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He hasn't left me
with a single shot.

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ln that case, pal,
call a safety.

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Safety?

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Yeah, it's a defensive strategy.

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Since you can't make a shot,

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the idea is to leave
the cue ball

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somewhere on the table

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where Tuvok can't make a shot,
either.

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l don't know.
lt sounds cowardly.

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Suit yourself, pal,
but, uh, if you leave

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''Vulcan Slim'' over here
with an open shot,

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he's got a very good chance
of running the table.

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All right... safety.

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Ah!

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Mr. Vulcan, let's see you reason
your way out of this conundrum.

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This safety business

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is a lot more satisfying
than l imagined.

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l've left him
with an impossible shot.

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The shot may be difficult,
Mr. Neelix,

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but to say that it is impossible
is an exaggeration.

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Go ahead, then.

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Call your shot.

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Logic would dictate that if
l strike the cue ball properly,

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it will deflect first off
the rear bumper, then the side,

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striking the 1 1 ball
and causing it to roll

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directly into the corner pocket.

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This l have to see.

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Perhaps the ship's stabilizers

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are not operating
at peak efficiency.

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Yeah, and maybe Tom Terrific
over here forgot to tell you

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that Sandrine's table rolls
a little to the ''east.''

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You should have called a safety.

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Janeway to Mr. Neelix.
Please report to the Bridge.

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You wanted to see me, Captain?

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Yes, Neelix.

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We've received
a subspace message

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from an approaching vessel.

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They're asking for you.

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Me?

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The alien ship is entering
visual range, Captain.

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Slow to impulse.
On screen.

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Do you recognize it?

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That's a Haakonian shuttle.

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Haakonian?

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My people were at war with them
for the better part of a decade.

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They...

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conquered my homeworld
more than 15 years ago.

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Any idea what the Haakonians
want with you now?

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None at all.

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The shuttle is hailing us,
Captain.

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Open a channel.

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Channel open.

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l'm Captain Kathryn Janeway

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of the Federation
Starship Voyager.

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What can we do for you?

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As l stated in my message,
Captain,

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l understand you have
a Talaxian called Neelix

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aboard your vessel.

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l'm Neelix.

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What do you want?

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lt is a matter
of utmost urgency.

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However, l would prefer
to speak with you privately.

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Your life may very well
depend upon it.

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Who are you?

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Forgive me.

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l am Jetrel.

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Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel.

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Neelix...

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He's a mass murderer!

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When l was much younger,

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my family and l lived
on a moon called Rinax--

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a colony with
the most temperate climate

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in the entire Talaxian system.

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Warm days, balmy nights...

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until the metreon cascade.

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Melodic name, isn't it?

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Especially for a weapon
of mass destruction.

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And Jetrel was somehow
involved with this weapon?

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Dr. Jetrel was the scientist
who conceived

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the metreon cascade,
then he led the team

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of scientists who built it.

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l see.

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ln the blink of an eye,

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Rinax was enveloped
by a deadly cloud

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and those lovely days

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were turned into one endless,
frigid night.

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More than 300,000 were killed.

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But you... survived.

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l had the good fortune
to be on Talax at the time,

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with our defense forces,

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preparing for an invasion
that never came.

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lt wasn't necessary.

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The day after the cascade
was deployed,

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Talax surrendered
unconditionally

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to the Haakonian Order.

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And your family?

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l am so sorry.

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Dr. Jetrel.

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Lieutenant Tuvok,
my Chief of Security.

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l have heard of your transporter
technology, Captain,

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but to experience it firsthand
is truly remarkable.

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Mr. Neelix has declined
to meet with you.

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That's not surprising.

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l'm afraid l am not
a very popular figure

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among the Talaxian people.

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May we show you
to your quarters?

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Mr. Neelix has
given me permission

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to speak on his behalf.

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You indicated that he may be
in some kind of danger...

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Yes. lt's imperative
that he undergo

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a complete medical examination.

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For what purpose?

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Our war records show
that he was part of the team

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that returned to Rinax
after the cascade

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in order to evacuate survivors.

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He was exposed
to high concentrations

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of metreon isotopes.

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ln recent years, several
of the rescuers have developed

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a degenerative blood disease
called metremia.

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ls it serious?

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l am afraid that it's fatal.

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The disease attacks its victims
on a molecular level.

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lt may lay dormant for years,

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but once it manifests itself,

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it will cause
the body's atomic structure

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to undergo fission.

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The cells will begin
to disintegrate.

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My equipment
is specifically designed

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to detect the subatomic
signature of the disorder.

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May l ask, Doctor,
why you've taken it

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upon yourself to examine
Mr. Neelix?

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l've evaluated
as many members of the team

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as possible, collecting data,
in hopes that one day,

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my research will lead
to a cure for metremia.

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Please, try to persuade
Mr. Neelix to see me.

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Each Talaxian l screen

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brings me one step closer
to a cure.

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Neelix, why didn't you ever
tell me about the war?

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Maybe this is one experience
that can't be shared.

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lt's too...

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hard to...

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describe how l feel

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to someone who didn't
see what l saw.

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l'm sorry.

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You have nothing to be
sorry about, Neelix.

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Excuse me.

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Captain, back from your doctor's
appointment already?

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l'm afraid l have some...
disturbing news, Neelix.

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Nothing you tell me
could make this day

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any more disturbing
than it's already been.

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According to Jetrel,
you were exposed

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to dangerous levels
of metreon poisoning

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and may be at risk of developing
a fatal blood disorder.

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He wants to screen you
for the disease.

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Uh, Captain...

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please tell Dr. Jetrel
that l am... touched

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by his tender concern
for my state of health,

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but that l'd rather be immersed

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in a pit of Krallinian eels
than be examined by him.

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Neelix, if there's
something wrong with you,

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we should find out.

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l don't want that man
within ten parsecs of me!

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l understand your feelings,

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but this is your life
we're talking about.

