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A Question Of Conscience · Alien Worlds

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  Speaker 2: Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers
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  Speaker 2: beyond 21st century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, Starlab.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Starlab Research Director Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of the International Space
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  Speaker 2: Authority watch over the countless star systems that fill the universe.
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  Speaker 3: This week, a fugitive from.
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  Speaker 2: A dead planet draws Starlab into the final battle of
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  Speaker 2: an interplanetary.
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  Speaker 3: War of destruction and deceit, forcing Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Cassidy and the ISA to confront a question of conscience
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  Speaker 2: on Alien Worlds.
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  Speaker 4: Alien Worlds.
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  Speaker 5: Solaris to Starlab.
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  Speaker 3: This is Starlab. Go ahead, Solaris.
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  Speaker 6: We're on our way back in, Jerry. ETA, three hours,
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  Speaker 6: 15 minutes. Give or take a few weeks.
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  Speaker 7: That's what I like about you, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Always such a stickler for details.
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  Speaker 5: What can I say? Class shows in everything we do.
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  Speaker 7: So, how about that freighter bound for Thanatos? Did you
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  Speaker 7: ever find out what the problem was? My captain sounded
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  Speaker 7: a bit vague.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it seems the captain signed on a crew of Semenians.
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 8: So, Malakorah, the holiest of all the Semenian sacred days,
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  Speaker 8: just happened to fall today. And Jerry, the Semenians consider
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  Speaker 8: it sacrilegious to work during Malakorah.
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  Speaker 7: You mean they just stopped working right in the middle
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  Speaker 7: of the flight?
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  Speaker 5: You got it. So it was up to us to
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  Speaker 5: tow the ship to the nearest spaceport. There the captain
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  Speaker 5: can wait out Malakorah.
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  Speaker 6: After all, we wouldn't want them falling into the sun
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  Speaker 6: or ramming the moon or something.
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  Speaker 5: It just ruins the view.
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  Speaker 9: I see.
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  Speaker 7: Well, as long as you're in such a charitable mood,
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  Speaker 7: perhaps you could do me a favor and make one
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  Speaker 7: more stop on your way in?
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell me. Let me guess. A corned beef on.
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  Speaker 6: Rye from the Delphi Five floating delicatessen.
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  Speaker 7: Not exactly. I've been picking up some erratic Sigma-class radio
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  Speaker 7: signals from Sector 9 or 5.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like you guys to check it out.
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  Speaker 5: Consider it done, Jerry. We'll let you know if we
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  Speaker 5: find anything interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Great.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, and before I forget, there is just one last
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  Speaker 9: little thing.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 7: That corned beef sandwich sounds really good. If it wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: be too much trouble, you'd think you could.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, Jerry.
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  Speaker 5: Malacara, remember? This is our day off. Maybe next time.
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  Speaker 5: Solaris clear.
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  Speaker 10: Starlab clear.
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  Speaker 3: Funny, they don't look so many.
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  Speaker 2: One hour later, the Solaris comes to a stop, 500
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  Speaker 2: yards from a small, needle-shaped craft, hanging motionless against the
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  Speaker 2: star-shot curtain of deep space.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there she is. What do you make of it? Well,
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  Speaker 3: the design looks pretty standard, but those markings.
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  Speaker 10: I've never seen pictographs quite like those before.
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  Speaker 3: And look at all that carbon.
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  Speaker 6: Scoring along the port side.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: She's seen some action all right. No sign of activity.
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  Speaker 3: You think it's a derelict? What about the distress signal?
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  Speaker 9: It might be automatic.
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  Speaker 3: Better run a tomography scan. Right.
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  Speaker 11: No good, Skip.
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  Speaker 3: She's shielded. Scanners just can't penetrate the hull. So much
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  Speaker 3: for doing things the easy way. You think it might
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  Speaker 3: be a booby trap? Now, who'd want to rig a
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  Speaker 3: trap just to get little old us? Well, that depends.
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  Speaker 3: How many people do you know?
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  Speaker 9: You have a point there.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess our only choice is to shoot across
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  Speaker 8: a magnetic grappler, bring her back to Starlab for once over.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let's do it.
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  Speaker 9: Better run grappler maximum range, just to be safe. And
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  Speaker 9: if it is a trap?
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  Speaker 3: It's been real nice working with you, buddy. I was
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  Speaker 3: afraid you were going to say that.
