All language subtitles for Star Trek The Next Generation S06E02

Picard:
Captain's log, stardate 46041.1.

We have located the u.S.S. Yosemite,
a starfieet science vessel

sent to the [go sector
to observe a remote plasma streamer.

The ship has not been heard from
in several days.

Magnify.

The last report we have says

they were observing the streamer
at medium range.

Maybe they went in for a closer look,
got more than they bargained for.

- No response.
- Life signs?

Our scanners cannot penetrate
the plasma streamer's distortion field.

- Can we tractor them out?
- Data: No, sir.

Ionic interference is too heavy.

I'll take a shuttle in.

Too risky. You could be pulled in too.

Bridge to engineering.

Mr. La forge, can we beam
an away team onto the science ship?

We can beam them over there,
but with all this interference,

we might not get a positive lock
to bring them back.

Commander, if we bridged
our transporter system with theirs,

we might be able to cut through
the ionic field.

That's a good idea, barclay.
Captain, I think we can do it.

We're gonna bridge
the two transporter systems.

Picard: Acknowledged.

Meet commander riker
in transporter room 3.

Aye, sir.

Barclay, I'm gonna need a systems
engineer on this away team.

I'll ask ensign dern to join you.

I meant you, barclay.

Shouldn't I stay here
and set up the remote link?

Dern can do that. Come on, let's go.

Status, Mr. O'brien?

I'll have to send you over
one at a time, commander,

because of bandwidth limitations.

And the transport cycle
will take a little longer.

Riker: How much longer?

O'brien: Four, five seconds,
about twice the normal time.

I'm afraid you're in for a bumpy ride,
commander.

What do you...?

What exactly do you mean
by a bumpy ride?

Well, there may be a small amount
of static charge accumulation.

You'll feel a bit of tingling.
It's nothing to worry about.

Let's do it. Mr. Worf.

O'brien:
Engaging system interlock.

Pattern buffers synchronized.

Phase transition coils at standby.

Energizing.

He's there.

I'll go next.

O'brien: Engaging interlock.

Buffers synched, energizing.

I'm ready.

O'brien: Engaging interlock,
buffers in synch...

Oh, wait a minute.

I'm reading an ionic fluctuation
in the matter stream.

Oh. No problem.

Okay, energizing.

Reg, you're up.

Reg?

Aye, sir.

O'brien: Engaging interlock.

Buffers in synch.

- Phase coils are...
- I'm sorry. I just can't do this.

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.

Reg, you were faced
with a difficult transport.

Anyone would have been apprehensive
in that situation.

You tell that to commander la forge
and the rest of the away team.

I'm sure they understand.

As soon as you feel up to it,
you can probably still join them.

Reg, is there something
you're not telling me?

Actually...

It's... this is not the...

This is not the first time
I've been apprehensive.

Every single time that I tried to do it,
I had this certain feeling.

I guess you could call it
mortal terror.

Why have you kept it a secret?

Why?

Because my career in starfleet
would be over.

That's why.

I doubt that.

I've always managed to avoid it
somehow.

You wouldn't believe how many hours
that I've logged in shuttlecrafts.

I mean, the idea
of being deconstructed,

molecule by molecule.

It's more than I can stand.

Even when I was a child,
I always had a dreadful fear

that if ever I was dematerialized,

that I would never
come back again whole.

I know it sounds crazy.

It's not crazy at all.

You are being taken apart
molecule by molecule.

Reg, you're not the first person
to have anxiety about transporting.

We can desensitize you
to this type of fear.

It's a slow and gradual process,
but it works.

It does? How?

Well, you might first try
a relaxation technique, like plexing.

- Plexing?
- Yes, it's a betazoid method.

The next time you feel nervous
about transporting,

you stimulate a neural pressure point,
like this.

There's a nerve cluster
just behind the carotid artery.

It stimulates the part of the brain
that releases natural endorphins.

Plexing. Sounds easy enough.

Here. There.

You know, I feel better already.

- There's no need to rush.
- No, no, no.

We talked about confronting my fears.
The best way out is through.

You said that once, remember?

I suppose I did.

I'm gonna beam over there.
I can do it.

There's no sign of any survivors.
No sign of anyone.

- Maybe they abandoned ship.
- Worf: Unlikely.

Escape pods are still on board.

There was an explosion here.
That much we do know.

- Any idea what caused it?
- I've ruled out a reactor core failure

and there's no sign
of a systems overload.

Blast analysis indicates
the explosion originated here

in the center
of the transport chamber.

