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- Good morning.
- Morning.
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- Requisition reports for the week.
- Thanks.
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What can you tell me about the Great Wall of China?
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Pardon?
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The Great Wall of China, on Earth. Who built it?
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The Chinese.
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What for?
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Why does anybody build a wall? To keep people out.
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Deck one.
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In fact it was the first Q'in emperor
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who connected the walls built by a previous dynasty.
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He did it to prevent an invasion by nomads to the north.
How big is it?
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I have a feeling you're going to tell me.
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Twenty four hundred kilometres long, median width three
point eight metres.
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Before the twenty second century it was one of the only
manmade objects
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that could be seen from Earth's orbit with the naked
eye.
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Very impressive, Neelix.
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I had no idea you knew so much about my homeworld.
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Status?
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We're on a course for the class Y cluster.
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We should be there in about three days.
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Gives us some time to relax. Carry on.
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Why this sudden interest in the Great Wall?
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I've been studying Earth landmarks.
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Mister Paris and I have been exchanging a little cross-cultural
trivia.
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He's become quite an expert on Talaxian geography.
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All right, here's one for you.
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What can you tell me about the Millennium Gate?
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The Millennium Gate.
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Constructed in the 21st century in the United States
of America.
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It was another one of the objects that could be seen
from orbit.
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Three point two kilometres at the base, one kilometre
in height,
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surface covered with highly reflective solar panels.
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A self-contained ecosystem.
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It became a model for the first colony on Mars.
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Did you know that one of my ancestors built it?
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Really?
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Not with a hammer and nails, but with words and a lot
of courage.
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Shannon O'Donnell, one of the first woman astronauts.
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She was the driving force behind the project.
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That's something to be proud of.
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We were always told stories about her at family gatherings.
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The first of a long line of Janeway explorers.
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Tell me more. I want something to stump Mister Paris
with.
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Where to begin?
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The Millennium Gate. How did she get involved with that?
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Well, at that time, she was still in the space program,
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but she'd also become something of an entrepreneur.
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I believe she was asked to join the project by the governor
of Indiana.
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He wanted her expertise on recyclic life support systems.
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The way my aunt Martha tells it they flew her in on
a private aircraft.
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Five a. m. December 27, 2000. I'm in the great state
of Indiana, I think.
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I saw the world's largest ball of string this morning,
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and the world's largest beefsteak tomato this afternoon.
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It was the size of a Volkswagen. The string, not the
tomato.
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At least Christmas is over.
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Oh, no.
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Excuse me.
I think I made a wrong turn.
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Is there a Millennium Gate around here?
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You're looking at it.
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The sign said gas, food, lodging. I need all three.
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You won't find any of that here.
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Get back on the Interstate and go to exit nine.
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- I don't think I'm gong to make it
- Good luck.
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Tell me, are people a little friendlier off exit nine?
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Oh, no.
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- You stopped.
- You didn't. Got a pen?
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I, I just didn't see you.
I'm sorry. Are you okay?
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- Insurance?
- Not really.
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- Not really?
- It ran out.
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It's not too bad. Two hundred bucks ought to cover it.
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Two hundred bucks?
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Let me guess,
the money ran out, too.
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- Hi.
- Hi
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- The sign said open?
- Yes, that's right.
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Till six o'clock.
Can we be of assistance?
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It's cold outside, and I wondered if I could wait here.
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For what?
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For the tow truck.
My car broke down.
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I'm trying to get to Florida.
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She doesn't look like a corporate hit man.
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I assure you I'm not.
At least not anymore.
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Well, in any case, she's unarmed and chilled to the
bone.
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I think we can handle her. Zeus himself watched over
travellers.
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We should follow his example.
Make yourself at home.
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Thank you.
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Where's your car?
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Down the street, next to the coffee shop.
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What used to be the coffee shop.
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It looks like this whole town is closed down.
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It is.
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Except for you, huh?
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This ship will never sink.
Right, Dad?
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Decaf.
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- Not exactly the nectar of the gods.
- It'll do. Thank you.
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- What's this about, if I may ask.
- Preserving the past.
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- I'm Jason, by the way.
- Shannon O'Donnell.
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- I'm Henry. Henry Janeway.
- Hi.
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So, you're trying to get them to stop building this
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- Millennium whatever-it-is?
- The Millennium Gate.
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The world's first self-sustaining civic environment.
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That's what the propaganda calls it. It's nothing but
hype.
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It's actually a glorified shopping mall.
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They've talked all of my neighbours into selling their
businesses.
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Only one thing stands in their way.
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You're the last holdout?
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This time, Rome withstands the barbarians.
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I may be able to help you,
if you'd be willing to hire me.
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Believe me, you don't want to be licking stamps for
the next two days.
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We could do all this on a computer.
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Yeah, but my dad doesn't believe in computers. We don't
even have one.
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Well I do. We can e-mail every computer within a hundred
miles.
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It'll just take a few hours.
It's easy.
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I'm not hiring anybody right now.
Besides, you're going to Florida.
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Maybe the tow truck is waiting.
Thanks for the coffee.
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You're welcome.
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I wouldn't ask you for a lot.
Just enough to fix the car.
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I really, I kind of need a job right now.
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Dad.
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I suppose we could use some help.
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You do believe in electricity, don't you?
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So, who are these barbarians, anyway?
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- A company down in Texas.
- Why come here?
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The City Fathers made it easy for them.
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Free building permits, deferred taxes, new roads,
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so the invaders,
they return the favour.
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They have offered us twenty percent above the market
price for our properties.
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You know what the catch is?
We've all got to sell.
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Everybody must love you.
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People I knew when I was growing up, family friends,
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it seems like they've all just turned against me.
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If this were Roman times,
they'd feed me to the lions.
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To the good old days.
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You know, I was born in the wrong millennium.
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I'll stick with the modern age.
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The classical age. Greatest literature mankind ever
produced.
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No antibiotics.
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Families who'd take care of one another.
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- No cars.
- Air you can breathe.
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- No telephones.
- What a pleasure.
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- Shorter life spans.
- Lives that were worth living.
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- No cold beer.
- There you got me.
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Speaking of the modern age, Do you have any plans for
the Millennium Eve?
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No different than last year's Millennium Eve. I plan
to be asleep.
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Life of the party.
