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"The Defector" Line-by-Line

Setal: Lieutenant Worf, I like him. To be more accurate, I understand him. A warrior, proud, fearless, living only for combat. Exactly the type that'll get us all killed if we're not careful.
 
[Guest quarters]

RIKER: This is the food station. You can reach me through the comm. panel. Later, we'd like to ask you a few more questions.
(Riker leaves)
 
SETAL: Any temperature at all on the cold side of whatever your system is.

(He takes a sip, has a quick look around, then sits on the bed and takes an orange disc from his boot)
 
PICARD: It is hard to believe in what one cannot see. And yet conceivably, with their cloaking technology, a fleet of Romulan warships could be passing before our eyes. There must be some way to neutralize this advantage.
 
Computer: Captain Picard, priority one message from Starfleet Command coming in on secured channel.
 
Computer: 2 hours, 22 minute delay from time of transmission at Starfleet Command on Lya 3.
 
[Ready room]

PICARD: Computer, key access four one two mark eight zero. Picard, Jean-Luc. Starfleet priority code Gamma. Decode. Begin message.
 
Admiral Haden: (on desktop viewer) Captain, we have received an official protest from the Romulan Empire demanding the return of your defector. Obviously, we are refusing to comply. I join you in your skepticism, but if it is a deception, the Romulans are certainly making a good show of it. The Federation Council has convened in Emergency Session. There is no doubt in my mind that this will eventually fall on your shoulders, Jean-Luc. You've got him. You must decide if he's telling the truth. For now, I suggest that you proceed along the Neutral Zone border, toward a Federation position proximate to Nelvana 3.
 
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