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Don't either of you find it
the slightest bit strange

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that a man who has made
it his life's work

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to develop a weapon

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to destroy as many
Talaxians as possible

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should suddenly be concerned
with this Talaxian's health?

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l don't know
what his motives are.

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Maybe he's trying
to undo some of the damage

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his weapon caused,
but he seems sincere, Neelix,

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and at this point,
l have no reason to doubt him.

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lf the disease is fatal,

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what's the point of knowing
whether l have it or not?

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Our Doctor is
the most skilled physician

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either of us has ever met.

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lf you have this disease,

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he won't stop until he's found
some way to treat it.

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And if Jetrel discovers
you don't have the disease,

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at least you'll have
peace of mind.

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Peace of mind
is a relative thing, Captain.

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l simply want you to hear
what he has to say,

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then if you still don't
want him to examine you,

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no one will force you.

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Oh, outnumbered and outflanked.

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All right, then.

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l surrender.

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The metreon isotopes are unique.

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Their rate of decay
is highly variable.

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We have found
that it's sometimes years

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before metremia sets in,
and unfortunately...

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Why are you doing this?

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l beg your pardon?

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ls it all just
scientific curiosity?

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Metreons and isotopes?

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Or do you feel... guilty
about what you did?

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Guilty.

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l do not regret it.

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l did what had to be done.

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Really? lt was necessary
to vaporize

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more than a quarter
of a million people

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and to leave thousands of others

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to be eaten away
by metreon poisoning?

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Would it make any difference
if l told you

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we never thought there would be
any radiation poisoning--

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that anyone close enough
to be exposed

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would be killed
by the initial blast?

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lt was unfortunate
we were wrong.

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Unfortunate?!

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Did you hear that, Captain?

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lt was ''unfortunate.''

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Neelix, l think
what Dr. Jetrel is trying...

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No, Captain.
That's all right.

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l'm used to it.

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l'm simply a scientist.

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Yes, l developed the weapon,

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but it was the government
and the military leaders

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who decided to use it, not l.

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That must be a very convenient
distinction for you.

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Does it help you sleep at night?

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l slept no worse last night

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than l have any other night
for the past 15 years.

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What is that supposed to mean?

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lt means l must

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live with my conscience
as you must live with yours.

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How many did you kill
during the war?

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Gentlemen, please.

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This is obviously very difficult
for both of you,

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but we are not here
to debate history.

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We are here to talk
about Neelix's condition.

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Don't worry about it,

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Captain, because Dr. Jetrel
will have to find himself

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another laboratory rodent
to help his experiments.

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Because l would rather die
than help you

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ease your conscience.

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l do not expect you
to like me, Mr. Neelix,

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nor do l hope to allay
your obvious pain

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with moral arguments,

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but l do believe
l can help you--

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if not you, others of your race.

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00:14:08,347 --> 00:14:12,909
lsn't that more important
than punishing me?

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00:14:23,429 --> 00:14:26,887
Are you... sure
you can't do this?

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Your newfound confidence in me
is flattering, Mr. Neelix,

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but Dr. Jetrel has instruments
designed specifically

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to analyze Talaxian physiology.

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Just get it over with.

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Did l ever... tell you

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about the notorious
two-tailed talchoks of Rinax?

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l don't think so.

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Nasty little vermin.

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Sharp claws, dripping fangs.

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Ew! lt was quite a nuisance.

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So one summer when l was a boy,

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l decided to do
something about them.

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l spent weeks tinkering,

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creating
a foolproof talchok trap.

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Once l perfected it,
l set it in the garden.

259
00:15:14,747 --> 00:15:17,910
And the next day,
l found one of those beasts

260
00:15:17,983 --> 00:15:19,382
pinned at the neck.

261
00:15:19,451 --> 00:15:21,851
But it wasn't dead.

262
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:26,756
lt was squirming and squealing
in agony.

263
00:15:26,825 --> 00:15:29,794
And suddenly, it didn't
look so fiendish anymore.

264
00:15:29,862 --> 00:15:32,592
lt looked like
a poor, innocent animal.

265
00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:35,600
What a horrible story.

266
00:15:35,668 --> 00:15:38,398
Well, you see, l had become
so fascinated with my invention

267
00:15:38,470 --> 00:15:39,732
that l never really thought

268
00:15:39,805 --> 00:15:41,773
about how that poor creature
would suffer.

269
00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,603
Are you finished?

270
00:15:43,676 --> 00:15:44,973
For now.

271
00:15:46,445 --> 00:15:48,140
So am l.

272
00:15:48,213 --> 00:15:49,510
And?

273
00:15:49,581 --> 00:15:51,708
l'm sorry, Mr. Neelix.

274
00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:53,342
Sorry? Why are you sorry?

275
00:15:54,653 --> 00:15:57,247
l'm afraid you have
incipient metremia.

276
00:16:20,379 --> 00:16:21,505
Come in!

277
00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:25,276
How are you feeling?

278
00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:27,376
Kes, my sweet.

279
00:16:28,721 --> 00:16:31,690
l'll have you know
this is not the first time

280
00:16:31,757 --> 00:16:34,590
l have stared into
the gaping maw of death.

281
00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:37,891
Why once, during the Battle
of the Pyrithian Gorge,

282
00:16:37,963 --> 00:16:42,525
l faced down an entire battery
of Haakonian artillery.

283
00:16:42,601 --> 00:16:46,093
There l was with only
a small crevice for cover...

284
00:16:46,171 --> 00:16:48,537
Neelix, you're
protecting me again.

285
00:16:48,607 --> 00:16:52,509
l can understand your not
wanting to talk about Rinax.

286
00:16:52,578 --> 00:16:54,569
l wasn't there.
You're right.

287
00:16:54,646 --> 00:16:57,410
But l'm here now with you.

288
00:16:57,483 --> 00:17:00,111
We have to face this together.

289
00:17:02,054 --> 00:17:05,751
Well, there's one good thing
that will come from all this.