How is that possible?
The transporter is still functional.

Could they have beamed aboard
an explosive device?

Commander riker,
could you come here, please?

Excuse me.

Crusher: Lieutenant Joshua Kelly.
He was the ship's engineer.

How did he die?

He has second and third degree burns
over most of his body,

but I don't think
they were the cause of his death.

I'd like to take him back
to do an autopsy.

- You're sure about this, sir?
- Sure.

- Please, proceed.
- It'll only take a minute.

- Oh, it should be a smooth ride over.
- Good. Good.

I know how you feel about this, sir.

You're afraid of transporting too?

Sickening, crawly little things,
don't you think?

All those legs.

Spiders, uh,
they've never bothered me.

A few years back, I was called in
to re-route an emitter array

at a starbase on zayra iv.

Turns out the entire system
was infested

with talarian hook spiders.

Have you ever seen
a talarian hook spider?

Their legs are half a meter long.

Well, I had a choice.

Do I walk away
and let the emitter blow itself to hell?

Or do I crawl in the jefferies tube
with 20 hook spiders?

Mm, what happened?

It was the hardest thing I ever did.

But I got through it.

After that, I was never
quite so afraid of spiders.

Energizing.

Reg, welcome aboard.
You ready to work?

Start by downloading
the ship's science logs.

Aye, sir.

Still four members of the crew
unaccounted for.

Did you come up with anything?

I don't know how these fit in, but
I found them around the platform.

What are they?

They look like pieces
of a standard sample container.

We'll take these back to the ship
and analyze them there.

Mr. Barclay?

- Glad you could join us.
- Me too, sir.

The ferengi are claiming
two of their freighters were destroyed

by a cardassian warship
in your sector.

Is there any evidence
to support this?

Although I'm loathe to believe
the ferengi about anything,

there was evidence
of cardassian weapons.

If the cardassians
also attacked the yosemite,

it could indicate
a large-scale movement in this sector.

I have an away team
on board the ship.

The initial report indicates
there was an explosion on board.

But we're not sure
if it was from an attack.

- How soon until you know?
- A few hours.

If it looks like cardassians,
I'll contact you immediately.

Very well.

Data: Bridge to captain picard.

Go ahead, Mr. Data.

Data: The away team is returning
to the enterprise, sir.

Acknowledged.

Have commander riker
come to my ready room

as soon as he's on board.

Data: Aye, sir.

La forge: La forge to
transporter room 3. I'm ready to go.

Stand by, commander.

Barclay to enterprise.
One to beam back.

O'brien: Stand by, sir.

See, sir?
That wasn't so bad, was it?

Mission logs, science logs,
medical logs, they're all scrambled.

Looks like the blast wiped out
the ship's core memory.

We could try to reconstitute
the data stream.

It's worth a try.

Commander, has anything strange

ever happened to you
during transport?

- Like what?
- I don't know.

- Anything out of the ordinary?
- La forge: No, not really.

Ah, this looks hopeless. We're not
gonna get anything out of these logs.

You know, maybe this broken
sample container I found

can tell us something.

Let's try to get this thing back
into one piece.

I mean...

Have you ever seen anything?

- Where?
- In the...

During transport.

Sometimes my visor picks up
resonance patterns

from matter-energy conversion.

It's actually kind of pretty.

Why?

I'm just wondering.

Reg, what are you getting at?

Did you see something
during transport?

When I was returning
to the enterprise,

I could have sworn I saw something
in the matter stream.

Something?

There was phased matter all around
and at first I thought

it was some kind
of energy discharge.

But then it flew toward me
and touched my arm.

How could something be in there?

Molecules flying apart, half-phased?
I mean...

It's impossible, isn't it?

Well, we'd better check it out.

When we're done here, we'll run
a full diagnostic on the transporter.

All right.

O'brien: The confinement
beam subsystems check out.

So do the phase transition coils.

The pattern buffer is fine.

Emitter pads, targeting scanners,
they're all working fine.

This system's clean.
So is the science vessel's.

Reg, there's a lot of energy
floating around in the beam.

Maybe you saw a surge
in the matter stream.

I'll run a scan
on the Heisenberg compensators.

Oh, no, chief,
you've done enough already.

It's no problem.
Why don't you give me a hand?

- Maybe ignorance really is bliss.
- Sir?

If I didn't know so much about these,
they wouldn't scare me so much.

I can still remember the day

in Dr. Olafson's
transporter theory class

when he was talking about the body

being converted
into billions of kiloquads of data,

zipping through subspace

and I realized
there's no margin for error.

