Q. : What is a ‘Q’…?
A. : It’s a letter of The Alphabet,
as far as I know….
[Future - USS Pasteur Bridge]
PICARD:
On screen! On screen! Let's see it!
(just a starfield)
DATA:
As you can see, sir, there's nothing there.
(a little later)
DATA:
Still nothing, Captain.
I've conducted a full sensor sweep
out to one light year from the Pasteur.
No temporal anomalies,
no particle fluctuations, nothing.
PICARD:
I don't understand.
It was here in the other two time periods.
Why isn't it here now?
WORF:
Captain. I have been monitoring
Klingon communication channels.
Several warships have been dispatched
to this sector to search for
a renegade Federation vessel.
PICARD:
You're not thinking about leaving?
CRUSHER:
There's nothing here, Jean-Luc.
PICARD:
There should be!
There has to be!
Data, is there some other way
to scan for a temporal disturbance?
Something that isn't covered
in a normal sensor sweep.
DATA:
There are several methods of
detecting temporal disturbances,
but we're limited by the equipment
on the Pasteur.
CRUSHER:
We should head back to
Federation Territory.
DATA:
.....However, it may be possible
to modify the main deflector
to emit an inverse tachyon pulse,
which could scan beyond
the subspace barrier.
PICARD:
That's it. Make it so.
CRUSHER:
Wait a minute.
Data, how long would this take?
DATA:
To make the modifications and
search the entire Devron system
will take approximately
fourteen hours.
CRUSHER:
All right. Data, begin to modify
the tachyon pulse.
Ensign Chilton, lay in a course
back to The Federation.
We'll stay here for six more hours,
and if we haven't found anything
we're heading back,
maximum warp.
CHILTON:
Aye, sir.
PICARD:
But six more hours may not be enough.
We have to stay here until we find it,
no matter how long it takes.
CRUSHER:
Carry out my orders.
May I see you a moment?
[Future - USS Pasteur Ready room]
PICARD:
Beverly, I cannot believe that
you are not willing to
stay here until we --
CRUSHER:
Don't you ever question My Orders
on The Bridge of My Ship again!
PICARD:
Damn it, I was just trying to....
Look, there are larger concerns here.
What you don't understand is that --
CRUSHER:
I understand that you would
never have tolerated that kind
of behaviour back on
the Enterprise and
I won't here.
I don't care if you're
my ex-Captain or my ex-husband.
PICARD:
You're right. I was out of line.
It won't happen again.
But what you have to understand
is what is at stake here.
Q has said that all of Humanity
will be destroyed.
CRUSHER:
I know. That's why I've allowed us
to stay here longer and keep looking.
But I also want you to allow for the possibility
that none of what you're saying is real.
PICARD:
What?
CRUSHER:
Jean-Luc, I care for you too much
not to tell you The Truth.
You have advanced Irumodic Syndrome.
It's possible that all of this is in your mind.
I'll stay here six hours longer and then we're heading home.
I want you to remember,
if it were anyone but you,
we wouldn't even be here.
Crusher leaves, Q appears
as a ancient man
with an ear trumpet
Q:
Eh? What was that she said, sonny?
I couldn't quite hear her.
PICARD:
Q? What is going on here?
Where is The Anomaly?
Q:
‘Where's your mommy?’
Well, I don't know.
PICARD:
Answer Me.
Q:
There is An Answer, Jean-Luc,
but I can't hand it to you.
Although, You Do have Help.
PICARD:
What help?
Q:
You're not alone, you know.
What You Were and
What You are to Become
will always with you.
PICARD:
My time shifting.
The Answer does lie there, doesn't it.
Now, tell me one thing :
This anomaly we're looking for,
will that Destroy Humanity?
Q:
You're forgetting, Jean-Luc.
You Destroy Humanity.
PICARD:
By doing what? When?
How can —
