BRIDE OF CHAOTICA!
Episode 106
Part C
Janeway: "Captain's Log, supplemental. We've been spinning our wheels for three days now, and still no progress in breaking free of the subspace layer."
 | Janeway enters the Messhall. Neelix is serving a meal to Lieutenant Ayala, telling him: "Look on the bright side - there's only three meals a day." |
| Janeway to Neelix: "Coffee, black."
Neelix: "Sorry, Captain. We lost two more replicators this morning-" Janeway: "Listen to me very carefully because I'm only going to say this once: coffee, black." Neelix: "Yes, ma'am." He goes to the replicator and orders: "Coffee, black." The replicator produces a mug of coffee, which he hands to her. "While I've got your attention, there are-" Janeway: "Coffee first." She takes a mouthful and sighs in deep content. "Now, what's the problem?" Neelix: "It's a, it's a delicate matter." Janeway: "I don't have time to play twenty questions, Neelix." Neelix: "Replicators aren't the only systems of convenience offline. We've only got four functioning lavatories for a ship of a hundred and fifty people." Janeway: "I see." Neelix: "Needless to say, lines are beginning to form. If we don't get unstuck soon we may have a serious problem on our hands," he leans toward her and says quietly, "especially with the Bolians. All but three sonic showers are offline too. In another couple of days-" 
Janeway: "I get the idea."  comms. signal Chakotay, via comms: "Captain to the Bridge."
Janeway, via comms: "On my way." She gets up. To Neelix: "I'm going to leave these problems in your capable hands." Neelix: "Yes ma'am. I was thinking, if we drew up a schedule-" Janeway takes a good swig of her coffee and gives a broad beam to signify she is happy with whatever he decides: "Whatever it takes." Then she hurries away. |
 | Neelix finishes Janeway's coffee. |
 | Voyager's bridge.
Janeway: "Status." Torres: "The warp core has been powered down, the thrusters are at standby." Janeway: "OK. Let's give it a try. Take us out, Tom. Nice and slow." |
 | Voyager starts to move. |
 | Paris: "We're moving. 2 metres per second, 3 metres."
Janeway: "Steady." Paris: "9 metres....10...." Janeway: "Increase power to the thrusters by 50 percent." |
 | Torres: "We're approaching the subspace boundary."
Paris: "25 metres per second. Wait a minute, we're slowing down. 19 metres per second, 18...." Torres: "Captain, I'm reading power surges." Janeway: "Source?" Torres: "Unknown, but they look like weapon signatures." |
 | Kim: "I'm not reading any other ships in the area."
Paris: "We've stopped." |
 | Tuvok: "I've localised the weapons fire. It's emanating from within the ship - deck 6, Holodeck 2."
Janeway: "Who's still on that deck?" Tuvok: "No one. No lifesigns." Kim: "There's a program running. It's Captain Proton." Paris: "Proton?" Chakotay: "Can you shut it down?" Kim: "Negative. Control systems still malfunctioning." |
 | Janeway: "Tuvok, get down there and find out what's happening." To Paris: "Well, join him."
Paris: "Yes, ma'am." |
 | Paris and Tuvok are in the Holodeck.
Tuvok: "It appears that a battle took place." Paris: "Believe me, it wasn't like this when I left. I must've missed a few chapters." Tuvok: "Holodeck programs don't normally run by themselves." |
 | Paris: "No kidding." He sees someone he knows. He goes over to her and rolls her over. |
 | Paris, bewildered: "She's dead."
Tuvok: "Who is she?" Paris: "Constance Goodheart, my secretary. This doesn't make sense. She isn't supposed to die. She's one of the good guys!" Tuvok: "I'm sure you two were very close, but she is a holodeck character." Paris explains, as Tuvok does not understand. "A character from 1930s Hollywood. The good guys never get killed. Something's wrong here." |
 | Satan's Robot, its voice very distorted: "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension."
Paris: "Satan's Robot." Tuvok: "Naturally." Satan's Robot, voice distorted: "Queen Arachnia is on her way. Invaders from the Fifth Dimension. Destroy Proton." |
 | Paris to Tuvok: "Give me a hand. If we can repair his vocaliser he might be able to tell us what's been going on. It looks like he burned out a resistor."
Tuvok: "A what?" Paris: "That's a few centuries before duotronic circuitry." Tuvok: "I see. How do you propose we repair him?" |
 | Paris: "Well, first of all, I've got to remove this damaged tube." He gives it to Tuvok to hold. "No problem. Just a few crossed wires."
Tuvok: "Your knowledge of this technology is most impressive." Paris: "Oh, thanks. Got it." |
 | Satan's Robot, vocal circuits repaired: "Intruders. Intruders. Intruders." Paris hits him. "Intruder alert! Intruder alert!"
Paris: "Tell us what happened." Satan's Robot, agitatedly: "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension! Invaders from the Fifth-" Paris: "Hey, calm down." Satan's Robot, more quietly: "-Dimension." |
Tuvok: "How did these invaders get here?"
Satan's Robot: "A portal."
Paris: "The Fifth Dimension. There's not supposed to be alien invaders in this story. That's in Captain Proton versus the Cosmic Creature."
Satan's Robot: "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension!"
Paris realises what the robot means: "Those subspace distortions." To the robot: "Take us to this portal."
 | They follow the robot. |
 | Satan's Robot: "There."
Tuvok assesses the phenomena: "Photonic charges - the same signatures as the weapons fire we detected." Satan's Robot: "The Fifth Dimension!" |
 | Tuvok: "We must report this to the Captain."
Paris: "Wait. I want to check my rocket ship first." Tuvok: "Excuse me?" Paris: "It's got sensors, sort of. Maybe they can tell us something Voyager's sensors can't." |
 | Voyager's Astrometrics Lab.
Seven: "I've established a visual link with the Holodeck. The attack appears to be originating from subspace." |
 | Kim: "Can you tell where it's coming from?"
Seven: "No." |
 | Electrical charges sizzle across the area, hitting target points.
Seven: "What was that?" Kim: "Chaotica's Death Ray." Seven: "Excuse me?" |
 | Kim: "Let's see if we can get a look inside his Fortress. Find out what he's up to." He presses some controls on the console. |
 | Chaotica, on viewscreen, naturally unaware he is being observed: "Full power to the Death Ray!" Into his microphone: "Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People. You have not responded to my summons. Don't-" |
 | Kim mutes the audio. "I don't get it. Chaotica was supposed to be fighting Earth in this chapter."
Seven: "Apparently he's found a new enemy." Kim surmises: "The Fifth Dimension." Seven: "It seems your infantile scenario now poses a security risk." Kim: "It was just supposed to be a little harmless entertainment." Seven: "Entertainment - another frivolous human endeavour." |
Page border by Janet, screenshots from [#106 Bride Of Chaotica] scenes portrayed in this Episode Guide's Part A.
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