STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"The Naked Now"
#40271-103
Teleplay by
D.C. Fontana
Story by
D.C. Fontana
and
Gene Roddenberry
Based on a story by John D.F. Black
(May 12, 1967)
Copyright 1987 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights
Reserved.
This script is not for publication or reproduction. No one
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please notify the Script Department.
REVISED FINAL DRAFT
June 26, 1987
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"The Naked Now"
CAST
PICARD SARAH MACDOUGAL
RIKER JIM SHIMODA
DATA CREWMAN (2)
TROI CREWWOMAN
BEVERLY SECURITY GUARD
TASHA TRANSPORTER CHIEF
WORF CONN
GEORDI
WESLEY
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"The Naked Now"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE (all opticals)
Main Bridge
Transporter Room
Crusher's Office
Sickbay
Various Corridors
Engineering
Engineer's Office
Tasha's Quarters
Troi's Quarters
S.S. TSIOLKOVSKY
Main Corridor
Second Corridor
Bridge
Personnel Quarters
Bathroom
Lab
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"The Naked Now"
TEASER
FADE IN:
1 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)
racing through space at warp speed.
PICARD (V.O.)
Captain's log, Stardate 41209.2.
We are running at Warp 7 to
rendezvous with the science vessel
S. S. Tsiolkovsky...
2 FULL ON WHITE DWARF (OPTICAL)
with the S.S. Tsiolkovsky in orbit. Then the Enterprise
appears and moves in to join the research vessel.
PICARD (V.O.)
(continuing)
... which has been routinely
monitoring the collapse of a red
supergiant star into a white
dwarf. What has brought us here
is a series of strange messages
indicating something has gone
wrong aboard the research vessel.
3 INT. MAIN BRIDGE (OPTICAL)
All regulars on duty -- Data at Ops, Geordi at Conn, Tasha
and Worf upstage intent on main viewer which shows the
Enterprise moving in parallel with the research vessel.
First, a STATIC GARBLE, then a WOMAN'S VOICE over the
audio channel, low and insinuating. INDISTINCT VOICES,
LAUGHTER, IN B.G. indicate the SOUNDS OF A NOISY PARTY.
WOMAN'S COM VOICE
Well, hello Enterprise.
Welcome... I hope you have a lot
of pretty boys on board... because
I'm willing... and waiting...
They wait for more, then Picard nods toward Data.
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3 CONTINUED:
DATA
(touches com panel)
S.S. Tsiolkovsky, repeat your
message.
WOMAN'S COM VOICE
(laughter, then)
In fact... we're going to have a
real blowout here... Thought that
would interest you. Waiting!
She LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY. There is MORE LAUGHTER FROM
THE OTHERS, some cries of "DO IT! GO AHEAD!" in b.g.
of the transmission, an EXPLOSIVE SOUND -- and then
silence. After a beat:
DATA
Captain... what we just heard is,
well...impossible.
PICARD
Report.
DATA
(quietly)
I believe that last sound we heard
was an emergency hatch being
blown.
The subspace channel is still open -- all we HEAR is
the HISS OF EMPTY AIR.
PICARD
Are you certain... yes, of course
you are.
Riker comes to his feet fast, gets a nod from Picard,
motions for Data, Geordi and Tasha to follow him to the
turbolift.
WORF
Sensor scan now reveals no life
signs aboard, Captain.
4 INT. TRANSPORTER ROOM - ANGLE ON AWAY TEAM (OPTICAL)
The away team consists of RIKER, GEORDI, DATA, TASHA,
and a SECURITY GUARD. Data and Geordi have tricorders;
Tasha has the large phaser.
RIKER
Put us on their bridge, Chief.
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4 CONTINUED:
TRANSPORTER CHIEF
Life support systems are not
functioning in that area, sir.
Riker nods to the TRANSPORTER CHIEF at the console.
RIKER
Then put us in the main corridor.
Energize.
The Transporter Chief works his console controls deftly.
As the TRANSPORTER EFFECT AND SOUNDS BEGIN AND BUILD:
5 INT. TSIOLKOVSKY MAIN CORRIDOR - ON AWAY TEAM (OPTICAL)
The TRANSPORTER EFFECT COMES IN, FADES DOWN, leaving
the away team materialized. The ship is very quiet --
a low HUM of working equipment, but without the murmur
of living beings.
RIKER
Cover the ship as planned. Move
out.
Data and Geordi put tricorders on "record" and all move
out.
6 INT. SECOND CORRIDOR - ON RIKER AND DATA (OPTICAL)
This corridor shows signs of phaser char marks on the
walls. There is litter on the deck -- food, a wine
bottle, discarded clothes. Data records the scene with
his tricorder, as:
DATA
Indications of what humans would
call... a "wild party?"
Riker has moved quickly to a door at the end of the
corridor. It is shut, but there is a small viewscreen
set in the wall beside it.
RIKER
Their bridge. If this thing
works, be sure to record ---
He activates the viewscreen, takes a look, and GROANS.
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7 CLOSE SHOT - SMALL VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)
Narrow view of a small bridge (SET FRAGMENT), mostly
consoles, maybe a command chair. And beyond these, the
emergency hatch set in the bulkhead -- the hatch is
gone, and the cold glitter of a starfield winks beyond
it. (SET DRESSING NOTE: There should be no loose
objects visible, only items that are firmly anchored
to deck or bulkhead. Anything loose would have been
swept into space when the air rushed out into the
vacuum.)
8 WIDER SHOT - RIKER AND DATA
Riker steps aside, gesturing to Data to record the scene
on the viewer as:
RIKER
You were right. Somebody blew
the hatch and they were all sucked
out into space..
DATA
Correction, sir, blown out.
RIKER
Thank you, Data.
DATA
A common mistake, sir...
RIKER
(emphasis)
I know! Thank you, Data.
TASHA'S COM VOICE
Commander Riker, it's Lieutenant
Yar, location Engineering. Ten
people here, sir, all frozen.
No vital signs.
RIKER
(touches communicator)
Frozen how?
TASHA'S COM VOICE
Looks to me like someone was
"playing" with the environmental
controls, sir. Just let all the
heat bleed away into space.
RIKER
(to Data)
That's ridiculous!
TASHA'S COM VOICE
That's what I say, sir.
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9 INT. PERSONNEL QUARTERS - ANGLE ON ENTRY DOOR
as it opens heavily and causes a slight AIR HISSING.
Geordi ENTERS from the corridor, reacts to the AIR
HISSING, hits a wall control on the inside. His
expression changes to one of dismay as he looks around.
10 ANOTHER ANGLE
CAMERA ANGLE REVEALS a room partially covered with
frost. We glimpse several male and female bodies,
scantily clad or (implied) nude, possibly a couple
entwined. All are frozen and dead. Bits of frost-covered
lingerie and other intimate clothing are
scattered around. Geordi touches his insignia.
GEORDI
Sir, Lieutenant La Forge in the
crew quarters. Something in here.
11 BACK TO GEORDI
as he HEARS A SOUND, the BUMP BUMP of a door bumping
against the jamb. Geordi hurries across the small room
toward the adjoining bathroom.
GEORDI
(continuing)
Hello!
12 INT. BATHROOM - ANGLE ON GEORDI
Nothing inside, Geordi decides to check the closed
shower stall, yanks the door open -- and a frozen
WOMAN'S BODY, fully clothed, falls out into his arms.
Although startled, Geordi has the presence of mind to
catch the ice-covered corpse and lower it to the floor.
13 CLOSER ON GEORDI
Examining the frozen woman who had once been attractive,
shakes his head in pity. He rests one hand on the wet
side wall of the shower to brace himself as he prepares
to stand upright again.
