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WHAT'S GOING ON?
WHAT IS THIS?
I BELIEVE TE CAN DEDUCE
THESE CRYSTALLINE TREE-SHAPES
ARE ENERGY COLLECTORS.
ALONG THE SAME PRINCIPLE
AS THAT WHICH IS DRAINING
BUT THE FERENGI WHIPS WORKED BEFORE.
SOMETHING NEW HAS HAPPENED.
Geordi: I'M FINALLY BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND
WHAT MY EYES HAVE BEEN SHOWING ME.
IT'S PATTERNS OF FORCE EVERYWHERE.
THIS ENTIRE PLANET IS TO A POWER ACCUMULATOR.
AND THESE?
I CAN SEE THE PLANET'S POWER EMANATING FROM...
( thunder clap )
COMMANDER.
Portal: BE YOU BARBARIANS?
SPEAK!
( screaming )
EXCUSE ME, )iI'M INTERESTED IN
THE NEW COLLECTOR'S ORNAMENT FROM HALLMARK.
AH, THE SHUTTLECRAFT GALILEO
FROM THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE.
PRECISELY.
YOU KNOW, IT LIGHTS UP WHEN YOU PLUG IT IN.
AND LISTEN...
RPRISE.
SPOCK HERE.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.
FASCINATING.
FOR A STORE IN YOUR SECTOR
NOW CARRYING
THE STAR TREK ORNAMENT...
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER,
RIGHT?
NO, I'LL TAKE FIVE.
MIDAS GIVES YOU A FREE INSPECTION
OF YOUR EXHAUST SYSTEM
AND, THEN, A GUARANTEED ESTIMATE.
WHEN WE GIVE YOU A PRICE, YOU CAN BELIEVE IT.
NOBODY BEATS MIDAS... NOBODY.
Portal: WHO MEETS THE ALLENGE?
WHO WILL IT BE?
HIM.
YOU HAVE AWAKENED PORTAL SIX-THREE.
DO YOU PETITION TO ENTER THE EMPIRE?
WHO ASKS THE QUESTION?
A GUARDIAN OF THE TKON EMPIRE.
BIPED, EXCELLENT.
WHY WOULD WE PETITION TO ENTER
AN EMPIRE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS?
Portal: WHY DO YOU ATTEMPT THIS DECEPTION?
THE EMPIRE IS FOREVER.
YOUR EMPIRE FELL PREY TO A SUPERNOVA.
WE ARE FOREVER.
DATA.
PLEASE REPEAT THE FILE.
IT IS A MATTER OF RECORD, PORTAL.
IN THE AGE OF MAKTO
THE CENTRAL STAR OF THE TKON EMPIRE
DESTABILIZED...
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN AN AGE OF MAKTO.
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY AGES
WHICH HAVE COME AND PASSED SINCE MAKTO.
THIS IS THE AGE OF BASTU.
I'M AFRAID NOT.
ACCORDING TO THE TKON USE
OF GALACTIC MOTIONARY STARTIME CHARTS
AFTER BASTU CAME CIMI
XORA, MAKTO...
ENOUGH!
ABSURDITIES.
YOU MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP, PORTAL
FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF OUR YEARS.
DECEPTION IS THE WAY OF HUMAN.
WE FERENGI WILL GLADLY
MAKE A PETITION.
WE INVITE YOUR PETITION.
SPEAK.
Ferengi: WE WISH TO OFFER OUR SERVICES
TO SERVE THE TKON EMPIRE
AT NO PROFIT.
RETURN CONTROL OF OUR STARSHIP TO US
AND WE WILL HAPPILY DESTROY
THE HUMAN CRIMINALS
AND THEIR VESSEL WHICH ATTACKED US
WITHOUT PROVOCATION.
THEY CAME TO LOOT YOUR EMPIRE
BUT...
WE INTERCEPTED THEM.
YOU ARE ACCUSED OF DECEIT AND TREACHERY.
DO YOU GIVE YOURSELF UP FOR JUDGMENT?
Riker: YES.
IF YOU BELIEVE THEM, YOU CERTAINLY SHOULD ACT.
WE CAN PROVE
THAT THE HUMANS
ARE DESTROYERS OF LEGAL COMMERCE.
AND THAT THEY SELFISHLY WITHHOLD
VITAL TECHNOLOGY FROM BACKWARD WORLDS.
NECESSARY DEFENSIVE WEAPONS, TOO.
WE FERENGI ARE NOW CHALLENGE
THIS HUMAN MADNESS.
I ADMIT WE WITHHELD MODERN TECHNOLOGIES
FROM SOME WORLDS.
YOU SEE, THEY ARE DEMENTED.
THEIR VAES ARE INSANE.
YOU CANNOT BELIEVE
THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THEY HAVE DESTROYED.
PROOF OF THEIR BARBARISM--
THEY ADORN THEMSELVES
WITH GOLD.
