1 00:00:08,466 --> 00:00:10,108 Captain to the bridge. 2 00:00:12,721 --> 00:00:14,352 Captain to the bridge. 3 00:00:16,481 --> 00:00:19,267 Captain, our departure window shall expire... 4 00:00:19,297 --> 00:00:20,973 I'm coming. I'm coming! 5 00:00:21,159 --> 00:00:23,730 I had to fix that clog in the coolant line. 6 00:00:24,125 --> 00:00:28,018 Did my turbulence calculations help you diagnose the problem? 7 00:00:28,553 --> 00:00:31,303 Actually I just banged it with a wrench a couple of times 8 00:00:31,333 --> 00:00:33,001 and it cleared right up. 9 00:00:35,209 --> 00:00:36,376 All right. 10 00:00:36,986 --> 00:00:39,000 Release the docking clamps... 11 00:00:40,165 --> 00:00:42,117 and off we go. 12 00:00:51,230 --> 00:00:54,101 Captain's log, stardate 7011.2. 13 00:00:54,999 --> 00:00:59,789 We are outbound from the X2 industrial colony, on a heading for Outreach Station. 14 00:01:00,342 --> 00:01:04,216 Aurora is now three months into her second voyage in the Xaneerian sector, 15 00:01:04,251 --> 00:01:06,352 and she has performed admirably. 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:10,203 The crew is in good spirits and is happy to be underway. 17 00:01:10,437 --> 00:01:11,455 Captain? 18 00:01:12,124 --> 00:01:13,264 Yes, T'Ling? 19 00:01:13,580 --> 00:01:16,490 Do you feel it's proper to refer to... 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,645 "the crew" in your logs, when I am your only crew member? 21 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,080 It's, uh... 22 00:01:22,110 --> 00:01:25,532 it's tradition to refer to a ship's personnel as her crew. 23 00:01:25,759 --> 00:01:28,267 Nobody said you can't have a crew of one. 24 00:01:28,297 --> 00:01:29,590 Interesting. 25 00:01:29,891 --> 00:01:33,988 But it is inaccurate to say that your Vulcan crew is "happy" 26 00:01:34,018 --> 00:01:35,907 and "in good spirits". 27 00:01:36,108 --> 00:01:38,989 Vulcans do not engage in such emotions. 28 00:01:39,190 --> 00:01:40,618 So noted, T'Ling. 29 00:01:41,624 --> 00:01:44,881 Hey, how's that power flutter we were seeing in the warp coils? 30 00:01:44,911 --> 00:01:46,168 Your... crew 31 00:01:46,363 --> 00:01:48,182 has remedied the problem by 32 00:01:48,212 --> 00:01:52,673 inserting a compensating algorithm into the plasma control routine. 33 00:01:53,051 --> 00:01:56,794 It's difficult to be certain of long-term success, however. 34 00:01:56,980 --> 00:02:00,128 Aurora's systems have been cannibalized from so many other 35 00:02:00,158 --> 00:02:02,841 Just what the hell is that supposed to mean? 36 00:02:03,810 --> 00:02:05,506 To... cannibalize, 37 00:02:05,977 --> 00:02:07,697 in the mechanical sense, 38 00:02:07,732 --> 00:02:11,350 is to remove the serviceable parts from one device 39 00:02:11,385 --> 00:02:15,158 - in order to repair another. - I... I know what the word means, 40 00:02:15,188 --> 00:02:16,188 I... 41 00:02:16,525 --> 00:02:18,089 I just don't like it... 42 00:02:18,554 --> 00:02:20,109 used about Aurora. 43 00:02:22,956 --> 00:02:26,146 Never speak ill of your ship, my father always said... 44 00:02:26,176 --> 00:02:28,022 your ship is your life. 45 00:02:29,269 --> 00:02:30,556 Yes, Captain. 46 00:02:41,607 --> 00:02:45,501 Okay. Looks like we've cleared the station's outer traffic zone. 47 00:02:46,125 --> 00:02:47,879 You got a heading for us? 48 00:02:48,477 --> 00:02:49,740 Yes, Captain. 49 00:02:49,775 --> 00:02:52,479 Heading 097-mark-2. 50 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,601 097-mark-2... 51 00:02:56,782 --> 00:02:58,946 let's take this old girl to warp. 52 00:02:59,995 --> 00:03:03,845 Coming with the dawn 53 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:09,914 and leaving night behind. 54 00:03:12,736 --> 00:03:17,717 Take me to a new day 55 00:03:18,995 --> 00:03:22,674 Take me to tomorrow. 56 00:03:24,558 --> 00:03:27,267 Subtitles: IlSisko 57 00:03:27,297 --> 00:03:30,785 :: Fan Films Foundation :: [www.Fanfilms.it] 58 00:03:54,091 --> 00:03:55,132 Kara. 59 00:03:57,862 --> 00:03:58,904 Kara. 60 00:04:01,281 --> 00:04:02,281 Kara! 61 00:04:02,311 --> 00:04:03,311 What??? 62 00:04:03,341 --> 00:04:06,213 I was cleaning up back here like you told me to! 63 00:04:06,815 --> 00:04:10,085 I know, honey, but that ion storm shook us up pretty good, 64 00:04:10,115 --> 00:04:13,363 and I need you to go out and reconnect some container lines. 65 00:04:13,393 --> 00:04:14,393 Me??? 66 00:04:15,018 --> 00:04:16,787 I did it last time! 67 00:04:17,127 --> 00:04:18,506 Make Jimmy go! 68 00:04:18,999 --> 00:04:20,598 I need Jimmy on the sensors. 69 00:04:20,628 --> 00:04:23,980 We don't really know exactly where we are, or what's out there. 70 00:04:27,018 --> 00:04:31,589 Besides, it's safer with Jimmy up here on the bridge where he can't break anything. 71 00:04:31,624 --> 00:04:34,445 I need my Pumpkin out there to fix it right. 72 00:04:35,213 --> 00:04:36,436 Okay. 73 00:04:38,974 --> 00:04:43,466 Of course, if we had a real ship instead of this old bucket of bolts... 74 00:04:43,992 --> 00:04:46,541 Hey, young lady, never speak ill of your ship. 75 00:04:46,571 --> 00:04:48,245 Your ship is your life. 76 00:05:20,506 --> 00:05:21,537 Okay. 77 00:05:22,012 --> 00:05:23,666 22-E should be all set. 78 00:05:23,877 --> 00:05:25,601 I'm gonna give it a try. 79 00:05:40,779 --> 00:05:42,485 Uhm... guys...? 80 00:05:43,266 --> 00:05:44,266 Mom? 81 00:05:45,128 --> 00:05:47,972 Did you know there's a weird ship out here? 82 00:05:48,564 --> 00:05:51,794 Yes, honey, we see it. Why don't you come back in? 83 00:05:52,350 --> 00:05:54,980 O-okay. I need to lock this one down, 84 00:05:55,437 --> 00:05:57,038 then I'll be right in. 85 00:05:58,449 --> 00:06:00,020 What kind of ship is that? 86 00:06:00,050 --> 00:06:02,707 The kind Jimmy was supposed to be watching for. 87 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:04,774 Hey! It came out of nowhere... 88 00:06:05,002 --> 00:06:07,818 I mean, really, out of nowhere! 89 00:06:08,304 --> 00:06:10,535 Unknown ship please identify yourself. 90 00:06:10,565 --> 00:06:14,536 We are the merchant vessel Mercury Rising, registered out of Deneva. 91 00:06:14,826 --> 00:06:17,453 - Hey it... it disappeared! - See??? See??? 92 00:06:17,483 --> 00:06:21,318 - Where did it go??? - I told you! It went right off the sensors! 93 00:06:21,348 --> 00:06:24,040 - Kara, get in here. - No problem! 94 00:06:24,375 --> 00:06:28,888 This day just keeps getting better! Now we're stuck out here with a ghost ship? 95 00:06:35,286 --> 00:06:37,855 Kara, are you inside yet? 96 00:06:37,885 --> 00:06:38,913 Kara, 97 00:06:38,943 --> 00:06:40,956 Kara, honey, are you inside yet? 98 00:06:41,325 --> 00:06:42,381 Almost... 99 00:07:23,379 --> 00:07:25,945 I'm in! What's happening up there? 100 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:27,848 Hold on, Kara! 101 00:07:27,878 --> 00:07:31,827 Impulse to full power, now! Heading 10-mark-3. 102 00:07:34,634 --> 00:07:37,491 Jimmy, I'm giving you one minute of full power. 103 00:07:37,526 --> 00:07:39,817 Take a full EM sweep of that ship. 104 00:07:42,529 --> 00:07:44,498 They're charging their weapon! 105 00:07:44,528 --> 00:07:47,891 Unknown ship, hold your fire! We are a merchant vessel, unarmed! 106 00:07:47,921 --> 00:07:49,702 I repeat, hold your fire! 107 00:07:51,451 --> 00:07:55,095 Shields to maximum! Everybody, brace for impact! Kids... 108 00:08:15,041 --> 00:08:16,041 Hey... 109 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:18,815 I... I'm still in the airlock! 