(mute)
RIKER:
What the hell do they
want with you?
SHELBY:
I thought they weren't interested
in human life forms, only
Our Technology.
PICARD:
Their priorities seem to have changed. Open.
WORF:
Channel Open.
PICARD:
We have developed
new defence capabilities
since our last meeting and
we are prepared to use them
if you do not withdraw
from Federation space.
LAFORGE [OC]:
Captain.
[Engineering]
LAFORGE:
The shields are being probed.
I'm modulating nutation.
[Bridge]
WORF:
Captain, The Borg are attempting
to lock on to us with
their tractor beam.
PICARD:
Load torpedo bays.
Arm phasers. Lock coordinates on the source of the tractor beam.
RIKER:
Shield status?
DATA:
Holding, sir.
SHELBY:
The nutation modulation
has them confused.
RIKER:
They have The Ability to Analyse
and Adapt, Commander.
(The Ship shakes)
[Engineering]
LAFORGE:
Shield modulation has failed.
They've locked on.
[Bridge]
WORF:
Shields are being drained.
Ninety percent. Eighty.
[Engineering]
LAFORGE:
Trying to recalibrate nutation.
Damn.
[Bridge]
WORF:
Shields have failed.
PICARD:
Fire all weapons.
[Engineering]
LAFORGE:
Their subspace field is intact.
New phaser frequencies
had no impact.
[Bridge]
RIKER: Reverse engines.
LAFORGE [OC]: Full reverse.
[Engineering]
LAFORGE: We're not moving.
[Bridge]
PICARD: Fire at will.
WORF:
Launching torpedoes.
Phaser spread continuing.
DATA:
Still no damage
to The Borg vessel, sir.
(The Borg weapon cuts through the Enterprise like a hot knife through butter, almost.)
COMPUTER:
Warning. Outer hull breach.
WORF:
They're cutting into The Hull.
Engineering section.
RIKER:
Geordi, evacuate Engineering.
[Engineering]
LAFORGE:
Computer. Evacuation sequence.
COMPUTER:
Sealing doors to core chamber.
LAFORGE:
Come on, move it, people!
Let's go! Let's go!
COMPUTER:
Decompression danger,
deck thirty six, section four.
[Bridge]
COMPUTER:
Sealing Main Engineering.
SHELBY:
Data, fluctuate phaser
resonance frequencies.
Random settings.
Keep them changing.
Don't give them time to adapt.
(Finally, boom and judder)
WORF:
The tractor beam has been released.
PICARD:
Warp nine. Course, one five one mark three three zero. Engage.
(La Forge enters the Bridge)
WORF:
They are in pursuit, Captain.
PICARD:
Maintain course.
RIKER:
Damage report, Geordi?
LAFORGE:
Hull rupture in main Engineering. The damage is pretty heavy. We lost a lot of good people down there.
DATA:
Eleven dead, eight more unaccounted for, Captain.
RIKER:
Repair teams to Engineering.
Seal hull breach.
LAFORGE:
They didn't get to the core,
I can control functions
from here.
WESLEY:
Now approaching
The Paulson Nebula, sir.
PICARD:
Drop to impulse.
Take us in, Ensign.
(Enterprise glides into the purple fog)
WESLEY:
The field is getting too dense, sir.
PICARD:
Steady. Analysis of the
nebula cloud, Mister Data.
DATA:
82% DiLithium Hydroxyls.
Magnesium, Chromium.
It should provide an effective screen against their sensors, Captain.
PICARD:
Mister La Forge, prepare
to reverse engines. Full Stop.
(The Enterprise vanishes,
and The Borg Cube halts)
WORF:
The Borg Ship is continuing scans,
attempting to locate Us.
PICARD:
Good. As long as
They're looking for Us,
They won't Hurt
anyone else.
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