Poison. The vessel is ejecting massive quantities of contaminated antimatter. Over 90 million isotons. Hail them. Captain. Youve decided to join us. Send the creature to. That wont be possible. You wanted the lifeform because you were afraid wed uncover your. Transport mission. I said this was none of your concern. Well, it is now. Youre using theirirpace as a dumping ground for your antimatter waste. Why . My civilization produces over six billion isotons this region is a perfect disposal site. How convenient for you. A spatial vortex to the middle of nowhere far away from your own system. Out of sight, out of mind. The problem is, sosobody lives here. One species. Ones enough. We didnt come here to debate the issue. We came here to offer a peaceful solution. What kind of solution . My people use antimatter as well so theres no toxic waste. Well show you. Guide us through the vortex. We can meet with your scientists on the other side, exchange information. Show me now. Stand by for transport. Commander, take our guest to engineering and give him a demonstration. Lets turn our sensors on that vortex. I want to know exactly how it works just in case diplomacy fails. Do you intend to destroy it . The residual antimatters then processed in a transkinetic chamber where its broken down on a subatomic level. What about the thetaradiation . Its absorbed by a series of radiometric converters. We rececle the energy use it to power everything from life support to replicators. We dont have this kind of conversion technology. Engineering principles are the same. Were not saying this wont take some effort. Youre looking at several months of retrofitting depending on the size of your fleet. All the schematics are here and wed be willing to work with you get you started. We cananven provide you with some converters. Ingenious design. Our engineers would be pleased. This would solve a lot of problems on my world. Unfortunately, it would also put me out of business. Sorry . Your technology would throw the wasteexport industry into chaos. Before long, id be obsolete. Now, i came here hoping your claims were exaggerated but i can see theyre not. You can keep your solution. We went through this whole song and dance and he never had any intention. Thats not important. What matters is that were talking now. Were proposing changes, some of them difficult but progress can also bring new opportunities. Given time, this could turn to your advantage. wheezing laugh i already have the advantage the vortex. No one knows abobo it except me and my crew. By ejecting my cargo here, i cut expenses in half. I guess mass murder doesnt factor into your profit margin. You care so much about these crcrtures, stay. Im sorry you wont listen to reason but dont expect us to walk away from this. Youve scanned my vessel. Youve seen my firepower. You wouldnt survive ten seconds in a conflict with me. We fight our way past them navivite the vortex on our own. Once were on the other side we contact the malon authorities and blow the whistle on emck. We give them the Reclamation Technology and continue on our way home. Exactly. Evenenf we did get through the vortex theres no guarantee the malon will do the right thing if mr. Emck is any indicatiti. As long as this vortex exists any chance we could destroy it . I believe so but theres a catch. Well have to collapse it from this end where itssimensional radius is weakest. Wed be closing our shortcut out of here. Two more years in the void. I can live with that. But im not sure i can. Four years ago i destroyed the caretakers array to protect the ocampa. That act of compassion im not about to give that order again. This situatiti is a little different. Oh, its close enough. Im asking this crew to make too big a sacrifice. I wont make that same mistake. If you have another option, m listening. Chakotay theres no one i trust more than you. Youre a fine first officer. Yes. Assemble the crew. Captain on the bridge. At ease. Harry, how have you been . Just fine, maam. Good. Weve missed you, captain. Likewise. Ill make this brief. Your orders are to proceed to the vortex. Use whatever means necessary to fight your way past the malon freighter. Ill stay behind in a shuttlecraft and destroy the vortex. Tuvok, ill need a classtwo shshtle tom, set a course for. Forget it. Were not going to let you die out here. Have a little faith, belalaa. Ill have a shuttle, plenty of rations. Ill survive. Alone in the delta quadrant . No offense, but. Ive made my decision. What about us . Dont we have a say . Hes right, captain. Id be willing to brave this void if it meant keeping you