01x10 - A Moral Star (part 2)

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic music]

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[sweeping music]

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[epic music]

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[sinister music]

- I scanned the entire ship.
- [grunts]

No sign
of the Proto-Core on board.

I'll never
get to Starfleet without it.

[growls]

Where is it?

I never wanted it to come to this.

You got your ship.
Leave them alone.

Perhaps you've forgotten.

That heirloom was a gift.
From me.

[gasps]
[yells]

Why are you doing this?

What did you think would
happen? You'd distract me?

- Beam your friends aboard?
- [groans]

Raise power to the shields and
reset all security protocols.

- Shields are locked.
- Shall I ready the brig?

Watch over my Progeny
to ensure

she does nothing to further
inhibit my mission.

Acknowledged, Captain.

Reactivate the Watchers
and set a course

to return to Tars Lamora at once.

We have a star to catch.

[tense music]

We'll cover more
ground if we split up.

[miners grunting]

[growling]

The atmospheric shields
will only hold for so long.

Get to the Rev-
before this whole place goes!

I understand you!

And I understand you.
How?

It's a short wave translator.

Now, if you would kindly
make your way to the...

- My name is Grjordslat!
- I'm Trodo.

After so many years,
it's nice to finally talk!

[whimsical music]

I've been holding in
these thoughts and feelings

for so long, Grjordslat...

Sorry to interrupt
this beautiful moment,

but you have to go!
Now!

Go, get to the ship!

Jankom, Murf found the engine room.

Oh, well done.

[Watcher beeps]
[tense music]

[grunts]

Nice going, Rok.

- Huh? The Watchers are back on?
- Hurry! Get in!

[beeping]

[yells]

If the Watchers are back on,
that means...

We gotta fix this engine
and get outta here.

[banging]
[yelps]

Whoa.

Oh boy,
they really toasted the place.

Keep that hatch shut
while Jankom works his magic.

You know, I can do more
stuff than hold a door.

Uh... uh-oh.

Didn't know you could
fix an engine by staring at it.

The... the blast emptied
the entire energy core.

So let Jankom figure it out.

Uh, unless
you've got a better idea.

What if you interplex
the plasma conduits,

adjust for input variances
in the dilithium matrix,

and siphon off the energy
of the Proto-Core

- to jump-start it?
- Uhh... New plan!

Jankom holds the door,
and you do all of that.

Stay close, Murf.

We're gonna need
some of that juice.

[trilling]

[coos]

[meow]

It's okay, little one.
I won't hurt you.

It's time we leave this place.

[laser whirring]

Zero, watch out!

Ohh...

Zero!

- Are you okay?
- I'll manage.

Never had
much control of them anyway.

We'll never get everyone
onto the ship

with our shortwave
communicators.

[sighs]
There has to be a faster way.

[rapid chirping]

The manacles.

Ugh.
How's that power coming?

- [strained] Almost there.
- Well, they're almost here!

[yells]

- Rok, watch out!
- Huh?

Aaaah!

Let's... hope... this works.

[power-up thrumming]

Oh!

- I got it, I got it!
- Way to go, Rok!

[cooing]

It's nice to see
you can do more than just

- percussive maintenance.
- [chuckles] Yeah.

They did it.
They did it!

They've done it!

[exhales]

We can all breathe easier now.
Except me, of course.

A benefit
of being non-corporeal.

If you can't use your hands,
could you at least keep quiet?

I can't concentrate.

Just... need...
a moment.

[quiet engine hum]

We're all out of moments.

[gasps]

They're back.

Huh?

- Give me the Proto-Core. Now.
- Go, Murf!

Get it outta here!

Look over here,
you big dum-dum!

Oof!

Huh?

He's in here!

Yeah, we now have a voice.

Good for us.
Bad for you.

[hisses]

[miners yelling]

The mission will not be stopped.

- Our Divider will prevail.
- [schwing]

[cheers and applause]

[uplifting music]

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[panting]

How did you get them all here?

It took
a little jury-rigging,

but Zero helped me
turn their ankle monitors

into universal translators.

I just lowered my head
and ka-bam!

- Did you see that?
- We both did. [laughter]

[high-pitched bellowing]

[squeaks]

- Murf, what's wrong?
- Mmm...

They got the Proto-Core!

Drednok must have
transmitted the coordinates

before he was destroyed.

- If the Diviner has the Proto-Core...
- Gwyn.

[tense music]

Protostar Drive online
in ten minutes.

"There is no barrier
we cannot overcome."

[alarm blaring]

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We're coming, Gwyn.

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[epic music]

[sinister music]

You're disabling the shield?

Why didn't you warn me?

Because I only
answer to Starfleet.

[heroic music]

I had upgraded her programming

to prevent any of your overrides.

[growls]

Like she said.

Upgrades.
Gwyn, the shields?

I can't get through
all the security lock-outs...

You can. Keep trying.

[grunts]

Security protocol S- disabled.

[grunts]

[panting]

[gasping]

I'm almost through.

[strained] Please...
Progeny.

Everything I've done
will be for nothing.

Lower the shields.

Don't.
Our mission.

We can still save our people!

Save?
Our homeworld was destroyed.

No. No. You said we were
the last of the Vau N'Akat.

You wanted to know the truth?

This is it.

Solum is here.
Now.

But it... it won't be for long.

- I was sent back in time to save it.
- Solum is here?

I... I can see it?

[strained] "There is no
barrier we cannot overcome."

[coughs]

Please.
Please, Gwyndala.

You will doom our people.

Gwyn, what are you waiting for?