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Oh, don't tell me you've bought into all that hype again?
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Oh, maybe just a little.
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Last year, when 2000 arrived?
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Everyone was convinced it was the dawn of a new era.
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But when the world didn't end and the flying saucers
didn't land
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and the Y2K bug didn't turn off a single light bulb,
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you'd think everybody would have realised it was a number
on a calendar.
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But, oh, no, they had to listen to all those hucksters
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who told them the real millennium was 2001.
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So this New Year's Eve will be as boring as last year.
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Come to think about it, I have sold an awful lot of
doomsday books.
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See what I mean?
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So, what's in Florida?
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I have a cousin down there.
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I'll stay with her for a while until I can get back
on my feet.
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If you don't mind my asking, did you lose your job?
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- I'm in a transitional period.
- From what to what.
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From what I was doing to what I'm going to do.
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Your son tells me that your bookstore's belonged in
your family for generations.
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That you've never done anything else.
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Yes.
That's right.
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You know, I'm just the opposite.
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I love to see places I've never been, try new things.
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I'm kind of an explorer.
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Really?
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That station wagon of yours doesn't exactly look like
a sailing ship.
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- It's a rocket ship.
- My mistake.
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We have every intention of breaking ground on Monday.
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Day one of the next millennium.
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The people of this town have given us their full cooperation.
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That's not true!
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If you'll let me finish, Mister Janeway.
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With the exception of Mister Janeway here.
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Mister Janeway, would you like to comment?
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Yes. Yes, I would. You, you just can't, you can't bulldoze
this town away.
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This, this is our heritage.
This is our past.
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We're trying to give Portage Creek a future. Can't you
see that?
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Yeah, yeah, your, your future. Your future, not ours.
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Mister Moss, we've heard you're considering moving the
project to an alternate site.
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Can you shed any light on that rumour?
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I'm afraid that's more than a rumour.
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If we can't work out an arrangement in Portage Creek
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we'll have no choice but to select another location.
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- What city?
- No comment.
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Is it true that Canton, Ohio has been chosen for
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- Thank you for your time.
- Thank you, Mister Moss.
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Well, that's that. All we have to do is stand firm till
New Year's.
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Easy for you to say. I have to go to school with their
kids.
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Your school is one of the first places they're going
to tear down.
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They said they'd build a new one, a better one.
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Whose side are you on?
I'm sorry.
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We're all in this together. Come on. Let's head back
to civilisation.
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Where shall we dine tonight?
Ah, how does Paris sound?
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It's Friday night.
Can we get a reservation?
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Well, I think I can arrange it.
I know the maitre d.
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Too bad I don't speak French.
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Well, we'll keep it to ourselves.
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There.
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- To new friends.
- And a gracious host.
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Bon appetit.
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I wouldn't mind visiting Paris one day.
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- Yes, it'd be nice.
- You haven't been?
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I haven't been outside Indiana.
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These are my travelling companions.
They'll take me anywhere, anytime.
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It's not such a bad idea to experience the real thing
every now and then.
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I prefer my books.
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Maybe you just never had the right guide.
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Is that an offer?
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I could make a similar argument.
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Not such a bad idea to settle down every now and then.
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Is that an offer?
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You're a peculiar man Mister Janeway,
cloistered away with all your books.
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Shutting out the world.
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Any more peculiar than exploring the Midwest in an ailing
station wagon?
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Only slightly.
Any word on my car?
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It's got a brand new oil pan.
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You forgot to tell me that.
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Well, we were busy today.
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It's parked behind the garage whenever you're ready.
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First thing in the morning.
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Not so fast.
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Jason told me you promised to show him a few tricks
on the computer.
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I could use another day of rest.
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Great.
Jason will be pleased.
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And when you're done with him
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perhaps we'll take a stroll along the Boulevard St.
Germain.
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You're making it difficult to say goodbye.
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Maybe that's the idea.
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You wished to see me, Captain?
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I need your help with this.
The Millennium Gate.
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Impressive.
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It was built by one of my ancestors over three hundred
years ago.
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I've been digging through the historical database
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but a lot of the information from that era has been
lost or damaged
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I thought you might be able to help me reconstruct some
of it.
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Is this relevant
to our present mission?
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It's relevant to me.
243
00:18:08,589 --> 00:18:11,717
This ancestor of yours is fifteen generations removed.
244
00:18:11,717 --> 00:18:15,262
You only possess a small fraction of her genetic material.
Insignificant.
245
00:18:15,679 --> 00:18:19,224
This isn't about chromosomes, Seven, it's about character.
246
00:18:21,101 --> 00:18:22,144
Explain.
247
00:18:24,229 --> 00:18:26,940
Shannon O'Donnell inspired me when I was a girl.
248
00:18:27,983 --> 00:18:34,239
She had a, an influence on my imagination, on my goals.
249
00:18:35,073 --> 00:18:37,993
I never realised genealogy could have such an impact.
250
00:18:39,661 --> 00:18:42,581
I wouldn't have become a Starfleet Captain if it wasn't
for her.
251
00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:47,169
- The temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
- That's four.
252
00:18:47,169 --> 00:18:49,254
- The Colossus at Rhodes.
- No. In chronological order.
253
00:18:49,254 --> 00:18:50,088
Right.
254
00:18:50,088 --> 00:18:55,302
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. The Colossus at Rhodes.
255
00:18:55,302 --> 00:18:56,553
That leaves just one more.
256
00:18:56,762 --> 00:18:59,890
The seventh wonder of the ancient world is.
257
00:19:02,392 --> 00:19:03,227
Can't remember?
258
00:19:03,227 --> 00:19:06,146
It's right on the tip of my tongue.
259
00:19:08,649 --> 00:19:09,900
Forget it, I give up.
260
00:19:10,108 --> 00:19:15,948
- I got you. It's the,
- Can't remember?
261
00:19:16,156 --> 00:19:20,327
The Lighthouse of Alexandria built by Ptolemy the Second
in 280 BC.
262
00:19:20,744 --> 00:19:24,498
Behold the wonder of the modern world. Borg photographic
memory.
263
00:19:24,915 --> 00:19:26,375
We'll call this one a draw.
264
00:19:28,669 --> 00:19:29,920
Brushing up on Earth's history?
