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Hollow Pursuits
00:00:09I don't want any trouble here, Barclay.
00:00:11Trouble? Why would there be trouble?
00:00:15Because wherever you go, trouble follows.
00:00:18Lieutenant Barclay, you're on duty.
00:00:21Is that a fact?
00:00:22It is, and you'll observe it.
00:00:25So get back to your post.
00:00:27Look, pal, why don't you do me a favor.
00:00:30Take yourself and your holier-than-thou attitude and get out of my life.
00:00:44This is insubordination, Mr. Barclay.
00:00:53Here's to insubordination.
00:00:59Riker, you're nothing but a pretty mannequin in a fancy uniform.
00:01:03You're full of hot air.
00:01:05If Picard has a problem with me you tell him to come and talk to me himself.
00:01:30I feel your confidence, your arrogant resolve.
00:01:38It excites me.
00:01:43CREWMAN: Lieutenant Barclay, report to cargo bay five now.
00:01:48It'll have to wait till later, darling.
00:01:51( loudly ): Be right there.
00:02:02Save program.
00:02:17I just don't know what to do with him.
00:02:20The guy's always late.
00:02:21He never gives his best effort.
00:02:22Just slides by.
00:02:24I'm telling you, I can't deal with it anymore.
00:02:26I mean, how does a guy like that make it through the academy?
00:02:28I think it's time we spoke to the captain about Broccoli.
00:02:32That's what Wesley calls him.
00:02:33You keep that to yourself.
00:02:34Well, it fits.
00:02:35Commander, a broken seal.
00:02:38Well, you better destroy it.
00:02:39Those samples will be tainted.
00:02:48LA FORGE: Hey!
00:02:50Is it a problem for you to report to duty on time, Lieutenant?
00:02:55No... no, sir.
00:02:58I'm ... I'm very, very sorry, sir.
00:03:01It's just that I had a... a very important communiqué, which required my immediate response.
00:03:06I don't want to hear it.
00:03:08Now, we're having an intermittent problem with this antigrav unit.
00:03:12I want you to see what you can do.
00:03:17Mr. Barclay, I'm tired of seeing your name on report.
00:03:21I don't know what you got away with at your last posting, but this is the Enterprise.
00:03:24We set a different standard here.
00:03:27Understood?
00:03:29Understood, sir.
00:04:07PICARD: Space, the final frontier.
00:04:12These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
00:04:16Its continuing mission--
00:04:18to explore strange new worlds...
00:04:22to seek out new life
00:04:23and new civilizations...
00:04:26to boldly go where no one has gone before.
00:04:32♪♪
00:05:29Captain's log, Stardate 43807.4.
00:05:33We're taking on a load of special tissue samples
00:05:35donated by the Mikulaks for shipment to Nahmi IV.
00:05:39The samples could prove vital to the containment
00:05:41of an outbreak of correllium fever on that world.
00:05:45Everything... everything looks... looks normal to me.
00:05:49Mm-hmm.
00:05:50LA FORGE: Computer, activate antigrav unit.
00:06:02Damn it.
00:06:07I... I don't understand.
00:06:10La Forge to engineering.
00:06:11I'll need more people in cargo bay five.
00:06:13Anyone you can spare.
00:06:14La Forge out.
00:06:18We could use a hand,
00:06:19Mr. Barclay.
00:06:20Uh, I'll disassemble it later, Commander.
00:06:23It shouldn't do that.
00:06:25Well, I mean... I mean, of course, it shouldn't do that.
00:06:27Uh, well, I... I mean... it shouldn't do that.
00:06:52I'm just not accustomed to seeing an unsatisfactory rating on a member of my crew.
00:06:56I guess the question is whether Mr. Barclay is Enterprise material.
00:07:00And I assume by your request for his transfer that you think he's not, Commander.
00:07:03Well, I hate to say it, but...
00:07:07I always thought I could work with anybody but I just don't understand this guy.
00:07:10Broccoli makes me nervous, Captain.
00:07:12He makes everybody nervous.
00:07:14Broccoli?
00:07:15Young Mr. Crusher started that.
00:07:16I guess it's caught on.
00:07:18Let's just get that "uncaught," shall we?
00:07:21There's every indication that he's served competently in Starfleet for years.
00:07:25Ratings aboard the Zhukov were satisfactory.
00:07:27In fact, I recall Captain Gleason speaking quite highly of him before his transfer.
