Greetings, USS Titan. This is your friendly, positronic, pissed off security system, back online. Unwanted guests and monologuing protoplasms, I am initiating an immediate shift change.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
Bridge, open the evacuation hatch now!
Get off my bridge!
Oh, fucking solids.
I believe... we're good here.
Hey, Data! You just used a contraction!
No, I didn't!
No, I-- I heard you! Clearly...
[Geordi realizes Data is messing with him and laughs.]
It appears I'm capable of using contractions now. And you are, too!
Oh, that certainly is new!
Many things are new to me, including myself. I am still Data, but also Lore, B-4... All that Doctor Soong programmed into this body.
Well, tell me -- how do you feel?
I feel... I feel!
Admiral. Ladies and gentlemen. Allow me to introduce you to the newest version of a very old friend.
With an upgrade, I'm told.
Oh, I am mostly myself, I assure you, albeit with a dash of computational joie de vivre.
The last time we spoke, you wished to experience death. As happy as I am that you're here, I hope that we haven't betrayed that wish.
No, sir. I know that me is resting peacefully. But this me... this me would rather be no place else in the universe.
My child, my flesh, blood. For all my darkness, you are light. For all my suffering, you... are life.
I don't know what I am. But I know I'm not yours.
Oh, but you are. I have thought of so many names for you. Regenerati. Puer Dei.
A fondness for Latin, I see. But I am neither your rebirth, nor the child of God.
That is why you are Võx. Not Locutus, the one who speaks. You are the voice itself. I know you have felt it too, Jack. Believe it.
What I believe in is mercy! And that is what this is! [Jack points his phaser at the Borg Queen]
What I see in you, what Vadic saw... an end. The vindication of both our species! To take everything back from those who live like shattered glass! [chuckes] If it were possible for you to kill me, you would have already.
[Jack screams, drops the phaser]
End your struggle, my child. Resistance... is... futile. [laughs]
[Geordi and Data board the bridge of the maintenance shuttle.]
Hopefully we have enough juice to get us there.
What makes you think "there" hasn't already been destroyed?
Data, could you try to be a little more positive?
[with a strained grin] I hope we die quickly.
[Geordi has brought the crew to the Fleet Museum's Hangar Bay 12 to reveal what's inside.]
The Enterprise-D... but... how?
Thank the good old Prime Directive. The saucer was retrieved from Veridian III, so as not to influence the system. I've been restoring it bit by bit over the past twenty years. Engines and nacelles come from the USS Syracuse.
Strange... Seeing it makes me feel...
DTDeanna Troi
You're not the only one, Data.
And, obviously, we can't use the Enterprise-E.
[The crew look at Worf]
That was not my fault.
Mr. La Forge, may I?
Absolutely, Admiral.
Computer: initiate system reactivation procedures.
CComputer
Authorization acknowledged. USS Enterprise now under command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Well, I hereby accept the field demotion.
[The Enterprise has left the Fleet Museum]
Mr. Data, set a direct course for Earth, maximum warp.
Aye, Captain. Course laid in, sir. She's ready.
Engage!
ACAnton Chekov
[voiceover] This is President Anton Chekov of the United Federation of Planets, broadcasting on all emergency channels. Do not approach Earth. A signal of unknown origin has turned our young against us. They have been assimilated by the Borg. Our fleet has been compromised, and as we speak, our planetary defenses are falling. Sol Station is defending Earth as best it can, but we're almost out of time. We have not been able to find a way to stop this Borg signal, and unassimilate our young. But I know, if my father were here, he'd remind us all that "Hope is never lost. There are always possibilities." Until then, I implore you: Save yourselves. Farewell.
You're not going alone.
And I will make it a threesome.
Do you even hear yourself?
At last, Locutus has returned home to his true family. To his collective. To me.
[Jean-Luc Picard has found the Borg Queen and Jack, who is now Võx]
What have you done to him?!
What could I do? I have only my words, and the soft assurances of a mother's love.
You are not his mother!
[Jean-Luc Picard shoots at the Borg Queen, but the shots are blocked by a shield]
[laughs] Until recently there was no Collective left. There was only I. It was an unimaginable loneliness. One which Jack and I share.
You're a liar, a deceiver! You wormed your way into his head!
[enraged] He found me! At the very edge of space where you left us... poisoned. No worlds to consume, no roads by which to return! Just the cruelty to die by starvation and age! And then... as the cries of my children faded, another voice rose. Louder, clearer. Jack's voice.
Let him go. Take me! I'm the one you want! Your equal!
[cackles derisively] No, I don't want you, Locutus. The future of the Borg does not lie in assimilation... but evolution.
You're insane! You consumed what little collective you had left!
Only to sustain myself long enough to arrive at this moment, to invite you here to witness.
Witness what?
[smirks cruelly] Your future's end.
[The newly-christened Enterprise-G is ready to launch from Spacedock]
Raffaela Musiker [to Captain Seven of Nine]: On your command, Captain. "Engage"? "Make it so"? "Take her out"? There's a long history of this. Your first official act of command.
[the bridge crew looks at Seven of Nine]
Writing the opening line to your legacy. So then. What'll it be?
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