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Previously on
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds...

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Is everything
all right, Captain?

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We're going back out.

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Captain Pike.

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Lieutenant La'An Noonien,
Chief of Security.

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-La'An.
-Hey, Chief.

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Wait, you two know each other?

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She helped me
find my way back home.

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Permission to return
to Enterprise, sir.

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-What's the mission?
-Explore.

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We seek out new life,

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new civilizations.

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We boldly go where no one
has gone before.

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UNA:
First officer's log,

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stardate 1224.3.

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The Enterprise has arrived
at Hetemit 9,

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the site of an abandoned
Illyrian colony.

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Illyrians are
a humanoid species known

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for modifying their genes

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to enhance their capabilities

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and levels of function.

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However, because
genetic modification

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is forbidden in the Federation,

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they have always been outcasts.

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Our presence here
is part of a standing mission

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to discover
what happened to them.

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Unfortunately, research time
on the surface is limited,

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as the planet is regularly swept
by ion storms.

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One of which
is fast approaching.

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It's funny how
genetic modification

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still puts everyone on edge.

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Even you, it would seem.

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I just don't like loose ends.

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(thunder crashes)

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Damn it.
I wish we had more time.

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These shelters are pretty old.
We should get everyone back

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-to the Enterprise.
-All right, everyone,

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pack up your data and head
to the rendezvous point

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for transport.

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Spock, this is Pike. Come in.

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The storm must be interfering.
I'll go grab him.

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No, no. I got him.

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You get the rest
of the team back home.

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Ensign Lance.

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Energize.

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Commander, I'm having trouble
getting a lock on your signals.

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The ion storm is interfering.

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Storm's only getting closer,
Enterprise.

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One second, Commander.

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Energizing.

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(whirring weakly)

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Transporter Room to Engineering.
Hemmer, I'm losing them.

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Rerouting auxiliary power.
Get ready.

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Chief Hemmer to Bridge.

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Prepare for temporary engagement
of emergency systems backups.

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(indistinct announcement
over P.A.)

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Engineering to Transporter.
Try it now.

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What the...?
How did you...?

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I am a genius. Move quickly.

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Copy.

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(sighs)

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Better not be out of miracles,
Mr. Kyle.

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Captain and Mr. Spock
are still on the surface.

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Captain, I think
I've managed to uncover

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a previously undiscovered cache

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of journals
that may be relevant.

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-I'm looking forward
to reading them.
-Great.

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How about we get
to the rendezvous point

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before the storm
overtakes us, so you can?

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Pike to Enterprise.
Two to beam up.

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-(sighs)
-(sighs) I can't get a lock.

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-Pull more power.
-Power's not gonna help.

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The ion storm is too strong.

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We try to transport them
through that,

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who knows when we'll get back?

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Number One to Captain Pike.

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You and Mr. Spock should find
shelter until the storm passes,

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-and quickly.
-Copy, Number One.

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PIKE:
Suggestions, Mr. Spock?

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Run.

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PIKE:
Space.

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The final frontier.

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These are the voyages
of the starship Enterprise.

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Its five-year mission:

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to explore strange new worlds...

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...to seek out new life

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and new civilizations,

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to boldly go
where no one has gone before.

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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(boatswain's whistle sounds)

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The captain and Mr. Spock
are stuck on the surface.

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As soon as it's safe,
we'll get them back.

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In the meantime,

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we do our jobs. Cadet Uhura,

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can you get a signal?

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No, Commander.

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The ion storm is functionally
a communications blackout.

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I want to know the second
you connect with the captain.

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-Yes, Commander.
-Lieutenant Wheeler,

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I want round-the-clock
monitoring of the storm.

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The second it starts to let up,
I want to know.

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And tell Chief Kyle
to have relief ready.

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I want the transporter
standing by.

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(indistinct announcement
over P.A.)

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ORTEGAS:
Ensign Lance?

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Are you all right?

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It's too dark in here.

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Okay, it's been a long day
for all of us.

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But maybe this is something
you should, you know,

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do in your own quarters?

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LANCE:
I need to feel the light
on my skin.

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Whatever tweaks your freak, pal.

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(grunts)

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What the hell are you doing?

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Ortegas to Security.

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I need help on Deck 14.

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Computer,
increase illumination 25%.

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(exhales)

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Number One to Dr. M'Benga.

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What is the status
of the landing party?

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M'BENGA:
Good evening, Commander.
Funny you should mention it.

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I have several of them
in here as we speak,

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presenting with some
very curious symptoms.

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I was about to call you.
Are you feeling all right?

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-I'm okay.
-Better come down here

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and let me check you out,
just in case.

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On my way.

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M'BENGA:
It's odd.

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Half of them have burned
or shocked themselves,

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all on sources of illumination,
and yet

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the light's the only thing
that seems to calm them down.

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(sighs)
They're being attracted
to light.

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So much so they're willing
to hurt themselves to get to it.

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I take it you haven't exhibited
any of these unusual behaviors?

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No.

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You found nothing else
in their systems?

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No form of contagion?

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Well, the transporter's
biofilters

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would have screened out
anything abnormal.

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But I ran viral and bacterial
scans anyway as a precaution.

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They're clean.

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Only thing I've been able
to find

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is a severe drop
in cholecalciferol.

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Vitamin D?

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All show levels in the red.

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Outside of this
and the aberrant behavior,

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you'd never know they were sick.

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How were my vitamin D levels?

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Normal.

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Whatever affected them
seems to have missed you.

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I'd like to take a blood sample
nonetheless.

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Commander?

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Of course.

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Have you been able to reach
the captain and Mr. Spock?

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Still too much interference
with the storm.

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(whirs)

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We'll have to hope
they weren't exposed

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to whatever this is.

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I have to believe the landing
party came into contact

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with something down there
that the biofilters missed.

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HEMMER:
Nonsense.

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The biofilters would have caught

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any contamination
during transport.

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Unless it was something they
weren't programmed to catch.

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Can't happen.

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If they don't recognize it,
they filter it out.

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What about the ion storm? Could
that have interfered with it?

