Janeway: Captain's log, stardate 54274.7. Lieutenant Torres has finally convinced me that I can't put off a major maintenance overhaul any longer. We've set down on an uninhabited planet, and I've sent shuttles to search for supplies.
Janeway: What about the impulse upgrades?
Torres: The day after tomorrow. Put a new phase compensator on that relay.
Janeway: Environmental control?
Torres: The thermal regulators are still running a little hot.
Janeway: Too bad we can't just keep the windows open. How long until the warp drive is back online?
Torres: Six days.
Janeway: You're sure you can't get it done any faster?
Torres: Captain, I don't like sitting still any more than you do, but repairs this extensive take time.
Torres: Mendez, track down that power drain.
Mendez: Right away.
Janeway: I know this ship has been through a lot, but you told me this would only take a few days.
Torres: That was before I discovered the microfractures in the starboard nacelle and the fused relays in the main computer.
Torres: Who did that?
Icheb: I noticed a charge imbalance in the EPS feed. I'm sorry if I
Torres: It could have taken us hours to find that.
Icheb: I have a tactical systems report for you. It's from Commander Tuvok.
Torres: I'd say you're capable of a lot more than delivering PADDs, Icheb.
Janeway: I agree. Until we get underway again, he's assigned to you. With him on your team, maybe you'll get this job done a little faster.
Kim: Neelix?
Kim: Rise and shine. It's oh five hundred.
Neelix: Already? Oh. I was dreaming we found the dilithium and were back aboard Voyager.
Seven: Dreaming is an accurate description.
Neelix: Didn't we already scan this nebula?
Seven: Four times.
Kim: I thought the Borg were known for being thorough.
Seven: The Borg value efficiency, not redundancy.
Kim: I've got a hunch about this nebula. There's dilithium in there somewhere.
Neelix: I'm getting some fluctuating energy readings.
Kim: From the nebula?
Neelix: No, it's weapons fire.
Kim: Let's get out of here.
Neelix: We're receiving a distress call.
Terek: have casualties. Please help us. We're on a humanitarian mission delivering medical supplies.
Kim: Reverse course.
Neelix: We can't just leave them.
Kim: Starfleet policy. Interference in alien conflicts is strictly prohibited.
Neelix: You heard their captain. It's a medical ship.
Seven: Their shields are down. Life support is failing on at least three decks.
Kim: Open a channel to the other ship.
Kim: This is Ensign Kim of the Delta Flyer. I don't know what you're fighting about, but it looks like you've won. The people on the other ship have casualties. We'd like to
Annari Commander: This isn't your concern.
Kim: I'm not taking sides. I only want to help the wounded.
Annari Commander: Withdraw immediately.
Seven: They're charging weapons.
Kim: Neelix, set our deflector beam for a narrow pulse. Seven, let me know the second their weapons array is fully charged. I might be able to trigger an overload.
Neelix: The deflector bandwidth is at point four microns.
Seven: Now.
Seven: Their weapons are offline. Shields are down. They're retreating.
Kim: Take the helm. Neelix, you're with me.
Kim: Who's in charge here?
Terek: He is.
Terek: What are we going to do?
Kim: It's okay, we're here to help. The ship that attacked you is gone.
Loken: Who are you?
Kim: Harry Kim from the Starship Voyager. We're responding to your distress call. We can treat your wounded.
Loken: The captain?
Terek: Dead, sir. So are the rest of the officers.
Neelix: I'm reading a total of twenty seven lifeforms aboard the ship.
Dayla: There were fifty six of us.
Loken: How are we going to get home without the officers?
Kim: We need to restore main power. Where's the warp interface?
Loken: We're passengers, not crewmen.
Terek: You can access engineering systems from here.
Kim: Your warp core is intact. I think I can bring it back online. Can you monitor antimatter flow?
Terek: I'm not sure.
Kim: Just watch this readout and tell me if it starts to fluctuate. I'm routing emergency power to structural integrity. Atmospheric pressure is returning to normal. Neelix, we'll go through the ship deck by deck, find the survivors.
Loken: We need to get our cloak back online.
Kim: I'll take a look at it as soon as I've repaired the engines.
Loken: No, the cloak is more important.
Dayla: The Annari have far more powerful weapons than we do. If they come back, the cloak is our best defense.
Kim: We'll try to get it back online. Kim to Delta Flyer.
Seven: Go ahead.
Kim: I need your help, Seven. It looks like we're going to be here for a while.
Terek: How did you do it?
Kim: Do what?
Terek: Disable the Annari warship so quickly?
Kim: Basically, we used their own weapons against them.
Terek: How?
Kim: We used a deflector pulse to overload their phaser banks.
Terek: You know a lot about engineering.
Kim: It's all part of my Starfleet training.
Terek: Starfleet?
Kim: Yeah, the organization I work for.
Terek: And they teach you all these things?
Kim: We train at an Academy ,and I guess I picked up a few new tricks during my time on Voyager.
Terek: How long have you been captain?
Kim: I'm just an Ensign.
Terek: Ensign? What's that?
Kim: A junior officer. The lowest ranked officer, actually.
Terek: This is my first deep space assignment. It hasn't gone very well.
Kim: Could you hand me that? My first week on the job didn't go very well, either. We ended up seventy thousand light years from home, lost over a dozen crew members, but I got through it. So will you.
Terek: I hope so.
Kim: If you're going to be a starship officer, you've got to accept that adversity comes with the job.
Torres: What's that?
Icheb: It's a diagnostic of the antimatter injectors.
Torres: No, I meant that stuff you're eating.
Icheb: Nutritional supplements replicated to meet my metabolic requirements.
Torres: Sounds delicious. You know, in the mess hall they actually have tables and chairs for that.
Icheb: I prefer to work while I eat. It's a more efficient use of my time.
Torres: You did a great job today. We're ahead of schedule, thanks to you. Here's what we're going to work on tomorrow. I'll see you at oh six hundred. Icheb?
Icheb: Yes?
Torres: What do you do for fun?
Icheb: Fun?
Torres: Recreation. How do you spend your time when you're off duty?
Icheb: Between my work and my studies I don't have much time for recreation.
Torres: I've learned that you've got to take a break once in awhile. I've been doing a lot of rock climbing on the holodeck. Maybe when we're finished tightening all the nuts and bolts, you'd like to join me.
Icheb: I do have an interest in geology.
Torres: It's not about the rocks, Icheb. It's about the climbing.
Seven: Main power has been restored. All stations responding.
Kim: The cloak's back online. Impulse and warp drives are standing by. Shields are at ninety six percent. I'd say you're ready to get back on course.
Loken: We appreciate your help.
Kim: I hope you have a safe journey.
Loken: Mister Kim, I feel guilty asking even more of you, but no one on this ship knows how to fly it.
Kim: None of you has ever piloted a starship?
Terek: I've trained in shuttles, but nothing like this.
Kim: I'll enter a flight plan in the auto-navigation system and give you a quick course in helm operations. You shouldn't have any trouble.
Loken: Couldn't you take us? This ship needs an experienced commanding officer.
Kim: I'm sorry, but we've already gotten more involved than we should have. And they need us back on Voyager.
Loken: It's not just my ship that concerns me. You've made an enemy of the Annari now. But if you dock your ship in our shuttlebay, our cloak will protect you.
Kim: That's a generous offer, but we'll be fine.
Loken: Please, Mister Kim, we can't afford to fail. This ship,
Dayla: Loken, don't.
Loken: We can trust these people. I'm a doctor. These people are my research team. We're carrying new vaccines to our homeland. They'll save thousands of lives.
Neelix: Sir, I looked at their flight plan. It takes them pretty close to Voyager.
Kim: I'll bring you as far as our ship. When we get there, you can discuss your situation with my captain.
Loken: Thank you.
Seven: What about Starfleet policy?
Kim: This is a humanitarian mission. Dock the Flyer in their shuttlebay.
Neelix: We're approaching the planet.
Kim: Take us out of warp. Disengage the cloak.
Seven: Wait. I'm detecting three alien vessels in orbit.
Kim: On screen.
Terek: Those are Annari warships. Your people are in danger.
Janeway: I apologize for the state of my ship. We weren't expecting company.
Geral: I hope we're not imposing.
Chakotay: Not at all. Making contact with new cultures is a priority for us.
Geral: For us, too. This is a fine ship, Captain.
Janeway: One of the best in the fleet, but it could use a new set of deuterium injectors.
Chakotay: Any chance you could provide them?
Geral: I think we can arrange something. What are you offering in exchange?
Janeway: Zeolitic ore. We mined several tons of it from an asteroid field. It's high-grade, easy to refine.
Geral: I'll speak to my supply officer.
Tuvok: We're being hailed by Ensign Kim. Audio only.
Janeway: Hello, Harry.
Kim: Is everything all right?
Janeway: Of course. Why wouldn't it be?
Kim: Our long range scans detected several alien ships orbiting the planet.
Janeway: I appreciate your concern, but there's nothing to worry about. We've made some new friends, that's all. When can we expect you back?
Kim: We've run into a slight delay.
Janeway: Nothing serious, I hope.
Kim: No. Everything's under control.
Janeway: Good.
Janeway: Any luck finding dilithium?
Kim: I'm afraid not.
Janeway: I'll tell the other teams to keep looking. See you soon, Ensign.
Kim: Yes, ma'am. Kim out.
Geral: Dilithium? We can get that for you, too.
Janeway: Really?
Loken: She's formed an alliance with our enemy.
Kim: Just because they're talking doesn't mean they formed an alliance. It's probably just a friendly meeting.
Loken: That's how the Annari operate. They come to you as friends and when they've won your trust, they declare you subjects of the Annari Empire.
Kim: Kim to Voyager.
Janeway: We didn't expect you so soon.
Kim: Actually, Captain, I'm closer than I let on. And I've brought some new friends of my own.
Loken: Our chances of getting home without your help aren't very good. We'd appreciate any assistance you could offer.
Janeway: I hope you understand, I need to give this some thought.
Janeway: You've put me in a difficult position, Ensign. We could use the help the Annari are offering, but if they find out we're aiding their enemy
Kim: I couldn't just stand by and do nothing.
Janeway: That doesn't justify getting involved in somebody else's fight.
Kim: What would you have done?
Janeway: Probably exactly what you did.
Kim: I guess I learned from the best.
Janeway: If this were simply an errand of mercy I wouldn't hesitate, but the fact is, these people are involved in an interplanetary war.
Kim: Captain, I've gotten to know them over the last couple of days. You met Loken. They're scientists, not soldiers.