265
00:19:30,754 --> 00:19:33,882
Captain Janeway requested that I research one of her
ancestors.
266
00:19:34,091 --> 00:19:36,802
- Shannon O'Donnell.
- You've heard of her.
267
00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:40,264
Who hasn't?
You mind if I lend a hand?
268
00:19:40,764 --> 00:19:41,598
If you wish.
269
00:19:45,352 --> 00:19:48,063
Sven 'Buttercup' Hanson.
270
00:19:48,689 --> 00:19:52,442
He was one of my progenitors. A twenty second century
prize-fighter.
271
00:19:52,860 --> 00:19:55,779
The Captain encouraged me to investigate my genealogy
as well.
272
00:19:56,405 --> 00:19:58,490
Well, your ancestors can tell you a lot about yourself.
273
00:19:59,324 --> 00:20:02,244
Somehow, I doubt 'Buttercup' has much relevance to me.
274
00:20:02,661 --> 00:20:07,666
The connection could be deeper than you think. Sven.
Seven.
275
00:20:08,292 --> 00:20:09,543
A coincidence.
276
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,254
The point is, there's some of him in you.
277
00:20:12,254 --> 00:20:14,756
Just as there'll be some of you in your descendants.
278
00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:16,633
If I choose to procreate.
279
00:20:17,050 --> 00:20:19,136
Well, I wouldn't dismiss it so lightly.
280
00:20:19,970 --> 00:20:24,349
Someday you may enjoy a little Seven of Nine point five
running around.
281
00:20:25,184 --> 00:20:26,226
Or not.
Or not.
282
00:20:27,269 --> 00:20:30,397
My research has failed. I have found no references to
this individual.
283
00:20:31,231 --> 00:20:34,985
Well, genealogy's a lot like fishing. You've got to
cast a wide net.
284
00:20:36,028 --> 00:20:39,781
Computer, expand record search for subject Shannon O'Donnell
285
00:20:39,781 --> 00:20:43,410
to include non-Federation databases,
286
00:20:43,410 --> 00:20:46,872
personal archives and photographic indexes as well.
287
00:20:46,872 --> 00:20:48,123
Reference found.
288
00:20:49,583 --> 00:20:50,626
Well, take a look at this.
289
00:20:51,877 --> 00:20:53,337
Shannon Janeway.
290
00:20:54,171 --> 00:20:56,465
Where in the world did you find this?
291
00:20:56,465 --> 00:20:58,967
- A Ferengi database.
- Ferengi?
292
00:20:59,176 --> 00:21:02,721
Eleven years ago, one of their historians collected
massive amounts of data
293
00:21:02,721 --> 00:21:05,849
about the origin of space travel in the Federation.
294
00:21:06,058 --> 00:21:08,769
He wanted to market it as a nostalgic gift item.
295
00:21:08,769 --> 00:21:10,646
I would have been his first customer.
296
00:21:11,688 --> 00:21:13,357
It's a handsome family, Captain.
297
00:21:13,774 --> 00:21:19,196
These must be her sons and daughters.
Grandchildren. Great-grandchildren.
298
00:21:19,404 --> 00:21:22,533
I've also discovered journalistic accounts in the historical
archives.
299
00:21:22,741 --> 00:21:25,661
Mostly articles concerning resistance to the Millennium
Gate.
300
00:21:25,661 --> 00:21:27,538
The whole town was against her.
301
00:21:28,997 --> 00:21:32,543
Download this image for me, will you, Neelix? I'm going
to frame it.
302
00:21:32,751 --> 00:21:33,585
Yes, Captain.
303
00:21:34,419 --> 00:21:38,173
The citizens of Canton, Ohio greeted Millennium Gate
representatives
304
00:21:38,173 --> 00:21:39,842
with a small parade today.
305
00:21:40,050 --> 00:21:44,638
Canton is one of three alternate sites now being considered
by Gate officials.
306
00:21:44,847 --> 00:21:47,558
Vowing not to bow to pressure, Henry Janeway,
307
00:21:47,558 --> 00:21:51,103
owner of Portage Creek's Alexandria Books,
308
00:21:51,103 --> 00:21:53,814
says he has no intention of closing down.
309
00:21:53,814 --> 00:21:56,108
Marci Collins, Channel Three News.
310
00:21:58,193 --> 00:22:00,070
Next stop, Mars.
311
00:22:01,113 --> 00:22:03,407
I used to be in media relations with NASA.
312
00:22:03,615 --> 00:22:05,701
As I recall, your class came up with that slogan.
313
00:22:06,326 --> 00:22:07,161
Do you mind?
314
00:22:12,374 --> 00:22:14,251
It's a shame you didn't make the cut.
315
00:22:15,294 --> 00:22:16,753
Not good enough, I guess.
316
00:22:17,588 --> 00:22:19,464
Do you still keep in touch with any of the others?
317
00:22:19,464 --> 00:22:19,882
No.
318
00:22:20,090 --> 00:22:22,384
I do. In fact, I made a few calls last night.
319
00:22:22,593 --> 00:22:24,887
Remember Lieutenant McMillan?
320
00:22:25,304 --> 00:22:26,346
How's she doing.
321
00:22:26,763 --> 00:22:30,100
Co-pilot on a joint mission with the Europeans scheduled
for 03.
322
00:22:31,143 --> 00:22:32,811
Four months on the space station.
323
00:22:35,314 --> 00:22:37,399
Not bad for a girl with claustrophobia.
324
00:22:38,025 --> 00:22:41,570
She got over it. Sorry to hear about your last job.
325
00:22:42,404 --> 00:22:44,698
All this downsizing in aerospace.
326
00:22:45,532 --> 00:22:47,826
Engineers aren't given the respect they deserve.
327
00:22:48,452 --> 00:22:50,329
Who told you I lost my job?
328
00:22:50,537 --> 00:22:52,206
I made a few calls.
329
00:22:53,248 --> 00:22:57,002
You don't have to live like this, borrowing money,
330
00:22:57,419 --> 00:22:58,879
sleeping in your car.
331
00:22:58,879 --> 00:23:00,756
You've got no business checking up on me.
332
00:23:00,964 --> 00:23:06,178
Actually, I do. We run a history on all our candidates.
333
00:23:06,803 --> 00:23:09,097
Are you trying to make me some kind of an offer?
