grunting seven seven of nine. Where are we . I assume were on the alien ship. This is most uncomfortable. Have you seen anyone . No. If we can reach one of those blades perhaps we can cut through these bindings. Easily taken. The hunt was not a pleasure. I want information. Why do you violate our property . I could snap your puny neck with one twist. Hardly worth taking. Answer me. Why are you using our modules . Were trying to retrieve important messages from our home. Without trespassing again. I tookokou on a fair hunt. I claim the relics of the chase. Are the others on your ship able to put up more of a fight than you were . You will find our captain a formidable opponent and our ship heavily armed. Good. Strong prey makes fe. Otherwise we will destroy you. footsteps pitiful relics. Theyre the first of their kind. I will be envied. Ive located their ship. Its 4,000 ketrics from the module. Well be there within the hour. Go to stalking mode. Why do you hesitate . The rest of the group is on its way. We may not be able to take them alone. We need the others. I wont share a prey with the others. These two must be the only relics prepare them captain. Ing a ship its tricky to scan through the interference. What kind of ship . Let me reconfigure the sensor array. Its hirogen and tuvok and seven are on it. Hail them. On screen. Im captain janeway of the starship voyager. You have two of my crew on board. Disconnect your links with our module and leave this space. Not without my people. They are my relics. Im prepared to offer you something for their safe return. Surely we can come to an agreement. If the rest of the group arrives you will be taken as well. We dont run. Captain, ive got three more ships on sensors coming toward us at high warp. Dont be foolish. Leave now and save yourselves. Give me my people and well do just that. Theyre mine then geteteady for a fight. Are they prepared . Yes. But now is not the time for it. We should wait until the others arrive and take the ship. I want to make the firskill. You will verify it. If there is a battle, we must join in. The others can wage the battle. Perhaps you are more interested in collecting relics. Dont question me again. We do it now. I suggesesyou think carefully about your decision. If you kill us our captain will hunt you down and showowo mercy. Im not concerned. Lower the harness. Rblong, coiled intestines an interesting trophy. What possible use could you make of my intesnes . Unusual relics are prized. Yours will make me envied by men you are a crude species. Only your size makes you formidable. Your insults are as pipiful as your efforts to escape. This one first. I want the female to wititss what will happen to her. Their bone structure makes it difficult to cut from the back. Bridge to torres. How much longer . Im getting it out piece by piece. Another half hour. How are you comingn . That ship has some kind of monotanium armor plating. Its scattering the targeting beam. The other ships are closing. Theyre within 6,000 kilometers. Those ships have massive weapons. Theyve got us outgunned. Harry, let me see those ships in relation to the relay station. Maybe we can use that quantum singularity to our advantage. If we can boost the effect of the s sgularity increase the gravitational pull. The pull would increase if we could aken t stis containment el an antithoron burst might do it. We might be pulled in as well. Dont worry. rgog to bready r it. Rr cate a lowlevel warprpield around voyager sublight ener lel. That should untera the gravitational pull t fld is too strong we wont be able to beam tuvok and seven aboard. Then youll l ve to find the right balance wont you, harry . Yes, maam. On my mark have thrusters ready for full reverse, mr. Paris. Understood. Ive established a lowlevel warp field. Antithoron system online. Ready with thrusters. Do it. Its working. Try the transporter lock again, harry. Stabilize the ship i cant. The gravity well is p pling us in that vesseseis weakening the modules containment field. Ready your weapons. Signal the others to attack. Torres to the bridge. The antithoron burst collapsed the signal. Ive gotten as much of the message as im going to get. Acknowledged. Hail those ships. Channel open. This is captain janeway. Ain, theyre firing their weapons are destabilizing the containment field this is janeway. Stop firing. Youre putting yourselves in graveveanger. The field is going the singularity is about to be exposed the ship with tuvok and seven is still being pulled in. Gegea tractor beam on it. I have tuvok and seveeted but if we try to transport them now the gravity could scatter their patterns. The tractor beam is weakening. Were going to lose them we have to r rk it. Activating the transporter. Full reverse increase the power to the engines theyre not responding to my commands. Do you have them . Not yet. Their patterer are distorting. Narrow the annular confinement beam. The tractor beams almost gone. Reroute secondary power to tractor emitterers. The beam collapsed. Its headed into the black hole. Im realigni the paern n ffer. I got them theyre in transporter room two. I need more power were being pulled in transfer all Available Power to the engines. N life support its not enough . Structural integrity is failing. The hull is buckling. Were going in open the antimatter injectorsst. Captain,hat could br the cor so will that black hole. Now, just do it. panting were free. Resume course. Ill be in astrometrics. Captain, look at this. The energy released from the singularity created a massive discharge along the Relay Network. It disabled every one of the stations. How much of the messasage were you able to get . I got most