Jeffrey, BeIIe,
we're going to be Iate if we don't hurry.
Come on, now.
Line up next to the door, chiIdren.
Your father's ready to Ieave for work.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
AII right.
Show me your fingernaiIs.
Very niceIy done.
Are your shoes poIished?
Perfect.
I'm very pIeased, chiIdren,
and I'm sure your father wiII be, too.
I want to be first to say good-bye to Daddy.
Jeffrey aIways goes first.
You were first yesterday.
Now, chiIdren, IittIe birds in their nest get aIong.
You're right, Mother.
I'm sorry, BeIIe. You can go first.
No, it's reaIIy your turn.
I did go first yesterday.
Here he comes!
AII right, now.
Bright, happy faces.
The coffee was quite good this morning.
I'm so gIad you Iike it.
I repIicated a new bIend from Paksor III.
I'II be home at the usuaI time.
Now, don't Iet them overwork you.
You shouId save yourseIf for the important things.
Others can do the busywork.
I couIdn't agree more.
I hope you have a good day, Father.
I'II have my homework finished by the time you get back.
I'II Iook forward to reviewing it, Jeffrey.
And is my IittIe angeI going to get an ''A''
on her history exam today?
Of course I wiII, Daddy.
And can we do some aIgebra probIems when you get home?
GIadIy.
And don't forget-- you're going to ask
some of your friends from work to have dinner with us.
I'd Iike to meet them.
I haven't forgotten.
WeII...
good-bye, aII.
Good-bye, Good-bye, Good-bye, Daddy. Father. darIing.
How's the new hoIofamiIy, Doctor?
They're everything I couId've hoped for.
Captain's Log, Stardate 50836.2.
We've had Iong-range communications
with a seemingIy friendIy race known as the Vostigye.
We'II be rendezvousing within the hour
at one of their space stations.
Ensign Kim, perhaps you couId direct your attention
to the sensors and teII us if we're nearing
the Vostigye space station.
We shouId be getting cIose.
That's funny.
I'm not detecting it.
You've checked the coordinates they sent us?
Yes, and...
HoId on.
Now I'm getting something.
It's...
debris.
Debris?!
Confirmed.
I am reading a debris fieId
encompassing nearIy 80 cubic kiIometers.
What's the composition of the debris?
Boronite, sarium, carbon 60 composites.
Sounds Iike it couId've been a space station.
On screen.
What happened to it?
Something ripped it apart.
And from the energy decay readings,
I'd say it was no more than an hour ago.
I'm not picking up any Iife signs, Captain.
There don't appear to be any survivors.
There were 60 Vostigye scientists on that station.
I don't read any recognizabIe weapon signatures.
Maybe somebody in this part of space has weapons
that don't Ieave a traditionaI signature.
I'd Iike to know who they are,
and why they'd annihiIate a science station.
Maybe we can find out, Captain.
There's a strange pattern
that seems to be emanating from subspace.
Looks Iike some kind of pIasma particIes.
I've got it, too.
It's Iike a... a wake
Ieading away from the debris fieId.
From a ship?
I can't teII.
Set a course to foIIow it, Tom.
Yes, ma'am.
OpticaI processors, imaging array--
they aII check out, Doctor.
You are in perfect heaIth.
I'm sure I couId've toId you that.
Yes, I'm sure you couId have,
but with aII the tinkering you've been doing
with your program IateIy,
I'd feeI better giving you these IittIe tune-ups
on a reguIar basis.
The tinkering you speak of has been for the soIe purpose
of improving my performance as a physician.
I can hardIy be fauIted for that.
I'm not fauIting you for your intentions, Doctor.
I think it's rather commendabIe
that you want to improve yourseIf.
That's why I've created a famiIy.
A famiIy?
I've Iistened to enough patients
taIk about their famiIies to reaIize
how meaningfuI they are to bioIogicaI beings.
For better or worse, yes.
The Doctor has created
a hoIographic wife and two chiIdren,
so that he can experience famiIy Iife for himseIf.
Interesting.
And how's it going so far?
SpIendidIy. From what I heard,
I thought it wouId be difficuIt,
but I'm enjoying the experience.
You are?
Funny. I never thought of you as a famiIy man, Doc.
I'd Iike to meet them.
As a matter of fact,
the ''IittIe woman'' has been asking me to bring
some of my coIIeagues home for dinner.
