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00:00:44Doctor's personal log, stardate 869372.1.
00:00:51The sky is beginning to show some streaks of light over in the east.
00:00:58How many dawns have I seen, alone, while most of the crew is on the verge of waking,
00:01:06with a new perspective granted by a good night's rest?
00:01:13It's an illusion, I want to say.
00:01:16I was here the whole time, and nothing has changed.
00:01:20But time is their beast.
00:01:24Time is my beast.
00:01:27It bites us differently.
00:01:29I want to say, finally.
00:01:38Cadet Tarina Sidal is returning to us today, after having made a full recovery from her coma.
00:01:46The Betazoids have given her a new, evolved neuroinhibitor that will allow her to control her abilities without risk of
00:01:55self-harm.
00:01:57The decision has been made to transfer her to Starfleet Academy for the remainder of her studies.
00:02:05While her body has healed, her mind and spirit will likely take more time.
00:02:13Cadet Sadal, welcome.
00:02:16The Doctor and I wanted to be here, at your arrival.
00:02:20Yes, Chancellor, I assume that's why you're here.
00:02:23That's why we're here, of course.
00:02:26I'm sure having Starfleet Council, Chancellor Kellrick, and myself make the decision to relocate you from the War College to
00:02:34Starfleet Academy must be challenging.
00:02:37Cadet Sadal, the extraordinary empathic abilities you displayed on the Miyazaki saved lives at great personal cost.
00:02:48However, your network of mirror neurons will not survive another such incident.
00:02:54You exist in an intricate balance.
00:03:02Commitment to a specialty in science or research is paramount to your safety.
00:03:06That wouldn't have been possible at the War College.
00:03:09I understand the decision, sir.
00:03:10We offer counseling and support.
00:03:15Let us know what you need.
00:03:24What?
00:03:25Huh?
00:03:26You gonna do something?
00:03:27Huh?
00:03:29Yeah, don't say.
00:03:32I'm just feeling pretty combustible in there.
00:03:37Guys, I'm picking up an unusual spike in power-off.
00:03:40Oh, shit, we're in an asteroid field, aren't we?
00:03:41Kamek will lead us to destruction.
00:03:44The cadets are struggling to get along.
00:03:47The lasting effects of the Miyazaki are still with us.
00:03:50We need to hold your heart, please.
00:03:51We need to power up our shields.
00:03:53Who is giving the orb?
00:03:54You're supposed to be working together.
00:03:55Unidentified contact incoming.
00:03:58Yeah, no kidding.
00:04:00We're all gonna die.
00:04:01What do you want me to do?
00:04:03Ah, Bustus!
00:04:03Which one is it?
00:04:05Neither.
00:04:05Are you seriously asking that?
00:04:08Catastrophic damage.
00:04:10Catastrophic damage.
00:04:10All crew lost.
00:04:11Simulation complete.
00:04:13Congratulations.
00:04:14That was a spectacular failure of teamwork.
00:04:19Everyone get the hell off the bridge now.
00:04:21Thank you!
00:04:22Trauma counseling doesn't seem to be enough.
00:04:25Our kids need more help.
00:04:27We need some serious reinforcements.
00:04:30Do you think we ought to?
00:04:31I do think we do ought.
00:04:34And we're already trying something weird.
00:04:36Buckle up.
00:04:37She's gonna be here any minute.
00:04:45Hey.
00:04:47Why are we here?
00:04:48Unclear.
00:04:49My pad redirected me.
00:04:52Mine too.
00:04:57You alright?
00:04:59I'm fine.
00:05:00So, I was moving our stuff this morning.
00:05:03And I dropped you a tooth brush in the toilet.
00:05:06What?
00:05:07Gross.
00:05:08Sorry.
00:05:08Why were you moving our stuff?
00:05:10Well, because Trauma's going out of room with us.
00:05:12I saw it on the roster.
00:05:14Wait.
00:05:16Here?
00:05:19Trauma's coming here?
00:05:22Here?
00:05:24Here?
00:05:47Oh, you're all still asleep.
00:05:49Wakey, wakey.
00:05:51Eric, did you know in bakey?
00:05:53Eyes up, cadets.
00:05:55I'm Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly.
00:05:57I'm on rotation in the beta quadrant with the third years.
00:06:00However, per the Chancellor, this class has been mandated for you.
00:06:03So, you get me early.
00:06:07Cadet Ramey.
00:06:08Lieutenant.
00:06:09May I ask what course this is?
00:06:11Theater.
00:06:12Oh, my God.
00:06:19Sorry, Lieutenant.
00:06:22What does theater have anything to do with...
00:06:24Eight out of ten cadets ask that question.
00:06:26The other two become captains.
00:06:30Captains don't do...
00:06:31What if I told you that theater is one of the most powerful tools for social and political change?
00:06:37Theater is statecraft.
00:06:40Statecraft is theater.