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-No.
-(beeping)

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I mean...

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...it shouldn't have.

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And yet M'Benga's got four

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landing party members
in sickbay.

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Anything else abnormal during
transport you can think of?

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Besides the landing party's
atoms

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almost getting mixed up into
a puddle of bioorganic stew?

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No.

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I can sense that expression,
you know.

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Oh, I know.

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You had to pull a lot of power
to keep pattern stabilization.

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Could that have inhibited
the biofilters?

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Not only are all
the ship's transporters

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networked for emergency power
distribution,

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the new systems have discrete
backups for biofilters

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and pattern stabilizers.

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I will run a level 5 diagnostic
ship-wide.

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-To make you feel better,
Commander.
-Thank you.

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Which, I might add,
may well take all night.

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(indistinct announcement
over P.A.)

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(boatswain's whistle sounds)

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UNA:
On screen.

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Number One?

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Are you and Lieutenant Spock
all right?

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We're fine, but the storm has
us pinned down in the library.

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We have an emerging situation
here.

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Landing party members
are getting ill.

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The doctor thinks
they were exposed

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to something on the surface.

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(distorted):
What kind of something?

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Apologies.
The signal's out again.

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The storm's interference
is too strong.

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UNA:
Computer, show me everything
you have

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on Illyrian
genetic modifications,

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specifically related
to disease control.

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COMPUTER:
Working.

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Computer,
isolate any files pertaining

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to the original
Illyrian settlement

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on the Vaultera Nebula.

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Records are limited.

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(sighs)

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You wanted to see me, Chief?

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Yes. Several landing party
members

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are showing symptoms
of some kind of contamination.

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Security needs
to keep an eye out

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for anyone exhibiting
strange behavior.

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Mm-hmm.

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Illyrians?

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You think this contamination
might be related to them?

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I don't know what to think.
I'm just doing research.

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Well, it seems to me,
things like this are exactly

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why the Federation is so wary
of genetically-modified species

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like the Illyrians.

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You start breaking down
the genetic code,

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who knows what the unexpected
consequences can be?

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If the problem originated
with the Illyrians,

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maybe they could also
provide us with a cure.

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Isn't using any Illyrian
medical tech

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against Federation regs?

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Thanks to the Eugenics Wars.

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I imagine you know all about
that period in history.

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Well, you don't grow up with
a bioengineered mass murderer

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as your ancestor
and not develop a thick skin.

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Khan Noonien Singh.

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Made myself a kind of an expert
on him when I was a kid.

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I never think of you as a child.

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Yeah.

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For a while there,
the worst thing

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that had ever happened to me

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was a bunch of
the other kids' teasing.

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I'd hope that someone
with your last name would know

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that snap judgments made
on genetics are faulty at best.

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Individuals are
so much more than just...

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Is it me or is it dark in here?

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(exhales)

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-UNA: La'An?
-(exhaling)

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Is this the only light you have?

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Number One to Dr. M'Benga?

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M'BENGA:
Commander?

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I think we have a new problem.

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M'BENGA:
Same vitamin D deficiency.

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Same attraction to light.

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She wasn't part
of the landing party.

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She never went down
to the planet.

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I know.

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How is that possible?
How is it spreading?

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-I don't know.
-Internal contact tracing

258
00:14:51,090 --> 00:14:53,025
shows that Lieutenant Noonien
shared a turbolift

259
00:14:53,092 --> 00:14:54,660
with Ensign Lance.

260
00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:57,062
-It's a possible source
of exposure.
-M'BENGA: Maybe.

261
00:14:57,129 --> 00:14:58,998
Except whatever it is
isn't being passed

262
00:14:59,064 --> 00:15:02,301
by any traceable viral
or bacteriological means.

263
00:15:02,368 --> 00:15:04,103
What do you recommend, Doctor?

264
00:15:04,169 --> 00:15:07,940
To keep it from spreading,
full lockdown.

265
00:15:10,175 --> 00:15:12,478
UNA:
Computer, open a channel
ship-wide.

266
00:15:12,544 --> 00:15:14,380
Attention all crew members,

267
00:15:14,446 --> 00:15:16,915
we are initiating
Level Five lockdown protocol,

268
00:15:16,982 --> 00:15:18,951
effective immediately.

269
00:15:19,018 --> 00:15:22,554
All nonessential personnel
will be confined to quarters

270
00:15:22,621 --> 00:15:24,156
until further notice.

271
00:15:24,223 --> 00:15:26,125
All on-duty personnel

272
00:15:26,191 --> 00:15:30,262
will be confined to specific
work zones until further notice.

273
00:15:35,501 --> 00:15:37,436
You have your orders.

274
00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:43,175
(thunder rumbling)

275
00:15:48,147 --> 00:15:50,349
I believe there is
a human phrase.

276
00:15:50,416 --> 00:15:52,318
"A watched kettle never boils."

277
00:15:52,384 --> 00:15:53,519
It's a pot.

278
00:15:53,585 --> 00:15:55,421
And in this case,
I'm pretty sure

279
00:15:55,487 --> 00:15:57,523
we're gonna get hit
with the scalding water.

280
00:15:57,589 --> 00:15:59,658
You are deliberately mixing
my metaphor

281
00:15:59,725 --> 00:16:02,328
in order to indulge
your anxiety.

282
00:16:02,394 --> 00:16:06,031
There are sick people on my
ship, and we're stuck down here?

283
00:16:06,098 --> 00:16:09,068
I don't like feeling helpless.

284
00:16:09,134 --> 00:16:10,502
Pacing relentlessly
back and forth

285
00:16:10,569 --> 00:16:12,171
will not change the situation.

286
00:16:13,405 --> 00:16:16,241
(thunder crashes)

287
00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:19,378
PIKE:
This place is fun.
They should sell tickets.

288
00:16:20,145 --> 00:16:21,647
It seems this particular group
of Illyrians

289
00:16:21,714 --> 00:16:23,682
wanted to join the Federation.