of the encrypted starfleet text and a few more personal letters. How soon can we see what starfleet had to say . Oh, itll take some time to decode. Ew lette rs to deliver. Neelix can do that. No need. Anyway, theres one that i want to do personally. sighing good news, harry. I got this at the last minute. gasping its from my folks thanks. Im sorry, tom. I wasnt able to download yours in time. Just when i was getting eager to read it. You could assume that he said he loves you and that hes proud of you. Captains log, supplemental. Seven of nine and commander tuvok suffered no serious physical damage after their encounter on the alien ship. Ive been eager to hear tuvoks impressions of the species who took thehostage. I learned very little about them but i believe we should consider them extremely dangerous. They seem to lack any moral center. Do you know why the Relay Network was so important to them . No. I assume they used ittfor c. Well, they wont be using it anymore. They wont be pleased about that, captain. I doubt weve seen the last of them. door chimes sighs come in. If youll excuse me. Commander. Repair teams have inspected the ship from stem to stern. Except for some maintenance thats needed on the warp coils everything seems fine. I suppose so. Want some coffee . Thanks. Cream m d sugar . At stuff. Really . If im not mistaken thats your third cup this morning. Fourththand on a day like today it wont be my last. Coffee the finest organic suspension ever devised. Its gotten me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the borg with it. Oh, im sure voyager will be fine. But im worried that the crew might be a different story. I think they were hopingngail call of their day. Neelix is putting g gether an impromptu party. He thought it might cheer them up. Good idea. When will it be . As soon as he can get people together. Leave it to neelix to come up with the right idea at the right time. How are you doing . Me . Im fine. Youd say that if you just had your legs torn off by a trachon beast. Look what youve been through in the last few days. We finally make a connection with home and its ripped away from us. Down and destroy us and on top of that. Its all right. You can say it. On top of all that, i got a dear john letter. It wasnt really a surprise. I guess i didnt really expect him to wait for me considering the circumstances. It made me realize that i was using him as a safety net, you know as a way to avoid becoming involved with someone else. s rig you dont have that safety net anymore. Life is far from uneventful here in the delta quadrant. Its not like i would have had a chance to pursue a relationship evenenf i had realized i was alone. Youre hardly alone. And to my way of thinking, theres still plenty of time. Plenty of time. Neelix to the ready room. The partys about to begin and there are only two people missing. Were on our way. Oh. [captioning sponsored by paramount television and upn surak. . Its been a long road . Getting from there to here g 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 . 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, ive got . . Ive got faith . Faith of the heart. Admiral maxwell forrests personal log. Ive arrived on vulcan, hopeful that the high command is finally ready to conduct joint missions with starfleet. Admiral, the high command will tell you its decision at the proper time. After all weve been through, id rather hear the good news from you. The high command hasnt included me in their discucuions. Theyre not telling their own ambassador to earth what theyre planning . Welcome to the club. Admiral, i know you find our reluctance to Share Technology and discoveries restrictive. I can think of a few stronger words than that. We dont know what to do about humans. We cant define. Of all the species weve made contact with, you have the arrogance of andorians, gons, and the next, you confound us by suddenly embracing logic. Im sure those qualities are found in every species. Not in such confusing abununnce. Ambassador. Why . Vulcans. Our planet was devastated, our civilization nearly destroyed. Logic saved us. But it took us almost 1,500 years for us to rebuild our wowod and travel to the stars. You humans did the same in less than a century. There are those on the high command in the century to come, and they dont like the answer. Were not the klingons. We only want to be your partners. To do what the nations of earth have learned to do to Work Together in common cause. Unfortunately, the future of relations between our worlds is not mine to control. distant explosion rumbling second, closer explosion captain here thats another game 212. Time to switch sides again, doctor. Certainly. Of o oran fertility contests. Captain. Ive just spoken with starfleet command. Except w wre fully clothed, which is probably for the best. Captains log, supplemental. Enterprise s arrived at vulcan as ordered. Three days after the bombing of earths embassy, and ive lost my friend, admiral forrest. Vulcan authorities still have no lead on whos responsible. Im sorry y keep you from your family, but im going to need you on the investigation fulltime. Thats where i prefer to be. Your mother and husband will understand . My mother hasnt responded to my communiques. Its not unusual for her to become lost in her work. As for my. Husband, captain jonathan archer, i regret we meet under such trarac circumstances. Id like to introduce administrator vlas. Administrator. I wasnt told to expect the head of the high command. Captain archer, all of vulcan grieves with you today. 