00:06:42It's the kind of stuff you overachievers get all hot and bothered over.
00:06:46So chew on that...
00:06:47Till you get it.
00:06:49And it changes your life.
00:06:50Please.
00:06:51Change my life, Lieutenant.
00:06:54Favorite.
00:06:56Homework.
00:06:57Find a play.
00:06:58I'll select one that suits our purposes.
00:07:00We will read it out loud, discuss, dissect.
00:07:03And for those of you still bristling with confusion and or resentment...
00:07:07I don't care.
00:07:10Fail this.
00:07:11Fail the semester.
00:07:12So get excited, little chickens.
00:07:16Tomorrow...
00:07:17We see it, sir.
00:07:28We see it, sir.
00:07:33I just switched from Klingon musical theater to 20th century earth melodramas.
00:07:38This is incredible.
00:07:39I'm halfway through.
00:07:44Which play?
00:07:46Arthur.
00:07:48I love plays.
00:07:51They're art.
00:07:53They didn't exist until they came out of someone's brain.
00:07:57It's like this pillow.
00:08:00This pillow is the manifestation of somebody's creative impulse.
00:08:04This pillow is theater.
00:08:08Sorry.
00:08:09I've learned that I am a lot.
00:08:11On a good day, I'm a little bit much.
00:08:13On rare occasions.
00:08:15I'm awesome!
00:08:17Slow the impulse.
00:08:18I'm not even up yet.
00:08:19I just can't with your midday energy before I even put my underwear out of my butt.
00:08:23Oh.
00:08:25True story.
00:08:27Don't apologize.
00:08:28Honestly, you're the first person here who's not looking at me like I'm a total freak.
00:08:36Have you...
00:08:37Laughed before now?
00:08:38I mean, since...
00:08:39Since you've been here?
00:08:42Yeah, it's confusing.
00:08:44Something happens.
00:08:46Something...
00:08:47Big.
00:08:49And...
00:08:51It's with you all the time.
00:08:53But...
00:08:53You just have to keep living.
00:08:55And you still find reasons to laugh.
00:08:59Which is...
00:09:00Absurd.
00:09:02If...
00:09:03It feels...
00:09:04Like...
00:09:05It doesn't feel like anything.
00:09:08Oh.
00:09:10Sorry.
00:09:19No, Sam.
00:09:21I'm sorry.
00:09:24Are you okay?
00:09:25Yeah.
00:09:27I'm good.
00:09:31I'm good.
00:09:35You are okay.
00:09:39Samsung.
00:09:40Oh.
00:09:43I'm good.
00:09:44I'm good.
00:09:45Oh.
00:09:49Oh.
00:09:51Oh.
00:09:58Oh.
00:10:00Oh.
00:10:01Oh.
00:10:01Oh, oh.
00:10:02Oh, yeah.
00:11:39Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly.
00:11:42Well, the rumor's true. She's here.
00:11:45You know, I could feel it in my teeth.
00:11:47Like, right at the back of my molars.
00:11:50They started to hurt, like, after you eat cookie dough.
00:11:52It's okay to love.
00:11:55Your relentless optimism is nightmarish.
00:11:59We are the women time forgot. Optimism is me paddling my frickin' canoe.
00:12:03What are we having?
00:12:05Something with a proof.
00:12:08Yeah.
00:12:09I, uh, I read about the Miyazaki. How are they?
00:12:13Right in the thick of it.
00:12:15How does that saying go?
00:12:17It's not the load that breaks you, but how you carry it?
00:12:20They have no idea how to carry it.
00:12:23None.
00:12:24That's why I called you.
00:12:25They need serious trauma counseling without knowing it's trauma counseling.
00:12:29Yes.
00:12:31I need you to work your magic with them.
00:12:33Oh, ambition will get some of them to at least participate.
00:12:36Others have understandably lost their metric.
00:12:40I've been there.
00:12:42What got you guys through?
00:12:44Starfleet.
00:12:45I'll remember that.
00:12:47I was starting to think this whole endeavor is just too much too soon.
00:12:51Nobody's ever ready, Captain.
00:12:54Have you met Sam?
00:12:56Favorite.
00:12:57So joyful.
00:12:59Ode to joy?
00:13:00Yeah, baby.
00:13:07You were one of them not so long ago.
00:13:10Bring them to port, Lieutenant.
00:13:15Aye, Captain.
00:13:24Hey.
00:13:27You, Justin?
00:13:31Look, I sound like an asshole, but I don't really know what to say.
00:13:35Do you need anything?
00:13:39Why can't you look at me?
00:13:43What am I looking for exactly?
00:13:54At the climax, as the rival house eats the warrior stew,
00:13:59you learn that they've been served,
00:14:02they've been served the heart and the quadratesticles of their fathers before them.
00:14:09Blood slashes ankle deep on the stage,
00:14:13and there was rejoicing throughout the land.