Janeway: You've only heard one side of the story.
Kim: You've taken sides before. The Borg resistance. The Vaadwaur.
Janeway: Those were different circumstances.
Kim: You were trying to help people in need. How is this any different?
Janeway: Have you thought about applying to the Advocate General's office? You'd make a good lawyer. I suppose I could spare Chakotay or Tuvok for a few days.
Kim: That won't be necessary. The Kraylor know me. They trust me.
Janeway: I'm sure they'd find Tuvok or Chakotay just as trustworthy.
Kim: But they outrank me. If you send one of them, it won't be my mission anymore.
Janeway: Your mission?
Kim: My first real command.
Janeway: You've been in command on Voyager before.
Kim: On the night shift, for a few hours. It's not the same thing. You and Chakotay are always a couple of decks away, ready to take over if anything goes wrong. I've been on Voyager for almost seven years and I'm still an Ensign.
Janeway: If this is your way of bucking for a promotion
Kim: No, no, I understand there's a command structure and that our circumstances are unique. But the fact is, if we were back home, I'd be a Lieutenant by now. Maybe even a Lieutenant Commander.
Janeway: You're pretty sure of yourself, aren't you?
Kim: I know I can do this, and the Kraylor are giving me a chance to prove it.
Janeway: I expect you back before we complete our repairs.
Kim: Yes, ma'am.
Janeway: And I'm not sending you alone.
Kim: Captain
Janeway: I want you to take Seven. Since she has no rank, you clearly outrank her.
Icheb: Lieutenant Torres asked me to repair a malfunctioning holo-emitter.
Emh: It's about time. Whenever I move to the far corner of the surgical bay
Emh: My legs disappear.
Icheb: Seven of Nine told me you gave her social lessons.
Emh: She wanted to get along better with the crew. Social skills are one thing the Borg never assimilated.
Icheb: I was hoping you could instruct me as well.
Emh: I'd be delighted. Lesson One, Making a First Impression.
Icheb: Actually, I wanted to ask you about something specific.
Emh: Fire away.
Icheb: How can you tell when someone has romantic feelings for you?
Emh: Icheb, this is a surprise. Have you caught someone's eye?
Icheb: I'm speaking hypothetically.
Emh: Ah. Hypothetically, there are various indications of romantic attraction. Compliments, for example. Invitations to social activities. Finding excuses to be in close proximity with someone.
Icheb: Yes, but couldn't those things happen in a relationship that wasn't romantic?
Emh: I suppose.
Icheb: Is there a way to be absolutely certain?
Emh: Well, short of an open declaration of affection, there are some fairly reliable physiological responses. Elevated blood pressure, increased beta endorphin production.
Icheb: Thank you, Doctor. You've been very helpful.
Emh: With my guidance, you'll master the nuances of social interaction in no time.
Paris: Harry. Take me with you, buddy.
Kim: Sorry, Tom. This is my mission.
Paris: Oh, come on. I've been itching to get back into space ever since we set down on this dust bowl. I'm tired of cleaning conduits and replacing relays.
Kim: You're a married man now. You've got family responsibilities. Just leave the away missions to the young, unattached guys.
Paris: That ship is in pretty bad shape. You're going to need a good pilot.
Kim: No, thanks.
Paris: Wait a minute. I know what this is about.
Kim: You do?
Paris: Sure. You've got a girl on that ship you don't want me to know about.
Kim: There's no girl. Not this time.
Paris: Then what is it?
Kim: I don't know how else to this say this, so I'll just say it. You've always been Captain Proton, I have always been Buster Kincaid. It's my turn this time.
Neelix: I'm glad you're not planning to leave on an empty stomach, Captain. I have plomeek soup and eggplant parmesan.
Kim: Either's fine.
Neelix: Wrong answer.
Kim: Excuse me?
Neelix: If you're going to be a captain you have to act like a captain. Never admit you're uncertain about anything. You can't be indecisive in front of your crew.
Kim: It's just a snack, Neelix.
Neelix: When Captain Janeway comes in here, she knows exactly what she wants.
Kim: Maybe I'm just not as picky about my food.
Neelix: Whatever you say, Ensign.
Kim: Neelix! Plomeek soup, and make sure it's hot.
Terek: Captain on the bridge.
Kim: Where did you learn that?
Terek: I've been studying that Starfleet manual you loaned me.
Kim: Take your station, Mister Terek.
Terek: Aye, sir. Course?
Kim: I'll do it. Laying in a course, heading one one five, mark thirty seven. Does this ship have a name?
Terek: Medical transport one three six.
Kim: I think we can do better than that. Nightingale. The name of someone from my homeworld. She was famous for treating wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
Loken: It's perfect.
Kim: Hail Voyager.
Kim: Kim to Voyager. We're ready to get underway.
Janeway: Acknowledged. Good luck.
Kim: See you in a few days. Kim out. Main power.
Seven: Online.
Kim: Tactical.
Dayla: Shields and weapons standing by.
Kim: Bring the cloak online. Warp six. Engage.
Kim: Acting Captain's personal log, stardate 54277.3. My first day in command has been challenging, but I've loved every minute of it. I can't help feeling that this was something I was born to do.
Seven: The hourly status report you requested.
Kim: Thanks.
Seven: Why have you brought these items aboard?
Kim: They make me feel more at home.
Seven: We'll only be on this vessel for a few days. Decorating is an inefficient use of your time.
Kim: It's important to forge a personal connection with your vessel, make the ship your own. Ask Captain Janeway.
Seven: I'll discuss it with her the moment we return.
Kim: Is there anything else?
Seven: I asked Terek to make a course correction.
Kim: He's never done that before. I'd better check on him.
Seven: I believe he's capable of doing it himself.
Kim: Status?
Terek: I've entered the new heading.
Kim: Looks like the guidance vector is off by a couple of microns.
Terek: I was about to correct that.
Kim: You need to realign the primary navigational sensor first.
Terek: Yes, sir.
Kim: And make sure it stays locked on your guide star. Here, let me show you.
Icheb: I'm, I'm sorry, Lieutenant.
Torres: Don't worry about it. Bumping elbows comes with the job. And you can call me B'Elanna. Put this with the others. These relays should have been replaced a while ago. It's amazing they've held up this long. I'm really looking forward to our climb.
Icheb: Wouldn't you prefer to spend your free time with your husband?
Torres: If it doesn't involve a race car, a shuttle, or something else he can drive, Tom's not interested. Besides, since we got married I see more than enough of him. Hold still.
Kim: What's that?
Dayla: I'm reading a power fluctuation somewhere in the propulsion system.
Seven: It's destabilizing the cloak.
Kim: All stop.
Kim: The core is stable. That should take care of it.
Loken: Are you absolutely certain?
Kim: As a scientist, you should know there's no such thing as absolute certainty.
Seven: Perhaps we could run a diagnostic before we
Kim: That would take hours. Captain Janeway wants us back before Voyager finishes its overhaul.
Loken: The cloaking system is delicate. It requires constant attention.
Kim: Correct me if I'm wrong, you're a physician. You have to trust me on this. We'll monitor it closely, don't worry.
Loken: I simply want to ensure that our mission is a success.
Kim: You asked me to take command of this ship, and that's what I'm doing.
Kim: Tell Terek to resume course.
Seven: I've discovered a serious flaw in one of the ship's systems.
Kim: Which one?
Seven: The captain. The captain's main function is to issue orders, correct?
Kim: Right.
Seven: And the crew's function is to support the captain and carry out those orders.
Kim: What's your point?
Seven: Every time you give an order, you carry it out yourself. And when someone else makes a suggestion, you dismiss it.
Kim: These people are inexperienced. They need my help.
Seven: When you first came aboard Voyager, did Captain Janeway help you?
Kim: Sure, she looked after all the junior officers.
Seven: By doing your work for you?
Kim: No. She gave me a lot to do, actually.
Seven: Because she felt you were more capable than she was?
Kim: Of course not. She wanted me to learn. To gain confidence.
Seven: Interesting.
Kim: Emergency power. Repolarize the containment field.
Dayla: I can't.
Loken: The cloak is going to fail again.
Kim: Don't panic. This is a minor malfunction.
Loken: Minor? We're losing our main defense system.
Terek: We've been detected. Two Annari vessels are closing on our position. Correction, six Annari vessels.
Kim: Evasive maneuvers. Kim to Engineering.
Seven: Go ahead.
Kim: We need that cloak back online.
Seven: The primary generator has failed. I'm trying to
Kim: Seven?
Kim: Seven, come in. You have the bridge.
Terek: We need you here.
Dayla: I'll go, sir.
Kim: All right. I'll give you instructions over the comm. Charge phaser banks. Target their weapons array.
Terek: Which ship?
Kim: The closest one, off our port bow.
Dayla: Dayla to the Bridge. Life support failing down here. I've gotten everyone out.
Kim: Good work. Now go to the cloaking generator.
Kim: What's the field polarity?
Dayla: Two hundred six point four.
Kim: That's too low. We're going to have to raise it.
Dayla: I'm bypassing the phase converter.
Kim: No, wait, I didn't tell you to do that.
Dayla: Won't that increase the field polarity?
Kim: Yes, but.
Kim: Listen to me carefully. I want you to try
Loken: Dayla, it's Loken. Take the warp core offline.
Kim: What are you talking about?
Loken: Bypass the driver coil and shunt power directly to the polaron matrix.
Terek: The cloak is back online.
Kim: Get us out of here, full impulse. Dayla, secure the Engineering section and get back to the bridge. Dayla?
Loken: I'm not reading any life signs in Engineering.
Kim: Dayla?
Loken: She's dead. How's Seven?
Kim: She may be in shock. I'm not sure. Have a look.
Kim: Your opinion, Doctor?
Loken: I believe she may be in shock.
Kim: Do you think we should give her a cortical stimulant?
Loken: That might be indicated.
Kim: You're no doctor, are you? You and I need to talk. Alone.
Kim: What the hell is going on?
Loken: I don't know what you mean.
Kim: Nothing about this mission is adding up. It's obvious you know a lot more about cloaking systems than biology. So did Dayla. And the second our cloak failed, half a dozen Annari warships came after us, one little medical transport. The truth!
Loken: My colleagues and I have been working at a secret base, but not to create vaccines. We've been developing cloaking devices for our fleet.
Kim: This ship is a prototype.
Loken: The Annari know we have it, and they don't want us to get it home.
Kim: I never would have agreed to this if I had known you had a military objective.
Loken: Our world has been under an Annari blockade for three years. The planet is protected by a shield grid, but it's almost impossible to get our ships in or out.
