?
(Data goes towards it)
PICARD: Be careful. (Data sticks his arm into the image. Picard pulls him back) Data! That was very foolish.
PICARD: Be careful. (Data sticks his arm into the image. Picard pulls him back) Data! That was very foolish.
WORF: If it is not illusion, this gate would seem to take us beyond the confines of this planet.
Picard: Is this how the Iconians traveled? Crossing light years as easily as we would cross a room? Those places could be on worlds in distant sectors of the galaxy. I think the Iconians might have out-foxed their enemies. Maybe they didn't all die in the bombardment. Some of them could have passed through this. This is what Varley feared. This is what he died for.
WORF: Sir?
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WORF: But the probe was hostile.
(I use both memory and the transcript site - it depends on the episode in question - I do a lot of TOS episodes and a few TNG by memory, I did most of the movies by memory, but on a few and the other series, I have to use transcripts)
Picard: We can't make that assumption. The effect on the Yamato was devastating, but what if it was by accident, not by design. What I'm going to say may sound unscientific, but standing on this soil, breathing in this air, my instincts tell me that we may have got them wrong.
Picard: We can't make that assumption. The effect on the Yamato was devastating, but what if it was by accident, not by design. What I'm going to say may sound unscientific, but standing on this soil, breathing in this air, my instincts tell me that we may have got them wrong.
WORF: But we do know that the Iconians were conquerors.
Picard: But that knowledge was passed down by the descendants of those who attacked this world. The victors invariably write the history to their own advantage. There is an unfortunate tendency in many cultures to fear what they do not understand. It's possible that their enemies, confronted with this technology, were driven to attack the Iconians out of fear.
Data: Captain, there is a vast underground power source which is controlled by this console. I believe my triggering of the gateway has caused a dramatic upsurge in the power level.
Data uses the console
Ah, I have access.
The Blue Sphere at the center of the console zaps Data with blue energy beams. Data falls backwards flat, Worf runs and catches him.
Data uses the console
Ah, I have access.
The Blue Sphere at the center of the console zaps Data with blue energy beams. Data falls backwards flat, Worf runs and catches him.
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