"Emissary" Line by Line

[Alienesse]

KIRA: What the hell is happening out there?

 

[BlueStuff]

O'BRIEN: I don't know. They're just gone.

 

[Alienesse]

[Runabout Rio Grande]

SISKO: Are your navigational readings going crazy?

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: I'll recalibrate when I have a moment.

 

[Alienesse]

Hi, Blue!

SISKO: Take your time.
(The runabout comes out into normal space)
SISKO: Can you get a fix on our coordinates?

 

[BlueStuff]

Hey, Alienesse! We haven't shared a line-by-line shift in a few days!

DAX: There is a star just under five light years away. No M-class planets Computer, identify closest star system.

 

[Alienesse]

Yup, I'd sure missed it!

COMPUTER: Idran, a ternary system consisting of twin O-type companions.

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: Idran? That can't be right.

 

[Alienesse]

DAX: Computer, basis of identification.

 

[BlueStuff]

COMPUTER: Idran is based on the analysis conducted in the twenty-second century by the Quadros-One probe of the Gamma Quadrant.

 

[Alienesse]

SISKO: The Gamma Quadrant? Seventy thousand light years from Bajor? I'd say we just found our way into a wormhole.

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: It's not like any wormhole I've ever seen. There were none of the usual resonance waves.

 

[Alienesse]

SISKO: Could this be how the Orbs found their way into the Bajoran system?

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: Not an unreasonable hypothesis.

 

[Alienesse]

SISKO: If it's true, that would mean that this has been here for ten thousand years. Dax, we might have just discovered the first stable wormhole known to exist. Bring us about, Lieutenant.
(The wormhole reappears on demand)

 

[BlueStuff]

(pah, I've been saddled with the Dax lines)

DAX: I'm modifying the flight programme to compensate for the spatial discontinuities. We should have a smoother ride this time.

 

[Alienesse]

(We can switch, if you want. Just put in Sisko's line too next, and I'll take over for Dax. Hoping no one will notice and ban us both. )

SISKO: Did you reduce impulse power?

 

[BlueStuff]

(That's a risk I'm not willing to take! It seems you can be banned for the most minor things here. )

DAX: No. Why?

 

[Alienesse]

(OK, probably best to stay safe)

SISKO: We're losing velocity.

 

[BlueStuff]

DAX: Forward velocity down to eighty KPH.