with us. Tom. Set a course. Lieutenant, i gave you an order. I cant follow that order, maam. Harry, take the helm. I wiwi not comply. Whats a hologram to do . As you can see youre not the only ononwhos had time to evaluate the past. Yes, i can see that. You realize you could all be hangege for mutiny. Looks like we need another option. We fire torpedoes the instant we cross the threshold. Ortex begins to collapse we jump into high warp. Therell be a massive shock wave on our tail. Ill reinforce the aft shielding. Theres still one obstacle the malon. Antimatter waste has weakened the bulkhead surrounding their cargo hold. A direct phasesestrike should disable them. Poetic justice. Indeed. You realize it will reduce our chance of getting through. Chance is irrelevant. We will succeed. A vote of borg confidence. Who could argue with that . All right. Back to your stations. Set a course for the vortex. All hands to battle stations. You told them. They knew coming in. Lets just say i wouldnt be return fire. Hit them with everything weve got. Their shields are holding. Open a channel. This is voyager. Stand down your weapons and fall back. Ill take that as a no. The vortex . Gineering. Were approaching the vortex. Bring the aft shielding on line. Acknowledged. See you on the other side. Status . The port nacelles been ruptured. Were venting plasma. Can you get us out of hehe on one engine, tom . I think so. Torpedoes armed and ready. On my order, tuvok. Well only get one shot at this. Theyre firing spatial charges. Evade them. Captain proton to the rescue. chchkles ill explain later. Tuvok the vortex is in visual range. Janeway time to intercept . 47 seconds. Steady as she goes. Keep laying down fire. Direct hit starboard nacelle both engines are offline were riding on inertitia. One more hit and were dead in the water. With our main deflector . I believe so. Do it. Were going to ride that shock wave out of here let it push us to the other side. Adjusting g ield harmonics. Captain. They intend to block our path, captain. 20 seconds. Chakotay prepare to fire. That may not be necessary. Theyre trying to distract the malon. Give us the upper hand. Ten seconds. The freighters shields are weakening. Target their cargo hold. Time to take out the garbage. Were crossing the threshold. Shock wave approaching. 600 meters. 500. 400. Aft shields at maximum. All hands brace for impact. Pressure is building on the outer hull. Shields weakening. gasps are we out of the void . That little maneuver brought us up a bit short. 000 0 lometers from the boundary. On screen. What . I saw something. A star. Remind me to check your eyesight. Harry, what do you see out there . I see a denselypacked region with thousands of star systems. Looks pretty lively. [captioning sponsored by paramount television andndpn previously on enterprise. A parallel universe . According to some theories, everything that exists in our universe should also exist there. Another terran empire, another starfleet . I am not a slave. Youre vulcan. Never forget that. The things a girl will give up for her career. Its from another time. About 100 yeararinto the future. Imagine the technology we can find on that ship. Ouou for the taking enterprise isisnder attack. The tholians can see us all hands to escape pods. Youve got thrusters. Release the docking clamps. I cant. What about weapons . This power grids a mess its gonna take a few minutes. Sir. Shields are functional. Raise them. Our shields are weakening the clamps. But theyre still holding. Ill alternate port and starboard thrusters. That should shake them loose. Were free. Firing aft thrusters. Six tholian ships moving toward us. How much longer for weapons . The power couplings have been removed. I dont know if i can bypass them. . Captioning sponsored by paramount television and upn engines humming mr. Tucker . stand by i could use some help s three more ships approaching. Justst few more seconds smacks surface what was that . They locked on a tractor beam. Were being pulled back into the dock. Its now or never stand by now. Tems are on line. power humming full thrusters. The remaining ships are retreating. The station has s ened fire. Does this thing have aft torpedoes . Youd Better Believe it beeping escape pods. 12 kilometers off the port bow. Theyre ours. We need warp drive. Engineerings been stripped to the bulkheads. But the good news is, most of what they took but. I need time to figure out how to put it all back together. How much time . Two or three days. Sir. Im not even sure what some of these systemss ar. Its like im chief engineer on a steamship coming