"Emissary" Line by Line

[Alienesse]

COMPUTER: Warning. Impulse system overload. Auto shutdown in twelve seconds.

(... and the problem is taking care of itself.)

 

[BlueStuff]

(Amen to that )

SISKO: Disengaging engines.

 

[Alienesse]

DAX: Velocity at twenty KPH. I'm picking up atmosphere.

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: Inside a wormhole?

 

[Alienesse]

DAX: Capable of supporting life. (thud) We've just landed.

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: On what?

 

[Alienesse]

[Outside the runabout]

(Sisko sees a vicious, rocky, lightning-ridden alien planet, but Dax sees they're in a beautiful garden.)
DAX: It's beautiful!

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: You have a strange eye for beauty, Dax.

 

[Lindley]

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

So the computer knows ahead of time that it will take two hours to compile a database of existing records, but can identify a navigation fix with zero a priori information in seconds flat?

The writers had some strange notions about 24th century computer capabilities.

 

[Alienesse]

DAX: You don't think this is one of the most idyllic settings you've ever seen?

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: We are standing on a rock face. Do you see the storm?

 

[Alienesse]

DAX: It's as clear as a summer's day.
(An orb is floating nearby)

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: You see it, too?

 

[Alienesse]

DAX: Yes. (gets out a tricorder) Low level ionic pattern. It's probing us.

 

[BlueStuff]

SISKO: Someone's idea of shaking hands, maybe. I am Commander Benjamin Sisko of the United Federation of Planets.
(They are both hit with green bolts and thrown back. Both scenes flicker then Dax disappears into the green.)
SISKO: Dax!
(The ground Sisko is lying on cracks up with bright light coming through and he disappears. The wormhole opens and an Orb flies out)

 

[Alienesse]

[Ops]
O'BRIEN: Another neutrino disruption.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRA: Scanners are picking up an object near their last known coordinates. It isn't a ship.

 

[Alienesse]

O'BRIEN: Major, there's something inside it, some kind of lifeform.

 

[BlueStuff]

KIRA: Are the Cardassian sensors picking it up?

 

[Alienesse]

O'BRIEN: They should be back online by now. We have to assume they know everything we know.