All language subtitles for Star Trek The Next Generation S04E18

Man: Tarchannen I/I investigation,
stardate 40164.7.

Ensign Anthony brevelle recording.

Lieutenant Susanna leijten
in command.

- You up and running, brevelle?
- Man: Yes, lieutenant.

I've checked buildings 4 and 5.

Just like all the others.
No phaser hits, no sign of a fight.

It's like the whole outpost
just vanished.

Lieutenant leijten,
you'd better come see this.

No footprints, no vehicle tracks.
The wind probably erased them.

- But look.
- Leijten: Freeze visual.

That's hickman on the right,
Mendez on the left.

And as already noted,

the recording was made
by ensign brevelle five years ago.

Commander leijten, you said

that before brevelle deserted
starbase 112 last week,

he'd been ill for several days.
What about Mendez?

Mendez was seen on the aries
an hour before she disappeared.

According to witnesses,
she seemed completely normal.

And hickman?

He just passed a routine physical
on Alia iv with flying colors.

No, no, wait a minute.
I know Paul hickman.

He's a family man.
He's got two kids.

He wouldn't steal a shuttle
and desert.

But, geordi, he was spotted
by a federation supply ship yesterday,

on course to tarchannen III.

The original tarchannen
disappearances

- were never solved, were they?
Leijten: No.

We never learned
what happened or why.

Forty-nine people, gone.

And five years later, the away team

that was investigating
their disappearances

have started to
disappear themselves.

Geordi and I are the only two left.

Picard:
Space, the final frontier.

These are the voyages
of the starship enterprise.

Its continuing mission:
To explore strange new worlds,

to seek out new life
and new civilizations,

to boldly go where no one
has gone before.

Picard:
Captain's log, stardate 44664.5.

We've set a course

to intercept lieutenant hickman's
stolen shuttlecraft,

and hopefully,
to discover the whereabouts

of the other missing officers.

And then
I almost married Paul bogrow.

Bogrow? Bogrow.
Now, which one was he?

Leijten: You remember.

The one with the thin mustache.

- La forge: Oh, not bogrow.
- Heh. I know.

The one who always used
to drive you crazy?

You always thought
he was so full of himself.

Yeah, well, I decided
that I had prejudged him unfairly.

And then I decided
that I'd been right in the first place.

Oh, bogrow...

Well, what about you?

Hmm, I enjoy the bachelor's life
too much.

That doesn't sound like my little brother
who always wanted advice on women.

Yeah, obviously you were a...

A great advisor.

Well, suz...

What do you think?

I don't know.

But I'm not ashamed to tell you
I'm a little scared, you know?

I know.

Well, if anyone's gonna
figure this out,

it'll be the leijten
and la forge show, right?

- La forge: Yeah.
- We always made a good team.

A hell of a team.

Riker: Commander la forge,

commander leijten,
report to the bridge.

We have a fix
on the missing shuttle.

On our way, commander.

Entering
the tarchannen system, sir.

Picard: Slow to impulse power.

Long-range sensors are holding on
the shuttlecraft.

Bearing 010 Mark 271.

Hail the vessel.

Lieutenant hickman
does not respond, sir.

Put a repeating message
on all subspace channels.

Order the lieutenant
to come about and stand to.

Make it a priority one communiqué.

Still no response, sir.

The craft is now within visual range.

Picard: On-screen.

Data: The shuttle's acceleration
is increasing.

Its trajectory is moving directly
into the planet's atmosphere.

He will reach an atmospheric interface
at an altitude of 210 kilometers.

If he stays at that speed,
he'll self-destruct.

- Data: That is correct, commander.
- How soon, Mr. Data?

Fifty-three seconds, sir.

Options?

He's out of transporter range.

He's still too far away
to get a positive lock

with the tractor beam, captain.

- Open a channel.
- Open.

Lieutenant hickman, listen carefully.

This is captain picard
of the enterprise.

You are in danger.

You must slow
your rate of approach.

The shuttle is approaching
the outer thermosphere, captain.

He's panicking.

Data:
At the current rate of acceleration,

the shuttle will be destroyed
in 28 seconds.

Sixteen seconds to impact.

Lieutenant hickman,
you must do what I tell you.