aboard the first interplanetary transport. If we dont have warp capability in 12 hours, im going to find a new chief f gineer. I suggest we make use of the alien workers. Once warp drive is restored, well set a course to rendezvous with the assault fleet. Were in no condition for battle. F 400. We made quick work of the tholians. There are only 47 of us. The logical course of action is to take fiant to earth, allow starfleet to study it, reverseengineer its systems. Theres no time the empire could lose this war in a matter weeks if we dont get the defiant and its weapons to the front lines. Dismissed commander. Not you. Me. The orders giving you command of enterprise were obviously fabricated. To help captain forrest regain control of his ship. You swore your loyalty to me. You should be aware captain forrest ordered me to kill you. Why are you telling me this . Forrest is dead. His orders are no longer valid. You are my commanding officer. I never had a problem with your people. Until they became aa p. If i had another offffer capable of doing your job, id show you to the nearest airlock. I need you. To get this ship up and running. But if i hear so much as a rumor that yoyore working behind my back. Understood. Get out. chuckles wardrobe. These people had some strange ideas about uniforms. I cant find a mention of it anywhere. A mention of what . The empire. As far as i can tell, it doesnt exist in the other universe. No empire . A lot of the names are the e me, but. Their history has been rewritten. Earth became part of an interspecies alliance. The United Federation of planets . More like a federation of fools. What about us . Do we exist in this universe . Computer, access biographical file, starfleet officer hoshi sato. Computer voice working. Hoshi sato. First warp five ship. In her late 30s, she createtethe linguacode translation matrix. At least s s was remembered for something. I can tell you who she married. It even says how you died. Stop. I dont want to know. But thisissnt you. I dont care. Computer. Display file on starfleet officer jonathan archer. Computer voice working. chuckles oh. Son of famed warp specialist henry archer, jonathan was appointed captain of starfleets first warp f fe ship. His name is among the most recognized during his career. Historians called him the greatest explorer of the 22nd century. Two planets were named after him. Hehe theres nothing great about that man. He sold out earths future to a group of subhuman species. Great men are not peacemakers. Great men are conquerors. Forget about him. Ing. Can you imagine the look on the emperors face when he sees this ship . Youll be declared hero of the empire. Starfleetll have to give you a command of your own. Whats the problem . Commander. Somebody pulled both plasma r rulators out of these housings. Why are you u thering me with this . Theyre probably on the hangar deck. No, sir, you dont understand. They were here ten minutes ago. I went to get this coupler, when i came back, the regulators were gone. You betttt find them, because if this junctions not on line in ten minutes, im gonna tell archer youre the reason we dont have warp drive. Yes. Yes, sir. ittering footsteps screams hissing and snarling i found traces of reptilian saliva in the ensigns wounds. Something bit him . Mm, the bite radius would suggest a particularly large reptile. More than two meters in length. Can you find this thing on internal sensors . Its not in the primary hull. Sensors are still offline on the engineering decks. By one of the original crew. Unless one of them owned a velociraptor, i find it extremely unlikely. Theres no sign of the regulators. Without them, we cant initialize the reaction chamber. Were stuck at impulse. Tpol whoever sabotaged us knew exactly which components to steal. The slaves we captured. Bring one of them to the briefing room. Certainly, sir. What attacked my crewman . He promised hed kill us if we told you. Ill kill you now if you dont. Please stand aside. crying tpol to major reed. Bring another prisoner to the briefing room. Reed acknowledged. From what im told, the maximum setting can actually. Disintegrate a person. Ive been looking forward to trying it. gasps his name is slar. Whos name . Our slave master. He was in charge of the salvage operation. When you boarded the ship, he hid in the service crawlways. Where in the crawlways . Possibly near the power transfer conduits on deck 22. Its warm there. His species likes it warm. What species . Gorn. Hes. Hess gorn. We had it cornered in turboshaft three,e, but it appears to have escaped through this access tube. Thatsshen