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Commander, away team reporting in.
It Worf standing by.

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This is Riker. Go ahead, Lieutenant.

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The archaeologists
have identified these markings.

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This planet was once home
to a race known as the Koinonians.

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What do we know, Data?

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The Koinonians were a culture

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which became embroiled in a war
that lasted generations.

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Our evidence indicates
they destroyed themselves.

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We have completed our survey

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and will proceed to the chamber.

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Affirmative. Enterprise out.

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Destroyed themselves, Data?

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According to records,

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this will be the first opportunity...

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Captain... Beam them up quickly!

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Captain. Emergency beam-up.
Enterprise. Severe injuries.

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Transporter room.
Beam them straight to sickbay!

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Dr Crusher, incoming wounded!

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Away team is on board, Captain.

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One dead on arrival.

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Space, the final frontier.

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These are the voyages
of the Starship Enterprise.

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Its continuing mission,
to explore strange new worlds...

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to seek out new life
and new civilisations...

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to boldly go
where no one has gone before.

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Captain's log, stardate 43198.7.
The Enterprise remains in orbit

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while we investigate the tragedy
which has struck the away team.

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It Marla Aster,
ship's archaeologist,

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has been killed
on a routine mission.

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Whatever the explanation,

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it will not bring back
a valued officer.

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Lieutenant?

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We had completed our investigation
of the third tunnel.

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Our scans indicated no weapons
or traps of any kind.

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It Aster
was three meters behind me.

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An explosive device went off.

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There was no warning.

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It Aster bore
the full brunt of the detonation.

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It Aster is survived
by a son, Jeremy.

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12 years old.

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He's aboard the Enterprise, sir.

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- And his father?
- He's also deceased.

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His only living relatives
are an aunt and uncle on Earth.

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- Where is he now?
- In class. The teacher expects us.

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Captain.

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I must accompany you.
I commanded the away team.

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I appreciate your offer, Lieutenant.
This is my responsibility.

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Picard to bridge. La Forge
will lead another away team.

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- I want to know what happened.
- Yes, Captain.

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I will be with Counselor Troi
and young Jeremy Aster.

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I understand. Riker out.

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- He had to do this for me.
- Do you know Jeremy well?

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But I know what this will be like
for him.

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That's part of life in Starfleet.

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I know. They prepare us for anything,
but still...

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I know.

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How do you get used to it?
Telling them.

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You hope you never do.

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I sense the weight
of this duty on you, Captain.

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I really wonder...

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Halt.

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I've always believed that carrying
children on a starship...

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is a very questionable policy.

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Serving on a starship means
accepting certain risks...

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certain dangers.

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Did Jeremy Aster make that choice?

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Death and loss are an integral part
of life everywhere.

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Leaving him on Earth
would not protect him.

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But the Earth won't be ordered
to the Neutral Zone.

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My command sent
his mother to her death.

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She understood
her mission and my duty.

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Will he?

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In time... and with help.

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Wesley Crusher does.

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He does.

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And so will Jeremy.

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Resume.

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Jeremy, I have some bad news.
There has been an accident.

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Your mother... has died.

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How, sir?

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An explosive device
at the mission site.

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She died instantly.

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I understand.

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Jeremy, I know your mother
loved you very much.

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I am told... that your father
is also dead.

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Yes, sir.

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He died five years ago
from a Rushton infection.

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I'm all alone now, sir.

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Jeremy, on the Starship Enterprise,
no one is alone.

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No one.

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Excuse me, sir. Am I intruding?

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No, sit down.

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How well did you know
It Aster?

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We spent some time together.

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Not very well.

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- How well did you know her?
- Why do you ask?

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- Well, you asked me.
- But why ask the question?

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Since her death,
I have been asked several times

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how well I knew Lt Aster.

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And I heard you ask Wesley
how well he knew Jeremy.

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Does the question of familiarity

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have some bearing on death?

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Do you remember when Tasha died?

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I do not sense
the same feelings of absence

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as with Lt Yar.

