A Question Of Conscience

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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers
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beyond 21st century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, Starlab.
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Here, Starlab Research Director Dr.
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Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of the International Space
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Authority watch over the countless star systems that fill the universe.
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This week, a fugitive from.
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A dead planet draws Starlab into the final battle of
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an interplanetary.
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War of destruction and deceit, forcing Dr.
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Cassidy and the ISA to confront a question of conscience
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on Alien Worlds.
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Alien Worlds.
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Solaris to Starlab.
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This is Starlab. Go ahead, Solaris.
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We're on our way back in, Jerry. ETA, three hours,
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15 minutes. Give or take a few weeks.
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That's what I like about you, buddy.
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Always such a stickler for details.
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What can I say? Class shows in everything we do.
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So, how about that freighter bound for Thanatos? Did you
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ever find out what the problem was? My captain sounded
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a bit vague.
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Well, it seems the captain signed on a crew of Semenians.
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So?
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So, Malakorah, the holiest of all the Semenian sacred days,
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just happened to fall today. And Jerry, the Semenians consider
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it sacrilegious to work during Malakorah.
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You mean they just stopped working right in the middle
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of the flight?
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You got it. So it was up to us to
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tow the ship to the nearest spaceport. There the captain
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can wait out Malakorah.
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After all, we wouldn't want them falling into the sun
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or ramming the moon or something.
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It just ruins the view.
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I see.
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Well, as long as you're in such a charitable mood,
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perhaps you could do me a favor and make one
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more stop on your way in?
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Don't tell me. Let me guess. A corned beef on.
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Rye from the Delphi Five floating delicatessen.
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Not exactly. I've been picking up some erratic Sigma-class radio
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signals from Sector 9 or 5.
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I'd like you guys to check it out.
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Consider it done, Jerry. We'll let you know if we
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find anything interesting.
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Great.
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Oh, and before I forget, there is just one last
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little thing.
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What's that?
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That corned beef sandwich sounds really good. If it wouldn't
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be too much trouble, you'd think you could.
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Sorry, Jerry.
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Malacara, remember? This is our day off. Maybe next time.
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Solaris clear.
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Starlab clear.
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Funny, they don't look so many.
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One hour later, the Solaris comes to a stop, 500
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yards from a small, needle-shaped craft, hanging motionless against the
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star-shot curtain of deep space.
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Well, there she is. What do you make of it? Well,
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the design looks pretty standard, but those markings.
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I've never seen pictographs quite like those before.
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And look at all that carbon.
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Scoring along the port side.
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Yeah.
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She's seen some action all right. No sign of activity.
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You think it's a derelict? What about the distress signal?
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It might be automatic.
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Better run a tomography scan. Right.
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No good, Skip.
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She's shielded. Scanners just can't penetrate the hull. So much
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for doing things the easy way. You think it might
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be a booby trap? Now, who'd want to rig a
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trap just to get little old us? Well, that depends.
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How many people do you know?
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You have a point there.
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Well, I guess our only choice is to shoot across
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a magnetic grappler, bring her back to Starlab for once over.
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Okay, let's do it.
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Better run grappler maximum range, just to be safe. And
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if it is a trap?
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It's been real nice working with you, buddy. I was
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afraid you were going to say that.
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Two hours later, the battle-scarred alien spacecraft is maneuvered into
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the outboard airlock of Isolab 7.
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Where it's carefully lowered onto a brilliantly illuminated.
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Observation pad located beneath a circular gallery of smoke-colored windows.
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Well, there it is, Phil. Your very first encounter with
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a genuine UFO. What do you think?
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It's different.
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The Academy certainly doesn't prepare you for anything quite like this.
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That's why you're here, remember? You mean this isn't a
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transport bound for the Passion Planet?
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I never should have taken that left turn at St. Louis. Oh, well. So,
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what's next?
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Well, to start with, we've got to make a spectrographic
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analysis of the metals in the ship's hull. This will
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give us a picture of what materials make up its
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exterior and a rough idea about the kind of planet
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it came from.
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Maura, look!
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It's opening!
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I see it. Seal the Isolab airlocks.
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Something's coming out at the base of the ship.
