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"Emissary" Line by Line

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

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

(Same here, catch you later. :techman:)
 
Sisko: My species is known as human. I come from a planet called Earth.

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.

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