[Observation lounge] Well, Captain,
what is this urgent matter we need to discuss?
Please, won't you sit down? (she folds her arms and remains standing)
I'm afraid that you have misinterpreted our presence here. I want to reassure
you that we have no hostile intention. Ah. Then I can tell my superiors that
a fleet of twenty three Federation starships is on our border for, what, humanitarian reasons?
It is our intent to prevent any external power from interfering in Klingon affairs.
Nor do we have any plan to do so.
But Captain, if for any reason we chose to enter Klingon territory, how would you stop us? With
our cloaking devices we can slip by you at will. Then why don't you just take your ships across?
You sound eager for us to try. Perhaps you've discovered a method in detecting
our ships? However, I don't think you asked me here to discuss our military situation.
All right. Why did I invite you here? You want the answer to the only question on
your mind. How could Tasha Yar be my mother? It's been suggested that she was aboard the
Enterprise C when it was destroyed twenty four years ago, that she was one of the survivors
and that obviously you are a product of a union between her and a Romulan.
But you know that's impossible. She would have been a child when that battle occurred.
And yet you claim that it is possible, that you're the daughter of Tasha Yar.
Yes, she was on that ship twenty four years ago. She was sent there by you from the future.
She was among those few who survived. They were all to have been executed after the interrogation,
but a Romulan general saw her and became enamoured with her. So a deal was struck.
Their lives would be spared if she became his consort. I was born a year later.
I want to meet your mother. Can you arrange that?
One night, when I was four years old, she came to me.
She bundled me up and she told me to stay quiet as we left the compound. I realised she
was taking me away. She was taking me away from my home, my father, so I cried out. My father
offered her life. He gave her a home, gave her a child, and how did she repay him? By betrayal.
They executed her. Everything in me that was human died that day with my mother. All that's left is
Romulan. Never doubt that. Doubts? I'm full of them.
But nothing in my experience can persuade me that what you have told me is true.
And I do know one thing. It will not affect my judgment at our next encounter.
You have fourteen hours, Captain. I suggest you use them wisely.