290
00:16:26,051 --> 00:16:28,721
As Federation law forbids
genetic manipulation,

291
00:16:28,787 --> 00:16:31,256
this group was attempting
to reverse its DNA modifications

292
00:16:31,323 --> 00:16:33,025
to gain entry.

293
00:16:33,092 --> 00:16:35,094
De-engineering themselves,
as it were.

294
00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,429
-That's a new one.
-Indeed.

295
00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:39,732
Any clue as to what happened
to the colony?

296
00:16:39,798 --> 00:16:42,401
I am only halfway through
these records, Captain.

297
00:16:43,469 --> 00:16:45,003
Consider maybe skipping
to the end

298
00:16:45,070 --> 00:16:46,672
before the storm tears
the building apart?

299
00:16:46,739 --> 00:16:48,674
(thunder crashes)

300
00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:02,221
(high-pitched shriek)

301
00:17:04,189 --> 00:17:06,291
Tell me you saw that, too.

302
00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:08,127
I did.

303
00:17:08,193 --> 00:17:11,797
Although what I saw,
exactly, I am not sure.

304
00:17:25,277 --> 00:17:27,312
(whooshing nearby)

305
00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:36,121
UHURA:
What are y'all doing?

306
00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:39,158
Computer, end simulation!

307
00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:43,162
-What did you do that for?!
-We need light!

308
00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:45,130
UNA:
How many more?

309
00:17:45,197 --> 00:17:47,099
Almost 50. I had to open

310
00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:49,401
our auxiliary bay
to handle the overflow.

311
00:17:49,468 --> 00:17:50,669
CHAPEL:
Contact tracing
is all over the map.

312
00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:52,271
Some people are getting it

313
00:17:52,337 --> 00:17:53,839
after being down the hall
from someone who's sick.

314
00:17:53,906 --> 00:17:55,541
Meanwhile,
Cadet Uhura's roommates

315
00:17:55,607 --> 00:17:58,277
both came down with it,
she's completely fine.

316
00:18:04,349 --> 00:18:05,851
UNA:
Hemmer, did you find anything?

317
00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:07,686
Of course. That's why
I'm wandering around the ship

318
00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:09,855
in the middle of the night
running diagnostics.

319
00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:11,757
For fun.

320
00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:14,126
Doctor, we need to check your
emergency medical transporter

321
00:18:14,193 --> 00:18:17,296
for systems integration
and excess power usage.

322
00:18:17,362 --> 00:18:19,398
Please!

323
00:18:19,465 --> 00:18:21,600
I have research in there.

324
00:18:21,667 --> 00:18:22,701
(sighs)

325
00:18:26,705 --> 00:18:29,274
You doing anything right now?

326
00:18:29,341 --> 00:18:30,676
If you hadn't noticed,
I'm in the middle

327
00:18:30,742 --> 00:18:32,611
of a ship-wide
medical emergency.

328
00:18:32,678 --> 00:18:35,147
Trust me, I've noticed.

329
00:18:35,214 --> 00:18:37,349
(whirring)

330
00:18:37,416 --> 00:18:39,418
(gasping)

331
00:18:39,485 --> 00:18:41,453
My medical transporter is fine.

332
00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,388
That shouldn't have affected
the lights.

333
00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:45,657
Please stop messing around
in here!

334
00:18:47,192 --> 00:18:49,528
You're only making things worse.

335
00:18:52,264 --> 00:18:54,633
Point taken.

336
00:19:18,724 --> 00:19:22,628
Whatever made that sound,
looks like it's gone.

337
00:19:22,694 --> 00:19:24,663
A curious figure of speech.

338
00:19:26,765 --> 00:19:27,933
(warbling)

339
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,202
Captain.

340
00:19:31,737 --> 00:19:33,772
(high-pitched shrieking)

341
00:19:36,241 --> 00:19:38,510
-I think we know
what made that sound.
-Indeed.

342
00:19:47,986 --> 00:19:49,621
Oh, you're lucky.

343
00:19:49,688 --> 00:19:51,623
Any closer and that
could have hit the carotid.

344
00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:53,225
On a human.

345
00:19:53,292 --> 00:19:54,927
The journals did mention
unconfirmed rumors

346
00:19:54,993 --> 00:19:56,728
of creatures
living inside the storms.

347
00:19:56,795 --> 00:19:58,530
I think we can confirm them.

348
00:19:58,597 --> 00:20:00,632
(heavy thudding)

349
00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,739
What do you think the odds are
that'll hold?

350
00:20:07,806 --> 00:20:10,208
Perhaps we should weight
probability in our favor.

351
00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:16,582
A lockdown is instituted,
you're off duty, you come here.

352
00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:19,885
Your roommates contract
the contagion, you do not.

353
00:20:19,952 --> 00:20:21,420
Why?

354
00:20:21,486 --> 00:20:23,522
UHURA:
I went to bed.

355
00:20:31,496 --> 00:20:32,598
Like this?

356
00:20:32,664 --> 00:20:34,600
I closed the door.

357
00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:36,702
I need it pitch-black
to fall asleep.

358
00:20:36,768 --> 00:20:38,337
I'm like The Princess and the...

359
00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:40,505
...Pea that way.

360
00:20:48,981 --> 00:20:51,750
Uhura was exposed to the same
conditions as her roommates,

361
00:20:51,817 --> 00:20:55,821
with one exception:
she was in the dark.

362
00:20:55,887 --> 00:20:58,390
I ran an electromagnetic scan
on the ship.

363
00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:00,659
Around infected crew members,

364
00:21:00,726 --> 00:21:04,262
light waves carry
additional energy.

365
00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:06,999
The contagion travels on light.

366
00:21:07,065 --> 00:21:10,469
(chuckles softly)
Insidious.

367
00:21:10,535 --> 00:21:12,938
And remarkable.

368
00:21:13,005 --> 00:21:15,674
The most successful viruses
propagate in a host,

369
00:21:15,741 --> 00:21:17,676
then trigger
a spreading response.

370
00:21:17,743 --> 00:21:19,878
The way a common cold
makes humans sneeze

371
00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:22,047
to transfer itself
to other humans.

