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[dramatic orchestral music]

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- Who is that?

- An interesting development.

- I'm Kathryn Janeway, your training advisor.

I'm a hologram based on one of the most decorated captains

in Starfleet history,

programmed to assist the "Protostar's" crew

on their journey back to Federation space.

- Ugh. She's hideous.

Why is her forehead so smooth? Ugh!

- You're no summer peach either, Tellarite.

- [laughs] Jankom Pog likes her!

- What's a Freder-- Fred Erasion?

- What Starfleet crew doesn't know the Federation?

Where's your captain?

- Right here! I am the captain.

And I order you to return us to Tars Lamora--

- we'll have to forgive her. She's delirious.

Her brain's sick with space...flu.

I'm in command of this ship. - [gasps]

- Uh... - Huh?

- Quite a vote of confidence.

I'm only here to offer advice

and maintain the "Protostar's" lower-level functions.

Everything else is up to your crew.

But I believe there is something

you aren't being truthful about.

- Uh--[chuckles] I can explain.

- Huh? - You see--

- It's obvious you're Starfleet cadets.

No uniforms, no clue.

I can spot greenhorns a parsec away.

- Greenhorns? - Yes! We are cadets.

Can you remind us what the Federation does again?

[chuckles] For my crew. Not me.

- The United Federation of Planets.

An interstellar union of different worlds and species,

with shared principles of universal liberty,

rights, and equality.

- Equality? That sounds nice.

- Starfleet is the Federation's representatives

for deep space exploration,

on a mission to maintain peace and freedom,

to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new civilizations.

To boldly go where no one has gone before.

- Ha! This Federation biz sounds,

uh, actually pretty good.

- Is such a collective possible?

- It is. Shall I help you plot a course?

- No! all: No?

- [laughing] Okay.

Well, were we listening to the same pitch just now?

- I like to boldly go. Or at least I think I do.

- I sense an aversion in Dal,

but I cannot clearly read his mind.

Perhaps if I get a little closer--oh.

Read it clearly now.

I will not be probing any further.

- We don't need her help. We can plot our own course.

Which way is Federation space?

- Here, in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

- Then we want to go all the way

over...

[gasps] This place.

- I must caution you,

that little red dot represents a--

- Just tell us how to get there, Holo-nanny.

- You're the captain.

[soft dramatic music]

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- [huffs] He's not the captain.

- Hey, Janeway, does this ship have a brig?

She said starboard side.

But which side is that?

- Dal, why are we lying about being cadets?

- The kid's not wrong.

We just kidnapped the boss' daughter.

We're floating blindly through space

in a ship we don't know how to fly.

This is bad.

- The Federation could give us adequate protection

from the Diviner's tyranny.

- [groans] Are you all crazy?

Did the oxygen levels drop in here?

- Oxygen level's optimal.

- Let me tell you how the galaxy really works.

- This oughta be good. - The Federation?

It's just another name for someone else in charge.

Yeah, Janeway sings a nice song,

but I can tell you from experience,

people in authority lie.

They try to sell you the good life,

but it's a good life for them, not us.

Besides, how much protection are they gonna give

to a bunch of fugitives

who roll up in their stolen ship?

Take it from me, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.

- You're in charge. Do you lie to us?

- Yes. He lies all the time. - [laughs]

- But I lie forus.

Don't think of it as lying to her,

think of it as playing pretend. [chuckles]

This used to be a Federation ship, but now, it's our ship.

And as long as we control it, we're in charge.

- Dal has a way with words.

Listen to them at your own peril.

- Don't listen to her. She's got space madness.

- You mean space flu.

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- [chuckling] Hey, Murf found starboard.

C'mon Zero, let's take her to the brig.

- Uh, it's okay, kid. - What do we do now?

- You heard the cap. It's our ship.

Let's see what she's got to offer.

- Disappointing.

- I dunno, this is one of the nicer prisons I've been in.

- I meant Gwyn's mind.

Her resistance to my telepathy must be inherited.

I had hoped to gain an insight into why her father desires

to obtain this ship. It's quite the mystery.

- I don't need to read her mind to know

she's picturing herself blasting me out of an airlock.

That sound about right?

Wow. Didn't we just do this?

Oh that's right--but last time I was in there,

and you were out here. [chuckles]

Wait, is this soundproof? Can she hear us?

- You're an imbecile. - Well, there's your answer.

- My father will come for me.

No matter how far you try to run, he'll hunt you down

and make all of you pay for taking his daughter.

- [sputters] What's a guy in a tank gonna do?

Swim at me? [laughs]

- You laugh, yet your mind is reeling with pure terror.

- [laughs] Good one, Zero! Let's go.

