told me who my father was. Just that he was in Starfleet. Maybe we should contact her. She died a few years ago. I'm sorry. Jason, I think it's important that we find out one way or the other. Would you be willing to permit a genetic test? If I'm not your son, is this person still gonna want to kill me? I doubt it. Then you won't mind my saying that I hope you're not my father. What were you doing in the caves, Jason? Are you a seismologist? No. I just enjoy climbing. - Without an antigrav harness? - No, they get in the way. So, what do you do? I'm between jobs right now. I see. Excuse me, gentlemen, the test results are ready. Your genetic code is a cross between the DNA of your mother, Miranda Vigo, and your father... ...Jean-Luc Picard. What's all this? These are archaeological fragments that I've collected over the years. This is a Silvan glyph stone. And this is... This is a Gorlan prayer stick. It's really quite rare. - Is it valuable? - Not really. Only to students of archaeology such as myself. Though I did hand over a bottle of very old Saurian brandy for it. I'd say you got taken. Well, perhaps. But it's of value to me, nonetheless. On Camor, something has value if you can eat it or sell it. Everything else is luxury. Would you like some tea? No. Thanks. - Something else? - No. Tea, Earl Grey, hot. I'm sure this whole thing is as much of a surprise to you as it is to me. I really want to be honest with you, Jason. I only knew your mother for a very short time. I would have liked to have known her better. It just didn't work out that way. You look a lot like her, you know. It's the eyes, I think. I would like to make one thing clear, Jason. Your mother never told me about you. If she had, I would have been part of your life. Maybe that's not what she wanted. I think I'd like to go back to the surface now. It would be better if you stayed on the Enterprise until we resolve this situation with Bok. What is this situation with Bok anyway? Why does he want me dead? Years ago, I was forced to destroy a starship commanded by his son. Bok apparently feels that it would be fitting vengeance to kill my son. Well, I can't hide forever. Of course not. We are trying to locate Bok now. I want to confront him, settle this. How long is this gonna take? There is no one more eager to put this behind us than I am. Where do I stay? We'll get you some quarters. OK, let's go. Jason. Your being here, I hope it will give us the chance to get to know each other. We shut down the probe's power system to beam it aboard. It's not gonna be easy to figure out where it came from. Bok encrypted the probe's navigational systems so we would be unable to decipher its flight path. We ran an analysis of the hull. From the particle deposits we found, it travelled through a dichromic nebula, was exposed to gravometric distortion and passed within a light year of a class-four pulsar. Those phenomena are common. We need to identify at least one to postulate a flight path. Understood. Captain, incoming message from DaiMon Birta. Put it on screen. Thank you for taking the time to talk with us, DaiMon. - I understand you have a problem. - Yes, it concerns DaiMon Bok. Bok is no DaiMon. He was relieved of command six years ago. He was unstable, dangerous. We had to confine him to Rog Prison. But he's no longer there. He was able to buy himself out about two years ago. I see. Do you know his whereabouts now? I understand he was seen in the Dorias Cluster not too long ago. But that cluster consists of more than 20 star systems. You don't have to thank me, Captain. Believe it or not, that might be the fix we need. A nebula in the Dorias Cluster matches the particles on the probe. There is a class-four pulsar three light years from the nebula. Calculations indicate the probe was launched in the Xendi Kabu system. Plot a ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Счастье на английском - текст Звёздный путь: Гнев Хана на английском - текст Ух ты, говорящая рыба! на английском - текст Американский ниндзя на английском - текст Майами Блюз на английском |