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Although I cannot say
precisely why.

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- Just human nature.
- Human nature, sir?

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We feel a loss more intensely
when it's a friend.

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But should not the feelings
run as deep,

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regardless of who has died?

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Maybe they should.

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Maybe if we felt any loss as keenly
as for one close to us,

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human history would be less bloody.

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- La Forge to Riker.
- You're back.

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Yes, sir.
We've brought back a souvenir.

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There are five more, all identical
to the one that killed Lt Aster.

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They employ
a subspace proximity detonator.

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A tricorder would never detect it.

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How long would they have been there?

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It comes from the time
of the Koinonian Wars, sir.

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- Did you find them all, Geordi?
- Yeah, but...

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Well, it seemed like
they were left to be found.

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Left by whom?
There are no indications of life.

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I don't know, Captain.

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But they were recently pulled
out of the ground and defused.

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I have made my report.

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I'm more interested
in how you feel about what happened.

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I sense great anger.

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I cannot seek revenge
against an enemy

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who's turned to dust centuries ago.

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Her death was senseless!

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The last victim of a forgotten war!

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Go on.

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There's nothing more to be said.

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A person died under your command.
It may happen again.

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If you can't learn to release
the anger and guilt, to talk...

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A leader must stand alone.

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- As Capt Picard does.
- Capt Picard talks to me.

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Then...

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may I seek counsel on my plan
to make R'uustai with the boy?

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- The Bonding?
- It is my right.

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It's very generous, Worf,
but... he's not a Klingon child.

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He has different sensibilities.

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He is an orphan. I am an orphan.
He will understand.

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Right now
there isn't much he can understand.

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He is holding
all his feelings inside.

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Children often feel they must be true
to the memory of a lost parent.

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If you offer affection too soon,

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they can feel guilty
returning that affection,

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as if they're betraying
the love of the parent.

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I only wish to honor his mother.

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I know and I understand
this means a great deal to you.

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But you must be prepared.

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He's very angry, too,
but his anger is deep inside him.

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When he touches it, it will strike
out in many directions,

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including yours.

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Be with him.

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Talk to him,
but don't rush this.

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When he's ready, we'll know.

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Capt Patches, an alien ship!
What shall we do?

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Oh, no! We've been hit!
We're going down.

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That was great! Get a shot of Mom.

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What are you doing?
I'll turn your lens to shards!

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Go away! Go away! Over there!

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Patches!

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Capt Patches is landing on the sofa!

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Oh, no! He's gonna crash!

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Jeremy Aster?
I'm Lt Worf. May I enter?

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You were in command.

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Yes. I was with Lt Aster...

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your mother, when she died.

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- You're a Klingon, aren't you?
- Yes.

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We studied about Klingons in school.

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- What did they teach you?
- You used to be our enemies.

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Did they teach you that we hope
to die in the line of duty?

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In my tradition, we do not grieve
the loss of the body.

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We celebrate the releasing
of the spirit.

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I understand death.
They teach us all about it.

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Jeremy Aster,

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we both understand. But we must bring
meaning into your mother's death.

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Perhaps we can do it together.

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Come.

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Counselor, how's the boy?

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- He's being very brave.
- Good.

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No, he has to get past brave.

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He's very angry
and he has to express that anger

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before he can say goodbye
to his mother.

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How can we help?

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Well, I've asked Beverly
to get Wesley

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to talk to Jeremy
about his father's death.

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The one unusual element is Worf.

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In many ways, he is suffering
as badly as the boy.

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He wishes to involve Jeremy
in a Klingon ceremony

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called R'uustai, the Bonding.

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I know of that.
Perhaps it would help them.

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I don't think Jeremy's ready
for Worf now. Perhaps later.

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It will have to be handled
delicately.

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As you always do.
I break the unpleasant news

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and there my responsibility ends.
But you...

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You have to stay with them
through the grieving process.

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We deal with our pain
in many different ways.

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Over the years,
I've discovered it's in joy

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that the uniqueness
of each individual is revealed.