[soft suspenseful music]

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- All I have to do is wait.

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- What is the status of the riots?

- We have regained control of

"The Unwanted" with minimal losses.

- Minimal? [grunts]

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Losing the "Protostar" and my daughter is not minimal!

- Agreed. Shall "The Unwanted" continue to extract chimerium?

- Yes. Exhaust them so they're too tired to rise up again.

And I'll need every speck of chimerium for trade

to get my ship back!

Prepare the "REV-12"!

- [groans] What sort of mess hall has no mess to eat?

I'm starving.

- If you need sustenance, Cadets,

the food replicator uses matter conversion

to create any meal you dare dream up.

- Uh, Jankom's a little light on credit.

- As a cadet, you should know the Federation has moved

past traditional currency. It's free.

- What? Blood truffle biscuits, sweet radish pie,

and don't skimp on the sour gravy!

Oh! Come to Poggy!

[eating very loudly]

Go on, Rok! Try it out! What's your favorite food?

- I don't know. I'll just have what you got.

- Dream big, Kid. You should order whatever you want.

- [eating very loudly]

Nutri-Goop? That slop they fed us back in the mines?

Why?

- It's the only food I've ever had.

- I appreciate a gal who knows what she likes.

[soft dramatic music]

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- Check out the bunk room! Looks cozy.

- I suppose communal sleeping quarters

could accelerate team bonding.

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- Uh.

- [squeaks]

- Ah, Murf, you've settled in.

I look forward to sharing this experience with you...

from over here.

Perhaps we could be bunk mates, Dal.

Dal?

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Huh?

Whoa! Look at the Captain's quarters!

Oh man! Whoo! [laughing]

[screams into pillow]

Ugh. This bed is kinda lumpy.

I mean, it's kinda lonely in here,

and I mean come on, who needs all this view?

Curse of being a captain, I guess.

- I can still read your mind.

- How 'bout now?

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- [scoffs] Back to mock me, girl?

- [sighs]

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For so many years, you watched them take us...

how they treated us...

why didn't you stop them?

- My father told me--I thought you were criminals.

- We're not criminals.

The only crime we ever committed was getting caught.

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[metallic clanging]

- Jankom's just checking under the hood.

This shiny girl has two warp cores!

[chuckles]

Just one'll take us to warp nine,

if it don't break us into a bajillion pieces!

- If those are the warp cores, what is this?

- Huh?

Jankom Pog has no idea.

- Red alert. Red alert. Red alert.

- Didn't touch anything! Wasn't me!

- No, that wasn't you, Jankom.

There seems to be a bigger problem.

[dramatic music]

- Relax, I'm sure this is just a routine systems check.

Pull it up on screen.

- Oh, that does not look routine.

- It's beautiful. - What exactly am I looking at?

- Your course has led us into a binary system

where the gravitational pull of an orbiting white dwarf

is in the final moments of tearing apart a red giant.

- A dying star.

What a rare and exciting way to meet our doom!

- This right here is why we shouldn't be in space!

- For the record, I tried to caution you.

Perhaps you'd like my help to change course, Captain?

- Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. I see what you're doing.

But this is my ship. I control it. Be gone.

- [sighs]

- "Your" ship? - I said "our." Didn't I?

You just couldn't hear it over all this noise.

Zero, get us out of here!

- Attempting to change course.

[engines sputtering]

- Okay.

Appears like we're still heading straight into it.

Why aren't we changing course, Z?

- It's not me.

We are falling into the dwarf star's gravity well.

- Then warp us out of here. - Okay.

Doing what you told me to do.

- Just a friendly reminder:

using a warp drive inside a gravity well

may result in unpredictable and dangerous side effects.

- Right, I knew that!

I meant divert all the power to the impulse engines!

- [stammers] So many buttons!

- If you divert all power, you'd be deactivating--

- Victory for Jankom Pog! Oh wait, where'd the lady go?

[suspenseful music]

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- Huh?

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- Even at full impulse power, the star's gravity

is so strong, we are being pulled into it.

I've never been inside a star before!

- Dal, I really think we need Janeway.

- We need to be faster-- uh, lighter.

Ditch all non-essential cargo!

- Why are you looking at me? Jankom Pog is essential.

- That's debatable. - [groans]

- I mean, dump everything not bolted down!

[dramatic orchestral music]

[soft suspenseful music]

- Ejecting escape pod one.

Ejecting escape pod two.

Ejecting escape pod three.

- Please tell me there are more escape pods onboard.

- There are no more escape pods onboard.

- Qu'vatlh.

- Would you like the vehicle replicator

to create a shuttlecraft?

- What's a vehicle replicator?