Reduce your velocity

and bring your craft to a positive
pitch of 20 degrees. Now!

The shuttle is entering
the lower ionosphere, sir.

Captain, sensors detect
two more federation shuttlecraft

on the planet's surface.

No life signs.

Number one,
prepare your away team.

Worf, data, geordi.

Leijten:
I'd like to volunteer to join you, sir.

Commander.

Commander leijten, geordi,
check out the shuttle.

Data, worf,
you've got the perimeter.

It's the shuttlepod Mendez
stole from the aries.

La forge: Mm-hm.

No life signs, commander.

Sir, I am certain
we are being watched.

La forge: Commander riker.

Where's commander leijten?

Riker to Susanna, report.

Fan out. Let's find her.

Susanna!

La forge to leijten.

Leijten: Over here.

Where have you been?

Mendez and brevelle are alive.

- You saw the footprints?
- Yeah.

- But they're not human.
- They're here.

Just stand still and listen.

You can feel it. They're here.

I'm not picking up anything.

Wait a minute.
Where are you going?

- Susanna?
- Aah!

Stay away.

La forge to enterprise,
medical emergency.

Two to sickbay.

Do I look as bad as I feel?

You look fine... now.

What happened?

Crusher:
Your blood chemistry is way off.

You had a histamine response.
To what, I don't know.

I'm going to run a complete blood
and tissue analysis.

I need to get back to the surface.

Until I have some answers, I don't
want you to leave the enterprise.

- I have work to do.
- Crusher: Look, commander,

you may have just had
an anxiety reaction down there.

But I've got to know for sure.

Might not be such a bad idea
to take it easy for a while.

I'm not gonna stay locked up
on the ship

while the investigation's going on.

Your devotion to duty is admirable,
commander, but Dr. Crusher's right.

You'll remain on board
the enterprise until we know

whether or not this is connected
with the disappearance of the others.

- Captain...
- Picard: We have completed

our survey of the surface.

Analyzing all that data
will keep us busy for a while.

Yes, sir, I understand.

Data's got a preliminary report,
if you're up to it.

Sure. Let's get going.

What about la forge?

I gave him a complete bioscan.

The results say
he's in perfect shape.

That's what all the reports said
about Mendez and hickman

before they disappeared.

Captain picard's wrong.

The way to handle this
is to get back down there

with a dozen away teams.
Fan out from the shuttle.

We could cover a lot of ground
in a hurry.

Use proximity detectors,
infrared sensors...

Susanna_.

Oh, geordi, it's started.

What if what happened to the others
is happening to me?

La forge: You don't know that.

Suz,

I'm here,

and I'm not gonna let
anything happen to you, okay?

Okay.

Come on.

During microscopic examination
of the torn uniform,

I discovered these alien skin cells.

Source?

Data: Undetermined.

Without something else
to cross-reference,

it would take us weeks
to try and identify them.

Fortunately,
we have more evidence.

We were able to determine

that these footprints
found near the shuttle

were not made by any known
tarchannen life-form.

Well, if we're pursuing a theory

that somehow unknown aliens
are involved,

I think I should tell you
that we didn't find tracks like that

during the original investigation.

The planet is subject
to frequent sandstorms.

Footprints might have been obliterated
prior to your arrival.

Dr. Crusher and I will begin
to search the medical database

in an attempt to match these
with some known life-form.

Aliens or no aliens,

why would our people start returning
after five years to be abducted?

Some sort of compulsion, like, uh...
Like a post-hypnotic command.

Something that happened while
we were down there the first time?

We can go back
to the mission record,

construct a log
of everyone's movements.

Look for some sort of commonality.

Something we all touched. Um...

Maybe... a plant or the sand.

Or even something we ingested.

Could even be in the air itself.

The parameters
are pretty broad, data.

Any match we make is going
to be inconclusive at best.

I am aware of that, doctor.

However, I can see no other course
of investigation available to us.

We may not have much time.

You're worried about geordi,
aren't you?

I am an Android.

- It is not possible for me...
- For you to feel anxiety.

Starfleet personnel have vanished.

Others may be at risk.

We must do the best we can
to find out why.

However, I am

strongly motivated
to solve this mystery.