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There, do you see it?
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Oh, my God.
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Medical team alert. Get a bioexamination chamber down to Ice
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Lab 7 as fast as you can. I've never seen
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anything like it before.
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A large reptilian alien rises to its feet, its scaled
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turquoise skin glimmering against the dull gray of the spacecraft.
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It stands holding a three-clawed hand against the bright viewing.
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Lights and then falls.
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How is he, Ma?
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Well, according to the report, he's been in a state
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of extreme oxygen deprivation for several weeks.
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They could only find scattered traces of oxygen in his
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entire bloodstream.
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How did he manage to survive?
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Probably by going into a kind of hibernation. As you
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can see, he's still in something of a comatose state. No, Dr.
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Cassidy.
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The time of non-life is over. You can understand us.
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Your language is.
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Not unknown in the universe.
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I am called Isu of Nakuresh.
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Nakuresh? I don't think I'm familiar with that system. And
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with good reason. For there are none left, save myself to.
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Speak of it.
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There was a war, a terrible war, between my planet
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and another. The reasons are no longer important. Both our
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worlds shared the same last.
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Breath, and now live no more.
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You mean the war left everyone on both sides dead?
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All safe too, yes.
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For, as I survived, by chance so too did the
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last enemy battleship, Arcus, which to this.
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Day kisses.
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Nothing.
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Everything.
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It does not matter. There is an unreasoning and irrational
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hate for my people that will not let them.
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Rest until the very.
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Last member of my race has been totally and utterly exterminated.
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Maura.
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Right here, Jerry. Go ahead.
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I'm picking up a ship five kilometers out. I think
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you better take a look at it. It's big.
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Real big.
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We're on our way.
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And so it begins again.
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Can you not see a room I can.
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I can sense their presence.
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Yes, it is them.
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The enemy.
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They have found me at last.
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Alien Worlds will continue.
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Alien Worlds.
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Alien Worlds continues.
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While investigating a distant distress signal, John and Buddy discover
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a battle-scarred alien spacecraft. Returning to Starlab, a large reptilian
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alien crawls out of the ship, sways for a moment,
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then falls unconscious to the floor of Isolab 7. Later revived,
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the alien reveals that he is the last surviving member
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of a race totally annihilated during an interplanetary war. Suddenly,
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a second vessel, a giant, crimson-colored battle cruiser, appears near Starlab.
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And so it begins again.
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Can you not hear them?
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I can.
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Yes, it is them. The other name.
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They have found me at last.
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Meanwhile, an envoy from the battle cruiser arrives in Starlab
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Docking Bay 9 to.
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Discuss the fate of the alien creature.
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Well, would you look at that.
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Did you say something, Maura?
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Huh? Oh, no.
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I just meant I didn't expect him to be so.
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Handsome?
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Good-looking?
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I meant tall, Phil.
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I was trying to help.
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Uh, welcome to Starlamp.
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Who's in charge here?
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I am.
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I'm Dr.
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Maura Cassidy.
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My name is Andrus of Belshazzar. I wish to thank
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you for capturing the creature Isu. It's comforting to know
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that there are others in the universe that recognize the
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depravity of his crime and will assist in the administration
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of justice.
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Now, if you will please, turn him over to us.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute, back up. I'm afraid
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we don't know anything about any crimes. The one you want, Isu,
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claims to be the sole survivor of a great war
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and as such has requested sanctuary.
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Sanctuary?
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From a war that never was?
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I'm not sure I understand.
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He's who had isolated a plague bacteria against which our
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people had no defense. He used the threat of unleashing
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this disease as a form of blackmail in order to
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further his own twisted dreams of power. But my people
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refused his demands, and they died within the day.
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But if what you say is true, then why are
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you and your crew still alive?
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We were on a deep space probe when the plague
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was unleashed. And by the time we returned, all life
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on our planet was gone. At that moment, we vowed
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to bring this murderer to justice.
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That's where we run into a problem. Both you and
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Isu tell different stories, while each claiming to be the
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last of his kind, leaving no one to verify either story.
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You don't seriously mean to say that you equate my
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credibility with his lies?