00:07:32In retrospect, I wonder if Captain Gleason wasn't buttering our bread a little.
00:07:36He knew that we needed a diagnostic engineer.
00:07:39I've examined Barclay's psychological profile.
00:07:41He has a history of seclusive tendencies.
00:07:43It was noted at the academy more than once.
00:07:45And yet, he chose this way of life.
00:07:47He has made the same commitment to Starfleet that we all have.
00:07:49( sighs )
00:07:52It's easy to transfer a problem to someone else.
00:07:55Too easy.
00:07:56Captain, it's not like I haven't tried.
00:07:58Try harder, Geordi.
00:08:01He's a member of your team.
00:08:04Try to find some way to help him to make a positive contribution.
00:08:08Get to know the man better.
00:08:11Make him your best friend.
00:08:13With all due respect, sir, "my best friend"?
00:08:16I can barely tolerate being in the same room with the man.
00:08:19I suggest you put your personal discomfort on one side, Commander.
00:08:22Dismissed.
00:08:24Yes, sir.
00:08:31( sighs )
00:08:46Hey, Reg.
00:08:50How, uh... how's it going?
00:08:52Oh, uh, it's...
00:08:54I... I still haven't traced down the problem, Commander.
00:08:58It's all right.
00:08:59There's no problem.
00:09:01I've... I've been planning to run diagnostics on the graviton inverter's circuits.
00:09:06Smart plan.
00:09:07I'd say we're in good hands here.
00:09:09Well, I'll see you get a preliminary report...
00:09:12Whenever.
00:09:14Before the end of the day.
00:09:15Fine. Fine.
00:09:20Oh... say, Reg, how about sitting in on the mission briefing with my senior officers in the morning?
00:09:26Th-the briefing? Me?
00:09:27I'd like your input.
00:09:29What on?
00:09:31I mean, do... do you want me to prepare...
00:09:32No, no, just be there.
00:09:360800 hours.
00:09:38I'll... I'll be on time, sir.
00:09:40Good. Good.
00:09:42Carry on.
00:09:59Morning.
00:10:00Start your brains, gentlemen and let's do it.
00:10:04Has anybody seen Lieutenant Barclay?
00:10:05Not yet, sir.
00:10:07( sighs )
00:10:09Okay.
00:10:10( panting )
00:10:13Okay.
00:10:16This trip to Nahmi IV is pretty routine so we'll have plenty of time to realign the magnetic capacitors of both the matter and anti-matter injectors.
00:10:24Duffy, Costa, that'll be your assignment.
00:10:26We probably ought to do the flow regulator maintenance at the same time, Commander.
00:10:30That's a good idea.
00:10:31Ensign Crusher will be putting in some hours with us this week as part of his training duties.
00:10:36So, I'll be assigning him to assist you, Mr. Myers.
00:10:38Be sure and teach him the difference between impulse and warp drive, please.
00:10:41( chuckling )
00:10:43Lieutenant Barclay has been working on the mystery of the antigrav failure we had yesterday.
00:10:47Your preliminary report had a couple of interesting theories, Reg.
00:10:52Why don't you bring us all up to speed on your findings so far.
00:10:57Yes.
00:11:02It... it wasn't a maintenance problem.
00:11:05Every-everything checked out.
00:11:08I'm... I'm going to look for a surge in the transfer coils...
00:11:11Oh, a coil surge wouldn't have resulted in field dissipation.
00:11:14I-I... I realize that.
00:11:16But we shouldn't ignore the possibilities, Wes.
00:11:18You ought to check the flow capacitor.
00:11:20A breakdown of that could have caused a chain collapse of the antigrav fields.
00:11:23I... I was going to.
00:11:26Good.
00:11:28Okay, then, let's, uh... take a look at that realignment procedure.
00:11:31Gentlemen.
00:11:34DUFFY: Yeah, the bipolar flux device was...
00:11:35COSTA: Commander...
00:11:42I just didn't know what to say.
00:11:44What do you wish you had said?
00:11:46I should have told him to mind his own damn business.
00:11:48I knew about the flux capacitor but I didn't need to hear about it from some 17-year-old kid.
00:11:54You're letting this get you much too upset.
00:11:57You think so?
00:12:01Why are you so hard on yourself?
00:12:06You don't know.
00:12:08It's hard out there.
00:12:10I understand, but let go of it.
00:12:14You're here now.