290
00:17:05,824 --> 00:17:10,386
When l first met you,
l didn't know that your species

291
00:17:10,462 --> 00:17:12,953
only lived eight or nine years.

292
00:17:13,032 --> 00:17:15,557
l fell in love with you

293
00:17:15,634 --> 00:17:18,660
without knowing
how lonely it would be

294
00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:21,399
to live without you
after you're gone.

295
00:17:21,473 --> 00:17:23,907
Now that l'm going
to die first,

296
00:17:23,976 --> 00:17:26,444
l don't have to worry about it.

297
00:17:26,512 --> 00:17:27,911
Before l met you,

298
00:17:28,013 --> 00:17:31,005
eight or nine years
seemed like an eternity.

299
00:17:31,083 --> 00:17:34,610
lt never occurred to me
that anyone could live longer.

300
00:17:34,686 --> 00:17:36,210
Now that we're together,

301
00:17:36,288 --> 00:17:37,915
no matter how many years
we have left,

302
00:17:38,023 --> 00:17:39,752
it doesn't seem like enough.

303
00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:45,030
But the important thing is

304
00:17:45,097 --> 00:17:48,089
to cherish whatever
time we have together.

305
00:17:49,768 --> 00:17:52,737
Whether it's a day or a decade.

306
00:18:03,148 --> 00:18:04,581
Come in.

307
00:18:06,185 --> 00:18:07,880
Am l interrupting?

308
00:18:10,022 --> 00:18:11,956
Please, sit down.

309
00:18:13,459 --> 00:18:18,192
Captain, l must tell you,
your ship is simply astounding.

310
00:18:18,263 --> 00:18:21,027
l have been studying
your transporter system.

311
00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:22,727
Transporter systems?

312
00:18:22,801 --> 00:18:25,361
l would think you'd be
more concerned with Mr. Neelix.

313
00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:26,734
Forgive me.

314
00:18:26,805 --> 00:18:29,740
But that is what l am here
to talk about.

315
00:18:29,808 --> 00:18:33,403
l believe with a relatively
few minor modifications,

316
00:18:33,479 --> 00:18:35,777
the transporter system
could be used

317
00:18:35,848 --> 00:18:38,373
to retrieve a sample
of the metreon cloud

318
00:18:38,450 --> 00:18:39,917
surrounding Rinax.

319
00:18:39,985 --> 00:18:41,179
To what end?

320
00:18:41,253 --> 00:18:44,222
l've always believed
that if l could isolate

321
00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:46,655
the free isotope
that causes metremia,

322
00:18:46,725 --> 00:18:50,161
it could be used
to synthesize an antibody.

323
00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:53,422
Then theoretically,

324
00:18:53,499 --> 00:18:57,697
a victim's own immune system
could destroy the disease.

325
00:18:57,769 --> 00:19:00,237
Yes, Captain,
and your transporter system

326
00:19:00,305 --> 00:19:01,795
makes it all possible.

327
00:19:01,874 --> 00:19:04,172
ls the isotope stable enough
to be transported?

328
00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:06,177
l believe so.

329
00:19:06,245 --> 00:19:08,679
We could construct
a containment field

330
00:19:08,747 --> 00:19:10,612
to prevent any contamination
of the ship.

331
00:19:10,682 --> 00:19:12,240
And l could have
our Doctor assist you

332
00:19:12,317 --> 00:19:13,807
with synthesizing the antibody.

333
00:19:13,886 --> 00:19:15,478
My thoughts exactly.

334
00:19:15,554 --> 00:19:17,249
Janeway to Bridge.

335
00:19:17,322 --> 00:19:18,584
Chakotay here, Captain.

336
00:19:18,657 --> 00:19:21,626
Have Dr. Jetrel's vessel
tractored into the shuttlebay.

337
00:19:21,693 --> 00:19:24,184
And lay in a course
for the Talaxian system.

338
00:19:24,263 --> 00:19:26,458
That's a significant detour,
Captain.

339
00:19:26,532 --> 00:19:27,897
l'm aware of that, Commander,

340
00:19:28,066 --> 00:19:30,864
but it may mean saving
Neelix's life.

341
00:19:30,936 --> 00:19:32,597
Understood.

342
00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:34,866
l'll send a message to Talax
requesting permission

343
00:19:34,973 --> 00:19:36,668
to transport material
from the cloud.

344
00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:39,108
ln the meantime, Lieutenant
Torres in Engineering

345
00:19:39,178 --> 00:19:40,611
can give you a hand

346
00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:43,307
with the transporter
modifications.

347
00:19:43,382 --> 00:19:44,906
Thank you, Captain.

348
00:19:45,017 --> 00:19:47,247
Thank you, Dr. Jetrel.

349
00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:50,015
lt's a very promising idea.

350
00:19:53,959 --> 00:19:55,449
What is it?

351
00:19:56,662 --> 00:19:58,653
Nothing.
l just think, uh...

352
00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,631
l'm a little overexcited
about the prospects

353
00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:05,158
of discovering a cure,
and all that sparring

354
00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:07,398
with Mr. Neelix
does take a toll.

355
00:20:07,472 --> 00:20:09,497
Maybe you should let the Doctor
have a look at you.

356
00:20:09,575 --> 00:20:12,567
No, l'm fine,
and there's so much to be done.

357
00:20:12,644 --> 00:20:14,305
l want to start right away.

358
00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:25,281
Captain's Log, Stardate 48832.1.

359
00:20:25,357 --> 00:20:28,155
Kes has prevailed upon Neelix
to allow Dr. Jetrel

360
00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:30,127
to continue metabolic scans

361
00:20:30,195 --> 00:20:32,220
in the hope that it will
facilitate treatment

362
00:20:32,297 --> 00:20:35,858
once the antibody
has been synthesized.

363
00:20:35,934 --> 00:20:38,926
Will you be needing
my assistance, Doctor?

364
00:20:39,004 --> 00:20:41,404
Not until we have the isotope.

365
00:20:41,473 --> 00:20:45,000
Mr. Neelix, is there
anything more l can do for you?