372
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:25,283
Once we're exposed,
this virus triggers

373
00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:28,420
our pleasure centers when we are
in close contact with light.

374
00:21:28,487 --> 00:21:30,522
Light is literally everywhere.

375
00:21:30,589 --> 00:21:31,957
Any light wave could carry
the infection.

376
00:21:32,024 --> 00:21:33,692
CHAPEL:
It's only a matter of time

377
00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:37,362
before we all become infected
if we don't stop it.

378
00:21:37,429 --> 00:21:38,897
So how do we stop it?

379
00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:40,799
What's the one thing
we can control

380
00:21:40,866 --> 00:21:42,334
that counteracts light?

381
00:21:42,401 --> 00:21:44,503
Dark hates light,
light hates dark.

382
00:21:44,569 --> 00:21:46,738
So we turn off the lights.

383
00:21:46,805 --> 00:21:48,073
We have a sickbay
full of patients

384
00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:50,008
who are essentially
light addicts.

385
00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:52,344
The virus is gonna make them
very uncomfortable.

386
00:21:52,411 --> 00:21:56,782
Would it be too intrusive
to sedate all of them?

387
00:21:57,983 --> 00:21:59,718
Given the alternative...

388
00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:03,789
...I think it's the best option.

389
00:22:19,137 --> 00:22:20,605
Computer,
narrow search parameters

390
00:22:20,672 --> 00:22:22,407
to Illyrian
genetic modifications.

391
00:22:22,474 --> 00:22:24,676
-COMPUTER: Classified.
-Override.

392
00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:29,681
Narrow search parameters
to Illyrian

393
00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:32,651
genetic modifications
related to disease control.

394
00:22:32,718 --> 00:22:34,486
-Classified.
-Override. Override.

395
00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:48,567
Alert. Blackout override
in Transporter Room.

396
00:22:48,633 --> 00:22:51,636
Danger of critical
circuit overload.

397
00:22:51,703 --> 00:22:53,105
Commander Chin-Riley
to Transporter Room.

398
00:22:53,171 --> 00:22:55,574
-What's going on?
-(whirring)

399
00:22:56,541 --> 00:22:58,910
Acknowledge.

400
00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:03,582
Computer, clear screen.

401
00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:14,593
(low rumble)

402
00:23:23,902 --> 00:23:25,904
Hemmer, what are you doing?

403
00:23:25,971 --> 00:23:27,572
Performing a miracle.

404
00:23:27,639 --> 00:23:30,542
Come in. You'll enjoy it.

405
00:23:32,677 --> 00:23:35,580
(gasps softly)
What is that thing?

406
00:23:35,647 --> 00:23:37,716
An iron-sulfur alloy, I believe.

407
00:23:37,783 --> 00:23:41,052
It took all my skills to isolate
a portion that could transport

408
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,121
from the core of Hetemit 9.

409
00:23:43,188 --> 00:23:45,624
It's not fully materialized.

410
00:23:45,690 --> 00:23:48,193
You're transporting a piece
of the planet's core?

411
00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:50,629
Mantle, to be precise.

412
00:23:50,695 --> 00:23:53,665
I want to feel the radiance
on my skin.

413
00:23:53,732 --> 00:23:56,635
I've almost stabilized
the signal.

414
00:23:56,701 --> 00:23:58,770
Hemmer, it's a thousand degrees.
It'll kill you.

415
00:23:58,837 --> 00:24:00,972
More like 10,000.

416
00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:02,941
Just a few seconds more
and it'll be here.

417
00:24:04,075 --> 00:24:05,744
(high-pitched whirring)

418
00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:08,480
Hemmer, stop!

419
00:24:28,533 --> 00:24:30,569
♪ ♪

420
00:24:51,857 --> 00:24:53,792
(heavy thudding)

421
00:24:53,859 --> 00:24:55,727
(weapon whirs)

422
00:24:58,930 --> 00:25:01,032
Does that thing have
a setting for stun?

423
00:25:01,099 --> 00:25:02,968
I am arming us with knowledge.

424
00:25:04,569 --> 00:25:05,971
You think the Illyrians knew
how to stop these things?

425
00:25:06,037 --> 00:25:07,939
Perhaps.
But even if they did not,

426
00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:09,841
we may be able to learn
from their misfortune.

427
00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:13,078
I have deduced that these
creatures did not destroy them.

428
00:25:13,144 --> 00:25:14,813
That, in fact,
they began to appear

429
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,181
as the Illyrians were starting
to be wiped out

430
00:25:16,248 --> 00:25:17,716
by a mysterious disease.

431
00:25:17,782 --> 00:25:21,119
I'm still waiting
for the useful part.

432
00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:22,854
SPOCK:
I have found no entry describing

433
00:25:22,921 --> 00:25:25,056
the creatures causing harm
to the colonists.

434
00:25:27,659 --> 00:25:30,061
My ears are popping.

435
00:25:30,128 --> 00:25:31,863
The atmospheric pressure
is rising.

436
00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:33,164
Ionization levels in the storm

437
00:25:33,231 --> 00:25:34,699
are now lethal
to organic matter.

438
00:25:38,036 --> 00:25:39,271
(metal creaking)

439
00:25:51,283 --> 00:25:52,550
Ground.

440
00:26:03,261 --> 00:26:05,297
(grunting)

441
00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:16,074
♪ ♪

442
00:26:33,158 --> 00:26:34,726
(panting)

443
00:26:34,793 --> 00:26:37,762
-Looks like they're gone.
-Indeed.

444
00:26:37,829 --> 00:26:41,132
And thanks to them,
it would seem, we are not.

445
00:26:44,402 --> 00:26:47,205
How in the exact hell
are you carrying him?

446
00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:49,975
UNA:
Never mind. He needs to be
sedated before he wakes up.

447
00:26:50,041 --> 00:26:52,043
I'm afraid I'm going
to have to be next.

448
00:26:54,245 --> 00:26:57,882
My cholecalciferol levels
are plunging.

449
00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,852
And it's down to Nurse Chapel
and myself, I'm afraid.