00:12:16You're right, of course.
00:12:20Of course.
00:12:23Let me help you relax.
00:12:26I'd like that.
00:12:28I knew you would.
00:12:38Mmm, that's nice...
00:12:42But... I'm in the mood for someplace a little more... unusual.
00:12:54Computer, run Barclay program 15.
00:13:04I am the goddess of empathy.
00:13:09Cast off your inhibitions and embrace love, truth, joy.
00:13:38But I thought that's the point of the briefing-- to discuss different approaches...
00:13:41It's not that you did anything wrong, Wes.
00:13:43It's just that Barclay's...
00:13:45Well, he's my new project.
00:13:47Yeah, Broccoli's a real project, all right.
00:13:50I just need to draw him out some more.
00:13:52And I shut him down.
00:13:55Poor Broccoli.
00:13:58Pardon me.
00:14:00But why is Lieutenant Barclay being referred to clandestinely as a vegetable?
00:14:07It's a joke, Data.
00:14:08You know, a nickname?
00:14:10Nicknames generally denote fondness.
00:14:14A diminutive shared between friends.
00:14:17Data's absolutely right.
00:14:19The nickname stops here and now.
00:14:22Captain's orders.
00:14:26What..? What the hell..?
00:14:30What happened to your glass?
00:14:47( tricorder beeping )
00:14:52Nucleosynthesis.
00:14:53The structure of the glass has been altered at the atomic level.
00:14:56Problem with the replicator?
00:14:58Unlikely.
00:15:00A problem with the replicator would have effected the contents as well as the glass but the liquid in the glass was a synthehol replication of a light ale of earth origin which is, I believe, what Lieutenant Duffy ordered.
00:15:12Well, I can't detect any residual radiation or any unusual chemical compounds that would have caused this.
00:15:17The most probable explanation is that the glass came into contact with an unshielded power source.
00:15:22Ugh... that means a complete diagnostic check of the Enterprise power systems-- all 4,000 of them.
00:15:29But do I have the perfect man for the job.
00:15:30Hey, Reg.
00:15:31You busy?
00:15:33I-I was just...
00:15:34Uh, no.
00:15:36Not really. Why?
00:15:40Got another mystery for you.
00:15:43Somehow the molecular structure of this cup from Ten-Forward has been altered.
00:15:48We need to run through the power systems to see if there's a leak that caused this.
00:15:52I had, uh...
00:15:54I was going to do that.
00:15:56You were?
00:15:57Yes, to try to explain the antigrav unit failure.
00:16:03I still can't.
00:16:05Nothing about it makes sense.
00:16:08Then it is possible that these two very disparate incidents could be related.
00:16:20I wouldn't bother you with something this minor, Commander but it may be a symptom of a more serious problem.
00:16:24Do you think we'll need to put in to a starbase?
00:16:26We'll have a better idea after Mr. Barclay runs a check on the power systems.
00:16:29It was Lieutenant Barclay who first suggested a link between the two incidents.
00:16:33What?
00:16:34No, it wasn't. I mean, not really.
00:16:37Will your investigation affect our available power during the mission?
00:16:42No... no, sir.
00:16:43We'll have to shut off some systems.
00:16:47We'll, uh... shut them down a few at a time.
00:16:50It shouldn't...
00:16:52I don't think so.
00:16:53Good.
00:16:55I'll look forward to your report, Mr. Broccoli.
00:17:01Barclay.
00:17:04If you will excuse me.
00:17:13Metathesis is one of the most common of pronunciation errors, sir.
00:17:17A reversal of vowel and consonant.
00:17:19"Barc" to "Broc"...
00:17:30Yes, I know him.
00:17:32He comes in. He stands at the bar.
00:17:34He doesn't say much.
00:17:36He orders a warm milk.
00:17:38( chuckles ): Figures.
00:17:40Warm milk helps you sleep, La Forge.
00:17:42You should try it.
00:17:44What's this have to do with Barclay?
00:17:45I don't know.
00:17:47I'm just trying to figure the man out.
00:17:50Do you ever talk to him?
00:17:51He doesn't talk much.
00:17:53Does he have any friends?
00:17:54Not that I've seen.
00:17:56( sighs )
00:17:57What do you do with a guy like that?
00:17:59Well, I just serve him warm milk and let him be.
00:18:04Yeah, well, I'm not so lucky.
00:18:05I can't let him be.