334
00:23:09,515 --> 00:23:12,017
We know you've been working closely with Henry Janeway.
335
00:23:12,434 --> 00:23:13,477
He'll listen to you.
336
00:23:17,022 --> 00:23:19,942
You want me to talk to him, get him to change his mind.
337
00:23:20,776 --> 00:23:23,070
- If you can.
- And in return?
338
00:23:23,278 --> 00:23:24,947
We'd give you a job.
339
00:23:25,572 --> 00:23:27,866
Make you a consulting engineer on the project.
340
00:23:28,492 --> 00:23:31,829
You certainly have the credentials.
341
00:23:32,663 --> 00:23:33,288
Well?
342
00:23:37,042 --> 00:23:38,085
I'll think about it.
343
00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:43,090
Think quickly. We can't wait another thousand years.
344
00:23:58,313 --> 00:24:01,024
Roger that,
and go ahead.
345
00:24:01,859 --> 00:24:09,783
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
346
00:24:25,632 --> 00:24:27,509
- Morning.
- Morning.
347
00:24:27,926 --> 00:24:31,054
I didn't think you'd mind. You've got some really great
games on this thing.
348
00:24:31,263 --> 00:24:33,974
Don't worry about it.
Have you tried Matrix of Doom?
349
00:24:33,974 --> 00:24:36,268
Oh, yeah. I got vaporised on level six.
350
00:24:36,476 --> 00:24:39,188
Try launching a flare before entering the steel fortress.
351
00:24:39,396 --> 00:24:42,316
Cool. Coffee?
352
00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:44,193
Please. Where is your father?
353
00:24:44,610 --> 00:24:47,321
Bloomington. All the suppliers in town are boycotting
us
354
00:24:47,321 --> 00:24:49,198
so he went up there to place some orders.
355
00:24:49,198 --> 00:24:52,951
- He left you in charge?
- Alexandria books, may I help you?
356
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,828
Sounds like you've got it down.
357
00:24:56,705 --> 00:24:59,833
I pay the bills too. Dad's not very good at accounting.
358
00:25:00,459 --> 00:25:02,544
- You have any kids?
- Nope.
359
00:25:03,378 --> 00:25:05,672
- Not a priority?
- I wouldn't say that.
360
00:25:06,298 --> 00:25:11,720
I just never got around to it. If you don't mind me
asking, where's your mom?
361
00:25:12,971 --> 00:25:15,474
- She died.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
362
00:25:16,934 --> 00:25:20,062
I was really young.
I don't remember her much.
363
00:25:21,522 --> 00:25:24,858
Dad says none of the great heroes grew up in a nuclear
family.
364
00:25:25,901 --> 00:25:30,697
Hercules, Achilles, Odysseus, they all grew up with
single parents.
365
00:25:31,114 --> 00:25:34,243
You're in good company.
You like working here, Jason?
366
00:25:35,911 --> 00:25:36,537
It's okay.
367
00:25:37,996 --> 00:25:40,707
You know, I get the feeling you don't share your father's
enthusiasm
368
00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:42,376
about preserving the past.
369
00:25:43,836 --> 00:25:48,632
I don't know. The Millennium Gate could be pretty cool.
370
00:25:50,092 --> 00:25:54,054
Did you ever see the first landing on the moon? One
small step for man.
371
00:25:55,097 --> 00:25:56,765
They showed it in science class one time.
372
00:25:58,225 --> 00:26:01,144
I saw it on TV when I was eleven years old.
373
00:26:01,770 --> 00:26:04,064
Whole world watched it.
374
00:26:04,481 --> 00:26:05,315
Must have been great.
375
00:26:05,315 --> 00:26:12,823
Oh, it was. So, do you have any heroes?
376
00:26:13,448 --> 00:26:17,202
We are not living in a heroic age, that's what my dad
says.
377
00:26:17,619 --> 00:26:19,288
Come on, there's got to be somebody.
378
00:26:21,582 --> 00:26:26,170
Dad. I mean, he's a pain sometimes, but he's pretty
cool.
379
00:26:29,298 --> 00:26:34,511
Alexandria books, may I help you? That's all right.
380
00:26:37,639 --> 00:26:39,933
First call in three days and it's a wrong number.
381
00:26:49,526 --> 00:26:52,863
Glorious Hector, son of Priam, slips past the Greek
front lines
382
00:26:52,863 --> 00:26:56,200
bringing much-needed supplies to the embattled city
of Troy.
383
00:26:56,617 --> 00:26:59,119
Hey, Dad you're famous.
384
00:26:59,328 --> 00:27:01,413
Local business owner topples gate.
385
00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:04,124
Let it fall.
Any customers this morning?
386
00:27:04,333 --> 00:27:05,792
No one here but us galliforms.
387
00:27:05,792 --> 00:27:08,295
That's chickens for the non-scientists in the crowd.
388
00:27:08,295 --> 00:27:12,466
You two are dangerous together. Portage Creek will thank
us one day.
389
00:27:12,466 --> 00:27:14,760
You don't sacrifice history for a shopping mall.
390
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,220
It's a little more than that, Henry.
391
00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:17,471
I beg your pardon?
392
00:27:17,679 --> 00:27:19,139
I said, it's not just a mall.
393
00:27:19,139 --> 00:27:21,642
Have you read the promotional literature?
394
00:27:21,850 --> 00:27:27,064
Over six hundred retail spaces available. Franchise
potential.
395
00:27:27,064 --> 00:27:29,775
There's a commercial dimension to the project, but that's
not its only function.
396
00:27:29,775 --> 00:27:30,817
What's your point?
397
00:27:31,235 --> 00:27:33,946
I've learned a few details about the Millennium Gate.
398
00:27:35,197 --> 00:27:38,951
It's a self-sustaining city, an experimental biosphere.
399
00:27:38,951 --> 00:27:40,202
It's never been done before.
400
00:27:40,619 --> 00:27:42,496
What's wrong with the biosphere we're living in now?
401
00:27:42,496 --> 00:27:43,539
- Nothing.
- Exactly.
402
00:27:43,747 --> 00:27:47,292
But this project will help scientists learn more about
our environment.
403
00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:49,586
Possibly even recreate it on other worlds.