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My job here is to find out the truth. Isu
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has requested sanctuary, and I am obliged to give him
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that until his guilt in this crime, or at least
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the crime itself, can be established.
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And how long will this take?
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A few days.
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A few days?
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That's impossible.
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Well, I'm sorry, but we do have certain procedures for
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dealing with this.
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Sort of thing.
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We are not interested in your procedures.
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Every moment that he lives further increases his chances of
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escaping us.
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My response to your suggestion is simple.
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You have five of your hours in which to turn
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him over to us.
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That sounds a little like a threat.
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It's a very disagreeable term.
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Let us instead call it a strongly voiced suggestion.
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Oh, but you can't expect us.
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I repeat, five hours. This discussion is concluded. I repeat,
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five hours.
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This discussion is concluded.
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That's the end of it, Commissioner. After that, he stormed out,
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and we haven't heard a word from the Urcus since then.
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I see. Quite a dilemma you've got on your hands.
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What do you think the odds are of Andrus getting
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nasty if you don't turn over Isu?
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I honestly don't know, Commissioner.
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Well, go ahead and put Stargazer on alert, and have
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them put three squadrons on standby.
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Okay.
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Beyond that, I guess the best advice I can give
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you is just to follow your instincts.
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We don't want to start a war, but I don't
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see how we can turn over the last member of
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another civilization to be murdered.
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Well, I think I'll stop by his cabin and have
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a talk with him. Maybe he'll say something that could
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help confirm either story. Good.
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Be careful, Maura.
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And be sure to keep me posted.
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I will, Commissioner.
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Charlotte, clear. How long, Andrus? How long until Isu is ours?
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Soon, Meshach, soon. We've come too far and searched too
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long to let him slip away.
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But how can you be certain they'll release him?
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They're a reasonably intelligent race. I believe they'll see matters
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our way. And if they still refuse? Then we shall
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simply take him from them, in whatever way we have to.
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Would have liked my world, Mara.
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What was it like, Isu?
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Oh, it was beautiful.
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Crystalline flowers that reflected the emerald sunlight into a thousand
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dazzling patterns. Cool, quiet forests and sleet silver birds.
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With soft golden eyes.
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Then the war began.
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My task was to seed the space between our.
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Two planets and with anti-matter modules which would detonate whenever
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an enemy cruiser approached. In fact, I still carry a
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full load of.
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Them in my ship. Then it happened.
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The fools finally used it.
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Used what?
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My people and the Balthasarians both possessed radiation weapons of
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incredible force, capable of wiping out an entire planet. We
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thought that neither would dare use it. But the Balthasarians... dead,
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and we retaliated, and that was the last day. The
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emerald sky.
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Turned red, then black.
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The ground trembled, and the crystal flowers shattered into a
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million splitters. Birds fell lifeless from the sky, their golden
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eyes empty.
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I then realized that even.
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Though my world had.
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A bird or even a simple flower.
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Perhaps my world could continue.
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I don't know, Jerry. I just don't know who to believe.
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I gather you're meeting with Isu who didn't help to
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clarify matters very much.
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No.
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But even though he can't prove his story, everything he
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says seems to ring true.
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I had the same feeling about Andrus. I wondered when
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we'd hear from them again. It's been two hours. This
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is Starlab.
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Go ahead, Erkus. Dr.
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Cassidy, we've changed our minds. We've realized that in five hours,
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Isu could escape us again. We are therefore giving you
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ten minutes in which to.
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Deliver him to us.
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I'm afraid you're asking the impossible, Andrus.
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And the impossible shall be your demise. We regard you
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as actively harboring.
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A criminal with all the attendant consequences.
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Release him to us.
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Your only alternative is destruction.
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Alien Worlds will continue.
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Alien Worlds continues.
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The rescue of the reptilian alien Isu, who claims to
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be the sole survivor of an interplanetary holocaust. Andrus, Isu's pursuer,
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contacts Starlab.
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You have ten minutes to turn Isu over to us.
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Your only alternative is destruction. Stargazer. Starlab, please scramble a
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squadron of Zodiac fighters.
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Roger, Starlab.
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We will scramble.
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All interceptors, this is a Priority One alert. Scramble all
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Stargazer fighters immediately.