One atom out of place, and poof!

You never come back.

It's amazing
people aren't lost all the time.

With all due respect, sir,

I've been doing this for 22 years
and I haven't lost anybody yet.

Yes, but you realize
it the imaging scanners are off,

even 1000th of a percent...

That's why each pad
has four redundant scanners.

If any one scanner fails,
the other three take over.

Reg.

How many transporter accidents
have there been in the last 10 years?

There are millions of people
who transport safely every day

without a problem.

I've heard of problems.
What about transporter psychosis?

Transporter psychosis?

There hasn't been a case of that
in over 50 years.

Not since they perfected
the multiplex pattern buffers.

Reg, transporting really
is the safest way to travel.

I'd like to take
a closer look at those burns.

- Take a tissue sample, please.
- Yes, doctor.

Damage to the epidermis only.

Initiate a circulatory probe.

Dr. Crusher.

His heart's beating.

Cardio-stimulator.

Ogawa: It's gone.

Neuro-electrical activity
in the cerebral cortex.

Nothing.

Now his respiratory system's active.

What the hell is going on?

Here you are, lieutenant.

Water, 10 degrees celsius.

Computer, access
starfleet medical database,

and tell me about, um...

Describe the disorder
transporter psychosis.

Computer: Transporter psychosis
was diagnosed in the year 2209

by researchers on delinia ll.

No, no. Stop.

All I need is, what causes it?

Computer:
It is caused by a breakdown

of neuro-chemical molecules
during transport,

affecting the body's motor functions,
autonomic systems

and the brain's
higher reasoning centers.

What are the symptoms?

Victims suffer
from paranoid delusions,

multi-infarct dementia,

hallucinations...

Hallucinations?
What kind of hallucinations?

Computer:
Victims experience somatic, tactile

and visual hallucinations,

accompanied
by psychogenic hysteria.

Peripheral symptoms include
sleeplessness,

accelerated heart-rate,

diminished eyesight
leading to acute myopia,

painful spasms in the extremities,

and in most cases, dehydration.

Computer...

What is the treatment
for transporter psychosis?

Computer:
There is no known treatment.

The autopsy showed
residual ionization

in every one of
lieutenant Kelly's systems.

I think that's what caused

the muscular
and systemic contractions.

From where
did the ionization come?

There's evidence of electrical burns
on the victim's body

as if he was exposed to ionized gas
or high energy plasma.

Plasma? There's no way
they could have been exposed.

Unless it was matter
from the streamer.

Is there evidence of a hull breach?

Could the plasma from the streamers
have found its way onto the ship?

Data, what's the report
on that broken sample container?

The analysis of the fragments
is not yet complete.

Captain, if there's evidence of
similar ionization in those fragments,

it could mean that they tried to beam
aboard material from the streamer.

If the plasma exploded,
that would explain a few things.

Let me know
when the analysis is complete.

La forge: Aye, sir.

From the look
of these fracture patterns,

I'd say that the explosive force
came from within the container.

The container does show evidence
of residual ionization.

Ibeheve
your hypothesis was correct.

It was used to store
high-energy plasma.

La forge: So they were collecting
samples from the plasma streamer.

But they had the proper container.
How could it have exploded?

Perhaps we should attempt
to re-create their experiment,

to see what happens to matter

when it is beamed aboard
under similar conditions.

La forge: That's a good idea.
We'll prepare a new container.

Reg, I don't wanna take
any chances here.

Start setting up a level 5 containment
field here in engineering, okay?

Aye, sir.

Are you all right, lieutenant?

I'm fine. Yes, thank you.

- Geordi.
- Hmm?

Lieutenant barclay appears
inordinately preoccupied

with his physiological condition.

I have seen him check his pulse rate
as well as his visual acuity

several times
over the last 20 minutes.

Thanks, data.

Reg?

Yes, sir?

Are you okay?

I'm just fine, sir.

You look a little pale.

I do?

Look, reg,
it's been a long couple of days.

Why don't you get some rest?

We've got everything
under control here.

I think I'll do that, sir. Thank you.

La forge to counselor troi.

Troi: Go ahead, commander.

Counselor, do you have a minute?

Lieutenant barclay,
I've been calling you.

Why haven't you responded?
Reg, what are you doing?

- I'm walking.
- I see that. Where are you going?

Nowhere. I just don't get to see
these decks very often.

Look, there's stellar cartography.
I thought that was deck 11.

- Mr. Barclay.
- I was having trouble sleeping

and I'm trying to wear myself out.

