All language subtitles for Star.Trek.DS9-s05e06.Trials.of.Tribble-ations.eng

Welcome to Deep Space Nine.
I'm Major Kira.

- I'm Dulmuir.
- Lucsly.

Department of
Temporal Investigations.

We've been expecting you.

I guess you boys from Temporal
Investigations are always on time.

Where's Captain Sisko?

Are you sure
you don't want anything?

Just the truth, captain.

You'll get it.
Where do you want to start?

- The beginning.
- If there is such a thing.

Captain, why did you take the Defiant
back in time?

It was an accident.

So you're not contending
it was a predestination paradox?

A time loop.

That you were meant
to go back into the past?

- Uh... No.
- Good.

We hate those.

So, what happened?

This may take some time.

- Is that a joke?
- No.

- Good.
- We hate those too.

All right, captain,
whenever you're ready.

Two weeks ago, the Cardassian
government contacted me

and wanted to return an orb
to the Bajorans.

- Orb?
- They are devices of an alien origin

that are considered sacred
objects by the Bajoran people.

SISKO:
Each has a unique property.

Like the Orb of Prophecy
or the Orb of Wisdom.

The one we received from the
Cardassians was the Orb of Time.

Although we didn't
know that at first.

But when the Defiant arrived
at Cardassia Prime,

we weren't sure if we were dealing
with a genuine orb

or one of the fakes
that have cropped up over the years.

I had it secured
in one of the crew quarters

so we could bring it back to Bajor
for authentication.

But before we left Cardassia,
we took on a passenger.

Humans.

I never thought I'd see
another normal face again.

- This is Mr. Waddle.
- Yeah.

Barry. Call me Barry.

We are taking him back
to the Federation.

He was trapped on Cardassia
when the Klingons attacked.

I'm a merchant. I deal in gemstones,
kivas and trillium mostly.

- May 1?
- Help yourself.

You know what Cardassians drink
in the morning?

Fish juice, hot fish juice. Hmm.

Raktajino.

After six months,

I was hoping
the Klingons would invade.

Ah. At least they know how
to make coffee,

even if they are
foul-smelling barbarians.

Uh, sorry.

I wouldn't take it personally, Worf.

I rather like the way you smell.

Oh, yeah.
A sort of earthy, peaty aroma.

With a touch of lilac.

SISKO: With the Defiant under cloak,
we left Cardassian space

and managed to avoid being
detected by the Klingons.

We were halfway home and I was
just starting to breathe easy.

Trust me, next time you see him,
just sniff the air and go,

"Is that lilac?"

[DAX LAUGHS]

Find somebody else.
I have my own ways of torturing Worf.

Don't look at me.

[O'BRIEN CHUCKLES]

[MONITOR BEEPING]

I'm picking up a massive surge
in chronoton radiation around--

What happened?

I don't know,
but we've dropped out of warp.

Sensors are coming back online.

Benjamin,
something's very wrong.

According to
the navigational computer,

we're over 200 light-years
from our last position.

O'BRIEN: We're decloaking.
- Someone's activated the transporter.

Deactivate it and get us
back under cloak.

I'm picking up another ship
dead ahead.

- Can you identify it?
DAX: Not yet, but it's close.

Very close.

Chief, I need that view screen.

I think I've got it.

That's--

The Enterprise.

Be specific, captain.
Which Enterprise?

- There have been five.
- Six.

This was the first Enterprise,
constitution class.

- His ship.
- James T. Kirk.

The one and only.

Seventeen separate temporal
violations, the biggest file on record.

The man was a menace.

- What was the date of your arrival?
- Stardate 4523.7.

Hundred and five years, one month,
12 days ago.

- A Friday.
- What was the Enterprise doing?

SISKO: She was orbiting one of
the old deep-space stations, K-7,

near the Klingon border.

Security reported that just before
we were thrown back in time,

someone stunned the deputy
who was guarding the orb

and broke into the cabin.

It didn't take us long to realize
who it was.

His real name is Arne Darvin.
He's a Klingon altered to look human.

His surgeon does nice work.

We're assuming
that he came aboard the Defiant

for the express purpose
of gaining access to the orb.

Any idea why he brought us back
to this point in time?

We have a theory.