we lost contact with mckenzie and browne. Archer ii theyre taking too long. Uation. I took care of it myself. Reed mckenzie and browne. Id have better luck sending a squad of tellarites to capture this thing. Put an assault team together. Ill lead it myself. beeping sir, im picking up a signal from inside the ship. I think its the reptile. Can you pinpoint its location . The frequencys scrambled. I want to talk to it. The translator matrix is tied in. This is captain archer. Return our plasma regulators now. hissing, raspy snarls want to leave this ship give me what i want, and well talk. No im familiar with your species. Humans are not trustworthy you will give me a shuttlecraft once im away from thihiship, ill tell you where to find the regulators. This is not a negotiatatn the regulators, now slar growling and hissing if you dont comply, beeping ill give the order. He closed the channel. Major. The gorns offer is reasonable. He has n nintention of returning the regulators. If we give him a shuttle, hell contact his people and come back here with a warshipip without warp drive, well be an easy target. Defeat this s rn. And youll finally earn the respect you deserve. scanner beeps theres a biosign. Its very faint. In access tutu sevenalpha, near junction three. Ill seal off the bulkhead here. Thatll leave him with only one escape route. Flush him out, drive him into this junction. Ill be waiting for him. quiet beeping faint beeping reed to captain archer. Go ahead. Its not here. Hes modified a communicator to emit a false biosign. Meet us in junction three. Acknowledged. beeping shut that bloody thing off. Its a trap garbled moans ive failed you, captain. Archer to tpol. Where is it . The gorns moved into the primary hull. Its on. N. Deck nine. Were going to plan b. Access the environmental controls on that deck. Wait for my signal. grunting grunting shrieks yelling archer to tpol. growling and hissing section foura, on my mark. Tpol standing by. Now enhancing gravplating. Gravplatings at 20 gs. panting give me your weapon. snarling stops you okay . I just wish we didnt have to sell moms piano. I know how hard she and dad worked to save for it. I know she wanted to keep it in the family. I know, but we need to pay for her funeral, the medical bills. Without Life Insurance m worried ill leave my kids in the same position. Why . Dont you have Life Insurance . We had to cut it out of our budget a a w years ago, and we never put it back in. Besides, i dont think i could even get covered with my recent health. You know, massmutual has a new policy called guaranteed acceptancee li. Steve and i got covered, and it was affordable. I dont wawa to go through a long application process just to get turned down. Its one phone call, and youre guaranteed to be accepted. 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Weve recovered d e missing Engine Components and ive ordered a course to rendezvous with t t assault fleet. Whats major reeds condition . Es no doubt therell be several discreet celebrations if he should expire. I notice youve been making extensive use of the library database. I was merely resesrching classical literature. I wanted to compare our major works with their counterparts in the other universe. I skimmed a few of the more celebrated narratives. chuckles the stories were similar in some respects, but their characters were. With the exception of shakespeare, of course. From what i could tellll his plays were equally grim in both universes. Examine theirr. You may want to learn more about their federation. Did you know in the other universe, humans and denobulans are considered equals . As are vulcans. Hmm. If i were the captain, id restrict access to that database. Im certain he wouldnt want to give his crew any ideas, hmm . Perhaps you shshld reconsider the. Archer over com this is the captain. All hands to battle stations. alarm blaring report ll breach on bdeck. Emergency bulkheads are engaged. Concentrate your fire on the andorians. Hull platings at 32 . Admiral, theres another vessel approaching. Momo rebels . No. Direct hits. Lock on to their reactor. Fire when ready. distant firing target destroyed. The vulcan ships trying to escape. Pursuit course. Captain, theyre no threat to us. I recommend we. Fire when n ady. Sato the last andoriaia ship is retreating. Weapaps are locked. No. Let them go. I want the other rebels to know what h hpened here. Get me admiral black. Black archer . Wheres enterprise . Is captain forrest with you . Its going to take some time to explain, sir. Perhaps youd like to see the defiant for yourself. A most impress