Ensign hickman.

Freeze visual.

We're wasting our time.

That's not how you felt before.

It was your idea to look
for some sort of commonality.

Yeah, well, I was wrong.

We're not gonna find
anything this way.

We should go back to the planet.

It's all down there.
Everything we need to know.

Well, that's just not an option.

At least,
not until captain picard says it is.

Computer, resume.

I can't look at that anymore.

It hurts my eyes.

I can't think. My mind feels
like it's wrapped up in a blanket.

Take a break. All right?
I'll work on this.

I don't need a break.

I need to get off this ship.

Susanna, why don't we, uh,
go and see Dr. Crusher?

Forget crusher,
and forget your logs.

Tarchannen's down there, geordi.

It's waiting for us.

That's where we should go.

Susanna_.

You can't leave.

Susanna.

- Susanna!
- Aah!

Her blood pressure's still falling.

Apply the t-cell stimulator.

We have got to stabilize
her immune system.

She has developed
an extreme sensitivity to light.

We're trying to make her
as comfortable as we can.

Oh, god...

Susanna_.

Okay?

Dr. Crusher will help you,
so just hold on.

It's inside of me, geordi.

I can't fight it.

It's winning.

Don't give up.

Do you hear me?

You can't give up, suz.

Crusher: This is one of Susanna's
altered skin cells,

and this is one of the alien cells
data found.

They're almost identical.
How do you explain that?

Jean-Luc, I think the people
from tarchannen III

who disappeared weren't abducted.

I think they were transformed
into another species.

Can you stop it, doctor?

The t-cell stimulator will slow down
the rate of change.

But until I find the cause...

- Is the enterprise at risk?
- No.

I checked the cell-wall integrity.
Its viability is extremely low.

I don't think it's possible
for Susanna to transmit it.

Then how did she get it?

I wish I knew.

The only thing I do know, geordi,

is that it's very possible
that you will be next.

La forge: But

I had two full bioscans today.

You said I was fine.

I gave Susanna a bioscan too.

I didn't find anything wrong
with her either.

How long?

Brevelle was sick for days
before he left.

Mendez was normal an hour
before she disappeared.

You may have weeks
or very few hours.

Then there's not much time
to waste.

- I should get back to work.
- Crusher: Geordi,

until I know what we're dealing with,

I think you should stay here
in sickbay.

Doctor, you said that it would help
if you knew the source of this.

If I could continue my analysis
of the mission records,

- I might find an answer.
- Mr. La forge,

what if you begin to change?
What if you feel compelled

to go down to the planet
like the others?

Program the computer
to monitor my movements.

That way we can be sure
that I don't leave the ship.

What would you do, captain?

Would you sit it out here in sickbay
or try to learn what it is that's got you?

Maybe stop it?

Very well, Mr. La forge.

You proceed with your investigation,
but I want you to report to Dr. Crusher

for a bioscan at the start
of the day watch.

- Aye, sir.
- Crusher: And, geordi,

if you have symptoms of any kind,
I want to know immediately.

Understood.

One to transport.

I wanna make another sweep
of the perimeter.

La forge, you start at building 4.
Mendez and brevelle, begin at 2.

All right, computer,

analyze audio elements
from time index 1447

to 1558.

List all anomalies.

Computer:
No audio anomalies present.

Any subspace projections?

Z-particle emissions?
Interferometric frequencies?

Computer:
No subspace projections present.

No z-particle emissions present.

No inten'erometric patterns present.

Damn.

- Geordi.
- Ah!

May I inquire how your investigation
is proceeding?

It's not.

Have you attempted
an audio analysis?

Yes, data.

And a spectrographic analysis
and a screen for ionizing radiation.

I even ran an enhancement
for micro-seismic disturbances.

I've tried it all, okay?

I'm sorry.

Data:
There is no need for an apology.

Perhaps if you indulged
in a brief rest period,

you would be able to approach
this problem with a fresh point of view.

Yeah, you're probably right, data,

but I've gotta keep scanning
these records while I can.

Data: May I assist you?

La forge:
If I knew what I was looking for.

Really, data,

I think it's just a matter
of me going over it,

maybe finding something I forgot.