404
00:27:49,586 --> 00:27:52,714
Other worlds? Don't we have enough problems on the one
we're on?
405
00:27:52,923 --> 00:27:55,843
Yeah. Which is why I'd like to get the hell off it one
day.
406
00:27:56,051 --> 00:27:58,345
I think you're taking this exploring a little too far.
407
00:27:58,971 --> 00:28:02,099
And you're so afraid of change you can barely walk out
that front door.
408
00:28:04,810 --> 00:28:07,521
The Millennium Gate has a lot of potential, Henry, you
just can't see it.
409
00:28:07,521 --> 00:28:10,649
All you can see are these books. You're living in the
past!
410
00:28:11,275 --> 00:28:13,777
Sounds like you've been sleeping with the enemy.
411
00:28:15,028 --> 00:28:16,697
Having a beer, anyway.
412
00:28:18,365 --> 00:28:19,199
Moss.
413
00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:22,119
- He offered me a job.
- Doing what?
414
00:28:22,327 --> 00:28:25,038
- Consulting engineer.
- On the Millennium Gate.
415
00:28:25,247 --> 00:28:26,707
I said I'd think about it.
416
00:28:26,707 --> 00:28:29,626
And he said, get Janeway to sign on the dotted line
and you're hired?
417
00:28:30,252 --> 00:28:31,920
That's one way of looking at it.
418
00:28:32,129 --> 00:28:34,423
And when I say no, then what?
419
00:28:34,423 --> 00:28:35,883
You're going to go with them, right?
420
00:28:35,883 --> 00:28:38,594
To Canton, Ohio, or the Third Circle of Hell,
421
00:28:38,594 --> 00:28:41,513
or wherever it is they decide to build this damn thing!
422
00:28:41,513 --> 00:28:43,390
I can't keep living out of my car.
423
00:28:43,390 --> 00:28:45,475
You don't have to. Stay here.
424
00:28:45,684 --> 00:28:46,935
- No.
- Why not?
425
00:28:46,935 --> 00:28:48,812
- Because I can't.
- That's not a reason.
426
00:28:48,812 --> 00:28:50,272
Because I don't want to!
427
00:28:52,566 --> 00:28:55,485
You've been really nice to me, Henry, but I can't get
stuck here.
428
00:28:55,903 --> 00:28:58,614
Stuck?
Like me.
429
00:28:58,614 --> 00:29:01,533
I didn't say that.
You can live however you want to.
430
00:29:01,533 --> 00:29:02,784
And so can you.
431
00:29:07,581 --> 00:29:08,624
What's going on?
432
00:29:09,041 --> 00:29:11,126
We're helping our guest resume her journey.
433
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,420
But I thought you were staying here for a while.
434
00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:14,254
Something came up.
435
00:29:14,254 --> 00:29:15,506
We can manage by ourselves.
436
00:29:15,506 --> 00:29:18,008
I guess saying goodbye isn't that difficult after all.
437
00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:33,440
Jason. Jason, where you going?
438
00:29:34,066 --> 00:29:36,568
Aunt Pat's.
Happy New Year.
439
00:29:45,118 --> 00:29:49,498
Jason?
Jason!
440
00:29:58,048 --> 00:29:59,716
It was around 2210.
441
00:29:59,925 --> 00:30:03,053
My uncle Jack was on a deep space mission to Beta Capricus.
442
00:30:03,053 --> 00:30:05,764
That's when deep space meant the next star over.
443
00:30:05,973 --> 00:30:08,475
And that was when they still had to go into stasis.
444
00:30:08,684 --> 00:30:11,603
So Jack put his crew under as soon as they left orbit
445
00:30:11,603 --> 00:30:14,731
and piloted the ship by himself for six months.
446
00:30:15,148 --> 00:30:17,234
No contact with anybody along the way?
447
00:30:17,442 --> 00:30:19,736
There wasn't anybody along the way, not back then.
448
00:30:20,153 --> 00:30:21,613
The transmitter wasn't even subspace.
449
00:30:21,822 --> 00:30:23,699
It took weeks to get a message back to Earth.
450
00:30:23,907 --> 00:30:25,784
- I would prefer stasis.
- Me too.
451
00:30:25,784 --> 00:30:27,870
That long alone, I'd probably go a little batty.
452
00:30:27,870 --> 00:30:30,998
So, six months to Beta Capricus
453
00:30:30,998 --> 00:30:34,334
and when they finally arrive, there's nothing there.
454
00:30:35,377 --> 00:30:38,505
- No planets?
- No. No star, no nothing.
455
00:30:38,714 --> 00:30:43,510
It turns out Beta Capricus was just an e. m. echo of
a distant galaxy.
456
00:30:43,719 --> 00:30:44,761
What was his course of action?
457
00:30:45,179 --> 00:30:46,430
What else could he do?
458
00:30:46,430 --> 00:30:48,390
He turned the ship around and headed home.
459
00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:49,141
And the crew?
460
00:30:49,349 --> 00:30:51,226
He figured there was no reason to bother them.
461
00:30:51,435 --> 00:30:54,146
There's nothing to see, nothing to do,
462
00:30:54,146 --> 00:30:59,359
so six months later he gets back to Earth, brings everybody
out of stasis,
463
00:30:59,776 --> 00:31:01,862
and they wake up wondering why they haven't left orbit.
464
00:31:04,156 --> 00:31:04,781
Come in.
465
00:31:06,241 --> 00:31:09,161
Oh. I didn't realise you were in a briefig.
466
00:31:09,369 --> 00:31:11,872
Not at all. We're talking about our family histories.
467
00:31:13,123 --> 00:31:16,043
This can wait.
May I join you?
468
00:31:16,251 --> 00:31:17,294
Please.
469
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,422
I, too, come from a distinguished line.
470
00:31:20,839 --> 00:31:22,508
His cousin's an electric shaver.
471
00:31:23,550 --> 00:31:24,176
Hardly.
472
00:31:24,801 --> 00:31:28,972
My program was compiled from the most advanced holo-matrices
in the Federation.
473
00:31:29,181 --> 00:31:32,309
My cousin was a prize-winning chess program.
474
00:31:32,935 --> 00:31:36,063
Ensign Paris, you have yet to elaborate on your family
origins.