450
00:27:02,854 --> 00:27:04,622
You took my blood earlier.

451
00:27:04,689 --> 00:27:06,624
Did you find anything that
could help synthesize a cure?

452
00:27:06,691 --> 00:27:08,159
-Just because you haven't
caught this thing yet...
-I'm immune.

453
00:27:08,226 --> 00:27:10,996
-You don't know that.
-I've already come down with it,

454
00:27:11,062 --> 00:27:14,299
and my immune system did what
it was bioengineered to do.

455
00:27:14,366 --> 00:27:17,736
I didn't tell you earlier
because...

456
00:27:19,971 --> 00:27:21,639
...I'm an Illyrian.

457
00:27:23,108 --> 00:27:25,243
-Would that even work?
-No.

458
00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:28,279
Why not? My body knew how
to fight off the infection.

459
00:27:28,346 --> 00:27:30,382
It's not that simple.
There are other factors.

460
00:27:30,448 --> 00:27:32,217
Neither of us has
any experience with...

461
00:27:32,283 --> 00:27:34,352
your unique metabolism.

462
00:27:34,419 --> 00:27:36,254
Mm.

463
00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:37,255
Why do I get the feeling
you're about to quote

464
00:27:37,322 --> 00:27:38,690
Starfleet regulations?

465
00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:39,724
Oh, no, I'm not. I just--

466
00:27:39,791 --> 00:27:41,092
Look, I know there's a directive

467
00:27:41,159 --> 00:27:42,360
against mixing human
and Illyrian blood,

468
00:27:42,427 --> 00:27:45,130
but I couldn't
care less right now.

469
00:27:45,196 --> 00:27:46,965
Then why are we wasting time?

470
00:27:47,032 --> 00:27:48,767
-(groaning in distance)
-Go.

471
00:27:50,935 --> 00:27:53,872
-What is the issue?
-I've looked at your blood.

472
00:27:53,938 --> 00:27:55,907
It has no novel antibodies.

473
00:27:55,974 --> 00:27:59,344
And that is consistent with what
I know of Illyrian biochemistry.

474
00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:03,982
You don't create antibodies
that lie dormant.

475
00:28:04,049 --> 00:28:06,051
Your immune system
literally burns out

476
00:28:06,117 --> 00:28:08,686
new infections immediately.

477
00:28:12,757 --> 00:28:17,429
Which means I have nothing left
to synthesize an antidote from.

478
00:28:17,495 --> 00:28:20,832
So I'm protected
but I can't help anyone else?

479
00:28:20,899 --> 00:28:24,369
Perhaps if I was there
at the moment you were infected.

480
00:28:24,436 --> 00:28:26,104
-You'd better put me out.
-UNA: No, no, no, wait.

481
00:28:26,171 --> 00:28:27,806
We'll come up with something.

482
00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:29,974
-There's nothing
to come up with.
-(exhales)

483
00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:32,944
You're a Starfleet doctor.
There's always something.

484
00:28:35,980 --> 00:28:38,216
You put a lot of faith
in Starfleet.

485
00:28:38,283 --> 00:28:40,151
That must be hard.

486
00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:44,289
Starfleet is right
about a lot of things,

487
00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:46,291
but not all of them.

488
00:28:46,357 --> 00:28:48,159
Not about us.

489
00:28:48,226 --> 00:28:50,795
-If my blood...
-I understand.

490
00:28:50,862 --> 00:28:53,832
Prejudice has kept people from
helping each other for centuries

491
00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:56,901
with no scientific
justification.

492
00:28:56,968 --> 00:28:59,404
And after we met our neighbors
in the galaxy,

493
00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:02,841
we found new bigotries.

494
00:29:03,808 --> 00:29:06,177
Human and Vulcan blood.

495
00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:08,813
Now it's human and Illyrian.

496
00:29:10,148 --> 00:29:13,318
In any case,
they're meaningless to me.

497
00:29:13,384 --> 00:29:16,754
I am a physician.

498
00:29:16,821 --> 00:29:18,923
I'd beg you to help
if you could,

499
00:29:18,990 --> 00:29:21,292
regulations be damned.

500
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,394
But you can't help here.

501
00:29:25,363 --> 00:29:27,532
I'm sorry.

502
00:29:29,167 --> 00:29:30,835
(exhales)

503
00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:36,040
Now put me out.
Before I lose control.

504
00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:42,013
COMPUTER:
Warning. Warp core containment
field has been deactivated.

505
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,984
Recommend reestablishing
containment field immediately.

506
00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:48,086
(alarm sounding)

507
00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:54,859
Warning. Warp core containment
field has been deactivated.

508
00:29:54,926 --> 00:29:57,295
Warp core breach imminent.

509
00:29:57,362 --> 00:29:58,563
La'An.

510
00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:06,971
(alarm sounding)

511
00:30:07,038 --> 00:30:09,174
Warning. Containment field
has been deactivated.

512
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,109
Warp core breach imminent.

513
00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:13,178
UNA:
La'An, stop.

514
00:30:13,244 --> 00:30:14,579
Back away from the panel.

515
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:17,482
-That's an order.
-Denied, Commander.

516
00:30:17,549 --> 00:30:20,351
You know what'll happen if that
containment field goes down.

517
00:30:20,418 --> 00:30:23,888
We'll be flooded with light.

518
00:30:23,955 --> 00:30:25,990
La'An, stop.

519
00:30:26,057 --> 00:30:28,927
Danger of exposure
to matter/antimatter radiation.

520
00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:31,229
Containment field at 75%.

521
00:30:31,296 --> 00:30:33,331
Seventy percent.

522
00:30:33,398 --> 00:30:35,600
Fifty-five percent.

523
00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:37,535
Radiation nearing
critical levels.

524
00:30:37,602 --> 00:30:39,103
LA'AN:
Let me go.

525
00:30:42,407 --> 00:30:45,543
Containment field at 40%.

526
00:30:45,610 --> 00:30:47,545
Get off of me!

527
00:30:47,612 --> 00:30:49,180
I'm trying to help you.
It's me, La'An.