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If I can help a person
back to joy...

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well, my role has its rewards.

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Captain, we're picking up
energy on the planet's surface.

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Location?

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Two kilometers north
of the away team's beam-down point.

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Full scan.

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- Inconclusive, Captain.
- Sir,

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I'm sensing a presence on the planet.

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- Very vague.
- Life form?

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I can't be sure. The emotions
of the crew are so strong now,

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it's difficult to filter them out.

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Data, scan analysis on main viewer.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Troi stopped by.

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She was wondering if you'd talk
to Jeremy Aster.

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Me?

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- What for?
- About your dad.

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What will I tell him?

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It would help to talk
to someone who's been through this.

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We had each other. He doesn't
have anyone right now.

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He might be more comfortable with
someone who's not so much older.

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OK, I'll think about it.

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OK.

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- Do you think about him, Mom?
- Your father?

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Sure I do.

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Sometimes...

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I can't even remember what his face
looks like. It scares me.

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It happens to all of us, Wes.

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Sometimes...

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I can't get his face
out of my mind.

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Today...

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Today it's like

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I can see it all
as if it were yesterday.

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I can remember the way Dad looked
when he hugged me goodbye,

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Capt Picard's eyes
when he came to tell us...

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Data, run comparison
of known phenomena.

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The pattern has no match
in Federation records.

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- Is it alive?
- A possibility.

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Captain.

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I'm getting an unusual
magnetic-flux reading from the pods.

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My God...

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Wait a minute.

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You've got ten seconds more, Mom.
No peeking.

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Come on, Patches, in here.
OK, Mom, we're ready!

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Jeremy? I'm getting closer!

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Jeremy? I'm gonna find you!

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You must be in here somewhere.

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Mom?

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All systems
are functioning normally.

255
00:22:04,550 --> 00:22:08,020
Still, there's this fluctuation
in the containment field.

256
00:22:08,190 --> 00:22:12,630
- Can't account for it.
- Is this related to the planet?

257
00:22:12,790 --> 00:22:16,030
There is a beam of particles
emanating from it.

258
00:22:16,530 --> 00:22:18,770
But I cannot pinpoint the location.

259
00:22:18,930 --> 00:22:22,470
Captain,
there's a presence on the Enterprise.

260
00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:27,780
- An alien presence?
- No intruder on the sensors.

261
00:22:28,740 --> 00:22:30,610
There is a presence.

262
00:22:33,450 --> 00:22:36,650
Security, all decks yellow alert.
Possible intruder.

263
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,800
- They said you were dead.
- There was a mistake.

264
00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:56,100
It's OK.

265
00:23:02,140 --> 00:23:05,010
But there was an explosion.
You were hurt.

266
00:23:05,610 --> 00:23:07,620
I'm fine.

267
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,150
You mustn't think any more
about this.

268
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,020
The important thing is
I'll never leave you again.

269
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,030
I think somebody needs a hug.

270
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,790
We have to go now.

271
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,590
- Where?
- To the planet.

272
00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:56,460
- That's where we're going to live.
- Not on the Enterprise?

273
00:23:56,630 --> 00:23:58,270
No.

274
00:23:58,430 --> 00:24:02,270
We're gonna live in a home,
just like on Earth.

275
00:24:04,170 --> 00:24:08,580
You'll see. I promise.

276
00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:19,790
It Worf!

277
00:24:19,950 --> 00:24:23,120
It was a mistake. She didn't die.
She's alive!

278
00:24:23,290 --> 00:24:25,860
- Jeremy, come here!
- Lt Worf.

279
00:24:26,030 --> 00:24:29,000
It's alright. I'm here for the boy.

280
00:24:31,170 --> 00:24:34,300
- Lt Worf to Capt Picard.
- Go ahead.

281
00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:37,200
It Aster is in her quarters.

282
00:24:38,710 --> 00:24:41,680
- Repeat, Worf.
- Lt Aster is here.