366
00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:46,977
Very well then.

367
00:20:47,045 --> 00:20:51,038
Computer, override Command
1-EMH-Alpha and end program.

368
00:20:52,551 --> 00:20:53,848
lncredible.

369
00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:58,688
A hologram
that can deactivate itself.

370
00:20:58,757 --> 00:21:00,691
ls there anything
besides science

371
00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:03,250
that makes your heart
beat faster, Jetrel?

372
00:21:03,328 --> 00:21:04,727
Not anymore.

373
00:21:04,796 --> 00:21:07,356
Now would you please sit down?

374
00:21:11,470 --> 00:21:15,236
You know
what l've been thinking?

375
00:21:15,307 --> 00:21:19,368
lf l'd been in charge
of the cascade,

376
00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:21,435
l'd have...

377
00:21:21,513 --> 00:21:23,208
l don't know...

378
00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:25,273
chosen a military target

379
00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:30,982
or simply deployed it
on an uninhabited planet.

380
00:21:31,089 --> 00:21:32,647
Somehow l don't think

381
00:21:32,724 --> 00:21:35,420
l'd have targeted
innocent civilians.

382
00:21:35,494 --> 00:21:36,791
The military strategists

383
00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:39,194
did not think a demonstration
would work.

384
00:21:39,264 --> 00:21:41,960
They wanted to show
the power of the cascade,

385
00:21:42,034 --> 00:21:43,399
in all its horror.

386
00:21:43,468 --> 00:21:47,199
You should have tried
to stop them!

387
00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:49,331
Why didn't you speak out?

388
00:21:49,408 --> 00:21:51,706
People would have listened
to you.

389
00:21:51,777 --> 00:21:56,043
lt would not have made
any difference.

390
00:21:56,114 --> 00:21:58,844
lf l had not discovered
the cascade,

391
00:21:58,917 --> 00:21:59,975
it would have been someone else.

392
00:22:00,085 --> 00:22:01,575
Don't you see?

393
00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:03,554
lt was a scientific
inevitability--

394
00:22:03,622 --> 00:22:07,114
one discovery flowing
naturally to the next.

395
00:22:07,192 --> 00:22:08,921
Something so enormous as science

396
00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:12,054
will not stop for something
as small as man, Mr. Neelix.

397
00:22:12,130 --> 00:22:14,928
So you did it for science.

398
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,059
For my planet.

399
00:22:17,135 --> 00:22:20,229
And, yes, for science--

400
00:22:20,305 --> 00:22:23,365
to know whether or not
it could be done.

401
00:22:23,442 --> 00:22:27,276
lt's good to know
how the world works.

402
00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:29,780
lt is not possible
to be a scientist

403
00:22:29,848 --> 00:22:32,408
unless you believe
that all the knowledge

404
00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:35,078
of the universe and all
the power that it bestows

405
00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:39,453
is of intrinsic value
to everyone,

406
00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:43,392
and one must share
that knowledge...

407
00:22:43,462 --> 00:22:46,329
and allow it to be applied,

408
00:22:46,398 --> 00:22:51,097
and then be willing
to live with the consequences.

409
00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:54,371
Consequences?

410
00:22:54,439 --> 00:22:57,408
Who are you
to talk about consequences?

411
00:22:57,476 --> 00:23:00,377
You are not the only one
to lose family

412
00:23:00,445 --> 00:23:02,379
during the war, Mr. Neelix.

413
00:23:02,447 --> 00:23:04,039
Your family was killed?

414
00:23:04,116 --> 00:23:06,607
Nothing as clean as death.

415
00:23:08,787 --> 00:23:12,848
When l returned home,
after the cascade, to my wife--

416
00:23:12,924 --> 00:23:15,222
my lovely wife Ka'Ree--

417
00:23:15,293 --> 00:23:19,093
she could not bear
to look at me.

418
00:23:19,164 --> 00:23:23,260
When l would reach out for her,
she would pull away

419
00:23:23,335 --> 00:23:25,803
as if l had
some contagious disease.

420
00:23:25,871 --> 00:23:30,808
You see, like you, she thought
l had become a monster.

421
00:23:30,876 --> 00:23:35,074
Shortly after that,
she took my three children...

422
00:23:36,281 --> 00:23:39,250
and l have not seen them since.

423
00:23:39,317 --> 00:23:42,047
That's a sad story, Jetrel.

424
00:23:43,755 --> 00:23:47,623
But let me tell you another one.

425
00:23:47,692 --> 00:23:53,324
A man goes back to Rinax
after the cascade,

426
00:23:53,398 --> 00:23:59,098
back to what had been his home,
to look for survivors.

427
00:23:59,171 --> 00:24:03,403
But the impact of the blast
has set off hundreds of fires

428
00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:08,707
and there's nothing there,
just smoldering ruins

429
00:24:08,747 --> 00:24:11,181
and the stench of seared flesh.

430
00:24:11,249 --> 00:24:12,841
But in the distance,

431
00:24:12,918 --> 00:24:15,352
in the middle
of all that emptiness,

432
00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:17,911
from out of this...

433
00:24:18,023 --> 00:24:20,890
huge cloud of billowing dust...

434
00:24:23,161 --> 00:24:27,928
he can see bodies moving,

435
00:24:28,033 --> 00:24:29,557
whimpering,

436
00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:32,296
coming toward him.

437
00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:37,403
They're monsters...

438
00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:40,411
their flesh horribly charred.

439
00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:42,845
The color of shale.

440
00:24:46,585 --> 00:24:49,053
One of them comes toward him.

441
00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:53,621
Mangled arms outstretched.

442
00:24:55,627 --> 00:24:57,356
And he can't help it.

443
00:24:57,429 --> 00:25:00,592
He, h-he turns away, frightened.

444
00:25:00,665 --> 00:25:04,567
But then the thing speaks.

445
00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:08,864
And he knows by the sound
of her voice

446
00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:12,909
that she's not a monster
at all, but a child...