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  Speaker 2: Two hours later, the battle-scarred alien spacecraft is maneuvered into
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  Speaker 2: the outboard airlock of Isolab 7.
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  Speaker 3: Where it's carefully lowered onto a brilliantly illuminated.
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  Speaker 2: Observation pad located beneath a circular gallery of smoke-colored windows.
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  Speaker 10: Well, there it is, Phil. Your very first encounter with
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  Speaker 10: a genuine UFO. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: It's different.
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  Speaker 2: The Academy certainly doesn't prepare you for anything quite like this.
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  Speaker 10: That's why you're here, remember? You mean this isn't a
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  Speaker 10: transport bound for the Passion Planet?
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  Speaker 3: I never should have taken that left turn at St. Louis. Oh, well. So,
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  Speaker 3: what's next?
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  Speaker 10: Well, to start with, we've got to make a spectrographic
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  Speaker 10: analysis of the metals in the ship's hull. This will
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  Speaker 10: give us a picture of what materials make up its
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  Speaker 10: exterior and a rough idea about the kind of planet
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  Speaker 10: it came from.
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  Speaker 4: Maura, look!
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  Speaker 3: It's opening!
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  Speaker 10: I see it. Seal the Isolab airlocks.
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  Speaker 9: Something's coming out at the base of the ship.
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  Speaker 3: There, do you see it?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 10: Medical team alert. Get a bioexamination chamber down to Ice
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  Speaker 10: Lab 7 as fast as you can. I've never seen
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  Speaker 10: anything like it before.
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  Speaker 2: A large reptilian alien rises to its feet, its scaled
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  Speaker 2: turquoise skin glimmering against the dull gray of the spacecraft.
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  Speaker 2: It stands holding a three-clawed hand against the bright viewing.
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  Speaker 3: Lights and then falls.
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  Speaker 4: How is he, Ma?
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  Speaker 10: Well, according to the report, he's been in a state
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  Speaker 10: of extreme oxygen deprivation for several weeks.
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  Speaker 7: They could only find scattered traces of oxygen in his
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  Speaker 7: entire bloodstream.
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  Speaker 3: How did he manage to survive?
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  Speaker 10: Probably by going into a kind of hibernation. As you
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  Speaker 10: can see, he's still in something of a comatose state. No, Dr.
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  Speaker 11: Cassidy.
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  Speaker 10: The time of non-life is over. You can understand us.
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  Speaker 10: Your language is.
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  Speaker 9: Not unknown in the universe.
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  Speaker 3: I am called Isu of Nakuresh.
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  Speaker 10: Nakuresh? I don't think I'm familiar with that system. And
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  Speaker 10: with good reason. For there are none left, save myself to.
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  Speaker 8: Speak of it.
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  Speaker 12: There was a war, a terrible war, between my planet
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  Speaker 12: and another. The reasons are no longer important. Both our
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  Speaker 12: worlds shared the same last.
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  Speaker 9: Breath, and now live no more.
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  Speaker 3: You mean the war left everyone on both sides dead?
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  Speaker 3: All safe too, yes.
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  Speaker 12: For, as I survived, by chance so too did the
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  Speaker 12: last enemy battleship, Arcus, which to this.
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  Speaker 3: Day kisses.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Everything.
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  Speaker 12: It does not matter. There is an unreasoning and irrational
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  Speaker 12: hate for my people that will not let them.
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  Speaker 8: Rest until the very.
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  Speaker 12: Last member of my race has been totally and utterly exterminated.
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  Speaker 4: Maura.
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  Speaker 10: Right here, Jerry. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 9: I'm picking up a ship five kilometers out. I think
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  Speaker 9: you better take a look at it. It's big.
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  Speaker 3: Real big.
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  Speaker 10: We're on our way.
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  Speaker 9: And so it begins again.
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  Speaker 2: Can you not see a room I can.
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  Speaker 9: I can sense their presence.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it is them.
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  Speaker 3: The enemy.
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  Speaker 4: They have found me at last.
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  Speaker 3: Alien Worlds will continue.
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  Speaker 4: Alien Worlds.
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  Speaker 3: Alien Worlds continues.
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  Speaker 2: While investigating a distant distress signal, John and Buddy discover
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  Speaker 2: a battle-scarred alien spacecraft. Returning to Starlab, a large reptilian
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  Speaker 2: alien crawls out of the ship, sways for a moment,
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  Speaker 2: then falls unconscious to the floor of Isolab 7. Later revived,
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  Speaker 2: the alien reveals that he is the last surviving member
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  Speaker 2: of a race totally annihilated during an interplanetary war. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: a second vessel, a giant, crimson-colored battle cruiser, appears near Starlab.