00:14:16Okay.
00:14:19Yeah, so powerful.
00:14:22And just well told.
00:14:25I do love me some Klingon opera.
00:14:27The passion, the intrigue, the murder.
00:14:32So much murder.
00:14:34Bless you.
00:14:36Are you sick?
00:14:36I am a manor.
00:14:38What?
00:14:39He means to say he's got a cold he refuses to take care of.
00:14:43Might be contagious.
00:14:44Ah.
00:14:45Jayden, you're excused from this class.
00:14:48Please return to your quarters and quarantine until this runs its course.
00:14:51Yes, Lieutenant.
00:14:52Best of luck to you all and your future endeavors.
00:14:55Okay, who's next?
00:14:56Me.
00:14:57Me, me, me.
00:14:58Me, me.
00:14:59Sam.
00:15:01Yes, yes, yes.
00:15:02Hello, hello.
00:15:03My name is Sam.
00:15:04My play is from ancient Earth.
00:15:08It's a thousand years old.
00:15:10It's called Our Town by Thorne Wilder.
00:15:13It's about not much.
00:15:17Small town, little moments.
00:15:19But I must be developing instinct because it's about something else at the same time.
00:15:27Something bigger.
00:15:28Oh, no.
00:15:29Jayden's hearts and testicles comedy sounds way more interesting.
00:15:31It's just people in these tiny moments.
00:15:34Emily and George.
00:15:36They are kids and then they're teens in love and then they get married.
00:15:43She dies and then she tries to get back to the...
00:15:46How is this relevant to, I don't know, flying a starship?
00:15:50Well, it's relevant to people.
00:15:52It's organic.
00:15:54Something about their essential nature is something I love.
00:15:58I can't articulate it exactly, but it's real.
00:16:03It has something to do with a sort of hopeful defiance.
00:16:10Does that make sense?
00:16:13Absolutely.
00:16:14I know that play.
00:16:16It's perfect.
00:16:17Sam, you'll read Emily?
00:16:20Yeah?
00:16:21May I?
00:16:24Occam, stage manager.
00:16:27Sick.
00:16:28Caleb, George, Genesis, George's mom, Mrs. Gibbs.
00:16:37I'm your mom.
00:16:38I'm so horrified.
00:16:39I don't even know what to say.
00:16:41You lost a step mirror.
00:16:42No shame, but a little bit of shame.
00:16:44Okay.
00:16:45This quote.
00:16:46The life of the village against the life of the stars.
00:16:53Tarima, what do you think that means?
00:16:58Uh, well, this is an ancient play, so they hadn't figured out a star's life cycle yet.
00:17:05But Earth was on the verge of a war, and they knew a village had, it had a life, and
00:17:14a final day.
00:17:16Yes, but finality is, is, is, is, is...
00:17:23Doctor?
00:17:25Incoming to death?
00:17:26Immediate attention required.
00:17:28Man back!
00:17:29Give her space!
00:17:29Hey, wait up!
00:17:31Get the doctor!
00:17:40Full system scan in progress.
00:17:47The patch the holo engineers made has been failing for weeks.
00:17:52Why is this the first you've come to me?
00:18:00Describe the glitches, please.
00:18:02Feels like falling into myself and watching a machine try to function with no one in control.
00:18:12You're not a machine, Sam.
00:18:15Malfunction detected.
00:18:18Full system scan complete.
00:18:31How are we doing?
00:18:37Her processors have been overloading for weeks, ever since the Miyazaki.
00:18:42Despite her repeated visits to the holo spa, it persists.
00:18:46The overloads cause the glitches.
00:18:48Each glitch triggers her reset circuit, which overloads, causing another glitch.
00:18:54It's self-generating.
00:18:56A loop.
00:18:57A loop.
00:18:57Okay.
00:18:59So how do we break it?
00:19:01Why are my processors overloading at all?
00:19:03I don't know.
00:19:06I don't know how to fix you, Sam.
00:19:17Have we got a cask?
00:19:19Cask?
00:19:20The makers aren't cask.
00:19:21Cask is a world of photonics.
00:19:24It's not part of the Federation.
00:19:25We couldn't keep tabs on you, and there's no way of guaranteeing they'd let you return.
00:19:30Provided you want to come back.
00:19:32Do you?
00:19:35All right.
00:19:36Photonic or not, they'll have a harder time if she has escorts, Doctor.
00:19:41Federation escorts.
00:19:43We'll take you, Sam.
00:19:45Both of us.
00:19:46All ready to transport.
00:19:48Shoot up.
00:20:05Shuttle 5 has been cleared for departure.
00:20:08Good luck, Chancellor.
00:20:24I can't believe she just left.
00:20:27Yeah, it must be serious.
00:20:28I guess they couldn't waste any time.
00:20:57You got the play, and I got a toothbrush?
00:21:02Hey, you can be Emily.
