He might hear us. Whats the last thing you remember . An attack. Hirogen vessels they breached our hull and boarded the ship. I was in a phaser fight on deck three. I was struck several times. Thats all i remember. You have no memory of the simulations in the holodeck . None. The neural interface must be circumventing your memory centers. Neural interface . A subdermal transmitter that links your neocortex to the holodeck. It makes you believe whwham i in sick bay . You were wounded in the simulation. Its my job to patch you all up and send you back in. Half the crew is under lock and key. The rest are figing fofo their lives on the holodeck. This has been going on for 19 days dozens of battle scenarios one more brutal than the next. You should see what a mess you were after the crusades. Will i be sent into another simulation . I have found a way to disable the i ierface by remodulating one of your borg implants to emit a jamming signal. Once the hirogen have brought you back to the holodeck the jamming signal will activate within seconds. My objective . Find a control panel inside the holodeck and engage the bridge access relays. That will enable ensign kim and me to deactivate all the neural interfaces. After captain janeway and the crew regain awareness you can work with them to mount a resistance. What simulation will i be entering . Do you know anything about it . That could be a problem. Nothing. Once the interface is disabled, you wont rememberernything about your role in the simulation. Think of it as a new social setting. Do your best to fit in. This is the last neural interfacece when youve finished with her you will help me replicate more. . That old black magic has me in its spell . . That old black magic that you weave so well . . Those icy fingers up and down my spine . . The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet. . soft click piano stops i must discontinue this activity. I am not well. If t T Entertainment is over, ill be going. You stay right there, commandant. Im sure shes fini. I require a glass of water. Make it a quick one. I promised the commandant youd be singing till midnight. I want to get a lot of information out of him. I am ill. Look, i dont care if youre dying. Get back out there. I wont. Maybe youre right about her. The evidence i iincreasing. She was present today when our courier was shot down in the street she was unharmed. And now, on the eve of our liberation she becomes uncooperative. Captain. At ease. Whats the word . There is no word, at least not from the resistance in sainte claire. You may be underestimating the good citizens of sainte claire. I spent a summer there when i was 18. You ate a few snails, fell in love wiwi a local girl and became an expert on the city. Uh. Well. Yeah. Pretty much like that. Uhhuh. Bububelieve me, captain, those people love their town. Theyll fight for it and die for it. Dont count them out yet. All right ssault from the north at first light. sighs so. Who was the mademoiselle . laughs her name was brigitte. Great gams. One hell of a temper. Sounds like your kind of girl. August 29, 1936. 12 17 p. M. Thats when my train pulled out of sainte claire. Saw her. We wrote to each other every week for t tee years. Then the war broke out and i never heard from her again. Sainte claires not a big place. She shouldnt be too hard to find. Im counting on it. Youll maintain position here, 20 meters from the front doors. Arm yourself with a submachine gun and watch for any sign of trouble. Weve observed a a second break in the guard rotation at 4 15 a. M. Through the storm window on the eastern wall. I saw guards posted at all three stairways. Youll have to reach the second floor through the elevator shaft. The command post is in the main gallery at the end of the hallll. Once inside, we plant the charges; load the transmitter. Youll remain here. If something goes wrong and were caught destroy all evidence of the underground our contact lists, decryption codes everything. Right. We leave in ononhour. This wont make much of a bang. You forgot to connect the detonator. I will correct the error. Its lucky i found your little error. It might have underminededur mission. Are you having second thoughts about tonight . No. Good, because i dont want any more mistakes. There wont be any. Weve got to stop meeting like this. I managed to grab a quick scan of holodeck one and it looks like seven of n ne is on the move. Are you ready in sick bay . My hirogen taskmaster is working in the biolab. Ill have access to the medical console o e bridge and. Good afternoon. What are you doing in here . Trying to get the replicator system back onlinin. Unless you prefer the emergency rations. Personally, im getting tired of synthetic protein. Youre supposed to be the finest hunters in the quadrant. Why dont you find us something a little more tasty . Something wrong . What kind of transmission . I dont know. Maybe you can tell me. Well. I was trying to reroute power from the main computer to the replicators. Of course. I must have tripped the communications subroutine. Sorry about that. Didnt mean to worry you. Your people have damaged just about every system on this vessel. Accidents are bound to happen. Now, if you dont mind, im due on the bridge. Show it to me. I want to see this subroutine. Show me what you were doing when the accident