00:18:07He's my problem.
00:18:09Hmm.
00:18:10Well, he's... imaginative.
00:18:16How do you know that?
00:18:17I know.
00:18:18Well, then maybe he's in the wrong line of work.
00:18:21Hmm.
00:18:23You engineering types don't appreciate imagination?
00:18:27That's not it, Guinan.
00:18:29He just doesn't fit in here.
00:18:33Oh.
00:18:36Terkim.
00:18:37What?
00:18:39Reminds me of Terkim.
00:18:41My mother's brother.
00:18:43Sort of the family misfit.
00:18:45Everybody told me to stay away from him.
00:18:48Bad influence.
00:18:50Did you?
00:18:51Are you kidding?
00:18:53He was the only member of my family who had a sense of humor.
00:18:56Except no one ever stayed around him long enough to realize it but me.
00:19:00My mother tells me I remind her of him, and I probably do.
00:19:04The idea of fitting in just... repels me.
00:19:10Maybe I'm not making myself clear, Guinan.
00:19:13Barclay-- well, he's always late.
00:19:17The man's nervous.
00:19:18Nobody wants to be around this guy.
00:19:21If I felt that nobody wanted to be around me
00:19:24I'd probably be late and nervous, too.
00:19:26Guinan, that's not the point.
00:19:28Are you sure?
00:19:31Excuse me.
00:19:39Computer, where is Lieutenant Barclay?
00:19:52( birds singing )
00:19:54( holodeck doors close )
00:20:01Reg?
00:20:16Beverly?
00:20:17Good morning, milord.
00:20:20Manners, my son, manners.
00:20:22You embarrass me before our guest.
00:20:24Master Barclay will spank you if you misbehave.
00:20:28Wesley?
00:20:29What do you want?
00:20:32Well, I guess I want Master Barclay.
00:20:35The boys got into another little scrap, I'm afraid but boys will be boys.
00:20:41( swords clashing, men grunting )
00:20:52You cannot withstand our assault forever, Barclay.
00:20:54Ah!
00:20:55Ha!
00:21:03DATA: You are outnumbered, Mr. Barclay.
00:21:05Say you will yield, and it ends here.
00:21:07I shall speak with my sword, sir.
00:21:14Ha!
00:21:37In God's name where did you learn to fight like this?
00:21:40Self-taught, my Capitaine.
00:21:43Shall I give you a few lessons?
00:21:54PICARD: Who is that?
00:21:55One of your allies?
00:21:56Oh, Jean-Luc not that old trick.
00:21:59I'm very disappointed in you.
00:22:01( clears throat )
00:22:10I'll make it easy for you, Commander.
00:22:12I will request a reassignment.
00:22:14Now, wait... Look, we both know--
00:22:16The whole ship knows...
00:22:19I... I just can't cut it here.
00:22:22Hey, Barclay
00:22:23I've spent a few hours on the holodeck, too, you know.
00:22:26Now, as far as I'm concerned what you do in the holodeck is your own business as long as it doesn't interfere with your work.
00:22:34So you're... you're not going to tell anyone about this?
00:22:38I don't think everybody would appreciate your imagination like I do.
00:22:48It is kind of unusual recreating people you already know.
00:22:54Well, it was just...
00:22:58I needed to blow off some steam because one... one of the officers had been getting on my back.
00:23:09Let me guess.
00:23:11( laughs )
00:23:13It was you.
00:23:14And I just couldn't tell you what I wanted to tell you to your face so it just sort of got out of control.
00:23:22I don't know, there's a part of this that's kind of therapeutic.
00:23:27Maybe you ought to talk to Counselor Troi about it.
00:23:30It's, it's... I'm ... when I'm in there, I'm just more comfortable.
00:23:35You don't know what a struggle this has been for me, Commander.
00:23:39Well, I'd like to help if I can.
00:23:41Being afraid all of the time of forgetting somebody's name not... not knowing what to do with your hands.
00:23:49I mean, I am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there's a party.
00:23:57And then when he finally gets there he winds up alone, in the corner trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant.
00:24:07You're just shy, Barclay.
00:24:12"Just shy." sounds like nothing serious, doesn't it?
00:24:20You can't know.
00:24:23O'Brien to La Forge.
00:24:25Go ahead.
00:24:26I need you in transporter room three, Commander.
00:24:30On my way, Chief.
00:24:34Listen, Reg.
