:17:01
- How are our quarrelsome guests?
- They're waiting for you, sir.
:17:06
Data, what information can
you give us about the inhabitants?
:17:10
The only recorded contact with
the Delos system was 200 years ago.
:17:15
A scout ship reported
two inhabited planets,
:17:18
one on the verge
of acquiring space travel.
:17:20
Odd, that in two centuries
neither advanced much further.
:17:24
Sir, I find it strange that none
of our visitors feels much remorse
:17:28
about the two passengers
who perished.
:17:31
Yet that cargo is a source
of great anxiety to them.
:17:35
Yes. Let's pay a call, get
some answers. Number One, Mr Data.
:17:39
- La Forge, you have the bridge.
- Aye, sir.
:17:49
Captain, may I present Sobi
and Langor from the planet Brekka?
:17:52
- And T'Jon and Romas from Ornara.
- Sorry we couldn't save your ship.
:17:57
Tell me.
You could have repaired it?
:18:00
Yes.
:18:04
We have only two left.
Neither works properly.
:18:07
They are critical to our survival.
Will you fix them?
:18:10
Mr Data?
:18:11
Our computer has downloaded
the specifications
:18:14
for the magnetic coils
the freighters depend on.
:18:16
Assuming the malfunction is similar,
replacements can be fabricated.
:18:23
- Instruct Engineering to proceed.
- Aye, sir.
:18:28
Now, as for our cargo...
:18:30
- Our cargo, Captain.
- Wrong, Sobi!
:18:34
My First Officer has said
that ownership is in dispute,
:18:38
but this must be settled
:18:40
by whatever legal machinery
exists between your societies.
:18:43
You don't understand.
This is a matter of life and death.
:18:48
Why is that? What is this cargo?
:18:52
Medicine.
:18:55
Indeed?
:18:56
Our planet is in desperate need.
People have a lethal plague.