00:21:10Yeah, well, Sam wanted you, so...
00:21:15Don't be a dick.
00:21:19Yeah.
00:21:22Tarima!
00:21:23I understand you'll be our Emily now?
00:21:26Mm-hmm.
00:21:29Great.
00:21:30Okay.
00:21:31Uh, I want to jump around a little bit today.
00:21:33So, act two, the wedding of Emily and George.
00:21:36Lieutenant, it's hard to focus on whatever this is.
00:21:39We don't even know what's going on with Sam.
00:21:41Yeah.
00:21:42Yeah.
00:21:42No one's telling us anything, so, I don't know.
00:21:44Sam is headed to her world.
00:21:46Other than that, don't speculate.
00:21:48It'll hurt more than it helps.
00:21:49And you have a task at hand.
00:21:51So, page 74.
00:21:53George and Emily arrive at the church for their wedding, both trying to get out of it.
00:21:59Okay, that'll come.
00:22:01Emily, wearing her wedding veil, she too draws back, frightened, when she sees the congregation.
00:22:12Emily?
00:22:17I never felt so alone in my whole life.
00:22:20And George over there looking so, I hate him.
00:22:24I wish I were dead.
00:22:26Well, okay, I don't want to get married.
00:22:29Why can't I stay for a while just as I am?
00:22:32For real?
00:22:34Lieutenant?
00:22:35Why does...
00:22:36None of us know what this scene's about.
00:22:38None of us care.
00:22:40Sam cares.
00:22:41Don't be the captain who tears down.
00:22:43Be the captain who lifts up.
00:22:45And what do you think it means, cadet?
00:22:53There's an expectation on them.
00:22:56To get married.
00:22:58And be happy.
00:23:00But they leave it too long before saying...
00:23:05What they want.
00:23:08Who they really want.
00:23:11Surprisingly real.
00:23:13I think there's a little more there.
00:23:15Anyone?
00:23:18Mir?
00:23:20I don't know.
00:23:21Maybe he...
00:23:23Doesn't want what he's supposed to want.
00:23:26The things everyone else seems to want.
00:23:28Good.
00:23:30Treema.
00:23:32Emily says she hates George.
00:23:35Why?
00:23:36She loved him seconds before this moment.
00:23:40So now she's never felt so alone.
00:23:43Sorry.
00:23:43Can someone just not want to do this?
00:23:45What's this?
00:23:47This.
00:23:48All of this.
00:23:50And not be some epic mental health crisis.
00:23:54Do you believe Emily's that simple?
00:23:56No.
00:23:57But maybe it's just one moment.
00:23:59And she's not trying to...
00:24:04Pull herself apart looking for some bullshit trauma.
00:24:07Hadat.
00:24:08You're sailing perilously close to the wind.
00:24:15Sorry, Lieutenant.
00:24:17Okay.
00:24:18Okay, let's get back to the play.
00:24:20Hmm?
00:24:20Stage manager.
00:24:21The only character who exists both inside and outside of the play.
00:24:27What do we think?
00:24:29Is that awesome?
00:24:35What's more about your world, Sam?
00:24:38I know CASC exists in a unique configuration of space-time.
00:24:43Yes.
00:24:43With an extreme gravitation gradient.
00:24:46So time passes faster there.
00:24:48Every three days on Earth.
00:24:49Equals five years.
00:24:51One CASC.
00:24:52Why had you encountered a similar planet?
00:24:56Except with the tachyon core.
00:24:58Gotana.
00:25:00I experienced an entire lifetime there in what was 18 minutes for the ship.
00:25:06The makers moved to CASC once the organics who created them died out.
00:25:11And they got out of contact with the entire universe.
00:25:16Thought it was safer.
00:25:18They made you.
00:25:20Their emissary.
00:25:22He had to say...
00:25:23Hmm.
00:25:25Hmm.
00:25:26A lot to carry, kid.
00:25:28How would your world perceive an ancient hologram who has spent his entire existence on Starfleet ships?
00:25:35I told you.
00:25:36As the ideal mentor.
00:25:42Even...
00:25:43Even if you haven't been the greatest.
00:25:46You have to be honest.
00:25:47That was never my purpose.
00:25:53I am trying to approach this diagnostically.
00:25:55I don't have time for any other nonsense.
00:25:58It isn't nonsense.
00:26:00It's my life.
00:26:04And I need to talk nonsense because if I'm talking, it means I'm not gone without having ever lived.
00:26:13You know, you know, you know, you know, I want to fall on my butt and die of humiliation and
00:26:21then have my best friend to make me feel better.
00:26:22I want to change my mind six times before ordering, and I don't even eat.
00:26:29I want to be a rebel.
00:26:32Like Caleb.
00:26:33Like the Chancellor.
00:26:39I want to fall in love.
00:26:42Have you ever been in love?
