DS9 "Tidens Orphan":
DAX: It's some sort of time portal. From the chroniton signature, we think it sent Molly about three hundred years into the past.
KIRA: I wonder what this place was like three centuries ago.
DAX: Odo contacted the Bajoran Archaeological Institute to see what he could find out.
KIRA: How do we get Molly back?
DAX: Well, **first we have to find a way to reactivate the portal. It's been abandoned a long time and it was destabilised when Molly fell through. The problem is, we're not sure how this technology works. ** KIRA: Well, something tells me the Chief isn't going to stop until he figures it out.
Senare:
[Portal chamber]
(Machinery is thrumming.)
O'BRIEN: Transporter interface link.
DAX: Synchronised.
O'BRIEN: DNA acquisition sensors.
BASHIR: Locked in.
DAX: We're as ready as we're ever going to be, Chief.
O'BRIEN: Okay, let's do it.
(The purple swirly appears in the now-upright portal.)
DAX: The field's destabilising.
O'BRIEN: We're losing power.
DAX: Temporal field established.
BASHIR: We've got a DNA lock. It's her.
(They beam in a ragged young woman wearing Molly's bracelet.)
Varför gör de inte bara vad som hände i slutet av episoden och går genom tiden Portalen griper Molly och går henne igenom?
Du har markerat en del av skriptet, men inte nästa rad från Dax. Portalen är instabil och en mycket missförstått teknik. Genom att trycka på en transportörsstråle genom den tillåter de att flytta Molly tillbaka genom portalen utan att riskera hennes liv eller andras liv, medan blunderande genom det blint kan leda till att det blir mer instabilt.
Observera att om de använder en transportbalk kan de ta sin tid tills de har ett riktigt säkert lås på henne innan de behöver göra någonting snarare, medan att gå igenom är en enstaka händelse:
DAX: First we have to find a way to reactivate the portal -- it's been abandoned for a long time and it destabilized when Molly fell through. The problem is, we're not sure how this technology works.
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KIRA: Assuming you can get it back on-line, then what?
DAX: We punch a transport scanning beam through the portal and try to lock on to Molly's DNA signature.
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