"The Inner Light" Line-by-Line

[Bridge]

CRUSHER: Something's happening.

 

DATA: The nucleonic beam has ceased, Commander. The probe has shut down.

 

CRUSHER: His cerebral functions are stabilizing.

 

RIKER: Mister Worf, put a tractor beam on that probe. I want it in shuttlebay two for examination.

 

Worf: Yes, Commander.

 

PICARD: What?

 

CRUSHER: Please, Captain, don't get up too quickly

 

Picard: Captain? This is the Enterprise. I'm Jean-Luc Picard. How long?

 

Number 1: 20, 25 minutes.

 

Picard: 25 minutes?!

 

CRUSHER: Captain, I want you in Sickbay. I'd like to run a full diagnostic on you.

 

Picard: Doctor Crusher.

Crusher and Riker help Picard to his feet. Crusher and Picard walk to the turbolift. When the doors open automatically, Picard looks back at the bridge, smiles then enters the tubolift with Crusher.

Later, Picard is in his quarters, surveying the room, examining his possessions. The door chime rings. Picard takes a moment to remember what that chime means.

Picard: Come.

Riker enters carrying a small box.

 

RIKER: Hello, sir. Feeling better?

 

PICARD: Yes. Yes, thank you. But I find I'm having to rediscover that this is really my home.

 

Riker: We were able to open the probe and examine it. Apparently whatever locked into your appears to have been self-terminating. It's no longer functional. We found this inside.

Riker hands Picard the box and leaves. Picard puts the box down on his desk and opens it. The Ressikan flute is inside, Picard takes it and holds it close, then walks to the viewport and starts playing the song he learned on Kataan.

 

And that's a wrap!!!

 

The participants in this thread are as follows:

1. LeadHead
2. Orac
3. mach7
4. Athena28
5. HarryM
6. Enterprise1981
7. leandar
8. KirkPicard
9. BlueStuff


And now, the Oscar goes to...

Athena28!

Ok, Athena28, the choice is now yours. Please select the next episode you would like to be our next Line-by-Line challenge. You may choose to not take a turn, in which case the die will be cast again.

For the record, a single episode or any episode or episodes connected by the words "To Be Continued" are eligible. Big arcs like the DS9 Occupation arc or the Xindi arc must be done as separate threads.

Once more, just for reference, here's the list of episodes we have already done.

The Original Series
Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Man Trap
The Menagerie
Journey to Babel
The City on the Edge of Forever
The Doomsday Machine
Requiem for Methuselah
The Trouble with Tribbles
Spock's Brain
Space Seed
Mirror, Mirror
The Tholian Web
Bread and Circuses
Amok Time
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
Tomorrow is Yesterday
The Squire of Gothos
The Changeling
Return to Tomorrow
That Which Survives
The Naked Time
Day of the Dove
The Devil in the Dark
I, Mudd
Arena

The Animated Series
The Counter-Clock Incident
Yesteryear

The Next Generation
Measure of a Man
Yesterday's Enterprise
Peak Performance
The First Duty
The Best of Both Worlds
Sins of the Father
All Good Things...
Contagion
Sarek
Face of the Enemy
Cause and Effect
Chain of Command
Q Who?
Lower Decks
Deja Q
The Enemy
Remember Me
Data's Day
The Defector
Parallels
Unification
Where No One Has Gone Before
The High Ground
Tapestry
Time's Arrow
Encounter at Farpoint
The Offspring
The Inner Light


Deep Space Nine
The Visitor
Trials and Tribble-ations
The Way of the Warrior
Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast
Favor The Bold/The Sacrifice of Angels
Far Beyond the Stars
The Homecoming/The Circle/The Siege
The Maquis
Whispers
In the Pale Moonlight
Emissary
Second Skin
Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang
The Search
In Purgatory's Shadow/By Infernos Light
Children of Time
What You Leave Behind
Tribunal
Homefront / Paradise Lost
Rocks and Shoals
For The Uniform

Voyager
Bride of Chaotica
Dark Frontier
Scorpion
Counterpoint
Future's End
Basics
Message in a Bottle
The Voyager Conspiracy
Body and Soul
Caretaker
Memorial
Equinox
Year of Hell
Shattered

Enterprise
Silent Enemy
Shuttlepod One
Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments
In a Mirror, Darkly
The Forge/Awakenings/Kir'Shara
Twilight
Breaking the Ice
Dead Stop
The Catwalk

And again, as was agreed to, if the random winner does not chime in with their selection within 48 hours, the randomizer will run again and a new winner will be selected.

 

Blood Fever, please.

 

Here we go!