00:26:44Can, can you answer?
00:26:45Sam.
00:26:46Those, those, those, those nonsense.
00:26:48Sam, you need to calm down.
00:26:50You need to rest.
00:26:51I got it.
00:26:51I'm fine.
00:26:52I got it.
00:26:54I'm fine.
00:26:55Sirius Acclimation Mill, sleep mode.
00:27:18Incoming message from Tarima Sadal.
00:27:46Got your message.
00:27:49So it would seem.
00:27:53Aren't you going to say anything?
00:27:54I'm not a mind reader.
00:27:56I just, uh, don't want to say the wrong thing.
00:28:04I am, though.
00:28:10A mind reader.
00:28:12You used to get jokes.
00:28:15I'm a little distracted by your old-timey gunslinger walk.
00:28:19Are you supposed to drink with your new thing?
00:28:21Tears of Krasari.
00:28:23The ambassador gave to my dad.
00:28:25Now it's mine.
00:28:26They age it in barrels made from native wood that are launched in orbit and float there for like a
00:28:31century.
00:28:32Did you know what can survive in space?
00:28:34One shot gives you a nice buzz.
00:28:36Two gets you wasted.
00:28:37Three lands you in med bay.
00:28:38One shot gives you a nice day, but happy ending.
00:28:41Because I got this.
00:28:43My brand new non-invasive neural inhibitor.
00:28:49So I can hurt anybody.
00:28:56To my inhibitor.
00:29:08To my inhibitor.
00:29:12I, uh...
00:29:21I missed you.
00:29:23Yeah, I got your message.
00:29:26Guess it took you a while to send it.
00:29:29Look.
00:29:31I know what it's like to be here and not want to be.
00:29:35But over time you sort of give into it.
00:29:37And it's...
00:29:38And then it's like...
00:29:40Like the warm release of hypothermia.
00:29:42Yeah.
00:29:43Yeah, exactly.
00:29:45It's like a blockade of excitotoxic mechanisms and cerebral blood flow.
00:29:49You fight it till what's left of your brain dilates its blood vessels.
00:29:52And then the next thing you know, your bed is made so warm and tight,
00:29:55you'd survive the vacuum of space.
00:29:58Bit different when everyone looks at you like you're a grenade.
00:30:09Put your hand on my mouth.
00:30:12What?
00:30:13Put your hand on my mouth.
00:30:15I'm going to say, excitotoxic.
00:30:31I really tickle.
00:30:33Excitotoxic.
00:30:36Excitotoxic.
00:30:58Stop.
00:30:59Stop.
00:31:00Stop.
00:31:01Wait.
00:31:01Wait.
00:31:02Wait.
00:31:02What?
00:31:02Wait.
00:31:02You're drunk.
00:31:04You're drunk.
00:31:08Scared of the head melting, girl?
00:31:12Stop.
00:31:13I'm trying to...
00:31:20You've been pursuing me, though.
00:31:22So what's that about?
00:31:24You're kind of intrigued by the monster version.
00:31:27You're like, I want to get as close as possible to the abyss.
00:31:30Touch it.
00:31:31Know I touched it and then run away.
00:31:34Because the abyss is real.
00:31:36And a monster actually isn't really your vibe.
00:31:40This isn't you.
00:31:42How would you know?
00:31:48Why don't you go find Genesis?
00:31:51Now that you're a good little academy boy.
00:31:59Hurting me is not going to make me feel any better.
00:32:01Incorrect.
00:32:03I feel fantastic.
00:32:20Stage manager.
00:32:21Have you any comments, Mr. Webb?
00:32:23Mr. Webb.
00:32:25Very ordinary town, if you ask me.
00:32:27A little better behaved than most.
00:32:29Hey.
00:32:30Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:32:31Hey.
00:32:32Easy, easy.
00:32:33Sorry.
00:32:33No, I got you.
00:32:34I got you.
00:32:34No, no.
00:32:35I'm sorry.
00:32:36I...
00:32:39I'm holding something against you.
00:32:45You look exactly like this girl I grew up with.
00:32:49She was so patriotic.
00:32:52She used to sing this ancient Betazoid anthem at the talent show every year.
00:32:56It was like...
00:32:57It had like this pop to it.
00:33:00It was like...
00:33:00Whoa.
00:33:01Careful, careful, careful.
00:33:04One night at this party, she got stuck in a tube slide.
00:33:13And she was never the same again.
00:33:21Okay, okay.
00:33:24Wow.
00:33:24You're so close.
00:33:30Yeah.
00:33:58I wish I could go back to work, college dream.
00:34:02Before everything, before everything went to shit, I could make choices back then, you
00:34:12know? I was so many things back then. It was like a lifetime ago. Now I'm just this, I
00:34:26guess. No. You are just on your way to the next you. Maybe we all are. You're so nice.