447
00:25:12,978 --> 00:25:15,037
a little girl.

448
00:25:15,113 --> 00:25:18,207
Mr. Neelix, l...

449
00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:25,712
Her name was Palaxia.

450
00:25:27,959 --> 00:25:31,360
We brought her back to Talax
with the other survivors.

451
00:25:31,429 --> 00:25:36,731
Over the next few weeks,
l stayed at her bedside

452
00:25:36,801 --> 00:25:38,928
and watched her wither away.

453
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,433
Those are consequences,
Dr. Jetrel.

454
00:25:50,582 --> 00:25:52,846
There is no way

455
00:25:52,918 --> 00:25:56,445
l can ever apologize to you,
Mr. Neelix.

456
00:25:57,956 --> 00:26:00,618
That's why l have not tried.

457
00:26:03,161 --> 00:26:07,188
Did you ever think
that maybe your wife was right?

458
00:26:07,265 --> 00:26:09,825
That you had become a monster?

459
00:26:10,936 --> 00:26:12,062
Yes.

460
00:26:14,573 --> 00:26:16,871
The day we tested the cascade,

461
00:26:17,008 --> 00:26:24,141
when l saw that blinding light
brighter than a thousand suns...

462
00:26:24,215 --> 00:26:29,482
l knew at that moment
exactly what l had become.

463
00:26:29,554 --> 00:26:33,513
l hope you have to live
with that a very long time.

464
00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:38,459
l'm afraid you will not
get your wish, Mr. Neelix.

465
00:26:38,530 --> 00:26:40,327
And why is that?

466
00:26:42,233 --> 00:26:44,030
l have advanced metremia.

467
00:26:44,102 --> 00:26:47,299
l will be dead
in a matter of days.

468
00:26:55,547 --> 00:26:57,845
lt's your turn!

469
00:26:57,916 --> 00:26:59,975
There's no open shot.

470
00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:01,849
Why don't you call a safety,
Neelix?

471
00:27:01,886 --> 00:27:03,877
lsn't that what you always do?

472
00:27:04,990 --> 00:27:06,457
l'm no coward.

473
00:27:06,524 --> 00:27:07,684
That's not what l've heard.

474
00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:09,750
Wait! What are you doing?
lt's my turn.

475
00:27:09,828 --> 00:27:11,090
You lost your chance to play.

476
00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:13,027
Now you're going to lose.

477
00:27:13,098 --> 00:27:15,532
Neelix, where did you go?

478
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,363
Why did you leave us?

479
00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:19,665
l did what l thought was right.

480
00:27:19,738 --> 00:27:20,966
You were afraid!

481
00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:22,006
No!

482
00:27:22,073 --> 00:27:23,199
l...!

483
00:27:23,274 --> 00:27:24,366
Neelix...

484
00:27:24,442 --> 00:27:25,500
Who are you?

485
00:27:25,577 --> 00:27:26,805
lt's me, Palaxia.

486
00:27:26,878 --> 00:27:28,402
Palaxia?!

487
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,313
Why weren't you here to help us?

488
00:27:37,188 --> 00:27:38,155
You!

489
00:27:38,223 --> 00:27:41,056
You did this, butcher!

490
00:27:45,563 --> 00:27:47,360
Bridge to Neelix.

491
00:27:52,303 --> 00:27:54,032
H-here, Captain.

492
00:27:54,105 --> 00:27:56,232
Neelix,
l thought you'd like to know.

493
00:27:56,307 --> 00:27:58,741
We're approaching Rinax.

494
00:28:02,113 --> 00:28:03,478
Neelix?

495
00:28:05,617 --> 00:28:07,141
Thank you, Captain.

496
00:28:07,218 --> 00:28:09,846
l'll be right there.

497
00:28:09,921 --> 00:28:12,685
Entering synchronous orbit,
Captain.

498
00:28:24,602 --> 00:28:26,092
Hard to believe

499
00:28:26,171 --> 00:28:29,800
that on clear nights,
you could look up from Talax

500
00:28:29,874 --> 00:28:32,434
and see the shimmering lights
of the colony.

501
00:28:35,246 --> 00:28:37,043
The night of the cascade,

502
00:28:37,115 --> 00:28:41,051
a bright flash
cut across the sky.

503
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:47,683
lt was so blinding that people
threw themselves to the ground,

504
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:53,561
and everything stopped
like a moment out of time.

505
00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:55,223
Then we all looked up

506
00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:59,498
to see where the flash
had come from,

507
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:03,405
but the sky seemed oddly empty.

508
00:29:05,977 --> 00:29:07,774
lt took most of us
a few seconds to realize

509
00:29:07,846 --> 00:29:12,146
it was because Rinax was...

510
00:29:12,217 --> 00:29:13,844
gone.

511
00:29:13,918 --> 00:29:15,852
Of course, the moon
was still there.

512
00:29:15,954 --> 00:29:19,617
We just couldn't see it
because of that metreon cloud.

513
00:29:19,691 --> 00:29:21,352
Engineering to Bridge.

514
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,122
We're ready to begin transporter
presequencing, Captain.

515
00:29:24,195 --> 00:29:25,685
Acknowledged.

516
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:29,200
This brings back
too many memories, Captain.

517
00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:31,235
lf you'll excuse me?

518
00:29:39,744 --> 00:29:41,712
Of course.

519
00:29:46,918 --> 00:29:49,546
l believe l asked for
a larger container.

520
00:29:49,621 --> 00:29:51,282
Correct me if l'm wrong, Doctor,

521
00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:53,381
but we're talking
about a cloud sample

522
00:29:53,458 --> 00:29:56,188
large enough to contain
a few subatomic particles.

523
00:29:56,261 --> 00:29:57,193
Right?

524
00:29:57,262 --> 00:29:58,251
Yes, but the isotope

525
00:29:58,329 --> 00:30:00,263
accounts for just
a minuscule fraction

526
00:30:00,331 --> 00:30:01,662
of the cloud's total mass.