283
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,880
In her quarters with the boy.

284
00:24:45,050 --> 00:24:49,250
Do not provoke her or interfere
in any way. Picard out.

285
00:24:51,050 --> 00:24:53,220
Number One,
have Security move in that way

286
00:24:53,390 --> 00:24:56,090
but tell them to keep their distance.

287
00:24:56,220 --> 00:24:57,930
You have the bridge.

288
00:24:58,860 --> 00:25:00,430
Counselor.

289
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:09,770
Don't worry. I'm going to take care
of Jeremy, make him happy.

290
00:25:10,970 --> 00:25:13,910
- It's time to go.
- Where are you taking the child?

291
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,410
- To the planet.
- Come, Jeremy.

292
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,020
Worf to Picard.
They're leaving their quarters.

293
00:25:31,290 --> 00:25:34,330
Captain, we're headed
for transporter room three.

294
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,000
We're on our way.

295
00:25:42,670 --> 00:25:46,340
Chief O'Brien, Jeremy and I
are going to the surface.

296
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,950
- Who are you?
- I'm Marla Aster.

297
00:26:00,390 --> 00:26:04,430
- It's my mother. She's alive.
- What do you want?

298
00:26:04,930 --> 00:26:09,930
- To take my child to the planet.
- I cannot permit that.

299
00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:12,870
I'm here to care for him.

300
00:26:13,030 --> 00:26:16,340
He needs me. Why do you resist?

301
00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:20,510
Because I don't know
who or what you are.

302
00:26:21,110 --> 00:26:22,880
Can't you see, Captain?

303
00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:26,580
She appears to be your mother
but she is not.

304
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,350
- What?
- You're confusing him.

305
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,890
Hey! Wait! Stop! No!

306
00:26:34,460 --> 00:26:36,890
No! Stop! Mom!

307
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:44,470
Mom? Wait a minute. Let go of me.
She was right there.

308
00:26:49,740 --> 00:26:54,840
- What did you do to her?
- That was not your mother.

309
00:26:55,580 --> 00:26:57,810
You saw her. She was here.

310
00:26:58,780 --> 00:27:00,350
Your mother's dead.

311
00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:04,690
But I touched her. She was real.

312
00:27:06,020 --> 00:27:11,430
Why would your real mother take you
to a planet of dust and rocks?

313
00:27:28,740 --> 00:27:33,050
It's my house.
It's my house on Earth.

314
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,650
Exactly the way it was.
Remember, Jeremy?

315
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:43,260
- How did you do it?
- Does it matter?

316
00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:45,760
Yes, it matters.

317
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,630
I am trying to understand
your resistance.

318
00:27:53,470 --> 00:27:56,900
You spoke of rocks and dust
on the planet.

319
00:27:57,070 --> 00:27:59,910
I decided to show you
what awaits us.

320
00:28:00,370 --> 00:28:02,940
Why would you create this fantasy?

321
00:28:04,780 --> 00:28:06,380
It's his home.

322
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,050
It makes you happy, doesn't it?

323
00:28:10,220 --> 00:28:12,420
But it's not real.

324
00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:14,120
Isn't it?

325
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,560
Jeremy,
isn't that really Patches?

326
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:33,770
He knows me. It's him.

327
00:28:36,540 --> 00:28:40,380
- It's real. It's all real.
- No, it's not.

328
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,350
Could your real mother
just make this appear?

329
00:28:45,820 --> 00:28:49,620
You must not stay here. Come with me.

330
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,870
I can't.

331
00:29:09,010 --> 00:29:10,750
Is the boy in danger?

332
00:29:10,910 --> 00:29:15,120
I don't think so.
She seems to want to help him.

333
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,020
By easing his pain.

334
00:29:17,180 --> 00:29:20,020
She's very confused
by our resistance, Captain.

335
00:29:21,020 --> 00:29:24,560
Troi, would it be wise
to remove Jeremy from his cabin?

336
00:29:25,390 --> 00:29:29,230
He doesn't want to leave.
I would not recommend using force.