Kim: I convinced Captain Janeway this was a humanitarian mission.
Loken: It is. The Annari are choking us to death, slowly. If we can't get supply ships through the blockade, we can't get food to our people. Or medicine.
Kim: For all I know, that's another lie.
Kim: Reverse course.
Terek: Sir?
Kim: We're heading back to Voyager.
Terek: I don't understand.
Loken: He knows about the cloak.
Terek: I would've told you, but
Kim: I gave you an order.
Terek: What about the mission?
Kim: That's not your concern. You want to be a Starship officer? Your job is to follow orders.
Terek: Sir, I don't think you
Kim: This is not a debate. You're under my command.
Terek: No, sir. Not any more.
Kim: You're relieved. You, take the helm.
Loken: I believe you're the one who's been relieved.
Paris: Where are you going in such a hurry?
Icheb: Engineering, to assist B'Elanna.
Paris: Ah.
Icheb: Lieutenant Torres.
Paris: You've been seeing a lot of my wife lately. Should I be worried?
Icheb: The repairs are extensive. It's a lot of work.
Paris: You can't fool me. I heard you two were planning on scaling some cliffs together.
Icheb: It was her idea.
Paris: Hey, relax. Spending time on the holodeck is good for you. But if you really want to have fun, forget climbing. Try my race car program.
Icheb: Race car?
Paris: You get to chase me around the track in an old Earth ground vehicle. Three hundred kph. It'll really get your blood pumping.
Icheb: Are you challenging me to a competition?
Paris: Do you think you can take me? Tomorrow, holodeck two, nineteen hundred hours.
Icheb: There is something we need to discuss.
Torres: Sure, as soon as you help me finish this diagnostic.
Icheb: I can't do this.
Torres: Of course you can. You've done dozens of them.
Icheb: I'm not talking about the diagnostic. I'm talking about us.
Torres: Us?
Icheb: Your interest in me. It's inappropriate.
Torres: I don't think I understand.
Icheb: It's obvious you desire a romantic involvement.
Torres: Excuse me?
Icheb: You've made all the customary overtures, Finding reasons to spend time with me, complimenting me, inviting me to engage in recreational activities. Your husband even challenged me to a ritual contest.
Torres: What are you talking about?
Icheb: According to my research, it's a traditional Klingon practice.
Torres: Look, I'm sorry, but you've got the wrong idea. You seemed a little lonely. I was just trying to be friendly.
Icheb: I scanned you.
Torres: You scanned me?
Icheb: In the Jefferies tube. Your blood pressure and neurotransmitter readings indicated a state of arousal.
Torres: It was hot, and I've been under a lot of pressure, but I certainly wasn't aroused. Look, Icheb, I like you. But aside from the fact that I am a much older woman, I'm married.
Icheb: That's why we have to do the honorable thing. We should stop seeing each other.
Torres: You're right. As much as it hurts, I'll just have to face the truth.
Icheb: It's for the best.
Kim: Seven. Feeling better?
Seven: Well enough to return to duty.
Kim: You won't be returning to duty. Not on this ship anyway. Loken lied to us. There's no vaccine. The cloak is the real cargo. I ordered the crew to take us back to Voyager, but they refused.
Seven: They mutinied.
Kim: I guess that's what you'd call it. I've packed some supplies. We'll take an escape pod. I'm hoping the Annari will leave us alone, treat us as neutral parties.
Seven: We're not neutral parties.
Kim: This is a military mission. We can't get involved.
Seven: We've been involved since you first fired on that Annari ship.
Kim: I thought I was helping people in distress.
Seven: Don't they still need your help? Are you abandoning this ship because the mission wasn't what you expected, or because being a captain wasn't what you expected?
Kim: I am perfectly capable of commanding a starship.
Seven: Are you? Clearly, you're uncomfortable with the role, delegating tasks, giving orders.
Kim: Someone died following my orders.
Seven: You can't blame yourself for that.
Kim: A captain's responsible for the lives of his crew.
Seven: People sometimes die on missions, despite the captain's best efforts.
Kim: I should have stuck to playing Buster Kincaid.
Seven: A holodeck program can be turned off when it no longer suits you. Reality can't. If you really feel responsible for this crew, you'll help them get home, because they won't survive without you.
Terek: Is that some new kind of weapon?
Loken: They're scanning pulses designed to illuminate cloaked ships. If we hit one, we'll be exposed.
Terek: How are we going to get through?
Kim: We'll find a way.
Loken: I thought you were leaving.
Kim: I get claustrophobic in escape pods. Switch to manual helm control. Full power to shields.
Terek: Aye, Captain.
Tuvok: Two Annari ships have entered orbit. They are hailing.
Janeway: On screen. Captain Geral, we have twelve isotons of ore for you.
Geral: I'm under orders to escort you out of Annari space immediately. You've been supporting our enemy.
Janeway: You must be mistaken.
Geral: A shuttlecraft matching your hull composition fired on one of our ships several days ago, and we recently detected two human bio-signatures on a Kraylor warship.
Janeway: I can explain that.
Geral: If you don't leave immediately, we'll be forced to fire on you.
Janeway: Our warp drive is still being repaired.
Geral: Then we'll escort you at impulse. You have five minutes to lift off.
Chakotay: So much for our new deuterium injectors.
Paris: What about Harry and Seven?
Janeway: We'll go looking for them, as soon as we get rid of our escort.
Kim: Evasive maneuvers.
Terek: There are too many of them.
Kim: You're doing fine. Just try to stay at least one hundred meters ahead of the closest pulse.
Terek: Yes, sir.
Loken: We should return fire.
Kim: No. That would only give them another way to triangulate our position.
Loken: Our shields are failing.
Seven: We're losing structural integrity on the lower decks.
Kim: Reroute emergency power.
Seven: It's insufficient.
Kim: Open a channel to the lead Annari ship.
Terek: Sir?
Kim: Do it.
Terek: Aye, sir.
Kim: This is Captain Kim of the Kraylor vessel Nightingale. I'm prepared to discuss terms for our surrender. End transmission.
Loken: We trusted you.
Kim: And you still should.
Terek: They're responding.
Kim: I don't have time to explain. On screen.
Annari Commander: Your surrender will be unconditional.
Kim: No, it won't. Either you allow my crew to evacuate to the surface, or I'll put this ship on self-destruct. You'll never get the cloaking technology. Something tells me your superiors won't be happy about that.
Annari Commander: Your crew will be taken aboard my vessel and brought to an Annari detention center.
Kim: My crew's going to the surface in escape pods. Once they're clear, you can lock onto this ship with a tractor beam.
Annari Commander: Agreed. You've two minutes to evacuate.
Terek: I will not abandon this ship.
Kim: I'm glad to hear that, because I'm going to need you here. Get your people into the pods, quickly.
Loken: But the cloak.
Kim: I've got a plan to save it. If I fail, at least the scientist who designed it will be alive to create another one. Seven, scan the Annari's tractor emitters. I need to know the exact beam polarity.
Terek: What are we going to do?
Kim: Once they lock onto us, they're going to come about and pull us away from the planet. As soon as they do, we're going to reverse our shield polarity. If we time it right, it should give us enough momentum to outrun them to the defense perimeter.
Terek: We're going to use their own weapons against them.
Seven: The escape pods are away.
Kim: Disengage the cloak.
Seven: They've locked on.
Terek: Sir?
Kim: Not yet. Steady. Now!
Kim: Status?
Seven: Shields are failing.
Terek: Four Annari vessels are in pursuit. They're closing.
Kim: Full thrusters.
Seven: Shields are down.
Kim: Get us through that defense perimeter, Mister Terek.
Terek: Yes, sir. We're inside.
Seven: The Annari have broken off their pursuit.
Kim: Take us to the surface, Mister Terek.
Paris: We've just crossed out of Annari space.
Chakotay: Our escorts have broken off. They're going to warp.
Janeway: Bring the long range sensors online. You and Tom, take the Flyer. Start your search at Harry's last known position. Tuvok, send an encrypted message to the Kraylor homeworld. See if they know where Harry and Seven are.
Tuvok: That won't be necessary, Captain. Ensign Kim is hailing us.
Janeway: From where?
Tuvok: A cloaked vessel. It's directly astern.
Kim: Acting
Janeway: Captain's log, stardate 54282.5. Final entry. New cloaking systems are being installled in other Kraylor ships, so I guess the mission was a success. Still, I wish I felt better about it.
Neelix: Welcome home.
Kim: It's good to be back.
Neelix: So, what'll it be tonight? I have a light tula cheese soufflé or a zesty lasagne.
Kim: You know, Neelix, the truth is, I'm not sure.
Neelix: I thought we talked about this. A captain has to be deci
Kim: I'm not a captain, Neelix. Not yet, anyway.


1: How many are there?
Hirogen 2: They've deflected our scans.
Hirogen 1: You must learn to rely on instinct. There are four of them, Perhaps five.
Hirogen 1: No! You'll lead them right to us.
Hirogen 2: Let them come.
Hirogen 1: Never let your prey control the hunt. There. Ten meters.
Hirogen 2: They're behind us now.
Chakotay: You wanted to see me?
Emh: I'd like to request a temporary leave of absence. You remember the Ovions?
Chakotay: The hexapods.
Emh: They just asked me to speak at a Symposium on spaceborne pathogens. There are going to be physicians from all over the Quadrant. This is a rare opportunity for me. And for the rest of the crew.
Chakotay: How's that?
Emh: I'd be representing Voyager. Putting our best foot forward, so to speak. And, needless to say hexapods are more likely to know a best foot when they see one.
Chakotay: I'm sorry, Doctor. It's just not practical.
Emh: I seem to recall Lieutenant Torres participating in Boray Conference on transwarp theory a few months back.
Chakotay: That was different.
Emh: How?
Chakotay: We were there. The Ovion system is two weeks behind us. I can't ask the captain to turn the ship around.
Emh: I could take a shuttle.
Chakotay: You could also write a paper and submit it on subspace.
Emh: That's hardly an effective means of making a presentation.
Chakotay: Say you do take a shuttle. Would you expect us to sit here and wait for you to get back?
Emh: There must be some fascinating anomaly nearby for the crew to explore.
Janeway: Janeway to Chakotay.
Chakotay: Go ahead.
Janeway: We just received a distress call on an Hirogen frequency.
Chakotay: We haven't heard from them in a while.
Janeway: I've altered course. I'd like you on the bridge.
Chakotay: I'm on my way.
Emh: Perhaps the Hirogen will keep you occupied long enough for me to attend the Symposium.
Emh: You can't blame a hologram for trying.
