WAKING MOMENTS
Episode 81 : Part E
 | Seven tells him urgently but quietly: "Suggest you fight back."
Kim gets the idea and enthusiastically fights back. |
 | Janeway signals Chakotay and Torres who slip away. "And Tom, try to get into a Jefferies tube. You two," indicating Chakotay and Torres, "get to work on the power grids. I'll deal with this." |
 | Seven and Kim continue with their "brawling", doing so as loudly and noticeably as possible. Other crewmembers try to stop them, including Lieutenant Ayala who takes hold of Kim. |
 | As alien guards try but fail to break up the brawl, Janeway steps forward, calling with authority: "What's going on here?" To the aliens: "These are my people. I'll handle them." Sharply to Kim: "Ensign! That's enough. Move!"
She manages to break up the brawl, but doing it takes a while which distracts the alien guards, thereby buying Chakotay, Torres and Paris valuable time. |
 | Meanwhile Chakotay and Torres, unnoticed by the alien guards, access a maintenance panel. |
 | But suddenly Chakotay notices something showing on a monitor display - Earth's moon! |
 | Torres notices Chakotay staring at the monitor: "What's wrong?"
Chakotay: "I'm still asleep!" |
 | Torres: "What are you talking about?" She warns: "Chakotay!" as alien guards materialise behind him. |  |
 | They rush forward and seize him by the arms. With an effort Chakotay manages to bring his hands together and tap the back of his hand. He vanishes! An alien points a gun at Torres, and she surrenders. |  |
 | Chakotay wakes suddenly and is shocked to find himself in Sickbay, having apparently been asleep and dreaming the capture of Voyager. |
 | Doctor: "Commander Chakotay! You're awake."
Chakotay grabs hold of the Doctor, demanding certainty: "Am I? Are you sure?" Doctor: "Course you are." |
 | Chakotay staggers over to a monitor.
Doctor: "What are you looking for?" Chakotay: "The moon. I don't see it." |
 | He taps the back of his hand to make sure that he is awake. "Where's the Captain?" |
 | Doctor: "Asleep, along with the rest of the crew."
Chakotay: "All of them?" Doctor: "Except me. No rest for the never weary." |
 | Chakotay: "What happened?"
Doctor: "As soon as you entered your lucid dream, they all began falling asleep, one by one. I've been trying every method I can think of to revive them, but nothing works. It's been 39 hours." Chakotay: "I've been asleep for almost two days?!" Doctor: "If I can't wake them soon I'm going to have to start feeding them intravenously." Chakotay: "They let me think I was awake, but I was still dreaming." |
 | Doctor: "You weren't the only one. Look at this." He indicates the monitor on the computer console.
Chakotay: "What is it?" Doctor: "A neurogenic field created by heightened electrical activity in the brain. It's been occurring in all the sleeping crewmembers. And that's not all." He changes display. |
 | "This is Ensign Kim's brain pattern indicating that he's dreaming in a hyper-REM state. This," he calls up another pattern, "is Crewman Foster's pattern."
Chakotay observes: "They're identical." The Doctor displays more patterns: "Lieutenant Torres, Captain Janeway, Commander Tuvok." He also calls up the brain patterns of the following crewmembers: Swift, Blain and Wildman. "I don't know what it means." Chakotay: "I think I do. Not only are they dreaming, they're all having the same dream." |
Chakotay: "It wasn't just my dream. It was a communal dream."
Doctor: "Everyone's REM pattern is identical. They're experiencing the same images each from his or her own point of view."
Chakotay: "Yes. I saw the rest of the crew, interacted with them. We were all working together to fight off an alien attack."
Doctor: "Which wasn't real."
Chakotay: "Oh, we're under attack alright."
Doctor: "Commander?"
Chakotay: "Maybe this is the way these aliens fight their enemies. They exist somewhere in our reality as physical beings. But they must be asleep, unable to defend themselves against what they call 'waking species'. We'll never defeat them in their dream reality, but if we can find them, find where they're sleeping, we'll have the advantage."
Doctor: "But we've been scanning for lifeforms since this started, and we haven't found anything."
Chakotay: "Maybe we've been looking in the wrong place. I'm betting a species that spends its time sleeping isn't going to be hanging around where conventional scans can locate them."
Doctor: "So how do we find them?"
Chakotay: "This neurogenic field you mentioned. Anyone in a hyper-REM state would be producing one."
Doctor: "In theory, yes. So if we scan for other neurogenic fields it might lead us to the sleeping aliens."
Chakotay: "If you need me, I'll be on the Bridge." He leaves.
 | The Doctor arrives on the Bridge. Chakotay is working at the engineering station.
Doctor: "Time for a little energy boost, Commander." He uses a hypospray to administer a dose of animazine.  hypospray injection "We don't want you drifting back to sleep." |
 | The Doctor indicates the sleeping crewmen around the Bridge who are asleep at their posts. "Sorry about the mess. This is what happens when my repeated request for a larger Sickbay fall on deaf ears. But Chakotay does not hear him, another case of 'deaf ears', as an alert sounds.
Doctor: "What is it?" He follows as Chakotay hurries over to the helm and looks at the monitor's read-outs. Chakotay: "Scanners have detected a neurogenic field, emanating from beneath the surface of a planet less than a light-year from here. Excuse me, Tom," moving Paris so that he can get at the helm controls, "but I've got to change our course." |
 | Paris, sound asleep. |
| In the dream, in the cargo bay, there is another council of war, held in hushed voices and whispers.
Janeway: "Still dreaming? How is that possible?" I don't know, but that's what Chakotay said right before he vanished." Janeway: "That doesn't make any sense. He was wide awake right here with us." Torres: "He said something about still being asleep, and then he started tapping the back of his hand like he said he would to wake up from his lucid dream." Janeway: "And then he disappeared." Torres: "The question is: where did he go?" Kim: "The aliens must've transported him somewhere." Tuvok: "Or perhaps he did wake up." Janeway: "Tuvok?" Tuvok: "It's possible he was dreaming all of this." Janeway: "Wait a minute. If Chakotay was dreaming and he woke up, what are we doing here?" Tuvok: "Perhaps we are dreaming as well." Torres: "Now I'm lost." Neelix: "You're not the only one." Tuvok: "Consider that we all experienced nightmares about an alien whose people apparently live out their lives in a dream-state. Perhaps we are in that state at this very moment." Kim: "That's ridiculous! We're not asleep." Tuvok: "When you dream, you are rarely aware that you're sleeping." Janeway: "I can understand how we can mistake dreaming for reality, but that doesn't explain how we're all interacting with one another." Neelix: "Maybe we're not." Torres is losing patience. "Not what?!" Neelix: "Interacting with one another. Maybe this is all one person's dream. If, for example, mine, and none of you are really here." Torres, impatiently: "Trust me, Neelix, I wish I weren't but I'm here." Seven: "Collective unconsciousness." Janeway looks up and beckons Seven to come closer and join in the discussion fully. "Seven, come here." Seven: "The Borg share a collective consciousness. These aliens may somehow have been able to induce a state of collective unconsciousness." Torres: "You mean we're all sharing the same dream?" Tuvok: "It is possible." Janeway: "This is all fascinating speculation, but unless we have proof to the contrary we have to treat this like an invasion." Paris arrives back. "I managed to open a Jefferies tube hatch." Janeway: "Good work. Neelix, Seven, Kim, do what you can do to distract the guards. We're going to find a way to retake the ship!" She sets off with Torres and Tuvok. |
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