Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)
Parallax (1995)
Garrett Wang: Ensign Harry Kim
Quotes
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Ensign Harry Kim : So, I hear there's been some trouble down in Engineering.
Lieutenant Tuvok : There was an altercation, but it has been resolved.
Ensign Harry Kim : Well, that's not what I hear. I hear that the whole department's up in arms, that the Maquis and Starfleet people are almost at each other's throats.
Lieutenant Tuvok : I will never cease to be amazed by the Human capacity for hyperbole.
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Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Emitters online. I'm rerouting the damping field through the deflector grid.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Open a channel to the other ship.
[as a channel opens, they hear the garbled transmission]
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Ramping up field intensity.
Ensign Harry Kim : It's working. We're cutting through the distortions.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [hearing the transmission is still garbled] Re-modulate the EM band. See if you can clear it up a little more.
Ensign Harry Kim : Compensating for amplitude distortion.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : This is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Starship Voyager to the vessel near the quantum singularity. Do you need help?
Commander Chakotay : That's your hail.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm applying the damping field to our visual scanners. I'll see if I can clarify the image.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : [seeing the other ship] It's the Voyager. It's us.
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Ensign Harry Kim : The rupture's over 50 million kilometers away. We don't have enough power to project a dekyon beam that far.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : We'll have to take a shuttlecraft.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : You'll need the best pilot you've got in that shuttle, Captain. That'll be me.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Getting there is the easy part, Mr. Paris. We need someone who's familiar with the finer points of temporal mechanics, and unless you've been hiding your credentials, I don't think that's you. B'Elanna, you're with me.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok, take the main deflector offline. Mr. Kim, reroute the port and starboard plasma flow to the main deflector. We can use it to generate a warp field.
Lieutenant Tuvok : Deflectors offline.
Ensign Harry Kim : Initializing plasma flow.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Release the warp particles.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Scanning the singularity.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Anything?
Ensign Harry Kim : Not yet. Warp particles at full intensity.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : I'm picking up something; a slight irregularity. It could be a rupture in the event horizon.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Put it on screen.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : It is a rupture, Captain. It's 50 meters by... ten meters.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Oh, it's too small. It must have collapsed since we first passed through it.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : We found the crack. That's the important thing. Now, how do we make it bigger?
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Put a wedge in it and force it open.
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Captain Kathryn Janeway : One of the more difficult concepts to grasp in temporal mechanics is that sometimes effect can precede cause. A reaction can be observed before the action which initiated it.
Ensign Harry Kim : So, what do we do to get out?
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : I'm not sure, but I do know one thing. That as we slide deeper into the singularity, the spatial distortions are increasing. According to my calculations, within nine hours, they'll crush the ship.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : If your analogy's correct, how do we get through that sheet of ice?
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Look for a crack.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Or make a crack. Take something and smack it into the ice until it buckles.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Wait a minute. What if we've already made a crack in the ice?
Captain Kathryn Janeway : When we first entered the event horizon.
Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : If we could find our entry point, we might be able to slip out the way we came in.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : So, we'd be looking for a subspace instability in the event horizon. What would make it show up on our sensors?
Captain Kathryn Janeway , Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : Warp particles!
Captain Kathryn Janeway : If we saturate the event horizon with warp particles, we might be able to see them escaping through the rupture we made when we entered.
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Commander Chakotay : It looks like we're running into more spatial distortions.
Ensign Harry Kim : I'm picking up a highly localized disturbance off the port bow.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : On screen.
[seeing the singularity]
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Tuvok?
Lieutenant Tuvok : It is another type-4 quantum singularity. Physical and temporal dimensions are identical to the one we encountered earlier.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Captain, according to these readings, we've returned to our previous coordinates. This isn't another singularity. It's the same one.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : [going to Kim's station] Check the navigational logs. Confirm our position.
Ensign Harry Kim : Well, they show we've traveled 1.4 light-years away from the anomaly, but I've confirmed our position against the star chart. We're definitely back where we started. Doesn't make sense.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : They can't both be right. We're either still at the singularity or we're not.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Well, we can see the singularity, so I tend to believe that the external sensors are correct.
Lieutenant Tuvok : That would imply there was something wrong with the warp drive and the navigational logs.
Captain Kathryn Janeway : Mr. Paris, lay in a course away from the singularity. This time at maximum warp. Ensign Kim, I want you to keep a sensor lock on the singularity. Verify that we're moving away from it. Engage.
Ensign Harry Kim : [the Voyager warps away] Distance from the singularity is 10 million kilometers and increasing.
Lieutenant Tom Paris : Warp engines holding steady. All systems report normal.
Ensign Harry Kim : 11 million. 12 million.
[tapping buttons on his console]
Ensign Harry Kim : I don't get it. Mr. Paris, have we altered course?
Lieutenant Tom Paris : No, we're still steady on 310, mark 215.
Ensign Harry Kim : Then something's really wrong here. It's ahead of us again.