I'll let you know if I come across
anything, all right?

All right, computer.

One more time.

Ogawa:
Sorry to disturb you, doctor.

Crusher:
That's all right. What's happened?

Ogawa:
I thought you should see this.

Crusher:
Her skin is simulating the light.

A radiant reaction.

Some sort of mimetic ability?

That's not all. Her body
temperature is dropping.

Crusher: It's as if she's generating
a disruptive field.

I can barely get
any readings off of her now.

What's her rate of transformation?

It's increasing.

That's not possible. It should have
been inhibited by the t-cell stimulator.

Unless...

If there's a foreign body inside her
that's producing these changes.

Something like a viral creche.

A very small one
if our scans haven't found it.

I want a full genetic analysis.

We're going to examine
any abnormality we find,

no matter how insignificant
it seems.

One to transport.

- Leijten: [Wanna...
- Computer, delete the audio.

La forge: Wait a minute.

Freeze visual.

Whose shadow is that?

Computer:
Please restate question.

Computer,

the shadow currently displayed
in section b-3.

What is its source?

Computer: Unknown.

Come on,
it's gotta belong to somebody.

Computer, replay a visual
of the last time index.

No audio.

And slow to 50 percent.

Okay.

Brevelle's behind the camera.
Susanna and I head off

in that direction.
Mendez moves off that way.

Freeze visual.

Now magnify four times.

And spectrally enhance
those shadows.

Computer, do you have
sufficient data

to compile a holographic simulation
of this visual record?

Computer: A simulation
would be limited to areas scanned

by the visual recording device.

Good, fine.

Scan the entire record
and then re-create it on holodeck 3.

Computer,

is the tarchannen simulation ready?

Computer:
Affirmative. Program complete.

Enter when ready.

Computer,

scan starfleet records
and create a simulation of brevelle.

Place him where he was
while recording this.

Okay.

Computer,

based on their speed
and direction,

can you extrapolate
each officer's movements

as they walk out of the recording
device's field of view?

Computer: Affirmative.

With an increasing probability of error
reaching 95 percent after 10 seconds.

Understood. Run simulation.

I wanna make another sweep
of the perimeter.

La forge, you start at building 4.

Mendez and brevelle,
you begin at 2.

Computer, freeze.

It's all happening too fast.

Computer, reverse simulation.

La forge: Freeze program.

Computer, remove la forge.

And

now remove leijten.

And now remove Mendez.

Computer, using vector analysis,
identify the source of this shadow.

Computer:
There is no object in the program

which could generate the shadow.

Ahh. There, uh...

There has to be something

between the camera light
and this wall.

Computer,

given the distance
between the light and the wall,

can you determine the most likely
shape and position

of the object causing this shadow?

Computer:
There is insufficient data

to reconstruct the requested object.

Ugh. All right. Um...

Let's say that...

That my friend and I here
are about the same size, say

1.7 meters.

Now can you extrapolate
its shape and its position?

Computer: Affirmative.
La forge: Do it.

Crusher: There, in the thymus.

Some sort of parasite.

It's using Susanna's immune system

to spread genetic instructions.

But how did it get there?

She could have become infected
during the original mission.

It's small enough to have entered
through the mucous membranes.

But it certainly isn't behaving
like a typical parasite.

It isn't feeding off of her.

It's transforming her DNA
to match its own.

There's not much
of her original DNA left.

And we're going to need
unaltered genes.

Or we're never gonna get her back.

We've gotta get that thing
out of her now.

- Any luck?
- Negative, commander.

Nothing in our survey suggests
the source of a parasitic infection.

Crusher: Crusher to bridge.

Go ahead, doctor.

The surgery was successful.

It's going to be a few more hours
before we know

whether her regenerative systems
are responding.

In the meantime, we better get
commander la forge down here.

Picard:
Very well, doctor. Keep us informed.

Crusher to la forge.

Computer,
locate commander la forge.

Computer: Commander la forge
is not on board the enterprise.

Bfidge.

The computer says commander
la forge is no longer on board.

Is that correct?

I am showing no transporter activity.

All shuttles are secure.

Negative. There's no indication
that he's left the ship.

Computer, what was the last known
location of commander la forge?