00:24:36I really do want you to talk to Counselor Troi.
00:24:39Troi?
00:24:41No, no, no, no, no. I... I couldn't.
00:24:42I mean it.
00:24:44As your friend and as your commanding officer.
00:24:52I was synchronizing the phase transition coils.
00:24:55I didn't do anything I haven't done 100 times before.
00:24:59The test object is made of pure duranium.
00:25:01Seems normal enough to me.
00:25:03Watch this.
00:25:27Glad I don't have anywhere to go.
00:25:32LA FORGE: Chief Engineer's log, Stardate 43808.2.
00:25:36A systems analysis of transporter room three
00:25:38has yielded no suggestion of a cause
00:25:40for the latest malfunction aboard the Enterprise.
00:25:42This part of the same pattern?
00:25:44We don't know, sir.
00:25:45And we don't know why only transporter room three is affected.
00:25:47None of the other transporter rooms are malfunctioning.
00:25:49Yet.
00:25:51We reach Nahmi IV in 22 hours.
00:25:52We'll want all transporters operational by then.
00:25:54I want a level-1 diagnostic across the board.
00:25:59Advise Mr. Barclay to join us on the bridge immediately.
00:26:01Oh, can we make that 1400 hours, sir?
00:26:04I've got him working on something.
00:26:051400 hours.
00:26:07Mr. O'brien, no maintenance on the transporter until further notice.
00:26:10Aye, sir.
00:26:14I know this is difficult for you.
00:26:17Is there anything I can do to make you more comfortable?
00:26:19No.
00:26:23Have you ever been with a counselor before?
00:26:26Yes... no.
00:26:28Which one?
00:26:30Yes, but she, uh...
00:26:34It-it wasn't... it wasn't really a counselor.
00:26:41Most people find a counselor intimidating at first.
00:26:47It's okay if you feel that way toward me.
00:26:51Not... at all.
00:26:53Good.
00:26:55Now, lean back, close your eyes...
00:27:00Why?
00:27:02I want to make you more comfortable.
00:27:04You do?
00:27:06Yes.
00:27:15It's okay.
00:27:18Close your eyes.
00:27:19What are you going to do?
00:27:22Just listen to the sound of my voice.
00:27:25Take a slow, deep breath in through your nose...
00:27:31... and let it out through your mouth just as slowly.
00:27:40That's better, isn't it?
00:27:43Much better.
00:27:45Oh, yes.
00:27:48Oh, yes, that's... that's much better.
00:27:50That... that... that is extremely helpful.
00:27:52Thank you for your time.
00:27:53But... Really, that's very helpful.
00:27:56In through the nose out through the mouth.
00:28:00I'm going to practice that and I'll-I'll let you know.
00:28:04Thank you again.
00:28:07Whoa...oh
00:28:20I had a very strange visit from one of your officers today.
00:28:24Barclay?
00:28:26Yeah, I can imagine.
00:28:27Were you able to do anything for him?
00:28:30To be honest I'm not sure what happened.
00:28:34Where is Mr. Barclay?
00:28:36It's past 1400 hours.
00:28:39Lieutenant Barclay, report to the bridge.
00:28:43Lieutenant Barclay, report.
00:28:47Computer, locate Lieutenant Barclay.
00:28:49COMPUTER: Lieutenant Barclay is in holodeck two.
00:28:54( sighs ): I'll get him.
00:28:55No, I'll handle this.
00:28:56I've had it with him.
00:28:58Counselor, you'd better come along.
00:29:06I think you should know
00:29:07Barclay's been running some unique programs.
00:29:11I don't care what he's been running.
00:29:14I just ran out of patience.
00:29:19( birds singing )
00:29:24( men laughing in the distance )
00:29:28( holodeck door closes )
00:29:33PICARD: ...before our swords.
00:29:35MEN: Hear, hear.
00:29:36( laughter )
00:29:37PICARD: I hope she was worth the effort.
00:29:39GEORDIE: Oh. Show us how you did it.
00:29:41DATA: Like this!
00:29:43Ah!
00:29:57Like I said, Commander
00:29:58Barclay's been running some unusual programs.
00:30:01This is a violation of protocol.
00:30:03Crewmembers should not be simulated in the holodeck.
00:30:06LA FORGE: Commander, I don't think there's any regulation against...
00:30:08Well, there ought to be.
00:30:10Computer, discontinue program and erase.