337
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,330
She offers him everything.
All we offer is his mother's death.

338
00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:35,070
What would you choose?

339
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,170
If somebody offered to give you back
your mother, father, husband,

340
00:29:39,340 --> 00:29:41,780
would any of us say no so easily?

341
00:29:41,940 --> 00:29:44,680
Counselor, stay with them
in Jeremy's quarters.

342
00:29:45,180 --> 00:29:47,850
We'll try to end this from here.

343
00:29:47,980 --> 00:29:49,280
Understood.

344
00:29:52,090 --> 00:29:55,960
Data, can you determine
that the energy source

345
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,130
is powering this creation?

346
00:29:59,260 --> 00:30:02,430
The beam from the planet
is tapping into us.

347
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,130
I'd say they're running her
off our energy.

348
00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:07,640
So there are limits to her power.

349
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,570
She needs the transporter
to get him back.

350
00:30:10,740 --> 00:30:13,210
How do we cut the puppet's strings?

351
00:30:13,370 --> 00:30:16,510
Match the shield's harmonics
to our containment fields.

352
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,250
That should sever the beam.

353
00:30:18,510 --> 00:30:21,020
- Proceed.
- Deanna, stand by.

354
00:30:21,580 --> 00:30:23,150
Standing by.

355
00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:30,260
Jeremy,
it's time for this to end.

356
00:30:31,730 --> 00:30:34,600
It's not real, and it's over now.

357
00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:38,930
Jeremy, I'm not going
to leave you ever again.

358
00:30:39,430 --> 00:30:42,140
I won't trick you or lie.

359
00:30:43,540 --> 00:30:45,640
We'll be happy together...

360
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,280
No...

361
00:31:12,930 --> 00:31:15,070
Antimatter pods reading nominal.

362
00:31:15,570 --> 00:31:18,040
The shield has severed the beam,
sir.

363
00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:22,180
Captain.

364
00:31:22,610 --> 00:31:24,010
The energy field...

365
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,020
Mr Crusher, take us out.

366
00:31:43,330 --> 00:31:46,230
Alien intruder, transporter room
three! Security alert!

367
00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:52,910
- Security to transporter room three!
- Cmdr La Forge, Mr Worf, with me.

368
00:31:53,070 --> 00:31:54,710
Number One, you have the bridge.

369
00:32:20,740 --> 00:32:22,970
Come, Jeremy.

370
00:32:23,140 --> 00:32:26,440
We will not let them
separate us again.

371
00:32:27,010 --> 00:32:28,680
We're going home.

372
00:32:41,290 --> 00:32:45,030
Captain, she's trying
to take Jeremy off the ship.

373
00:32:45,190 --> 00:32:46,760
Acknowledged.

374
00:32:46,930 --> 00:32:49,960
Engineering, La Forge.
Shut down power to transporters.

375
00:32:50,130 --> 00:32:53,600
- I'm on my way.
- Aye-aye, sir.

376
00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:56,200
It Worf, to transporter room three.

377
00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:02,510
Bridge, seal off deck eight,
corridors A and B.

378
00:33:03,140 --> 00:33:04,850
Engaging force fields, Captain.

379
00:33:05,010 --> 00:33:06,580
Transporters down.

380
00:33:22,660 --> 00:33:26,070
Energy force has left transporter
room three. Security alert!

381
00:33:27,270 --> 00:33:30,240
La Forge, it may try
to reinstate transporters.

382
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,770
Understood.

383
00:33:58,330 --> 00:34:02,100
Bridge,
release security force field 8B.

384
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:08,780
Hello, Jeremy.

385
00:34:11,510 --> 00:34:14,180
How are you? Are you frightened?

386
00:34:15,180 --> 00:34:16,150
No.

387
00:34:18,650 --> 00:34:21,660
- Well, a little, sir.
- Of course.

388
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,360
These are frightening things
that are happening.

389
00:34:25,530 --> 00:34:27,960
But we won't let anyone harm you.

