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Paris salvages an abandoned shuttle with a bio-neural pilot interface.

Summary

During a visit to a "graveyard" which contains thousands of ships, some in wreckage and the central station containing many artifacts from these vessels, in astrometrics, Tom Paris, Harry Kim and Seven of Nine are looking at the ships to see if anything is available for salvage. Paris notices a small vessel about the size of a Type 9 shuttlecraft.

During briefing, Paris describes the details of the ship to Chakotay; it has a bio-neural interface which links the pilot's mind with the ship's controls and thus allows it to respond at the speed of thought. Chakotay agrees to trade the ship for some plasma couplings and Paris' jukebox.

Paris restores the ship, but the bio-neural interface begins to have an effect on Paris' mind. He begins seeing a beautiful young woman named Alice who has complete control over his mind. Eventually Paris is controlled completely by Alice and the two break away from Voyager on a course for a particle fountain.

At the last minute Paris is beamed off Alice and the ship falls into the particle fountain and explodes because of the extreme heat and particle density.

Memorable Quotes

"Aw, she's beautiful."
"It's just an old rust bucket."
"Are you kidding? Look at those lines, it's a work of art. That ship wasn't assembled, it was sculpted. I think I'm in love."
(Harry and Seven give Paris a look.)

- Paris and Harry, when Paris finds the Alice ship on the viewer


"We already have a full complement of shuttles."

- Chakotay, the single most prolific destroyer of shuttlecraft of the series, is against acquiring another


"Listen to me!"
"Are you out of your mind?"
"Stay out of this, B'Elanna!"
"Or what? You'll sic Alice on me again?"

- Tom and B'Elanna, arguing after Alice tries to kill B'Elanna


"I'm not sure how I feel about getting inside Tom's head."
"Maybe you'll be able to explain a few things when you get back."

- B'Elanna and the Doctor.


"From now on, I promise no more affairs with strange ships."
"What about the Delta Flyer?"
"We're just friends.'

- Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres


"Congratulations, Tuvok, you just saved us from a flotilla of hostile trash."

-Tom to Tuvok

Background Information

  • Alice refers to the particle fountain as "home", but it is never explained what she means by this since she is apparently nothing more than a program.

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References

Abaddon's Repository of Lost Treasures; The Adventures of Captain Proton; Alice; astrometrics; Battisti, Alice; Baxial; beryllium; broadband sensor matrix; Captain Proton; cerebral hemorrhage; champagne; confinement beam; cortical suppressant; Daedalus; Delta Flyer; deuterium; duranium; EPS relay; Ferengi; Five Stages of Acquisition; gravity plating; Grid 539; Grid 867; hallucination; Harkonian; Icarus; impulse reactor; ion exchange rod; iso-convective oven; isolation sickness; jukebox; multiphasic shield; navigational array; neurogenic interface; optronic pulse; optronic weapon; particle fountain; plasma coupling; power cell; power regulator; Queen Arachnia; reactant injector; S-class shuttle; secondary warp assembly; Starfleet Academy; tactical data module; towing vessel; tractor beam; translation matrix; warp field

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