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  Speaker 13: And so it begins again.
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  Speaker 10: Can you not hear them?
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  Speaker 3: I can.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, it is them. The other name.
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  Speaker 10: They have found me at last.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, an envoy from the battle cruiser arrives in Starlab
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  Speaker 2: Docking Bay 9 to.
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  Speaker 11: Discuss the fate of the alien creature.
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  Speaker 10: Well, would you look at that.
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  Speaker 3: Did you say something, Maura?
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  Speaker 14: Huh? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 10: I just meant I didn't expect him to be so.
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  Speaker 9: Handsome?
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  Speaker 3: Good-looking?
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  Speaker 10: I meant tall, Phil.
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  Speaker 11: I was trying to help.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, welcome to Starlamp.
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  Speaker 15: Who's in charge here?
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dr.
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  Speaker 10: Maura Cassidy.
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  Speaker 15: My name is Andrus of Belshazzar. I wish to thank
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  Speaker 15: you for capturing the creature Isu. It's comforting to know
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  Speaker 15: that there are others in the universe that recognize the
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  Speaker 15: depravity of his crime and will assist in the administration
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  Speaker 15: of justice.
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  Speaker 9: Now, if you will please, turn him over to us.
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  Speaker 10: Wait a minute, wait a minute, back up. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 10: we don't know anything about any crimes. The one you want, Isu,
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  Speaker 10: claims to be the sole survivor of a great war
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  Speaker 10: and as such has requested sanctuary.
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  Speaker 11: Sanctuary?
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  Speaker 15: From a war that never was?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I understand.
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  Speaker 15: He's who had isolated a plague bacteria against which our
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  Speaker 15: people had no defense. He used the threat of unleashing
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  Speaker 15: this disease as a form of blackmail in order to
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  Speaker 15: further his own twisted dreams of power. But my people
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  Speaker 15: refused his demands, and they died within the day.
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  Speaker 9: But if what you say is true, then why are
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  Speaker 9: you and your crew still alive?
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  Speaker 15: We were on a deep space probe when the plague
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  Speaker 15: was unleashed. And by the time we returned, all life
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  Speaker 15: on our planet was gone. At that moment, we vowed
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  Speaker 15: to bring this murderer to justice.
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  Speaker 10: That's where we run into a problem. Both you and
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  Speaker 10: Isu tell different stories, while each claiming to be the
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  Speaker 10: last of his kind, leaving no one to verify either story.
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  Speaker 15: You don't seriously mean to say that you equate my
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  Speaker 15: credibility with his lies?
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  Speaker 10: My job here is to find out the truth. Isu
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  Speaker 10: has requested sanctuary, and I am obliged to give him
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  Speaker 10: that until his guilt in this crime, or at least
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  Speaker 10: the crime itself, can be established.
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  Speaker 15: And how long will this take?
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  Speaker 3: A few days.
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  Speaker 12: A few days?
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  Speaker 3: That's impossible.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm sorry, but we do have certain procedures for
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  Speaker 10: dealing with this.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of thing.
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  Speaker 9: We are not interested in your procedures.
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  Speaker 15: Every moment that he lives further increases his chances of
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  Speaker 15: escaping us.
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  Speaker 9: My response to your suggestion is simple.
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  Speaker 15: You have five of your hours in which to turn
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  Speaker 15: him over to us.
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  Speaker 9: That sounds a little like a threat.
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  Speaker 5: It's a very disagreeable term.
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  Speaker 15: Let us instead call it a strongly voiced suggestion.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, but you can't expect us.
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  Speaker 9: I repeat, five hours. This discussion is concluded. I repeat,
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  Speaker 9: five hours.
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  Speaker 15: This discussion is concluded.
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  Speaker 10: That's the end of it, Commissioner. After that, he stormed out,
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  Speaker 10: and we haven't heard a word from the Urcus since then.
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  Speaker 5: I see. Quite a dilemma you've got on your hands.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think the odds are of Andrus getting
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  Speaker 2: nasty if you don't turn over Isu?
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  Speaker 10: I honestly don't know, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: Well, go ahead and put Stargazer on alert, and have
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  Speaker 2: them put three squadrons on standby.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond that, I guess the best advice I can give
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  Speaker 2: you is just to follow your instincts.