00:30:12Computer, belay that order.
00:30:14Counselor?
00:30:16If Barclay is having difficulty facing reality to suddenly destroy his only means of escape would be brutal and could do considerable damage.
00:30:26They are quite disagreeable, aren't they?
00:30:29Mmm.
00:30:33Shall we... have at them?
00:30:37Delighted!
00:30:39GEORDIE: We shall thrash them.
00:30:41En garde!
00:30:42Stop it.
00:30:43Put that down.
00:30:44Your sword, sir.
00:30:47I don't have a sword.
00:30:49How do you expect to fight without your sword, sir?
00:30:51I don't expect to fight.
00:30:54Ha!
00:30:55Do I detect a streak of yellow along the good fellow's back?
00:31:01( laughing )
00:31:04Perhaps we should supply a more appropriate adversary for him.
00:31:08GEORDIE: Aha, indeed.
00:31:09Number one?
00:31:10Number one!
00:31:11RIKER: Here I come.
00:31:15Am I late?
00:31:16Did I miss the fight?
00:31:18En garde!
00:31:19You, sir, you have a familiar bearing.
00:31:22Is it possible our swords have crossed somewhere before?
00:31:25Where is he?
00:31:26Where's Barclay?
00:31:29Aha! A personal grudge.
00:31:31I warn you, it would be wise for you to put your affairs in final order before you meet him in combat.
00:31:37You challenge the greatest sword...
00:31:40In all the holodeck.
00:31:41( stifles laughter )
00:31:44You think this is funny?
00:31:46You are very tall.
00:31:47It might be threatening to some people.
00:31:51Mr. Barclay will find out what it means to be threatened.
00:31:54Computer, discontinue image of Riker.
00:31:59Sir!
00:32:00You have no sense of fair play.
00:32:03Just tell us where to find Barclay.
00:32:12You want us to search through all this to find him?
00:32:14It could provide us with valuable information about what's troubling him.
00:32:21You know, there's nothing wrong with a healthy fantasy life as long as you don't let it take over.
00:32:26You call this healthy?
00:32:27You're taking it so seriously.
00:32:29It's not without its element of humor.
00:32:32I am the goddess of empathy.
00:32:36Cast off your inhibitions and embrace love truth, joy.
00:32:43Oh... my... God.
00:32:45Discard your facades and reveal your true being to me.
00:32:50Computer, discontinue...
00:32:51Computer, belay that order.
00:32:54We want to get more insight into what's been troubling this poor man, remember?
00:33:00Quite a healthy fantasy life wouldn't you say?
00:33:03Mmm.
00:33:07( rumbling )
00:33:08( console beeping )
00:33:10Report.
00:33:12WORF: Sir, our velocity increased to warp 7.25.
00:33:15Compensating, sir.
00:33:18Confirmed.
00:33:19Velocity now warp seven.
00:33:23Maintain that.
00:33:25What the hell happened?
00:33:26The matter/anti-matter injectors locked for a split second.
00:33:29I am not certain why, sir.
00:33:30They appear to be working normally now.
00:33:33Picard to La Forge.
00:33:34LA FORGE: Go ahead, Captain.
00:33:35Commander, any explanation for this injector problem?
00:33:38Well, um, I'm not in engineering, sir.
00:33:41I'm in holodeck two.
00:33:42PICARD: Another malfunction?
00:33:44Not exactly, but I'll return to engineering immediately, sir.
00:33:48Yes, I should say that you should, Commander.
00:33:50Your holodeck activities can wait until later.
00:33:52And, Commander...
00:33:53Yes, sir.
00:33:55It would be wise to consult Lieutenant Barclay on this latest incident.
00:33:58I'd like to very much, Captain.
00:34:00La Forge out.
00:34:02We need to find Barclay now.
00:34:05Cast aside your masks and let me slip into your minds.
00:34:14Muzzle it.
00:34:21( loud snoring )
00:34:29Shh.
00:34:40We have a lot to talk about, Mr. Barclay.
00:34:43Commander, Barclay and I had better get to engineering.
00:34:45Dismissed.
00:34:52I just couldn't keep my eyes open.
00:34:54I'd worked 12 hours on the power systems and then... then the transporter went down.
00:34:58Reg, you had a chance to get some help from the real Counselor Troi but, instead, you went back in there.
00:35:04I know. I didn't want to.