This is Darvin as he appeared
during that time period.

At this moment,
he is aboard Space Station K-7

posing as a Federation official.

So you're saying he's a spy?

The younger Darvin's mission was to
derail Federation colonization efforts

by poisoning a shipment of grain
which was--

Ah. Which is stored aboard
the station.

However, 18 hours from now,
James Kirk will expose him

and he will be arrested.

That arrest will end his career.

Klingon intelligence will turn their back
on him and he will become an outcast.

From what we've been able
to piece together,

he spent the next hundred years
eking out a meager living

posing as a human merchant.

Then, in a final indignity,

he was trapped in Cardassian space
by the Klingon invasion.

Ah.

Until he heard rumors about an orb
capable of taking him back in time.

So, what is he planning to do?

Contact his younger self
and warn himself about Kirk?

He could be planning to kill Kirk.

The bottom line is
we have to find Darvin and stop him

before he has a chance
to alter history.

Do we know
where he beamed to?

No. He wiped the transporter logs
when he beamed out.

So he could be on the Enterprise
or the station.

We'll have to search,

both without raising suspicion
or altering the time line ourselves.

The last thing I want is a visit
from Temporal Investigations

when we get home.

I suppose we ought to find a way
to blend in.

[BEEPS]

- Captain.
- Well...

Lieutenant, actually.
I didn't wanna push my luck.

O'BRIEN:
Looks good on you, sir.

Thank you, ensign.

Wait a minute, aren't you two
wearing the wrong color?

Don't you know anything
about this period in time?

I'm a doctor, not an historian.

In the old days,
operations officers wore red,

command officers wore gold.

DAX:
And women wore less.

I think I'm going to like history.

The original Enterprise used
an old-style duotronic sensor array.

If we wait for just the right point
in the scan cycle,

we can decloak the Defiant for almost
three seconds without being detected.

Is that enough time
to transport us aboard?

Barely.

Chief, here are the coordinates.

The captain and I will start
on Deck 4 and work our way aft.

You and Julian should start
on Deck 21 and--

And work our way forward.

What about the station?

Little of it is habitable.

Most of K-7 consists of storage areas
and industrial fabrication facilities.

It shouldn't take long to search.

Security isn't as tight
as it is on a starship.

Remember, try to avoid contact
with people of this time period.

We're coming up on the bandshift
in the scan cycle.

Dax.

[CHATTERING]

Ready?

Deck 21.

Deck 21.

I said, Deck 21.

Maybe if you said please.

- What's wrong with this?
- Don't ask me.

I don't know anything
about this time period.

Maybe it's jammed.

Take that panel off the wall.

Deck 15.

I won't tell anyone if you don't.

[CHATTERING]

They really packed them in
on these old ships.

- What about over there?
- Perfect.

An auxiliary
communications juncture.

I'll pretend to do repairs.
You scan for Darvin.

[SISKO WHISTLES]

I used to have one of these. Mm.

I love classic 23rd-century design.

- Black finish, silver highlights--
SISKO: Dax.

Sorry.

Thanks to you, I already have
enough Spican flame gems

to last me a lifetime.

How sad for you, my friend.
You won't find a finer stone anywhere.

What's your pleasure?

Uh...

I'll have a raktajino.

You're the second person today
who ordered that. What is it?

Klingon coffee.

The second person?
Who was the first?

An older man, a human.

- Where is he now?
- I don't know.

He left about an hour ago.

I think he said he'd be back.

We don't have
any Klingon beverages.

Would you like something else?

Um...

- Tarkalean tea.
- Okay.

I have something
from the far reaches of the galaxy.

- Surely you want--
- Not at your price.

Oh, what is it? Is it alive?

May I hold it?

[TRIBBLE PURRING]

UHURA:
Oh, it's adorable.

What is it?

[TRICORDER WHIRRING]

Chief, you're supposed
to be working.

I'm afraid to touch anything.

It's all cross-circuited
and patched together.

I can't make head nor tails of it.

Sounds like one of your repair jobs.

[BOTH LAUGH]

Well, there's no sign of Darvin
in this section.

I'm gonna have to widen
the scan radius,

if I can figure out how.

Well, keep the scan field
below 20 milliwatts.

Otherwise you'll set off
the sensors.