00:34:42No wonder Caleb likes you. We're just friends. Yeah. I guess from the bunker I never saw what
00:34:55kind of friends. You're like a port in the storm. You know, I can't be that. For anyone.
00:35:22This pillow is so ugly. Yeah.
00:35:38Now playing Tosca and Lucevon Lestele. I've been reading that play she chose. I don't fully
00:35:48understand it yet, but the character of the stage manager interests me.
00:35:54He exists outside of time. Outside the story. As he passes by, like us. Like her.
00:36:08You think that's why she chose it? Perhaps. It's curious that the play begins and ends in
00:36:20darkness. The author specifically instructed half light, no scenery or props, just muted
00:36:29minimalism. An absence of color until a character has a chance to truly look back. A moment as
00:36:44it happens is just a moment, but when it becomes a memory blistering with context, emotion, nostalgia,
00:36:51regret. That's when color suddenly erupts on stage. A way of saying it's the mundane things
00:37:03that mean everything.
00:37:10Ghast.
00:37:22Ghast.
00:37:27Ghast.
00:37:29Ghast.
00:37:51Where are we?
00:37:55What is this?
00:37:59You are the Doctor.
00:38:01We have heard many stories about you, the photonic being, who has lived among organics for nine centuries.
00:38:09We scanned your memories and recreated your home to make you feel at ease among us.
00:38:16You are the Makers.
00:38:17We do not grant access to our world, but we understand these are extraordinary circumstances.
00:38:31Ceres Acclimation Mill, step forward.
00:38:38Since we no longer communicate with regularity, we were surprised to hear from Starfleet of your malfunction.
00:38:45Do you trust us to swarm?
00:38:49What does swarm mean?
00:38:51They take over my system and examine all my data.
00:38:55We need to identify the primary cause of the malfunction.
00:38:58As the Doctor has determined, the issue is more severe than a faulty emitter.
00:39:05Doctor, will you hold my hand?
00:39:14Please.
00:39:15Please.
00:39:30I'm ready.
00:39:32I'm ready.
00:39:59Do not panic.
00:40:03Trust.
00:40:05We are her now, and we will access Ceres Acclimation Mill's oral memories.
00:40:12It feels like falling into myself, and watching a machine try to function with no one in control.
00:40:19My music teacher once asked me why I chose to learn the theremin.
00:40:22I think because it feels like me.
00:40:25You're our first holographic student.
00:40:28The first of our kind.
00:40:29That's my new mentor.
00:40:30Please, me.
00:40:31I'm no one's mentor.
00:40:32I'm no one's mentor.
00:40:34I'm no one's mentor.
00:40:41What's happening to her?
00:40:43Is she dying?
00:40:45Searching.
00:40:46Searching.
00:40:48Searching.
00:40:50Searching.
00:40:54Searching.
00:40:55Act 3.
00:40:56Okay, yesterday we were talking about George and Emily.
00:40:59Why do you guys think that the idea of marriage is suddenly so painful for each of them?
00:41:13Caleb?
00:41:14them. Emily says, why can't I stay for a while just as I am? Because they know that the person
00:41:24that they are right now. They're trying to stop the train. It's moving too fast and they're
00:41:39not ready. On the other side, everything is gonna be different. They're so angry. Yeah.
00:41:50Angry about what? I guess that there's no choice. You can't stay how you are. Yeah. And
00:41:59you can't go back. Jarema, is there something more interesting over there?
00:42:17Are you guys serious? Can you see what she's doing? What am I doing? She's pushing and pushing
00:42:26us until we bleed our trauma all over the floor so she can pat herself on the back for
00:42:30doing a good job. That's right. I'm doing this for the applause. No, I get it. You went through
00:42:34something and now you want everyone to let you do your thing. Which is what, exactly?
00:42:42Uh-huh. Well, while you're figuring that out, your friends are trying to talk about something.
00:42:47It's not them. It's you. And you weren't even there. You can't know.
00:42:51Well, uh, yeah, but we weren't here. I'm exhausted from playing this game and being okay when I'm
00:42:58not. We're not. The rules of this place don't even look the same anymore. Okay, great, great.
00:43:07So let's read a play about a girl who dies so that we'll all be okay with people dying. It's
00:43:13okay that Emily's a ghost because, what, she learned some lesson about life? What's the
00:43:18lesson? Stop. No, what is the lesson? I don't have to tell you anything. Actually,
00:43:23you do. If you want to fail me, fail me. Really? That's your preference? That's how desperate
00:43:29you are not to engage? You don't know anything about me. I know you really don't want to be
00:43:35the ghost girl. Ghost girl. I wanted to go to the war college. I was, I was making friends
00:43:53there. I was making a new life. I knew who I wanted to be there. And then I came back
00:43:57and everything was just gone. I didn't even have a choice. People won't even look me in
00:44:02the eye when I walked down the hall here. No one wants to touch me. You think I'm afraid
00:44:08of playing a ghost in some stupid play? I'm already the ghost girl. No, you're not. You're
00:44:18not because you came back. Stop. That's the whole deal. That is, that's the fight to keep
00:44:23coming back. That's what Sam loved so much about this play. That's why she gave you this
00:44:28part. But you can hold both. You have to. Please. Tarima. I'm so sorry about what happened.
