Gambit Line-By-Line

[Kertrats47]

PICARD: What?

 

[May 20]

TALLERA: You're no smuggler and I don't think your name's Galen. You will tell me who you really are and what you are doing on this ship or I will kill you right here.

 

[Orac]

Picard: What are you talking about?

 

[May 20]

TALLERA: I will not play games with you. I found the message you sent to the Enterprise. When Riker was using his command codes to drop their shields, you sent them a transmission on the same carrier wave. You're a Starfleet officer. Do not deny it. It is the only logical conclusion. My name is actually T'Paal, and I am a member of the V'Shar.

 

[sekundant]

PICARD: Vulcan Security?

 

[May 20]

TALLERA: That is correct. I infiltrated this ship a year ago posing as a Romulan mercenary. I'm here to investigate a possible threat to Vulcan.

 

[Kertrats47]

PICARD: What sort of threat?

 

[Orac]

Tallera: 1st things 1st, Galen. Who are you?

 

[sekundant]

PICARD: I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Enterprise.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TALLERA: Very well. To answer your question, for several years now, there has been a small but growing movement of extreme isolationists on Vulcan. A group that believes contact with alien races has polluted our culture and is destroying Vulcan purity. This group advocates the total isolation of Vulcan from the rest of the galaxy and the eradication of all alien influences from our planet.

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: That sounds like an illogical philosophy.

 

[sekundant]

TALLERA: Agreed. But extremists often have a logic all their own.

 

[May 20]

PICARD: Tell me, Tallera, what are these artifacts we've been collecting? I know that they are Vulcan in origin.

 

[Kertrats47]

TALLERA: I am sure you are familiar with the ancient history of my people. Before we found logic, before we found peace.

 

[sekundant]

PICARD: You were much as my people once were. Savage, warlike.

 

[May 20]

TALLERA: There was even a time when we used our telepathic abilities as a weapon. A time when we learned to kill with a thought.

 

[Kertrats47]

PICARD: The Stone of Gol!

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TALLERA: You know of it?

 

[sekundant]

PICARD: I know the story from Vulcan mythology.

 

[Athena28]

TALLERA: The Stone of Gol is real, but there is nothing supernatural or magical about it. It is a psionic resonator, a device which focuses and amplifies telepathic energy. It is one of the most devastating weapons ever conceived.