14 VERY CLOSE ON GEORDI'S HAND AND "DROPS" (INSERT))
Several drops of "water" on the icy shower wall where
Geordi's hand rests coalesce and move onto his
hand (per Justman effect).
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15 INT. TSIOLKOVSKY MAIN CORRIDOR - EMPHASIZING RIKER
as he uses his communicator.
RIKER
Riker to Captain, I have a report
for you.
16 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - CLOSE ON PICARD
Worf at Ops (port) and crewman at Conn (starboard).
PICARD
(tabs com control)
Picard here.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
They're all dead, sir. Some were
apparently blown out the emergency
hatches.
PICARD
There were eighty people on that
ship, Number One.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
Yes sir. As I said, all dead.
Picard looks incredulous.
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
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ACT ONE
FADE IN:
17 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
The Tsiolkovsky still drifts in space. The Enterprise
is nearby. Over this:
PICARD (V.O.)
Captain's log, supplemental. We
are downloading the research
information gathered on the
collapsing...
18 CLOSE ANGLE ON DWARF STAR (OPTICAL)
looking somehow strange, unstable, although we'd see
no surface movement at this range.
PICARD (V.O.)
(continuing)
... star nearby. I am concerned
at being in such close orbit, but
the Tsiolkovsky's research
records...
19 INT. ENTERPRISE MEDICAL CORRIDOR
with Picard striding toward Dr. Crusher's office.
PICARD (V.O.)
(continuing)
... will no doubt predict the time
of the star's final collapse.
20 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY, PICARD AND TROI
Beverly is examining information as it comes up on a
desktop viewer. (NOTE: We see only the back of the
viewer and the flicker of light on her face as the
information changes.) Troi is there too, also watching
the screen.
Picard ENTERS, strides over to examine the viewing
screen too.
BEVERLY
I can't find anything unusual in
any of the tricorder readings
they've sent over, Captain.
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20 CONTINUED:
Picard straightens up, and Beverly turns around to look
at him.
PICARD
Give me a theory, Doctor.
Anything!
Beverly's silence is eloquent. She shakes her head,
her face has a worried look.
PICARD
(turning; continuing)
Troi? Did you feel anything from
over there?
TROI
Perhaps some residual
confusion... and exhilaration, too.
But I'm not too certain of that.
PICARD
Madness? Mass hysteria?
Delusion?
TROI
Any or all, Captain.
PICARD
All right. Let's bring the away
team back. Set the transporter
for maximum decontamination. And
then full examinations and
observation when they're here.
He turns and heads for the door.
21 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
as before.
22 INT. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY - BEVERLY, RIKER, GEORDI,
DATA
Data is just getting up from one of the hospital beds
as:
BEVERLY
If you were any more perfect,
Data, I'd write you up in a
Starfleet medical textbook.
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22 CONTINUED:
DATA
I am already listed in several
biomechanical texts, Doctor.
Beverly doesn't quite yet know how to take Data. Riker
does, and grins.
BEVERLY
Yes... of course.
(to Geordi)
You're next, Lieutenant.
Data LEAVES. Geordi obligingly lies down on the
hospital bed, and Beverly starts to monitor him with
a small instrument.
23 ANGLE ON MEDICAL VIEWSCREEN
The readings come on -- nothing radical anywhere.
24 WIDER ANGLE
as Beverly looks up at the o.s. viewscreen, then:
BEVERLY
(continuing)
Normal -- all across.
Except... why are you perspiring?
Geordi appears to have a fine sheen of perspiration on
his face.
GEORDI
I suppose because you have it too
hot in here. What else would it
be?
Both Beverly and Riker have reacted to this un-Geordi
reply.
RIKER
That doesn't... sound exactly like
you, Geordi.
Geordi looks up, then replies pleasantly, grinning.
GEORDI
Maybe it wasn't.
(indicates Beverly)
Maybe she threw her voice.
He means it as a joke but no one is amused.
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24 CONTINUED:
GEORDI
(continuing)
Joke.
BEVERLY
Of course. But I would like to
run another test or two on you,
Lieutenant.
25 INT. MAIN BRIDGE AND CRUSHER'S OFFICE (INTERCUTS)
as Picard turns to his panel.
BEVERLY'S COM VOICE
Sickbay to Bridge...
PICARD
Picard here. Go ahead, Doctor.
BEVERLY'S COM VOICE
I'm confining Lieutenant La Forge
to Sickbay until further notice.
PICARD
Do we have a problem, Doctor?
BEVERLY'S COM VOICE
I don't know yet.
26 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - FULL SHOT
as Riker ENTERS from a turbolift and crosses toward
Data, who is working at one of the science stations at
the rear of the Bridge. All other Bridge Personnel are
in place -- Picard, Tasha, Worf at Ops, Crewman at
Conn.
27 CLOSER TWO SHOT - RIKER AND DATA
Data looks up as Riker approaches him.
RIKER
Data, I need help in locating some
library-computer information.
DATA
Specifics, sir?
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27 CONTINUED:
RIKER
All I have is a vague memory of
reading somewhere about someone
taking a shower in his or her
clothing.
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27 CONTINUED:
DATA
Ah. The body Geordi discovered.
RIKER
And I believe it may have happened
before.
DATA
To "someone," "somewhere."
RIKER
(amused)
Should be easy for someone written
up in biomechanical texts.
Data shrugs, enters a command on the panel, and
information begins to flash up on a small viewscreen.
(Viewscreen may be o.s.)
DATA
About that... did the doctor
believe I was boasting?
RIKER
(dryly)
Probably.
(indicates viewer)
This may take some time?
DATA
At least several hours.
(looks up)
But what I said was a statement
of fact.
Riker begins EXITING.
DATA
(continuing)
Perhaps she will look it up.
RIKER
You can depend on it.
28 INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON GEORDI AND BEVERLY
He is resting on a hospital bed. Beverly finishes
working over him with a medical instrument, checks a
reading on it, moves toward her office. (NOTE: At no
time does she touch him.)
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29 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY
She sits down at her desk, compares readings on the
medical instrument with something she has called up on
the viewer.
30 INT. SICKBAY - ON GEORDI
He sits up, takes off his communicator and lays it to
one side. Then he gets to his feet, and quietly EXITS
the Sickbay. A moment, then Beverly comes back IN --
stares at the empty bed, snatches up Geordi's
communicator and runs for the door.
BEVERLY
Geordi!
31 INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE SICKBAY - ON BEVERLY
The door slides open and she stands there, agitatedly
staring up and down the corridor.
32 BEVERLY'S P.O.V. - THE CORRIDOR
empty.
33 INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ON TASHA
as she hears an ALERT SIGNAL from her panel.
BEVERLY'S COM VOICE
Security! Lieutenant La Forge
just left Sickbay while my back
was turned. It's important we
find him.
TASHA
(toward console)
Security team alert, pick up
Lieutenant La Forge who left
Sickbay moments ago.
(calling toward Picard)
Captain, anything further?
PICARD
Affirmative. Make it a ship-wide
search, Lieutenant.
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34 INT. CRUSHER'S QUARTERS - ANGLE ON WESLEY AND
GEORDI
The boy is in the living space, near a table littered
with delicate futuristic tools.
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34 CONTINUED:
He has an intricately shaped tube attached to a miniature
control device. It is a MINIATURE TRACTOR BEAM (OPTICAL).
As Geordi watches, Wesley is using the device to maneuver a
chair in the air.
WESLEY
It's a model of the same kind of
tractor beam our ship uses... with
some ideas of my own added.
He hoists the chair higher, floats it sideways, lets
it settle to the deck. Geordi is fascinated.
GEORDI
So that's your science project.
Wes, you are something!
WESLEY
Meanwhile, the captain won't let
me visit the bridge.