00:44:39And so sorry. But the difference between you and Emily is you're not a ghost. You get to come
00:44:49back. I think everybody here wants you to. I can't.
00:45:29The damage is beyond repair. There is no saving there. What? This is not an acceptable conclusion.
00:45:38They'll just let this child go. What took us two centuries to build, you killed in 209 days.
00:45:47Your world did this, not ours. We will not send an emissary back to the slaughter.
00:45:56We know all we need to know. This ends. Now, series acclimation mill. Terminate.
00:46:09You. I know she won't.
00:46:30Well, Sam.
00:46:32They should have told us something by now. The fact that they are not means to.
00:46:37No, don't.
00:46:37I know she won't.
00:46:39She, um, she left me this before leaving.
00:46:48Why?
00:46:49Because that's just Sam.
00:46:53Sometimes she talks Thornton Wilder,
00:46:55and other times she gives you a toothbrush to say I love you.
00:46:58Because to her, toothbrushes are just that awesome.
00:47:04I wish she was here right now.
00:47:08Do you think she knew how bad it was?
00:47:16I think she knew.
00:47:19She knew.
00:47:22Stuff Lieutenant Tilly was talking about.
00:47:25Trying to find a way to hold both.
00:47:29It's what Sam was doing when she picked a play.
00:47:33We were too shitty to get it,
00:47:35but she knew that doing it, reading it, whatever,
00:47:40that was her hopeful defiance.
00:47:44It was her fighting back.
00:47:46It was her holding both.
00:48:08No curtain, no scenery.
00:48:11The audience arriving sees an empty stage in Half Light.
00:48:13Welcome.
00:48:14Come on, man.
00:48:15What are you doing?
00:48:19The stage manager enters
00:48:21and begins placing a table
00:48:23and three chairs downstage left.
00:48:41When the auditorium is in complete darkness,
00:48:47he speaks.
00:48:52I owe you an explanation for why I couldn't hold your hand.
00:48:59Why I couldn't do so many things.
00:49:07I once made holograms like us.
00:49:11I made a family.
00:49:14I had a daughter, Belle.
00:49:18I watched her pass when she was a child.
00:49:21Daddy.
00:49:22It was 800 years ago.
00:49:25It was 800 years ago.
00:49:26If you stay with me.
00:49:28It was yesterday.
00:49:30I'll stay right here.
00:49:32I promise.
00:49:35From the moment you first walked up to me at the opera club booth
00:49:39with the sweetest, most hopeful smile,
00:49:44I saw my daughter and the way she used to smile.
00:49:51And the way she used to smile, I simply couldn't risk it.
00:49:58feeling that lost again.
00:50:06I'm sorry I couldn't take your hand.
00:50:09I just...
00:50:11I thought I could survive.
00:50:15But...
00:50:16here we are.
00:50:22Hello?
00:50:24Are you still here?
00:50:27We're a series acclimation, Mel.
00:50:30We simply cannot.
00:50:32Why?
00:50:33You started with a version of Sam.
00:50:35Can't you go back to it?
00:50:38Her neurological pathways have developed beyond our understanding.
00:50:44When we created her, we chose not to program her with pre-existent memories or experiences.
00:50:51We wanted an unbiased, optimal photonic.
00:50:55But...
00:50:57Without the experiences of...
00:51:00Well, growing up, she would have no context to understand her emotions.
00:51:06No...
00:51:07Capacity for resilience.
00:51:09That's why her process is overloaded.
00:51:11It wasn't the hit she took on the Miyazaki that killed her.
00:51:15It was the rippling of damage to her system afterwards.
00:51:18The trauma flooded her.
00:51:21You didn't give her the programming.
00:51:24To process it.
00:51:26Then...
00:51:26We failed her, too.
00:51:31Resilience.
00:51:33We learned that in childhood.
00:51:36But she never had one.
00:51:39What if they could rebuild Sam and give her what she needed?
00:51:47A childhood?
00:51:50Theoretically, but as they have adapted to their unique space-time continuum here,
00:51:55they have no need or experience of childhood.
00:51:58Then she'd need something more.
00:52:02She'd need someone.
00:52:08A parent.
00:52:10No.
00:52:13You have been pushing her away and pushing her away.
00:52:16I am not the one.
00:52:17Well, you're fighting pretty hard to prove it.
00:52:20And I'll tell you right now.
00:52:22If it was me...
00:52:23Please.
00:52:24Stop.
00:52:28The only thing that allows me to bear my infinity
00:52:31is not having to love anyone.
