"Emissary" Line by Line

KIRA: Yellow alert. Secure Ops. Beam it aboard, Mister O'Brien, but put it in a level one security field.

 

O'BRIEN: Aye, sir. Locking on.
(The orb is beamed in. That disappears to reveal Dax.)

 

[Limbo]

(Meanwhile, Sisko is in a white nowhere listening to a heartbeat and seeing flashes from his past:
Jennifer on the beach.
A baseball landing in a catcher's mitt.
Kai Opaka.
Locutus on a viewscreen.

SISKO: Who are you?

(Jennifer and Sisko kissing.
A newborn baby.
Jake fishing.
Doran on the Saratoga.)

SISKO: Who are you?

 

[Beach]

JENNIFER: It is corporeal. A physical entity.

 

SISKO: What? What did you say?


(Gotta run. A pleasure, as always! )

 

[Observation lounge]

PICARD: It is responding to visual and auditory stimuli. Linguistic communication.

(Same here, catch you later. )

 

SISKO: Yes, linguistic communication. Are you capable of communicating with me?

 

[Bajor Monastery]

OPAKA: What are you?

 

Sisko: My species is known as human. I come from a planet called Earth.

The station's computers are Cardassian, not Federation. Cardassian computers suck, simplest explanation.

 

JAKE ALIEN: Earth?

 

Sisko: This is what my planet looks like. (They're at the fishing pond from Jake's holoprogram) You and I are very different species. It will take time for us to understand one another.

 

JAKE ALIEN: Time. What is this? Time...

 

First Officer's log, stardate 46392.7. We're preparing to launch a rescue mission to find Commander Sisko, but first our navigational sensors must be recalibrated to work under the conditions reported by Lieutenant Dax.

 

[Ops]

DAX: It is no ordinary wormhole. My analysis suggests that it isn't even a natural phenomenon.

 

BASHIR: Not natural? You mean it was constructed?

 

DAX: It's very possible whoever made the Orbs also created this wormhole.

 

O'Brien: The Cardassians are leaving their position on a course toward the Denorios Belt.

 

KIRA: Mister O'Brien, what would it take to move this station to the mouth of the wormhole?

 

O'BRIEN: This isn't a starship, Major. We've got six working thrusters to power us and that's it. A hundred sixty million kilometre trip would take two months.

 

KIRA: It has to be there tomorrow.

(Hey, there!)