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Wednesday 9 March 2022

There, Now We’re Even.






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
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