occurred. Forget it. I dont have time. groaning do as i say. All right panting but youd better call the bridge and tell your superior im going to be late that im working under your orders now, not his. I dont want to take the blame for this. Report to the bridge. Set the charges here, here and there. This looks like a message from one of their reconnaissance teams. These must be instructions for troop deployment. The germans are taking up new positions outside the city. It looks like theyre mobilizing more troops than our sources originally expected. mechanical whir beeping theyre moving armored units into the valley. They must know the americans are coming. Weve got to warn them somehow. What are you doing . You havent set the charges. What is that . I believe it is a transmitter. Im attempting to disable it. Youre sending a message to the nazis. No. Step away or ill kill you. What are you doing . uh, nothing. Just running a diagnostic. I told you no more mistakes. Youve just made your last one. beeping clicking gasping seven. Captain. howling listen. A tarq just beyond that ridge. You would hunt down a simple beast even in the midst of our enemies . There is no enemy as great as hunger beeping why am i being interrupted . Hirogen their holographic doctor hes disabled their captains interface. I cant reestablish the link. Send a team internal scans show 13 of them on this holodeck. glass shattering chakotay need a hand, buddy . Captain miller, fifth armored infantry. Welcome to sainte claire. Get me artillery unit charlie one. Take up positions along this street and start laying down fire. air raid sirens the americans have arrived. You circumvented our control how . Go to hell footsteps distant gunfire glass shattering bobby. chuckling you owe me a postcard. Distance 800 yards. Correct for crosswinds. Fire at will. Take cover, boys charlie one isnt known for accuracy i cant access the ships systems. Didnt you say this was nazi headquarters . I did. Then it would stand to reason this building is being targeted. incoming mortar what happened . There was a simulated explosion in holodeck one. Somehow it blew out the hologrid across three decks. Is the Program Still running . What is it . It looks like a bunker. All units, listen up. Weve just blown the lid off of some kind of secret nazi compound. Converge on my position. Were going in. The breach opened the simulation into the surrounding sections. Nto deck five. Shut down the holoemitters until we can regain control. beeping i cant. The program controls are offline. You wanted a war . [captioning sponsored by paramount television and upn tucker i admit it. Ive got a few butterflies. Okay. More than a few. You havent stopped talking about this for a week. Well, its different for you. You grew up with the man. When i was seven, my mom bought me a book about him Emory Erickson father of the transporter. I made her read it to me every night for a month. That book is the reason i became an engineer. Did i ever tell you about meeting Zefram Cochrane . Yeah, only about 50 times. Then you know i understand how you feel. chuckling you want a mirror . sighs nothing seems to be missing. Hello, emory. Jonathan, look at you. I always suspected youd be famous. Just didnt think that youd be more famous than me. cackles jon. Good to see you. Oh, we have a lot of catching up to do. Mmhmm. Do it later. I want a tour of this place. My chief engineer, commander charles tucker. Guess you and ill be spending some time together. im looking forward to it. Danica, trip. As long as you return it in good condition. Dont know if i can promise that. When this test is over, enterprise and all of starfleet could be obsolete. Sounds like youre trying to put me out of a job. laughter . Getting from there to here . Its been a long time . But my time is finally near . And i will see my dream come alive at last . . I will touch the sky . And theyre not gonna hold me down no more . . No, theyre not gonna change my mind . . cause ive got faith of the heart . . Im going where my heart will take me . . Ive got faith to believe . I can do anything . Ive got strength of the soul . . No ones gonna bend or break me . . I can reach any star . Ive got faith . Ive got faith . Faith of the heart. Captioning sponsored by paramount television and upn captains log, supplemental in preparation for dr. Ericksons experiment, weve reduced power on all but essential areas of the ship. We havent talked much since vulcan. How are you holding up . Im fine. Ive been seeing you by yourself a lot. Im reading the kirshara. How is it . Interesting. Interesting. Extremely. Look. I know what youre going through. Losing a family member. Its the toughest thing there is. I see no point in discussing it. Past. Your mother died a week ago. Talking wont change that. It may change the way you feel about it. I dont feel anything about it. You can tell yourself that. Its the truth. You know, when lizzie died. There were times i wanted to just close up, retreat inside myself. Trip, i appreciate what youre trying to do, but its not necessary. Youre fine . Well. Ill see you. Subquantum teleportation. You step on to a transporter on earth. A few seconds later, youre on vulcan. Thats over 16 lightyears. Emory thats just for starters. Theoretically, theres no limit to the distance. E of the things were here to test. You tell