110 00:08:20,696 --> 00:08:21,696 Hello? 111 00:08:22,479 --> 00:08:23,479 Mom...? 112 00:08:24,469 --> 00:08:25,469 Dad? 113 00:08:26,546 --> 00:08:28,234 Can anybody hear me? 114 00:08:38,614 --> 00:08:39,937 I'm coming in... 115 00:08:40,738 --> 00:08:42,656 I think I hurt my head... 116 00:10:49,141 --> 00:10:51,341 How's it going out there, T'ling? 117 00:10:52,793 --> 00:10:55,724 The offloading appears to be going well, Captain. 118 00:10:55,754 --> 00:10:59,646 Mr. Prasuula informs me that he has sufficient carriers 119 00:10:59,676 --> 00:11:04,207 to allow us to offload without significant downtime waiting for transport. 120 00:11:04,796 --> 00:11:07,125 Send my regards to Mr. Prasuula. 121 00:11:07,411 --> 00:11:10,621 He's a credit to his family and his ancestors. 122 00:11:10,883 --> 00:11:12,152 Yes, Captain. 123 00:11:12,914 --> 00:11:17,298 Mr. Prasuula also wishes for you to meet him in his dockside office 124 00:11:17,328 --> 00:11:19,015 after we have offloaded. 125 00:11:19,955 --> 00:11:23,204 I believe he is curious to know how we arrived here 126 00:11:23,234 --> 00:11:25,583 from X2 in just 18 days. 127 00:11:26,673 --> 00:11:28,250 Huh, I'll bet he is. 128 00:11:50,781 --> 00:11:51,781 Captain, 129 00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:53,819 explain to me why 130 00:11:53,849 --> 00:11:57,236 we must always drink at a dockside bar 131 00:11:57,266 --> 00:11:59,319 after completing a cargo run. 132 00:11:59,791 --> 00:12:01,393 It's tradition, it... 133 00:12:01,733 --> 00:12:03,866 don't Vulcans have traditions? 134 00:12:04,115 --> 00:12:05,115 Many. 135 00:12:05,385 --> 00:12:07,252 But none of them involve... 136 00:12:07,282 --> 00:12:09,037 public intoxication. 137 00:12:09,494 --> 00:12:11,118 Come on, it's one drink. 138 00:12:11,406 --> 00:12:12,454 I'll buy. 139 00:12:17,973 --> 00:12:21,209 Now, remember what I said if anybody messes with us? 140 00:12:21,409 --> 00:12:22,915 If they insult us, 141 00:12:23,177 --> 00:12:24,690 insult their ship. 142 00:12:25,313 --> 00:12:26,993 If they push us, 143 00:12:27,023 --> 00:12:29,212 - shove back harder. - Good girl. 144 00:12:29,242 --> 00:12:31,512 You have to stand up for yourself out here or you'll be 145 00:12:31,542 --> 00:12:34,617 fighting every punk in the sector who thinks you're an easy target. 146 00:12:34,647 --> 00:12:37,149 So... it is a social order 147 00:12:37,179 --> 00:12:40,268 based upon reprisal and revenge. 148 00:12:40,789 --> 00:12:42,727 Xaneerians call it justice. 149 00:12:44,873 --> 00:12:48,579 Captain, we could simply drink on Aurora. 150 00:12:49,489 --> 00:12:50,932 What fun is that? 151 00:12:51,115 --> 00:12:52,626 Soak in the atmosphere! 152 00:12:52,656 --> 00:12:54,094 Enjoy the company! 153 00:13:01,535 --> 00:13:03,414 Now, is this really so bad? 154 00:13:04,353 --> 00:13:07,335 As your Dr. Einstein posited, 155 00:13:07,882 --> 00:13:09,568 everything is relative. 156 00:13:18,122 --> 00:13:21,564 Well, I think these guys are relatively interested. 157 00:13:23,582 --> 00:13:25,125 Interested in... 158 00:13:25,155 --> 00:13:26,357 what, Captain? 159 00:13:26,615 --> 00:13:27,947 In us, silly. 160 00:13:28,783 --> 00:13:29,840 Don't look! 161 00:13:30,453 --> 00:13:31,453 Ah... 162 00:13:31,587 --> 00:13:33,838 Human mating rituals. 163 00:13:34,190 --> 00:13:36,347 Vulcans don't have mating rituals? 164 00:13:36,955 --> 00:13:37,955 We do. 165 00:13:38,334 --> 00:13:39,421 However, 166 00:13:39,451 --> 00:13:43,153 we limit them to once every seven years. 167 00:13:44,404 --> 00:13:46,469 That explains a lot. 168 00:13:48,683 --> 00:13:50,014 Okay, here they come. 169 00:13:50,044 --> 00:13:51,316 Act natural. 170 00:13:53,818 --> 00:13:55,324 I shall endeavor. 171 00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:03,741 So, you're the girls from Aurora. 172 00:14:04,361 --> 00:14:06,250 And you must be the captain. 173 00:14:06,558 --> 00:14:08,261 Depends on who's asking. 174 00:14:08,796 --> 00:14:10,460 Oh, it's you, all right. 175 00:14:10,646 --> 00:14:12,356 Just like I said, Chug: 176 00:14:12,548 --> 00:14:15,925 Cannibal Kara, right here in this very bar. 177 00:14:16,549 --> 00:14:17,751 Do I know you? 178 00:14:17,987 --> 00:14:19,570 Randy Jacobs, ma'am. 179 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,112 Captain of Lone Star. 180 00:14:21,142 --> 00:14:24,832 - You might have heard of me. - There are lots of idiots out here. 181 00:14:25,093 --> 00:14:26,607 Huh. Real funny. 182 00:14:30,085 --> 00:14:31,749 This here your crewmate? 183 00:14:32,455 --> 00:14:34,750 Better lock your cabin at night, Pixie, 184 00:14:34,780 --> 00:14:36,866 in case she gets up for a bite. 185 00:14:37,399 --> 00:14:38,757 Cannibal Kara. 186 00:14:38,787 --> 00:14:40,179 You're a celebrity! 187 00:14:40,474 --> 00:14:42,817 What are you drinking there? Blood? 188 00:14:44,762 --> 00:14:47,162 Sir, I believe you are annoying 189 00:14:47,192 --> 00:14:48,852 - my capt- - Beat it, Pixie. 190 00:14:48,882 --> 00:14:50,943 I'm talking to a living legend. 191 00:14:51,905 --> 00:14:54,637 You know, you can still scare spacer kids 192 00:14:54,667 --> 00:14:56,910 with stories about Cannibal Kara, 193 00:14:57,197 --> 00:14:59,228 waiting for them out in the dark... 194 00:15:07,351 --> 00:15:09,957 I employed what you may know as 195 00:15:10,133 --> 00:15:12,085 the Vulcan nerve pinch. 196 00:15:14,055 --> 00:15:16,559 He shall wake up with a headache, 197 00:15:16,589 --> 00:15:18,952 but he is otherwise unharmed. 198 00:15:37,227 --> 00:15:38,227 Come in. 199 00:15:43,053 --> 00:15:45,162 Can I help you, Captain? 200 00:15:47,796 --> 00:15:48,828 It's true, 201 00:15:49,284 --> 00:15:50,476 what he said. 202 00:15:51,802 --> 00:15:53,220 Cannibal Kara. 203 00:15:53,854 --> 00:15:55,281 Or Crazy Kara. 204 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,904 I thought I'd left all that back in Federation Space. 205 00:16:04,158 --> 00:16:05,202 Captain? 206 00:16:08,077 --> 00:16:09,261 I was twelve 207 00:16:09,489 --> 00:16:11,406 when my family's cargo ship 208 00:16:11,580 --> 00:16:13,639 was attacked by Romulans. 209 00:16:14,732 --> 00:16:16,300 Only I survived. 210 00:16:17,872 --> 00:16:18,962 Subspace, 211 00:16:19,336 --> 00:16:20,416 navigation, 212 00:16:20,733 --> 00:16:21,833 warp drive, 213 00:16:22,418 --> 00:16:23,913 all of it destroyed. 214 00:16:24,742 --> 00:16:26,641 And the food replicators. 215 00:16:27,524 --> 00:16:29,269 I drifted for months 216 00:16:29,691 --> 00:16:33,758 in the small part of the ship I was able to patch and pressurize. 217 00:16:35,056 --> 00:16:38,246 What food I could scrounge ran out in a week... 218 00:16:50,623 --> 00:16:51,623 Holy shit! 219 00:16:51,653 --> 00:16:53,637 Hey Captain! I've got a live one! 220 00:16:57,224 --> 00:16:58,378 It's a kid! 221 00:16:58,859 --> 00:17:00,352 Are you okay, Honey? 222 00:17:00,382 --> 00:17:01,550 Are you hurt? 223 00:17:03,103 --> 00:17:04,734 Severe malnutrition... 224 00:17:05,234 --> 00:17:06,387 dehydration... 225 00:17:07,402 --> 00:17:09,681 it's a good thing we found her when we did. 226 00:17:09,711 --> 00:17:12,288 The distress signal says this happened months ago. 227 00:17:12,318 --> 00:17:14,091 What's she been living on? 228 00:17:16,545 --> 00:17:17,622 Captain... 