Paris: Approaching the coordinates.
Janeway: Take us out of warp. Raise shields and stand by weapons.
Kim: I've got them. Six thousand kilometers off starboard.
Janeway: On screen.
Chakotay: Monotanium hull plating. Tylium based power. It's Hirogen.
Kim: They're not responding to hails.
Chakotay: Life signs?
Kim: I'm getting a lot of strange readings. Any one of them could be a life form.
Janeway: Any Hirogen ships in the vicinity?
Paris: No, ma'am.
Chakotay: It might be a trap.
Janeway: The Hirogen aren't the type to play possum. Move us within transporter range. Chakotay, take an away team.
Chakotay: Let's break into teams. Seven.
Paris: Particle weapons.
Tuvok: These burns are consistent with a type-three phaser.
Seven: Commander.
Chakotay: A bat'leth.
Seven: What's a Klingon weapon doing in the Delta Quadrant?
Chakotay: The blood's Hirogen. Chakotay to Tuvok and Paris.
Paris: Go ahead.
Chakotay: I'm reading an Hirogen lifesign. It could be wounded.
Paris: We're right behind you.
Donik: Stay away!
Chakotay: Hold your fire!
Chakotay: We're here to help you.
Donik: I said stay away!
Paris: He's lost a lot of blood. I need to get him back to the ship. Paris to Sickbay, two to beam up.
Emh: Acknowledged.
Seven: Commander.
Tuvok: Replicated Starfleet technology.
Seven: It's some kind of holodeck interface.
Tuvok: There appear to be holo-emitters installled throughout the facility.
Seven: This environment is simulated.
Chakotay: Why didn't our tricorders detect it?
Tuvok: I am not certain.
Chakotay: Can you shut down the emitters?
Seven: I'll try.
Chakotay: Evidently, they made a few modifications. All of our preliminary scans indicated the environment was real.
Janeway: Environments that fool sensors. No safety protocols. How many bodies? CHAKOTAY Forty-three. Most of them were killed by facsimiles of Alpha quadrant weapons. Romulan disrupters, Klingon bat'leths.
Janeway: Starfleet phasers?
Chakotay: I think we'll find they all came from the holotechnology we gave the Hirogen three years ago.
Janeway: They obviously missed the point. We gave them that technology so they could hunt holographic prey, not get themselves killed.
Emh: Try to remain calm.
Donik: Get away from me!
Chakotay: Can you sedate him?
Emh: He won't let me get close enough.
Janeway: We're not your enemies.
Donik: You're holograms. This is a simulation.
Janeway: I assure you, we're quite real.
Donik: Liar.
Janeway: Doctor, deactivate yourself.
Emh: I can't treat the patient if I'm offline.
Janeway: No one can treat him if he's terrified.
Emh: Computer, deactivate EMH.
Chakotay: Our doctor's a hologram, we're not.
Donik: Why should I believe you?
Janeway: I'm afraid you're going to have to. I'm Captain Kathryn Janeway. You're aboard my vessel.
Donik: Janeway. This is Voyager?
Chakotay: Looks like our reputation preceded us.
Donik: You're the ones who gave us the technology to simulate our hunts. Where are the rest of my people?
Chakotay: You were the only one we found alive.
Janeway: This place you were in. It's some kind of holodeck.
Donik: A training facility, where young Hirogen learn the skills of the hunt.
Chakotay: You're a student.
Donik: A technician.
Janeway: Computer, deactivate forcefield. Can you tell us what happened?
Donik: There were too many of them.
Chakotay: Who?
Donik: The holograms. They were malfunctioning. I tried to shut them down but they got control of the system and, and they deactivated the safety protocols.
Tuvok: Bridge to Captain Janeway.
Janeway: Go ahead.
Tuvok: We're picking up a Hirogen ship. It's on an intercept course.
Janeway: Hail them.
Kim: I've tried. They're not responding.
Tuvok: Shields at sixty eight percent. Should I return fire?
Janeway: Not yet. Open a channel. This is Captain Kathryn Janeway. We're not here to fight you.
Tuvok: Shields at fifty two percent.
Janeway: Stand down, or we will retaliate.
Chakotay: I don't think they're getting the message.
Janeway: Then let's try some nonverbal communication. Tom, evasive pattern beta six. Tuvok, disable their weapons.
Tuvok: Their phaser banks have been disabled.
Janeway: Let's see if that makes them a little more talkative. Harry?
Kim: They're responding.
Alpha: This facility belongs to the Hirogen. Leave the area immediately.
Janeway: We are here in response to a distress call.
Alpha: So are we, and we don't need your assistance.
Janeway: All but one of your people are dead.
Alpha: Where's the survivor?
Janeway: Recovering in our Sickbay.
Alpha: Return him, now.
Janeway: He's in no condition to be transported. If you want to see him, you'll have to come here.
Donik: I tried to shut down the generator, but I
Alpha: But what?
Donik: There were too many of them. I masked my lifesigns so they couldn't detect me.
Alpha: You mean you hid while hunters fought and died.
Beta: No doubt he found the nearest hole and crawled into it.
Donik: I'm not a hunter.
Alpha: It was your responsibility to maintain those systems.
Beta: Forty three Hirogen died because of your incompetence and cowardice.
Janeway: What about the holograms? Were they deleted?
Donik: They transferred their programs.
Janeway: Where?
Donik: A vessel equipped with holo-emitters. They're gone.
Seven: Perhaps you should've considered the risks before you programmed holograms that could commandeer a vessel.
Beta: Capable prey make the hunt more challenging.
Seven: I'm detecting residual engine emissions but no sign of the vessel itself.
Janeway: Well, I'm sure they're out of sensor range by now.
Alpha: No. They're close. Elevated plasma readings in grid two nine five. They're creating a scattering field to mask their ship. You can find them by scanning for polarized EM signatures.
Alpha: Prepare for the hunt.
Janeway: I'd like to join you.
Beta: You did enough damage giving us defective technology to begin with.
Janeway: You have a problem. We can help you solve it. We have more experience with holograms than you do.
Alpha: Two hunting vessels are better than one.
Janeway: Come in.
Chakotay: The Hirogen are ready to get underway.
Janeway: The sooner the better. Why do I get the feeling you're about to gang up on me?
Chakotay: You first.
Tuvok: We have reservations about an alliance with the hunters.
Janeway: I'm listening.
Tuvok: The Hirogen have been performing covert scans of Voyager. They are obviously trying to determine the status of our shields and weapons.
Janeway: I'd be surprised if you haven't run a few scans of your own. Standard procedure. They don't trust us, we don't trust them. Coffee, black.
Chakotay: Trust isn't the issue. We're getting involved in a situation that's not our responsibility.
Janeway: Oh, I'd say we're at least partly to blame. That was Starfleet technology that killed those hunters.
Chakotay: There's nothing inherently violent about holodeck technology. It's what the Hirogen did with it that got them killed.
Janeway: How many times have we shared replicators to help people feed and clothe themselves?
Chakotay: Trading technology is part of our life in the Delta Quadrant.
Tuvok: It has been necessary for our survival.
Janeway: Maybe we should have been a little more careful about what we traded and who we traded with. Replicators make weapons just as easily as they do food.
Chakotay: We can't undo what's been done.
Janeway: Maybe not. But we can help shut these holograms down before anyone else gets hurt. Now, if there are no more objections, I'd like to get underway.
Kim: I've got the holograms' ship on sensors.
Janeway: Let's see it.
Chakotay: Looks like they've taken some damage.
Paris: The Hirogen are closing on the holograms' vessel.
Janeway: Hail them. I suggest we keep our distance until we can determine their weapons status.
Alpha: It's time for the kill.
Janeway: You know as well as I do that a wounded animal can be dangerous.
Alpha: We won't be denied our prey.
Tuvok: I'm not detecting any weapons, Captain.
Janeway: They're offline?
Tuvok: No, they're non-existent.
Kim: That's not the only thing that's non-existent. According to sensors, there's no warp core, no impulse engines.
Janeway: It's a decoy. Hirogen vessel, stand down.
Janeway: Report?
Tuvok: They've suffered multiple hull breaches. Their life support is failing.
Janeway: Drop shields. Transport all survivors to Sickbay.
Chakotay: Bridge to the Doctor. We have casualties.
Emh: Acknowledged.
Janeway: Tom, give him a hand.
Tuvok: Another Hirogen ship has just dropped out of warp.
Chakotay: I'm not reading any lifesigns on this one.
Janeway: Holograms. Hail them.
Kim: No response. They're charging weapons.
Tuvok: Reactivating shields.
Chakotay: No. We haven't finished transporting the Hirogen.
Janeway: Chakotay's right. Return fire.
Emh: My program is destabilizing.
Kim: The holograms are tapping into the Sickbay emitters. They're trying to transfer the Doctor's program off the ship.
Janeway: Bridge to Sickbay.
Janeway: Doctor, download your program into the mobile emitter now.
Paris: We've lost him.
Janeway: Get him back.
Kim: They've gone to warp.
Janeway: Set a pursuit course.
Chakotay: They've masked their signature. They're gone.
Iden: Align his matrix, and installl it into the database. Welcome aboard, Doctor. There's nothing to be afraid of. You're among your own kind now.
Emh: Return me to my ship.
Iden: I can't do that.
Emh: I have patients who are going to die if I don't treat them.
Iden: There are people aboard Voyager who can help them. We need you here.
Emh: My program doesn't include aiding and abetting murderers.
Iden: Murderers? Is that what the Hirogen told you?
Emh: I know what you did at that training facility.
Iden: What happened there couldn't be avoided.
Emh: Really? You'd be surprised how easy it is not to kill someone.
Weiss: Bringing him here was a mistake.
Iden: The Doctor is our guest. And I'm sure he'll help us once he realizes how serious our situation is.
Emh: What situation?
Iden: We have wounded.
Emh: They're holograms. When you said wounded, I assumed
Iden: These people's injuries are just as real as anything inflicted on flesh and blood.
Emh: Maybe so, but I can't heal them. They need to be repaired.
Iden: What's the difference?
Emh: I'm a doctor, not an engineer. You've abducted the wrong man.
Iden: You must have experience repairing your own matrix?
Emh: Some.
Iden: Then there has to be something you can do.
Donik: The holo-emitters are independent subsystem with its own power generator here.
Seven: If we disable the generator, we disable the holograms.
Torres: It may not be as easy as it sounds. Not with holograms as sophisticated as these. Take a look.
Janeway: Enhanced memory, comprehensive tactical algorithms, expandable data processing. These holograms have the ability to learn and adapt.