390
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,500
Counselor,
take the boy to my quarters.

391
00:34:32,330 --> 00:34:33,400
No!

392
00:34:46,110 --> 00:34:49,580
It's looking over everything,
Commander, going to school.

393
00:34:52,850 --> 00:34:55,290
Let's hope it doesn't blow us up

394
00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:58,630
while figuring out how to blow us up.

395
00:35:05,470 --> 00:35:07,570
Power's back
in transporter room three.

396
00:35:08,070 --> 00:35:11,610
Bypassing the manual override,
shutting it down.

397
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,040
Transporter is down again.

398
00:35:15,210 --> 00:35:18,380
- Keep it down.
- Understood, Commander.

399
00:35:25,290 --> 00:35:30,360
It is only a matter of time before
we can power the transporters.

400
00:35:30,930 --> 00:35:33,830
We? For whom else do you speak?

401
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,200
The accident on the surface
was caused

402
00:35:43,370 --> 00:35:47,010
by a remnant
of an ancient and tragic era.

403
00:35:48,310 --> 00:35:50,980
Two species once shared this world.

404
00:35:51,810 --> 00:35:55,050
One of energy and one of matter.

405
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,050
The physical beings
you call Koinonians

406
00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:02,760
destroyed themselves
in unending, bitter wars.

407
00:36:03,190 --> 00:36:05,060
The surviving life forms

408
00:36:05,230 --> 00:36:07,500
will not tolerate
any further suffering

409
00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:10,330
as a result
of that dishonorable past.

410
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,570
So... they have made this possible.

411
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,200
They have made me possible.

412
00:36:18,070 --> 00:36:20,070
I appreciate your motives.

413
00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:24,750
But... his mother is dead.

414
00:36:25,580 --> 00:36:29,480
- He must live with that.
- I will be every bit his mother!

415
00:36:29,650 --> 00:36:31,390
But not his mother!

416
00:36:37,730 --> 00:36:41,130
- Picard to Lt Worf.
- Go ahead, Captain.

417
00:36:41,930 --> 00:36:45,670
Will you escort Ensign Crusher
to the Aster quarters?

418
00:36:45,830 --> 00:36:47,800
- Yes, sir.
- Picard out.

419
00:36:47,970 --> 00:36:50,270
Your philosophy is curious, Captain.

420
00:36:51,310 --> 00:36:53,810
What is so noble about sorrow?

421
00:36:54,340 --> 00:36:59,410
I can provide him an existence
where he will feel no anguish.

422
00:37:01,020 --> 00:37:06,050
It is at the heart of our nature
to feel pain... and joy.

423
00:37:06,850 --> 00:37:11,690
It is an essential part
of what makes us what we are.

424
00:37:13,460 --> 00:37:17,300
He is alone now in your world.
A child!

425
00:37:18,130 --> 00:37:19,500
Alone.

426
00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:23,540
How can you know
he won't be happier with me?

427
00:37:23,670 --> 00:37:27,210
For a brief moment in time,
he surely would be.

428
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,210
Any of us in his place would be.

429
00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:34,150
What would Jeremy do for friends?

430
00:37:35,150 --> 00:37:37,180
He will have friends.

431
00:37:37,690 --> 00:37:41,260
And will you provide
for his education, his health,

432
00:37:41,420 --> 00:37:43,260
his growth,

433
00:37:43,420 --> 00:37:45,860
a career, a wife?

434
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,930
Yes, it's quite an undertaking
you're proposing, isn't it?

435
00:37:53,870 --> 00:37:56,800
It is our duty to make him happy.

436
00:37:56,970 --> 00:38:00,410
Do you honestly believe
he would be happy in...

437
00:38:00,940 --> 00:38:05,250
this total fiction
which you wish to create?

438
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,820
What reason would he have to live?

439
00:38:08,980 --> 00:38:14,760
What you offer him is a memory,
something to cherish, not to live in.

440
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:19,630
It is part of our life cycle that we
accept the death of those we love.

