"The Vulcan Trilogy" Line-by-Line!

[Vanyel]

Looks like you managed to record 6.2 seconds worth. Let’s see if we can filter the signal and clear it up a bit.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Then I wasn't just hearing things?

 

[Vanyel]

The sound itself appears to have been real. However, the acoustic energy does not correspond to any ship’s systems, nor to any voice communication sent at the time you heard it.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Then where did the sound come from?

 

[Vanyel]

Well you heard the voices at the same time our localized subspace scan picked up a Dekyon field distortion. The 2 may be related. Let’s give another listen.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Computer, perform a narrow bandwidth analysis. Eliminate all non-vocal waveform components.

 

[Vanyel]

Can we isolate the voices? Find out what they’re saying?

 

[Admiral Shran]

Computer, continuous playback please. There are approximately one thousand voices overlapping. The voices are those of the Enterprise crew. Our voices.

 

[Vanyel]

I’m sorry to call you all here so early but we couldn’y wait until 0700 hours. We think we may have an explanation for the odd occurrences around here. Commander.

 

[Admiral Shran]

This is going to sound pretty wild. Somehow, we've entered what seems to be a temporal causality loop. We think we're stuck in a particular fragment in time, and we've been repeating that same fragment over and over again.

 

[Vanyel]

Is this what’s causing our déjà vu?

 

[Admiral Shran]

Yes, but it's more than that. In déjà vu, you only think you're repeating events. We actually are.

 

[Vanyel]

Our theory is this: Every time the loop begins again everything resets itself and starts all over. We don’t remember anything that happened before, so each time through the loop we think it’s the first.

 

[Admiral Shran]

You mean we could have come into this room, sat at this table and had this conversation a dozen times already?

 

[Vanyel]

A dozen, a hundred. It’s impossible to tell. We could have been trapped here for hours, days…maybe years.

 

[Admiral Shran]

If what we're saying is true, those voices I heard might have been echoes from previous loops.

 

[Vanyel]

It’s the same with the phase shift in my VISOR, after images in time.

 

[Admiral Shran]

If you're right about this, how did it happen? How did we get there?

 

[Vanyel]

I have a hypothesis that may explain that Captain. I have analyzed the recording Doctor Crusher made. Most of it is quit ordinary. 150 discussions about ship operations. 252 conversations of a personal nature. 5 couples engaged in romantic encounters…

 

[Admiral Shran]

Your point, Mister Data?