Computer: Holodeck 3.

Crusher:
Captain, if geordi has transformed,

he may be virtually a chameleon.

The skin develops
mimetic capabilities.

He may still be on board
but undetectable to our sensors.

You search the structure.
I will take the perimeter.

Commander.

Riker: Geordi's uniform.

Security, we have an intruder
in transporter room 6... unh.

Captain, the security lockout on
transporter room 6 has been broken.

Re-engage. Now.

I cannot, sir. The transporter cycle
has already begun.

Picard:
Captain's log, stardate 44668.1.

Dr. Crusher's research indicates
that we have less than an hour

before commander la forge's
transformation becomes irreversible.

However, all attempts to locate him
on the surface have failed.

I do not read any life signs
on the surface.

Our sensor array is useless.

We must find some other way
of locating him.

Captain, if we can get
close enough to geordi,

we can read his absorption spectrum
with an ultraviolet light.

Can you modify an emergency beacon
to operate on uv?

Yes, sir. Picard: Make it so.

Number one,
as soon as data is ready,

I want you to lead an away team.

Aye, sir.

How long, data?

I must replace the emitter module
and reconnect the power supply.

It will take approximately two minutes
to complete the modification, sir.

Hendrick: Hendrick to riker.

Go ahead.

I've been able to determine
la forge's transport coordinates.

He beamed down
next to the aries shuttle.

Acknowledged.

He's on foot.
Couldn't have gotten too far.

Let's assume a radius of

10 kilometers.

That still leaves a search area
of more than 300 square kilometers.

We've gotta narrow that down.

What's happening with
the enhanced sensor arrays?

All scans are still negative.

We've gotta find a way to track him.

What about the high resolution
em scan?

We are adjusting sensors to read
la forge's absorption spectrum,

but it will take several hours.

Geordi doesn't have several hours.

I have completed modifications,
commander.

Excellent. Dr. Crusher, meet us
in transporter room 6 immediately.

He's gonna need a sedative.
Give me 1000's of kayolane.

Leijten: Dr. Crusher.

Hey, you look a lot better
than you did an hour ago.

What did you do?

We've removed some kind of parasite
from your thymus.

Leijten:
No, no, no, it's not a parasite, doctor.

It was their method of reproduction.

To plant a DNA strand
in a living host

that causes metamorphosis.

- He's gone?
- Yes.

- Gone to the planet?
- Crusher: Stay calm.

No, but we have to find him.

Crusher: An away team is preparing
to search for him.

You'll never be able to find him.

I'm the only one who can.

No, you must turn them off.
The light frightens them.

- What about the ultraviolet?
- That's beyond their visual spectrum.

They won't run away from it.

He could be several kilometers
away by now.

Leijten:
No, he's here. They're all here.

Geordi, stop!

No, wait.

Geordi, my voice is familiar.
Listen to it.

You can feel that we share this.

You know I'm not a threat.

The others, Mendez, brevelle...

They don't exist
as humans anymore.

But a part of you still does.

You're not one of them yet, geordi.

I can help you if you'll just trust me.

I know what's going on
inside of you.

The war you're fighting
with yourself,

your humanity slipping away,

the instinct to run.

It's overpowering.

But they know
how to beat it now, geordi.

Look at me!

I've come back, geordi.

Let me take you back too.

Just take my hand.

Please.

Crusher to enterprise. Lock on to
commander leijten's signal.

Prepare to beam two
directly to sickbay.

We're going home, geordi.

Is there no hope
for brevelle or Mendez?

None.

- Susanna.
- I'm right here, geordi.

And so are Dr. Crusher
and captain picard.

Here's your visor, geordi.

Lieutenant commander la forge
reporting for duty, captain.

Welcome back, Mr. La forge.

Crusher: Geordi, this species...

- Can you communicate with it?
- No.

They act on instinct alone.

In another few minutes,
I wouldn't have

responded to you, Susanna.

Picard:
Then we will leave them be.

I'll order warning beacons
placed in orbit and on the surface.

Hopefully, no one else will have
to go through what you did.

You know, down there, I...

I didn't know who you were,
and yet,

somehow,

I believed you.

I trusted you.

That must have been because of all
the good advice I used to give you.