[CHATTERING]
Did everyone know about this except me?
I'll, uh, be all right, sitting here.
You go off with the others.
Hold onto my grandson and watch the damned thing go up,
for all the good it'll do.
What is it they're launching?
You know about it, Father.
You've already seen it.
Seen it?
What are you talking about?
I haven't seen any missile.
BATAI SR.: Yes, you have, old friend.
Don't you remember?
Batai?
You saw it, just before you came here.
We hoped our probe would encounter someone in the future.
Someone who could be a teacher.
Someone who could tell the others about us.
Oh.
Oh, it's me.
Isn't it?
I'm the someone.
I'm the one it finds.
That's what this launching is.
A probe that finds me in the future.
ELINE: Yes, my love.
Eline.
The rest of us have been gone a thousand years.
If you remember what we were
and how we lived
then we'll have found life again.
Eline.
[RUMBLING IN DISTANCE]
Now we live in you.
Tell them of us.
My darling.
[SIGHS]
Something's happening.
The nucleonic beam has ceased, commander.
The probe has shut down.
His cerebral functions are stabilizing.
Mr. Worf, put a tractor beam on that probe.
I want it in Shuttlebay 2 for examination.
Yes, commander.
What--?
Please, captain, don't get up too quickly.
Captain?
This is the Enterprise.
I'm Jean-Luc Picard.
How long?
Twenty, 25 minutes.
Twenty-five minutes?
Captain, I want you in Sickbay. I'd like to run a full diagnostic on you.
Dr. Crusher.