Wesley goes to the littered table, pulls out a
transparent cube, slides it into a slot on a small flat
(portable) machine.
WESLEY
(continuing)
So I use this to imagine I'm
there.
Wesley touches a control and a light goes on at the tiny
machine.
PICARD'S VOICE
Take the helm, Mister Crusher.
Set a course for thirty-seven mark
one hundred eighty. Warp six.
GEORDI
(indicates)
That's the captain's voice.
WESLEY
Pieced together from words he's
used on the intercom.
(indicates)
I can pretend he's ordering me
to take the Enterprise anywhere.
And listen to this...
Wesley touches another control.
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34 CONTINUED: (2)
PICARD'S VOICE
Chief Engineer, report to the
Bridge. Commander Riker, report
to the Bridge. Doctor Crusher,
report to the Bridge.
WESLEY
What d'you think?
Geordi puts a friendly arm about the boy's shoulder.
GEORDI
I think the captain's lucky you're
on his side.
WESLEY
But he still won't let me on the
bridge. And there's nothing there
I don't understand.
GEORDI
Wish I understood myself that
well.
Wesley turns at the "down" note in Geordi's voice.
WESLEY
You okay?
GEORDI
No. Suddenly I seem to be burning
up inside.
Geordi stands, moves for the door.
GEORDI
(continuing)
Wow it's hot in here.
Geordi EXITS leaving a puzzled Wesley inside.
34A INT. CORRIDORS
Tasha and Security Personnel searching for Geordi.
35 INT. OBSERVATION LOUNGE - ANGLE ON GEORDI
perspiring, upset. Looking out to space.
TASHA'S VOICE
Geordi... ?
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35 CONTINUED:
She ENTERS SCENE from behind him, looking for a reaction
from him.
TASHA
(continuing)
Medical's been worried about you.
GEORDI
(without turning)
Help me.
Tasha studies him a beat. He seems so sad, so lonely.
Then:
TASHA
Lieutenant Yar in the Observation
Lounge. Send a team here now.
After a beat, Geordi swings around to look at her, pain
and longing chasing across his face.
GEORDI
Tasha... I said "help me." Help
me not to give in to the wild
things coming into my mind...
Tasha is moved, tries to fight it off.
TASHA
Geordi -- my job is security...
GEORDI
Please.
Tasha folds him into arms.
TASHA
Yes, helping is more important.
How can I help you Geordi?
36 INSERT - TASHA'S HAND
being patted by Geordi's hand.
37 BACK TO SHOT
A Security Guard hurries into the room, stops as Tasha
motions him to a halt.
GEORDI
Help me to see like you do.
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37 CONTINUED:
TASHA
But you already see better than
I can.
GEORDI
I see more. But more isn't
better!
He tears off the prosthesis, exposing eyes that have
flat gray irises with no pupil, incapable of expression.
TASHA
Geordi...
GEORDI
I want to see in shallow, dim,
beautiful human ways.
TASHA
We'll talk about it, Geordi.
(takes his arm)
I'm going to take you to Sickbay
now. All right?
He bobs his head, willing to be assisted. As she leads
him away:
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
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ACT TWO
FADE IN:
38 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
The dwarf star in view too.
PICARD (V. O.)
Captain's log, supplemental. I
am concerned that away team member
Lieutenant La Forge has been taken
to Sickbay. The report: "unusual
behavior."
39 INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON BEVERLY, GEORDI, TROI
Geordi is lying on a hospital bed still struggling to
control his emotions, while Beverly works her medical
instruments over him, glancing up now and then at the
o.s. viewscreen to check the results. Troi is assisting
the monitoring.
40 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON TASHA AND PICARD
TASHA
... and then we got him down to
sickbay so Dr. Crusher could
examine him.
PICARD
He wasn't violent?
She glances over her shoulder back toward the treatment
room.
TASHA
No, sir. He was very upset... he
kept talking about wanting normal
eyes.
PICARD
Thank you, Lieutenant. I'll be
in Sickbay.
Picard HURRIES OUT immediately. It's clear he has much
on his mind. Tasha moves to EXIT, then pauses.
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41 CLOSE ON TASHA
wiping a hand over her lightly perspiring brow. As she
EXITS, it is clear she feels strange somehow.
42 INT. SICKBAY - ON BEVERLY, GEORDI, TROI, PICARD
Beverly administers a hypospray to Geordi, which finally
begins to calm his emotional state. As Picard joins
them, Beverly turns and indicates her medical
viewscreen.
BEVERLY
According to our medical readouts,
there's still nothing wrong with
him. He looks like he's running
a temperature but every instrument
we have says he's not.
PICARD
Doctor, every person on that ship
over there died. Is there any
chance that whatever did it is
loose on my ship?
BEVERLY
If you mean a disease, sir, I'd
say there's no chance of it. We
used full decontamination, we
examined each team member
carefully...
PICARD
(interrupting)
The entire crew over there somehow
managed to kill themselves,
Doctor. If it wasn't a disease,
what else could have made them
do that?
BEVERLY
The obvious alternatives would
be in areas of insanity, severe
emotional upset...
(stops short; to Troi)
Troi, do you feel anything unusual
in the lieutenant here?
PICARD
(to Troi)
Security reported he was longing
for normal eyesight. A rather
sudden yearning for that.
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42 CONTINUED:
TROI
Since his records show no previous
mention of that, the fact that it's
happened now could be important.
Troi centers her attention on Geordi, mentally probing.
Then:
TROI
(continuing)
But all I feel from him is
confusion. If I didn't know
better, I'd say he was
intoxicated.
The Captain throws a quick look toward Beverly who
shakes her head firmly.
BEVERLY
Our tests would have shown that.
Also any signs of drugs,
hallucinogens or other
contaminants.
43 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON RIKER AND DATA
still at the science station, Data's fingers flying over
tabs on the console. He looks at the viewscreen, shakes
his head. Worf and Crewman as before.
DATA
Can you provide more information,
sir? Seeking an instance of
someone showering with their
clothing on is...is...
RIKER
I know... like looking for a needle
in a haystack.
DATA
(puzzled)
Why should anyone wish to expend
their time in such a search?
RIKER
Correction, Data, I should have
said proverbial needle in a
haystack.
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43 CONTINUED:
DATA
Ah, a human proverb! As in
folklore, or an historical
allusion, or tribal memories,
or...
RIKER
(interrupting)
That's it! Historical! I
remember now that I was reading
a history of all the past
starships named Enterprise.
Data takes over the console, quickly tabbing in commands
as:
DATA
Enterprise history. Aberrant
behavior. Medical cross
reference...
44 ANGLE TO INCLUDE TURBOLIFT
as Picard ARRIVES, CROSSES toward his Bridge position.
Riker sees him, calls:
RIKER
Captain, I believe we've got the
answer to what happened over
there.
45 ANGLE AT VIEWER
where Data continues refining the information he's
getting. Riker is watching over his shoulder as Picard
moves in to examine the information too.
PICARD
The Constitution class Enterprise,
Captain James T. Kirk
commanding...
RIKER
(indicates viewer)
Similar conditions. They were
monitoring a planet that was
breaking up, not a collapsing star
as in this case, but there were
the same huge shifts in gravity...
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45 CONTINUED:
PICARD
(peers closely)
... which somehow resulted in
complex strings of water
molecules which then acquired
carbon from the body and acted
on the brain like alcohol!
(to Data)
Mister Data, download that
information immediately to
medical.
DATA
Aye sir, downloading.
Picard and Riker both study the information on the
viewer.
PICARD
Fascinating! Their entire crew
going out of control...
RIKER
Like intoxication but worse.
Judgment almost completely
impaired...
PICARD
Until they found this formula,
barely in time.