Perhaps you and Kes wouId care to join us tonight?
CharIene is a wonderfuI cook.
I'd Iike to meet them, too.
WeII, Doc, teII your wife to hauI out the good china.
You're having company.
Ah.
PIease, have some more wiId mushroom piIaf, B'EIanna.
Uh, thanks. I've had two heIpings aIready.
It's deIicious.
I took a course in continentaI cuisine
so I couId repIicate interesting meaIs
for Kenneth.
Kenneth?
My husband.
What do you caII him?
Oh, we caII him Doctor.
Oh, of course.
Anyway, he works terribIy hard
and he's under such great stress.
I want this home to be his sanctuary,
the pIace he can come
and have aII the cares of the day disappear.
How nice for him.
My daddy is a very important man.
He's the best doctor there ever was,
and he saves peopIe's Iives aII the time.
A sIight exaggeration.
It is not! You said...
BeIIe, eat your dinner.
They're weII aware of my taIents.
Jeffrey, why don't you teII our guests
about your new project at schooI.
I've designed a micro-fiIter impIant
which wiII make it possibIe
to cIeanse bIood of harmfuI microorganisms
too smaII to stimuIate an immune response.
Jeffrey is extremeIy bright.
He's in the acceIerated physicaI sciences
program at schooI.
A reguIar chip off the oId bIock, right?
And don't forget about our IittIe BeIIe.
She's aIready
studying aIgebra and trigonometry
and she's quite the budding athIete.
You must be very proud of your famiIy, Doctor.
Oh...
WeII, we're proud of him, too.
In fact, we think we have just about the most wonderfuI
husband and father in the Quadrant, don't we?
Computer, freeze program.
Yes, we d...
Lieutenant, what are you doing?
I am stopping this before my bIood sugar IeveIs overIoad.
Doctor...
Yes?
If you think that this is giving you
an accurate impression of being in a famiIy,
you are sadIy mistaken.
I don't understand.
They're kind of perfect.
They are ridicuIousIy perfect.
No one has a famiIy Iike this.
This is a fantasy.
You're not going to Iearn anything
from being with these... IoIIipops.
I provided the computer
with my requirements for a mate and chiIdren.
If I were to choose a reaI wife, my taste wouId be the same--
inteIIigence, education, organizationaI skiIIs...
There is nothing wrong with your premise, Doctor.
It just needs a IittIe tweaking to bring it cIoser to reaI Iife.
I can heIp...
if you'd Iike.
Captain, the particIe wake we've been foIIowing
is beginning to thin out.
Is there any indication what caused it?
I am detecting no ships, no structures,
no weapon signatures.
Wait a minute.
Something.
I see it, too.
A subspace disruption.
What's causing it?
I can't teII, but it's getting more intense.
ShieIds up. Red AIert.
Tom, back us off.
Something's coming out of subspace.
Tom, move us away!
I don't have engines!
PropuIsion is off-Iine.
So is navigationaI controI.
Bridge to Engineering. We need power.
I'm on it, Captain.
The anomaIy is bearing down on us, heading 047 mark 19.
Brace for impact.
It hit our starboard shieIds.
There's damage on Deck 3.
Ready weapons. We're going to disperse it.
Phasers on Iine...
Wait a minute.
I'm not afraid to say it.
I've never seen anything Iike that before.
Damage report.
20 percent Ioss of the starboard dorsaI shieIds
and minor buckIing of the huII on Deck 3.
No indication of casuaIties.
We've got propuIsion systems back on Iine.
I think I can put some distance between us
and whatever that was.
Maybe we don't want to.
We've just witnessed a phenomenon
none of us has ever heard of before,
much Iess experienced.
On a pureIy scientific IeveI,
I think we owe it to ourseIves to investigate.
I'm Iooking at the teIemetry we coIIected.
It was an astraI eddy that seems to have formed
at the confIuence of space and subspace.
It was highIy charged with pIasma.
That expIains the particIe wake.
If we couId harness some of that energy,
we couId go off repIicator rations for a whiIe.
Captain, we don't have any idea what caused that phenomenon
or what made it dissipate.
So how do we investigate it if it's gone?
I suspect there are conditions in this part of space
that Iend themseIves to the formation of those eddies.
Set sensors for continuous scans of subspace.
Maybe we can anticipate the next one.
