Twisted Line-By-Line

[May 20]

KIM: That's deck six where we are.

 

[Orac]

Tuvock: Correct, Ensign. However, the area we occupying will not remain unaffected indefinitely.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

CHAKOTAY: How long?

 

[Athena28]

TUVOK: Based on the rate of implosion thus far, I estimate the ring will crush deck 6 in approximately 68 minutes.

 

[May 20]

[Holodeck - Sandrine's]

PARIS: Is this implosion ring some kind of weapon? Are we under attack?

 

[Oddish]

KIM: "Who'd want to attack us and why?"

 

[LeadHead]

Tuvok: There is no clear evidence of an intelligence behind the phenomenon. It is still possible we are dealing with a naturally occurring anomaly which does not conform to the known laws of physics.

 

[Oddish]

TORRES: "Don't you think it's a little late to be speculating on who or what this thing is? The important thing now is that we find out some way of stopping it."

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

CHAKOTAY: B'Elanna's right. It seems to me we've got two options. One, we find a way to get ourselves out of this implosion ring, or two, we find some way of reversing it.

 

[mattman8907]

KIM: Invert the effect. Turn the implosion into an explosion.

 

[LeadHead]

Chakotay: Exactly.

 

[May 20]

TORRES: If I can get back to Engineering, I may be able to generate a shock pulse strong enough to do just that. Of course, I'd have to raise the pressure in the warp core to near critical.

 

[Athena28]

KIM: A shock pulse of that magnitude would create a subatomic particle shower all over the ship.

 

[mattman8907]

TUVOK: Which could set off a chain reaction that would cause not only the ring to explode outward but Voyager along with it.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TORRES: Not if I can precisely tune the shock pulse to the distortion frequency of the ring.

 

[LeadHead]

Tuvok: That would be exceptionally difficult.

 

[May 20]

TORRES: If we don't give this a try, we're going to get crushed anyway. Personally, I'd rather go down fighting.

 

[LeadHead]

Tuvok: I must remind you, that with the comm system down, we will have no effective means of alerting the rest of the crew to a potentially lethal particle shower.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

CHAKOTAY: Do you have another suggestion, Mister Tuvok?

 

[May 20]

TUVOK: I believe it would be safer to attempt to access the navigational array and from there engage thrusters to steer us out of the ring.