(moves to his own
console)
Picard to Doctor Crusher, come
in.
After a moment:
BEVERLY'S COM VOICE
This is Crusher; go ahead Captain.
PICARD
You can relax, Doctor. The answer
to all this is feeding into your
medical banks now... including a
cure.
A long beat, then:
BEVERLY'S COM VOICE
Are you certain, Captain?
PICARD
Absolutely!
Data has looked up with a slight pained expression at
Picard's "absolutely."
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46 INT. TROI'S QUARTERS - ON TROI
Troi's quarters are tastefully decorated, including a
scattering of art objects that may be Betazoid in origin
-- perhaps a wall hanging, a unique piece of pottery
or statuette, or paintings. At the moment, there are
also a number of lovely dresses and gowns draped over
the furniture. Troi ENTERS and stops inside the door,
staring.
TROI
Tasha?
47 INCLUDING TASHA
She is somewhat agitated and has a light sheen of
perspiration as she holds one of Troi's gowns against
her, judging it for color. The size, of course, would
be all wrong for her.
TROI
(continuing)
What're you doing?
TASHA
I need your advice. That's why
I came to your quarters.
TROI
Of course. Anything I can do ---
TASHA
(interrupting)
On clothes. You always wear such
beautiful clothes off duty. And
your hair's so nice all the time.
I want to change my image.
(holds up dress)
What about this color?
TROI
Not for you. Tasha, I feel you're
very uncertain... that you're
fighting something.
She reaches out to take Tasha's hand comfortingly.
TROI
(continuing)
What is it?
Tasha pulls her hand away, tosses down the dress, and
moves to the door as:
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47 CONTINUED:
TASHA
Never mind. I'll find what I need
myself. Ship's Stores will have
it.
TROI
Tasha, wait ---
Tasha LEAVES. Troi immediately touches the com panel.
TROI
(continuing)
Troi to Captain Picard.
48 INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ON PICARD
PICARD
Picard here.
TROI'S COM VOICE
Sir, I think Tasha's been
infected, too. She's just left
my quarters...
PICARD
It's not actually an "infection,"
Counselor.
TROI'S COM VOICE
Yes sir, it's more like
intoxication, but whatever it is,
she's got it.
49 ANGLE TO INCLUDE RIKER AND DATA
PICARD
Thank you, Counselor.
(to Riker)
Number One, our security chief
has the equivalent of a snootful.
DATA
(to Picard)
Inquiry, sir... 'snootful?'
PICARD
Forget it!
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50 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ANGLE ON BEVERLY
She is checking the lab report on Geordi against
information on her viewscreen when:
WESLEY (V.O)
Mom, Look what I can do...
She turns, gets to her feet in alarm and hurries into
the treatment room.
51 INT. SICKBAY - INCLUDING WESLEY AND BEVERLY (OPTICAL)
Wesley again has the tractor beam on and is balancing
several medical instruments in mid-air all at the same
time. We can also SEE he's perspiring a bit.
WESLEY
(continuing)
I've been able to widen and
strengthen the beam, just like
I told you last night ---
BEVERLY
Do me a favor, Wes? There's
something happening on this
ship...
(shrugs)
Just to be safe, I'd like you to
stay in our quarters until it's
solved.
WESLEY
(slightly silly grin)
Right, Mom, right. Your wish
is my...
BEVERLY
Now, Wes.
Wesley lowers the floating instruments and turns off
the little tractor beam as:
WESLEY
(another grin)
You could be stunting my emotional
growth, you know.
(wipes forehead)
Why's it so hot in here, anyway?
He heads for the door. Beverly pauses, thinking about
his words a moment, then has to forget it as:
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51 CONTINUED:
PICARD'S COM VOICE
Picard to Crusher. Have you made
a test injection yet? We're
getting indications that this
condition is spreading.
BEVERLY
No test yet, Captain, but very
soon.
52 INT. CORRIDOR - CLOSE ON A VERY SHAPELY REAR END
moving down the corridor with a most provocative sway.
CAMERA PULLS BACK TO REVEAL the shapely rear end belongs
to Tasha, and she is moving with the sexiest walk
imaginable -- quite unlike her usual straightforward
stride. Her whole expression has acquired a sexy pout.
She approaches an intersection where several crewpersons
are passing. Then, we HEAR GIGGLES, then a woman's
LAUGHING SCREAM.
TRANSPORTER CHIEF
Come to Papa; come to Papa... !
MORE LAUGHTER as A CREWMAN chases a CREWWOMAN around
the corner and into the other corridor. Other crew
odd behavior.
53 WIDER ANGLE
From the reactions of the crewpersons in sight it is
obvious that some have been infected and some not.
Another CREWMAN is coming from the other direction and
pauses as he sees Tasha swaying sexily toward him,
openly flirting. She stops in front of him.
54 TASHA AND CREWMAN
She reaches out to pull him a little closer and plants
one hell of a kiss on him. As he returns it:
55 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - FULL SHOT
As Picard returns to his chair, Data moves toward him.
DATA
Captain, in another forty-one minutes
will see the information from the
Tsiolkovsky downloaded to us.
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55 CONTINUED:
PICARD
Why so slow?
DATA
Slow, sir? The Tsiolkovsky has
been eight months in accumulating
it.
PICARD
(indicates viewer)
How much danger from that star?
Worse case.
56 ANGLE ON MAIN VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)
The collapsing star centered on the screen in the midst
of very slow motion surface explosions.
DATA (V.O.)
Like a full collapse, sir?
57 BACK TO TWO SHOT - PICARD AND DATA
DATA
(continuing)
Any stellar material it threw this
way we could still outrun on half
impulse power.
58 ANGLE AT MAIN VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)
as before, the slow surface explosions on the collapsing
star continuing from the last viewscreen SHOT.
59 INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE - FULL SHOT
CHIEF ENGINEER SARAH MACDOUGAL and her ASSISTANT CHIEF
JIM SHIMODA are working in the office at their consoles.
They both glance up as the BOSUN'S WHISTLE SOUNDS, then:
PICARD'S COM VOICE
Picard to Engineering. Chief
engineer report to the bridge.
MacDougal shakes her head, EXITS the office. Shimoda
turns back to his console.
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59 CONTINUED:
PICARD'S COM VOICE
(continuing)
Assistant Chief Engineer Shimoda
report to Medical.
Shimoda hesitates, looks around the empty office. A
beat... then Wesley ENTERS the office, carrying the small
flat portable machine we saw earlier.
We should also SEE the small tractor beam device with
tube and fiber optic wire attachment.
WESLEY
Hi, Jim. Was that the captain
sending you to Medical?
SHIMODA
Which would leave no one on duty
here. The chief was just
summoned to the bridge.
WESLEY
What about me? I could call your
chief on the bridge if anything
happens.
He smiles at Shimoda... and wipes some sweat from his
brow.
60 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON PICARD AND
MACDOUGAL
Picard looks around curiously as MacDougal approaches
the command chair:
MACDOUGAL
Reporting as ordered, sir.
PICARD
What?
MACDOUGAL
You ordered me to report to the
bridge, sir.
PICARD
I did no such thing. I want you
down in the Engine Room in case
we need to move out of here.
Interrupted by a Bosun's WHISTLE ALERT:
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60 CONTINUED:
PICARD'S COM VOICE
Attention all decks, all
divisions. Effective
immediately, I have handed over
control of this vessel to
Acting Captain Wesley Crusher.
61 CLOSE ON PICARD
Sheer disbelief.
PICARD
Acting Capt...
WESLEY'S COM VOICE
Thank you, Captain Picard, thank
you. And with that order dawns
a brave new day for the
Enterprise.