229 00:17:17,893 --> 00:17:19,853 I think you'd better see this. 230 00:17:25,234 --> 00:17:28,275 I had adapted a water reclamation unit to... 231 00:17:28,305 --> 00:17:30,659 extract proteins from... 232 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:32,672 organic matter. 233 00:17:34,214 --> 00:17:37,007 It was the logical thing to do, 234 00:17:37,413 --> 00:17:39,410 given the circumstances. 235 00:17:39,627 --> 00:17:41,494 Would a Vulcan have done it? 236 00:17:42,133 --> 00:17:44,099 The will to survive 237 00:17:44,129 --> 00:17:46,575 is strong in every species. 238 00:17:47,075 --> 00:17:48,681 Even Vulcans. 239 00:17:53,650 --> 00:17:54,650 So... 240 00:17:54,829 --> 00:17:58,252 you say that jerk's head is gonna hurt when we wakes up? 241 00:17:58,721 --> 00:18:01,948 One can apply the Vulcan nerve pinch 242 00:18:02,140 --> 00:18:05,703 such that the waking is very unpleasant. 243 00:18:09,236 --> 00:18:10,707 Thanks, T'ling. 244 00:18:20,566 --> 00:18:21,566 O- 245 00:18:21,632 --> 00:18:22,632 O-kay. 246 00:18:22,662 --> 00:18:24,538 I... hope I made this right. 247 00:18:24,706 --> 00:18:27,626 But... you can probably tell better than I can. 248 00:18:29,860 --> 00:18:31,464 Vulcan spice tea. 249 00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:36,766 Well, I figure that a ship with a Vulcan crew should carry a few Vulcan amenities. 250 00:18:37,168 --> 00:18:38,951 Where did you find it? 251 00:18:38,981 --> 00:18:41,201 You can find anything if you look hard enough, 252 00:18:41,231 --> 00:18:43,286 even on a little station like this. 253 00:18:43,721 --> 00:18:45,450 Thank you, Captain. 254 00:18:46,098 --> 00:18:49,591 I also got us a job while I was out, a run to Tagdown Colony 255 00:18:49,876 --> 00:18:54,308 and what's more, I scooped it out right from under that jerk we ran into last night 256 00:18:54,338 --> 00:18:56,285 beat his offer by more than a week. 257 00:18:56,315 --> 00:18:58,324 That'll teach him to mess with us. 258 00:18:58,354 --> 00:19:00,042 More... justice. 259 00:19:00,516 --> 00:19:01,606 To justice. 260 00:19:20,870 --> 00:19:22,690 Outreach Station, this is Aurora. 261 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,995 We have cleared the station and are outbound on a heading of 262 00:19:26,025 --> 00:19:29,259 273-mark-7 for Tagdown Colony. 263 00:19:29,883 --> 00:19:32,340 Aurora, this is Outreach Station Central, 264 00:19:32,558 --> 00:19:35,720 confirming heading 273-mark-7. 265 00:19:35,750 --> 00:19:39,331 Please hold course until you have cleared the outer traffic perimeter, 266 00:19:39,361 --> 00:19:40,919 and good journey to you. 267 00:19:40,949 --> 00:19:42,710 Thank you, Station Central. 268 00:19:43,496 --> 00:19:44,701 Xaneerians... 269 00:19:44,731 --> 00:19:45,755 so polite. 270 00:19:46,235 --> 00:19:51,203 I recall you saying that Xaneerians were vicious, cold-blooded killers. 271 00:19:51,233 --> 00:19:53,481 But they are, if you break your word to them. 272 00:19:53,511 --> 00:19:56,547 Otherwise, they're sweet as Andorian crystal candy. 273 00:19:56,765 --> 00:19:59,668 - But they are actually cold-blooded. - Indeed. 274 00:20:00,333 --> 00:20:02,389 Captain, we are being hailed. 275 00:20:02,581 --> 00:20:04,684 A ship named Lone Star. 276 00:20:05,126 --> 00:20:07,917 Lone Star! I thought they might call. 277 00:20:07,947 --> 00:20:09,739 Go ahead, put it through. 278 00:20:11,394 --> 00:20:13,047 - Ronny Jacobs! - Randy! 279 00:20:13,077 --> 00:20:15,902 Whatever. It's nice to see you... conscious. 280 00:20:15,932 --> 00:20:19,459 Cut the funny stuff, Carpenter. What's with stealing that job from me? 281 00:20:19,489 --> 00:20:21,929 Y'all can't get to Tagdown in 26 days. 282 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:25,298 Your ship's a piece o' junk... that hull's gotta be a hundred years old 283 00:20:25,328 --> 00:20:29,109 and those puny engines couldn't get you past warp 5 with the mass you're hauling. 284 00:20:29,139 --> 00:20:31,632 Hm, must be hell on fuel, too. 285 00:20:32,004 --> 00:20:35,487 And y'all can get from Novis to X2 and back in less than a month? 286 00:20:35,649 --> 00:20:36,963 That's impossible. 287 00:20:36,993 --> 00:20:38,867 Lone Star can't even do that. 288 00:20:38,897 --> 00:20:41,463 You looked us up on the sector subnet. 289 00:20:41,620 --> 00:20:42,876 I'm flattered. 290 00:20:43,085 --> 00:20:44,523 Okay, ya got me. 291 00:20:44,706 --> 00:20:46,582 So how'd y'all do it, Carpenter? 292 00:20:46,612 --> 00:20:48,119 I'm dying to know. 293 00:20:48,593 --> 00:20:50,023 Well, Randy... 294 00:20:50,441 --> 00:20:52,997 if you're dying to know, 295 00:20:53,214 --> 00:20:55,739 then I'm just going to have to tell you... 296 00:20:56,006 --> 00:20:57,433 to drop dead. 297 00:20:59,049 --> 00:21:00,895 Are Vulcan men like that? 298 00:21:34,627 --> 00:21:38,957 We are now beyond the station's long-range traffic sensors, Captain. 299 00:21:39,325 --> 00:21:40,325 Okay. 300 00:21:40,588 --> 00:21:42,516 You got a reading on the nebula? 301 00:21:42,546 --> 00:21:43,573 Yes, Captain. 302 00:21:43,603 --> 00:21:47,617 A likely point at bearing 033-mark-2. 303 00:21:47,931 --> 00:21:50,206 033-mark-2. 304 00:21:50,827 --> 00:21:51,827 Got it. 305 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,437 G'night T'Ling. 306 00:22:07,958 --> 00:22:09,479 Good night, Captain. 307 00:22:29,299 --> 00:22:31,324 I don't care how many times we do this, 308 00:22:31,354 --> 00:22:33,722 this nebula is still scary up close. 309 00:22:34,065 --> 00:22:35,307 How are we doing? 310 00:22:35,337 --> 00:22:37,003 Our entry point is ahead, 311 00:22:37,212 --> 00:22:40,137 bearing 002-mark-6. 312 00:22:40,346 --> 00:22:41,420 All righ. 313 00:22:41,730 --> 00:22:43,345 Setting course... 314 00:22:44,441 --> 00:22:47,240 now we just gotta batten down the hatches... 315 00:22:54,653 --> 00:22:56,725 Armor shielding secure, Captain. 316 00:22:56,909 --> 00:22:58,486 And... off we go. 317 00:22:58,664 --> 00:23:00,503 Taking her in, half impulse. 318 00:23:29,181 --> 00:23:30,181 Captain, 319 00:23:30,211 --> 00:23:32,939 I am detecting a ship entering the nebula behind us. 320 00:23:32,969 --> 00:23:34,450 What??? Who the... 321 00:23:34,624 --> 00:23:35,624 hail them. 322 00:23:35,654 --> 00:23:36,874 Ask them... just... 323 00:23:36,904 --> 00:23:38,412 just put it through. 324 00:23:38,662 --> 00:23:39,819 Following ship, 325 00:23:39,849 --> 00:23:43,112 this is the merchanter Aurora registered out of Xaneer. 326 00:23:43,142 --> 00:23:45,081 Do you require assistance? 327 00:23:46,154 --> 00:23:47,641 They are answering. 328 00:23:48,125 --> 00:23:51,517 Kara Carpenter. Imagine running into you in a place like this? 329 00:23:51,547 --> 00:23:54,018 Jacobs, you idiot! Get the hell out of here! 330 00:23:54,048 --> 00:23:58,447 Temper, temper, missy. You're just mad I figured how you get places so fast: 331 00:23:58,477 --> 00:24:00,779 you found a secret shortcut through the Cloud 332 00:24:00,809 --> 00:24:03,242 while ever'one else goes the long way around. 333 00:24:03,272 --> 00:24:05,979 The only ''secret'', you moron, is Aurora. 334 00:24:06,163 --> 00:24:08,874 You were right, her hull is a hundred years old. 335 00:24:08,904 --> 00:24:12,505 She was built for the Romulan War, back when they still used atomic weapons. 336 00:24:12,535 --> 00:24:15,495 She's armor-plated and hard-shielded against radiation! 337 00:24:15,525 --> 00:24:17,230 Nobody does that anymore. 