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  Speaker 5: We don't want to start a war, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: see how we can turn over the last member of
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  Speaker 5: another civilization to be murdered.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I think I'll stop by his cabin and have
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  Speaker 10: a talk with him. Maybe he'll say something that could
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  Speaker 10: help confirm either story. Good.
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  Speaker 5: Be careful, Maura.
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  Speaker 3: And be sure to keep me posted.
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  Speaker 11: I will, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 10: Charlotte, clear. How long, Andrus? How long until Isu is ours?
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  Speaker 15: Soon, Meshach, soon. We've come too far and searched too
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  Speaker 15: long to let him slip away.
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  Speaker 3: But how can you be certain they'll release him?
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  Speaker 15: They're a reasonably intelligent race. I believe they'll see matters
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  Speaker 15: our way. And if they still refuse? Then we shall
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  Speaker 15: simply take him from them, in whatever way we have to.
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  Speaker 5: Would have liked my world, Mara.
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  Speaker 10: What was it like, Isu?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it was beautiful.
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  Speaker 12: Crystalline flowers that reflected the emerald sunlight into a thousand
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  Speaker 12: dazzling patterns. Cool, quiet forests and sleet silver birds.
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  Speaker 9: With soft golden eyes.
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  Speaker 12: Then the war began.
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  Speaker 10: My task was to seed the space between our.
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  Speaker 12: Two planets and with anti-matter modules which would detonate whenever
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  Speaker 12: an enemy cruiser approached. In fact, I still carry a
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  Speaker 12: full load of.
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  Speaker 10: Them in my ship. Then it happened.
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  Speaker 12: The fools finally used it.
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  Speaker 3: Used what?
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  Speaker 12: My people and the Balthasarians both possessed radiation weapons of
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  Speaker 12: incredible force, capable of wiping out an entire planet. We
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  Speaker 12: thought that neither would dare use it. But the Balthasarians... dead,
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  Speaker 12: and we retaliated, and that was the last day. The
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  Speaker 12: emerald sky.
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  Speaker 9: Turned red, then black.
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  Speaker 12: The ground trembled, and the crystal flowers shattered into a
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  Speaker 12: million splitters. Birds fell lifeless from the sky, their golden
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  Speaker 12: eyes empty.
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  Speaker 2: I then realized that even.
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  Speaker 6: Though my world had.
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  Speaker 10: A bird or even a simple flower.
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  Speaker 12: Perhaps my world could continue.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know, Jerry. I just don't know who to believe.
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  Speaker 7: I gather you're meeting with Isu who didn't help to
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  Speaker 7: clarify matters very much.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 10: But even though he can't prove his story, everything he
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  Speaker 10: says seems to ring true.
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  Speaker 3: I had the same feeling about Andrus. I wondered when
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  Speaker 3: we'd hear from them again. It's been two hours. This
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  Speaker 3: is Starlab.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Erkus. Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Cassidy, we've changed our minds. We've realized that in five hours,
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  Speaker 9: Isu could escape us again. We are therefore giving you
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  Speaker 9: ten minutes in which to.
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  Speaker 3: Deliver him to us.
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  Speaker 10: I'm afraid you're asking the impossible, Andrus.
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  Speaker 5: And the impossible shall be your demise. We regard you
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  Speaker 5: as actively harboring.
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  Speaker 15: A criminal with all the attendant consequences.
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  Speaker 11: Release him to us.
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  Speaker 5: Your only alternative is destruction.
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  Speaker 3: Alien Worlds will continue.
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  Speaker 10: Alien Worlds continues.
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  Speaker 2: The rescue of the reptilian alien Isu, who claims to
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  Speaker 2: be the sole survivor of an interplanetary holocaust. Andrus, Isu's pursuer,
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  Speaker 2: contacts Starlab.
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  Speaker 5: You have ten minutes to turn Isu over to us.
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  Speaker 9: Your only alternative is destruction. Stargazer. Starlab, please scramble a
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  Speaker 9: squadron of Zodiac fighters.
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  Speaker 2: Roger, Starlab.
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  Speaker 5: We will scramble.
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  Speaker 9: All interceptors, this is a Priority One alert. Scramble all
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  Speaker 9: Stargazer fighters immediately.
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  Speaker 14: 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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  Speaker 14: of ships coming this way.