527
00:30:01,733 --> 00:30:03,257
l want to be sure we get enough.

528
00:30:03,334 --> 00:30:04,266
Don't worry.

529
00:30:04,335 --> 00:30:06,235
We do this all the time.

530
00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:07,931
Presequencing complete, Captain.

531
00:30:08,006 --> 00:30:09,974
l'm ready to begin transport.

532
00:30:10,074 --> 00:30:11,302
Proceed.

533
00:30:11,376 --> 00:30:13,139
Targeting scanners.

534
00:30:13,211 --> 00:30:15,907
Locking on.

535
00:30:15,980 --> 00:30:17,914
Energize.

536
00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:25,889
Captain, we have
the sample aboard.

537
00:30:25,957 --> 00:30:28,221
The containment field
is holding.

538
00:30:28,293 --> 00:30:30,284
Well done.
Janeway out.

539
00:30:30,361 --> 00:30:32,261
Good luck, Doctor.

540
00:30:46,377 --> 00:30:48,038
Neelix?

541
00:30:50,181 --> 00:30:52,479
Neelix, are you in here?

542
00:30:56,087 --> 00:30:57,486
Neelix?

543
00:31:03,561 --> 00:31:06,029
l've been looking
for you everywhere.

544
00:31:06,097 --> 00:31:08,930
Why did you take
your combadge off?

545
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,468
l wanted to be alone.

546
00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:17,941
l'm sorry to bother you,
but l was worried.

547
00:31:18,009 --> 00:31:20,170
l know how you must feel.

548
00:31:20,245 --> 00:31:23,180
No, you don't know.

549
00:31:23,248 --> 00:31:26,809
Not everything.

550
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:32,289
You don't know where l was
the night Rinax was destroyed.

551
00:31:32,357 --> 00:31:37,852
On Talax, fighting with
the defense forces.

552
00:31:37,929 --> 00:31:39,419
l was on Talax,

553
00:31:39,497 --> 00:31:43,490
but l wasn't fighting
with the defense forces.

554
00:31:45,803 --> 00:31:48,328
l was hiding from them.

555
00:31:53,378 --> 00:31:57,144
l wasn't a hero at the Battle
of the Pyrithian Gorge.

556
00:31:59,651 --> 00:32:01,915
l've never even been there.

557
00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:05,353
l don't understand.

558
00:32:07,091 --> 00:32:09,719
l never reported for duty.

559
00:32:09,794 --> 00:32:11,318
Why not?

560
00:32:12,897 --> 00:32:14,990
l thought the war was unjust....

561
00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:19,094
that Talax was fighting
for reasons

562
00:32:19,170 --> 00:32:22,139
that weren't
worth killing for...

563
00:32:24,208 --> 00:32:27,268
or at least that's
what l told myself.

564
00:32:29,347 --> 00:32:31,281
But...

565
00:32:31,349 --> 00:32:33,408
the real reason
l didn't report...

566
00:32:38,356 --> 00:32:40,415
was because l was a coward.

567
00:32:42,927 --> 00:32:44,451
Now you know.

568
00:32:50,668 --> 00:32:53,501
lf the Talaxian authorities
would have caught you,

569
00:32:53,571 --> 00:32:55,038
what would they have done?

570
00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:57,232
During wartime, punishment

571
00:32:57,308 --> 00:33:00,141
for refusing military service
was death.

572
00:33:00,211 --> 00:33:02,145
So...

573
00:33:02,213 --> 00:33:07,207
you put your life at risk
for something you believed in

574
00:33:07,285 --> 00:33:10,083
and you think
that makes you a coward.

575
00:33:10,154 --> 00:33:11,348
l don't understand.

576
00:33:11,422 --> 00:33:13,219
lt makes me a liar.

577
00:33:13,291 --> 00:33:15,589
l'd lied about it
all these years--

578
00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:17,787
to you, to Jetrel, to everyone.

579
00:33:17,862 --> 00:33:19,830
Because you're dishonest.

580
00:33:21,366 --> 00:33:23,926
Because l'm ashamed.

581
00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:27,699
What an awful burden you've
carried all these years.

582
00:33:27,772 --> 00:33:30,366
No wonder you're
so angry with Jetrel.

583
00:33:30,441 --> 00:33:31,908
Of course l am.

584
00:33:31,976 --> 00:33:33,603
He killed them all--

585
00:33:33,678 --> 00:33:37,444
my mother, my father,
my little brothers.

586
00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:39,913
ls that really why?

587
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,977
Ever since Jetrel came on board,
you've despised him.

588
00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:48,287
The hurt and anger
you've held in all these years

589
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:49,917
was vented right at him,

590
00:33:49,994 --> 00:33:53,794
but was it really Jetrel
you're angry with?

591
00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:56,698
ls he the one you blame
for what happened?

592
00:33:56,768 --> 00:33:58,497
l don't know.

593
00:33:58,569 --> 00:34:02,130
Or was he just
a convenient target

594
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,676
to keep you from looking
somewhere else?

595
00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:07,871
You mean...

596
00:34:09,347 --> 00:34:12,316
from looking at myself?

597
00:34:16,788 --> 00:34:21,191
You may be right...

598
00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:23,489
but l hate him

599
00:34:23,561 --> 00:34:27,156
and l don't think
l can stop hating him.

600
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:31,099
Maybe you have to stop
hating yourself first.

601
00:34:47,118 --> 00:34:49,848
Are we ready to begin synthesis?

602
00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:55,257
Computer, override Command
1-EMH-Alpha and end program.

603
00:34:55,326 --> 00:34:56,293
Now just wait one...

604
00:35:30,761 --> 00:35:31,728
Dr. Jetrel.

605
00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:33,161
You startled me.

606
00:35:33,231 --> 00:35:35,256
l'm sorry, but l need
to speak with you...

607
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:38,063
ls it possible,
we-we could talk later?

608
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:41,105
lt won't be long
before l am too weak to work.