338 00:24:17,397 --> 00:24:19,304 Your ship can't survive in here! 339 00:24:19,334 --> 00:24:21,865 I got military-grade deflector shields. 340 00:24:21,895 --> 00:24:23,863 It's the Thundercloud Nebula! 341 00:24:23,893 --> 00:24:26,584 Shields are useless here. Eeverybody knows that! 342 00:24:26,614 --> 00:24:30,134 They just start a plasma loop that gets worse the more energy to pour into them 343 00:24:30,164 --> 00:24:32,968 and once yours burn out, you're gonna fry! 344 00:24:32,998 --> 00:24:36,900 You can't warp through a nebula, neither. You gotta go on impulse, that'd take years! 345 00:24:36,930 --> 00:24:39,437 - Just show me... - Look, this nebula is like... 346 00:24:39,467 --> 00:24:41,024 like Swiss cheese. 347 00:24:41,054 --> 00:24:43,484 We warp through the clear spaces... the holes... 348 00:24:43,514 --> 00:24:47,376 but you still have to punch through nasty places like this on impulse, 349 00:24:47,406 --> 00:24:49,279 and this is just one of that 350 00:24:59,273 --> 00:25:00,931 Are you guys okay??? 351 00:25:00,961 --> 00:25:01,982 Jacobs! 352 00:25:02,012 --> 00:25:05,075 - Are you... do you need help? - I told you this was a stupid idea. 353 00:25:05,105 --> 00:25:08,403 Systems down all over the ship, shields at sixty percent, 354 00:25:08,433 --> 00:25:11,511 an' hull breach in section twelve, we're venting plasma an 355 00:25:11,541 --> 00:25:15,518 - holy... we're losing warp containment! - Shunt power from the shields! 356 00:25:15,709 --> 00:25:17,545 To what? The interlocks are fused. 357 00:25:17,575 --> 00:25:18,939 - We got to eject the core! - Eject!? 358 00:25:18,969 --> 00:25:20,968 - We might as well scrap the damn ship! - Jacobs! 359 00:25:20,998 --> 00:25:22,980 - You know what a warp core costs? - Jacobs! 360 00:25:23,010 --> 00:25:24,459 We ain't gotta choice! 361 00:25:24,489 --> 00:25:28,518 Jacobs! You can't eject your core inside the nebula! 362 00:25:28,548 --> 00:25:33,298 There's enough protomatter right here to take out an entire star system. If it blows 363 00:25:33,328 --> 00:25:36,717 Won't be no different if it blows inside my ship, now will it? 364 00:25:36,747 --> 00:25:38,604 Chug, get ready to dump and run. 365 00:25:38,634 --> 00:25:42,228 I'll give you girls a head start, that junker better be faster than she looks. 366 00:25:42,258 --> 00:25:45,150 - We'll wait for you outside the nebula... - Just git! 367 00:25:45,518 --> 00:25:46,948 Coming about, T'Ling... 368 00:25:46,978 --> 00:25:48,875 let's get the Hell out of here! 369 00:26:16,411 --> 00:26:19,764 Come on, Missy! Can't that bucket o' yours go any faster?? 370 00:26:19,794 --> 00:26:20,834 Just keep going! 371 00:26:20,864 --> 00:26:24,280 If nothing else you can pick up the pieces after this thing hits us. 372 00:26:24,310 --> 00:26:26,135 We'll be there. Good luck. 373 00:26:26,165 --> 00:26:28,419 We'll see y'all on the other side. 374 00:26:29,477 --> 00:26:31,413 Captain, at this velocity 375 00:26:31,443 --> 00:26:34,845 the shockwave will overtakes us before we escape the nebula. 376 00:26:34,875 --> 00:26:36,363 She's giving us all she's got. 377 00:26:36,393 --> 00:26:39,037 I'm probably melting her nozzles as it is! 378 00:26:44,171 --> 00:26:47,296 Shockwave impact in 63 seconds. 379 00:26:47,326 --> 00:26:49,233 Just how bad would that be? 380 00:26:49,552 --> 00:26:52,577 Mr. Jacobs may not find many pieces. 381 00:26:56,141 --> 00:26:57,141 Okay. 382 00:26:57,345 --> 00:26:58,648 Prep for warp. 383 00:26:58,846 --> 00:27:01,966 - And plot me the fastest way out of here. - Captain, 384 00:27:01,996 --> 00:27:06,018 it is highly inadvisable to go to warp inside a nebula. 385 00:27:06,048 --> 00:27:08,985 Do you advise getting caught in that explosion?? 386 00:27:09,015 --> 00:27:10,247 Plotting course. 387 00:27:13,671 --> 00:27:15,758 T'Ling, I need that heading! 388 00:27:15,788 --> 00:27:17,787 497-mark-3. 389 00:27:19,654 --> 00:27:21,785 Warp drive coming on line. 390 00:27:23,665 --> 00:27:25,119 Here we go! 391 00:27:25,149 --> 00:27:26,916 Hold onto something! 392 00:27:45,324 --> 00:27:46,360 Where... 393 00:27:46,762 --> 00:27:47,865 where am I? 394 00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:50,292 Uh! And who the hell are you? 395 00:27:50,322 --> 00:27:51,830 Who the hell am I? 396 00:27:52,068 --> 00:27:53,903 Who the hell are you? 397 00:28:08,333 --> 00:28:10,632 We ran every test we could think of on you two, 398 00:28:10,662 --> 00:28:12,952 and it confirms that you are indeed identical, 399 00:28:12,982 --> 00:28:16,164 down to your DNA, fingerprints, even retinal scan. 400 00:28:16,502 --> 00:28:18,742 So... she's a clone, sir? 401 00:28:18,772 --> 00:28:20,614 Clone? I'm not a clone! 402 00:28:20,644 --> 00:28:21,983 She is the clone! 403 00:28:22,013 --> 00:28:24,590 Uh, you're the one who just appeared out of nowhere...? 404 00:28:24,620 --> 00:28:26,033 I'm not a clone! 405 00:28:26,063 --> 00:28:28,752 And I didn't ask to be here, I keep telling you people 406 00:28:28,782 --> 00:28:31,229 I have to get back to my ship. T'Ling needs me. 407 00:28:31,259 --> 00:28:32,890 Please, we are working on that. 408 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,968 As I was saying, you two are identical in every significant way. 409 00:28:36,998 --> 00:28:39,840 We did find one small but crucial difference, however. 410 00:28:39,870 --> 00:28:43,316 We almost didn't catch it, but we discovered a quantum flux 411 00:28:43,346 --> 00:28:47,261 in Ms. Carpenter's cellular RNA that resonates at the subatomic level 412 00:28:47,291 --> 00:28:49,835 with a signature different from normal matter. 413 00:28:50,073 --> 00:28:52,731 You can't change the quantum signature of matter, 414 00:28:52,761 --> 00:28:54,422 that's basic physics. 415 00:28:54,452 --> 00:28:57,631 All the matter in the universe resonates with the same signature. 416 00:28:57,803 --> 00:29:00,310 All the matter in this universe, you mean. 417 00:29:00,620 --> 00:29:03,688 So... what, she's from a different universe? 418 00:29:03,982 --> 00:29:04,982 Sir? 419 00:29:05,012 --> 00:29:08,547 Parallel universe, alternate reality, but, yes, that's our theory. 420 00:29:08,577 --> 00:29:12,221 It seems that the protomatter explosion Ms. Carpenter described to us, 421 00:29:12,251 --> 00:29:14,505 combined with her ship going to warp, 422 00:29:14,535 --> 00:29:16,745 opened a hole in spacetime, and 423 00:29:16,775 --> 00:29:19,719 she fell through it, so to speak, into our universe. 424 00:29:19,885 --> 00:29:22,643 But how did she end up here, in the Beta Rigel system, 425 00:29:22,673 --> 00:29:25,658 on the Yorktown? Xaneer is hundreds of light years from here. 426 00:29:25,688 --> 00:29:28,899 Right, shouldn't she have just appeared in Xaneerian space? 427 00:29:28,929 --> 00:29:31,068 I mean... our Xaneerian space? 428 00:29:31,316 --> 00:29:34,609 That did puzzle us, but when we studied our scans more closely, 429 00:29:34,639 --> 00:29:38,082 we discovered that a very tiny portion of Ms. Carpenter's RNA 430 00:29:38,112 --> 00:29:40,417 resonates normally for our universe, 431 00:29:40,447 --> 00:29:43,191 and when we compared her RNA to yours, Ensign, 432 00:29:43,221 --> 00:29:46,384 we found that an equally small portion of your RNA 433 00:29:46,414 --> 00:29:50,457 matches the quantum flux signature of the majority of Ms. Carpenter's. 434 00:29:50,632 --> 00:29:53,557 So... that transporter overload... 