"Eye of the Needle" Line-by-Line

[Athena28]

KIM: No response, Captain.

 

[Orac]

Chakotay: Why would he have broken off transmission?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

TUVOK: Perhaps I can offer an explanation. The comm link signature of his transmission indicates the message originated from a Romulan ship. Further, there are no known shipping lanes in the sector he identified. Given the precise calibration of his signal I would suggest that he is in fact on board a science vessel.

 

[Orac]

Paris: Why would he pretend to be a cargo captain?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

CHAKOTAY: If he's engaged in some kind of secret research he might want to conceal that fact.

 

[Orac]

Tuvok: Precisely. When we claimed to be transmitting from the Delta quadrant, an impossibility so far as he knows, he may have feared we were Federation spies.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

TORRES: Just our luck. We raise one ship from the Alpha quadrant and it has to be Romulan.

 

[Orac]

Janeway: That Romulan still has the ability to get a message to Starfleet. Mister Kim, hail the Talvath repeatedly. Call me the minute you re-establish contact. Commander, you have the bridge.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

CHAKOTAY: Aye, Captain.

 

[Orac]

[Doctor's office]

(Janeway enters Sickbay. The place is deserted.)

Janeway: Computer, initiate Emergency Medical Holographic Programme.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

EMH: Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

 

[Orac]

Janeway: There is no emergency, Doctor.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

[Sickbay]


EMH: Well, that's good. I was right in the middle of preparing a culture to test Lieutenant Hargrove for Arethian flu when Ensign Kyoto deactivated me.

 

[LeadHead]

Janeway: I'm sure she didn't realize you were busy.

 

[Orac]

EMH: What is it you want, Captain.

 

[LeadHead]

Janeway: Actually, I thought we might just talk for a moment.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

EMH: About what?

 

[LeadHead]

Janeway: Doctor, you were originally programmed to serve in a limited fashion during an emergency. Now you're being asked to do much more.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

EMH: That's certainly true. I'm providing full time medical service for the entire ship's crew, functioning both as doctor and nurse, and now as an instructor as well.

 

[LeadHead]

Janeway: You don't have the luxury of thinking of yourself as an Emergency Medical Program anymore. You've become a full-fledged member of the crew.