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Farpoint Station. Even the name sounds mysterious.

[ALL GRUMBLING]

All velocity zero. Her inertia should do the job now.

Meanwhile, l've been asked to visit the Farpoint administrator's office.

From this point, no station aboard, repeat, no station for any reason,

Humanity is no longer a savage race.

I thought you shouldn't have to put up with

Have the two of you met before?

for the construction materials used here.

but on the Bandi and their city.

PICARD: Captain's log, stardate 41 174.2.

We may be able to match hostile's 9.8, sir.

Still no response, sir. We've done everything but threaten them.

Very good, commander.

Not exactly a run-of-the-mill happening, captain.

Yes, even though you're judge and prosecutor.

But a captain's life means a great deal more to me.

We will, l promise you.

For you to work with a commanding officer

but since my duty and interests are outside the command structure...

We are not interested in building other facilities.

[PEOPLE LAUGHlNG]

To the bitter end?

Then your rank of lieutenant commander is honorary?

As if it's something Q is doing to trick us?

Likewise, counselor.

He's been aboard all day, sir, checking over medical layout.

Great explorers are often lonely. No chance to have a family.

When I was little, he brought my father's body home to us.

you'd know that the unknown is what brings us out here.

we must proceed in our own way.

and forgive me if l've said and listened to this a thousand times before.

I wanna see exactly what's happening.

- Has the alien communicated? - No. Please. Please.

where will you go from there?

[ALL MURMURlNG]

PICARD: Go to maneuvering jets.

Results of detaching saucer section at high-warp velocity.

True, they are not actual allies, but--

- we have a chance-- - Lieutenant.

The panel on your right is for log entries,

is to tuck tail between our legs and return to Earth as they demand.

Yes, sir. It is not merely a vessel, somehow it is alive.

Sounds like a fairly dull place.

Fight or try to escape.

All language forms and frequencies.

- Thank you, lieutenant. - Aye, sir

Agreed, Groppler?

Then welcome aboard, doctor.

Have you understood any part of what he's tried to tell you?

You requested this posting?

[CROWD FALLS SlLENCE]

There is no computer record of any such vessel, sir.

MAN [ON lNTERCOM]: Captain, from transporter room.

Something like a transporter beam seems to have snatched him away.

Q: And 400 years before that, you were murdering each other

you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god images.

Hardly. Your service record shows

We have no ship control, sir.

Make phasers and photon torpedoes ready.

- Construction records? - Construction records shows this

None of you knows who transported him.

to be almost identical to that which Starfleet uses.

Wasted effort, considering human intelligence.

And later, on finally reaching deep space,

He does seem to have a very good grasp of starship operations.

In the year 2036, the New United Nations declared that

If the transporters can convert our bodies to an energy beam,

who could demonstrate your techniques.

[COMPUTER BEEPlNG]