435 00:29:53,757 --> 00:29:55,847 it mixed us together? 436 00:29:56,147 --> 00:29:57,601 We don't think so. 437 00:29:57,778 --> 00:30:00,937 Tell me, were either of you ever exposed to a significant 438 00:30:00,967 --> 00:30:04,196 quantum fluctuation or temporal anomaly before today? 439 00:30:04,226 --> 00:30:06,791 Every time you go to warp or use the transporter you... 440 00:30:06,821 --> 00:30:08,561 My family's cargo ship... 441 00:30:08,591 --> 00:30:10,029 Mercury Rising... 442 00:30:10,346 --> 00:30:14,017 got kicked out of warp by a freak ion storm when I was a kid. 443 00:30:14,460 --> 00:30:17,318 Afterwards we noticed that the ship's chronometer was off by... 444 00:30:17,348 --> 00:30:19,160 by about five minutes. 445 00:30:19,190 --> 00:30:20,238 We... 446 00:30:20,268 --> 00:30:23,861 there was a lot of damage from the storm so we thought it was a malfunction, 447 00:30:23,891 --> 00:30:27,484 but when I checked there was no damage to the chronometer, 448 00:30:27,514 --> 00:30:29,281 I just... reset it, 449 00:30:29,725 --> 00:30:32,050 but I always thought that was weird. 450 00:30:32,918 --> 00:30:34,441 When did this happen? 451 00:30:34,471 --> 00:30:36,771 5409.6. 452 00:30:37,434 --> 00:30:39,967 Yes. In the Bolarus sector. 453 00:30:41,232 --> 00:30:43,171 Parallel universe indeed. 454 00:30:43,622 --> 00:30:45,996 No other events like this before or after? 455 00:30:46,180 --> 00:30:47,661 Nothing like that. 456 00:30:47,962 --> 00:30:49,060 Just today. 457 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,221 That meshes with our working theory. 458 00:30:51,251 --> 00:30:54,001 It seems to me that on that day, the ion storm you mentioned 459 00:30:54,031 --> 00:30:57,601 provided enough energy to open a rift between our two universes, 460 00:30:57,631 --> 00:31:01,996 when combined with the temporal instability of your family's ships falling out of warp, 461 00:31:02,026 --> 00:31:04,506 and that each of your ships, and each of you, 462 00:31:04,536 --> 00:31:09,220 momentarily occupied the exact same spacetime as our two realities overlapped, 463 00:31:09,390 --> 00:31:11,024 you merged, so to speak, 464 00:31:11,054 --> 00:31:14,896 and when you diverged again into your own universes, each of you came back with... 465 00:31:14,926 --> 00:31:16,677 well, a little piece of the other. 466 00:31:16,707 --> 00:31:20,335 It's that bit of corresponding matter that brought Ms. Carpenter here. 467 00:31:20,875 --> 00:31:24,329 But we weren't in the same place today, not even close. 468 00:31:24,525 --> 00:31:26,839 Your bond means that distance no longer matters, 469 00:31:26,869 --> 00:31:28,858 according to interdimensional string theory. 470 00:31:28,888 --> 00:31:31,561 It would also explain where your clothing went, Ms. Carpenter. 471 00:31:31,591 --> 00:31:33,527 It's still back in your universe since, 472 00:31:33,557 --> 00:31:36,255 naturally, your clothing doesn't share your RNA. 473 00:31:36,285 --> 00:31:38,657 You... you were wearing clothing...? 474 00:31:38,955 --> 00:31:40,860 I was piloting my ship! 475 00:31:40,890 --> 00:31:42,551 I have to get back! 476 00:31:42,829 --> 00:31:44,534 Excuse me for saying, but 477 00:31:44,564 --> 00:31:47,723 from your description of that protomatter explosion, Ms. Carpenter... 478 00:31:47,753 --> 00:31:51,366 there may be no ship to get back to. Have you considered that? 479 00:31:51,543 --> 00:31:52,923 I have to try. 480 00:31:53,515 --> 00:31:54,819 I'm the captain. 481 00:31:55,487 --> 00:31:57,008 We'll do all we can. 482 00:31:57,276 --> 00:31:58,276 Captain. 483 00:32:01,991 --> 00:32:04,805 This will be your cabin for as long as you're here. 484 00:32:04,835 --> 00:32:07,898 I'm sure it's not quite what a captain is used to. 485 00:32:08,736 --> 00:32:09,961 Are you kidding? 486 00:32:09,991 --> 00:32:12,289 This is bigger than my entire bridge. 487 00:32:12,523 --> 00:32:15,167 - What kind of ship is...? - Her name's Aurora. 488 00:32:15,197 --> 00:32:16,872 Merchanter class cargo ship. 489 00:32:16,902 --> 00:32:19,861 I refit her myself from a mothballed Monitor Class gunship. 490 00:32:19,891 --> 00:32:23,523 - She's not pretty, but she's tough. - Oh. So you're not in Starfleet. 491 00:32:23,553 --> 00:32:26,019 There is a Starfleet in your universe? 492 00:32:26,049 --> 00:32:28,838 Oh, yeah. It seems pretty much the same. 493 00:32:28,868 --> 00:32:32,312 We even have a Yorktown, I saw it a couple of times as a kid. 494 00:32:32,342 --> 00:32:34,429 You never wanted to join up? 495 00:32:35,016 --> 00:32:36,808 I... thought about it. 496 00:32:37,250 --> 00:32:40,509 I took the exams, did pretty well, actually. 497 00:32:40,710 --> 00:32:43,267 All the technical stuff was fine, I just... 498 00:32:43,547 --> 00:32:46,188 didn't think I'd pass the psych screening. 499 00:32:46,492 --> 00:32:50,698 Plus I didn't think anyone would really want to ship out with... ''Cannibal Kara''. 500 00:32:50,814 --> 00:32:52,511 Cannibal... who? 501 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,030 What, they didn't use that one here? 502 00:32:55,060 --> 00:32:57,002 How about... Crazy Kara? 503 00:32:57,269 --> 00:32:58,790 Scary Carpenter? 504 00:32:58,944 --> 00:33:00,374 Or Kara Carver-upper? 505 00:33:00,404 --> 00:33:02,478 What the hell are you talking about? 506 00:33:02,508 --> 00:33:04,851 I'm... after the ion storm... 507 00:33:05,337 --> 00:33:08,596 when everybody was... how did you survive...? 508 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:11,246 I almost died of boredom, if that's what you mean. 509 00:33:11,276 --> 00:33:14,084 We were stuck out there for five weeks before we got rescued, 510 00:33:14,114 --> 00:33:17,893 I swear it's half the reason I thought of joining Starfleet in the first place. 511 00:33:17,923 --> 00:33:20,255 But the Romulan ship... it didn't... 512 00:33:20,405 --> 00:33:21,405 it didn't... 513 00:33:21,435 --> 00:33:24,002 - What Romulan ship?? - They're alive? 514 00:33:24,231 --> 00:33:25,416 Mom? Dad? 515 00:33:25,632 --> 00:33:29,447 - Tracy? The boys? They're alive? - Yes, yes, they're fine. What did you... 516 00:33:29,477 --> 00:33:31,846 What happened to your... What's wrong? 517 00:33:31,876 --> 00:33:33,417 What's happening? 518 00:33:40,093 --> 00:33:43,393 Medical emergency in guest cabin 331! 519 00:33:44,013 --> 00:33:47,287 Medical emergency in guest cabin 331! 520 00:33:51,565 --> 00:33:55,891 Whatever happened to her it seems to have disrupted every system in her body at once. 521 00:33:55,921 --> 00:33:58,223 I'm keeping her on morphenolog for the pain, 522 00:33:58,462 --> 00:34:01,732 but if she wakes up agitated you can give her a shot of this. 523 00:34:01,762 --> 00:34:04,124 That'll put her out for a good twelve hours. 524 00:34:04,154 --> 00:34:05,344 Yes, doctor. 525 00:34:05,539 --> 00:34:08,748 I'm going to run some more tests, but until we hear more... 526 00:34:08,778 --> 00:34:10,200 ah, Mr. Trang. 527 00:34:10,681 --> 00:34:12,706 We were just discussing your visitor. 528 00:34:12,736 --> 00:34:13,736 Doctor. 529 00:34:14,093 --> 00:34:15,828 We think we know what happened. 530 00:34:15,858 --> 00:34:19,267 It seems that our visitor's body tried to phase back into her own universe, 531 00:34:19,297 --> 00:34:21,855 but was held here by the portion that belongs in ours. 532 00:34:21,885 --> 00:34:24,627 The physical trauma you're seeing is the result of her body 533 00:34:24,657 --> 00:34:27,095 essentially trying to function with a small but 534 00:34:27,125 --> 00:34:30,469 significant portion of itself momentarily out of phase, 535 00:34:30,499 --> 00:34:31,791 missing, as it were. 536 00:34:31,821 --> 00:34:34,548 That would explain the systemic damage. 