LAFORGE: What's that one?
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[Bridge]
WORF: Captain, phasers are set for wide dispersal, ten percent maximum power. The beam will automatically terminate once the comet's core is reached.
WORF: Captain, phasers are set for wide dispersal, ten percent maximum power. The beam will automatically terminate once the comet's core is reached.
Picard: Very well, mr. Worf. Fire.
WORF: Phasers have terminated...
And now we see a curiously elegant alien construction, several times the size of the Enterprise.
And now we see a curiously elegant alien construction, several times the size of the Enterprise.
DATA: I do not know, sir. The object is nearly solid. It is composed primarily of fortanium and several unknown materials. It is over eighty seven million years old.
RIKER: That's older than the comet itself. Could someone from the D'Arsay system have built it?
PICARD: There are no technologically advanced cultures in that system now. But perhaps eighty seven million years ago, there were.
RIKER: Why would they hide something like that inside a comet?
PICARD: Possibly it accumulated those frozen gasses over time as it travelled through space.
LAFORGE: In any case, it's definitely responsible for the system anomalies we've been experiencing. They're using our sensor beam as a carrier wave to transmit information into our computers and replicators.
DATA: Captain, I believe this object is an informational archive.
LAFORGE: Data, the internal structure of that thing is pretty complex, and it's got a repetitive node configuration which might suggest a database of some kind, but it could be practically anything. I don't see how you could know for sure what it is.
DATA: It is a possibility, sir. I recommend we run a level-one diagnostic of my positronic net to determine if that is the case.
PICARD: Very well. Mister LaForge, give him a hand.
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