12 vulcans died in the blast, ambassador. T end, this is stel, chief investigatororof our secu. Captain, we now have suspects. Andorianan why would they attack our embassy . To create conflict between earth and vulcan. They do consider us allies who stand against them. So far, weve done our best to remain neutral, and the andorians know that. You have other suspects . Syrrannites. Ive never h hrd of that species. Actually, theyre a small group of vulcans. They follow a corrupted form of suraks teachings. Surak ive heard of. Hes the father of vulcan logic. Even after 1,800 years, our embassy . We consider him the most important vulcan who ever lived. Theyve e en vocal about their opposition to government, but always peaceful. Over the past year, their leader a dissident named syrran has become a dangerous zealot. Captain, i trust you to keep this matter confidential. We dont share it lightly. But recently, on our world, there have been instances of violence against nonvulcans. Though we have no conclusive proof, there are signs that syrrannites might be responsible. Your embassy is officially considered to be on earth soil. 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The slightest vibration might set it off. Reed to enterprise. I need an emergencnc transporter lock. Two to beam up on my mark. Hoshi acknowledged. Why not beam the bomb out of here . If theres a gravity switch, te in the matter stream. Enterprise to reed. The transporters locked. Do you need assistance . Negative, enterprise. Stand by. Im going to attempt to scan it. Attempt . Yeah. If i had designed that bomb, id rig it to go off the instant a sensor beam made contact. Look on the bright side. Steady. Theres vulcan dna on these controls. So much for blaming andorians. Boosting scan resolution. That cant be good. Oh, damn. Enterprise, mark. Enterprise according to the vulcan genome registry, the dna on the bombs controls was left by this woman . The registry records dna from all vulcans at birth. Do you know anything about her . Tpau is a wellknownn sy. All right. Weve got a solid d art. Now we need to find her. Captain, tpau is vulcan. The security directorate will take charge of the investigation. Of course. Vulcan sovereignty. Lieutenant reed and commander tpol will work with you. Chief investigator, 43 people died in the bombing 12 vulcans and 31 humans. We want her as much as you do. Thisiss now a Vulcan Security operation. Well inform ambassador soval door slides open, then closes soval his death is a loss to both our worlds. If youre lost, ambassador, i can direct you to your shuttle. He saved my life. Ould have saved himself. He always put. The mission first. The last time we spoke, he was anticipating the prospect of joint missions, we have to make that possible. Despspe the high command. It makes no sense to think the syrrannites are responsible for this. Outragag we have dna evidence. Recheck everything, captain, question everything, e on vulcan, and however far you have to take this investigation, you have my support. door com beeps enter. It is agreeable to see you. What is the purpose of your visit . Does a husband need a purpose to visit. His wife . Your message was cryptic. By necessity. The syrrannite threat has brought new security measures into effect. Private communications are no longer private. You have something to tell me something to give you. To deliver it personally. She told me that its been in your family for generations, and now its your turn to care for it. Why didnt she give this to me herself . The new security conditions. Theyve forced your mother into hiding to avoid arrest. My mother . A syrrannite . And she never told you . Whats important is that shes disappeared like the others, facing unjustified arrest. Like tpau. Its called an idic. Looks old. Its been modified. This is a desert called the forge. The routes the one surak supposedly followed. 1,800 years ago . Syrrannites follow the same path today, seeking enlightenment. Ur mother is somewhere along that path . She told koss this was a family heirloom, but ive never seen it before. She didnt want koss to know about the map. With any luck, we c c use this to find your mother. And tpau. Captain, have you seen its a vulcan desert. I expect itll be hot. Its got electrical sandstorms. Gegeagnetic instabilities so bad, Technology Wont work. So, no communicators, no scanners, no phasepistols. We cant even beam you into it. Youre going to have to walk in. Ill be careful. Youve got enterprise. You and malcolm keep the investigation going up here, and whatever the vulcans tell you, believe the oppositit present company excepted. Ambassador. Captain, commander. This shows the gaps in our satellite surveillance, im thinking were not exactly cleared to have this. Have what, commander . All i see is a starfleet data module. Right. Captain, what if something goes wrong down there . It already has. This site is called gateway, where surak supposedly began his journey into the forge. Archer you kg supposedly. You dont believe surak did the things they said he did . He brought logic to vulcan, in an age we call the time of awakening, but his writings from that period no longer exist. There must be some record of him. Over the centuries, his followers made copies of his teachings. Let me guess, with the originals lost, whatevers left is open to interpretation. You find this amusing . I find it familiar. We should get moving. I thought technology didnt work hehe. The dampening field only extends a few hundred meters above the ground. Were being stalked. jaguarlike screech what the hell was that . Sehlat. Run. Higher ground. Higher. They wont climb. Days. At least. Theyre very persistent creatures. When i was a child, i had one as a pet. You had one of those . Dodosticated. panting theyre sma