your friend.
You're one of my favorite patients.
Let's face it.
Your regular office visits
are the cornerstone of my entire practice.
The problem is,
medicine is not what you need, Jack.
What you need is rest and relaxation.
A total change of scene.
Maybe a nice vacation.
How does that sound?
It sounds good.
Then take one.
And find a place that's peaceful and quiet.
The most important thing for you now
is no excitement.
Got it?
- I know it's hard to believe...
- Hard? Try "impossible. "
That's why I want you to see for yourself.
Then, if you're interested,
the project is yours.
First amaze me, then we'll talk funding.
Damn this traffic. We're gonna be late.
Just out of curiosity, who's your guy?
Your pilot?
You might know him. Tuck Pendelton.
- Why did you choose him?
- He had the right qualifications.
- Such as?
- He was the only one crazy enough to do it.
Let me tell you about Tuck Pendelton.
He could have been one of the best.
But he hates authority...
...he can't take orders,
and he likes to make up his own rules.
Don't look so depressed.
The experiment is bound to fail
long before Pendelton can screw it up.
How does that feel? It feels good.
Then do it again.
The Tuck Pendelton machine, zero defects.
- You're not getting nervous, are you?
- Not yet.
Let's review the neuromuscular
facial response experiment one more time.
Let's not, all right?
- What do you mean, "Let's not"?
- Who's nervous now?
I know what our objectives are.
I've done my homework.
I can do this little job blindfolded
and backwards, so everyone calm down.
Alpha-level technicians,
report to monitoring stations.
Optical sensor check commencing.
Initiate hyper-conic speaker check.
Initiating.
- Good luck, Lieutenant.
- Thank you.
Zero minus five.
All personnel to their stations, please.
Just one more thing, Lieutenant.
I want to make sure
we've got everything down.
It's not going to be simple,
but there shouldn't be any surprises or....
Good luck, Lieutenant.
Be careful of this unit.
I spilled coffee on it last week.
It's not quite as reliable as it was.
Still rolling? Great!
We are using an experimental...
...submersible pod,
modified with a performance-enhanced...
...helium-neon laser scalpel
of our own design.
This was a 50-milliwatt unit...
...which we increased to 600 milliwatts....
Just pay attention to your business there.
600 milliwatts...
...which, in terms of spacial equivalency,
would be a 60-kilowatt unit.
This is done because we have
such high efficiency, possible...
...because of our enhanced spectral coding.
All surfaces within the laser assembly....
This is done in a chamber,
which is constructed from a generator...
...coupled with
a common home carpet sweeper.
Would you bring up the Biomed
on the specimen, please?
Oxygen percentage, check.
Air tanks fully charged.
Doppler phase translocator activated.
State of the art.
All personnel,
we are now at priority level one.
Secure all stations.
Environmental control systems, check.
Gyro stabilization XYZ coordinates, check.
Laser subsystem analysis, check.
Pod lockdown and rotation complete.
Begin phase two of alignment.
Prepare for shield closure.
- Lieutenant, do you read me?
- Rock and roll.
Stand by.
I need final confirmation from Biomed.
Biomed complete.
- And from optoelectrical station three.
- Three, check.
- Station two.
- Two, check.
- And the MRD?
- Entry point plotted.
CC, do you confirm we're clear to proceed?
Dr. Niles isn't here yet.
That's his trouble, not mine.
Nothing I can do.
Prepare PEM number one.
Activate Photon Echo Memory system.
Insert PEM number one.
Commencing PEM number one's insertion.
Open pre-feed to the hydroperc chamber.
Pull up a display
on the photon densitometer.
Stand by, Lieutenant.
Insert PEM number two.
These should have been on my desk
a week ago.
Do you have any other papers
you haven't turned in?
Pod activated.
Microchip