"Parallels" Line-by-Line

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

[Engineering]

Data: I am initiating a subspace scan to search for temporal anomalies on or off the ship.

 

[Leandar]

Ogawa (on intercom): Counselor Troi, please report to Sickbay.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Troi: I'm on my way. Let me know if you find anything.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: Commander, how long have I been married to Counselor Troi?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Data: (with blue eyes) Two years, one month and twelve days.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: And when did this relationship begin?

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Data: It is my understanding your romantic affiliation began shortly after you recovered from your spinal injury on stardate 45587. It was six months later that you asked Commander Riker for his formal permission to court Counsellor Troi. You felt to do otherwise would be dishonourable.

 

[Leandar]

Worf: And then we mated.

 

[Ghost of Christmas Future]

Data: I am not privy to the exact details of when, where or how your first coupling took place. I could investigate it.

 

[BlueStuff]

WORF: No, that is all right.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: I am detecting no temporal anomalies in this system. Perhaps we should try to pinpoint the exact moment when events became discontinuous. Do you remember the first change?

 

[BlueStuff]

WORF: I was in Sickbay. Doctor Crusher told me I had a concussion but I do not remember that happening.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: Think back. Are you sure that was the very first change?

 

[BlueStuff]

WORF: Before. Yes. Yes, I was in Engineering. I felt a wave of dizziness and when I looked up, you and Commander La Forge were on the opposite side of the room. Captain Picard was gone. I thought I had blacked out for a moment and had not observed your movements. And at my birthday party, the cake was chocolate and then it was yellow. And Commander Riker told me Captain Picard was not going to attend, and then suddenly he was there.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: We should try to find the commonalities in these events. Where were the people you were with?

 

[BlueStuff]

WORF: Everyone was at my birthday party. Then I was with Counsellor Troi, then Commander La Forge came in. Geordi. Geordi was present at all three locations. And he was near me in each case just before I noticed the differences. There has to be a connection.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: It is possible. We should speak to Commander La Forge.

[Sickbay]

DATA: Doctor, is Geordi well enough to answer some questions?

 

[BlueStuff]

OGAWA: (the Doctor) Geordi's dead.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: There do not appear to be any unusual readings. Energy residuals from the plasma burns, the beginnings of cellular decomposition. I see nothing that connects these bio-readings to your recent sense of discontinuity.

 

[BlueStuff]

OGAWA: What about his visor?