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[dramatic music]

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♪ ♪

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[soaring orchestral music]

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♪ ♪

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[introspective music]

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- Looking out at the cosmos,

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you may wonder
how a star is born.

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Usually, swirling hydrogen
is compressed

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by gravity over time
until it ignites.

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But if you want
to make a special star,

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say, to power
our Protostar Drive

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to get us back to "Voyager,"

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you need a special kind
of matter,

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the perfect matter: Bosonite,

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with all the exotic properties
we need.

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Now that the protostar's
fixed up,

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Janeway found
an M-Class planet

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with a natural supply.

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All we need is to pick some up
and make our own perfect star

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to get us home.

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[exciting music]

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♪ ♪

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- Oh, great. Look at this mess.

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Can't we go to a nice planet
for a change?

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- Something is wrong here.

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Nature is out of balance.

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[tricorder trilling]

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- I'm detecting
only a trace amount

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of Bosonite in the soil.

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- To beam back what we require
for the Proto-Drive,

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the transporter enhancers
would need

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to cover, say, from here
to the horizon.

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- They can do that?

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- Not quite.

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- Uh, guys, I'm picking up
a large deposit

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over that mountain range.

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- Mm, how'd you figure
that out?

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- I just tweaked
the sensor emission limiter.

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Thought it might help.
- Great idea, Dal.

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Nice work.

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- [coos softly]

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- [gasps]

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- Well, hello, friend.

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Was that you who devoured
this entire world?

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[laughs]

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- It's a Tribleustes
ventricosus!

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Aww, it's a perfect specimen.

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- A Tribleustes "da bu-burr."
- A tribble.

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Rok studied 'em for her
Starfleet admission thesis.

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- Whoa. Hey!

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- Whoa, there's two now!

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- They multiply rapidly
and have a voracious appetite,

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an invasive species capable

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of consuming planets
to the brink of starvation.

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- A tribble outbreak once
brought the Klingon Empire

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to its knees.

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- Look at all my cute babies.

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You're not voracious, are you?

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Ow!

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[tribbles chittering, cooing]

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It bit me!

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[tribbles chittering]

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But tribbles don't have teeth.

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[suspenseful music]

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[tribble growling]

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- I think these do. Run!

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[panting] Tribbles aren't
supposed to get this big!

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- And my legs aren't meant
to move this fast!

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And yet they do!

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- [exclaims]

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[yammering]
- Follow Murf!

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[grumbling]

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♪ ♪

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- [gasps] Oh, whoa! Aah!

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[screaming]

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[sighs]

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- [gasps] Where is Zero?

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- [groaning] The tumble
was exhilarating,

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but the end result...
not optimal.

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- We need to get you
to sickbay.

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- Can we all go?

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Jankom doesn't wanna be

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on some giant furball's buffet.

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- We still need that Bosonite.

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Why don't you escort Zero back
to the "Protostar"?

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- The rest of us
will press ahead

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and figure out
what's going on here.

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- [groans] Come on, Z.
Let's get you outta here.

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- Good luck, friends. Oh!

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Oh, my.

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Pain is such
a horribly novel sensation.

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- Janeway.

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- SuyInmeH!

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- Whoa! Whoa now. Take it easy.

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- What? Where did he come from?

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- SuyInmeH!
YuQvam yImej!

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- Did anyone's universal
translator understand that?

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- It's a nuanced
Klingon dialect,

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but I believe he said,

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"Leave this planet
or you will die."

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- Well, at least he's direct.

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Maybe he knows
what happened here.

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- So, uh, what's a Klingon
like you doing

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way out at the edge
of the quadrant?

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Seems you've been here a while.

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- Because I cannot leave!

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Not yet!

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- Can't leave?

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Your Bird-of-Prey seems

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to be working just fine.

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- Even if it's been turned
into a very unsanitary lab.

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Genetic manipulation,
hormonal retroviruses.

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[gasps] You're a scientist,
like me!

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These experiments are why those
tribbles have gotten so huge!

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- Watch your words, child,
or they may be your last!

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- Whoa. Back up.

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A Klingon scientist?

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[laughs] Don't run
into many of those.

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- [sighs]

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I am Dr. K'Ruvang,

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house geneticist
for the Empire,

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sent by Chancellor Martok

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to find a way to defeat
our ancient blood enemy:

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the tribbles.