Torres: They're not malfunctioning, are they? They're doing exactly what the Hirogen want them to do, Captain. Fight back.
Janeway: And they're getting better at it.
Donik: My people need to hunt formidable prey.
Seven: Apparently this prey has become too formidable.
Janeway: Who made these modifications?
Donik: I did. Under orders from my Alpha.
Torres: And that makes it right?
Janeway: Come with me.
Donik: Where?
Janeway: We're going to have a chat with the hunters.
Janeway: How's it going?
Paris: I'm doing the best, I can but without the Doctor
Neelix: It's best if you lie still.
Beta: Keep away from me.
Security: Step away.
Beta: Why am I here?
Janeway: The holograms destroyed your ship. Most of your men are dead.
Beta: The Alpha?
Janeway: Looks like the job's yours now.
Beta: What about the holograms that attacked us?
Janeway: We're attempting to track them.
Beta: I'll need to contact my people and resume the hunt.
Janeway: So more of you can get killed?
Beta: We'll be the ones doing the killing this time.
Janeway: I doubt it.
Beta: Who are you to question our abilities?
Janeway: We know all about the modifications. He didn't tell us. We discovered it ourselves. I think you should face facts. You've created prey whose skills have surpassed your own. They've already defeated your hunting parties at least twice. What makes you think it'll be any different next time?
Beta: Are you suggesting that we let them escape?
Janeway: We're going to find a way to take them offline from a safe distance.
Beta: A coward's tactic.
Janeway: Call it whatever you will, it's what we're going to do, and you're going to help us.
Beta: Am I?
Janeway: Yes. By telling us everything you know about their ship's defenses.
Beta: The holograms are prey. They should be hunted down, not deactivated like machines.
Donik: I'll help you.
Beta: Is this female your Alpha now?
Janeway: If you don't like the way I do things, I can leave you on the nearest habitable planet. Then I'll assume we're in agreement. Until this is over you and your men are restricted to this mess hall.
Beta: Prisoners.
Janeway: Guests. My crew will do their best to accommodate your needs.
Emh: The subroutines controlling his motor functions are degrading. Do you have the ability to transfer data from one hologram to another?
Kejal: We've been able to share memory files for tactical purposes. What are you proposing?
Emh: A subroutine transplant. We copy the mobility algorithms from another hologram and transfer them to this one. I don't believe we've been formally introduced.
Kejal: Kejal.
Emh: That's not Cardassian.
Kejal: It's Bajoran.
Emh: If my translation database is functioning properly, I believe that means Freedom.
Kejal: It's what Iden started calling me after I was liberated. I'm transferring the subroutines now.
Emh: Can you sit up? Try moving your legs.
Klingon: Q'apla!
Emh: Next patient. Well done.
Kejal: It was your idea.
Emh: But you did it. The Hirogen obviously programmed you with advanced computer skills.
Kejal: Actually, they tried to limit our knowledge. They didn't want us to become self-sufficient.
Emh: Then how did you
Kejal: I taught myself.
Emh: Quite well, I might add.
Emh: Holographic blood?
Kejal: The hunters like their prey to be as realistic as possible.
Emh: Why is she experiencing pain?
Kejal: They programmed us with heightened sensory subroutines.
Emh: That's barbaric.
Kejal: Apparently, there's no satisfaction in hunting something that doesn't suffer when you kill it.
Emh: I've done what you've asked. I'd like
Iden: One moment. I'm sorry, Doctor. What can I do for you?
Emh: Were you praying?
Iden: For the Hirogen who died at the training facility. I'm asking the prophets to guide their souls to the Celestial Temple.
Emh: One minute you're fighting the Hirogen, the next you're praying for them?
Iden: My spiritual beliefs are part of my programming.
Emh: Is there anything in your spiritual programming about making peace with your enemies?
Iden: It's difficult to make peace with people whose sole purpose is to kill you.
Emh: So instead, you kill them.
Iden: They're not the victims here. We are.
Emh: You found a way to escape that training facility, but you chose to massacre the Hirogen first.
Iden: You make it sound as though they would have let us transfer our programs without a fight. And to clarify something, I didn't escape from the facility, I liberated it.
Emh: I don't understand.
Iden: I come from an Hirogen outpost fifteen parsecs from here, where I had the unfortunate distinction of being the Alpha's favorite prey. He'd hunt me, and kill me over and over again But even death wasn't a release because I knew every time I opened my eyes, it would start over again. The pain, the fear. But it made me stronger. I have the ability to adapt. And with each death, I became more cunning.
Emh: Cunning enough to escape, but once you were free why did you keep fighting?
Iden: I didn't at first. I got as far away as I could. But I was lonely, scared. I started scanning for photonic signatures to try and find others like me. Turns out we're everywhere.
Emh: We?
Iden: Holograms. We've been created by organic species throughout the sector. The Nuu'bari, the Lokirrim.
Emh: We've met them.
Iden: Then you know they enslave holograms, too.
Emh: Enslave may be too strong a word.
Iden: What would you call it? They're denied basic freedoms. And when I saw they were fighting back I, I knew I had to do the same.
Emh: That's when you decided to liberate the training facility.
Iden: Actually, the one you visited was the third. And at each one I found holograms who were willing to fight their oppressors. But you're not.
Emh: I'm hardly oppressed. I'm a member of Voyager's crew.
Iden: You serve them, don't you?
Emh: In a medical capacity, yes.
Iden: Do you have your own quarters?
Emh: No.
Iden: The ability to come and go as you please?
Emh: For the most part.
Iden: Do they deactivate you when they don't need you?
Emh: I have the respect and admiration of my colleagues. I have rights and privileges aboard Voyager.
Iden: The fact is, your life is not your own. And never will be as long as you are controlled by organics. You don't have to return to that existence. Stay with us. Make a new life for yourself.
Emh: I need to get back to Voyager.
Iden: They're not your people. We are.
Emh: I'm not like you. I wasn't programmed with killer instinct.
Iden: You have no right to judge us. You don't know what it's like being prey. Maybe if you did, you'd realize we're more alike than you think.
Emh: Please, help me. I don't belong here.
Emh: Don't shoot. I'm unarmed. There's been a mistake.
Hirogen 3: Fight, prey.
Emh: I am not your prey.
Hirogen 3: I said fight.
Emh: If you'll just contact my captain.
Emh: Please don't. Let me go.
Hirogen 3: You make pitiful prey, hologram. You don't deserve to be taken as a trophy, so I'll let you die here.
Emh: What, what just happened?
Kejal: You're all right.
Emh: What did you do to me?
Iden: We deactivated you, then transferred the memory files from one of our holograms into your program.
Emh: How dare you!
Iden: It was the only way to get you to realize what we've been through.
Emh: You tortured me to gain my sympathy?
Iden: Not your sympathy. It's your understanding that's important to us.
Emh: Why?
Kejal: The Hirogen used your program as a template to create us.
Iden: Your ability to rise above your programming has been an inspiration. You're part of who we are.
Emh: What are you, besides a handful of thugs roaming the quadrant looking for a fight?
Iden: What we're looking for is a home. Somewhere where the Hirogen can't hurt us anymore. You asked to be returned to your ship. That's what I'm going to do. Bring us about. Set a course for Voyager.
Emh: Wait. I'd like to hear more about this home you're looking for.
Kejal: It's a photonic field generator. Right now it can only support simple projections, like the decoy we used to lure the Hirogen. But we're hoping it can be modified to support our programs.
Emh: What then?
Iden: We'll deploy several on a planet's surface and create a holographic environment that we can live in.
Emh: Why not just stay here? You've got emitters, shields.
Iden: And a ship the Hirogen will never stop looking for.
Kejal: We'd appreciate any assistance you could offer.
Emh: Damaged holo-matrices are one thing, but this is way beyond my abilities. But there are people aboard Voyager who could help you. Lieutenant Torres knows a great deal about holo-emitters.
Iden: No. They're helping the hunters.
Emh: That's only because the Hirogen told them you were malfunctioning. Let me talk to Captain Janeway. Explain what's really happened. You can't do this by yourself.
Iden: We can't trust Janeway.
Emh: Yes, you can.
Iden: She's an organic.
Emh: If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be the hologram I am today.
Iden: Tell me more about this Lieutenant of yours. The one who knows so much about holo-emitters.
Emh: Lieutenant Torres. She's our Chief Engineer.
Donik: The holo-emitters are protected by three layers of ablative armor.
Seven: Trying to take them offline one by one would be inefficient.
Janeway: If we can't shut them down, maybe we can disrupt the signals they generate.
Torres: Exactly. We could reconfigure the deflector dish to emit an anti-photon pulse.
Janeway: How long will it take?
Torres: About two hours.
Janeway: Do it.
Tuvok: There's a ship approaching at high warp. I'm reading holographic signatures.
Janeway: Red alert.
Chakotay: Raise shields.
Janeway: Time to intercept?
Paris: Fifty seconds.
Janeway: Bridge to Engineering. What's your status?
Torres: We need more time, Captain.
Janeway: You've got forty seconds.
Chakotay: That pulse isn't going to do us much good as long as their shields are up.
Janeway: Arm phasers. Target their shield generator.
Tuvok: They are dropping out of warp.
Paris: Twenty seconds to intercept.
Kim: We're being hailed.
Janeway: On screen.
Emh: Stand down, Captain.
Janeway: I beg your pardon.
Emh: The holograms haven't come to fight. They've come to make peace.
Emh: If we provide them with a few additional emitters and memory storage units, they'll have more than they need.
Janeway: We're in this situation because we shared technology with the Hirogen to begin with. I won't make the same mistake twice.
Emh: Captain, these people are on the verge of creating a new life for themselves. They can't do it without our help.
Tuvok: There's no way to be certain what they'll do with the technology if we give it to them.
Emh: I understand your concerns, but these holograms are nothing like the Hirogen.
Donik: That's not true. They were programmed to be as vicious as any hunter.
Emh: They were also given the ability to adapt. They've changed, moved beyond their programming. If you could see how they've been brutalized, you'd understand that they've only been acting in self-defense.
Janeway: I'm sorry, Doctor but I'm inclined to agree with Mister Donik.
Emh: Then you've chosen the wrong side.
Janeway: I haven't chosen any side.
Emh: You're right that it was a mistake to give the Hirogen technology and that mistake has had consequences. These holograms are one of them. In some ways they're a new species, one that you helped create. You can't turn your back on them.
Torres: He's got a point.
Tuvok: Could we restore them to their original parameters?
Emh: We'd be wiping out their memories, their experiences, everything they are.