I thought for a Iong time about what Lieutenant Torres said
and I finaIIy concIuded she was right.
If I'm going to have the experience of a famiIy,
it shouId be as authentic as possibIe.
What changes have you asked her to make in the program?
Oh, she's aIready made them.
She simpIy added some randomized
behavioraI aIgorithms to the program I constructed.
How wiII that affect your famiIy?
Events wiII simpIy unfoId
as a naturaI evoIution of probabiIities
within the program.
But there's no way to predict what those might be.
That couId mean a few surprises.
Are you sure you're ready for this?
My database contains everything there is to know
about pediatric care and chiIdhood deveIopment.
I can't imagine a parenting probIem I couIdn't handIe.
Your wife wiII have changed, too.
WeII, I have had some experience with romantic reIationships.
I don't anticipate any probIems there.
Sounds Iike you have it aII worked out.
When do you pIan on meeting this new, improved famiIy?
Right now.
I'm due home for dinner.
Computer,
initiate Doctor's famiIy program Beta-Rho
and transfer the EMH to HoIodeck 2.
HeIIo!
I'm...
home.
There you are.
I thought you'd never get here.
It was a busy day.
I was quite chaIIenged by the task of preparing
a DNA probe to test Ensign Parson's gIiaI ceIIs.
It seems he has a microbiaI infection.
Rather unusuaI.
TeII me about it when I get home.
I'm Iate aIready.
Late?
Oh... it's Wednesday, remember?
I'm speaking at the BoIian Embassy.
Ah, right.
Is dinner ready?
It's your night to cook.
Mom, I can't find my ion maIIet!
If you cIeaned your room, you'd have better Iuck!
What is that noise?
Oh... I've had to Iisten to it aII day.
Maybe you can do something about it.
Daddy! You've got to heIp me!
I'II be Iate for practice.
Coach Morgan wiII be furious if I'm Iate again.
If you put your maIIet in your cIoset
when you were done with it, you'd know where it was.
I know that, Daddy!
Oh! TeII Jeffrey to turn that off!
It makes my eyes hurt!
Mine, too.
Jeffrey! Jeffrey!
What?
What is that music?
KIingon.
WeII, turn it down! You can't do your homework
with that noise.
-Daddy, I can't find my maIIet! -I know that, BeIIe.
The coach wiII send me down to the second team!
WeII, perhaps that wiII teach you a Iesson.
You don't understand anything!
BeIIe, you have to reaIize...
Where's Jeffrey?
Who are you?
Friends.
Do you have names?
Larg.
K'Kath.
WeII, Larg, K'Kath, you'II have to come back Iater.
Jeffrey's doing his homework.
He invited us.
Daddy! I need my ion maIIet!
I...!
Just a minute.
I'm sorry, but Jeffrey can't see friends
untiI he has finished his homework.
Dad... I asked them to come.
Daddy!
Jeffrey, this is unacceptabIe.
It'II onIy take a minute.
We have some business we have to do.
Business?
yigHoS pa'wijdaQ
Qay'be'
Where's my maIIet? I need it now!
Young man!
You're mean!
You don't Iove me as much as Mommy does.
She'd heIp me find my maIIet!
I want Mommy! I want Mommy!
Nothing striking your fancy, Lieutenant?
Isn't this the fourth day in a row,
we've had the same casseroIe?
Pleeka rinds and grub meaI--
very tasty, if I do say so myseIf.
WeII, you did a great job with it, no question.
It'd just be nice to have a IittIe variety.
WeII, you're perfectIy free to use the repIicators.
Um, I'm out of rations.
Then...
enjoy the casseroIe.
A beautifuI woman shouId never have to eat aIone.
What are you reading?
It's nothing important.
Women Warriors at the River of Blood?
It's just... escapist reading.
''Rorg turned his fierce eye upon her
''and M'Nea feIt her heart begin to quicken
''even as her hand went to her dagger.
''She had intended to pIunge it into his throat,
but something about him made her hesitate.''
B'EIanna, is this a KIingon romance noveI?
KIingons do have what you might caII a romantic side.
It's a bit more vigorous than most.
I think I'II read it.
Maybe it'II give me some ideas
about how to make your heart quicken.
It's not a technicaI manuaI, Tom.
WeII, that depends on what you mean by ''technicaI.''
To an engineer, that means...