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- [laughs]

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- I found a weakness
in their DNA

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to slow their reproduction,
but something went wrong.

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Now they are stronger,
and I have lost my honor!

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- [shrieks]

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- The solution has eluded me
for years.

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I believe it is impossible.

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- Oh, here's the problem.

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You were on the right track
with their metabolism,

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but the chromatin
kept remodeling

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because of this protein.

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- How does a mere child
know this?

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- I studied. A lot.

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Starfleet's made tons
of breakthroughs

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since you came here.

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- She's sorta an expert

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on all things cute and cuddly.

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- Mm, wait a second!

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If we make a small adjustment
to your serum,

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we could tailor the retrovirus

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to the indigenous tribble DNA.

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And if it spreads
through the population...

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- [laughs] It could reduce
their reproduction

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and their size.

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Qu'vatlh.

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- An interesting
thought experiment,

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but it has little to do
with our objective.

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We are here to extract
the Bosonite deposit

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for our ship.

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- [cackles]

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- I fail to see the humor
in this.

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- That deposit is in the heart

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of the Omega Tribble nest.

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As you've seen, they are
very hostile to outsiders.

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- Ooh, sounds like
a problem-tunity!

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If we release the retrovirus
to a sample that large,

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the entire population
will shrink in no time.

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"Problem-tunity."

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We can help everybody!

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- And my honor
would be restored.

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- Rok seems smart.

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Before I put us in danger,
I need to know how smart.

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- Once, over the course
of, mm, ten minutes,

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she fixed a core breach
with enough time

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to rebuild Hologram Janeway
from scratch.

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- We'll have to clear the nest
either way

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to get back to "Voyager."

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And if a tribble this size
ever got off the planet,

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it'll be a probably for more
than just the Klingons.

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- All right, Rok.
Try to have that retrovirus

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synthesized by morning.

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[suspenseful music]

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- How does anyone work
like this?

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[sneezing]

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Ugh, where did I put my notes?

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- Your injuries
aren't responding

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to the bioregenerative field.

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I don't know why
your leg won't heal.

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- Because it can't.

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I've known this body
wouldn't last forever.

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I just thought...

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[pensive music]

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♪ ♪

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I'd have more time.

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- I'd advise you to stay
off it as much as possible.

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I'm sorry, Zero.

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- Uh, could be worse.

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Meh, probably not.
[laughs]

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Tellarites don't have
the best bedside manner.

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Aah!

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Jankom should probably go.

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- No, stay.

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I rather like the company.

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- Uh, if it makes you
feel any better,

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whenever Jankom finds something
he can't fix,

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Jankom builds himself something
even better.

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- Huh.

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Perhaps we shall.

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♪ ♪

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[tribbles cooing]

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[footsteps thumping]

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- Is it all right
if I join you?

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- Please.
Couldn't sleep either?

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- I was unaware Klingons
could snore so loudly.

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- This broken world.

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Places like these never get
any easier to see.

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- You fear the same will happen
to Solum in your absence.

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- How'd you know that?

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- Though Vulcans do not
express emotion,

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we do feel, and I, too,
have felt displaced,

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guilty over what I left behind.

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- There was a time
when I didn't fit in

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with this group either.

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- I am not concerned about
being liked as you are.

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But my thoughts dwell
on why I am here.

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I left a promising future
on "Voyager"

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because Wesley said
I am essential to yours.

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But what is his logic?

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- Life's not always logical.

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[laughs]
But neither is hope.

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And just because the path
isn't clear now

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doesn't mean you'll never find
your purpose

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or I'll never go back
to my home world

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to fix what I abandoned.

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- Perhaps such things
are only impossible

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until they are not.

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- [groans]
- [screams]

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- Aah!

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[suspenseful music]

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Something's in here.
Where did it go?

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- [gasps] My lab!

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There's been a security breach.
- There!

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It went into that corner!

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[glasses clattering]

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[glasses shatter]

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- [gasps]

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- [whimpers]

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[babbles]

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- Now it's over here!

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- [yelps]
- Uh, what's going on?

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- A tribble got in!

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- The doors were sealed.

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[grunts]

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- [yells, grunts]

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I got it!

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Uh, but it's not a tribble.