It is a perfectly normal thing
to be doing, isn't it?

Commander la forge said you
seemed a little nervous this morning.

I'm always nervous.
Everybody knows that.

He also mentioned that you said

you saw something
in the transporter beam.

I was wrong. They checked
the transporter and there wasn't.

There was nothing.
I imagined the whole thing.

You don't sound
very convinced of that.

Listen, counselor, I really appreciate
your concern in this matter,

but I wish you wouldn't continue
with this conversation.

I'm really perfectly fine.

Mr. Barclay,
you're exhausted and highly agitated.

And I cannot allow
a member of this crew

to endanger himself or others.

I'm not endangering anyone else
and I really wish you...

I think it would be in your best interest
to take a leave of absence.

Reg, I'm temporarily
relieving you of duty.

Fine.

Fine.

Do what you have to do, counselor.

Computer, more birds.

End stress reduction program.

- Water.
- Computer: Specify temperature.

I don't care. Just give me water.

Calm, calm. Stay calm.

Computer, let's try some music.

Something soothing.

Sir, begging your pardon,
but couldn't this wait until morning?

Chief, I've just...
I've been reviewing the transport logs.

What are these energy variations
that keep appearing?

There was one
when I was transported

- to the science ship, you see?
- Yeah, they're just, uh...

They're just ionic fluctuations
as a result of our interlock

with the yosemite's
transporter system.

A fluctuation occurred
while I was inside the matter stream.

There's nothing to worry about, sir.

I need you to transport me
to the science ship

and then directly back again.

And while I'm in the beam,

can you re-create
one of those ionic fluctuations?

I guess so.

If you don't mind my asking sir,
what for?

Commander la forge
wants some tricorder readings

on those fluctuations.

- We can do that from right here.
- No. I...

The transporter sensors
may not be sensitive enough.

Now, I'm giving you an order,
Mr. O'brien.

Aye, sir.

If you don't mind
my making an observation, sir.

You forgot to bring a tricorder.

Either there's something in there,
or I'm going crazy

and I've just got to know.

You can understand that, can't you?

Yes, sir, I can. Stand by, sir.

I want you to wake the senior staff.

And then I saw it again
just 20 minutes ago.

It was the same, exact thing

just moving around
in the transporter beam.

Let me get this straight.
You think this thing was alive?

It was dark and distorted

and it had what looked like a mouth.

A mouth?

I don't see anything wrong
with his arm.

Reg, why did you wait so long
to tell anybody about your arm?

Well, I thought I was hallucinating,
that I had, um...

That it was transporter psychosis.

But now I know
what I saw in there was real.

I was the only one who experienced
ionic fluctuations in the transport.

Maybe that's why no one else saw it.

Mr. Barclay, I've been told that
you've been under considerable strain

during the past few days.

Isn't it possible
that you simply imagined...?

I know what you're going to say,
captain.

I know I've been acting strange lately.
But you've got to believe me.

I would never have called you in here
unless I was absolutely certain.

Mr. La forge, get Mr. O'brien.

Take that transporter system apart
piece by piece if you have to.

Mr. Worf, I want a level 3
security alert until further notice.

Aye, sir.

I'll run a micro-cellular scan
of Mr. Barclay's arm.

It might take some time,
but if there's a problem, I'll find it.

Keep me apprised. Dismissed.

I'm picking up minute levels
of residual ionization

from the sub-dermal tissue
of his left arm.

The patterns correspond exactly

to those we measured
in lieutenant Kelly's body.

And in the sample container
from the science ship.

There's no question.

You have been exposed to the same
high energy plasma they were.

So something did happen to me
in the transporter beam.

You might have been exposed
to something from the science ship.

You did say something touched
your left arm during transport.

And that's exactly
where the ionization is focused.

Does this ionization pose
a threat to Mr. Barclay?

It might.

I'll have to run
a base-pair correlation

to see if there's any sign
of DNA breakdown.

Sir, commander la forge and I
were planning to re-create

the circumstances of the explosion
on the yosemite.

And that might give us
some answers.

Permission to continue
with the experiment?

Granted. Tell Mr. O'brien to take
all the primary transporters off-line.

I don't want to risk
any further contaminations.

Make sure you take
all the necessary safety precautions.

Aye, sir.

I'd like you to wear
this monitoring device.

It will tell me if there's the slightest
sign of increased ionization.

Yes, doctor.

Structural reinforcement
is at 240 percent.

Activating containment field.

Well, that should do it.

Reg, we've locked on to the
coordinates of the plasma streamer.

