The shields begin to rise but the inertial dampers are still unresponsive. Picard orders a manual override on the shields while Riker tells La Forge to reset the inertial dampers. The Enterprise continues to drift towards the stellar matter with only thirty seconds left until impact. The captain orders shields up but Worf cannot " the shields will not respond," he shouts, as the ship slowly drifts away. Back on the bridge, Worf says they are heading straight into the path of the stellar matter. In engineering, chief engineer La Forge reports that there is nothing wrong with the inertial dampers. Picard quickly orders Crusher to stabilize the Enterprise but the ship's controls aren't responding. Suddenly, something rocks the Enterprise and Dr. The shuttlebay doors are opened as Data reports they are nearing the launch site. Picard, slightly bemused by the statement, orders the launch of the probe. Stubbs replies that he has been inspecting the egg for the last twenty years and that they "may lay it when ready". Just then, Captain Picard enters the bridge from his ready room, and asks the doctor if he would like to make one final inspection of the egg. Or eighteen hours, seven minutes and ten seconds, as Data corrects.
Stubbs then turns to Crusher and expresses his feelings of how beautiful the star is and explains how, " over and over again, the intense gravitational pull of the neutron star sucks up the star material from the red giant and builds up on the surface until it explodes, every one hundred and ninety six years like clockwork", and they are only eighteen hours away from experiencing it. The commander orders him to slow to one third impulse power. Riker asks the acting ensign what their current position is, to which he replies, " approaching one million kilometers from the neutron star, sir". Stubbs gazes out into the viewscreen as Crusher emerges from a turbolift and assumes his position at the helm. Paul Stubbs, will attempt to study the decay of neutronium expelled at relativistic speeds from a massive stellar explosion which will occur here in a matter of hours." We have entered a spectacular binary star system in the Kavis Alpha sector on a most critical mission of astrophysical research. He asks Crusher if he forgot to set his alarm, to which Crusher, realizing he is late, apologises, packs up his things, and hurriedly heads for his station. Commander Riker then contacts him over the comm, jerking Crusher awake.
Wesley Crusher is asleep, lying face down on a desk in the science lab as the USS Enterprise-D orbits a red giant.
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