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- [coos]

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- What have I done?

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[suspenseful music]

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- [grunts]

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That's the last
of the quadrotriticale grain.

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There should be enough
of Rok's serum in it

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to shrink those tribbles down
to size.

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- If it works.

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Considering the abomination
she has created,

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my faith in her abilities
is limited.

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- [squealing]
- [growls]

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00:14:28,626 --> 00:14:30,709
- [giggling]

263
00:14:30,793 --> 00:14:33,334
- [chatters happily]

264
00:14:33,418 --> 00:14:35,751
- Who would've thought
a contaminated cell culture

265
00:14:35,834 --> 00:14:37,793
could be so cute?

266
00:14:37,876 --> 00:14:39,168
- Cute?

267
00:14:39,418 --> 00:14:41,251
It's living proof
I made a mistake!

268
00:14:41,334 --> 00:14:43,418
What if I got the retrovirus
wrong too?

269
00:14:43,501 --> 00:14:45,793
What if there was an error
in my calculations?

270
00:14:45,876 --> 00:14:47,834
What--what if I...
[gasps]

271
00:14:47,918 --> 00:14:51,043
Make them even bigger?

272
00:14:51,126 --> 00:14:53,293
- You're just as smart
as you were yesterday.

273
00:14:53,376 --> 00:14:54,501
You got this.

274
00:14:54,584 --> 00:14:56,543
- I could also be just as dumb.

275
00:14:56,626 --> 00:15:00,334
- Just because an unexpected
variable occurred,

276
00:15:00,418 --> 00:15:02,376
it does not mean
your abilities are flawed.

277
00:15:02,459 --> 00:15:05,209
- Unexpected variable?

278
00:15:05,293 --> 00:15:07,834
That?

279
00:15:07,918 --> 00:15:09,501
- Well, what else
would you call it?

280
00:15:09,584 --> 00:15:11,668
- [groans dramatically]
An abomination!

281
00:15:11,751 --> 00:15:13,543
- We don't have
to call it anything!

282
00:15:13,626 --> 00:15:15,751
Can we please move on
and test the grain

283
00:15:15,834 --> 00:15:17,793
to make sure it works?

284
00:15:17,876 --> 00:15:20,334
- It is a fascinating error--

285
00:15:20,418 --> 00:15:23,626
various DNA strands hybridized
into an unknown species.

286
00:15:23,709 --> 00:15:25,959
- Hey. [laughs]
I'm one of those too.

287
00:15:26,043 --> 00:15:28,168
This one is just
a little baby tribble.

288
00:15:28,251 --> 00:15:30,168
Uh, wha--Bribble.

289
00:15:30,251 --> 00:15:33,126
- Huh, Bribble. I like it.

290
00:15:33,209 --> 00:15:35,584
- [groans]
Now it has a name?

291
00:15:35,668 --> 00:15:37,459
- I thought
you liked cute animals.

292
00:15:37,543 --> 00:15:39,209
- I do!

293
00:15:39,293 --> 00:15:42,001
I just don't like
my scientific mistakes...

294
00:15:42,084 --> 00:15:45,251
staring at me.

295
00:15:45,334 --> 00:15:49,376
- Let's hope there's no more
unexpected variables.

296
00:15:54,418 --> 00:15:57,293
- [chattering]

297
00:15:57,376 --> 00:16:04,334
♪ ♪

298
00:16:05,668 --> 00:16:08,834
- Ooh, no! Not for you!

299
00:16:08,918 --> 00:16:10,334
Aww.

300
00:16:16,959 --> 00:16:18,418
- We can't beam anything
in or out

301
00:16:18,751 --> 00:16:21,459
until those transporter
enhancers are in place,

302
00:16:21,543 --> 00:16:24,834
so stand by until it's clear
of hostiles.

303
00:16:28,501 --> 00:16:29,834
- Here they come.

304
00:16:29,918 --> 00:16:36,751
♪ ♪

305
00:16:54,459 --> 00:16:57,543
- About those unexpected
variables,

306
00:16:57,626 --> 00:17:00,126
I do not think
we replicated enough food

307
00:17:00,209 --> 00:17:02,084
to keep them occupied.

308
00:17:02,168 --> 00:17:03,751
- Gwyn and Dal need more time!