me. With that kind of technology whod have any use for a starship . Maybe you will put me out of a job. Dad. Well, i wouldnt worry too much. Its gonna take decades to work out all the bugs. But when we do, starfleets gonna look a helluva lot different. Thats if it exists at all. You can see he hasnt changed. He believed the future was in the warp drive. I believed in the transporter pad. I miss those talks. I miss him. To henry. The Vulcan Science Academy has been studying subquantum transporting for some time. With little result. Ive been trying to get my hands in hindsight, its probably just as well that i couldnt. Mightve sent me down the wrong path. Its hard to imagine. Beaming someone that far. All breakthroughs are hard to imagine before they happen. When i developed the transporter, most people simply couldnt grasp it. Some still cant. I have to confess, given a choice, id much rather use a good, oldfashioned shuttlepod. erickson chuckling was first approved for biomatter. God, here we go. People said it was unsafe, that it caused brain cancer, psychosis. And even sleep disorders. And then there was all that metaphysical chatter about whether or not the person who arrived after the transport was the same person who left and not some weird copy. Which would make all of us copies. I had to fight all of that nonsense. Im not gonna tell you there werent costs. Im living proof of that. But i won. chuckling mankind is better off. Makes everything ive fought for worthwhile. Heres to a successful experiment. Captains log, supplemental. Perfect conditions for emorys test. Those early days were pretty terrifying. Im lucky to be alive. Is it true youre the first person to go through . I wasnt about to let anyone else do it. chuckles you mustve been scared. Terrified. That original transporter took a full minute and a half to cycle through. It felt like a year. You could actually feel yourself being taken apart together. When i materialized, first thing i did was lose my lunch. chuckling second thing i did was get stone drunk. Trick i learned from Zefram Cochrane. Now, there was a man who knew the benefits of a little liquid courage. beeping what is it . Well, youre gonna need more juice than i thought. Not more than enterprise can spare. From the warp reactor. Maybe even have to shut down a few systems. Youll be able to leave the lights on. Yeah. If i could get a look at your power converter. It might help me out. Ill tell you what. When im done with this, ill install a converter, see if i cant make life easier on you. Well, thanks, but when it comes to modifying our systems, i prefer to do things myself. Can i get a look at it . I said id install it, commander. And i said, no, thanks. I wish i had time to debate the finer points of engineering protocol, but as you can see, im extremely busy. And i realize this is your ship and im only a guest, but let me remind you that starfleet has granted me complete access to your systems. If you hadnt noticed, im more than capable of handling a little power upgrade. Will you . Danica thats the main reactor, and those are the plasma feeds, right . You know the ship like a member of the crew. Rything i could find on her. I probably could describe every one of your missions. Still wonder why you havent signed on. I think you know the answer. Your father seems like he can take care of himself. He sure hasnt lost any of his edge. Cant argue with that. So why are you still on earth . He needs me. He still hasnt gotten over quinn. Its been 14 years. 15. He lost a son. Itll be a new start for him. Give him something to look forward to. He wont spend all of his time thinking about the past. And if the test doesnt go well . I dont know. We both grew up with fathers who could be pretty demanding. Thats an understatement. chuckling maybe you should start thinking more about yourself. Its hard taking advice from someone who used to chase you around the backyard with a plastic laser pistol. Yeah, but its good advice, jonathan. I just wish i could follow it. How was your tour . I can always tell when youre upset. You do this like youre in a hurry. hissing dont you think theres something to be upset about . Were here. Thats reason enough to be optimistic. Were lying to them. We have no choice. We could talk to jon. He might be able to help us. No. He wouldnt understand. We cant say anything to him. We cant trust anyone. Its jon. Hes a starfleet captain. His first duty is to his ship. sighs you talk about him like hes an enemy. Hes not an enemy. But hes not on our side, either. distant metallic shriek its from over there. shriek continues no. Ill take up. You take down. It could be a form of spatial distortion. Can you pinpoint it . screams tpol he suffered massive cellular disruption, to intense delta radiation. Did other crewmen see anything . The lights were malfunctioning. This anomaly you detected. You think it was somehow responsible . It showed up at the same time, in the same location. It cant have been a coincidence. sighs i sympathize, believe me. During the initial tests for the transporter, some brave men and women were lost. How can i help . Youve spent a great deal of time in this region of space. I never encountered anything like this. Are you sure . Theres a reason this is called the barrens, captain. Theres nothing out here. Something out here killed one of my