- The "Protostar's" vehicle replicator,

located in the shuttle bay,

designed to quickly create any means of transport--

- Yes! Make a shuttlecraft now!

- Vehicle replicator activated.

[dramatic music]

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[alarm chimes] - Are we under attack?

- Easy!

Jankom doesn't like gettin' jostled!

- It seems diverting power deactivated our shields,

leaving us vulnerable to space debris.

- [groans] This just keeps getting better.

[alarm chimes]

[gasps] Where's our prisoner?

- Again, it seems diverting power

included the brig's containment field.

- Rok! Find Gwyn!

- I--I don't want to. I want off this ship!

- I don't have time to argue, Rok!

- Fine!

- You're the muscle, kid.

Ain't any of us doing any better.

- Divert power from impulse and get us back our shields.

And brig!

- I can't. Something else is draining power.

A vehicle replicator? - A what?

- Shuttle 10% complete.

- There you are.

I don't wanna hurt you.

- Listen to me.

We're all going to die if we don't get out of here.

- Why should I listen to you? You never helped us!

You're a bad lady! [snarls]

- Shuttle 20% complete.

- You're angry. I get that.

But I was only doing what I was told.

Just like you're doing now. - [snarling]

Get back here! - Shuttle 30% complete.

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Shuttle 40% complete.

[growls] Hey!

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Shuttle 50% complete.

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Shuttle 60% complete.

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Blast shield constructed. Shuttle 70% complete.

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- Disable...

artificial...

gravity!

- Disabling artificial gravity.

- Whoa, whoa!

- Shuttle 90% complete.

- [grunting]

- For what it's worth, I'm sorry.

[dramatic music]

- Oh, no. - And now, we're floating.

Okay, we can handle this.

- [groans]

At least ask Janeway to turn on the air conditioning!

Unless you all want roasted Pog for dinner.

- Murf, got any fantastic last-minute heroics?

- [trilling contentedly]

- I believe Murf is eating a chair.

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- We're going down! - Captain, we need you now.

If you don't act now, we'll die.

[overlapping chatter] [alarms chiming]

[ominous music]

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- Janeway! [sighs] I need your help.

- You know how to keep a lady waiting.

- How do I get my feet on the ground?

- All you had to do was ask.

Alright, cadets, let's get to work.

- Huh?

- Stabilize the inertial dampeners

to restore the artificial gravity.

- And where's that?

- The controls are on the operations console.

- Ah, found it. - A bit to the left.

Your other left. That's the one.

- Artificial gravity restored.

[both yelp]

[dramatic music]

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- I am not going to let you have this again.

I got the prisoner! - That's great, kid.

We've still got problems up here.

Zero, you should have enough juice for the shields now.

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- Shields are at 80%, but dropping with every hit.

- The Protostar's equipped with a sufficient tactical array.

Why not use it to even the odds?

- Ooh, Jankom Pog gets to blow stuff up?

- Technically it's auto-targeting,

but you get to push the button.

♪ ♪

- Okay, she's back in the brig.

Oh, my gosh, what is that river of fire?

- Trillions of tons of white-hot ionized gas

about to explode.

- That sounds worse.

- What's the call, Captain? - I don't know.

We've done everything you've said,

and we're still fighting to get out.

- That's it! What if we stop fighting

and ride the shock wave? Let it propel us free?

- Bingo. - You were reading my mind.

- Now that is another lie.

- Uh, full impulse into the river of fire.

And do what Zero said. Ready on my mark! Now!

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- Whoo!

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- [squeaks frightfully]

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[muffled cheering]

[laughter and chatter]

- We did it! Whoo! We did it! We survived!

- Thank you. You saved our lives.

- I only nudged you all in the right direction.

You did the rest. - Yes.

- I guess I did know when to ask for help,

which is what a natural-born captain would do.

You're welcome! - [squeaky groan]

- Nobody thanked you! - Of course he takes credit.

- [sighs] We're goners.

[soft dramatic music]

- I must say, when the Federation first formed,

it wasn't pretty.

A collection of species,

entirely unfamiliar to each other,

different languages, different cultures,

but with one shared aspiration--to be better.

[swelling orchestral music]

I've seen my share of wayward crews

and I can tell you this-- you've got potential.

♪ ♪

- Huh? - Oh!

- Now that we're still alive,

how about you teach us cadets some other things?

- Like turning left or right, for example.

That would've been helpful.

- We've only just begun.

♪ ♪

- I have tracked the Protostar's" warp signature.

- Take me to that ship!

[tense orchestral music]

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[rumbling]

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- Chimerium Cloak activated.

♪ ♪

- I am coming for you, my progeny.