WARHEAD
Episode 119
Part C

 

Chakotay: "We've lost the transporter lock." Janeway, via comms: "Talk to it, Doctor."

The Doctor obeys. He pleads with the Warhead: "Please, you're going to destroy yourself, and us!" Kim: "Detonation in twenty seconds."

Janeway, via comms: "B'Elanna, send an EM pulse through it's power matrix. Maybe you can short it out." Torres, via comms: "I'm on it." She hurries over to the computer console.

Kim: "Fifteen seconds." Doctor to the Warhead: "Please disarm yourself. We're just trying to help you." Kim: "10 seconds......9......" Torres: "Initiating the pulse." Kim: "6.....5....."

The pulse charging reaches maximum. Torres: "Now!"

The device apparently shorts out. Its lights go out.

Torres is relieved. Kim: "It worked." Via comms: "We shut it down, Captain."

Warhead/(Doctor): "You shouldn't have done that."

Torres, not realising the Warhead has taken over the Doctor's program: "I know you've gotten a little attached to this thing, but-" Warhead/(Doctor): "You lied." Torres: "What are you talking about?" Warhead/(Doctor): "You said you were trying to transfer my neural patterns but you were really trying to shut me down." Torres realises: "You're the artificial intelligence." Kim to Torres: "It used the interlink to commandeer the Doctor's program." Torres taps her combadge. combadge "Sickbay to bridge." There is no reply. "Captain, respond." To Kim: "He's tapped into the ship's systems, deactivated the comm."

Kim tries the door controls but the doors stay closed. "He's locked us in, too."

Warhead/(Doctor): "You tried to destroy me." Kim: "We were only trying to disarm you." The Warhead/(Doctor) looks at its machine casing: "I'm a weapon." Kim: "Yes." Warhead/(Doctor): "Why didn't you tell me?" Kim: "It was a precaution. We were afraid you might be dangerous." Torres: "Obviously, we were right." Warhead/(Doctor): "I couldn't let you destroy me. I have to complete my mission."

Kim: "You remember it now?" Warhead/(Doctor): "Yes. I'm a Long-range Tactical Armour Unit. I've been deployed by my people. They're facing a terrible threat, a hostile species. My companion unit was destroyed but I will reach my target. Your ship will take me there." Kim: "Look, we'll try and contact your people. If you could tell us who they are-" The Warhead/(Doctor) interrupts. Vehemently: "I must resume my mission!"

The Warhead/(Doctor) presses buttons on the side of the Warhead casing. The lights go on, indicating re-activation.

Bridge. Chakotay: "The weapon's been rearmed." Janeway: "Security?" Chakotay: "They still can't gain access to Sickbay or any part of deck 5 for that matter." Janeway: "Get a transporter lock on our people. We'll jettison the whole damn section if we have to."

The Warhead/(Doctor) suddenly appears on the on viewscreen. It has obviously overheard through the comm. system or anticipated Janeway's reaction. "I wouldn't recommend that, Captain. If you try to stop me again, I'll detonate. Your ship and everyone on it will be destroyed. I'm transferring a new heading to the helm. You'll proceed to the co-ordinates at maximum velocity."

Janeway: "Doctor?" Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "He's gone."

Paris: "He's directing us to a system 2.3 light years from here." Janeway to the Warhead/(Doctor): "Is that your home?" Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "It's my target. The course I've plotted bypasses enemy minefields. Don't deviate from it. Your ship won't be harmed. Once we've reached the system, you'll transport me to my target."

Janeway: "We won't help you wage war. This crew has a Prime Directive that forbids us to interfere in the affairs of other species."
Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "You've already interfered."
Janeway: "We were trying to help you."
Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "Until you discovered my true nature, then you tried to deactivate me."
Janeway: "Just your explosive components, not you."
Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "There's no distinction. I am what I am." Angrily: "Now alter course or I'll detonate!"
Janeway: "If you do that, you'll never reach your target, will you?"
Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "I am programmed to take whatever measures are necessary to obtain my objective. Failing that, I'm to consider anyone who tries to stop me an enemy. Now alter course, and transfer your sensors to me so I can monitor your compliance."
Janeway: "Release my crewmen from Sickbay first."
Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "I'm not programmed to negotiate. They'll remain where they are."
Janeway: "Lay in the course, Mr Paris. Transfer sensors to Sickbay."
Warhead/(Doctor), on viewscreen: "A sound tactical decision, Captain."
The Warhead/(Doctor) ends contact and the viewscreen goes off. viewscreen (with bridge background sound)

Janeway is grim as she addresses Chakotay: "Assemble the staff. We're going to find a way to outsmart a smart bomb."

Voyager at warp speed.

Bridge. Paris: "If we could shut down the forcefields around Sickbay, I could get a transporter lock on it." Seven: "Even if you were successful, we can't beam it far enough from the ship to escape the blast." Chakotay: "She's right. Our best option is to disarm it." Paris: "Good luck. It's got an internal sensor array. If we try so much as to loosen a screw, boom."

Neelix enters the Bridge. standard doors "Commander, I think you should take a look at this." He hands it to Chakotay. "It's a power node I used to enhance the replicator system. I acquired it last week on a trading mission. It has transkinetic energy regulators and bio-neural control circuitry. Remind you of anything?"

Chakotay: "Our friend in Sickbay." Neelix: "I didn't make the connection at first, but when I overheard a few of the engineers talking about the weapon, I went back and I checked the schematics on this. It's the same technology." Chakotay: "Who did you acquire it from?"

Neelix: "A merchant named Onquanii." Seven: "Did he say where he got it?" Neelix: "No, but he seemed eager to trade. Maybe he'd tell us if we made it worth his while....."

Chakotay to Paris: "Scan for his vessel. If you find him, send an encoded message. Tell him about our problem." Paris: "Aye, sir."

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