"Eye of the Needle" Line-by-Line

[LeadHead]

Janeway: We still have to find out if it goes anywhere near the Alpha Quadrant. Can you trace it's subspace bearing?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KIM: I can't get any directional readings at all. The aperture is too small.

 

[LeadHead]

Tuvok: I recommend we launch a microprobe into the wormhole.

 

[Orac]

Janeway: Agreed. Do it, Lieutenant.

 

[Athena28]

TUVOK: Aye, Captain.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

(Whoosh sound.)

KIM: We're receiving telemetry.

(The viewscreen shows a green tunnel.)

 

[Athena28]

PARIS: It doesn't look like any wormhole I've ever studied.

 

[Enterprise1981]

KIM: Microscopic gravitational eddies, extremely constricted spatial dimensions. The pathway's barely wider than the probe itself.

 

[LeadHead]

Janeway: I think what we're seeing is a wormhole in an advanced state of decay. Must be ancient. Probably been collapsing for centuries.

 

[Enterprise1981]

PARIS: Does that mean we can't send a message through it?

 

[Orac]

Kim: No, I can do it. Maybe it'll take longer to get through, but the wormhole's still stable enough to carry a transmission.

 

[Athena28]

CHAKOTAY: Any idea yet where that message would end up, Ensign?

 

[Orac]

Kim: I'll try extrapolating the verteron exit vector. No, I can't get it. There's a strange phase variance in the radiation stream. We'll have to wait until the probe exits.

 

[Enterprise1981]

JANEWAY: That shouldn't take long.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

PARIS: Captain, I'm getting a distorted energy reading.

 

[Orac]

Tuvok: The probe's telemetry has changed.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

KIM: It's stuck.

 

[Enterprise1981]

JANEWAY: Stuck?

 

[Orac]

Kim: It's mired in a gravitational eddy, and because the wormhole's in a state of collapse, those eddies are incredibly dense. That probe will never break free, Captain, and we'll have no way of finding out where the wormhole ends.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

JANEWAY: Let's give it some time. Maybe it will work itself loose