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT TWO
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ACT THREE
FADE IN:
62 EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE (OPTICAL)
PICARD (V.O)
Captain's log, Stardate 41209.3.
The strange contaminant that led
to the deaths of the Tsiolkovsky
crew is now aboard the
Enterprise... and our Engineering
Section has been commandeered by
young Wesley Crusher...
63 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - EMPHASIZING PICARD
PICARD
(continuing)
Number One, MacDougal -- get that
boy out of Engineering.
Riker and MacDougal turn and head for a turbolift as:
64 ANGLE ON WORF
Worf at Ops, Data at the Conn station. Worf turns
around toward Picard, concerned.
WORF
Sir, I'm getting very strange
reports from all decks --
PICARD
Such as?
WORF
Such as the ship's training
division ordering all officers
to attend a lecture on
metaphysics.
PICARD
Metaphysics?
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65 INCLUDING DATA AT CONN
DATA
Confirmed, sir. And there is a
rather peculiar limerick being
delivered by someone in the
shuttlecraft bay. I am not sure
I understand it...
(quoting)
There was a young lady from Venus
whose body was shaped like --
66 EMPHASIZING PICARD
PICARD
(interrupting)
Captain to Security, come in!
DATA
(to Worf)
Did I say something wrong?
WORF
(shrugs)
I don't understand their humor
either.
SECURITY COM VOICE
(lazy, uninterested)
Yeah, Captain?
PICARD
Where's my security chief?! Get
me Lieutenant Yar.
SECURITY COM VOICE
Keep your britches on, Captain.
TASHA'S COM VOICE
Captain Picard...
PICARD
Yar, where are you?
TASHA'S COM VOICE
I'm in my quarters and pretty busy
right at this moment, Jean-Luc.
PICARD
(gathering self
together)
All right, Lieutenant, just stay
right there.
(MORE)
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66 CONTINUED:
PICARD (Cont'd)
(turning)
Data, please go to Lieutenant Yar
and get her down to Sickbay.
DATA
Yes, sir.
PICARD
(into console)
Security, I want all your senior
supervisors to report to the
bridge immediately.
67 INT. ENGINEERING (OPTICAL)
A FORCEFIELD SHIMMER at the entrance to the Engineering
Office, barring the way inside. Beyond the FORCEFIELD
inside the office stands Wesley who is grinning at
several Crewpersons, all of them clearly contaminated,
who stand outside the FORCEFIELD. Assistant Chief
Engineer Shimoda ENTERS, grinning and weaving slightly,
walks up to the FORCEFIELD as:
WESLEY
... and a dessert course shall
henceforth precede and follow
every meal. Including breakfast.
CHEERS from the onlookers.
CREWMAN
Hurray for the acting captain!
68 ANGLE ON SHIMODA (OPTICAL)
SHIMODA
Never got as far as Sickbay, Wes.
I feel too good for that.
BUZZ SOUND as Shimoda walks into the FORCEFIELD and is
thrown back.
SHIMODA
(continuing)
Incredible! How did you do that?
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68 CONTINUED:
WESLEY
(indicating)
Hooked my model tractor beam into
ship's power. Now its a repulser
beam too.
(eyeing Shimoda)
Want in?
Shimoda nods, raises his right hand as in oath.
SHIMODA
Swear to be faithful to you,
Captain!
69 INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE (OPTICAL)
Wesley picks up a small control device, aims it at the
FORCEFIELD which disappears. Shimoda steps inside, then
Wesley turns the forcefield on again.
70 INT. TASHA'S QUARTERS - AT DOOR
The living space is low lit, provocative shadows. There
is a CHIME, a beat, then the door slides open. Data
stands there, hesitant, steps in. He looks around, not
quite sure of himself.
DATA
Lieutenant Yar?
TASHA'S VOICE
Here, Data.
71 ANGLE ON TASHA
in the door to her bedroom. Her hair is provocatively
arranged... her makeup is especially dramatic and
attractive... and she wears a pale blue diaphanous
Theiss creation that promises revelations that will get
us thrown off the air. Her voice quality has changed
too... sultry, like a Louisiana summer night.
TASHA
(continuing)
You wanted me?
72 TWO SHOT
Tasha moves languidly toward Data, almost floating.
Data doesn't quite know how to react to this Tasha.
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72 CONTINUED:
DATA
Captain Picard ordered me to
escort you to Sickbay, Lieutenant.
TASHA
Did he say when?
DATA
(considering it, then)
I am sure he meant "now."
(indicates)
So you need time to get into
uniform...
TASHA
But I got out of uniform for you,
Data. Do you know how old I was
when I was abandoned?
DATA
Chronological age? No, I am afraid
I am not conversant with your ---
TASHA
Five. Five years old, but I
survived. I learned how to stay
alive, how to avoid the rape
gangs. I was fifteen before I
escaped.
DATA
I am sorry. I did not know...
TASHA
And what I want now is gentleness.
And joy. And love.
She reaches out and caresses his face. Data shifts his
weight, not sure what to do.
TASHA
(continuing)
From you, Data. You are fully
functional, aren't you?
DATA
Of course, but...
TASHA
How fully?
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72 CONTINUED: (2)
DATA
In every way, of course. I have
been programmed in multiple
techniques, a broad variety of
pleasuring...
TASHA
You jewel! That's exactly what
I hoped.
Her smile is provocative, full of promises; and Data
tentatively smiles back. As the bedroom door CLOSES
behind them:
73 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
In b.g., then collapsing star begins slowly to GLOW
BRIGHTER.
74 INT. ENGINEERING - ON RIKER
He is standing near a communications computer panel.
PICARD'S COM VOICE
What have you learned, Number
One?
RIKER
Captain, the ship's engines are
cut off from the bridge. And I
have the reason. The assistant
chief engineer pulled out the
isolinear optical chips from
command and all engines are
off-line.
75 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON SHIMODA AND WESLEY (OPTICAL)
Shimoda is sitting on the floor near an opened console,
playing happily with a pile of isolinear chips (small
colored slabs, rather like Chiclets), tossing them in
the air or juggling them, staring at the pretty colors.
Wesley looks with an air of pride and satisfaction at
his portable TRACTOR BEAM which is emitting a beam wide
enough to block the entire opening into the Engineer's
Office.
76 INT. ENGINEERING - ON RIKER AND MACDOUGAL
as the Engineer COMES IN beside Riker.
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76 CONTINUED:
RIKER
(continuing)
Wesley's hooked some kind of
tractor beam into ship's power
and has it aimed at the door.
We can't get past it to get at
the computer.
PICARD'S COM VOICE
Can you short out the power?
Riker looks to MacDougal. She shrugs.
MACDOUGAL
Maybe.
(considers)
Yes, I can. But it's going to
take time.
77 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - CLOSE ON PICARD
Concerned.
PICARD
Do it!
78 INT. ENGINEERING - ON RIKER AND MACDOUGAL
as they pull a panel off the console opposite the
Engineer's Office entry, and MacDougal starts to reach
inside. From their right, there is the SOUND of
turbolift doors and:
TROI'S VOICE
Bill...
79 INT. CORRIDOR TO ENGINEERING
as Riker comes to her.
RIKER
Deanna, what -- ?
She reaches for him before he can stop her, holds him
tight.
TROI
So many minds on this ship,
Bill... all free... released...
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79 CONTINUED:
Her hands move sensuously on his back, her body closer
to his.
RIKER
Deanna --
TROI
I can feel them all... what they
feel... what they want... I feel
a side of humans I've never felt
before.
RIKER
Come on, I'm getting you to
Sickbay.
He catches her up in his arms, carries her toward the
turbolift as:
TROI
Wouldn't you rather be alone with
me -- with me in your mind...