609
00:35:41,172 --> 00:35:43,640
l would like to finish
before l die.

610
00:35:48,412 --> 00:35:49,379
What is that?

611
00:35:51,649 --> 00:35:55,847
You're engaging in some kind of
bizarre experiment, aren't you?

612
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,285
What is it this time?

613
00:35:57,355 --> 00:35:58,583
You don't understand.

614
00:35:58,656 --> 00:35:59,918
l can help them.

615
00:36:01,726 --> 00:36:03,853
What do you call that?

616
00:36:03,928 --> 00:36:05,862
Scientific progress?

617
00:36:05,930 --> 00:36:08,728
l'm going to the Captain.

618
00:36:16,707 --> 00:36:19,198
Any report on Dr. Jetrel's
progress, Commander?

619
00:36:19,277 --> 00:36:20,335
Not yet, Captain.

620
00:36:20,411 --> 00:36:21,503
Bridge to Sick Bay.

621
00:36:21,579 --> 00:36:22,739
Janeway to Sick Bay.

622
00:36:24,982 --> 00:36:28,008
Janeway to Dr. Jetrel.

623
00:36:29,387 --> 00:36:31,480
Computer, activate Emergency
Medical Hologram.

624
00:36:31,556 --> 00:36:32,750
Please, state the nature...

625
00:36:32,823 --> 00:36:34,848
What the hell is going on
down there, Doctor?

626
00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:37,394
Dr. Jetrel deactivated me.

627
00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:38,553
He's gone now.

628
00:36:38,629 --> 00:36:40,893
Computer, locate Dr. Jetrel.

629
00:36:40,965 --> 00:36:43,934
Dr. Jetrel
is in Transporter Room 1.

630
00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:46,435
And Mr. Neelix is unconscious.

631
00:36:46,504 --> 00:36:48,836
lt appears he's been
tranquilized.

632
00:36:50,541 --> 00:36:51,872
You have the Bridge, Commander.

633
00:36:51,943 --> 00:36:53,467
Security, meet me
in Transporter Room 1.

634
00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:54,511
Tuvok.

635
00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:04,850
Please, step aside, Doctor.

636
00:37:04,922 --> 00:37:06,014
You must let me continue.

637
00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:07,455
Lives depend on it.

638
00:37:07,525 --> 00:37:09,516
We've heard that
from you before.

639
00:37:09,594 --> 00:37:11,255
You're beginning
to lose credibility.

640
00:37:11,329 --> 00:37:13,422
Captain, l beg you.

641
00:37:13,497 --> 00:37:15,055
Let me bring them back.

642
00:37:15,132 --> 00:37:16,258
Bring who back?

643
00:37:16,334 --> 00:37:19,030
Who, Doctor?

644
00:37:19,103 --> 00:37:21,731
Who is it you're going
to bring back?

645
00:37:21,806 --> 00:37:25,173
The victims of Rinax.

646
00:37:34,185 --> 00:37:37,120
He's out of his mind, Captain.

647
00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:40,783
Please, look at my calculations.

648
00:37:40,858 --> 00:37:44,055
You remember what l told you
about metremia, Captain?

649
00:37:44,128 --> 00:37:47,063
How it causes the body's
atomic structure

650
00:37:47,131 --> 00:37:48,428
to undergo fission.

651
00:37:49,967 --> 00:37:52,333
lt mirrors the way

652
00:37:52,403 --> 00:37:55,668
the metreon cascade
vaporized its victims--

653
00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:58,174
through biomolecular
disintegration.

654
00:37:58,242 --> 00:38:01,075
Do we have to listen to this?

655
00:38:01,178 --> 00:38:04,147
l think we should hear him out.

656
00:38:04,181 --> 00:38:07,241
What l've been working on
for the past 15 years

657
00:38:07,318 --> 00:38:10,845
is a way to rebuild
that atomic structure.

658
00:38:10,921 --> 00:38:13,617
What l call regenerative fusion.

659
00:38:13,691 --> 00:38:14,658
Are you saying

660
00:38:14,725 --> 00:38:19,185
you're actually trying
to... restore

661
00:38:19,263 --> 00:38:22,391
people who were vaporized
by the metreon cascade?

662
00:38:22,466 --> 00:38:23,524
Yes.

663
00:38:25,469 --> 00:38:27,096
Given the degree
of fragmentation

664
00:38:27,171 --> 00:38:28,195
you're talking about,

665
00:38:28,272 --> 00:38:29,864
l don't see
how that's possible.

666
00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:32,568
The electrostatic properties
of the cloud are such

667
00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:34,372
that the disassembled
bio-matter

668
00:38:34,445 --> 00:38:37,881
has been held in a state
of animated suspension.

669
00:38:38,015 --> 00:38:41,849
l discovered years ago
that reintegration is possible.

670
00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:45,252
ls that what you were doing
with that thing in Sick Bay?

671
00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:46,654
Yes, exactly.

672
00:38:46,724 --> 00:38:47,918
Neelix saw it.

673
00:38:48,025 --> 00:38:49,822
lt was an amalgamation

674
00:38:49,894 --> 00:38:51,828
of randomly fused
organic material.

675
00:38:51,896 --> 00:38:55,559
Bits and pieces of previously
vaporized bio-matter.

676
00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:59,933
But if the bio-matter
in the cloud is so random,

677
00:39:00,004 --> 00:39:01,972
so jumbled,

678
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:05,237
how could you reconstruct
something whole?

679
00:39:05,309 --> 00:39:08,142
l used medical records
to identify the genetic coding

680
00:39:08,212 --> 00:39:11,477
of a specific victim--
a test case, if you will.

681
00:39:11,549 --> 00:39:14,950
Once we input his DNA sequence,

682
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:19,149
then... we can isolate
his atomic fragments

683
00:39:19,223 --> 00:39:24,422
with your targeting scanners,
and then rematerialize him.

684
00:39:25,463 --> 00:39:27,090
What if he's right?