475
00:31:36,897 --> 00:31:41,276
Well, they were a pretty ordinary bunch, salt-of-the-earth
type people.
476
00:31:41,902 --> 00:31:46,698
Farmers, mostly, some planetary colonists. Ah, but there
was one.
477
00:31:47,115 --> 00:31:48,784
He was a pilot.
478
00:31:48,992 --> 00:31:52,746
He flew the first orbital glider over the lower Martian
plateau.
479
00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:56,291
Mars? Your ancestor must have known the Captain's!
480
00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:59,002
She did work on all the early Mars projects.
481
00:31:59,628 --> 00:32:01,505
Looks like we go way back, Mister Paris.
482
00:32:01,922 --> 00:32:04,216
- What was her name?
- Shannon O'Donnell.
483
00:32:05,050 --> 00:32:09,847
O'Donnell.
I don't think so.
484
00:32:10,889 --> 00:32:11,932
What do you mean?
485
00:32:12,349 --> 00:32:15,686
Well, I know all the Mars projects from the 1970s on,
486
00:32:15,686 --> 00:32:17,771
unmanned, manned, who's who.
487
00:32:18,814 --> 00:32:20,482
There were no O'Donnells in any of them.
488
00:32:30,909 --> 00:32:31,743
Come in.
489
00:32:32,786 --> 00:32:33,829
Ship's status report.
490
00:32:34,454 --> 00:32:36,123
Let me guess.
491
00:32:36,331 --> 00:32:39,459
The holographic engineer is having problems with her
program.
492
00:32:39,459 --> 00:32:42,171
Neelix, the Cardassian cook, is low on supplies.
493
00:32:42,588 --> 00:32:46,967
Seven of Twelve is regenerating and Captain Chakotay
is doing just fine.
494
00:32:47,384 --> 00:32:51,555
Just wondering how they'll piece together our lives
a few hundred years from now.
495
00:32:51,972 --> 00:32:53,640
Depends on how big the pieces are.
496
00:32:53,849 --> 00:32:57,603
A PADD here, a Captain's log there, maybe a couple of
holodeck programs.
497
00:32:57,603 --> 00:33:00,314
It won't be as much to go on as we might think.
498
00:33:01,148 --> 00:33:04,484
I've gone through dozens of histories written about
twenty first century Earth,
499
00:33:04,484 --> 00:33:07,404
all of them biased in one way or another.
500
00:33:07,613 --> 00:33:11,992
The Vulcans describe First Contact with a savagely illogical
race.
501
00:33:12,201 --> 00:33:15,329
Ferengi talk about Wall Street as if it were holy ground.
502
00:33:15,537 --> 00:33:19,082
The Bolians express dismay at the low quality of human
plumbing.
503
00:33:20,125 --> 00:33:23,045
And human historians?
Exact same story.
504
00:33:23,462 --> 00:33:27,007
Every culture saw it a different way.
So I go back to the raw material.
505
00:33:27,424 --> 00:33:30,761
Birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates,
census surveys,
506
00:33:30,761 --> 00:33:36,183
voter registration forms, housing records, medical,
employment, court records.
507
00:33:36,391 --> 00:33:38,268
It's all fragmented and incomplete.
508
00:33:38,477 --> 00:33:40,979
So, did she exist?
509
00:33:42,022 --> 00:33:43,690
Her name was Shannon O'Donnell.
510
00:33:44,733 --> 00:33:49,112
She did train to be an astronaut but she didn't finish.
511
00:33:49,530 --> 00:33:53,492
She was an engineer but never worked on the Mars missions.
512
00:33:54,117 --> 00:33:55,786
Did she work on the Millennium Gate?
513
00:33:57,246 --> 00:33:58,497
Only as a consultant.
514
00:33:59,122 --> 00:34:01,208
What about all the opposition you spoke of?
515
00:34:01,416 --> 00:34:03,502
You said she fought to get the project underway.
516
00:34:04,336 --> 00:34:06,004
There was no opposition.
517
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:10,801
In fact, the Millennium Gate was greeted with open arms
by the local population.
518
00:34:12,261 --> 00:34:14,763
Except for one man.
519
00:34:15,597 --> 00:34:16,640
Henry Janeway.
520
00:34:17,266 --> 00:34:19,977
She married him
and changed her name,
521
00:34:19,977 --> 00:34:22,896
but she certainly
never changed history.
522
00:34:23,522 --> 00:34:24,773
Don't be too hard on her.
523
00:34:25,190 --> 00:34:28,318
She may not have known she was supposed to live up to
your expectations.
524
00:34:28,735 --> 00:34:29,987
Oh, I'll get over it.
525
00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:32,698
But the question is, when we get back to Earth,
526
00:34:33,532 --> 00:34:35,409
how will I break the news to Aunt Martha?
527
00:34:37,911 --> 00:34:39,997
With less than three hours to go,
528
00:34:39,997 --> 00:34:42,291
Henry Janeway still refuses to cooperate
529
00:34:42,291 --> 00:34:44,168
with Millennium Gate representatives.
530
00:34:44,585 --> 00:34:46,879
I'll return with live updates as midnight approaches.
531
00:34:47,296 --> 00:34:49,173
Marci Collins,
Channel Three News.
532
00:34:52,509 --> 00:34:54,803
I don't suppose there's any chance he'll change his
mind.
533
00:34:54,803 --> 00:34:56,889
By midnight?
Doubtful.
534
00:34:57,097 --> 00:34:58,974
Then it looks like we'll have to scrub the launch,
535
00:34:58,974 --> 00:35:01,059
at least where Portage Creek is concerned.
536
00:35:01,685 --> 00:35:04,813
It's a shame how one ignorant man can stand in the way
of progress.
537
00:35:05,022 --> 00:35:06,273
It's not that simple.
538
00:35:06,481 --> 00:35:10,444
Henry's a very likable guy but he's playing for the
wrong team.
539
00:35:10,652 --> 00:35:13,989
He's looking back. This town needs people who look towards
the future.
540
00:35:14,406 --> 00:35:17,117
Well, while you're looking forward, I'll be driving
to Florida.
541
00:35:17,743 --> 00:35:22,122
Wait a minute. I'm not about to turn a fellow explorer
out into the cold.
542
00:35:22,331 --> 00:35:24,208
I didn't hold up my end of the bargain.
