"Pathfinder" Line-By-Line

[mattman8907]

HARKINS: You have finished them, haven't you?

 

[retroenzo]

BARCLAY: Er, almost.

 

[Athena28]

HARKINS: Almost isn't good enough. We've got Admiral Paris first thing in the morning.

 

[cosmic mouse]

BARCLAY: Admiral Paris.

 

[mattman8907]

HARKINS: Don't tell me you forgot.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

BARCLAY: Oh, no, of, of, of course not. I, I, I just got the days mixed up.

 

[Athena28]

HARKINS: Reg.

 

[mattman8907]

BARCLAY: Computer, end programme. Now that I think about it, it's a good thing that Admiral Paris is coming tomorrow. We can brief the Admiral on my theory.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

[Pathfinder lab]

HARKINS: What theory?

 

[Athena28]

BARCLAY: I've been going over the interstellar phenomena forecasts from Deep Space Nine. They are predicting er, a class B itinerant pulsar will pass within 4000000000 kilometers of the MIDAS array in 3 days.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

HARKINS: You think the pulsar might damage the array?

 

[Athena28]

BARCLAY: No, no. The shields will hold. Actually I was thinking, we could use the pulsar to our own advantage.

 

[mattman8907]

HARKINS: How?

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

BARCLAY: Suppose, suppose we instructed the array to direct a tachyon beam at the pulsar. Theoretically, we could produce a gravimetric surge powerful enough to create an artificial wormhole. We could establish two way communication with Voyager.

 

[mattman8907]

HARKINS: Reg, you're dreaming again.

 

[retroenzo]

BARCLAY: No, no, I really think this could work. Based on my simulations that...

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

HARKINS: Based on your last series of simulations, we wasted six months trying to develop that transwarp probe.

 

[Athena28]

BARCLAY: This, this is different. This...

 

[cosmic mouse]

HARKINS: Reg, I really appreciate your imagination. It's what makes you such a valuable part of this team. But I'm not about to tell the Admiral that we've found a way for him to chat with his son because of some cock-eyed theory that only exists up here. Now please, finish those diagnostics.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

BARCLAY: Yes, sir.