Game "Darmok" TNG Line-by-line.

[Catarina]

Each person takes a turn copy/pasting one line at a time from a transcript (or from your memory) from the episode listed in this title. You cannot do back to back posts. A person must go before you can go again.

If a character has a line back -to -back (example: switching scenes) you may post both lines.

Example:
[engineering] Janeway: Janeway, to bridge [oc]
[bridge]
Janeway's disembodied voice: Chakotay hail the ambassador.


Here is the link to the transcript to follow: http://chakoteya.net/NextGen/202.htm

 

[Catarina]

Captain's log, stardate 45047.2. The Enterprise is en route to the uninhabited El-Adrel system, its location is near the territory occupied by an enigmatic race known as The Children of Tama.

[Observation lounge]

PICARD: Apparently the Tamarians arrived at El-Adrel Four nearly three weeks ago. They have been transmitting a subspace signal towards Federation space ever since.

 

[May 20]

DATA: The signal is a standard mathematical progression. It does not carry a specific message.

 

[Orac]

Number 1: But they wanted us to know they were there.

 

[Brennyren]

PICARD: Apparently so, Number One. Starfleet believes that their presence is an attempt at communication. Commander.

 

[mattman8907]

DATA: Federation vessels have encountered Tamarian ships seven times over the past one hundred years. Each meeting went without incident, however formal relations were not established because communication was not possible.

 

[Brennyren]

RIKER: Why?

 

[retroenzo]

DATA: The Children of Tama were called incomprehensible by Captain Silvestri of the Shiku Maru. Other accounts were comparable.

 

[May 20]

WORF: A cause for concern. For all we know, they could be threatening our border.

 

[Athena28]

TROI: Everything in the previous encounters suggests a peaceable race. We have to start from there.

 

[Brennyren]

PICARD: Agreed. I appreciate your prudence, Mister Worf, but Starfleet believes that the Tamarians have extended a hand. We must do the same.

 

[May 20]

RIKER: The Children of Tama. I've heard rumours about them for years.

 

[mattman8907]

PICARD: Indeed. Are they truly incomprehensible? In my experience, communication is a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe these are qualities we have in sufficient measure.

 

[May 20]

[Bridge]

DATHON [on viewscreen]: Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossed roads at Lungha. Lungha, her sky grey. Rai and Jiri at Lungha.

 

[mattman8907]

PICARD: Counsellor?

 

[Brennyren]

TROI: I sense nothing but good intentions from them, Captain.

 

[mattman8907]

PICARD: Mister Data?

 

[May 20]

DATA: The Tamarian seems to be stating the proper names of individuals and locations.

 

[mattman8907]

PICARD: Yes, but what does it all mean?

 

[Orac]

Data: I am at a loss, sir.