the way up to 100 if you do it slowly enough, so my nervous system can adjust. That is theoretically true. But even at this level, you are already experiencing dangerous neural feedback. There are over 300 people on board the Hera. You and I are the only chance they've got. I will increase the gain incrementally as you descend. It's working. When we disconnect the interface, we need time to lower the input levels or your nervous system will go into shock. Once I start the warp cascade, we can start dropping the gain. Understood. We'll be within sensor range of the Hera in a few minutes. Mom, I'm really sorry I didn't get by to see you a few weeks ago. - You were too busy with work. - Yeah, well, I'm sorry. It won't happen again. Captain, the Raman is descending toward the planet. Geordi! We are at 90 percent of tolerance. I calculate you will reach 100 percent before you reach the Hera. Then we go beyond tolerance. That is not advisable. You must cease your descent. No, Geordi, don't, please. Data, I'm taking this ship down. If you don't boost the gain past tolerance levels, I'll lose the interface and go into shock. Geordi, you are putting me in a difficult position. Please, cease your descent. I won't do it, Data. Increase the tolerance. Disengaging safety systems. Going to full tolerance levels now. Thank you, Data. - We're getting close. - Thank God! - Cmdr La Forge! - Yes, Captain? Stop your descent. Disengage the interface. Sorry, Captain, I can't do that. Damn it, Geordi, you'll kill yourself! If I come back now, my mother and her entire crew will die. I'm scanning for your ship. I'm not getting anything. We're still too far away. No, not really. I should be picking something up by now. I'm not finding anything. There's no warp funnel, no ship. There's nothing there! - Doctor, report? - His synapses are overloading. - He can't survive! - Geordi, what's happening? Reverse tractor beam. Reversing tractor beam. What are you? You're killing us. We must go down! Geordi. What's happening? Report. You're trapped? Is there any way to disconnect him? If we take him off too abruptly, he'll go into neural shock. Caught on the ship? Reduce the input gradually, but get him out. You killed the Raman's crew? - We can deceive his receptors. - Deceive them? Feed them sensory data from his earlier experiences with the probe. Disconnect the interface but maintain the input levels. Then lower them in a controlled way. - What do you want? - Like a decompression tank? Try it. It was an accident? Captain, I have to take the ship lower. Explain. As I understand, when the Raman neared the planet, it accidentally picked up some life forms that live in the atmosphere. Subspace beings, intelligent. When the ship went higher, the beings were trapped. How do you know all this? One of them can communicate. It must have read my thoughts via the probe and took the form of my mother to persuade me to take the ship lower. Are they responsible for the death of the Raman's crew? Yes, but not on purpose. They probably tried communicating with them the way they are with me, by accessing their thoughts. It must have been fatal to the crew. I guess the interface is what protected me. I have to take them back, Captain. They can't survive so far up in the atmosphere. I'll turn the ship and come back just as soon as I'm... What's happening? The atmosphere is getting turbulent. It's overloading the systems. It's difficult keeping the shields up. Geordi. We're safe now. Goodbye. I'm losing power. - Shield failure in eight seconds. - Can we switch the input? Almost. Shields are failing. Switching inputs. - Is it working? - His vital signs are stabilising. He's going to make it. Captain's log, supplemental. We have disengaged Mr La Forge from the interface and are en route to Starbase 495. You disobeyed my direct order. ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Сириана на английском - текст Служебный роман на английском - текст В созвездии быка на английском - текст Марафонец на английском - текст 27 Потерянных Поцелуев на английском |