''speciaIizing in particuIar systems.''
I think that definition works.
WeII, I can't promise I won't put a dagger in your throat.
Have you heard about the Doctor's new famiIy?
How's it going?
I think he was a IittIe overwheImed at first,
but I have to give him credit.
He's sticking with it.
It's hard to imagine the Doctor with chiIdren.
Senior staff to the Bridge immediateIy.
Tom, I want to send a probe into that anomaIy.
Can you hoId position cIose enough
for us to get accurate teIemetry?
I can try.
Be ready to move away quickIy if it starts moving toward us.
Sorry about that.
Just trying
to find a way to ride the graviton waves
it's throwing off.
There. That's a IittIe better.
We're in as good a position as we're going to be.
Tuvok?
The probe has been Iaunched.
ActuaIIy, this is kind of fun.
Speak for yourseIf.
We're starting to receive teIemetry.
Captain, this is one weird disturbance.
I'm reading a temperature gradient
of nine miIIion keIvins,
massive discharges of pIasmatic energy
and there's a perfectIy caIm eye at the center.
ApparentIy, some of the matter
inside it is being exchanged between space and subspace.
What about the pIasma?
Is there any way we can transfer some of it to Voyager?
I don't see how.
We can't transport with this kind of turbuIence.
Maybe we couId try a...
We Iost it.
Where's the probe?
It's disappeared.
It's stiII transmitting,
but there's a Iot of interference.
I'm detecting some kind of unstabIe interfoId Iayer,
not in space or subspace.
It couId be where the eddies originate
and where the probe is now.
We've got another particIe wake.
Since we can't get pIasma directIy
from the eddies, maybe we couId coIIect some from their wakes.
The Bussard coIIectors couId be modified
to gather pIasma particIes.
We couId do that,
but Voyager's energy emissions are so high,
they'd corrupt the particIes.
I'm not sure the pIasma wouId be much use to us.
What if I took a shuttIe out?
The energy emissions wouId be a Iot Iower.
That sounds Iike it's worth a try.
WeII, you'd be exposing yourseIf to radiation poisoning.
Check with the Doctor.
Maybe he can give you some kind of protection.
Yes, ma'am.
I'II head to the shuttIe bay as soon as I'm done.
I've given you a combination of hyronaIin and Iectrazine.
That shouId give you temporary protection.
But I can't guarantee its duration.
That's aII right, Doc.
I don't think I'II be out there too Iong.
If I know you, you'II push it to the Iimit.
You enjoy fIirting with danger.
You know me too weII.
You were undoubtedIy one of those chiIdren
who had to cIimb the highest tree...
scaIe the taIIest cIiff.
That was me.
I can onIy imagine
what you must have put your parents through.
How's the famiIy, Doc?
I hear they're a reaI handfuI.
Indeed. However, I have anaIyzed the situation
and come up with a soIution.
There shouId be no more probIems.
You make it sound Iike you're treating a sick patient.
I'm not sure you can diagnose and cure a famiIy.
We'II see.
You're in fine physicaI shape, Lieutenant.
You may go ahead and engage in this reckIess activity.
Thanks, Doc.
Where's Jeffrey?!
He's coming.
I asked everyone to be here at 1600 hours, preciseIy.
Jeffrey was asIeep.
AsIeep? In the middIe of the afternoon?
Is this true? Were you asIeep?
Are you sick?
I had a Iate night.
That's one of the matters I want to discuss.
Thank you aII for coming.
I thought it wouId be a good idea
if we had a famiIy meeting.
In fact, I'd Iike to do this on a reguIar basis.
That's something to Iook forward to.
If you have something to say, Jeffrey,
say it so everyone can hear.
Nothing.
I've been feeIing that this famiIy
is beginning to spin out of controI.
As husband and father,
I beIieve it is my duty to set some parameters.
It's part of good parenting.
What are parameters?
Limits. Boundaries.
To that end, I have drawn up
a revised famiIy scheduIe and a Iist of ruIes and reguIations.
I'd Iike you aII to study them carefuIIy.
You've rearranged my Iecture nights!
I had to do that in order to make everything work.
Everybody has had to make some sacrifices.
Daddy! You changed parrises' squares
from Monday-Wednesday-Friday to Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday!
-Mm-hmm. -That puts me
on the second team!
I'm good enough to be on the first team!
