I'll solve this mystery on the double;
T'was Wesley's static warping bubble
That opened without any trouble,
And gobbled up Pulaski.
TRAVELLER: (phasing in) It's not over, Wesley. There's still a way.
Captain's log, stardate 43162.5. The Traveller, a mysterious visitor from our past, has reappeared. It seems he knew about our static warp bubble experiment that swallowed dr. Pulaski, without being told.
[Observation lounge]
PICARD: Is she alive?
TRAVELLER: As long as she thinks she is alive, she is alive.
RIKER: What the hell does that mean?
TRAVELLER: Your species have very narrow perceptions of time and space and thought. When she was caught in the static warp bubble, she created her own reality. Her thoughts at the precise moment she was trapped determined its shape and form.
TROI: Can you go in and get her back?
TRAVELLER: No, it is her reality. I cannot enter it any more than I can enter her thoughts.
WESLEY: But you said there's still a way.
TRAVELLER: I can help, but I can't do it myself. Wesley, there is a power within each of us that most people haven't begun to realise, but you have begun, or else I would not have known to come here now. Together we may be able to open a gateway for her. But she must choose to walk through it.
WESLEY: Nah, never mind. Sounds like a lot of effort. This woman replaced my mother for no good reason in the first place, and she never fitted in with the rest of us, criticizing Data and not kissing the Captain's butt like we all do anyway. I say we leave her there. Good riddance.
<everybody in the lounge slowly nods>
<TRAVELLER LOOKS AROUND> Well, if that's how you think about it .... <phases out>
<credits, music. Next episode features Beverley as if nothing happened>
