:36:01
I'm not sure that I can.
:36:18
My insides are still shaking,
but I'm alright.
:36:24
Capt Picard,
could I see you a moment?
:36:29
I'll stay here.
:36:32
Come with me, Doctor.
This could be interesting.
:36:43
We have thought about this
a great deal.
:36:46
We both feel deeply about
what is happening on Ornara.
:36:50
And although it will cause
hardship to us and to our people,
:36:54
we have decided
to give the felicium to them.
:36:58
They can pay
whenever they are able.
:37:01
We don't want to be responsible
for their suffering.
:37:05
There goes the other shoe.
:37:08
- They know.
- What do they know?
:37:10
That Ornarans
no longer have the plague,
:37:13
that felicium
is no longer a medicine.
:37:16
So, of course they are willing
to give this shipment.
:37:20
They don't want the Ornarans
to lose their addiction.
:37:24
They don't want
to lose their only customers.
:37:27
How would they have known all that
unless they once had the plague, too?
:37:32
They were infected. They used
the felicium to cure themselves,
:37:36
but their ancestors realised
that it was a narcotic.
:37:40
They broke the cycle of addiction
and never told the Ornarans.
:37:43
They let them believe that without
the felicium they would die.
:37:47
I think it's worse than that.
:37:49
I guess this refining process
of which you are so proud...
:37:53
..is only to increase the potency of
the felicium and tighten your grip!