crewmen. I wish i had an explanation for you. What is it . Time for my treatment. Iim sorry. Can we, uh. Continue this later . Of course. Calm down. You never said anything like this would happen i didnt know this would happen. Dad. A man is dead, and were responsible im not going to go along with this anymore. Dani . Youre condemning him to death im condemning him . sighs how do you know he isnt already dead . Hes alive. Dad. Jonathans practically family. He and quinn were best friends. I know. I know that. We cant do this to him, to his crew. Were almost ready for our first test. Someone else could die before then. Oh, the odds of that happening again are extremely small. No ones going to die. I just need a couple of days. We owe him that much, dani. I wonder what he would have to say about all this. Can ask him. Tucker routing power. Ready. Help me up. Sir . Give me a hand, please. Ah. This part i like doing myself. Es energizing. beeping the probe materialized at the target coordinates. Looks like it arrived in good condition. Captain, were receiving telemetry. Archer were already getting back data. Congratulations, emory. Nothings ever gone that far. Its a start. chuckles its, uh, gonna take a few hours to gather all the telemetry. Um, lets celebrate in mess hall, my treat. I like to monitor the data as it comes in. Im sort of obsessive that way. Well, then let me bring Something Back for you. Help pass the time between datastreams. No, thanks. Its been a long day. You must be starving. Go ahead. Ill join you later. One pair will do. And no offense, commander, but, uh. I work much better when im not being distracted. You know where to find me. door chimes s wrong. Most of the work emory had me do tapping into the warp reactor for extra power, rerouting the plasma flow it wasnt necessary for the test. What are you saying . Remember when the lights dimmed . Yeah. Well, he channeled that energy into a feedback loop. It wasnt going into the beam. Maybe he needs the power for another phase of the experiment. From what i can tell, his subquantum version should use less energy than a regular transporter. Thats one of the reasons its so brilliant. Either he was keeping me busy making sure i was looking the other way, or this subquantum thing is a smoke screen for something else. Something he hasnt told us about. I wouldnt have picked up on any of it if you hadnt asked me to take a closer look. When i asked emory about the anomaly that killed burrows, he claimed hed never heard of anything like it. Not true . Something very similar appeared on emorys Research Ship from starfleets data banks. A crew member saw it. Said it seemed to be alive. Tpol bridge to captain archer. Go ahead. Were picking up another one. Its on cdeck, section five. On my way. Its fluctuating. Whats your best guess . Ive lost it. Take Section Three take section four. Dont let it touch you. scanner beeps this way. Its highly unstable. Surrounded by a subspace field. yelling and groaning metallic shriek youre fortunate you didnt have more prolonged contact. Can you put that down for 30 seconds . I took visual readings. Can you slow it down . Hold it. Enhance. A little more. Thats incredible. He hasnt aged a day. Emory. Im not here to test a new transporter. Im here to bring back my son. What are you talking about . Quinn wanted to be the first to go through. He was a lot like his old man. A lot like you. I lost his signal and couldnt get it back. Truth is, the subquantum transporter is a fundamentally flawed concept. Itll never work not now, not a thousand years from now. I suppose i knew that at the time. You let him go through with the test . Who had created something that changed starfleet. After an achievement of that magnitude, there was nowhere to go but down. My life became just one long struggle to recapture past glory. Im not talking about you. Im talking about quinn. Here to get him back . This region, the barrens, its actually a subspace node, a bubble of curved spacetime. Its why there are no stars. Quinns transporter signal is trapped here. At certain intervals, there are fluctuations in the node that cause the signal to reappear. If we can lock onto it at one of those intervals we can save him. You couldve told me all of this before. Starfleet would never have authorized the mission. I had to create an excuse. A member of my crew is dead. I didnt know that the manifestations would be dangerous, believe me. You want me to believe you . I want you to help me. Quinn was like a brother to you. You were like my second father. sighs you shouldve trusted me. All i need is one more scan and i can bring him back. Is that the truth . I had no choice. Im sorry. Please help me, jonathan. Help me save my son. Please. I want you bothto work with emo. Give him whatever help he needs. What is it, trip . I cant believe im hearing this. St one man. It wont happen again. Well alert the crew to the danger. If theyd been alerted 24 hours ago, burrows might be alive. Tpol we dont fully understand the nature of these manifestations. They could pose other dangers. I know theres a risk. Were talking one more day. Thats all emory needs. What he claims he needs. I believe him. Because hes a friend of the family . Thats not why im doing this. Why are you doing this . Quinns signal is getting weaker, trip. Its been decaying for the past 15 years