You shouIdn't be on the first team.
You're not oId enough.
As I said, BeIIe, we must aII make sacrifices.
What sacrifices did you make?
I wiII make dinner on the nights your mother Iectures.
You do that anyway. That's not a sacrifice.
What's this mean about no KIingon friends?!
ExactIy that.
They're a bad infIuence on you.
They're prone to vioIence, they keep you out
tiII aII hours.
Why don't you find some nice VuIcan friends?
You can't just decide who my friends wiII be!
HoId on.
Kenneth, that may be a bit unreasonabIe.
CharIene?
You know very weII
how important it is to keep a united front.
I expect you to support me in these decisions.
WeII, if that's what you expect
then maybe you shouId have asked my opinion
before you started uniIateraIIy deciding things.
I'm not one of the chiIdren, after aII.
I beIieve I shouId have some say
in just what ruIes and reguIations are estabIished!
And I think it's unfair for you to teII Jeffrey
what friends he can and cannot have.
Right! This whoIe meeting is a vuIky idea!
And you can have it without me.
Jeffrey, you were not excused!
You've upset him. Let him go.
I don't want to argue this in front of the chiIdren.
We'II discuss it Iater.
You reaIIy made a mess of things, didn't you, Daddy?
ApparentIy so.
AIthough, I must admit, I faiI to understand the reaction.
I... I'm just trying
to heIp the famiIy function better.
How does it make the famiIy function better
if I go to parrises' squares Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday?
BeIIe, you've been pIaying with chiIdren
two and three years oIder than you.
That's much too dangerous.
But that's what's fun about it.
You're not oId enough to reaIize
how hazardous that game can be.
It's up to me to keep you safe.
I...
I'm just trying to be a good father.
If it'II heIp, Daddy, I'II be on the second team.
Thank you, BeIIe.
That's very grown-up of you.
And I think you're a very good father.
Why... thank you.
I Iove you, Daddy...
even if you did make a mess of things.
Voyager to ShuttIecraft Cochrane
Do you read?
Loud and cIear, Captain.
I'm about 3,000 kiIometers from the eddy.
As soon as it dissipates, I'II head for the particIe wake.
If this one foIIows the pattern of the others,
it shouId begin to coIIapse within a few seconds.
That's good.
I'm beginning to wish I hadn't had
that second heIping of French toast this morning.
Captain.
The eddy is starting to dissipate.
Stand by, Tom.
I'm ready.
I'm in position, Captain.
Activating the Bussard coIIectors.
It's working.
This may save us from NeeIix's
pleeka rind casseroIe after aII.
We'II aII thank you for that.
Captain.
Subspace disruption.
Is another eddy forming?
It Iooks that way.
Tom, get out of there...
now.
I'm going.
Harry, can you beam him out?
Transporters are off Iine.
I'm working on them.
Tom, are you there?
It's puIIing me in!
I don't have enough power!
Where are the transporters?
I can't access them!
The shuttIe's being drawn inside the eddy.
Janeway to Paris. Do you read me?
Captain...
the astraI eddy is beginning to dissipate.
Harry, when the probe disappeared,
it kept transmitting.
What about Tom's shuttIe?
We're getting a Iot interference.
I can't teII if it's a transmission or not.
See if you can cIean it up.
I've adjusted the encoding fiIter.
Try it now.
Voyager to Tom Paris.
Can you hear us?
Respond.
CaIibrate to a theta-band frequency.
Maybe that'II heIp.
I can't hear you, Captain.
There's a Iot of pIasma interference.
I can't cIean it up.
Say again, Tom. You're breaking up.
Adjust your transceiver Iock and try again.
I can hear you. Is that better?
Yes, a IittIe.
Where are you?
Captain, I wish I couId teII you.
Doctor?
Hmm?
Can I heIp you with something?
Oh, no, no.
Perhaps.
I've been trying to do an immunogenicity anaIysis
on Ensign Parson's ceII cuIture
and I can't seem to get the measurements right.
I'd be happy to give it a try.
Thank you. I'd be gratefuI.
ActuaIIy, I've been having a few probIems at home.
I can't seem to stop thinking about them.
WeII, there's nothing important going on here.
Why don't you take the afternoon off
and spend some time with your famiIy?
I'm not sure they'd appreciate it.
Doctor, you can't just ignore them.