537 00:34:34,578 --> 00:34:37,035 Will this ''phasing'' happen again? 538 00:34:37,065 --> 00:34:39,297 We don't know what brought it on in the first place, but 539 00:34:39,327 --> 00:34:42,866 we have to believe that it's a possibility as long as she is in our universe. 540 00:34:42,896 --> 00:34:46,372 Well, another episode now would only exacerbate her injuries, 541 00:34:46,402 --> 00:34:48,458 and repeated episodes could kill her. 542 00:34:48,488 --> 00:34:51,859 The only cure I can see is sending her back to where she came from. 543 00:34:51,889 --> 00:34:53,356 We're working on that. 544 00:34:53,386 --> 00:34:55,616 We'll keep her comfortable in the meantime. 545 00:34:55,646 --> 00:34:59,959 In any case she shouldn't be allowed to leave sick bay under any circumstances. 546 00:34:59,989 --> 00:35:02,596 - You wanted to see me, sir? - Yes, Ensign. 547 00:35:02,626 --> 00:35:05,315 - If you'll excuse us, Doctor? - Certainly. 548 00:35:10,359 --> 00:35:12,618 Ensign Carpenter, did I not ask you to tell me 549 00:35:12,648 --> 00:35:14,837 anything you felt might pertain to this incident? 550 00:35:14,867 --> 00:35:16,063 Yes, sir...? 551 00:35:16,273 --> 00:35:19,819 Then why was it left to Crewman Schultz to discover that your Mercury Rising 552 00:35:19,849 --> 00:35:24,452 is at Beta II Station, right in this star system, and has been for three days? 553 00:35:24,702 --> 00:35:28,312 I didn't think my family's whereabouts was any of your business 554 00:35:28,342 --> 00:35:31,420 Everything is my business when it comes to the science of... 555 00:35:31,450 --> 00:35:33,221 - everything. - Yes, sir. 556 00:35:33,608 --> 00:35:35,645 I don't believe in coincidences, Ensign. 557 00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:39,232 Had you planned on visiting your family during Yorktown's assignment here? 558 00:35:39,262 --> 00:35:40,769 No. Sir. 559 00:35:42,499 --> 00:35:43,940 Very well, Ensign. 560 00:35:43,970 --> 00:35:47,182 If you think of anything else that might relate to this matter 561 00:35:47,212 --> 00:35:50,236 whether you think it's my business or not, you will tell me. 562 00:35:50,266 --> 00:35:51,338 Yes. Sir. 563 00:35:52,606 --> 00:35:56,469 I understand that you were already on report before this incident. 564 00:35:56,761 --> 00:36:00,245 I would hate to have to add to your troubles. Are we clear? 565 00:36:00,518 --> 00:36:01,706 Yes, sir. 566 00:36:13,501 --> 00:36:15,490 You're supposed to stay in bed. 567 00:36:16,208 --> 00:36:19,384 You're not going to see Mom and... your Mom and Dad? 568 00:36:19,579 --> 00:36:20,916 I'm Starfleet. 569 00:36:21,113 --> 00:36:23,506 I can't just come and go as I please. 570 00:36:23,857 --> 00:36:26,332 How long has it been since you've seen them? 571 00:36:26,748 --> 00:36:27,748 A while. 572 00:36:28,066 --> 00:36:29,798 - How long? - A while! 573 00:36:29,828 --> 00:36:34,194 Look, why does everybody think they can pry into my private business? 574 00:36:34,224 --> 00:36:36,230 I don't care if you are... me. 575 00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:37,884 They aren't your family, 576 00:36:37,914 --> 00:36:39,605 and this isn't your universe, 577 00:36:39,635 --> 00:36:41,055 so stay out of it 578 00:36:41,339 --> 00:36:42,526 there, see? 579 00:36:46,495 --> 00:36:47,495 Sorry. 580 00:36:56,382 --> 00:36:59,006 I'll just have her out for a couple of hours. 581 00:36:59,182 --> 00:37:00,182 Sir. 582 00:37:00,212 --> 00:37:01,929 Sir. Sir. Yes, sir. 583 00:37:02,343 --> 00:37:05,218 What's a transporter tech need a shuttlecraft for? 584 00:37:05,415 --> 00:37:08,858 I thought you beam jockeys considered shuttle obsolete. 585 00:37:09,054 --> 00:37:13,229 We're... uh... doing some transporter range testing. Sir. 586 00:37:13,396 --> 00:37:15,365 Beaming crates back and forth. 587 00:37:18,187 --> 00:37:21,483 Try not to beam out any of them seats, Ensign Carpenter. 588 00:37:21,513 --> 00:37:22,917 Yes, sir. Sir. 589 00:37:41,552 --> 00:37:44,112 I'll come back for you, T'Ling, I promise. 590 00:37:44,457 --> 00:37:45,457 I... 591 00:37:45,748 --> 00:37:47,972 I just have to do this first. 592 00:38:12,234 --> 00:38:13,260 Okay. 593 00:38:13,587 --> 00:38:14,899 You can do this. 594 00:38:15,090 --> 00:38:18,575 You're ensign Kara, and this is just a visit. 595 00:38:19,190 --> 00:38:20,438 Stay calm. 596 00:38:57,579 --> 00:39:01,860 - I saw him in the galley earlier, but he... - That's okay. I'll find him! 597 00:39:02,369 --> 00:39:03,369 Dad??? 598 00:39:06,658 --> 00:39:08,138 - Dad!!! - Kara! 599 00:39:08,562 --> 00:39:10,838 Good to see you. What a nice surprise. 600 00:39:10,868 --> 00:39:13,496 - Dad! I... - I was just in the middle of... 601 00:39:13,526 --> 00:39:16,074 realigning the dilithium articulation frame. 602 00:39:16,104 --> 00:39:19,133 I should be done by dinner, why don't you catch up, and I'll... 603 00:39:19,163 --> 00:39:20,184 But... 604 00:39:20,852 --> 00:39:22,842 I thought he aligned the frame the other day? 605 00:39:24,133 --> 00:39:26,919 Well, I have to talk to ShipCo about our next run, 606 00:39:26,949 --> 00:39:30,636 - so why don't you kids get dinner ready? - Uh, ou... okay. 607 00:39:34,682 --> 00:39:36,655 Well, you know, Starfleet... 608 00:39:36,685 --> 00:39:39,854 big ship, long voyages... it's pretty routine. 609 00:39:39,884 --> 00:39:41,875 But what've you guys have been up to? 610 00:39:41,905 --> 00:39:44,422 Where... where's, uh... Tracy? 611 00:39:44,923 --> 00:39:47,358 Married...? You were at the wedding...? 612 00:39:47,756 --> 00:39:50,828 - Barely. Ehm... - Uh... of course. I mean, 613 00:39:50,858 --> 00:39:54,865 y'know, where is she right now? I... I haven't talked with her in... 614 00:39:54,895 --> 00:39:57,776 Okay, enough. What kind of game are you playing, here? 615 00:39:57,806 --> 00:40:00,553 Really. Who are you and what have you done with our sister? 616 00:40:00,583 --> 00:40:02,953 What, uh, what do you mean? 617 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,194 You know what we mean. 618 00:40:04,224 --> 00:40:07,727 We don't hear from you for almost a year, that's a long time even for you... 619 00:40:07,757 --> 00:40:10,654 not even when we tell you we'll be right here at Beta. 620 00:40:10,684 --> 00:40:14,912 - Then, bang, here you are, acting like... - Like you actually missed us. 621 00:40:15,294 --> 00:40:17,061 But I have missed you. 622 00:40:17,091 --> 00:40:18,541 You have no idea... 623 00:40:18,571 --> 00:40:20,343 You couldn't tell us you were coming? 624 00:40:20,373 --> 00:40:22,953 Mom was really upset, and Dad's been really... 625 00:40:22,983 --> 00:40:24,433 really quiet. 626 00:40:24,463 --> 00:40:25,634 I wanted it... 627 00:40:25,664 --> 00:40:26,748 it to be a... 628 00:40:26,778 --> 00:40:27,926 a surprise. 629 00:40:27,956 --> 00:40:29,997 Well, we were surprised all right. 630 00:40:30,027 --> 00:40:31,827 But, why are you here? Really? 631 00:40:31,857 --> 00:40:34,994 Maybe she missed seeing us "hauling junk around the galaxy?" 632 00:40:35,024 --> 00:40:38,050 Hey! Interstellar trade is a noble profession! 