80 INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON BEVERLY
She has a large beaker or futuristic-shaped container
from which she is loading a hypo-spray. The hypo-spray
filled, she moves across to where Geordi La Forge lies
still strapped on the hospital bed. He is awake now,
his face a picture of desolation. Beverly administers
the hypo-spray and steps back to observe.
BEVERLY
The medical records we found say
this works almost instantly.
Geordi lies still, staring at the ceiling. Then:
GEORDI
I've never seen a rainbow, Doc.
Sunset. Sunrise. None of those.
This is going to help me?
Beverly stares at Geordi, horrified as realization
comes. It doesn't work.
81 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY AND DWARF STAR
(OPTICAL)
No movement at all.
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82 INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON RIKER AND TROI
as he carries her into the treatment area, lays her down
gently on a bed next to Geordi's.
RIKER
Doctor Crusher...
He turns, looking for Beverly. She does not appear.
He hurries into her office.
83 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY AND RIKER
She is sitting at the desk, desolate. Riker COMES IN
behind her, puts a hand on her shoulder to shake her
slightly.
RIKER
Didn't you hear me? Deanna needs
your help.
BEVERLY
The formula from the old
Enterprise didn't work.
RIKER
What?
BEVERLY
This water-carbon complex may
induce the same symptoms, but it's
different somehow. Maybe it's
mutated. I'll have to isolate
it... analyze it...
RIKER
We don't have that kind of time.
She suddenly snaps around, realizing something.
BEVERLY
You brought Deanna in?
RIKER
She's infected with it, too.
He heads for the door. Beverly is on her feet
anxiously.
BEVERLY
You touched her? Oh, God, you
touched me.
(then)
You can't leave here --
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83 CONTINUED:
RIKER
If we don't get our command
computers back on-line soon, this
-- whatever this is -- won't
matter. We'll all be dead.
On Beverly's despairing face:
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT THREE
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ACT FOUR
FADE IN:
84 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE, TSIOLKOVSKY, DWARF STAR
As before with very slow (at this distance) flaring from
the star.
PICARD (V. O.)
Captain's log, supplemental.
It is no longer an inconvenient
childish prank. Young Wesley
Crusher...
(beat; softening)
Admittedly a victim of the
Tsiolkovsky "infection"...
85 INT. MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON MAIN VIEWER (OPTICAL)
Showing a SHOT of Wesley in the Engineering office.
Also at the Bridge are Worf at the Ops position and
crewman at Conn.
PICARD (V. O.)
(continuing)
... is now in control of my
starship. How he acquired the
engineering information and
knowledge he is using, I have no
idea.
86 ANGLE ON PICARD
staring up at Wesley's IMAGE on the main viewer.
PICARD
(continuing)
Wes, this is Captain Picard. Do
you see me?
87 VARIOUS ANGLES (OPTICAL)
as Wesley looks up and around, focuses his attention
onto camera (the captain). Although showing the same
contaminant symptoms as others, he speaks respectfully.
WESLEY
Yes sir?
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87 CONTINUED:
PICARD
You will now return all control
of this vessel to the bridge where
it belongs. Now.
WESLEY
I'm sorry, sir. Why don't you
just tell me what you want done
and I'll...
PICARD
(interrupting)
Because ship captains control
their own vessels, young man!
WESLEY
But, sir, you don't do it
yourself. You give the orders,
someone else does it. What's
wrong with giving me the orders
to do it?
Worf and Conn have exchanged looks during this although
Conn has begun to perspire and appears uncomfortable.
Worf sees something unusual on his console, interrupts
Picard.
WORF
Captain, getting unusual readings
now from the dwarf star... !
PICARD
Stand by a moment on that.
(toward main viewer)
Wesley... !
(softens it)
Wes... are you aware that you're
acting strangely... that a kind
of "infection" was brought back
from the Tsiolkovsky that acts
like intoxication?
WESLEY
(considers it)
Are you saying that's why I feel
so... so "hot," so strange?
Picard wants to shout back "of freakin' course!" but he
controls himself.
PICARD
That's a very adult bit of
reasoning, Wes...
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87 CONTINUED: (2)
WESLEY
Are you saying I'm "drunk?" I
feel strange but also good.
PICARD
Because...
(corrects his tone of
voice)
Because you've lost the capacity
for self-judgment. Alcohol does
that but this contaminant we've
brought back does it even more
so.
WESLEY
What would you do if you got your
ship back?
PICARD
It's very important I do because
we must immediately put a tractor
beam on the Tsiolkovsky, then tow
it out of...
WESLEY
Tractor beams are my specialty,
Skipper! I'll contact you when
that's done; Wesley out!
With which the VIEWER GOES DARK, and then is replaced
with a view of the dwarf star. It is in the midst of a
gigantic FLARE.
PICARD
Wes!
Conn gets up from his position now, weaves toward the
turbolift.
PICARD
(continuing)
Conn, where are you headed?
No answer. Conn will EXIT by turbolift as:
WORF
Sir!
(indicating viewscreen)
The star; it's beginning to
collapse.
PICARD
What the hell is happening in
Engineering?
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88 INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE - ANGLE ON WESLEY AND
SHIMODA
Wesley is working some controls on one of the consoles,
singing:
WESLEY
Lock on, Tsiolkovsky, lock
on... lock on, Tsiolkovsky, lock
on...
Behind him, Shimoda still sits on the floor, playing
something like "jacks" with the isolinear optical chips
from the computer, scooping up the chips in orderly
groups -- 1, 2, 3, etc.
89 INT. ENGINEERING - ON MACDOUGAL AND RIKER
They work together at the console opposite the entrance
to Engineer's Office, probing deep into the guts of the
console. A small array of tools lies between them, which
they share.
MACDOUGAL
You got the logic probe?
(he hands it to her)
Thanks.
RIKER
Where's the sonic driver?
She grunts and gestures at the spread of tools. Riker
looks, finds it, dives into the console again. MacDougal
works quickly, steps back.
MACDOUGAL
There. Let's see if this'll cut
out his tractor beam power.
She reaches inside the console and switches something.
She and Riker both turn to look behind them.
90 ANGLE THROUGH WINDOW INTO ENGINEER'S OFFICE
(OPTICAL)
Wesley grins cheerfully. The TRACTOR BEAM is STILL AIMED
AT THE DOOR.
91 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ON BEVERLY
She grimly works at a futuristic microscope, then
becomes aware that she is wiping perspiration from her
face.
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91 CONTINUED:
BEVERLY
Oh no! No, I must find the answer.
Find the answer. Have to find
the answer.
She reaches for another slide but handles it confusedly.
92 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
as a tractor beam appears.
93 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - ANGLE ON WORF
still at Ops. No one at Conn. He whirls around.
WORF
Captain -- tractor beam! We just
locked onto the Tsiolkovsky!
PICARD
Bridge to... to Wesley.
(waits; then)
Wesley Crusher, come in!
One of the turbolift doors HISSES OPEN and Data ENTERS
the Bridge. Picard whirls to him.
PICARD
(continuing)
Data! At least you're
functioning.. !
DATA
Fully, Captain, fully.
But it obvious from the look on his face and his weaving
movements that Data is not at all himself.
PICARD
Data, intoxication is a human
condition. Your mind is
different, it's not the same...
DATA
We are more alike than unlike,
my dear captain.
94 EMPHASIZING DATA
He is examining the backs of his hands with great
interest.
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94 CONTINUED:
DATA
(continuing)
I have pores. Humans have pores.
(turns hands over)
I have fingerprints. Humans have
fingerprints. My chemical
nutrients are like your blood.
(looks appealingly at
Picard)
If you prick me, do I not leak?
95 ANGLE TURBOLIFT
which opens and Beverly Crusher ENTERS the Bridge.