528
00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:51,983
You know me. I'm your friend.

529
00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:53,318
You lied to me
every day for years.

530
00:30:53,384 --> 00:30:54,586
What kind of friend is that?

531
00:30:54,652 --> 00:30:56,921
-30%.
-You're an abomination.

532
00:30:56,988 --> 00:30:58,556
An augment.

533
00:30:58,623 --> 00:31:00,024
That's what the other kids
called me

534
00:31:00,091 --> 00:31:02,493
when they heard my name:
augment, monster.

535
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,030
Like you are.
(grunts)

536
00:31:06,097 --> 00:31:09,100
Radiation levels are now toxic
to organic species.

537
00:31:09,167 --> 00:31:10,535
Warp core breach imminent.

538
00:31:20,511 --> 00:31:22,313
(communicator trills)

539
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,048
Pike to Enterprise.
Do you read me?

540
00:31:26,584 --> 00:31:29,220
I think it's safe to go
back out now.

541
00:31:29,287 --> 00:31:31,222
We'll get a stronger signal.

542
00:31:36,394 --> 00:31:40,331
Those plasma creatures...

543
00:31:40,398 --> 00:31:42,667
they went to great lengths
to save our lives.

544
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:46,004
They shielded us
when the storm broke through.

545
00:31:46,070 --> 00:31:49,240
Why wouldn't they have done
the same for the colonists?

546
00:31:49,307 --> 00:31:51,476
I see two possibilities.

547
00:31:51,542 --> 00:31:53,244
They were not motivated
to save them

548
00:31:53,311 --> 00:31:55,346
because of some previous
interaction with the colonists.

549
00:31:55,413 --> 00:31:57,515
And the second?

550
00:31:58,716 --> 00:32:00,551
They were unable to save
the colonists

551
00:32:00,618 --> 00:32:03,087
because they are the colonists.

552
00:32:03,154 --> 00:32:05,323
How?

553
00:32:05,390 --> 00:32:06,991
I found mention
of some odd behavior

554
00:32:07,058 --> 00:32:09,527
in reaction to the disease
I mentioned earlier.

555
00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:12,430
The infected had a compulsion
for light.

556
00:32:12,497 --> 00:32:15,933
Some were driven so mad,
they ran into the storms,

557
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,235
chasing the lightning.

558
00:32:17,302 --> 00:32:19,037
Wouldn't they have died?

559
00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:21,005
Yes.

560
00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:24,942
Although it is possible
the charged storm particles

561
00:32:25,009 --> 00:32:26,978
bonded with the colonists'
electromagnetic presence,

562
00:32:27,045 --> 00:32:29,147
creating what we saw.

563
00:32:32,517 --> 00:32:34,419
Fascinating.

564
00:32:46,698 --> 00:32:49,300
This is a thorough account
of the colonists' initiative

565
00:32:49,367 --> 00:32:51,002
to renounce
their genetic engineering

566
00:32:51,069 --> 00:32:53,104
in order to join the Federation.

567
00:32:55,073 --> 00:32:57,041
It would seem, even in death,

568
00:32:57,108 --> 00:33:00,078
they wanted us to be aware
of who they really were.

569
00:33:05,249 --> 00:33:06,584
What is it, Spock?

570
00:33:08,553 --> 00:33:11,022
Some Illyrians were,
among other things,

571
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:13,458
bioengineered to fight disease.

572
00:33:13,524 --> 00:33:16,094
Had they not tried to reverse
their augmentation,

573
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,062
they may not have all died.

574
00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:22,300
They wanted to join
the Federation so badly

575
00:33:22,367 --> 00:33:25,570
their good-faith gesture
got them killed.

576
00:33:27,372 --> 00:33:29,407
(hypospray hisses)

577
00:33:30,441 --> 00:33:32,076
UNA:
It's okay.

578
00:33:32,143 --> 00:33:35,246
It's okay. We got an antidote.

579
00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:36,714
La'An tried to jump
into the warp core

580
00:33:36,781 --> 00:33:39,217
while the containment
field was down.

581
00:33:39,283 --> 00:33:41,452
As I was stopping her,
she got a bad dose of radiation,

582
00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:43,454
and so did I.

583
00:33:43,521 --> 00:33:45,490
Apparently, my body
cured both of us

584
00:33:45,556 --> 00:33:47,759
before I reengaged the field.

585
00:33:47,825 --> 00:33:49,727
La'An is not an Illyrian.

586
00:33:49,794 --> 00:33:53,631
Her proximity to the commander
created chimeric antibodies

587
00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:55,500
in her system.

588
00:33:55,566 --> 00:33:58,202
I was able to synthesize them
into a cure before they set.

589
00:33:58,269 --> 00:34:02,206
Don't thank me.
I know I'm good at my job.

590
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:07,612
Everyone here owes you
their life.

591
00:34:09,614 --> 00:34:12,450
There's something
I need to take care of.

592
00:34:31,602 --> 00:34:33,638
Mind if I sit?

593
00:34:37,875 --> 00:34:42,213
You pack one hell of a punch,
Lieutenant.

594
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,714
Thank you.

595
00:34:43,781 --> 00:34:46,117
That wasn't a compliment.

596
00:34:46,184 --> 00:34:48,719
What's the penalty for striking
a superior officer?

597
00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:52,590
I can't seem to remember.

598
00:34:54,592 --> 00:34:57,395
Thanks.

599
00:34:57,462 --> 00:35:00,198
I mean, we're friends, right?

600
00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:02,533
Do you want me to tell you it
was just the sickness talking?

601
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,535
I don't know. Was it?

602
00:35:04,602 --> 00:35:08,105
Yes. And also, no.

603
00:35:10,475 --> 00:35:12,410
All my life I've hated augments.

604
00:35:12,477 --> 00:35:14,512
Hated what-what people
thought of me

605
00:35:14,579 --> 00:35:17,181
because I was related to them.

606
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:19,784
Understanding why they were
outlawed in the Federation.

607
00:35:19,851 --> 00:35:22,687
The damage they did.
They almost destroyed Earth.