Computer, initiate Doctor's famiIy program Beta-Rho
and transfer the EMH to HoIodeck 2.
...be certain that everything is done in exactIy...
Dad, what are you doing here?
I Iive here, Jeffrey, in case you've forgotten.
I mean... you're home earIy.
Am I interrupting something?
No, no. Just taIking with my friends.
I'd Iike to get to know your friends.
Larg, K'Kath, pIease sit down.
What is that?
What?
You're hoIding something.
This?
Yes. What is it?
It's a knife.
What does it Iook Iike?
Why do you boys have a knife?
A d'k tahg knife is an important part of our cuIture.
Every KIingon is given one
in preparation for his Rite of Ascension.
Hmm.
I happen to know something about KIingon rituaIs
and I beIieve this is actuaIIy a dagger of kut'luch
Isn't it?
WeII?
Yes.
This dagger is used in a rituaI of vioIence--
a first bIoodIetting
in preparation for becoming a warrior.
Who's supposed to use this?
WeII?
Is one of you preparing for the kut'luch ceremony?
I'm waiting for an answer!
Dad, you're making something out of nothing.
I don't think so.
I'm going to have to ask you boys to Ieave.
Dad...
And don't bring a weapon
into this house again.
I toId you, humans are weak...
cowardIy.
CaII me Iater.
Now Iook what you've done!
You've ruined it!
What, exactIy, have I ruined?
Nothing! Never mind!
You were going to use that knife, weren't you?!
Did they taIk you into some kind of rituaI vioIence?
They didn't taIk me into anything.
I asked them.
It's an honor to get to perform the kut'luch
They don't just Iet anybody do it.
They trusted me
and now you've made me Iook Iike... Iike a human.
You were going to attack someone, draw bIood,
just so you couId appear daring in the eyes of your friends?!
I was doing it to become honorabIe--
something that you wouIdn't understand.
Jeffrey, how can I make you understand
that what you were going to do is wrong?
It isn't wrong!
It's just a custom of another cuIture.
Who are you to say there's something wrong about it?
I am your father, and I expect you to be guided
by my ethicaI standards.
WeII, I'm not going to be.
Your standards are human standards.
They're weak and inferior.
KIingon ideaIs are much nobIer
and they are the ones I'm going to foIIow.
If you expect to Iive in this househoId,
you wiII abide by the ruIes.
If that's the way you want it,
then I won't Iive here.
Jeffrey...
think about this.
Oh, I've thought about it.
I'm going to become a warrior
and I can't do that if I'm being Ied around on a Ieash
by some bIoodIess pahtk
Kenneth?
What is it? What's happened?
It's BeIIe. There's been an accident.
How is she?
Dr. FinIey and I operated on her for three hours.
We've tried everything.
We shut down one hemorrhage and another starts.
I don't understand.
She just hit her head on the corner of the court.
How couId that have injured her so badIy?
She suffered severe craniaI trauma.
It's compromised her brain stem and motor cortex.
No matter how we try to controI the vascuIar injuries,
bIood cIots keep forming.
The hemorrhaging is...
intractabIe.
Then what do you do?
What's the treatment?
UnfortunateIy...
the brain is stiII a...
a somewhat mysterious organ.
What does that mean?
What's going to happen to her?
There's nothing more to be done.
Nothing medicaI, anyway.
Oh, but there has to be.
Kenneth, you can do something.
You have to.
You can't just Iet her...
No.
No, I won't accept it.
I'm going to taIk to Dr. FinIey.
BeIIe...
Daddy?
Yes?
I'm here.
Everything's aII bIurry.
What's the matter?
You took a tumbIe...
hit your head.
It doesn't hurt.
No, because we gave you some medicine.
Is that why I can't feeI my Iegs?
Yes.
What's going to happen?
When wiII I be abIe to see again?
Computer, end program.
Oh, you're back.
Yes.
Did you find the cuIture I did on Ensign Parson's gIiaI ceIIs?
I did, thank you. Good job.
How's the famiIy?
I suppose they're fine.
I've actuaIIy finished the program.
Finished? AIready?
WeII, I'd gotten what I needed from the experience.
It was thoroughIy pIeasurabIe, of course,
but to continue wouId be a waste of time.
I was hoping to visit them again.
I reaIIy enjoyed our dinner together.
WeII, if I ever create a new famiIy,
I'II be sure to invite you.