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4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 Andrus, our long-range sensors have picked up a flight
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of ships coming this way.
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They look to be fighters.
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So, they've made the decision.
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Very well, then.
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Launch the assault group. The time of final reckoning is
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at hand.
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This is a priority one alert. All personnel report... Is it?
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Yes.
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Do you know what those sirens outside mean?
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Do you know what's going to happen in another few minutes?
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There's going to be one of the biggest space battles
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this station has ever seen.
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A lot of people are going to die because of you.
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And you know what?
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I don't believe you. Not one bit. I think everything
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Andres said about you is true.
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I'm sorry for you, my young friend. But you should
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not despair.
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For there may yet be another solution.
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Meanwhile, 10 kilometers beyond Starland, the ISA Zodiac Squadrons 1, 3,
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and 6 rocket into battle against five flights of Belshazzarian fighters.
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Six squadron leaders target sighted. Approximately four squadrons.
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Type of weaponry unknown.
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Activate laser turrets and shielding generators on my mark.
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Mark.
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This is Zodiac.
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Three laser and shield functions confirmed.
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Zodiac, secure laser turrets and shields all go.
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All right, let's go in.
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Zodiac 6, take the point.
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Roger.
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Zodiac Leader, there's one on your tail.
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Hang on, I've got him.
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One down.
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Turn him later, Zodiac 6. Zodiac 6, do you copy?
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I got him.
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All right, Dunaway, formation, let's go.
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Andrus, a single craft is approaching from Star Labs.
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What type?
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I can't tell. It's shielded. Wait, there's a signal coming in.
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It's Isu.
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He requests permission to come aboard.
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Permission granted. Well, it seems we've won the war before
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we've even finished the battle.
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Call off the attack, Meshack.
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Yes, Andrus.
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Zodiac Leader to Starlab.
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Go ahead, Zodiac Leader.
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Something funny's going on.
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They're pulling back and breaking.
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Off the attack.
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Hold your position, Zodiac Leader, and stand by.
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Roger.
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Wait a minute. There's another ship heading toward Earth. It's
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not one of ours, and it doesn't look like one
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of theirs.
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One second, Zodiac Leader.
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I'm putting it on the screen now.
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Oh, no.
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Esu.
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Yes, Isu, I hear you.
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What are you doing? Too many have died, Mara.
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And for me, it is the end of the running.
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And perhaps the beginning of peace.
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In the years to come, watch more silent silver birds
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in flight.
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And think of me.
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Silver birds.
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Starlab to Zodiac Leader.
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Get those ships out of there fast.
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Roger, Starlab.
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Mara, what's happening?
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My God, Jerry, I know what he's planning to do.
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Remember me, Dr. Cassidy?
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Remember me?
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The Urcus! It's gone up like a Roman candle.
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More like someone set off a shipload full of antimatter
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modules inside of.
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It.
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What were our losses, Maura?
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Three Zodiac Interceptors.
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And the Urcus? It's too bad. It seems now we'll
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never know who was really telling the truth.
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If Izu was lying.
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This could have been his final, ultimate act of destruction.
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Then there's always the possibility that he was telling us
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the truth after all.
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There's always that, yes. Well, I suppose I'd better file
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my own report on all this. I'll see you in
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a few days, Ma.
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All right, see you soon, Commissioner.
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Starlab out.
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I found these in Isu's cabin. A cassette tape and
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this flower. They're for you.
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The tape will explain it.
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Dr.
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Cassidy, this crystalline seedling is the last thing left to me.
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And I leave it in your care.
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When the time comes, you will know what to do
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with it.
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When the time comes?
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Do you know what he was talking about, Maura? Yes, Bill,
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I think I do. the crystalline flower ceiling. Someday we'll
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find a planet with an emerald sky and still silver birds.
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And when we do, I'll know what to do with this.
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And I will remember.
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A Question of Conscience was written by J. Michael Straczynski
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and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olson, Bruce Philip Miller, and
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Corey Burton, with special guest stars Dawes Butler as Andrus,
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Joe Young as Isu, Michael Bell as Phil, and Tina
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Holland as Meshach. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer,
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Stu Jacobs. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Technical consultant,
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