685
00:39:27,164 --> 00:39:29,098
Captain, Dr. Jetrel is proposing

686
00:39:29,166 --> 00:39:31,100
the reconstruction
and reanimation

687
00:39:31,168 --> 00:39:33,762
of a remarkably complex set
of bio-systems

688
00:39:33,838 --> 00:39:36,534
from billions
of subatomic particles.

689
00:39:38,275 --> 00:39:39,867
l'm afraid l have to agree.

690
00:39:40,010 --> 00:39:43,104
lt all sounds very implausible.

691
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:49,486
You sound exactly
like my country.

692
00:39:51,722 --> 00:39:55,385
l asked them for more funds
to continue my research

693
00:39:55,459 --> 00:39:58,758
to help the victims of Rinax

694
00:39:58,829 --> 00:40:04,665
because l wanted the world
to know l am not a monster.

695
00:40:04,735 --> 00:40:10,298
My theories can be used
to heal as well as to destroy.

696
00:40:10,374 --> 00:40:13,935
But they... they refused me.

697
00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:17,639
Called me a Talaxian sympathizer

698
00:40:17,715 --> 00:40:19,376
and exiled me.

699
00:40:19,450 --> 00:40:19,711
and exiled me.

700
00:40:22,119 --> 00:40:25,145
Does Neelix
really have metremia?

701
00:40:25,222 --> 00:40:29,522
Or was that just a pretext
for getting us to come to Rinax?

702
00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:33,825
lt was just a pretext, Captain.

703
00:40:33,898 --> 00:40:36,799
You do not have metremia,
Neelix.

704
00:40:36,867 --> 00:40:38,698
You are not going to die.

705
00:40:44,074 --> 00:40:47,134
Why didn't you just tell us
the truth in the first place?

706
00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:49,438
Your Captain is
an accomplished scientist.

707
00:40:49,513 --> 00:40:51,481
She doubts my theories.

708
00:40:51,549 --> 00:40:53,779
My own government did, too.

709
00:40:53,851 --> 00:40:57,617
l just could not risk
being not believed again.

710
00:40:57,688 --> 00:40:59,815
But...

711
00:40:59,890 --> 00:41:04,350
Captain, it will work.

712
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:09,195
Captain, if there's
any chance he can do it,

713
00:41:09,233 --> 00:41:13,101
you've got to let him try.

714
00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:17,072
Neelix, there are just
too many variables.

715
00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:19,371
Please, Captain.

716
00:41:25,950 --> 00:41:29,886
Lieutenant Tuvok, activate
the emergency containment field

717
00:41:29,954 --> 00:41:31,922
around the transporter pad.

718
00:41:31,989 --> 00:41:33,479
Aye, Captain.

719
00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:38,485
Emergency containment
field activated.

720
00:41:38,562 --> 00:41:40,496
We'll have to retarget scanners

721
00:41:40,564 --> 00:41:42,429
to the widest possible
confinement beam.

722
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:45,094
lt's our only hope
of achieving bond cohesion

723
00:41:45,169 --> 00:41:47,103
with such broadly
scattered fragments.

724
00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:49,002
Retargeting scanners
to wide beam.

725
00:41:49,106 --> 00:41:50,164
Energize.

726
00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:54,606
Phase transition coils
to maximum.

727
00:41:54,678 --> 00:41:55,906
Aye, Captain.

728
00:41:59,083 --> 00:42:01,449
ls the bio-genic field
operational?

729
00:42:01,552 --> 00:42:02,917
Affirmative.

730
00:42:02,953 --> 00:42:04,511
lt's incredible.

731
00:42:05,890 --> 00:42:08,859
Atomic cohesion has dropped
to 49 percent, Captain.

732
00:42:08,926 --> 00:42:10,518
Pattern buffers
to maximum power.

733
00:42:10,594 --> 00:42:12,027
They are already at 100 percent.

734
00:42:12,096 --> 00:42:13,358
Take them to 120, Lieutenant.

735
00:42:13,430 --> 00:42:16,365
Pattern buffers to 120 percent
of rated maximum.

736
00:42:16,433 --> 00:42:17,695
We're losing him.

737
00:42:17,768 --> 00:42:22,205
Atomic cohesion to 39 percent...
22 percent... 14 percent.

738
00:42:22,273 --> 00:42:24,207
His pattern is
degrading rapidly.

739
00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:26,835
You must increase the power
to the pattern buffers, Captain!

740
00:42:26,911 --> 00:42:28,276
We've got to stimulate cohesion.

741
00:42:28,345 --> 00:42:30,336
ls there any way to augment
the bio-genic field?

742
00:42:30,414 --> 00:42:32,473
The degree of fragmentation
is simply too great.

743
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:34,450
lt will not work.

744
00:42:34,518 --> 00:42:37,043
We are overloading the system.

745
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,358
Shut it down, Mr. Tuvok.

746
00:43:01,312 --> 00:43:05,749
Captain's Log, Stardate 48840.5.

747
00:43:05,816 --> 00:43:09,411
Dr. Jetrel's metremia is
now in its final stage.

748
00:43:09,486 --> 00:43:12,785
He's spending his
remaining hours in Sick Bay.

749
00:43:29,273 --> 00:43:31,764
Neelix...

750
00:43:33,310 --> 00:43:39,977
l suppose you think this is
a fitting punishment for me.

751
00:43:42,519 --> 00:43:47,286
Maybe the cascade was
a punishment for all of us,

752
00:43:47,358 --> 00:43:50,691
for our hatred,

753
00:43:50,761 --> 00:43:53,559
our brutality.

754
00:43:54,565 --> 00:43:57,625
There's something
l need to tell you.

755
00:43:59,403 --> 00:44:01,871
l tried to tell you before,
but...

756
00:44:04,274 --> 00:44:06,640
Wha... what is it?

757
00:44:06,710 --> 00:44:09,144
l want to tell you...

758
00:44:11,515 --> 00:44:13,813
that l forgive you.



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