Thank you, chief, I was listening
during the mission briefing.

What are you two doing here?

Scotty told me to do this.

Oh, you were going to do this?

It's on the duty roster.

Must have been some mix up.

Isn't that a medical tricorder?

Yes. Yes, itis. I'm a doctor.

Why do we need a doctor
to repair a power relay?

You don't.

Obviously.

No, I'm doing a study.

It has to do
with work-related stress.

- Oh.
- Why don't you two, um, go on?

Pretend I'm not here.

So where should we start?

Well, ahem, obviously the first thing
we should do

is to take this, uh--
This transtator here and--

--leave it exactly where it is.

The, uh, job pressure's
been getting to him.

Why don't you, uh, take over?

All right, ensign,
I think I've seen enough.

- Let's get you back to Sickbay.
- Ah.

Oh, uh...

I'd appreciate it
if you wouldn't mention this to anyone.

No problem.

Hope you feel better.

I have completed
my search of the primary habitat--

[TRIBBLE PURRING]

What is that sound?

Soothing, isn't it?

The bartender called it--

[SQUEAKING]

A tribble.

Sit down.
You're drawing attention.

Where did you get that thing?

From a man
named Cyrano Jones.

He told me tribbles like everyone,
but this one doesn't seem to like you.

The feeling's--

The feeling's mutual.

They are detestable creatures.

Hmm.

Interesting.

It's been my observation that most
humanoids love soft, furry animals.

Especially if they make
pleasing sounds.

They do nothing
but consume food and breed.

If you feed that thing
more than the smallest morsel,

in a few hours you'll have ten tribbles,
then a hundred, then a thousand.

Calm down.

They were once considered
mortal enemies of the Klingon Empire.

[SCOFFS]

This?

A mortal enemy of the empire?

They were an ecological menace,
a plague to be wiped out.

Wiped out? What are you saying?

Hundreds of warriors
were sent to track them down

throughout the galaxy.

An armada obliterated
the tribble homeworld.

By the end of the 23rd century,
they had been eradicated.

Hmm. Another glorious chapter
of Klingon history.

Tell me, do they still sing songs
of the great tribble hunt?

[CHUCKLES]

[ALARM SOUNDING]

What should we do?

Get to battle stations.

Deck 7.

Let's see if we can find out
what's going on.

Sisko to Defiant.

Sisko to Defiant.

KIRA [OVER COMMUNICATOR]:
Defiant here.

- Report.
- A Klingon D7 battle cruiser

just dropped out of warp,
it's approaching the station.

Have they locked weapons?

- Not yet.
- Can you identify the Klingon vessel?

The ILK.S. Groth.

- That's Koloth's ship.
- Curzon's old friend?

Yes, and he isn't going to attack.

I remember Koloth telling me

he once traded insults with Kirk
on a space station,

near the Federation border.

He always regretted never getting
the chance to face him in battle.

KIRA:
The Klingon ship just transported

two people to the station
manager's office, captain.

That's Koloth.

Maybe we should beam over to
the station to help Odo and Worf.

We know Darvin was there
a few hours ago.

I think it might be better
if Chief O'Brien and Dr. Bashir go.

But if we went,
we might run into Koloth.

Exactly.

It's not as if
he would recognize me.

I'd love to see him at his prime.

Dax.

Major, beam the chief
and the doctor to K-7 and fill them in.

KIRA:
Aye, sir.

Would've been fun.

Too much fun.

SISKO:
Dax was right about the Klingons.

They were only interested
in shore leave.

And Captain Kirk allowed them

to beam aboard the station
in small groups.

When the Enterprise stood down
from red alert,

we all resumed our search
for Darvin.

KIRA [OVER COMMUNICATOR]:
The next bandshift in the Enterprise

scan cycle
will be in three minutes.

We'll be ready, major.
O'Brien out.

We should find a turbolift.

Hello again.

Hello.

Deck 10.

Your flap's open.

Excuse me?

On your tricorder?
You're draining power.

Oh. Hmm.

Thank you.

He's always doing that.

- You're a doctor?
- Yes.

I just transferred here
from the Lexington last week.

Welcome aboard.

I'm coming into Sickbay tomorrow
for my physical.

