"The Vulcan Trilogy" Line-by-Line!

[Admiral Shran]

Perhaps we should reverse course.

 

[Vanyel]

For all we know reversing course may be what leads us into the crash.

 

[Admiral Shran]

We can't afford to start second guessing ourselves. We should stay on this course until we have reason to change it. But in the meantime, I think we should do what we can to avoid a collision.

 

[Vanyel]

Captain, we’ve been seeing the number 3 all over the ship, on consoles, in a poker game.

 

[Admiral Shran]

To date we have encountered two thousand eighty five conspicuous examples of the number three.

 

[Vanyel]

All of these 3’s can’t be coming up by accident.


(2085 is a multiple of 3)

 

[Admiral Shran]

Maybe somebody's trying to tell us something.

 

[Vanyel]

We came to the same conclusion so we ran a ship wide diagnostic. The only unusual thing we found was a Dekyon field modulation in Data’s positronic subprocessors.

 

[Admiral Shran]

What could be causing it?

 

[Vanyel]

I don’t know, but if I wanted to send information from one loop into the next I might use a method like a Dekyon emission.

 

[Admiral Shran]

You think we sent ourselves a message?

 

[Vanyel]

It would make sense. Maybe we are trying to tell ourselves something.

 

[Admiral Shran]

If that were true, what could three indicate?

 

[Vanyel]

Maybe we should run a level 3 diagnostic on all key systems.

 

[Admiral Shran]

It's a good idea. I'll have the computer run a pattern matching algorithm based on the number three.

 

[Vanyel]

Bridge to Captain Picard.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Go ahead.

 

[Vanyel]

We are getting unusual readings 20,000 kilometers off the starboard bow.

 

[Admiral Shran]

On our way.

....

Report.

 

[Vanyel]

Sensors didn’t detect the phenomenon until we were almost on top of it, Captain.