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  Speaker 10: They look to be fighters.
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  Speaker 9: So, they've made the decision.
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  Speaker 5: Very well, then.
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  Speaker 15: Launch the assault group. The time of final reckoning is
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  Speaker 15: at hand.
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  Speaker 9: This is a priority one alert. All personnel report... Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: Do you know what those sirens outside mean?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what's going to happen in another few minutes?
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  Speaker 10: There's going to be one of the biggest space battles
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  Speaker 10: this station has ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are going to die because of you.
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  Speaker 11: And you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe you. Not one bit. I think everything
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  Speaker 3: Andres said about you is true.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry for you, my young friend. But you should
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  Speaker 9: not despair.
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  Speaker 12: For there may yet be another solution.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, 10 kilometers beyond Starland, the ISA Zodiac Squadrons 1, 3,
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  Speaker 2: and 6 rocket into battle against five flights of Belshazzarian fighters.
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  Speaker 9: Six squadron leaders target sighted. Approximately four squadrons.
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  Speaker 3: Type of weaponry unknown.
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: Activate laser turrets and shielding generators on my mark.
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: Mark.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: This is Zodiac.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Three laser and shield functions confirmed.
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: Zodiac, secure laser turrets and shields all go.
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: All right, let's go in.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Zodiac 6, take the point.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: Roger.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Zodiac Leader, there's one on your tail.
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: Hang on, I've got him.
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: One down.
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: Turn him later, Zodiac 6. Zodiac 6, do you copy?
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: I got him.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: All right, Dunaway, formation, let's go.
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: Andrus, a single craft is approaching from Star Labs.
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: What type?
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: I can't tell. It's shielded. Wait, there's a signal coming in.
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: It's Isu.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: He requests permission to come aboard.
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: Permission granted. Well, it seems we've won the war before
• 20:42
  Speaker 15: we've even finished the battle.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: Call off the attack, Meshack.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: Yes, Andrus.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Zodiac Leader to Starlab.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Zodiac Leader.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: Something funny's going on.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: They're pulling back and breaking.
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: Off the attack.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Hold your position, Zodiac Leader, and stand by.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Roger.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute. There's another ship heading toward Earth. It's
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: not one of ours, and it doesn't look like one
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: of theirs.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: One second, Zodiac Leader.
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: I'm putting it on the screen now.
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: Oh, no.
• 21:17
  Speaker 14: Esu.
• 21:22
  Speaker 13: Yes, Isu, I hear you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: What are you doing? Too many have died, Mara.
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: And for me, it is the end of the running.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: And perhaps the beginning of peace.
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: In the years to come, watch more silent silver birds
• 21:35
  Speaker 12: in flight.
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: And think of me.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Silver birds.
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: Starlab to Zodiac Leader.
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: Get those ships out of there fast.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Roger, Starlab.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Mara, what's happening?
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: My God, Jerry, I know what he's planning to do.
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: Remember me, Dr. Cassidy?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Remember me?
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: The Urcus! It's gone up like a Roman candle.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: More like someone set off a shipload full of antimatter
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: modules inside of.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: It.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: What were our losses, Maura?
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Three Zodiac Interceptors.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: And the Urcus? It's too bad. It seems now we'll
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: never know who was really telling the truth.
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: If Izu was lying.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: This could have been his final, ultimate act of destruction.
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: Then there's always the possibility that he was telling us
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: the truth after all.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: There's always that, yes. Well, I suppose I'd better file
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: my own report on all this. I'll see you in
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a few days, Ma.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: All right, see you soon, Commissioner.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Starlab out.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I found these in Isu's cabin. A cassette tape and
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: this flower. They're for you.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: The tape will explain it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 14: Dr.
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: Cassidy, this crystalline seedling is the last thing left to me.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: And I leave it in your care.
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: When the time comes, you will know what to do
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: with it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: When the time comes?
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: Do you know what he was talking about, Maura? Yes, Bill,
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: I think I do. the crystalline flower ceiling. Someday we'll
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: find a planet with an emerald sky and still silver birds.
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: And when we do, I'll know what to do with this.
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: And I will remember.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: A Question of Conscience was written by J. Michael Straczynski
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olson, Bruce Philip Miller, and
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Corey Burton, with special guest stars Dawes Butler as Andrus,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Joe Young as Isu, Michael Bell as Phil, and Tina
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Holland as Meshach. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer,
• 24:23
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