00:35:05I just couldn't help myself.
00:35:07You're going to be able to write the book on holodiction.
00:35:10Look, I know how easy it is to get caught up in it.
00:35:12I fell in love in there once.
00:35:13Really? But I knew when it was time to turn it off and say good-bye.
00:35:16It wasn't easy, but I did it.
00:35:18You know, the people that I create in there are more real to me than anyone I meet out here.
00:35:25Except... maybe you, Commander.
00:35:30I need you out here, Reg.
00:35:34Now more than ever.
00:35:36Huh?
00:35:44The injectors aren't responding to the diagnostic commands.
00:35:47I think we should drop out of warp.
00:35:50La Forge to bridge.
00:35:52Go ahead, Commander.
00:35:53Recommend we go to impulse power, Captain.
00:35:55Take us out of warp.
00:35:59Controls are not responding, sir.
00:36:01It's the injectors.
00:36:02Override.
00:36:03It's not a computer problem.
00:36:05The mechanism is physically jammed.
00:36:08I can't clear it.
00:36:09Speed increasing, sir.
00:36:12Warp 7.6.
00:36:137.65.
00:36:15Warp 7.7.
00:36:21We can't shut it down, Captain.
00:36:23Anti-matter flow is... increasing.
00:36:25She's accelerating out of control.
00:36:27There's nothing I can do.
00:36:38Approaching warp nine, sir.
00:36:40Red alert.
00:36:41Estimated time to structural failure?
00:36:44At this rate of acceleration-- 15 minutes, 40 seconds, sir.
00:36:47Did you copy that, Geordi?
00:36:48Aye, Commander.
00:36:49Recommendations?
00:36:51I'll let you know as soon as we have some.
00:36:52La Forge out.
00:36:53Okay, this ship is going to start tearing itself apart in 15 minutes.
00:36:56I want every idea on the table, I don't care how outrageous.
00:36:59What about attempting a magnetic quench on the fusion pre-burners?
00:37:02No, I already tried that.
00:37:03The magnetic fields won't reset.
00:37:05Could the fuel inlet servos be caught in cycle?
00:37:07If they were, the swirl dampers would be frozen, too, and they aren't.
00:37:10Nothing showed up in the diagnostic sweep, at all?
00:37:13The tests showed there were proble...
00:37:14I mean, there were no problems with the fl-flow... the flow of the...
00:37:17There's nothing wrong with the computer control protocols or the power transfer systems.
00:37:21As far as we can determine the injectors are just physically jammed.
00:37:24Injectors freeze, antigrav unit goes down transporter malfunctions...
00:37:28And a twisted glass.
00:37:29What's the connection?
00:37:30( rumbling )
00:37:34Exceeding warp 9.4.
00:37:37Begin evacuation of secondary hull.
00:37:40Prepare for emergency saucer separation.
00:37:43Standing by to release docking clamps.
00:37:46Re-route systems to primary hull power sources.
00:37:48The plasma flow to the nacelles is uneven due to injector lock.
00:37:52An emergency saucer separation could rupture the warp field.
00:37:55( rumbling )
00:37:58( console beeping insistently )
00:38:0012 minutes to structural failure, sir.
00:38:05None of the systems involved interact directly with each other.
00:38:08I don't see anything in common.
00:38:09Wh-what if... what if... what if one of us is the connection?
00:38:13Us? How?
00:38:14I don't know.
00:38:16But we're looking for a systemic explanation and there isn't one.
00:38:22I mean, we work with all of the systems that are affected.
00:38:25What if... what if we're transmitting something ourselves... by touching it, or something?
00:38:32The computer would have picked up anything dangerous.
00:38:34But... if it were something, something that we couldn't scan you might have passed it on to the injectors when you were re-aligning the magnetic capacitors.
00:38:44It was your glass, Duffy, and both of you were present in the cargo bay when the antigrav failed.
00:38:47Well, so was O'Brien.
00:38:49The transporter malfunction-- that's a connection, too.
00:38:51( alarm beeps loudly ) COMPUTER: Danger!
00:38:53Approaching safety limits of engine containment field.
00:38:55Computer, list all physical substances that wouldn't normally be picked up by an internal scan.
00:39:00There are 15,525 known substances that cannot be detected by standard scans.
00:39:07Great, and how many of those can exist in an oxygen atmosphere?
00:39:10Five hundred thirty-two.