608
00:35:22,753 --> 00:35:25,156
The augments, yes, but not us.

609
00:35:25,223 --> 00:35:29,560
My people were never motivated
by domination.

610
00:35:29,627 --> 00:35:33,130
Illyrians seek collaboration
with nature.

611
00:35:33,197 --> 00:35:34,765
By bioengineering our bodies,

612
00:35:34,832 --> 00:35:37,468
we adapt to
naturally-existing habitats.

613
00:35:37,535 --> 00:35:41,806
Instead of terraforming planets,
we modify ourselves.

614
00:35:41,873 --> 00:35:43,908
And there's nothing wrong
with that.

615
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:47,712
If that's what you believe,
why do you hide it?

616
00:35:47,778 --> 00:35:50,214
Why hide it from me?

617
00:35:50,281 --> 00:35:54,318
I've been hiding it
from a lot of people.

618
00:35:54,385 --> 00:35:57,321
(inhales)

619
00:35:57,388 --> 00:36:00,157
All I ever wanted,

620
00:36:00,224 --> 00:36:05,363
since I first saw the stars,
was to join Starfleet.

621
00:36:06,364 --> 00:36:07,598
I know.

622
00:36:09,734 --> 00:36:12,303
You're the one who gave me
that dream.

623
00:36:14,372 --> 00:36:18,743
And the fact that strawberries
are my comfort food.

624
00:36:18,809 --> 00:36:20,845
(clears throat)

625
00:36:35,726 --> 00:36:37,528
UNA:
Captain.

626
00:36:37,595 --> 00:36:40,698
I'm an Illyrian.

627
00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:43,968
Not from this colony,
from far away.

628
00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:47,471
Starfleet policy is clear.

629
00:36:47,538 --> 00:36:50,241
By not disclosing
my genetic augmentation--

630
00:36:50,308 --> 00:36:53,377
worse, by enlisting
in Starfleet--

631
00:36:53,444 --> 00:36:55,580
I've committed
a Federation offense.

632
00:36:58,416 --> 00:37:00,284
I am resigning my commission

633
00:37:00,351 --> 00:37:04,855
and surrendering myself
for disciplinary review.

634
00:37:04,922 --> 00:37:07,491
I only ask that my sincere
desire to join Starfleet

635
00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:09,961
be taken into consideration.

636
00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:12,630
Rejected.

637
00:37:12,697 --> 00:37:15,433
-Sir?
-I don't care
where you come from.

638
00:37:15,499 --> 00:37:18,235
You're the best
first officer in the fleet.

639
00:37:18,302 --> 00:37:19,637
Thank you, sir, but I feel
obligated to point out

640
00:37:19,704 --> 00:37:20,638
that Starfleet does not allow...

641
00:37:20,705 --> 00:37:22,807
Una, stop.

642
00:37:22,873 --> 00:37:25,476
Chris, that's kind, but I've
broken a dozen regulations.

643
00:37:25,543 --> 00:37:27,511
I lied to get into Starfleet.

644
00:37:27,578 --> 00:37:29,480
According to Federation law,
if you shelter me,

645
00:37:29,547 --> 00:37:31,949
they could come after you, too.

646
00:37:32,016 --> 00:37:34,251
I welcome that discussion.

647
00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:38,823
One thing became clear to me
on Hetemit 9.

648
00:37:38,889 --> 00:37:41,359
Illyrians are severely
misunderstood.

649
00:37:41,425 --> 00:37:44,762
Your actions in the crisis
prove that again.

650
00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:48,633
I just did my job, sir.

651
00:37:48,699 --> 00:37:51,369
No.

652
00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:54,372
You defy every stereotype

653
00:37:54,438 --> 00:37:56,741
the Federation has
about Illyrians.

654
00:37:56,807 --> 00:37:59,810
You're an example to them.

655
00:37:59,877 --> 00:38:02,380
And to all of us.

656
00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:05,916
What do we do
when Starfleet finds out?

657
00:38:05,983 --> 00:38:08,686
(chuckles softly)

658
00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:15,826
You let me worry
about Starfleet.

659
00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:24,735
Oh, before you go...

660
00:38:24,802 --> 00:38:28,039
Uh, the glitch was with the
transporter's biofilter, right?

661
00:38:28,105 --> 00:38:29,473
That's how the virus
got on board?

662
00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:31,776
-Let's get that fixed.
-Yes, sir.

663
00:38:31,842 --> 00:38:33,577
M'BENGA:
Come in.

664
00:38:37,581 --> 00:38:41,419
It was your medical transporter
that inhibited the biofilters.

665
00:38:41,485 --> 00:38:44,555
The new transporters keep
biofilter and pattern integrity

666
00:38:44,622 --> 00:38:46,457
power systems separate.

667
00:38:46,524 --> 00:38:48,325
But you didn't let them upgrade
the medical transporter

668
00:38:48,392 --> 00:38:50,494
when we were in spacedock.

669
00:38:50,561 --> 00:38:52,730
I'm starting to suspect
you couldn't.

670
00:38:57,735 --> 00:39:00,504
Hemmer's diagnostic

671
00:39:00,571 --> 00:39:03,841
shows you're keeping something
in the pattern buffer.

672
00:39:03,908 --> 00:39:07,478
And whatever it is,
you needed to preserve it,

673
00:39:07,545 --> 00:39:09,880
even if it ended up killing
everyone on the ship.

674
00:39:09,947 --> 00:39:12,883
-Isn't that right, Doctor?
-No.

675
00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:16,887
I didn't know.

676
00:39:20,191 --> 00:39:22,026
It was an accident.

677
00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:23,494
What are you keeping in there

678
00:39:23,561 --> 00:39:25,863
that could be worth
all our lives?

679
00:39:32,603 --> 00:39:33,804
Not what.

680
00:39:35,773 --> 00:39:37,408
Who.

681
00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:39,376
Rukiya.

682
00:39:42,580 --> 00:39:44,682
My daughter.

683
00:39:44,749 --> 00:39:47,852
A year ago, she was diagnosed
with cygnokemia.