PICARD
If this can possibly wait,
Doctor...
BEVERLY
May I see you in your Ready Room?
It's a private matter... well,
actually an urgent one...
PICARD
I'm busy, Doctor. Impossible.
But Beverly EXITS Bridge into Ready Room. Picard
FOLLOWS.
PICARD
(continuing)
Damn!
95A INT. CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM
Picard ENTERS, finds Beverly waiting. She has a slight
smile on her face.
BEVERLY
I believe I'm infected myself.
Beverly steps toward Picard, suddenly GIGGLES. It's the
same high pitched sound we've heard from some others.
PICARD
Do you know what the infection
is? Hurry!
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95A CONTINUED:
Picard realizes that Beverly is beginning to smile at
him a bit sexily. She tries to stop doing so. All this
is complicated for her by the fact she has begun lately
to find this man increasingly attractive.
BEVERLY
Sorry.
(wipes off smile)
It is definitely like alcohol
intoxication, the same lack of
good judgment...
(smiling sexily again)
For example right now, I find you,
well, extremely...extremely...
(stops)
Of course we haven't time for that
sort of thing...
PICARD
What sort of thing?
BEVERLY
(eyeing his body)
Oh God would I love to show you.
PICARD
Doctor, there must be a cure!
Some formula, similar to the old
one...
BEVERLY
(holding Picard's hand)
Dammit... dammit, dammit, my dear
captain. You owe me something.
You do realize that, don't you?
I'm a woman; I haven't the comfort
of a husband, a man...
PICARD
Not now, Doctor, please...
Then he's alarmed to find himself GIGGLING, wiping
moisture from his forehead.
96 ANGLE EMPHASIZING WORF
On the Bridge, Ready Room door in b.g. He turns
as Picard and Beverly EMERGE from the Ready Room.
Beverly ENTERS the nearby Turbolift, turns and waves
"bye-bye." Picard fights the urge to giggle, waves
back. The doors close. Picard, very irritated at
self, regains control. Worf presses his intercom.
WORF
(low)
Bridge to Riker, urgent!
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97 INT. ENGINEERING - RIKER AND MACDOUGAL
He looks up, his hands still deep in the console.
RIKER
Riker here.
WORF'S COM VOICE
Sir, regret to inform you that
the captain appears to be
infected. And Data, and...
RIKER
(all he needs)
Thank you, Lieutenant. I'm coming.
(to MacDougal)
You'll have to handle this.
MACDOUGAL
Are you saying you'll handle that?
98 EXT. SPACE - DWARF STAR FOREGROUND (OPTICAL)
In the midst of a great flaring surface explosion, slow
at this distance but obviously enormously powerful.
99 INT. MAIN BRIDGE - EMPHASIZING WORF
Reacting as he sees the results of this on his readouts,
then whirls to the Main Viewer. Red alarm lights flash.
100 MAIN VIEWER (OPTICAL)
The star's surface clearly changed by this great flaring
explosion.
101 ANGLE AT COMMAND POSITION
Picard very concerned at what he is seeing; Beverly
reacting to his concern; even the bemused Data watching
it with some interest. Beverly turns, CROSSES toward
the turbolift where she will EXIT. As Riker ENTERS.
Meanwhile:
WORF
What we're seeing, sir, is a huge
chunk of the star's surface blown
off, heading for us!
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101 CONTINUED:
PICARD
Take us...
(wipes perspiration)
RIKER
Are you alright, sir?
PICARD
Worf, you know what to do. Take
us out of here.
Worf works controls, gets nothing, leaps over to the
Conn panel and works something and then comes back to
Ops and does more. Still nothing.
WORF
Sir, the controls are still off-line!
PICARD
Override!
WORF
(tries, then)
Same result, sir.
102 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - EMPHASIZING SHIMODA
Wesley watches while Shimoda attempts to put together
a structure (like LEGOS) composed of the isolinear
optical chips. They both ignore:
RIKER'S COM VOICE
Wes, come in please. Wesley
Crusher, this is Riker. Come in.
This is urgent!
103 INT. ENGINEERING - MACDOUGAL
Red alarm lights are flashing. MacDougal twists
something inside the open panel.
104 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON WESLEY AND SHIMODA
(OPTICAL)
The forcefield disappears. Wesley looks up, slightly
disconcerted.
105 INT. ENGINEERING - MACDOUGAL
MacDougal rushes for the Engineer's Office.
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106 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - FULL SHOT
MacDougal surges in. Wesley and Shimoda merely look
at her. Wesley's very sad. Game's over.
RIKER'S COM VOICE
Engineering, urgent. We must have
ship's power...
MacDougal ignores him, pushes past them toward the
computer consoles. The optical chips go flying as
Shimoda dodges out of her way.
MACDOUGAL
Oh, no, those are control
chips... !
(finds a com button)
Bridge from Engineering...
RIKER'S COM VOICE
The star is still collapsing;
we're directly in the path of...
107 INT. MAIN BRIDGE
Both Picard and Data fighting against the contamination
as Riker mans the main console.
MACDOUGAL'S COM VOICE
I can't help you, bridge!
Someone's yanked out all the
control chips here...
WESLEY'S COM VOICE
It was an adult who did it!
WORF
I estimate fourteen minutes until
that mass gets here... !
MACDOUGAL'S COM VOICE
No way to replace chips in
fourteen minutes, sir. I'd guess
two hours, maybe three...
WESLEY'S VOICE
Data could assemble them back
faster.
Picard seems to come out of it a bit. He looks up:
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107 CONTINUED:
PICARD
What's that?
(hits a com control)
What's that Wesley?
WESLEY'S COM VOICE
They're just simple isolinear
chips, sir. To Data, anyway.
He could shuffle them like cards.
RIKER
(overlap)
Come on Data. Hurry!
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT FOUR
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ACT FIVE
FADE IN:
108 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE AND TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
still tied by the tractor beam, motionless. Riker's
voice reveals the strain he is under.
RIKER (V.O.)
Ship's log, First Officer Riker.
The star has begun disintegrating.
Enterprise will be destroyed
unless it can be moved out of the
path of the star material
hurtling...
109 EXT. SPACE - EXPLODED MASS OF MATERIAL (OPTICAL)
It is large, irregularly shaped, moving very fast as it
was hurled off the star's surface with more power than
a hydrogen bomb. To gain a sense of size, it should
BLOCK OUT A WHOLE SECTION OF THE STARFIELD as it PASSES
CAMERA.
RIKER (V.O.)
(continuing)
... toward us. Our only hope is
for Lieutenant Commander Data in
the time we have left, to regain
his senses and reconnect engine
power to the Bridge.
110 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON MACDOUGAL
She is on her knees on the floor, vainly trying to sort
out which optical chips belong where.
111 ANGLE ON RIKER AND DATA
as they ENTER FAST. MacDougal looks up at Riker,
helplessly indicates the chip chaos. Data smiles at
Wesley, who grins back cheerfully. Both are still
smashed.
WESLEY
Hi, Mister Data.
DATA
Nice to see you, Wesley. What... ?
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111 CONTINUED:
RIKER
(overlapping; urgently
indicating)
Data! We need the engines on-line
in a hurry, remember?
Meanwhile, Riker is now beginning to perspire like
others who have been "infected."
WESLEY
Oh yes, I remember too.
(to Data)
So, Data, if you don't mind...
RIKER
(fast; to Wesley)
We've no time for courtesy!
(fast; to Data)
Get those damned control chips
back in place, Data! In the
correct order!
Data hesitates, surprised at Riker shouting at him.
RIKER
(continuing)
NOW!
WESLEY
(to Data)
It's like a game of 'how fast can
you do it?'
DATA
Ah, a game!
