experience growing up
or tripping over my own feet.
But you've never had adults
telling you what to do all the time.
I'd accept that in exchange for
knowing what childhood is like.
- Do machines ever play?
- I play the violin.
- My chess is quite advanced.
- No, I mean play for fun.
Androids do not have fun.
If you want to know what it's like
to be a child, learn to play.
- Captain.
- Worf, you need a haircut.
Rapid hair growth is experienced
by Klingons during Jaktahla.
Puberty. Although for a Klingon
that scarcely does it justice.
Any mood swings or aggressive
tendencies, you let me know at once.
Yes, sir.
The Ba'ku need some rest.
According to the geo-scan,
this is a safe area.
Very well, break out some rations.
The caves are just over that ridge.
We can hide there.
The Son'a will knowthat
as well as we do.
It's been 300 years
since I've seen a bald man.
Why did you never marry?
Don't tell me it's because
you haven't got around to it yet.
What's the rush?
I should warn you, I've always
been attracted to older women.
How are you doing this?
No more questions.
- Two Son'a ships approaching.
- ETA?
- 18 minutes.
- We can't transmit for one hour.
- They're hailing us.
- Tell them our receiver is down.
- I don't thinkthey believe us.
- Why not?
Photon torpedo.
A universal method of communication.
Yes, when you don't like someone.
- Full impulse.
- The manifolds can't handle it.
If we don't outrun them,
it won't matter.
- I'll be in engineering.
- Battle stations!
Have your boobs started
to firm up?
Not that we care about such things
in this day and age.
Thank you, Data.
I've an odd craving for the blood
of a live Kolar beast.
This environment is affecting me.
Have you noticed how your
boobs have started to firm up?
Take cover!
Isolinear tags.
Transporters can lock onto them.
There's a cavern at the base
of the next hill.
- Shields at 60%.
- Engineering to bridge.
We're going to blow ourselves up
without help from the Son'a!
- What's inside that nebula cluster?
- Cometary debris. Metreon gas.
- We don't want go in there.
- Yes, we do.
It's time to use the Briar Patch
the way Brer Rabbit did.
Inside the caves, quickly.
This way.
Aggressive tendencies.
They've detonated an isolytic burst.
A subspace tear is forming.
Subspace weapons were banned
by the Khitomer accord.
- I'll lodge a protest.
- Our warp core is magnetised.
We're pulling the tear
like a zipper across space.
- We could eject the core.
- Will that stop the tear?
You got me.
- Is that your expert opinion?
- It might neutralise the cascade.
Subspace weapons are unpredictable.
That's why they're banned.
The tear is closing on us.
Impact in 15 seconds.
Eject the core.
- I just did.
- lmpact in ten seconds.
Detonate!
Get me a medic over here.
It worked. The tear is sealed.
But there's nothing to stop them
from doing it again.
- Transmission range: 36 minutes.
- We're through running.
Another 43 reported taken.
They're trying to drive us out
so their drones can tag us.
The structural integrity of this
cavern won't hold for long.
- Is there another way out of here?
- Let's trackthe water's course.
I'm reading a nitrogen-oxygen flow
behind that calcite formation.
Will this structure hold
if we blast through?
I believe it is safe.
Fire.
Get everybody into those caves.
Set up a forcefield.
- Are those pockets of metreon gas?
- Yes, highly volatile.
I want to use the ram-scoop
to collect as much of it as we can.
- The purpose being?
- To shove it down their throats.
- If the gas ignites ...
- It's our only way out of here.
History will remember this
as the Riker manoeuvre.
Access manual steering column.
- Controls to manual.
- Storage cells are at maximum.
They're powering forward weapons.
Blow out the ram-scoop.
Ram-scoop released.
Captain.
- Keep these people moving.
- Bring them out.
It won't be long before
the drones get here.
Keep