543
00:35:24,833 --> 00:35:27,336
If we didn't think you had something to add to this
project
544
00:35:27,336 --> 00:35:29,630
we never would have made the offer in the first place.
545
00:35:30,255 --> 00:35:32,966
Henry Janeway's pigheadedness doesn't change that.
546
00:35:34,009 --> 00:35:39,640
We could still use your help, just not here. My associate
in Canton.
547
00:35:40,057 --> 00:35:43,393
I'll tell him you're on the way. He'll find a place
for you.
548
00:35:43,393 --> 00:35:43,810
Shannon!
549
00:35:44,436 --> 00:35:46,104
What's the matter?
550
00:35:47,356 --> 00:35:48,190
It's Dad.
551
00:35:49,024 --> 00:35:50,275
See you in Ohio?
552
00:35:52,361 --> 00:35:54,446
He won't leave the shop. There's all these people outside.
553
00:35:54,446 --> 00:35:55,280
The police are there!
554
00:35:55,489 --> 00:35:57,157
Your father can take care of himself.
555
00:35:57,574 --> 00:35:59,660
Please, won't you talk to him? He'll listen to you.
556
00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:00,702
No, he doesn't, Jason.
557
00:36:01,954 --> 00:36:04,873
Where are you going? And what's this about I'll see
you in Ohio?
558
00:36:05,082 --> 00:36:06,333
Ohio.
Florida.
559
00:36:06,542 --> 00:36:09,044
- What's wrong with this place?
- It didn't work out.
560
00:36:09,044 --> 00:36:11,338
- I thought you liked us.
- I do.
561
00:36:11,547 --> 00:36:14,258
- Then why are you leaving?
- I'm sorry.
562
00:36:19,471 --> 00:36:23,433
December 31, 2000.
Eleven fifteen p. m.
563
00:36:24,476 --> 00:36:26,353
I've got ninety five miles of Interstate
564
00:36:26,353 --> 00:36:29,481
before I have to decide whether I head east or south
565
00:36:29,481 --> 00:36:32,192
but those ninety five miles won't be uneventful.
566
00:36:33,443 --> 00:36:37,406
My guidebook tells me I'm not too far from Leonardo
da Vinci's last supper,
567
00:36:37,823 --> 00:36:42,202
recreated entirely in corn.
568
00:36:48,041 --> 00:36:50,544
The last few days have been memorable, to say the least.
569
00:36:52,004 --> 00:36:56,800
I met Henry Janeway. Interesting man. Liked to talk.
570
00:36:57,843 --> 00:37:00,345
Unfortunately, he doesn't listen to anybody but himself.
571
00:37:01,388 --> 00:37:08,270
He gave me a place to stay though, and we had dinner,
in Paris no less.
572
00:37:09,730 --> 00:37:16,403
He has a son. Good kid.
Bright, like his father.
573
00:37:38,091 --> 00:37:41,220
I personally don't regret a single day I've spent in
this lovely town,
574
00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:44,556
and I want to thank you all for your encouragement and
support.
575
00:37:44,556 --> 00:37:45,933
Would you consider extending your deadline?
576
00:37:45,933 --> 00:37:48,101
- Excuse me.
- I'm afraid that's not possible.
577
00:37:48,101 --> 00:37:50,604
We'd like to express our deepest regrets to the town
of Portage Creek
578
00:37:50,604 --> 00:37:52,689
and on behalf of.
Excuse me.
579
00:37:52,898 --> 00:37:53,524
Get this.
580
00:37:56,235 --> 00:37:57,277
Let her through.
581
00:38:15,212 --> 00:38:17,714
- We're closed.
- It's me!
582
00:38:21,260 --> 00:38:22,928
I said, we're closed.
583
00:38:23,345 --> 00:38:27,307
That's not what the sign says.
584
00:38:30,644 --> 00:38:32,729
Damn it, Henry,
it's cold out here.
585
00:38:34,815 --> 00:38:38,152
- Who's with you?
- Nobody but us galliforms.
586
00:38:44,616 --> 00:38:47,744
Thought you'd be in Ohio by now.
Car break down again?
587
00:38:49,621 --> 00:38:51,707
- What the hell are you doing?
- Get your things. We're leaving.
588
00:38:51,707 --> 00:38:52,958
I'm not going anywhere.
589
00:38:54,209 --> 00:38:55,669
Do I have to drag you out the front door?
590
00:38:55,669 --> 00:38:57,129
- You can try.
- Henry.
591
00:38:57,129 --> 00:38:58,380
- I won't leave.
- It's over.
592
00:38:58,380 --> 00:39:00,048
Then I'll have to ask you to leave.
593
00:39:00,048 --> 00:39:01,508
Half the town is out there.
You're on the news.
594
00:39:01,508 --> 00:39:04,011
Maybe you'll go down in history.
You have made your point.
595
00:39:04,011 --> 00:39:08,182
Obviously, I haven't, because if I had you wouldn't
ask me to sign my life away.
596
00:39:08,182 --> 00:39:09,433
Maybe if you'd looked up from your books once in a while
597
00:39:09,433 --> 00:39:10,893
you'd see what's in front of you.
598
00:39:10,893 --> 00:39:13,187
Oh, please, no more speeches about the future.
599
00:39:13,187 --> 00:39:15,272
As long as I don't have to hear you pontificate about
the past.
600
00:39:15,272 --> 00:39:18,192
It's a deal. Glad we had this chat. Goodbye.
601
00:39:18,192 --> 00:39:21,111
- It's almost midnight, Henry.
- Exactly. I've won.
602
00:39:21,111 --> 00:39:21,945
What have you won?
603
00:39:21,945 --> 00:39:23,822
The right to hide behind these shelves for the rest
of your life?
604
00:39:23,822 --> 00:39:24,865
It's worked so far.
605
00:39:24,865 --> 00:39:29,453
Well, it isn't working for your son, or this town, or
me.
606
00:39:29,661 --> 00:39:31,538
Look, I know you've got a job to do.
607
00:39:31,538 --> 00:39:33,832
- This isn't about the job.
- Then why are you here?
608
00:39:35,709 --> 00:39:39,046
- It was the cookies.
- Cookies?
609
00:39:41,757 --> 00:39:45,093
I was on the Interstate.