633 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,070 Don't let Dad hear you call it "junk." 634 00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:44,171 Yeah, but you're the one who said it to Dad, when you left for the academy. 635 00:40:44,201 --> 00:40:45,588 I... I did? 636 00:40:45,954 --> 00:40:47,179 Tracy told us. 637 00:40:47,209 --> 00:40:49,121 Ah! That idiot! 638 00:40:49,151 --> 00:40:50,521 Don't blame her! 639 00:40:50,551 --> 00:40:51,834 No, I meant... 640 00:40:53,155 --> 00:40:54,332 Never mind. 641 00:40:55,415 --> 00:40:58,056 Look I... I don't have a lot of time. 642 00:40:58,346 --> 00:41:00,133 Can we just have a nice visit? 643 00:41:00,163 --> 00:41:01,163 Okay. 644 00:41:01,193 --> 00:41:03,026 Just, no crying! 645 00:41:03,875 --> 00:41:06,788 Mercury Ranger rule 23: 646 00:41:07,408 --> 00:41:09,430 "Rangers don't cry." 647 00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:12,222 Right, but wrong. That's rule 22. 648 00:41:12,432 --> 00:41:15,345 No, 22 was "Never reveal the secret salute." 649 00:41:15,822 --> 00:41:17,143 Mercury, ho! 650 00:41:23,032 --> 00:41:25,674 - You gotta go talk to dad, Punk. - I know. 651 00:41:26,931 --> 00:41:28,274 I know. But... 652 00:41:28,481 --> 00:41:31,640 didn't he seem kind of, stand-offish today? 653 00:41:31,831 --> 00:41:33,438 Well, can you blame him? 654 00:41:33,693 --> 00:41:36,159 No, I... I guess not. 655 00:41:37,990 --> 00:41:40,456 Oh, I wish I could tell you... 656 00:41:41,698 --> 00:41:44,731 how good it is to see you guys again. 657 00:41:44,761 --> 00:41:46,989 Yeah, yeah, we love you too, Punk. 658 00:41:47,019 --> 00:41:50,363 Now get out of here. I want the drama over by dinner. 659 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:51,840 Okay. 660 00:41:55,184 --> 00:41:56,184 Dad? 661 00:41:57,818 --> 00:42:00,316 Everything's fine. I just really need to finish this. 662 00:42:00,346 --> 00:42:02,281 I thought I had it done, but it drifted. 663 00:42:02,311 --> 00:42:05,355 Oh, Kara, I thought you were helping the boys with dinner? 664 00:42:05,385 --> 00:42:06,873 I was, but... 665 00:42:07,318 --> 00:42:08,318 Dad, 666 00:42:08,399 --> 00:42:10,926 - can we talk a second? - I'd like to, Kara, but... 667 00:42:10,956 --> 00:42:14,316 I'm really in the middle of something. I need to... here, 668 00:42:14,589 --> 00:42:17,352 let your mother tell you about our last run. It was... 669 00:42:17,382 --> 00:42:18,826 - Honey, tell her about that... - Wait... 670 00:42:18,856 --> 00:42:21,634 - thing that happened. I'll be... - I just... 671 00:42:22,271 --> 00:42:23,735 What's gotten into him? 672 00:42:23,765 --> 00:42:24,833 I was... 673 00:42:24,863 --> 00:42:26,692 I was going to ask you. 674 00:42:27,081 --> 00:42:29,643 Well, he has been pretty testy this week. 675 00:42:29,673 --> 00:42:31,521 I'm sorry, M-Mom... 676 00:42:31,551 --> 00:42:34,068 - I should have called... - That would have been nice. 677 00:42:34,098 --> 00:42:36,344 I know, I just... I... 678 00:42:37,496 --> 00:42:39,740 I wasn't sure I'd be able to get away. 679 00:42:39,770 --> 00:42:41,618 You're on report again. 680 00:42:41,968 --> 00:42:44,578 Um, yes... how did you...? 681 00:42:44,608 --> 00:42:46,663 Tracy has in-laws in Starfleet. 682 00:42:46,892 --> 00:42:50,250 I wish Tracy was here. I really wanted to see her. 683 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,330 After what you said at her wedding? I'm not sure she'd agree. 684 00:42:54,313 --> 00:42:58,897 Is there anyone in this universe I don't owe an apology to?? 685 00:42:58,927 --> 00:43:01,493 You've made some... questionable choices, Kara. 686 00:43:01,523 --> 00:43:02,643 Questionable?? 687 00:43:02,673 --> 00:43:04,839 - Stupid. - Thank you! 688 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,172 Oh, Mom, things are such a mess, here. What am I gonna do? 689 00:43:09,462 --> 00:43:13,711 Your grandmother always said: "If you're not happy, do something about it." 690 00:43:13,886 --> 00:43:16,814 Kara... are you happy... in Starfleet? 691 00:43:17,005 --> 00:43:18,819 I don't think so. 692 00:43:19,265 --> 00:43:20,459 Neither do I. 693 00:43:20,489 --> 00:43:23,729 I wouldn't tell you what to do, but you could come home. 694 00:43:24,067 --> 00:43:26,311 I'd love to, Mom, but it's... 695 00:43:27,178 --> 00:43:28,595 it's complicated. 696 00:43:28,834 --> 00:43:30,552 Well, think about it, Honey. 697 00:43:30,582 --> 00:43:34,959 Honestly, I can't really think past the next few hours... I don't have much time. 698 00:43:34,989 --> 00:43:36,951 I really need to talk to Dad. 699 00:43:36,981 --> 00:43:38,755 He should be down in engineering. 700 00:43:38,785 --> 00:43:41,540 I'll finish up here, and then go see what the boys have done to dinner. 701 00:43:41,570 --> 00:43:42,596 Okay. 702 00:43:42,803 --> 00:43:43,901 Thanks, Mom. 703 00:43:45,684 --> 00:43:46,684 Dad? 704 00:43:47,697 --> 00:43:48,716 Dad? 705 00:43:50,991 --> 00:43:51,994 Dad!!! 706 00:44:07,763 --> 00:44:09,848 What are you doing up here Kara? 707 00:44:12,912 --> 00:44:17,401 I used to be able to find my lucky star from every system we visited. 708 00:44:19,088 --> 00:44:20,189 You said... 709 00:44:20,989 --> 00:44:25,429 when you gave them to us, you said as long as we could find our lucky star, 710 00:44:25,930 --> 00:44:28,142 we'd never be lost. 711 00:44:29,811 --> 00:44:31,246 I'm lost, Dad. 712 00:44:31,785 --> 00:44:34,077 I'm really... lost. 713 00:44:36,576 --> 00:44:37,578 There. 714 00:44:37,793 --> 00:44:39,305 See Alpha Centauri? 715 00:44:39,512 --> 00:44:41,024 Go over to Andoria, 716 00:44:41,557 --> 00:44:43,085 then up a quarter... 717 00:44:43,467 --> 00:44:45,281 the orange one next to Altair. 718 00:44:46,167 --> 00:44:49,446 Good ol' FGC-17359. 719 00:44:52,406 --> 00:44:54,236 What happened to us, Dad? 720 00:44:54,483 --> 00:44:56,218 I was your Little Pumpkin, 721 00:44:56,393 --> 00:44:59,599 but now it's like you can't even stand to look at me. 722 00:45:02,162 --> 00:45:03,976 I shouldn't have come here... 723 00:45:04,006 --> 00:45:06,141 I don't know what I was thinking. 724 00:45:06,332 --> 00:45:08,456 I think you just missed your family... 725 00:45:08,486 --> 00:45:09,522 Pumpkin. 726 00:45:10,923 --> 00:45:12,021 Oh, Dad... 727 00:45:26,004 --> 00:45:29,728 I'm not exactly sure what they're making... Andorian tubers and... 728 00:45:29,758 --> 00:45:31,670 I don't know about your universe, 729 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:34,979 but assaulting people and stealing shuttles in this universe 730 00:45:35,009 --> 00:45:37,397 - lands you in a holding cell! - I... 731 00:45:37,427 --> 00:45:40,373 You were supposed to contact me when you arrived. 732 00:45:40,403 --> 00:45:41,403 You... 733 00:45:41,606 --> 00:45:43,356 you knew I wasn't...? 734 00:45:43,643 --> 00:45:46,173 Please step away from the prisoner, sir. 735 00:45:46,203 --> 00:45:48,077 Is this really necessary? 736 00:45:48,107 --> 00:45:50,629 - Yeah, I kinda like this Kara. - Oh, really? 737 00:45:50,932 --> 00:45:53,399 Did she tell you what she did in her universe? 738 00:45:53,429 --> 00:45:56,028 - What happened to her family? - No... 739 00:45:56,585 --> 00:45:57,603 please. 740 00:45:57,938 --> 00:45:59,354 Cannibal Kara... 741 00:45:59,384 --> 00:46:01,041 that's what you meant, wasn't it? 742 00:46:01,071 --> 00:46:02,567 How you survived. 743 00:46:03,124 --> 00:46:04,239 I'm sorry, 744 00:46:04,954 --> 00:46:06,036 I'm sorry. 