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Daystrom Station was my
captive home during the war,

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with nine of my brothers and
sisters, kept on shelves.

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"Project Proteus" they called it.

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Where is Will Riker? Is he alive?

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Me, Admiral?

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The Changelings are these beings

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that live in a lake of goo.

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That's what it looks like.

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And they're all connected.

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They're not a solid, and
they can take the form

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of any other life form that they want.

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They were causing some trouble

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on Deep Space Nine, and now they're back.

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Solids like you ruin
every world you touch.

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[Picard] Name one.

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Mine.

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We were barely out of the gates of war,

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and your Federation turned to genocide.

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This particular time period
is really interesting.

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We're in a post-Dominion War
Federation and Starfleet,

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and it felt like that
would have ramifications.

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Would you like to hear more
about where my appetite

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for your brutal, inevitable
extinction comes from?

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I got it from Starfleet.

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Every good villain is the
hero of their own story.

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And so what was Vadic's story?

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What is motivating her?

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We know that she is reporting
to a mysterious boss.

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But, she's doing this for a reason.

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The Federation took my family.

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And now I will take yours.

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We early on talked about her past,

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and that became Project Proteus.

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If there is an entity
that can look and sound

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just like you, that's a fantastic weapon

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to have in your arsenal.

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You'd be recruiting Changelings nonstop

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if you were in the intelligence agencies.

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But what if they weren't recruitable?

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You gave me the ability
to mimic your blood,

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pass every test.

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And you did so while
inflicting more torment on me

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than any being should ever
be expected to endure.

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It kind of originated from
a place of positive intent,

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but then as things in
life can often turn into,

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it became complicated and
and kind of was misused.

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Our official designation is Section 31.

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And what does Section 31 do?

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We search out and identify

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potential dangers to the Federation.

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And once identified?

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We deal with them.

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So we had talked about Section 31,

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which sort of dabbles in
more nefarious projects,

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attempting to make an even
more undetectable Changeling.

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[Dr. Crusher] So you evolved

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from the biological experiments.

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I'm able to pass it on.

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They accept a shorter life, eternal pain,

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for the ability to fool those
who took everything from us.

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It's hard to call her a villain,

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even though that would be the easy way.

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She's not, really.

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Don't tell me, I have no regard for love,

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or innocence.

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There's a lot of contradictions to her.

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I relish those,

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'cause I think there are
contradictions in everyone.

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She took the face of her torturer. Why?

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To remind herself of her hate.

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That's just something she experienced,

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and it marked her.

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So here we are, where
we were always going,

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to bring Jack Crusher,
where he most belongs.

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Part of the big mystery of the season

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is figuring out what they want with Jack,

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and why they're on the ship,

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and what exactly their end game is.

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Jack, my dear, if you can hear me,

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it's time you learned who you truly are.