A DESPICABLE USE OF VALUABLE METAL.
AND THEY SHAMELESSLY
CLOTHE THE FEMALES.
INVITING OTHERS TO UNCLOTHE THEM.
Y DEPTH SION.
PAWS OFF, FERENGI!
NO FEMALE-- HUMAN OR FERENGI
CAN ORDER MORDOC AROUND.
SUBMIT.
JUST TRY IT, SHORTY.
AT EASE, LIEUTENANT.
WE STILL HAVE RE FAULTS.
THEY SHOULD ADD THAT STARFLEET
HAS PERMITTED CIVILIZATIONS TO FALL.
WE HAVE AT TIMES ALLOWED THE STRONG
TO OVERCOME THWEAK.
THEY ADMIT THEIR CRIMES.
HEAR THEM.
THEY ADMIT THE EVIL THAT THEY DO.
BARBARIAN.
YES, YOU SHOW WISDOM.
BARBARIANS, ALL.
BUT THIS ONE FIRST.
IN THE FASHION
THE EMPIRE HAS ALWAYS CHALLENGED SAVAGES.
NO!
FOR BATTLE, COME TO ME!
NO!
THAT'S AN ORDER.
Portal: VE A SINGLE R LIFE.
ONE ONLY.
WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO MY CHALLENGE?
T.
"HE WILL TRIUMPH WHO KNOWS WHEN TO FIGHT
YOU ARE BEING TESTED, RIKER.
HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?
AHHH.
E.
BUT WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO MY CHALLENGE?
FEAR IS THE TRUE ENEMY, THE ONLY ENEMY.
UNLIKE THESE LITTLE ONES WHO CLOSE THEIR MINDS
YOUR MIND HOLDS INTERESTING THOUGHTS.
"KNOW YOUR ENEMY AND KNOW YOURSELF
AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE VICTORIOUS."
WHY THAT THOUGHT?
AND WHO IS THIS SUN TZU YOU REVERE?
AN OLD CHINESE PHILOSOPHER
FROM ANCIENT EARTH HISTORY.
YOU MUST TELL ME MORE OF THIS WISDOM--
SO MUCH LIKE OUR OWN.
GLADLY, BUT FIRST, OUR STARSHIP.
CAN YOU RELEASE IT?
IT IS RELEASED.
ALL POWER IS RESRED.
NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON, JEAN.
I MEAN, CAPTAIN.
I ADMIT, I HAD MY DOUBTS
AS YOUR SHIPS BATTLED EACH OTHER
IN OVERT ACTS OF BELLIGERENCE.
NORMALLY, I WOULD HAVE DESTROYED
ALL OF YOU AND YOUR SHIPS
BUT SOMETHING CONFUSED ME.
WHICH WAS?
FIRST, YOU WANTE TO DESTROY EACH OTHER
WHAT OF OUR VESSEL?
WE KNEW THE SAME ANSWER.
THE TRUTH IS I GAVE
THOSE WORDS TO THIS HUMAN.
WHAT OF THEM?
SHALL I DESTROY THEM?
THEN THEY WOULD LEARN NOTHING.
A MOST INTERESTING CONCLUSION.
BUT WHAT IF THEY NEVER LEARN, RIKER?
IS THIS A TEST ALSO?
IN LIFE, ONE IS ALWAYS TESTED.
I SEE THEM AS WE WERE SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
BUT POSSESSING THEIR PRESENT TECHNOLOGY
THEY'RE VERY DANGEROUS.
UNTRUE.
WE SEEK FRIENDSHIP WITH YOU.
CAN HARDLY HATE HAT WE ONCE WERE.
THEY MAY GROW AND LEARN.
AND LEARN WAYS TO DESTROY YOU?
OUR VALUES REQUIRUS
TO FACE THAT POSSIBILITY.
WHAT OF YOU?
WITH YOUR EMPIRE GONE?
THE UNIVERSE EXISTS TO ME TO CREATE LIFE.
I SHALL SLEEP...
UNTIL NEEDED AGAIN.
( explosive thunder )
COMPLIMENTS, LIEUTENA.
THANK YOU.
LIEUTENANT WORF.
YOU'VE DONE WELL.
SOMETHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT.
"SOMETHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT"?
DATA, THAT'S VERY HUMAN.
THE T-9 ENERGY CONVERTER WAS BEAMED ABOARD, SIR.
THE FERENGI COMPLAINED
BUT ONE FINAL ROAR
FROM PORTAL CONVINCED THEM.
I COMMEND YOUR PERFORMCE, NUMBER ONE.
ONE FINAL REQUEST, SIR.
PERMISSION TO BEAM
A BOX OF DATA'S CINESE FINGER PUZZLES
TO THE FERENGI.
A "THANK YOU" FOR ALL THEY TRIED TO DO.
MAKE IT SO.
SET COURSE, LA FORGE.