"The Vulcan Trilogy" Line-by-Line!

[Admiral Shran]

The tractor beam will not be successful. I am decompressing the main shuttlebay.

 

[Vanyel]

We are clear of the distortion.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Data, what happened?

 

[Vanyel]

At the last moment I speculated that “3” might refer to the number of rank insignia on Commander Riker’s uniform. That indicated to me that his suggestion might be the correct course of action.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Data, you must have picked up a message we sent from the last loop, and stacked the deck in the poker game without realizing it.

 

[Vanyel]

That is possible. I may also have inadvertently been responsible for the unexplained occurrences of the number 3.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Mister Worf, end Red alert. And try to access a Federation time base beacon. Let's see if we can find out how long we've been in this causality loop.

 

[Vanyel]

Time base confirms, our chronometers are off by 17.4 days.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Reset them, Mister Data.

 

[Vanyel]

Aye, sir.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Captain, we are being hailed by the other vessel. The computer identifies it as the USS Bozeman, a Federation starship.... Soyuz class.

 

[Vanyel]

Soyuz Class? They haven’t been in service in over 80 years.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Open a channel.

 

[Vanyel]

This is Captain Morgan Bateson of the Federation starship Bozemen (I’m listening.) Can we render assistance?

 

[Admiral Shran]

I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise. We were just going to ask you the same thing.

 

[Vanyel]

Captain Picard, your vessel is not familiar to us.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Captain, have you any idea what has just happened?

 

[Vanyel]

Our sensors detected a temporal distortion. Then your ship appeared. We nearly hit you.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Enterprise has been caught in temporal causality loop, and I suspect that something similar may have happened to you.

 

[Vanyel]

You must be mistaken we left Starbase only 3 weeks ago.