684
00:39:47,918 --> 00:39:49,720
Brutal disease.

685
00:39:51,689 --> 00:39:55,092
You can't imagine what it's like
to watch your child wither away.

686
00:39:57,528 --> 00:40:01,832
To see a lifetime of potential
reduced to a 12-week prognosis.

687
00:40:01,899 --> 00:40:04,034
I'm sorry.

688
00:40:04,101 --> 00:40:06,904
I am chief medical officer.

689
00:40:08,005 --> 00:40:11,008
On the flagship of Starfleet.

690
00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:15,579
You'd think I'd be able to do
something about it.

691
00:40:18,115 --> 00:40:20,084
But nothing worked.

692
00:40:21,152 --> 00:40:23,788
Did you know there's no limit

693
00:40:23,854 --> 00:40:25,823
on how long you can store
someone's pattern

694
00:40:25,890 --> 00:40:27,625
in the buffer?

695
00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:33,164
You just have to materialize
them regularly.

696
00:40:35,065 --> 00:40:38,636
In the buffer,
my daughter doesn't age.

697
00:40:38,702 --> 00:40:41,972
And her disease can't progress.

698
00:40:42,039 --> 00:40:45,476
We travel light-years in hours.

699
00:40:45,543 --> 00:40:49,013
And somewhere out there

700
00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:52,917
is a planet that has
the discovery I need.

701
00:40:52,983 --> 00:40:54,118
Only...

702
00:40:56,086 --> 00:40:59,456
...the light virus epidemic
was my fault.

703
00:40:59,523 --> 00:41:02,059
It seems so, yes.

704
00:41:02,126 --> 00:41:05,462
If I thought, even for a second,

705
00:41:05,529 --> 00:41:08,032
that could have happened...

706
00:41:08,098 --> 00:41:10,901
It won't happen again.

707
00:41:12,703 --> 00:41:15,840
I can't endanger our crew
for one life.

708
00:41:15,906 --> 00:41:18,642
No matter how much
that life means to me.

709
00:41:21,178 --> 00:41:26,483
But I ask, would you consider,

710
00:41:26,550 --> 00:41:29,053
before you return me
to Starfleet,

711
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:30,754
that I might have a chance
to spend

712
00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:33,190
a little more time
with my daughter?

713
00:41:38,062 --> 00:41:39,263
To say goodbye.

714
00:41:40,231 --> 00:41:42,233
No.

715
00:41:45,669 --> 00:41:47,104
I'll provide a dedicated
power source,

716
00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:48,906
direct from the warp core.

717
00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:51,976
This problem?

718
00:41:52,042 --> 00:41:55,079
We can ensure
it never happens again.

719
00:41:58,682 --> 00:42:00,718
(door whooshes open)

720
00:42:02,686 --> 00:42:05,089
I look forward to meeting her
one day.

721
00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:14,999
First officer's personal log.

722
00:42:18,602 --> 00:42:20,304
The lights are back on.

723
00:42:20,371 --> 00:42:22,907
But that doesn't mean
we see clearly.

724
00:42:24,108 --> 00:42:25,843
People are always hiding things.

725
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:37,888
Hi, Dad. Story time?

726
00:42:37,955 --> 00:42:40,858
You bet.

727
00:42:40,925 --> 00:42:43,727
-Now, where were we?
-King Ridley was about to climb
the tower

728
00:42:43,794 --> 00:42:45,229
to rescue Princess Thalia
from evil Queen Neve.

729
00:42:45,296 --> 00:42:48,565
(shushes)
Wait.

730
00:42:48,632 --> 00:42:50,601
(chuckles):
No spoilers.

731
00:42:50,668 --> 00:42:53,837
Dad, we've read this,
like, a hundred times.

732
00:42:53,904 --> 00:42:55,873
That doesn't mean
that the ending

733
00:42:55,940 --> 00:42:57,741
couldn't miraculously change.

734
00:42:57,808 --> 00:42:59,777
UNA:
Dr. M'Benga stopped
hiding today,

735
00:42:59,843 --> 00:43:01,111
just a little.

736
00:43:01,178 --> 00:43:02,279
And for once,

737
00:43:02,346 --> 00:43:04,682
I did, too.

738
00:43:06,650 --> 00:43:10,854
I told Captain Pike
the truth about myself.

739
00:43:10,921 --> 00:43:13,223
And he defended me.

740
00:43:13,290 --> 00:43:15,092
Told me I was exemplary.

741
00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:17,828
That he would fight for me.

742
00:43:20,965 --> 00:43:23,167
So why do I feel terrible?

743
00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:29,940
What if I hadn't saved
all those lives?

744
00:43:31,909 --> 00:43:34,278
Would the captain feel the same?

745
00:43:36,246 --> 00:43:38,315
What would he do
if I wasn't a hero?

746
00:43:38,382 --> 00:43:40,117
One of the "good ones"?

747
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:44,755
When will it be enough
to just...

748
00:43:46,757 --> 00:43:48,659
...be an Illyrian?

749
00:43:53,397 --> 00:43:55,799
Computer.

750
00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:02,272
Delete log entry.

751
00:44:02,339 --> 00:44:04,875
COMPUTER:
Log entry deleted.

752
00:44:04,942 --> 00:44:08,145
M'BENGA:
If King Ridley would seek out
the Mercury Stone

753
00:44:08,212 --> 00:44:10,180
and win it as his own,

754
00:44:10,247 --> 00:44:13,417
his victory over Queen Neve
would be assured.

755
00:44:13,484 --> 00:44:15,819
It is said
that in the right hands,

756
00:44:15,886 --> 00:44:19,923
the Mercury Stone has the power
to cleanse the land of evil

757
00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:22,860
and bring prosperity to all.

758
00:44:22,926 --> 00:44:25,796
But if it were to fall
into the wrong hands,

759
00:44:25,863 --> 00:44:30,300
the Mercury Stone's power
would bring about a terrible,

760
00:44:30,367 --> 00:44:34,338
long-lasting dark age
across the land.

761
00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:42,780
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