Gambit Line-By-Line

[May 20]

DATA: Aye, sir. Commander, as Acting First Officer, I must question your decision to accompany the away team. If Captain Picard were here....

 

[Orac]

Number 1: He's not.

 

[May 20]

DATA: I realize that, sir. But if he were, and he wanted to lead an away team, you would tell him that the Captain's place is....

 

[LeadHead]

Riker: “... is on the bridge.” Not this time.

Riker leaves.

Later, on the planet...

Riker: Ensign, you take that area.

 

[sekundant]

ENSIGN: Yes, sir.

 

[May 20]

RIKER: Geordi?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

[When a security guard's name is "Ensign," and he's on an away team, I fear he is not long for this episode... Is his uniform red by any chance? ]


LAFORGE: It's tough to get accurate sensor readings. There's an awful lot of interference in the area.

 

[sekundant]

RIKER: From what?

 

[Athena28]

LAFORGE: I'm not sure. It's very unlocalised. It could be atmospheric.

 

[May 20]

RIKER: What do you make of these?
(charred pits in the ground)

 

[sekundant]

LAFORGE: Well, these ruins around here are pretty ancient but I'd say that this indentation was made fairly recently. Could be the site of some battlefield.

 

[May 20]

RIKER: It doesn't look like any blast point I've ever seen. The shape is too perfect.

 

[Orac]

Geordi: Sir, there's microcrystalline damage all throughout this area. The same kind of pattern that Doctor Crusher picked up in the floor of that bar on Dessica 2.

 

[May 20]

WORF: Commander! I found something.
(a pottery urn and other things in the sand)

 

[sekundant]

RIKER: Looks as if someone could have just dropped them.

 

[LeadHead]

Unnamed Ensign is shot by energy weapons, Riker, La Forge and Worf scatter for cover, trading shots with their attackers.

La Forge: La Forge to Enterprise, we are under attack down here.

Enterprise Bridge.

La Forge: (over comm) I repeat, we are under attack-

Comm signal cuts out.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

[Farewell, Ensign... er... whatever your name was... we hardly knew ye. Plenty of your mates to welcome you in the Redshirt Great Beyond. ]


GIUSTI: Commander, we've lost contact with the away team.

 

[May 20]

DATA: Is there a malfunction?

 

[sekundant]

GIUSTI: No, sir. The comm. system is being jammed.

 

[May 20]

DATA: What is the source?