309
00:17:03,834 --> 00:17:06,126
They're not done yet!

310
00:17:06,209 --> 00:17:08,293
- Extraction team,
tribbles inbound,

311
00:17:08,376 --> 00:17:10,418
and a lot of them.

312
00:17:10,501 --> 00:17:13,918
- Uh, sounds like
our time's up.

313
00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,626
- Almost got the alignment.

314
00:17:15,709 --> 00:17:17,543
Uh, there!

315
00:17:20,459 --> 00:17:21,751
Janeway, we're all set.

316
00:17:21,834 --> 00:17:23,209
Beam it up.

317
00:17:23,293 --> 00:17:25,876
- Acknowledged. Stand clear.

318
00:17:28,709 --> 00:17:31,084
And got it.

319
00:17:31,168 --> 00:17:34,626
Bosonite secure
in the Proto-Core.

320
00:17:34,709 --> 00:17:37,668
- She's chock-full of rock!
- Good.

321
00:17:37,751 --> 00:17:39,334
Recalibrate and get
into position

322
00:17:39,418 --> 00:17:41,084
so I can lock on to you.

323
00:17:41,168 --> 00:17:42,501
- Already on it!

324
00:17:44,501 --> 00:17:46,834
Janeway, two to beam up!

325
00:17:46,918 --> 00:17:53,668
♪ ♪

326
00:17:54,459 --> 00:17:57,209
- What's going on?
I've lost signal.

327
00:17:57,293 --> 00:18:00,418
- We got a bunch
of hungry tribbles.

328
00:18:04,334 --> 00:18:06,376
- A pylon's been destroyed.

329
00:18:06,459 --> 00:18:08,709
We can't triangulate
and beam them out.

330
00:18:08,793 --> 00:18:10,584
Science team, new orders:

331
00:18:10,668 --> 00:18:12,293
go in and extract
the extraction team,

332
00:18:12,376 --> 00:18:13,584
or else they won't make it.

333
00:18:13,668 --> 00:18:14,793
I'll ground the Bird-of-Prey

334
00:18:14,876 --> 00:18:16,043
and meet you inside.

335
00:18:16,126 --> 00:18:17,876
- This is foolish!

336
00:18:17,959 --> 00:18:21,043
If we die now, we will
jeopardize the experiment.

337
00:18:21,126 --> 00:18:22,834
- My crew comes first.

338
00:18:22,918 --> 00:18:24,418
We'll deal
with my mistakes later.

339
00:18:24,501 --> 00:18:25,376
- [growls]

340
00:18:28,918 --> 00:18:31,126
- There, get to the opening!

341
00:18:32,751 --> 00:18:35,209
[screaming]

342
00:18:35,293 --> 00:18:36,376
- Gwyn!

343
00:18:39,251 --> 00:18:42,001
[grunting]

344
00:18:49,209 --> 00:18:50,293
[both yell]

345
00:18:50,376 --> 00:18:51,751
- [groans]

346
00:18:51,834 --> 00:18:53,751
- Dal! Gwyn!

347
00:18:53,834 --> 00:18:55,376
- Thanks for the distraction,

348
00:18:55,459 --> 00:18:57,501
but I think ya need to take off
the stun setting

349
00:18:57,584 --> 00:18:58,543
for them to feel it.

350
00:18:58,834 --> 00:19:00,918
- That was not a stun setting.

351
00:19:01,001 --> 00:19:07,876
♪ ♪

352
00:19:23,084 --> 00:19:25,501
Enough!

353
00:19:25,584 --> 00:19:26,959
- What are you doing?

354
00:19:27,043 --> 00:19:29,251
- Do not disrupt
that Bosonite vein.

355
00:19:29,334 --> 00:19:32,584
The chain reaction could
destroy this entire region!

356
00:19:32,668 --> 00:19:35,126
- And I shall take my enemies
with em!

357
00:19:35,209 --> 00:19:36,418
Qapla'!

358
00:19:36,501 --> 00:19:37,918
- [straining]

359
00:19:38,001 --> 00:19:39,043
[both grunting]

360
00:19:39,126 --> 00:19:40,793
- Unhand me, child!

361
00:19:40,876 --> 00:19:43,376
I will not perish
with my mission incomplete!