Fifteen hundred,
Lieutenant Watley.

You realize, of course,
she was just using you to get to me.

Watley.

That was
my great-grandmother's name.

- Funny.
- And I think she was in Starfleet.

That's a common enough name.

But what if that was her?

Do you realize the odds?

No one ever met
my great-grandfather.

This could be
a predestination paradox.

Come on, surely you took Elementary
Temporal Mechanics at the Academy.

I could be destined
to fall in love with that woman

and become
my own great-grandfather.

- You're being ridiculous.
- Ridiculous?

If I don't meet with her tomorrow,
I may never be born.

[COMMUNICATOR BEEPING]

KIRA [OVER COMMUNICATOR]:
Chief, are you ready for transport?

- Are we ever?
KIRA: Stand by.

You saw the way
she looked at me.

- You can't just dismiss this.
- I can try.

All right.

Fine, but I can't wait to get back
to Deep Space Nine

and see your face when you find out
that I never existed.

[CHUCKLES]

SISKO: Dax and I resumed
our search for Darvin.

[WHISPERS]
Benjamin, look.

[INTERCOM WHISTLES]

CHEKOV [OVER INTERCOM]:
Bridge to Captain Kirk.

Kirk here.

Mr. Baris is waiting on Channel A
to speak to you, sir.

Keep working. We're a maintenance
crew just doing our job.

CHEKOV:
Mr. Baris is coming on.

Yes, what can I do for you?

BARIS: Kirk, this station
is swarming with Klingons.

I was not aware, Mr. Baris,
that 12 Klingons constitutes a swarm.

BARIS: I consider
your security measures a disgrace.

In my opinion, you have taken this
entire very important...

- I had no idea.
SISKO: What?

He's so much more handsome
in person.

Those eyes.

Kirk had quite the reputation
as a ladies' man.

Not him.

Spock.

[BARIS TALKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER INTERCOM]

Let's go.

Mr. Baris,
I have guards around the grain.

I have guards around the Klingons.

I can't believe you don't at least
wanna meet Captain Kirk.

That's the last thing on my mind.

Oh, come on, Benjamin.

Are you telling me you're not
the tiniest bit interested in meeting

one of the most famous men
in Starfleet history?

We have a job to do.

But it's-- It's James Kirk.

Look, of course I wanna meet him.

I'd like to shake his hand.

Ask him about fighting
the Gorn on Cestus lll.

But that's not why we're here,
old man.

You're right.

I guess the difference between
you and me is I remember this time.

I lived in this time, and it's--

It's hard to not wanna be
a part of it again.

Clearly we've been going about this
search business all wrong, chief.

You're right.

Why bother searching 30 decks

when you can plonk yourself
down at the bar here

and wait for Darvin
to come to you.

We have reason to believe
that he'll return to this area.

- Ah.
- Ah, yes, the raktajino.

A vital clue
that others might have missed.

How fortunate it is
that it has kept you stuck at this bar

for the past three hours
having drinks,

while we've been crawling
through conduits.

- My God, that's him.
- Who?

- Kirk.
- Where?

O'BRIEN: The one on the left,
in the gold, just sitting down.

That's Kirk?

It would be an honor to meet him.

Let's buy him a drink.

Gentlemen,
no one is buying anyone a drink.

He's right.

We can't risk altering the time line.

[SCOTTY LAUGHING]

What will it be, boys,
and don't ask for raktajino.

- If I have to say we don't carry that--
- Who ordered a raktajino?

The Klingons.

- Klingons?
WAITRESS: Over there

and over there.

Those are Klingons?

All right.

You boys have had enough.

Mr. Worf?

They are Klingons,
and it is a long story.

What happened?
Some kind of genetic engineering?

A viral mutation?

We do not discuss it with outsiders.

[KLINGON SHOUTS]

Easy, lad.
Everybody's entitled to an opinion.

That's right.

And if I think that Kirk
is a Denebian slime devil,

well, that's my opinion too.

Don't do it, mister,
and that's an order.

But you heard
what he called the captain.

Look at the way Kirk
is ignoring that Klingon.

He's letting
his security officer handle it.

- Chief, are you sure that's Kirk?
- Absolutely.

Why is he wearing
lieutenant's stripes?