Go ahead and beam aboard
a sample.

Aye, sir.

Okay.

What would they have done first?

Standard analysis begins
with a resonance frequency scan.

That sounds like a good place to start.
Let's do that.

Data:
Initiating resonance sweep.

Frequency range at three...

Barclay,
check the containment field.

The field is at its maximum limit,
but it is holding.

My visor's picking up
bio-magnetic energy.

Highly complex patterns.

You know,
I think these things are alive.

Reg?

Reg.

Reg.

- Life forms?
- That is correct.

They appear to be
quasi-energy microbes

that exist within the distortion field
of the plasma streamer.

We didn't detect them until we tried
to run the resonance frequency scan.

Apparently they didn't like it very much.
They shattered the sample container.

Which caused a plasma explosion
similar to the one on the science ship.

Exactly.

When we linked up
with their transporter system,

one or more of the microbes
must have gotten into our system.

We think they're still caught
in the buffer.

It might explain what you saw.

But what I saw
was much bigger than a microbe.

Normal spatial relationships

are often distorted
within the matter stream.

Your perceptions
may have been exaggerated.

Some of these microbes
are also in your body, reg.

Inside me?

They were in lieutenant Kelly's body
as well.

That's what caused the contractions
during the autopsy.

The bio-filter should have screened
them out, but it didn't.

The microbes exist simultaneously
as both matter and energy.

The bio-filter cannot distinguish them
from the matter stream.

Right, but if we held barclay
suspended in mid-transport,

at the point where matter starts
to lose molecular cohesion...

The molecules would begin
to emit nucleonic particles.

We may be able to derive a pattern
the computer would recognize.

La forge: And then reprogram the
bio-filters and screen the microbes out.

I think this will work, reg.

You'd suspend me?
I don't like the sound of this.

We would have to keep you
in there for a while.

How long?

Thirty, 40 seconds, it's tough to tell.
But I think it'd be safe.

But if I'm in the matter stream
toolong...

Your pattern would degrade

to the point where your signal
would be permanently lost.

After 15 seconds or so on the beam,
you may start to feel lightheaded.

Try to stay calm.

And it's important
not to move around too much.

Right.

Initializing the backup
pattern buffer.

Holding at stand by.

You ready, reg?

Energize.

Molecular resolution at 60 percent.

Engaging static mode.

His pattern is locked and holding.

Starting bio-filter scan.

Signal's holding.

The imaging scanners
still haven't isolated the microbes.

I'll try increasing
molecular dispersion.

His signal resolution's down
to 55 percent.

Don't worry. I can hold him together.

Commander, his signal resolution's
down to 50 percent.

- We need to bring him back.
- I know.

Just give me one more second.

We need more dispersion.
Increase phase transition frequency.

Aye, sir.

The imaging scanners are actuating.

Got it.

Pattern acquisition positive.

Programming bio-filter.

Don't worry, reg,
this won't hurt a bit.

I'm reading a 92 percent increase
in mass.

There's something in the beam
with him.

- Security to transporter room 3.
- Worf: Right away.

I'm setting up a force field
around the chamber.

Drop the force field.

There are more crew members
in the beam.

You have to grab them and hold on.

Understood. Follow me.

La forge: Reg, what happened?

Well, when I saw that
there was more than one of them,

I thought maybe the other crew

were trying to do
the same thing that we were.

We were infected with something.

Lieutenant Kelly tried
to re-program the bio-filter.

Well, it looks like he pushed molecular
dispersion past the integrity point.

Your patterns got caught
in the beam.

The residual energy
from the plasma streamer.

It must have amplified
the charge in the buffer

enough to keep your patterns
from degrading.

Picard:
Captain's log, stardate 46043.6.

The reprogrammed bio-filter
was effective

in removing the alien microbes

from Mr. Barclay
and the four crew members.

The microbes have been returned
to the plasma streamer.

- Chief?
- Lieutenant.

I'm glad you could make it.

You know, I think this
is the first time we've ever spoken

outside of the transporter room.

Well, to be honest,
I've always avoided you.

Why?

Because you run the transporters
and I hate the transporters.

At least, I used to.

So, what's in the box?

I thought you might like
to meet Christina.

Christina, lieutenant barclay.

That's your pet spider.

Lycosa tarantula.

Don't worry, she won't bite.

She's very large.

I found her on Titus iv.
Almost stepped on her by accident.

I'll get us a couple of drinks, okay?

Keep an eye on her, will you?

Sure.

Uh, chief?