441
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:25,130
Jeremy must come to terms
with his grief, not cover it.

442
00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:30,370
You see, we are mortal.
Our time in this universe is finite.

443
00:38:30,970 --> 00:38:35,180
That is one of the truths
that all humans must learn.

444
00:38:41,550 --> 00:38:44,020
Acting Ensign Crusher,
reporting as ordered.

445
00:38:44,190 --> 00:38:47,920
Come in, Wesley.
Please stay, Lieutenant.

446
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,430
Wesley's father died
on a Starfleet mission...

447
00:39:00,740 --> 00:39:02,570
when he was younger than you are.

448
00:39:04,910 --> 00:39:06,840
Wes, your mother told me

449
00:39:07,010 --> 00:39:12,010
you were finding it difficult
to talk to Jeremy. Why is that?

450
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,450
I don't know.

451
00:39:16,050 --> 00:39:18,550
I don't want to think about it.

452
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:22,090
All this has reminded me so much
of that day.

453
00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:27,060
The day I told you your father
had been killed. As I recall,

454
00:39:27,230 --> 00:39:28,960
you took it very well.

455
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,170
My parents had told me
about Starfleet missions.

456
00:39:34,340 --> 00:39:37,270
- I knew what could happen.
- You were prepared?

457
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,910
No. I wasn't prepared at all.

458
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:45,610
How can anyone be prepared to hear
that a parent is never coming home?

459
00:39:46,810 --> 00:39:50,420
I tried to be
what everyone expected of me.

460
00:39:50,580 --> 00:39:52,590
Brave and mature.

461
00:39:53,690 --> 00:39:57,120
Wesley, are you saying
that you didn't want anybody

462
00:39:57,290 --> 00:39:59,390
to see what you were feeling?

463
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,560
What were you feeling?

464
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,400
Like...
somebody had kicked me in the head.

465
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,400
Somebody?

466
00:40:11,070 --> 00:40:15,510
Go on. You've wanted to tell him
for a long time.

467
00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:20,410
I was angry... at you!

468
00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:24,720
Why were you angry at me, Wesley?

469
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,690
Were you angry because I told you
your father was dead?

470
00:40:31,330 --> 00:40:33,630
- No.
- Then why?

471
00:40:35,130 --> 00:40:37,630
Because you led the mission.

472
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:41,040
You came home and my father didn't.

473
00:40:44,270 --> 00:40:49,310
- How long were you angry, Wes?
- For a long time.

474
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,480
But not any more, sir.

475
00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:55,820
Not even a little.

476
00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:04,090
So, Jeremy, you must be very angry
at Lieutenant Worf.

477
00:41:05,290 --> 00:41:09,600
He was in charge of your mother's
mission just like Capt Picard,

478
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,340
when Wesley's father was killed.
Isn't that right?

479
00:41:15,370 --> 00:41:19,640
Worf came back. Your mother didn't.

480
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:26,610
Why? Why weren't you the one who
died? Why did it have to be her?

481
00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:30,790
He can't answer that. None of us can.

482
00:41:32,390 --> 00:41:35,390
It Worf also lost his parents.

483
00:41:35,990 --> 00:41:43,400
They were killed when I was six.
When I was alone, humans helped me.

484
00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:46,700
Let me help you.

485
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,610
The Marla Aster I knew and honored
is not in this room.

486
00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:54,840
Nor does she await you on the planet.

487
00:41:55,580 --> 00:41:58,380
She now only lives here...

488
00:41:59,580 --> 00:42:01,180
and here.

489
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,290
Join me in the R'uustai, the Bonding.

490
00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:16,460
You will become part of my family
for all time.

491
00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:19,230
We will be brothers.

492
00:44:04,940 --> 00:44:06,710
What does that mean?

493
00:44:09,110 --> 00:44:11,780
It honors the memory
of our mothers.

494
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,950
We have bonded
and our families are stronger.

495
00:44:16,305 --> 00:44:22,285
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