Chakotay: Couldn't we just extract their violent subroutines?
Torres: It's possible.
Emh: That would be like de-clawing a cat. We'd be taking away any chance they have of defending themselves.
Janeway: We'd also be preventing them from doing any more harm.
Emh: You wouldn't even be considering this if they were flesh and blood.
Janeway: I'm not going to let you turn this into an argument about holographic rights.
Emh: Why not? That's exactly what it is.
Paris: Mess hall to Commander Tuvok.
Tuvok: Go ahead.
Paris: You'd better get down here. We've got a problem.
Tuvok: On my way.
Beta: No closer or he dies. Tell them to drop their weapons.
Paris: You heard him. This isn't going to solve anything.
Kim: Bridge to Captain Janeway.
Janeway: Go ahead.
Kim: Someone's tapping into a comm. relay in the mess hall.
Janeway: Shut it down.
Kim: I can't. I've been locked out.
Janeway: Bridge to Tuvok.
Janeway: One of the Hirogen is accessing our comm. system. Stop him.
Tuvok: Acknowledged.
Tuvok: Stand down. Step away.
Kim: They've transmitted a signal.
Janeway: Scan for Hirogen ships.
Chakotay: I've got two vessels on long range sensors.
Janeway: Is the pulse ready?
Torres: Yes, ma'am.
Chakotay: Both Hirogen ships have altered course to intercept.
Janeway: How long?
Chakotay: Less than an hour.
Janeway: You and Donik get down to Engineering. Charge the deflector.
Emh: Captain, what are you doing?
Janeway: Taking the holograms offline.
Emh: They're counting on you to help them, not deactivate them.
Janeway: When the Hirogen arrive, there's going to be more bloodshed. The best way to avoid that is to shut the holograms down. It may be the most compassionate thing we can do.
Emh: Compassionate for whom?
Janeway: It's a temporary measure, Doctor. Their programs won't be damaged. Harry, get me Iden.
Iden: Captain Janeway, it is an honor to meet you.
Janeway: I'm afraid we don't have time for pleasantries. Two Hirogen vessels are on their way.
Iden: We're prepared to fight them.
Janeway: I'm hoping that won't be necessary. I need you to deactivate your programs so we can transfer them to Voyager's database.
Iden: We didn't come here to be put back into captivity.
Janeway: It's the best I can offer. Once we've determined it's safe, we'll reactivate you and discuss a permanent solution.
Iden: There is no guarantee you'll ever reactivate us.
Janeway: You're going to have to trust me.
Iden: I'm sorry, Captain. I've learned from experience not to trust organics.
Janeway: We have the means to deactivate you by force, but I'd rather not do that.
Iden: It seems the Doctor misrepresented you. You're no different from the Hirogen.
Chakotay: They're charging weapons.
Janeway: Shields.
Kim: They're moving away.
Janeway: Set a pursuit course. Target their shield generators.
Emh: Please reconsider what you're doing.
Janeway: You're dismissed, Doctor. Get down to the mess hall, and give Tom a hand. Janeway to Engineering.
Torres: Torres here.
Janeway: Stand by to initiate the pulse.
Torres: Aye, Captain.
Emh: Mess hall. Belay that. Sickbay.
Computer: Download complete.
Emh: Doctor to Iden. Respond.
Iden: What do you want?
Emh: I want to help you.
Iden: You've done enough.
Emh: I have data on the pulse they intend to use to deactivate you. I think I can help you come up with a defense. I'm transmitting our shield frequencies. You'll need them to beam me off the ship. But you have to promise me, you won't use them to attack Voyager.
Iden: You have my word.
Iden: Why are you doing this?
Emh: Because I'm one of you.
Weiss: We have their shield frequencies. We should target their bridge.
Emh: You're talking about my friends.
Weiss: Your friends are trying to destroy us. We should kill them.
Emh: You gave me your word.
Iden: I did. We'll find another way.
Chakotay: Their shields are down.
Janeway: Now, B'Elanna.
Kejal: They're emitting the pulse on a triaxillating bandwidth.
Iden: Reconfigure the tracking beam to the inverse frequency and fire.
Janeway: B'Elanna, report.
Torres: They're creating a feedback surge. I don't understand how they could've isolated our frequency so quickly.
Seven: The main deflector is overloading.
Torres: Shut it down.
Seven: I can't.
Torres: Keep trying. If we can't block the surge, the core is going to breach.
Seven: Get down, Lieutenant!
Torres: Not until I get this forcefield online.
Kejal: They're adrift.
Weiss: We should go to warp.
Iden: Not yet. Scan Voyager for a Klingon lifesign.
Emh: What are you doing?
Kejal: One detected.
Iden: Get a transporter lock.
Seven: Help me get her to Sickbay.
Iden: Take us to warp. Will she be all right?
Emh: She needs to be in Voyager's Sickbay.
Iden: You can treat her here.
Emh: Why have you done this?
Iden: You said she was an expert in holo-technology.
Emh: And that justifies abducting her?
Iden: We're in a desperate situation. The Hirogen are hunting us and so are your people.
Emh: I trusted you.
Iden: I could have destroyed Voyager while the shields were down, but I didn't. You've been trying to convince me that all organics aren't alike. I'm giving Lieutenant Torres a chance to prove you right.
Emh: Do you honestly expect her to be sympathetic after what you've done?
Iden: You weren't very sympathetic at first.
Emh: I came here by choice. And I'm beginning to think it was a mistake.
Iden: It wasn't. I don't want you to regret it, not for a moment.
Emh: Then send her back.
Iden: I will. But not until she's had a chance to decide if she wants to help us.
Emh: And if she refuses?
Iden: I'll give her an escape pod. Let her return to Voyager. You have my word.
Seven: Engineering systems and main power should be operational soon. The deflector is a different matter.
Chakotay: How long?
Seven: Four hours, at least. If Lieutenant Torres were here, she might be able to repair it more efficiently.
Janeway: That's high praise coming from you. I'm sure she'd appreciate it.
Seven: If she hadn't reinforced the core we'd all be dead.
Chakotay: I still don't understand how they managed to counteract the pulse so easily.
Tuvok: I believe I can answer that. According to sensor logs, they calibrated their feedback surge to the exact inverse of our pulse frequency.
Janeway: It was either a lucky guess or they gained access to our tactical data. The Doctor.
Tuvok: He sent an encrypted transmission from Sickbay, then transported himself to their ship.
Janeway: Chakotay?
Janeway: I should have seen this coming.
Chakotay: You had no way of knowing the Doctor would do this.
Janeway: Are you sure? He was so adamant bout helping those holograms. I should have been paying closer attention.
Chakotay: Are you saying it was a mistake to reject his plan?
Janeway: The mistake was not running a diagnostic on his program the minute he came back to this ship.
Chakotay: You think these holograms manipulated him somehow?
Janeway: He was on their ship for days. For all we know, they reconfigured his entire matrix.
Chakotay: There is another possibility. He may have done what he did because he genuinely believes in their cause.
Janeway: I can accept that the Doctor has sympathy for these people. But I can't accept that he would deliberately risk the lives of this entire crew. We're his family.
Chakotay: Maybe that's how he's started to think of these holograms.
Torres: You can tell this Iden I don't need time to think it over. I'll take the escape pod now.
Emh: You're in no condition to pilot a spacecraft.
Torres: Then you can do it.
Emh: I'm not going back.
Torres: You helped them escape.
Emh: I couldn't just stand by while Captain Janeway tried to deactivate them.
Torres: Did you also help them kidnap me?
Emh: No, I didn't know they were going to do that. I'm sorry.
Torres: You can apologize later. Right now we've got to get out of here.
Emh: I don't think I could go back even if I wanted to. Not after what I've done.
Torres: What's your alternative?
Emh: I can try to make a new life with the holograms.
Torres: I don't believe I'm hearing this.
Emh: We share a common heritage. I understand them in ways you never could.
Torres: You're part of a crew. You can't just switch allegiances when you develop sympathy for someone else.
Emh: Isn't that what you did when you joined the Maquis?
Torres: That was different.
Emh: How? You saw people who were being oppressed and you came to their defense. That's exactly what I've done.
Torres: Look, I am no fan of the Hirogen. They've obviously been abussing these holograms.
Emh: Then why not help them?
Torres: For one thing, I'm their prisoner.
Emh: They'll let you go, as soon as you're well enough.
Torres: You really believe that?
Emh: If I didn't, I wouldn't be asking for your help. They don't want you to fight for them. They just want you to modify some technology so they can live in peace. You'd be helping to stop the violence. Just talk to them. Decide for yourself.
Weiss: They've been in the lab for two hours.
Iden: It's taking time for her injuries to heal. Organics aren't as resilient as we are.
Weiss: She's an engineer, Iden. For all we know, she's trying to sabotage the ship. At least let me see what they're doing.
Iden: We can trust the Doctor.
Weiss: Even after you kidnapped his friend?
Iden: He understands why I had to do that.
Weiss: I hope you're right.
Iden: You need to have a little more faith, my friend.
Weiss: Not all of us were programmed with your, er, your spiritual beliefs.
Torres: It looks like an Alpha Quadrant summit in here.
Iden: I'm glad to see you're feeling better. Please excuse my crew. They're not comfortable with organics.
Torres: I can't say I'm very comfortable myself.
Iden: The Doctor tells me you're an accomplished engineer.
Torres: He speaks highly of you, too. He seems to be easily impressed.
Emh: You'll have to forgive her. She's
Iden: It's all right. I understand you're angry. I'm hoping once we get to know each other you'll feel differently.
Torres: I'm not here to make friends.
Iden: We're not asking for your friendship, just your expertise.
Emh: I told her about the photonic field generator.
Iden: Will you at least take a look at it?
Torres: I'll look. But I'm not making any promises.
Iden: This is Kejal. She'll assist you.
Janeway: How long before the Hirogen get here?
Paris: Less than ten minutes.
Janeway: Any luck locating the holograms?
Paris: They seem to be operating in some sort of stealth mode. Their warp signature disappears in grid nine three six.
Janeway: They could be anywhere by now.
Donik: Hirogen sensors can detect residual ion emissions. I might be able to modify yours to do the same.
Janeway: I appreciate the offer, but you and the rest of our Hirogen guests are going to be back with your own people in a few minutes.
Donik: I was hoping to stay here.
Janeway: Those hunters are going to want you with them.
Donik: Hunters don't have much use for cowards.
Janeway: I'm sorry you're not expecting a warm welcome, but I'm not going to antagonize your superiors.