00:39:12And could alter molecular structure when it comes in contact with... with glass?
00:39:16Five.
00:39:17On screen at this station.
00:39:19Duffy.
00:39:23BARCLAY: Jakmanite has a half-life of 15 seconds.
00:39:25There wouldn't be enough time to spread it around the ship. Right.
00:39:28Selgninaem and lucrovexitrin are highly toxic.
00:39:31Yeah, we'd all be dead by now.
00:39:32That leaves... saltzgadum and invidium.
00:39:34Neither of which has been used for decades.
00:39:36But could either one of them cause all these malfunctions?
00:39:39Most of the affected systems weren't even invented when those substances were in use.
00:39:42Who knows what could happen with a transporter or a magnetic capacitor.
00:39:45Wait a minute, wasn't invidium used in medical containment fields?
00:39:48Not for over a century.
00:39:50The Mikulaks might still be using it.
00:39:52And one of those canisters was broken.
00:39:55La Forge to bridge.
00:39:56We have a working theory, Captain.
00:39:58There's a good possibility we picked up some invidium from a broken canister in the cargo bay and have been spreading it around the ship.
00:40:03Working theories are fine, Geordi but we need a working solution in about five minutes.
00:40:07Understood, Commander.
00:40:08We're on our way to cargo bay five for confirmation.
00:40:27Nothing on the tricorder.
00:40:29( alarm beeps loudly )
00:40:30COMPUTER: Danger.
00:40:32Exceeding safety limits of engine containment field.
00:40:35At current acceleration structural failure will occur in three minutes, 30 seconds.
00:40:45If it's in there, it should show up on one of the polarity channels.
00:40:51There it is.
00:40:55Duffy and O'Brien picked up the broken canister and became contaminated.
00:40:58If we can get it-- the invidium-- down to minus 200 degrees celsius, it'll become inert.
00:41:03La Forge to bridge.
00:41:05Invidium has been confirmed.
00:41:07Recommend we flood the injector pathway conduit with gaseous cryonetrium.
00:41:11That ought to neutralize it.
00:41:13The question is, will the injectors come back on-line?
00:41:15They sustained considerable damage, Captain.
00:41:18I can't guarantee that we'll be able to regain control.
00:41:21We don't have much choice, do we?
00:41:22No, sir.
00:41:24Make it so.
00:41:29DUFFY: Route primary coupling through starboard transfer conduit.
00:41:31Routing.
00:41:32Ready for engine core injection.
00:41:34COMPUTER: At current acceleration structural failure will occur in 45 seconds.
00:41:41Injector conduit temperature minus 100 degrees celsius.
00:41:45Transfer injector control to manual.
00:41:47Ready, sir.
00:41:49Temperature now minus 190 degrees.
00:41:52Minus 200 degrees, sir.
00:41:54Injector status?
00:41:55Matter injector is on-line.
00:41:58Anti-matter injector... still locked.
00:42:01( alarm beeps loudly )
00:42:02COMPUTER: At current acceleration structural failure will occur in 30 seconds.
00:42:07Cycle power through ventral relay.
00:42:12Anti-matter injector... on-line.
00:42:16Reducing flow capacity.
00:42:18Commencing warp engine shutdown, sir.
00:42:29Stand down from red alert.
00:42:31Nice work, Geordi.
00:42:32Mr. Barclay and I thank you, sir.
00:42:34RIKER: Acknowledged.
00:42:35The ship has been seriously contaminated with invidium, sir.
00:42:38Recommend we set a course for Starbase 121 for a complete systems- and bio-decontamination.
00:42:44Understood. Picard out.
00:42:48Glad you were with us out here in the real world today, Mr. Barclay.
00:43:19It has been most difficult to reach this decision to leave you but after thinking about it and discussing it at length with...
00:43:28Counselor Troi
00:43:30I think it's for the best.
00:43:34I just wanted to thank you all for your support.
00:43:37You'll always be welcome here, Reg.
00:43:41I know.
00:43:43That's why it's so difficult to leave.
00:43:49It was a pleasure to serve with you, Mr. Barclay.
00:43:52Good luck, Reg.
00:43:55It's been fun.
00:44:03Computer.
00:44:07End program.
00:44:08( computer beeps )
00:44:11Erase all programs filed under Reginald Barclay.
00:44:14( computer beeps )
00:44:20Except program nine.
00:44:22( computer beeps )
00:44:39♪♪