[KLINGON SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY]

I think we've got bigger problems
than a case of mistaken identity.

Half the quadrant knows it.

That's why they're learning
to speak Klingonese.

[KLINGON LAUGHING]

Mr. Scott.

Laddie,

don't you think you should
rephrase that?

You're right.

I should.

I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise
should be hauling garbage.

I meant to say that it should be
hauled away as garbage.

[KLINGON LAUGHING]

What are you doing?

[GRUNTING]

It's Darvin.

Your men could have avoided
that fight.

Regulation 157, Section 3,
Paragraph 18:

Starfleet officers shall take
all necessary precautions

to minimize any participation
in historical events.

All right.

It was a mistake.

But there were
no lasting repercussions.

How do you know that?

For all we know, we could be living
in an alternate time line right now.

If my people had caused
any changes in the time line,

we would've been the first
to notice when we got back.

Why do they all have to say that?

So your men were arrested.

SISKO: That's right.
But instead of being taken to the brig,

they were brought in
for questioning.

I wanna know who started it.

I'm waiting.

- Who started the fight?
- I don't know, sir.

All right.

Chekov.

I know you.
You started it, didn't you?

- No, sir, I didn't.
- Well, who did?

I don't know, sir.

"I don't know, sir."

I wanna know who
threw the first punch.

All right, you're all confined to quarters
until I find out who started it.

Dismissed.

[CHATTERING]

That was close.

Me, of all the people in the lineup,
he asks me who threw the first punch.

You lied to him. Hmm.

I lied to Captain Kirk.

I wish Keiko could have
been here to see it.

[TRIBBLE SQUEAKING]

[PURRING]

I'm sorry about that, little fella.

Who left you out here all alone?

He's not alone.

Welcome back, Mr. Darvin.

The pleasure is all mine.

[GRUNTS]

Worf, hold on.

I hope you realize you'll be facing

some very serious charges
when we get back.

You wouldn't dare
put one of the greatest heroes

of the Klingon Empire
into the brig.

You are no hero to the empire.

I will be.

I've been thinking about my statue
in the Hall of Warriors.

I want it to capture my essence.

Our statues can be so generic
sometimes, don't you think?

I take it whatever your plan is
you've already set it in motion.

I see myself standing with Kirk's head
in one hand...

...and a tribble in the other.

What have you done?

Did you hire someone to kill him?

Did you sabotage the Enterprise?

Nothing so mundane.

Let's just say that Kirk's death

will have a certain
poetic justice to it.

[CHUCKLES]

He put a bomb in a tribble?

ODO [OVER COMMUNICATOR]:
It's his revenge.

Originally, Kirk saw how
a tribble reacted to Darvin

and realized
that he was a Klingon.

He wouldn't say
where this tribble was,

but he did say that it was set to go off
within the hour.

It could be anywhere.

Benjamin, I think we should risk
going to the Bridge.

If we can use the internal sensors,
we can scan the entire ship

for explosives
in a matter of seconds.

Dax and I will take care
of the Enterprise,

the rest of you beam over to K-7
and start searching there.

Understood.

But I think Mr. Worf
should remain here.

It seems he's...

...allergic to tribbles.

- All right.
O'BRIEN: And, captain,

I'm not sure we can get
to K-7's internal sensors.

Then you will have to manually
scan every tribble on the station.

- There must be thousands by now.
- Hundreds of thousands.

One million, seven hundred
and seventy-one thousand,

five hundred and sixty-one.

That's starting with one tribble with an
average litter of ten every 12 hours.

- After three days--
- Thank you.

You have your orders, people.
Sisko out.

[DOOR OPENS]

[TRIBBLE SQUEAKS]

Dr. McCoy, would you mind
coming up to the Bridge?

I rerouted the sensor interface.

[BEEPING]

It worked.

Scanning the Bridge.

Nothing up here.

That's a relief.

When Kirk sat on that tribble,
I half expected it to go off.

Nothing on the first six decks.

McCOY:
You wanted to see me, Jim?

Well, don't look at me,
it's the tribbles who are breeding.

I know him.

That must be McCoy,
the ship's doctor.

McCoy.

McCoy.

The nearest thing I can figure out
is that they are born pregnant.

