[Holosuite corridor]
(Rom and Eddington take of a panel to get at the workings.)
ROM:
I've had to make a few modifications
to this holosuite over the years.
EDDINGTON:
A few? It's like a junkyard in here.
ROM:
My Brother won't let me buy new components so I've had to scavenge for what I need.
QUARK:
I'm barely breaking even on the holosuites as it is.
If I had to buy new equipment every time there was a glitch.
EDDINGTON:
Where's the core memory interface?
ROM:
Oh it's right behind the spatula.
EDDINGTON:
The spatula?
ROM:
It's made of a copper-ytterbium composite, the perfect plasma conductor.
(Eddington scans the innards with a tricorder.)
EDDINGTON:
I've found them. All five of their
physical patterns are in here
and they're stable.
ODO:
Why here?
EDDINGTON:
The HoloSuite is specifically designed to store
highly complex energy patterns.
The Computer's processing
their physical patterns as if
they were HoloSuite characters.
Trouble is, I'm not reading
any neural energy.
ROM:
Neural energy has to be stored at the quantum level.
The HoloSuite can't handle that.
ODO:
So if their physical bodies are stored
here, where are their brain patterns?
QUARK:
Everywhere else.
Their brain patterns are so large that they're taking up
every bit of computer memory on the station.
Replicator memory, weapons, life supports.
ODO:
He may be right.
So what do we do about it?
How do we get them back?