Computer, freeze hologram Janeway.

[high-pitched ringing]

[wheezing]

Tell me the truth.
All of it.

Even better.
I can show you.

[bassy rumbling]

Why aren't we
on that ship already?

We can't beam over
until the shield's down.

Gwyn should've done that already.

Something's wrong,
we need to help.

Can't help so long
as those shields are up.

Unless you wanna blast
our shields to smithereens.

We are not f*ring on our own ship.

Actually, if we aimed this ship's
weapons at the shield emitters...

That could lower the shields
long enough to beam aboard.

I cannot believe I'm saying this.

Target the "Protostar."

[dramatic music]
[whirring up]

[shields humming]

Activate program Solum- .

[beep]

[whirring]

Simulation upload complete.

[gasps]

[wind rustling through vegetation]

- Solum.
- As it exists today.

The Vau N'Akat are flourishing.

Confident in our supremacy,

believing it is just us
in the universe.

We can save it.

- What happens?
- Computer, show Solum

years after the First Contact.

Starfleet did this?

But they stand for hope and peace.

- They'd never...
- Starfleet lit the fire

and left us to burn.

After their mere arrival, civil
w*r splintered our people

between those aligned
with the Federation and those

who would die
to preserve our way of life.

- But history can be rewritten.
- [gasps]

We can stop First Contact.

- How?
- By arming a w*apon

already on board the "Protostar."

We can wipe out all
of Starfleet from existence.

What did you put on this ship?

I'm reading energy fluctuations.

The Proto-Drive is ready to engage.

If they Proto-Warp now,
we'll lose them forever!

Pog will keep blasting,
but right now can only lower

shields long enough to
beam us over one at a time!

[panting]

- What's your plan?
- I'll tell you when I got one.

[quiet music]

Tell me.
What did you put on the ship?

Just as the Federation
ignited our civil w*r,

when the "Protostar"
comes into contact

with a Starfleet vessel, our
w*apon will release a signal

that will corrupt their systems,
turning their ships against

each other until the entire
alliance is reduced to nothing!

Our ship will destroy Starfleet?

This ship is part of our destiny.

Starfleet will welcome
its return with open arms.

And it will tear itself
apart from within!

[gasps]

In time, you will understand.

Once Starfleet falls to ruin,
we can return to Solum

- where we belong.
- [gasps]

Our dreams of going to Starfleet.
If we go, we...

- We'll...
- Destroy them, yes.

We can't go.
We can never go.

You can't trade
one tragedy for another!

You need to talk to Starfleet,
not destroy them!

The Proto-Drive is online.

The time for talk is over.

Computer, open archway.

[electronic hum]

Step away, old man.
She's with me.

[growls]

Okay.

I was really hoping that
would go a different way.

You would help the inferior
before your own people?

[groans]

He alone is no match
against the Vau N'Akat.

Who said he was alone?

I will not let you hurt my friends.

Zero.

You used me to hurt others.

It's time I show you
who I truly am

so you cannot hurt anyone else!

[gasps]

C'mon.

Look at me!
Don't look or you'll go mad.

[gasping]

[screaming]

Look at me.

No, no, no!

Zero!
Shut it down!

[pained wheezing]

[groans]

[somber music]

Look at me!

- Look at me!
- [weakly] We can't go.

- We can't go, we can't go...
- Gwyn?

- Gwyn, look at me!
- We... We can't go.

- Look at me.
- We can't go.

I... I didn't mean to.
Not Gwyn.

We can't go.

We can't go. We can't go.

We can't go. We can't go.

- We can't go.
- [sobbing]

- We can't go.
- [continues sobbing]

We can't go. We can't.

[Janeway] Training Log.
Stardate . .

Though victory came at a price,

the crew of the U.S.S. "Protostar"

proved exemplary in securing transport

for a large many who
could not help themselves,

transforming a symbol of captivity

into a vehicle for liberation.

While learning to fly, a ship
has its inherent struggles.

After what I've seen
from my own crew,

I have faith they'll figure it out.

As for the Diviner,
he is now the sole Unwanted.

Banished to live the rest of his life

in the ruins of his own making,

his reign of terror foreseeably over.

But was the price too steep?

Since the incident,
Zero hasn't left Gwyn's side.

Had she seen
more than a reflection,

Gwyn could've been lost forever.

Thankfully, the only thing lost

were her memories of the event.

[soft music]

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These voyages have left an
indelible mark on this crew,

new worlds, sought new life
and new civilizations...

all to gain a little understanding
of our greater galaxy,

the potential of our greater selves.

And they've learned they will
always be stronger together.

[heroic music]

- [cooing]
- Gwyn!

The Diviner referred to Gwyn
as his "progeny." An offspring.

But that word says
nothing about who she is,

nor what she's capable of.

In fact, you could look at
any of these kids...

I mean, crew...
and dismiss them at first glance.

[beeping]

- Where to, Captain?
- It's time we return their ship.

- Set a course for Starfleet.
- [gasps]

- Is everything okay?
- Everything's fine, Captain.

Let's go to Starfleet.

Each of them has
exceptional qualities

that they've only
just begun to discover.

Each of them...
a Prodigy in the making.

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[electronic whirring]

[beeping]

I am detecting
a Proto-Warp signature again.

That makes three times now, Admiral.

Two times is a coincidence,
three is a pattern.

Finally, it's back on the grid.

It's time we rescue our missing ship
and get some answers.

Take us to the last "Protostar"
signature, maximum warp.

I'm coming, Chakotay.

[epic music]

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