362
00:19:43,459 --> 00:19:46,043
I will reclaim honor!

363
00:19:46,126 --> 00:19:48,334
- Stop.
There's always another way!

364
00:19:48,418 --> 00:19:50,126
- And if your serum fails?

365
00:19:50,209 --> 00:19:51,543
No, no.

366
00:19:51,626 --> 00:19:53,376
I must be certain!

367
00:19:53,459 --> 00:19:55,834
- [groans]

368
00:19:55,918 --> 00:19:58,584
- [screaming]

369
00:19:58,668 --> 00:19:59,626
- [grunts]

370
00:19:59,709 --> 00:20:06,501
♪ ♪

371
00:20:15,543 --> 00:20:19,459
- [shrieking]

372
00:20:19,543 --> 00:20:22,376
[chittering]

373
00:20:24,084 --> 00:20:26,001
[tribbles growling]

374
00:20:26,084 --> 00:20:28,293
- [gasps]
They're communicating.

375
00:20:39,668 --> 00:20:41,709
- Wow.

376
00:20:41,793 --> 00:20:43,334
Looks like
your little miscalculation

377
00:20:43,418 --> 00:20:44,543
just saved us all.

378
00:20:44,626 --> 00:20:47,168
- Huh, unexpected variables.

379
00:20:47,251 --> 00:20:50,501
- Huh.
[chuckles]

380
00:20:50,584 --> 00:20:53,209
♪ Yaya'a' qu' 'o ♪

381
00:20:53,293 --> 00:20:58,668
♪ Yaya'a' qu' 'o,
yaya'a' qu' 'o ♪

382
00:20:58,751 --> 00:21:04,209
♪ Yaya'a' qu' 'o,
yaya'a' qu' 'o ♪

383
00:21:04,293 --> 00:21:06,751
♪ Yaya'a' qu' 'o... ♪

384
00:21:06,834 --> 00:21:09,709
[introspective music]

385
00:21:09,793 --> 00:21:14,043
♪ ♪

386
00:21:14,126 --> 00:21:17,251
- Science log, supplemental.

387
00:21:17,334 --> 00:21:19,876
No one said making a star
was easy.

388
00:21:23,834 --> 00:21:26,168
It may not have
gone perfectly,

389
00:21:26,251 --> 00:21:30,918
but it made the experience
special.

390
00:21:31,001 --> 00:21:33,001
[Bribble chittering]

391
00:21:33,084 --> 00:21:34,126
[all laugh]

392
00:21:34,209 --> 00:21:36,001
I was super relieved

393
00:21:36,084 --> 00:21:38,543
to hear my retrovirus worked
after all.

394
00:21:38,626 --> 00:21:41,084
It just needed
a little time...

395
00:21:41,168 --> 00:21:43,584
[tribbles cooing]

396
00:21:43,668 --> 00:21:47,334
Which means Dr. K'Ruvang was
finally able to go home, too,

397
00:21:47,418 --> 00:21:50,793
with his reputation
mostly intact.

398
00:21:54,959 --> 00:21:57,418
You have to expect
the unexpected in my field...

399
00:22:00,376 --> 00:22:02,376
Because before
the right answer,

400
00:22:02,459 --> 00:22:04,626
we often find the wrong one.

401
00:22:07,501 --> 00:22:13,334
But the wrong one can lead us
to entirely new discoveries.

402
00:22:13,418 --> 00:22:15,709
That's why it's important
we don't hang our heads

403
00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:17,959
when we make a mistake.

404
00:22:18,043 --> 00:22:21,793
Instead, we should wear them
like a badge of honor.

405
00:22:21,876 --> 00:22:25,918
[engine humming]

406
00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:30,293
- Protostar Drive online.
[all cheering]

407
00:22:30,376 --> 00:22:32,959
- I'll chart a course
for "Voyager."

408
00:22:33,043 --> 00:22:35,043
Are you ready
to see the admiral?

409
00:22:35,126 --> 00:22:37,501
- I am now.

410
00:22:39,168 --> 00:22:41,084
- [coos]

411
00:22:41,168 --> 00:22:44,501
- Crew, let's set a course
for home.

412
00:22:44,584 --> 00:22:47,418
[sweeping orchestral music]

413
00:22:47,501 --> 00:22:54,376
♪ ♪