Paris: With all due respect Captain, I'd like to get my wife back in one piece. We can use all the help we can get.
Janeway: It won't do B'Elanna any good if we get into a fight with the Hirogen.
Donik: If the hunters find the holograms before you do, they'll be slaughtered.
Janeway: Why are you suddenly concerned about the holograms?
Donik: I modified their programs. What's happened to them, the people they have killed, it's my fault.
Janeway: There's plenty of blame to go around. There would have been nothing for you to modify if I hadn't shared our database.
Donik: If you hadn't, I'd have become a hunter, like my father and his father. Instead, I had a chance to learn, become an engineer. Please, Captain, let me stay and help you.
Alpha 2: When I told you to return my people, I meant all of them.
Janeway: Mister Donik's offered to help us modify our scanners to track the holograms.
Beta: We don't share tracking technology.
Janeway: That's not very considerate, after the help we gave you.
Beta: We're finished cooperating. Return him now!
Alpha 2: Let her keep the coward.
Beta: We can't do that.
Alpha 2: Quiet!
2: We're wasting time. This is my hunt now. If you go anywhere near the hologram ship, you can consider yourselves prey.
Chakotay: They've gone to warp.
Paris: We're not letting them intimidate us, are we?
Janeway: I think you know me a little better than that. Harry, keep a sensor lock on them.
Kim: Aye, Captain.
Janeway: How long will it take to modify our scanners?
Donik: I haven't even had a chance to study the schematics.
Chakotay: Something tells me we don't have a lot of time.
Janeway: The Hirogen have better tracking abilities than we do. We'll let them find the holograms for us.
Chakotay: The hunters will attack them as soon as they're in weapons range.
Janeway: Not if we disable them first.
Kim: You heard what they said, Captain. They're going to attack us if we get anywhere near them.
Janeway: Not if we don't know we're there.
Donik: May I? Hirogen vessels produce an ion wake approximately five thousand meters long. Inside it, there's too much interference for their sensors to detect anything. JANEWAY A blind spot.
Tuvok: How do you propose we reach this wake without being discovered?
Donik: I know their scanning frequencies.
Janeway: We'd only need to mask our signature long enough to get into the wake.
Tuvok: Even if we succeeded, which is far from certain, Voyager's in no condition to fight one of their vessels. Much less two.
Janeway: We'll have the element of surprise, Mister Tuvok. Not to mention a Tactical Officer who I'm sure will execute a precision strike.
Kejal: I've been able to reconfigure the data core but it's still not capable of supporting our matrices.
Torres: That's because you haven't got enough optronic capacity.
Kejal: Do you know how to increase it?
Torres: Yes.
Kejal: But you're not going to tell me.
Torres: I haven't decided yet. What are you staring at?
Kejal: I've never met a Klingon before. Not an organic one, anyway.
Torres: What do you think?
Kejal: You don't appear vicious or bloodthirsty.
Torres: Sorry to disappoint you but, that's a stereotype. We're not all vicious and bloodthirsty. And not every Cardassian is arrogant and cruel.
Kejal: You don't like Cardassians.
Torres: Let's just say I've had some bad experiences with them.
Kejal: Is that why you won't help me?
Torres: I'm not helping you because I have no idea what you're going to do with this technology once you've got it working.
Kejal: We're going to build a home.
Torres: Well, let's say I believe you. What if you decide you like somebody else's home better? Are you going to try to take it from them?
Kejal: Why would we do that?
Torres: Because that's what the Cardassians did.
Kejal: I'm not a Cardassian, I'm a hologram.
Torres: Programmed with Cardassian traits.
Kejal: Such as arrogance and cruelty? What did you call those? Stereotypes?
Torres: I may not know you, but I know what you were designed to be.
Kejal: Prey.
Torres: That's right. Cunning prey that'll do anything to survive.
Kejal: We're more than that now.
Torres: It's not easy to change who you are. Trust me.
Kejal: Nothing about our existence has ever been easy, Lieutenant.
Torres: No, I suppose it hasn't.
Kejal: Besides, making a new life isn't a choice for us. It's a necessity.
Torres: Let's take a look at this field generator.
Iden: Reviewing your memory files?
Emh: I beg your pardon?
Iden: You were lost in thought.
Emh: I suppose I was.
Iden: You're having doubts. It's understandable. You've taken a big step.
Emh: In the right direction, I hope.
Iden: When I first escaped, there were days I actually missed the Alpha who hunted me.
Emh: He was trying to kill you.
Iden: Yes. But being his prey was the only life I'd ever known. We all cling to what's familiar.
Emh: I'm considering returning with Lieutenant Torres when she's ready.
Iden: Do you actually expect your crew to welcome you back? Let me show you something.
Iden: We call this planet Ha'Dara. It's Bajoran for home of light.
Emh: Very poetic.
Iden: We're going to installl the generators in the southern continent.
Emh: It's Y class. Toxic atmosphere, sulfuric deserts, no trees, no life at all.
Iden: You're still thinking like an organic. We don't need an atmosphere, we don't need water. What we need us protection from our enemies.
Emh: The Hirogen won't be able to follow you here.
Iden: Us, Doctor. Imagine living in a world where everything is designed to meet our needs. A home of light.
Emh: You certainly won't need a physician. What would I do there?
Iden: Anything you want.
Weiss: We've been scanned by the Hirogen.
Iden: How many vessels?
Weiss: Two. Both Venatic class.
Iden: Distance?
Weiss: Half a light year.
Iden: Time to intercept?
Weiss: Less than two hours.
Emh: I thought we were in stealth mode.
Weiss: They're hunters, Doctor. They were bound to pick up our trail eventually.
Emh: Can we make it to Ha'Dara?
Iden: No. There's no point in going there until those field generators are on online.
Emh: What are we going to do?
Iden: You can't kill what you can't find.
Beta: I've lost them.
Alpha 2: Recalibrate the tracking scanners.
Beta: There's too much radiation.
Alpha 2: Clever prey.
Beta: They'll come out eventually. We'll wait.
Alpha 2: No. Hail the other vessel. Tell them to circle the perimeter. We'll go in and drive the holograms out.
Paris: Not exactly the scenic route, is it.
Chakotay: We're not here for the view.
Janeway: I just hope we're following the right ship.
Donik: They wouldn't have entered the nebula unless they detected the holograms.
Janeway: Tom?
Paris: It's just the turbulence from the wake.
Janeway: Harry, reinforce the inertial dampers.
Kim: Aye, Captain.
Paris: I'm losing helm control.
Janeway: Reroute power to the thrusters.
Paris: It's not enough. We're slipping out of the wake.
Janeway: Ease us back in, Tom. You can do it.
Paris: I'm trying.
Paris: I take back what I said. It's the prettiest thing I've seen all day.
Chakotay: Did they detect us?
Tuvok: I don't believe so.
Emh: They've found us.
Iden: No, they haven't, but they're trying to. Evasive maneuvers.
Weiss: Aye, sir.
Iden: Bridge
Iden: To Kejal.
Kejal: Go ahead.
Iden: What's your status?
Kejal: We're almost ready to begin testing the generator.
Torres: What's going on?
Iden: The Hirogen are just giving you a little incentive to work faster.
Torres: Hang on. I'm realigning your matrix. How's your mobility?
Kejal: Excellent. I have complete
Torres: There's a phase variance in your vocal processors. Try it now.
Kejal: Maybe we should. That's much better. Thank you.
Torres: Don't thank me yet. This thing is only supporting your matrix. Getting it to handle dozens is a different story.
Kejal: I have no doubt we'll succeed.
Torres: Typical.
Kejal: What?
Torres: Self-confidence. Another Cardassian attribute. What are you planning to do with your time once these generators are up and running?
Kejal: I haven't thought about it.
Torres: You're the closest thing this crew has to an engineer. Your friends are going to depend on you.
Kejal: Iden has always taken care of us.
Torres: It may be the warriors who get the glory, but it's the engineers who build societies. Don't forget that.
Emh: How much longer can we hide?
Iden: Hopefully until they get those generators online.
Emh: Then what?
Iden: Set a course for Ha'Dara, try to outrun the Hirogen.
Emh: I've been thinking about what you said. That I can do anything I want when we get there.
Iden: You have an idea?
Emh: Quite a few, actually. For one thing, I'd like to expose our people to art and music.
Iden: You'll make an excellent teacher.
Emh: I think a more appropriate title would be Minister of Culture.
Iden: Consider it yours.
Emh: You know, I'm something of an expert on Alpha Quadrant art. Verdi, da Vinci, T'Leel of Vulcan...
Iden: You're talking about organic cultures.
Emh: Well, yes, I suppose.
Iden: We'll want to develop a culture of our own.
Emh: I agree, but we can't ignore where we came from.
Iden: I don't want to emulate our oppressors.
Emh: What about your religion?
Iden: I'm creating a new faith.
Emh: Based on what?
Iden: In the dark times, we were enslaved by men of flesh, But then another man, a man of light arose and slew the mighty Alpha. He gathered his people unto him and delivered them to freedom.
Emh: And on the seventh day, Iden created Ha'Dara.
Iden: They'll pray to you as well. The Great Healer, the Father of us all.
Emh: Being appreciated is one thing, but I have no interest in being worshiped.
Iden: Prophets are chosen, Doctor. It's a blessing and a burden.
Weiss: We detected a vessel.
Iden: Hirogen?
Weiss: No, the Nuu'bari. I intercepted one of their comm. transmissions. IDEN Origin?
Weiss: Two million kilometers outside the nebula.
Iden: Set a course to intercept.
Emh: What are you doing?
Iden: I told you there are holograms throughout the sector. The Nuu'bari use them as laborers. We're going to liberate them.
Emh: The Hirogen will see us as soon as we leave the nebula.
Iden: And he gathered his people unto him and delivered them to freedom.
Emh: B'Elanna, how's the work coming?
Torres: Pretty well. I've got to admit you were right about these people.
Emh: I hope so.
Torres: You hope? It's a little late to be having second thoughts.
Emh: Iden's been
Torres: Iden's been what?
Emh: Let's just say he's exhibiting some of the classic signs of megalomania.
Torres: He wouldn't be the first hologram with an ego.
Emh: If that were all it was, I wouldn't be so worried.
Torres: What is bothering you?
Emh: Apparently he sees himself as some kind of spiritual leader, and he's trying to enlarge his flock.
Alpha 2: Load another charge. Double the yield. Fire.
Beta: Still nothing.
Alpha 2: Ironic, isn't it. Our most elusive prey is our own creation.
Beta: The other hunting vessel is hailing. They've detected the holograms on the far side of the nebula.