Which seems to be
quite a time saver.

Leonard McCoy.

I met him when he was a student
at Ole Miss.

Who met him? Curzon?

No, my host at the time
was Emony.

She was on Earth
judging a gymnastics competition.

I had a feeling
he'd become a doctor.

He had the hands of a surgeon.

[BEEPING]

I've scanned every deck.
The bomb's not aboard the ship.

Then it must be
somewhere on K-7.

[PURRING]

[COMMUNICATOR BEEPING]

Odo here.

The bomb is not here.
It must be there.

We've only been able to get through
two decks. We're running out of time.

I can send more teams
from the Defiant.

It's not a question of manpower,
it's a question of multiplication.

The tribbles are breeding so fast,
we can't keep up with them.

Benjamin, maybe we could
narrow things down a little.

Presumably, Darvin put the bomb

somewhere he knows Kirk is
going to be in the next half an hour.

So if we stick close to Kirk--

He might lead us right to it.

It's worth a try, but there's no reason
for us to stop searching over here.

Keep at it for now, constable.

Deck 5.

KIRK: This is my chicken
sandwich and coffee.

I want these things off the ship.

I don't care if it takes every man
we've got, I want them off the ship.

Aye. They're into
the machinery, all right.

And they're probably in all
the other food processors too.

- How?
- Probably through one of the air vents.

Captain, there are vents of that type
on the space station.

KIRK:
And in the storage compartments.

Storage compartments.

Storage compartments.

KIRK: Meet us near
the storage compartments.

We're beaming down.

[TRICORDER WHIRRING]

Most of these are dead.
The grain is poisoned.

I'm picking up
a faint tricobalt signature.

The bomb's under here
somewhere.

[BEEP]

What's that?

It's not working, sir.
It seems to be stuck.

Here, let me try.

[BEEPING]

Someone's trying to open
the bay door.

[TRICORDER BEEPING]

Benjamin,
it's right here in front of us.

[SIGHS]

- They seem to be gorged.
- Gorged?

On my grain?

Kirk, I am going to hold you
responsible.

There must be thousands
of them.

Hundreds of thousands.

One million, seven hundred seventy-
one thousand, five hundred sixty-one.

That's assuming one tribble
multiplying with an average litter of ten,

producing a new generation every
12 hours over a period of three days.

[TRICORDER BEEPING]

I found it.

- Sisko to Defiant.
- Go ahead, captain.

SISKO:
I found the bomb.

Lock on to my tricorder signal
and beam it into space.

KIRA:
Acknowledged.

Kira to Sisko.

It worked.

KIRK:
As captain, I want two things done.

First, find Cyrano Jones,
and second...

...close that door.

SISKO:
After the bomb was detonated,

history continued uninterrupted.

And thanks to the tribbles, Kirk was
able to uncover the truth about Darvin.

[SQUEAKING]

They don't like you, Mr. Darvin.
I wonder why.

Bones?

[TRICORDER WHIRRING]

Jim, this man is a Klingon.

SISKO: By the time
we returned to the Defiant,

Major Kira had discovered
how to use the orb

to bring us back to our own time.

And that's when you returned
to the present?

Well, not exactly.

Before we left, I realized
there was one last thing I had to do.

Something I'd been thinking about

ever since I saw that ship
on the view screen.

Excuse me, captain, here's tomorrow's
duty roster for your approval.

Lieutenant? Uh, lieutenant...?

Benjamin Sisko, sir.

I've been on
temporary assignment here.

Before I leave, I just want to say

it's been an honor
serving with you, sir.

- All right, lieutenant, carry on.
- Thank you, sir.

Now...

...if you want to put a letter
of reprimand in my file for that,

then go ahead.

We'll have to review the case
before making any recommendations.

However, I don't think
there was any harm done.

Probably would have done
the same thing myself.

You'll be receiving our report
in about a month.

But based on what you've told us,

I don't think you have anything
to worry about.

- I'm glad to hear it.
- Goodbye, captain.

Goodbye.

Docking Port 7.

[SIGHS]

It went well?

Good.

The constable wants to see us
on the Promenade.

Did you tell them?

They didn't ask.

I'm open to suggestions, people.

We could build another station.

[CHATTERING]

[SIGHS]