I stopped for gas,
610
00:39:45,928 --> 00:39:49,473
and I bought a bag of chocolate chip cookies in a convenience
store.
611
00:39:50,098 --> 00:39:51,141
It's a little ritual of mine.
612
00:39:51,141 --> 00:39:53,852
Whenever I get back on the highway I like to treat myself.
613
00:39:55,729 --> 00:40:02,820
I see. Well, what does this have to do with anything?
614
00:40:07,199 --> 00:40:10,536
They didn't taste good, Henry. It wasn't the same.
615
00:40:13,247 --> 00:40:17,626
I just kept thinking about you and how I wish you'd
been there.
616
00:40:19,086 --> 00:40:23,257
Actually, I prefer oatmeal cookies.
I'm allergic to chocolate.
617
00:40:23,674 --> 00:40:25,133
Oh, you don't know what you're missing.
618
00:40:28,053 --> 00:40:29,721
It's been a long time
619
00:40:31,807 --> 00:40:35,143
but I'm starting to feel like maybe I found a place
where
620
00:40:37,437 --> 00:40:41,191
I'd like to stick around for a while, with you and Jason.
621
00:40:42,025 --> 00:40:43,694
And we'd like to have you.
622
00:40:44,736 --> 00:40:47,447
But I can't work in a bookstore for the rest of my life.
623
00:40:47,447 --> 00:40:50,784
I've been given a second chance, Henry, and I can't
lose that.
624
00:40:52,661 --> 00:40:55,789
I'm stuck in the future, you're stuck in the past,
625
00:40:55,789 --> 00:40:59,960
but maybe we could get unstuck in the present.
626
00:41:03,088 --> 00:41:07,885
I don't see how with, without sacrificing my.
627
00:41:07,885 --> 00:41:10,387
You know, Mister Moss offered me a job in Canton,
628
00:41:10,387 --> 00:41:12,681
even though I failed to keep up my end of the bargain.
629
00:41:12,890 --> 00:41:14,349
I guess he felt sorry for me.
630
00:41:16,018 --> 00:41:21,023
But I'm prepared to turn him down if you want me to
stay with you.
631
00:41:27,696 --> 00:41:34,369
I suppose I could reopen my shop in that monstrosity
you want to build.
632
00:41:36,872 --> 00:41:38,749
Well, I have a few connections.
633
00:41:39,583 --> 00:41:43,754
I could probably get you a nice remote location so nobody
would bother you.
634
00:41:44,379 --> 00:41:46,882
Not much profit in that.
635
00:41:47,508 --> 00:41:49,384
You sure you won't drive away again?
636
00:41:50,844 --> 00:41:55,432
No, But if I do, we'll make the trip together.
637
00:41:57,935 --> 00:41:58,977
What time is it?
638
00:42:00,437 --> 00:42:01,688
A minute to midnight.
639
00:42:01,897 --> 00:42:03,982
Then we're not too late.
640
00:42:49,236 --> 00:42:51,530
Neelix to Captain Janeway.
641
00:42:55,492 --> 00:42:56,326
Yes?
642
00:42:56,743 --> 00:42:58,620
Captain, would you mind coming to the Mess hall?
643
00:42:59,246 --> 00:43:00,289
Is there a problem?
644
00:43:00,706 --> 00:43:05,085
No, no emergency, but I need to speak with you. A personal
matter.
645
00:43:06,336 --> 00:43:07,379
Give me a minute.
646
00:43:11,967 --> 00:43:15,512
- Happy Ancestor's Eve!
- Happy Ancestor's Eve, Captain.
647
00:43:15,929 --> 00:43:19,683
What's all this?
- It's April 22, Ancestor's Eve.
648
00:43:19,892 --> 00:43:23,437
It's a holiday first established, well,
649
00:43:23,645 --> 00:43:26,148
today actually,
with the Captain's permission.
650
00:43:26,565 --> 00:43:27,608
Neelix.
651
00:43:28,442 --> 00:43:29,485
I think he's onto something, Captain.
652
00:43:29,693 --> 00:43:32,613
An evening of reflection in honour of those who came
before.
653
00:43:32,613 --> 00:43:34,490
Here, here, Uncle Jack would approve.
654
00:43:34,490 --> 00:43:36,992
It got me out from under a warp conduit. I'm all for
it.
655
00:43:36,992 --> 00:43:38,785
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but.
656
00:43:38,785 --> 00:43:40,954
Neelix, the gift.
657
00:43:41,163 --> 00:43:42,206
What gift?
658
00:43:44,708 --> 00:43:50,756
Shannon O'Donnell Janeway, circa 2050. We did a little
more research.
659
00:43:51,381 --> 00:43:54,510
This photograph was taken in a small park near Portage
Creek,
660
00:43:54,510 --> 00:43:58,055
thirty eight years after the dedication of the Millennium
Gate.
661
00:43:59,515 --> 00:44:00,766
I thought it would look nice in your Ready room,
662
00:44:00,766 --> 00:44:02,643
on the shelf next to your desk.
663
00:44:03,060 --> 00:44:06,396
Thank you, But I'm not so sure she has a place there
anymore.
664
00:44:06,605 --> 00:44:08,690
You are mistaken, Captain.
665
00:44:09,525 --> 00:44:13,278
Her life captured your imagination. Historical details
are irrelevant.
666
00:44:13,695 --> 00:44:15,155
I concur with that analysis.
667
00:44:15,572 --> 00:44:18,283
If it weren't for O'Donnell, you never would have joined
Starfleet.
668
00:44:18,492 --> 00:44:21,829
Yeah, and I would have never have got you all stuck
here in the Delta quadrant.
669
00:44:21,829 --> 00:44:23,288
It gave us all time to get to know each other.
670
00:44:23,914 --> 00:44:25,791
Time for a family portrait of our own.
671
00:44:28,085 --> 00:44:31,839
Everyone, gather around the Captain please.
672
00:44:33,298 --> 00:44:34,132
Face the camera.
673
00:44:36,844 --> 00:44:37,261
Smile.
674
00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:42,057
- To the family.
- To the family.
675
00:44:43,100 --> 00:44:45,602
- Another one for posterity.
- No. Enough is enough.
676
00:44:54,987 --> 00:44:56,864
Knock it off, Kieran.
That's an order.
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