Data begins selecting chips, beginning to move more and
more rapidly. Wesley moves to the Engineering Room
viewer, adjusts the controls there.
WESLEY
I think I can switch this to the
main viewer, sir...
112 ANOTHER ANGLE - VIEWER (OPTICAL)
as it switches to a SHOT OF THE STAR MATERIAL IN
DISTANCE BUT RACING TOWARD THEM.
113 ANGLE EMPHASIZING RIKER
turning from viewer to Data.
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113 CONTINUED:
RIKER
We've got eight or nine minutes,
at most, Data. Can you finish
by then?
114 ANGLE EMPHASIZING DATA
If necessary, UNDERCRANK CAMERA now to show Data's hands
are moving very fast. He seems to be calculating Riker's
questions, then shakes his head without looking up:
DATA
No. This will take slightly more
time than we have, sir.
Riker becomes aware that his hand is wet, realizes he is
"infected" too.
RIKER
Dammit, NO! I can't afford to
get it!
He stands, sways, grabs for support.
115 EXT. SPACE - MASS OF MATERIAL FROM STAR (OPTICAL)
hurtling through space -- too fast.
116 INT. CRUSHER'S OFFICE - ANGLE ON BEVERLY
She has a batch of blue liquid made up and is examining
it. Picard ENTERS on the run.
PICARD
Beverly...
BEVERLY
Yes, Jean-Luc?
PICARD
You will address me as Captain!
They too still show signs of the "intoxication." Beverly
has begun to fill a hypo-spray with the blue liquid.
BEVERLY
In which case, dear Captain, you
will address me as 'Chief Medical
Officer' or 'Doctor.'
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116 CONTINUED:
PICARD
(befuddled; then)
That's true; I started off calling
you 'Beverly,' then naturally,
you...
(shakes head)
I'm still not thinking straight!
Having filled the hypo-spray, Beverly turns with it to
go somewhere but forgets where.
BEVERLY
Likewise. Where the hell was I
just headed?
PICARD
(indicates hypo)
If that's something you wanted
to test...
BEVERLY
(suddenly remembering)
Yes, yes, on Geordi!
Weaving a bit, she hurries off with Picard following in
the same way.
117 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - THREE SHOT
Riker and MacDougal standing over Data, who concentrates
on the chips. Wesley has moved to his school project
tractor beam, eyes it proudly.
WESLEY
Did you see how I reversed fields
on this, Commander? Made it into
a repulser beam.
Riker ignores the question, watches Data, concerned.
118 CLOSE ON DATA AND HIS HANDS
UNDERCRANK CAMERA. His hands are flying -- almost a
blur. More and and more of the isolinear optical chips
are set in the command computer board.
DATA
If we had just a minute more,
sir...
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119 ANGLE ON WESLEY
He looks up toward Engineering Room viewer.
120 CLOSE ON VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)
The mass of star material closer, hurtling toward them.
121 WIDER ANGLE
Wesley reacts at the nearness now of the star material.
Then looks at his tractor device.
WESLEY
If this were a hundred times more
powerful than it is...
122 INT. SICKBAY - ANGLE ON GEORDI
as Beverly administers the hypo to Geordi with Picard
looking on.
BEVERLY
I made this a broader based
remedy... I hope. But it's still
close to the formula from the old
Enterprise's records...
PICARD
Decades ago, light years away...
BEVERLY
But almost exactly the same
conditions as here.
GEORDI
What was in that, Doctor? My
head's beginning to clear...
Both react to the sight of Geordi beginning to sit up
alertly. Beverly whirls, injecting Picard... then
herself. She presses the hypo on him.
BEVERLY
Take this to Engineering. I'll
make up more hypos for the others.
123 INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE
as before but with Riker gloomy now. Data and Wesley
continuing work. But Wesley is struck with an idea,
leaps to the Engineering Room control board.
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123 CONTINUED:
Eyes it, then:
WESLEY
Why not try it with the real
thing?!
(to MacDougal)
Why not reverse fields on this,
Ma'am? If we only need an extra
minute...
MACDOUGAL
It would take weeks of laying out
new circuits...
124 EMPHASIZING WESLEY
studying the Engineering Room board.
WESLEY
But why not just see it in your
head?
(thinks, presses
switches)
Come off the main lead, split at
the force activator,
then...then...
(puzzled)
If I could just think straight
about this...
125 WIDER ANGLE
as Picard bursts in, presses his hypo against MacDougal,
then Riker, then another person, etc.
RIKER
We didn't make it, Captain. If
we had just a minute or so more...
126 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE, TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
with the star material looming large as it rushes down
upon them.
127 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - ON WESLEY
His fingers begin to dance on the panel.
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127 CONTINUED:
WESLEY
Yes, then reversing power leads,
back through the force
activator... repulser beam hard
against the Tsiolkovsky...
128 EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE, TSIOLKOVSKY (OPTICAL)
The Tsiolkovsky now begins drifting to one side,
beginning to spin clear with the Enterprise moving away
from it.
129 INT. ENGINEER'S OFFICE - WIDE ANGLE
Riker eyes the viewer in surprise.
RIKER
We're pushing away!
Data lifts his hands from the command computer board.
The isolinear optical chips GLOW on the board.
RIKER
(continuing; into
communicator)
Bridge, engage engines!
130 EXT. SPACE - TSIOLKOVSKY AND MASS OF MATERIAL
(OPTICAL)
The mass of material crashes into the Tsiolkovsky. Her
warp and impulse engines EXPLODE SIMULTANEOUSLY on
impact in a mighty BLAZE OF LIGHT. But Enterprise is
accelerating out of trouble.
131 INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE - FULL SHOT
Geordi at Conn now. Relief. Beverly is there still
administering hypo injections. The red alarm lights
have stopped.
GEORDI
Sir, something seemed to move us
aside at the last minute.
WORF
(into his com)
Do we owe our thanks to Commander
Data, sir?
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131 CONTINUED:
PICARD'S COM VOICE
Yes. And... Wesley may have given
us a few seconds, too.
WORF
Did he say Wesley? The boy?
Beverly nods with a pleased look.
BEVERLY
He said Wesley.
132 INT. ENGINEERING OFFICE
Picard sees Riker smiling at him. He scowls, begins
to EXIT.
RIKER
It is only fair to mention Wesley
in a log entry, sir.
PICARD
(stops; nods)
Fair is fair. And let's credit
his science teacher, too.
Picard EXITS; Riker follows him.
133
thru OMITTED
134
135 INT. MAIN BRIDGE - PANNING
Picard, Riker and Data ENTER from the Turbolift and
move toward their positions. Worf at Ops and Geordi
at Conn positions turn with pleased expressions.
GEORDI
Congratulations, sir.
PICARD
To many people.
During which Troi and Tasha also ENTER from Turbolift
now, move to their positions. Tasha is back to normal,
wearing her regular duty uniform, hair and makeup as
stringent as usual. Data sees, nods.
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135 CONTINUED:
Data starts to turn away but Tasha has colored, turns
toward him.
TASHA
Data! I'm only going to tell
you this just once... It never
happened.
Data gives her a very puzzled look, goes to position
still puzzling over it.
136 OMITTED
137 ANGLE EMPHASIZING PICARD
as he sits in his position, looks around the Bridge.
PICARD
I put it to all of you we may end
up with a fine crew... if we keep
working at it.
(nods for emphasis;
then)
So let's get to our next job,
Number One.
RIKER
Aye, sir. Helm, stand by for warp
three. Heading two-hundred
ninety-four mark thirty-seven.
GEORDI
Warp three, two-hundred
ninety-four mark thirty-seven,
sir.
RIKER
Engage!
138 EXT. SPACE - THE ENTERPRISE
Accelerating into WARP SPEED.
FADE OUT.
THE END