"I, Borg" Line-bye-Line

[Orac]

Hugh: When you sleep, there are no other voices in your mind?

 

[Enterprise1981]

LAFORGE: No.

 

[Vanyel]

Hugh: Are you ever…lonely?

 

[Enterprise1981]

LAFORGE: Sometimes. But that's why we have friends.

 

[LeadHead]

Hugh: Friends?

 

[Vanyel]

Geordi: Sure. Someone you can talk to who’ll be with you when you’re lonely. Someone…Someone who’ll make you feel better.

 

[Orac]

Hugh: Like Geordi and Hugh.

 

[Vanyel]

CONFRENCE ROOM:
Geordi and Data are giving their report to Picard.
Geordi: That’s it, Captain.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: It looks harmless enough.

 

[Vanyel]

Geordi: Well, we had to disguise it as something innocuous. The Borg have ways of screening out program anomalies.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: How can a geometric form disable a computer system?

 

[Vanyel]

Data: The shape is a paradox, Sir. We used the “MC Escher Crazy Stairs”. Sorry
The shape is a paradox, Sir. It cannot exist in real time or space.

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: When Hugh's imaging apparatus imprints this on his bio chips, he'll try to analyze it.

 

[Vanyel]

Data: He will be unsuccessful. He will store the shape in his memory banks. It will be shunted to a subroutine for further analysis.

 

[Enterprise1981]

LAFORGE: Then when the Borg download his memory, it'll be incorporated it into their network, then they'll try to analyze it.

 

[LeadHead]

Data: It is designed so that each approach they take will spawn an anomalous solution. The anomalies are designed to interact with each other, linking together to form an endless and unsolvable puzzle.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: Quite original. How long before a total systems failure?

 

[LeadHead]

La Forge: Not until the shape has gone through several hundred computational cycles.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: When can you begin the process?

 

[Orac]

LaForge: About another twenty hours. Doctor Crusher wants to make sure the new implants have taken hold.