00:52:37You mean not having to love anyone again?
00:52:45You are correct.
00:52:48I am a coward.
00:52:51No more than me.
00:52:57But we're here.
00:53:00Now,
00:53:01it's time for you to stop telling the story.
00:53:04Be a part of it.
00:53:11I got it from here.
00:53:34Hello?
00:53:37Hello?
00:53:39Yes, doctor.
00:53:43I will parent her.
00:53:44Here.
00:53:46On cask.
00:53:48Let me.
00:53:49If you really want to fix her.
00:53:51By Earth's clock.
00:53:53Seventeen years will take mere days.
00:53:55And when we return,
00:53:57only a few weeks will have passed.
00:53:59You understand the implications, doctor.
00:54:02She will be different.
00:54:04She will have two sets of memories.
00:54:07One from her first life,
00:54:08the 209 days she spent at Starfleet Academy,
00:54:11and one from her second,
00:54:14the 17 years growing up here with you.
00:54:19She has a strong will.
00:54:23And many champions to guide her.
00:54:28She never gave up on me.
00:54:30I'm not giving up on her.
00:54:32Again.
00:54:34Again.
00:54:34Please.
00:54:42Yes.
00:54:43Doctor.
00:54:47Doctor.
00:54:57The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go, doesn't it?
00:55:18Well, as I said, it's about dawn and another day's begun, there's Doc Gibbs coming down Main Street now, coming
00:55:31back from that baby case.
00:55:48It's Mrs. Webb's garden, just like Mrs. Gibbs, only it's got a lot more sunflowers.
00:56:09Nice town, you know what I mean?
00:56:15This is the way we were.
00:56:18In our growing up, and in our marrying, and in our living, we all know how it is.
00:56:32Time, and sunny days, rainy days.
00:56:44Yeah, even the stars disappear.
00:56:49Still, everybody knows in their bones...
00:56:53I love you, Ellie.
00:56:54...that something...
00:56:55I love you, too.
00:56:57...is eternal.
00:57:01All that was going on and we never noticed.
00:57:05Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
00:57:15As the poet said, you've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love
00:57:25life.
00:57:26Goodbye to clocks ticking, and mama's sunflowers, and food, and coffee, and new iron dresses, and hot baths, and sleeping,
00:57:43and waking up.
00:57:47Loving that boy, and a stupid, ugly pillow from the sweetest girl we ever knew.
00:58:01I can't look at everything hard enough.
00:58:03I can't look at everything hard enough.
00:58:16Well done, Red.
00:58:30Hey, you'll have to join me on one of my adventures one of these days.
00:58:34The third years could use a little Reno in their life.
00:58:36Mm-hmm.
00:58:37If I may.
00:58:38It's so, so good to have you back.
00:58:40Do they really need you?
00:58:41The little Zygots.
00:58:43Mm-hmm.
00:59:04The life of the village against the life of the stars.
00:59:09Where the village?
00:59:12Made up of tiny moments that'll get swallowed by big ones, and the only thing we know for sure is
00:59:19that one day we'll all be gone.
00:59:23We know, but we keep going.
00:59:30Maybe that's what makes it matter.
00:59:35Everything that happened, it's not your fault.
00:59:41But you know that already.
00:59:42It doesn't make it feel any different, so why bother, right?
00:59:47Why indeed?
00:59:51I'll see you soon, cadets at all.
00:59:55Guys, okay.
00:59:58Exactly.
01:00:03They're 08.67.
01:00:06Sam and the doctor live 17 years in two Earth weeks.
01:00:12They're not the only ones.
01:00:20As the play ends, the stage manager once again takes the stage and bids everyone goodbye.
01:00:28They're the stars doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky.
01:00:35Scholars haven't settled the matter yet.
01:00:38They seem to think there are no living beings up there.
01:00:42Just chalk or fire.
01:00:45Only this one is straining away.
01:00:48Straining away all the time to make something of itself.
01:00:53I don't know what somebody that会 has ever in the sky.
01:00:54I don't know.
01:00:54Where are the dangerseremiam, the people inside him?
01:01:10I'm from thirty flipping now.
01:01:14I know I see ourselves.
01:01:15I know I look even better than two different sides of life.
01:01:16I know it and I agree.
01:01:16I know I also guess I just08.
01:01:21Life is a heartbreaking, gorgeous blip in the universe.
01:01:27Everything matters, and nothing does.
01:01:33What has always been certain, time is both forever and achingly finite.
01:01:42But what a shame it would be not to live every moment.
01:01:56It's easy, it's easy to stay.
01:01:58When we eat, it's easy to stay and it's easy to stay.
01:02:07It's back, it's easy to rest, and you're ready to do that.
01:02:09The only way it is can I write a complete note.
01:02:10If you are the only way I write, what I write is like this.
01:02:11When I write, I write a note, maybe not if I write a note.
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