Game "Darmok" TNG Line-by-line.

[May 20]

RIKER: That's not good enough. We need to knock out the scattering field in one shot and have the Captain back on the Enterprise before they know what happened.

 

[Orac]

Geordi: If we selectively target the amplification pathways around the generator, it should be just as effective. And we can do it in one burst.

 

[May 20]

RIKER: How long will it take to set up?

 

[mattman8907]

LAFORGE: Worf and I would have to adjust the pre-fire chamber. That'll give us the focus we need. A few hours?

 

[May 20]

RIKER: Make it so.
(Geordi and Worf leave.)
RIKER: I would prefer to find a peaceful solution. If we could talk our way out of this one, that much the better.

 

[mattman8907]

TROI: Unfortunately, it may not be that simple.

 

[Orac]

Number 1: What did you find out?

 

[mattman8907]

DATA: The Tamarian ego structure does not seem to allow what we normally think of as self-identity. Their ability to abstract is highly unusual. They seem to communicate through narrative imagery by reference to the individuals and places which appear in their mytho-historical accounts.

 

[Orac]

Troi: It's as if I were to say to you; Juliet on her balcony.

 

[retroenzo]

CRUSHER: An image of romance.

 

[May 20]

TROI: Exactly. Imagery is everything to the Tamarians. It embodies their emotional states, their very thought processes. It's how they communicate, and it's how they think.

 

[mattman8907]

RIKER: If we know how they think, shouldn't we be able to get something across to them?

 

[Orac]

Data: No, sir. The situation is analogous to understanding the grammar of a language but none of the vocabulary.

 

[retroenzo]

CRUSHER: If I didn't know who Juliet was or what she was doing on that balcony, the image alone wouldn't have any meaning.

 

[Orac]

Troi: That's correct. For instance, we know that Darmok was a great hero, a hunter, and that Tanagra was an island, but that's it. Without the details, there's no understanding.

 

[May 20]

DATA: It is necessary for us to learn the narrative from which the Tamarians drawing their imagery. Given our current relations, that does not appear likely.

 

[Brennyren]

[Planet surface]

(Night has fallen, a fire is lit, and Dathon is lying down.)
DATHON: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Our situation is similar to theirs. I understand that. But I need to know more. You must tell me more about Darmok and Jalad. Tell me. You used the words, 'Temba, his arms wide' when you gave me the knife and the fire. Could that mean give? Temba, his arms wide. Darmok. Give me more about Darmok.

 

[Brennyren]

DATHON: Darmok on the ocean.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Darmok. (draws on the soil) The ocean. Darmok on the ocean. A metaphor? For being alone? Isolated? Darmok on the ocean.
(Dathon writhes in pain.)
PICARD: Are you all right?