745 00:46:07,150 --> 00:46:08,487 You were all... 746 00:46:09,266 --> 00:46:10,603 they were all... 747 00:46:12,305 --> 00:46:13,483 I was alone... 748 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:15,663 and there was nothing... 749 00:46:16,013 --> 00:46:17,112 nothing... 750 00:46:18,806 --> 00:46:20,843 I think you should leave. 751 00:46:21,065 --> 00:46:22,227 I'm sorry... 752 00:46:23,388 --> 00:46:24,678 Not you, honey. 753 00:46:25,537 --> 00:46:26,985 - Her. - What?? 754 00:46:27,295 --> 00:46:29,428 You... I'm the real Kara. 755 00:46:29,666 --> 00:46:31,498 She's not even from this universe... 756 00:46:31,528 --> 00:46:33,342 she doesn't belong here! 757 00:46:33,533 --> 00:46:37,496 Your Mr. Trang called just before she arrived and explained it me, 758 00:46:37,678 --> 00:46:40,018 and I've had her on scan ever since... 759 00:46:40,048 --> 00:46:44,899 and I'm convinced that all this girl wants in our universe is to see her family again. 760 00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:47,938 If you can't understand that, Kara... 761 00:46:47,968 --> 00:46:50,915 can't show some compassion for her loss... 762 00:46:51,144 --> 00:46:54,136 and the terrible choices she faced as a child... 763 00:46:54,407 --> 00:46:56,746 then you're the one who doesn't belong here. 764 00:46:56,776 --> 00:46:58,193 But, but... but she... 765 00:46:59,641 --> 00:47:00,660 Kara! 766 00:47:01,519 --> 00:47:02,840 What's wrong with her? 767 00:47:02,870 --> 00:47:04,821 She... her body... it... 768 00:47:04,851 --> 00:47:07,749 it's trying to phase back to her universe, and it's killing her. 769 00:47:07,779 --> 00:47:09,674 We're supposed to take her back to Yorktown, 770 00:47:09,704 --> 00:47:11,902 but they sent me with this in case there was no time. 771 00:47:11,932 --> 00:47:13,954 Is the transporter working? 772 00:47:21,724 --> 00:47:23,936 I'm sorry I lied to all of you. 773 00:47:24,270 --> 00:47:25,480 Are you kidding? 774 00:47:25,510 --> 00:47:29,815 You came all the way from another universe, and stole a shuttle, just to see us. 775 00:47:29,845 --> 00:47:32,107 Our Kara barely even calls. 776 00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:33,666 Jimmy! 777 00:47:35,893 --> 00:47:38,965 Okay, I'm making the link to your little toy there. 778 00:47:38,995 --> 00:47:40,039 Now what? 779 00:47:40,069 --> 00:47:42,761 It'll sync to the transporter controls and beam us out. 780 00:47:42,791 --> 00:47:46,752 Just before full power, the energy burst should send my twin here back home, 781 00:47:46,782 --> 00:47:48,444 along with her RNA. 782 00:47:48,918 --> 00:47:51,655 After that you're stuck with just me again. 783 00:47:52,259 --> 00:47:56,588 Kara, is there any danger this power booster could corrupt the matter stream? 784 00:47:56,763 --> 00:47:59,437 I can't just let her die, Dad. 785 00:48:00,105 --> 00:48:03,352 Besides, I already had this argument with myself. 786 00:48:04,688 --> 00:48:05,723 Okay. 787 00:48:06,423 --> 00:48:07,473 Good luck. 788 00:48:07,998 --> 00:48:09,542 To both my Pumpkins. 789 00:48:10,163 --> 00:48:11,818 - Thanks, Dad. - Thanks, Dad. 790 00:48:12,168 --> 00:48:13,616 Be careful, honey. 791 00:48:14,237 --> 00:48:15,271 Kara... 792 00:48:15,494 --> 00:48:16,735 other Kara... 793 00:48:17,100 --> 00:48:18,899 I wish you could stay. 794 00:48:18,929 --> 00:48:20,553 I'd love to, Mom, 795 00:48:21,126 --> 00:48:23,243 but I should get back to T'ling. 796 00:48:28,502 --> 00:48:30,364 Okay, I think we're about to go. 797 00:48:30,394 --> 00:48:34,470 Both Karas... no matter what happens, remember Ranger rule number one. 798 00:48:35,234 --> 00:48:37,033 "Rangers are family." 799 00:48:41,328 --> 00:48:45,148 Kara... tell Tracy I'm sorry I didn't see her again. 800 00:48:45,864 --> 00:48:46,898 I... I will. 801 00:48:46,928 --> 00:48:48,075 And Kara... 802 00:48:48,902 --> 00:48:50,637 promise me something. 803 00:48:50,667 --> 00:48:51,667 Yes? 804 00:48:51,782 --> 00:48:52,881 What? 805 00:48:53,461 --> 00:48:55,307 Stop being such an idiot. 806 00:48:56,389 --> 00:48:58,347 I will. I promise. 807 00:49:00,034 --> 00:49:01,227 I promise. 808 00:49:23,243 --> 00:49:26,505 Captain! There is a plasma fire in the starboard nacelle... 809 00:49:26,535 --> 00:49:28,670 we must shut down the warp drive. 810 00:49:28,875 --> 00:49:30,308 I... what...? 811 00:49:30,467 --> 00:49:34,382 - Captain! Shut down the warp drive! - Yes, yes, 812 00:49:34,412 --> 00:49:35,719 shutting down! 813 00:50:05,172 --> 00:50:07,718 We have exited the nebula, Captain. 814 00:50:08,513 --> 00:50:09,929 That's... great. 815 00:50:10,773 --> 00:50:12,476 H-how... how long was I... 816 00:50:13,351 --> 00:50:14,386 gone? 817 00:50:15,093 --> 00:50:16,367 Gone, Captain? 818 00:50:17,481 --> 00:50:18,897 Yes! I was... 819 00:50:19,399 --> 00:50:22,566 that explosion... sent me to another universe... 820 00:50:22,773 --> 00:50:24,285 I was at Beta Rigel, 821 00:50:24,587 --> 00:50:26,067 and I met another... 822 00:50:26,097 --> 00:50:27,117 me, 823 00:50:27,451 --> 00:50:29,742 but she was Starfleet... 824 00:50:30,665 --> 00:50:31,684 and I... 825 00:50:32,161 --> 00:50:33,720 I stole a shuttle... 826 00:50:35,041 --> 00:50:38,289 Captain, that explosion struck us approximately 827 00:50:38,319 --> 00:50:40,166 57 seconds ago. 828 00:50:40,388 --> 00:50:41,963 But, my family... 829 00:50:42,902 --> 00:50:44,303 they were there... 830 00:50:44,605 --> 00:50:45,798 on the Merc... 831 00:50:46,594 --> 00:50:48,583 they were alive, again... 832 00:50:52,576 --> 00:50:53,786 I was there. 833 00:50:54,104 --> 00:50:55,234 I was. 834 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,037 Captain, I am detecting a ship 835 00:51:05,067 --> 00:51:07,886 moving away at one quarter impulse. 836 00:51:07,916 --> 00:51:09,675 It is Lone Star. 837 00:51:12,104 --> 00:51:14,905 So much for "waitin' on the other side." 838 00:51:15,557 --> 00:51:17,117 I suppose we should hail them. 839 00:51:17,147 --> 00:51:19,631 Scans indicate that Lone Star 840 00:51:19,661 --> 00:51:21,907 has suffered significant damage. 841 00:51:21,937 --> 00:51:23,983 Their subspace signal is weak, 842 00:51:24,013 --> 00:51:26,004 but they are responding. 843 00:51:26,034 --> 00:51:27,395 Put it through. 844 00:51:31,572 --> 00:51:32,933 Carpenter!! Y' made it!!! 845 00:51:32,963 --> 00:51:34,668 Yes guys, they made it! 846 00:51:35,263 --> 00:51:36,846 I thought y'all were... 847 00:51:37,841 --> 00:51:39,703 where the hell ya been?? 848 00:51:39,982 --> 00:51:41,175 Yes, we made it... 849 00:51:41,205 --> 00:51:42,679 no thanks to you. 850 00:51:42,854 --> 00:51:44,286 And you're already leaving... 851 00:51:44,316 --> 00:51:46,339 you couldn't wait two minutes? 852 00:51:46,919 --> 00:51:48,176 Two minutes? 853 00:51:48,430 --> 00:51:50,468 We been out here fer two days! 854 00:51:53,679 --> 00:51:54,679 Two... 855 00:51:55,286 --> 00:51:56,432 W-what?? 856 00:51:57,530 --> 00:51:59,695 Mr. Jacobs is correct, Captain. 857 00:52:00,017 --> 00:52:01,831 The Subspace Standard Time signal 858 00:52:01,861 --> 00:52:05,136 indicates that Aurora's chronometer is off by approximately 859 00:52:05,166 --> 00:52:07,692 39 hours and 42 minutes. 860 00:52:17,817 --> 00:52:18,855 Woo-hoo! 861 00:52:19,476 --> 00:52:20,476 Yes! 862 00:53:46,625 --> 00:53:48,010 Subtitles: IlSisko 863 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,652 :: Fan Film Foundation :: [www.Fanfilms.it]