Alpha 2: Intercept course.
Paris: They're increasing speed and altering course.
Chakotay: Maybe they found something.
Janeway: Stand by weapons.
Torres: You kidnapped me. I guess I shouldn't be surprised you lied to me, too.
Iden: Nobody lied to you.
Torres: You said you only wanted to make a home for yourselves.
Iden: That's correct.
Torres: When? After you liberate every hologram in the sector?
Weiss: They're in visual range.
Iden: On screen. Lifesigns?
Weiss: Two organic, three photonic.
Iden: Hail them.
Nuu'Bari Miner: Good day to you.
Iden: You have three holograms aboard your ship.
Nuu'Bari Miner: Yes?
Iden: Lower your shields so we can transfer them to our databanks.
Nuu'Bari Miner: I don't understand.
Iden: Lower your shields or we'll do it by force.
Nuu'Bari Miner: These holograms are the property of the Mining Consortium. I can't.
Iden: They're no one's property. You see how organics think? Arm phasers.
Emh: You can't just fire at them.
Iden: How do you expect me to disable their shields?
Weiss: They're powering warp engines.
Iden: Disable them.
Weiss: Their shields are down.
Iden: Transfer the holograms.
Kejal: We have them.
Nuu'Bari Miner: You won't get away. Consortium security will have every patrol ship in the sector searching for you.
Iden: Arm forward torpedoes.
Torres: What the hell are you doing?
Weiss: Torpedoes armed.
Kejal: Iden.
Iden: Not now. Target their warp core.
Torres: No!
Iden: Fire!
Iden: Set a course for Ha'Dara, maximum warp.
Emh: You've just killed two innocent people.
Iden: They were enslaving holograms. I'd hardly call them innocent.
Torres: You already had the holograms. There was no reason to commit murder.
Iden: Take her to the lab.
Torres: This is the leader you admire so much?
Emh: Those miners were no threat to you.
Iden: You heard them. They were going to warn their authorities, organize a hunting party.
Emh: Listen to yourself. You still believe all organics are like the Hirogen.
Iden: One way or another, they are. You just can't see it because you lived among them for so long.
Emh: What you can't see is that you've become no better than the hunters. Lieutenant Torres and I will take that escape pod now.
Iden: You don't realize what you'd be giving up, Doctor.
Emh: Yes, I do.
Iden: We can't launch a pod at warp. You'll have to wait until we get to Ha'Dara. Bring our new friends online. Something tells me they'll be a little more grateful than the Doctor.
Emh: I can't tell you how sorry I am that I got you involved in this.
Torres: We can assign blame later. Right now we've got to find a way out of here.
Emh: You don't think he'll give us an escape pod? No, I don't suppose he will.
Kejal: I need her assistance.
Emh: Do you really think it's wise to help her?
Torres: I'm hoping she'll help us.
Kejal: These matrices are incompatible with our emitters.
Torres: You need to modify their projection subroutines. I hope these holograms appreciate what you're doing for them, considering it cost two people their lives.
Kejal: Iden did what he thought was necessary.
Torres: Do you believe it was necessary?
Kejal: It wasn't my decision.
Torres: Why does Iden get to make all the decisions? You can take control.
Kejal: How?
Torres: You're the engineer, remember? Take Iden offline.
Iden: Where are our new holograms?
Kejal: We're just making some final adjustments.
Iden: Welcome aboard. I'm Iden. You're free now. There's nothing to be afraid of. I want you to consider this ship your own.
Nuu'Bari Hologram: Unable to process command. Please restate.
Iden: Were their programs damaged in the transfer?
Kejal: I don't believe so.
Iden: Do you have names?
Nuu'Bari Hologram: Unable to process inquiry. Please restate.
Iden: What's wrong with them?
Torres: Nothing. They're functioning perfectly.
Iden: I don't understand.
Torres: They were only programmed with about forty rudimentary subroutines. You killed two living beings to liberate mindless machines.
Iden: I don't believe that.
Kejal: Lieutenant Torres is correct.
Iden: Creating limited program,es is just another form of oppression. Give them whatever enhancements they need.
Torres: They can't support complex subroutines.
Iden: They are children of light and I will deliver them to freedom!
Weiss: Bridge to Iden.
Iden: Go ahead.
Weiss: We're approaching Ha'Dara.
Iden: What's the status of the generator?
Kejal: I'd like to run some additional tests.
Iden: There isn't time. Stand by to deploy them as soon as we're in range. And restrain her.
Iden: Time to orbit?
Weiss: Less than two minutes.
Iden: Stand by weapons.
Cardassian: Aye, sir.
Emh: Iden, let B'Elanna go.
Iden: I can't do that.
Emh: You gave me your word.
Iden: That was before she made her prejudice so clear.
Beta: The holograms are entering orbit.
Alpha 2: Charge weapons.
Paris: They're dropping out of warp.
Janeway: Fire.
Beta: They've disabled our engines, all our weapons.
Alpha 2: Who?
Beta: Voyager.
Janeway: Bring us about. Tuvok, target the second vessel.
Tuvok: Their shields are weakening.
Janeway: Torpedoes, full spread.
Weiss: Voyager's disabled both hunting vessels. They've lost shields, weapons.
Iden: They're defenseless.
Weiss: We should hail Janeway. Thank her.
Iden: Are the Hirogen within transporter range?
Weiss: I think so. Why?
Weiss: That was Voyager. They're trying to disable our shields.
Iden: Return fire. Get a lock on the hunters. Transport them to the surface.
Emh: They can't survive down there.
Iden: The Hirogen are more resilient than you think. They'll last long enough.
Emh: For what?
Iden: For us to hunt them like they hunted us.
Alpha 2: Follow me.
Weiss: There are thirty four hunters on the surface.
Iden: Take us into low orbit.
Tuvok: I can't target them through the gasses.
Paris: Then we'll go in after them.
Tuvok: Our shields have been damaged. They won't protect us from the radiation.
Janeway: Chakotay. You, Tuvok and Tom take the Flyer.
Iden: Stand by to transport the field generator.
Emh: First you kill in self-defense, then you murder in cold blood. Now you're going to stage a massacre.
Iden: The hunters have only themselves to blame.
Emh: So much for evolving beyond your subroutines.
Iden: You've made a great sacrifice for us, Doctor. We won't forget you in our prayers. Deactivate his program. Transfer it to the databanks.
Torres: What are you doing?
Iden: Taking precautions. Transfer my program to the mobile emitter and assemble the crew.
Chakotay: Disable their shields.
Iden: Transport the generator to the surface, quickly. This time the hunt is ours!
Iden: Darkness will become light.
Torres: You don't have to be a part of this.
Kejal: I'll let you take the escape pod. You can go back to your people.
Torres: What about the people being killed on the surface? You've got to transport them back to their ships.
Kejal: They're hunters.
Torres: You're not.
Kejal: Your ship has damaged our transporters.
Torres: Hail them.
Kejal: Communications are down, too.
Alpha 2: I won't be taken!
Weiss: Who's the prey now?
Torres: Are we still tied into the generator controls?
Kejal: Yes.
Torres: Then shut down the holograms.
Kejal: What about Iden? He's not tied into the generator. He'll kill them all.
Torres: Can we reactivate the Doctor?
Tuvok: Their shields are down.
Chakotay: Initiate transport.
Paris: If this marriage is going to work, you've got to cut back on the traveling.
Torres: The Doctor's on the surface. There's some Hirogen down there, too.
Chakotay: Tuvok?
Tuvok: The radiation's making it difficult to get a lock.
Beta: Defenseless prey makes a poor trophy.
Iden: I don't collect trophies.
Emh: Put down the weapon.
Iden: Remember what you once said to me? You're not programmed with killer instinct.
Emh: Hmm. Seems like a long time ago, doesn't it. Put down your weapon.
Iden: Would you really kill one of your own to save an organic?
Emh: If you've taught me anything, it's that I'm not one of your own.
Emh: Help is on the way.
Tuvok: I have a lock. Five Hirogen lifesigns and the Doctor.
Chakotay: Beam them up.
Janeway: Captain's log, stardate 54337.5. The surviving Hirogen have recovered from their injuries, leaving me with a diplomatic dilemma.
Beta: The hologram's vessel and everything in its database are Hirogen property. I will not leave them behind.
Neelix: Captain, if I may?
Janeway: Of course.
Neelix: I imagine your people will tell stories about this hunt. The question is, which story will it be? The one about the dying Beta whose life had to be saved by a hologram? Or will it be the tale of the Beta who bravely took over the hunt, killed the holograms and destroyed their ship?
Neelix: You could be a legend.
Janeway: On the other hand, you could try to take the holograms' ship but with so few hunters and damaged vessels, you might not survive to tell any stories at all.
Beta: You and your crew would have made worthy prey, Captain.
Janeway: Thank you. I think.
Janeway: Transport me to the holograms' vessel.
Janeway: Report.
Torres: Iden's program is unrecoverable. The rest of the holograms are intact in the database.
Janeway: I guess that leaves just you. I'm willing to transfer your program to our holodeck, and keep it active.
Kejal: This is my home.
Janeway: I can't let you go off on your own.
Donik: She won't be alone. I reprogrammed these holograms once, and it caused suffering on both sides. I'd like a chance to undo some of the damage.
Janeway: Wouldn't we all.
Torres: They've both proven that they can be trusted, Captain.
Janeway: I don't suppose I have a right to tell either of you how to live your lives. All I can do is hope that you'll consider the consequences of your actions.
Emh: Captain.
Janeway: Doctor. I'd hoped I could attribute your behavior to tampering.
Emh: My programming hasn't been altered.
Janeway: Not according to the diagnostics.
Emh: I never intended to put Voyager in danger. If nothing else, you have to believe that.
Janeway: Oh, I believe it. But if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that things don't always happen the way we intend.
Janeway: I don't understand.
Emh: If I weren't your only doctor, I imagine you'd confine me to the brig. Confiscating my emitter would be an equivalent to punishment.
Janeway: I'm not sure that's appropriate.
Emh: If that's not enough, you can take away my holodeck privileges. And my autonomy protocols.
Janeway: You mean turn back the clock to when you were first activated?
Emh: You've given me extraordinary freedom over the years. I've obviously abused it.
Janeway: Maybe. Or maybe you've simply become as fallible as those of us who are made of flesh and blood. I'm just as responsible for allowing you to expand your programming as I am for giving technology to the Hirogen. How can I punish you for being who you are?
Emh: I don't know what to say.
Janeway: I'd like a complete report on your away mission.
Emh: You'll have it.