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IN THE FLESH
Episode 98
Part B

 

Tuvok and Chakotay head back toward the transporter co-ordinates, which means walking through the gardens a distance.

An ensign accosts them: "Excuse me, gentlemen. You've entered a restricted area. Captains and above."

Chakotay: "Sorry, we didn't realise.”
Gentry: "I'm going to have to ask you to come with me."
Tuvok: "Why? "
Gentry: "All unauthorised personnel are to be debriefed by Starfleet Intelligence - direct orders from Admiral Bullock."
Chakotay: "Listen, Ensign, we're late for a meeting with Starfleet Command. The debriefing will have to wait."

Gentry: "I'm sorry, Commander." Warningly, he places a hand on his phaser.

Chakotay: "Very well."

He walks past the ensign, who turns to follow, but Tuvok comes up behind the ensign and administers a Vulcan nerve pinch. The ensign collapses unconscious, and the others hold him up.

Tuvok: "When he regains consciousness he'll no doubt want to report this incident."
Chakotay taps his combadge. audio: combadgecombadge "Chakotay to Paris, three to beam up."
Paris, via comms: "Three? "
Chakotay, via comms: "I'll explain later."
The transporter beam takes them.

The three are beamed up. audio: transportertransporter

They materialise on board the Delta Flyer.
Paris: "Who's that? "
Chakotay, dropping the ensign into a seat: "One of Starfleet's finest."

Chakotay tells Paris: "Take us to Voyager."
Paris returns to the helm and lays in the course.
Kim: "What did you find down there? "
Tuvok: "Earth."

The Delta Flyer turns and heads back for USS Voyager.

The ensign wakes from consciousness to find himself in unfamiliar surroundings.

Alarmed and wary, he starts to sit up. Confronting him are unfamiliar people, but one of them is the officer who must have attacked him and brought him here. He is a prisoner.

Janeway: "Welcome aboard."
Prisoner: "Where am I? "
Janeway: "On a starship."
Prisoner: "What starship? Why have you brought me here? I'll be reporting this incident to the Admiral."
Chakotay: "You can drop the charade. We know you're not human."
Janeway: "Who are you? "

Prisoner, wondering if this is a test: "Gentry, David; rank, ensign; Starfleet service number nine nine beta three two seven eight; planet of origin, Earth."
Janeway: "We're not interested in your knowledge of human culture. We're not part of your re-creation. I'm Captain Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager. I'm from Earth, you're not."
Gentry, now worried and fearing that what she says is true: "Gentry, David; rank, ensign; Starfleet service number nine nine beta three two seven eight; planet of origin, Earth."

Janeway: "Doctor." She is indicating that he should proceed as planned. The Doctor prepares a hypospray.
Gentry: "What are you doing? "
Doctor: "I need a sample of your DNA."
Gentry: "Why? "
Janeway: "Since you won't tell us who you are, we have no choice but to find out for ourselves."
Doctor: "You won't be harmed."
Gentry taps his combadge: "Gentry to Headquarters. Security alert! "
Chakotay: "We've disabled your combadge."
It dawns on Gentry that he really has fallen into enemy hands. He begins to feel desperate.

When the Doctor puts the hypospray to his neck to take the DNA sample, Gentry slaps his hand away: "No!"

He leaps off the biobed and takes up a defensive position as far away from them as possible, with his back to the wall.
Gentry shouts, frightened and defiant: "Don't touch me!"

He shouts: "Disease! Humans!"
audio clip
His faces spasms in pain.

He slumps to the floor.

The Doctor scans him and reports: "It appears he's released a cellular toxin into his bloodstream. He's dead."

Janeway and Chakotay look on grimly.

Janeway: "Captain's log, supplemental. Until we know exactly what's going on I'm keeping Voyager concealed behind a class-3 moon."

In Astrometrics, the away team's data is analysed, which includes looking at Chakotay's holopictures.

Chakotay: "Federation Council, Astrophysics, Starfleet Medical complex. They even re-created the Officers' Club, the Quantum Cafe."

The holopicture of Chakotay and Boothby posing together is seen. Janeway orders: "Computer, return to time index 4228." The picture is displayed again. "That's Boothby! "
Seven: "Captain?"
Janeway: "The head groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy. When I was a cadet he used to give me fresh roses for my quarters."

Tuvok: "It's safe to assume this individual is not Boothby."
Janeway: "Whoever they are, they've gathered incredibly accurate information about Starfleet Headquarters."
Seven: "Perhaps they had access to a Federation database."
Chakotay: "Or they've been to San Francisco."
Tuvok: "The habitat's population consists of humans, Vulcans, Bolian, Ferengi. All Alpha Quadrant species."

Janeway: "What do we know about this artificial environment, Seven? "
Seven: "I've used the tricorder data, holo-images and astrometric scans to extrapolate a cross-section of the interior. I believe they used a combination of holographic projection and particle synthesis."
Janeway: "Power source? "
Seven: "There are thirteen thermionic generators beneath the city. I can't identify the energy signatures."
Tuvok: "The habitat's heavily fortified. They are well prepared to defend against an attack."

The comm. signal sounds. audio: comms. signalcomms. signal Doctor, via comms: "Sickbay to Captain."
Janeway, via comms: "Go ahead."
Doctor, via comms: "I've completed my post-mortem analysis. You'd better get down here."
Janeway, via comms: "On my way." Contact ends. Before she leaves, she tells people: "If this is a training ground, it could mean they're planning an invasion of the Federation. We should prepare for the worst."

Janeway: "See if you can find a way to penetrate their defences." He acknowledges, and she leaves for Sickbay. Tuvok is left looking at the Astrometrics screen, wondering how to carry out this order.


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