Who Watches the Watchers Line-by-Line

[Orac]

[Sickbay]

Picard: With the contamination?

 

[May 20]

RIKER [OC]: It's worse than we suspected.

[Assembly hall]

RIKER: The Mintakans are beginning to believe in a god

[Sickbay]

RIKER [OC]: And the one they've chosen is you.

 

[mattman8907]

BARRON: Picard, you must beam Palmer aboard immediately. Without medical attention

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

PICARD: --It's not as simple as that. He is surrounded by Mintakans. If he dematerialises before their eyes, the impact--

 

[May 20]

BARRON: It will slightly increase the cultural contamination which already exists. A small price for saving Palmer's life.

 

[Athena28]

PICARD: Number One? Is there any chance of your freeing Palmer and transporting up unseen?

 

[May 20]

RIKER: We can try.

 

[Kertrats47]

PICARD [OC]: Try hard.

[Sickbay]

PICARD: Picard out.

 

[May 20]

BARRON: Picard, I must protest. You're endangering Palmer with this delay.

 

[Orac]

Picard: I am aware of that. But each of us, including Doctor Palmer took an oath that we would uphold the Prime Directive, if necessary, with our lives.

 

[Kertrats47]

[Assembly hall]

HALI: Riga and I were hunting on the third ridge. We followed a hornbuck into a cave. The stranger was there, asleep.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

NURIA: This Palmer is one of the Overseer's servants?

 

[Orac]

Liko: Yes. The Picard has many servants. Isn't that true, Fento?

 

[May 20]

FENTO: According to legend. But if this Palmer is a servant of the Overseer, what was he doing in the cave?

 

[Orac]

Oji: Perhaps he ran away.

 

[May 20]

HALI: Or he failed the Picard somehow and was hiding from him.

 

[Kertrats47]

LIKO: We should bind him in case he wakes and tries to escape.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

RIKER: It's senseless for this stranger to be held captive. All this talk of the Overseer, it's old superstitions.

 

[Orac]

Nuria: I disagree. All the evidence indicates that the Overseer exists.

 

[May 20]

LIKO: And I heard the Picard say he wanted to find Palmer.