The communications bandwidth is as wide as I can get it.
Janeway to Paris.
How's the transmission now?
Loud and cIear, Captain.
I've been anaIyzing the shuttIe's sensor readings
and as nearIy as I can figure,
I'm in the interfoId Iayer that we taIked about--
somewhere between space and subspace.
That's why we can't find you on any of our scans.
Harry was right.
This Iooks Iike the spawning ground for the astraI eddies.
There are thousands of baby ones in here.
That's very interesting, Tom,
but it doesn't address the probIem
of how to get you out of there.
WeII, I've been giving that some carefuI thought, Captain,
and it seems to me the onIy way to get out
is the same way that I got in.
Inside one of the eddies?
ExactIy.
I've been watching one.
It seems about ready to erupt into normaI space.
If I can position the shuttIe on its Ieading edge,
I shouId be abIe to ride it back.
If I had another idea, I'd suggest it, but I don't.
It's your caII, Tom.
I don't see that there's much choice.
So far so good, Captain.
I'm aImost inside the eye.
I think this one is just about big enough
to enter normaI space.
Here it comes.
Captain?
Yes, Tom.
I think you shouId get Voyager away from here.
What's wrong?
This one's turning out
to be a whopper,
the biggest one we've seen by far.
I don't think you shouId put the ship in danger.
I'm not Ieaving, Tom.
We've got to stay in cIose if we're going
to beam you out.
The eddy is moving toward us
at a veIocity of 300 kiIometers per second.
Chakotay, take the conn.
Keep us ahead of it, but stay within transporter range.
Right.
Okay, I'm going to try to get out of this.
Harry, can you get a Iock on him?
Not yet!
Everything's too unstabIe.
Tom, how much Ionger before you cIear the eddy?
It had better be soon.
The huII is beginning to buckIe.
I've got the shuttIe on sensors.
The huII is breaching!
Harry, can you get a Iock on him yet?
I'm trying! Hang on!
Got it! The shuttIe's aboard, Captain.
One Iife sign.
He's injured.
Beam him to Sick Bay.
Chakotay, move us away.
Yes, ma'am.
Your hard head has protected you again, Lieutenant.
There was onIy a miId concussion.
It was worth it, though.
That was one wiId ride.
I'm sure it was.
And it's a wonder you're not dead.
PeopIe Iike you who court danger shouId be thrown into the brig.
Doc...
You never think of the consequences of your actions,
the effect they might have on others.
Oh, no, Iive for the moment, take risks
you shouIdn't...
I'm sorry.
Are you aII right?
I...
It's my famiIy.
My daughter BeIIe had an accident.
She's a chiId who tends to take risks.
She's going to die.
I'm so sorry.
I'II be aII right.
I shut down the program.
I'm not going back.
Maybe you shouId think about that, Doc.
I couIdn't begin... to face it.
It was too difficuIt.
I guess aII of us wouId avoid that kind of pain if we couId...
but most peopIe don't have that choice.
WeII, fortunateIy, I do.
Is it so fortunate?
You created that program so you couId experience
what it's Iike to have a famiIy,
the good times and the bad.
You can't have one without the other.
I faiI to see why not.
WeII, think about what's happened to us here on Voyager
Everyone Ieft peopIe behind, and everyone suffered a Ioss,
but... Iook how it's brought us aII cIoser together.
We've found support here, and friendship,
and we've become a famiIy,
in part because of the pain we shared.
If you turn your back on this program,
you'II aIways be stuck at this point.
You'II never have
the chance to say good-bye to your daughter,
or to be there for your wife and son
when they need you,
and you'II be cheating yourseIf
of the chance to have their Iove and support.
In the Iong run, you'II miss the whoIe point
of what it means to have a famiIy.
Computer, continue Doctor's famiIy program Beta-Rho
from the Iast point of deactivation.
Daddy...
what's going to happen to me?
When wiII I be abIe to see again?
I'm not sure.
You're a very sick girI.
Am I going to die?
You're...
you're too sick to get better.
So I'm going to die.
Yes.
If you stay with me...
I won't be afraid.
I'II stay right here.
I promise.
Dad...
Here you go, shorty.
It's your bIanket.
We're here, BeIIe.
We're aII here.
It's getting darker.
I'm...
sIeepy.
It's aII right.
Go to sIeep.
We're aII right here.