This has nothing to do with my ship...
nothing to do with the Federation.
Oh, but it does.
We will no longer bow before anyone as slaves
not the Romulans and not your mighty Federation.
We are a race bred for war
and conquest.
Are you ready to plunge the entire Quadrant into war
to satisfy your own personal demons?
It amazes me how little you know yourself.
I'm incapable of such an act!
You are me.
The same noble Picard blood runs through our veins.
Had you lived my life, you'd be doing exactly as I am.
So look in the mirror.
See yourself.
Consider that, Captain.
I can think of no greater torment for you.
Shinzon.
I'm a mirror for you as well.
Not for long, Captain.
I'm afraid you won't survive to witness the victory
of the echo over the voice.
His cloak is perfect.
No tachyon emissions, no residual antiprotons.
Keep at it, Geordi.
Find a way in.
Praetor Shinzon needs the prisoner.
About time, Mr. Data.
My mission was a success, sir.
I have located the source of the radiation.
This entire ship is essentially a thalaron generator.
Its power relays lead
to an activation matrix on the Bridge.
It's a weapon.
It would appear so.
What about the download?
Shinzon believes he has our communication protocols
but they will give him inaccurate locations
for all Starfleet vessels.
Good work.
Sir.
Geordi supplied me
with a prototype of the emergency transport unit.
I recommend you use this, sir, to return to the Enterprise.
It will only work for one of us.
Yes, sir.
We'll find a way off together.
It is time for the procedure.
Move, puny human animal.
A bit less florid, Data.
Kill him.
This way, sir.
There is a shuttlebay 94 meters from our current position.
There it is, sir.
Go!
Data!
It appears to have an encrypted security system.
Alacrity will be appreciated, Commander!
Reman is a most complex language, with pictographs
representing certain verb roots...
While I find that fascinating,
Data, we really need that door open!
According to the ship's manifest
they are Scorpion-class attack flyers.
Data, what do you imagine this is?
Port thruster, sir.
Would you like me to drive, sir?
Data, can you open the shuttlebay doors?
Negative, sir.
They have erected a force field around
the external portals.
Well, then, only one way to go.
Do you think this is a wise course of action, sir?
We're about to find out, Data.
Power up the disruptors.
Ready, Captain.
Fire.
Tractor beam, now!
Worf, lock on transporters.
I have them, sir.
This has gone far enough.
I thought we discussed patience, Commander.
Mine is wearing thin.
We supported you because you promised action,
and yet, you delay.
The Enterprise is immaterial.
It won't even make it out of the Neutral Zone.
And in two days,
the Federation will be crippled beyond repair.
Does that satisfy you?
For the moment.
And when I return, you and I
shall have a little talk about showing proper respect.
What's happening to his face?
Commander, a moment.
Are you truly prepared to have your hands drenched in blood?
He's not planning to defeat Earth.
He's planning its annihilation.
And his sins will mark us and our children
for generations.
The more I studied his DNA, the more confusing it got.
Finally, I could come to only one conclusion.
Shinzon was created with temporal RNA sequencing.
He was designed so that, at a certain point, his aging process
could be accelerated to reach your age more quickly.
He was engineered to skip 30 years of his life.
But when the temporal sequencing wasn't activated,
his cellular structure started breaking down.
He's dying.
Dying?
Can anything be done for him?
Nothing except a complete transfusion
from the only donor with compatible DNA... you.
How long does he have?
I can't say for sure
but the rate of decay seems to be accelerating.
Then he'll come for me.
Brother, I... cannot move.
No. I have only activated
your cognitive and communication subroutines.
Why?
Because you are dangerous.
Why?
You have been programmed to gather information
that can be used against this ship.
I... do not understand.
I know.
Do you know anything about Shinzon's plans
against the Federation?
No.
Do you have any knowledge
of the tactical abilities of his ship?
No.
Can I move now?
No.
What are you doing?
I must deactivate you.
For how long?
Indefinitely.
How long is tha?
A long time, brother.
It's called a Cascading Biogenic Pulse.
The unique properties of thalaron radiation
allow the energy beam to expand almost without limit.
Depending on its radiant intensity,
it could encompass a ship... or a planet.
He would only have built a weapon of such scope
for one reason.
He's going after Earth.
How can you be certain?
I know how he thinks.
Destroy humanity, you cripple the Federation.
The Romulans invade.
No way of penetrating his cloak?
No.
So he could pass within ten meters
of every ship in Starfleet and they'd never know.
We do have one advantage, though.
He needs your blood to live.
He might come after you first.
I'm counting on it.
We've been ordered to sector 1045.
Our fleet has been diverted to meet us there.
Strength in numbers.
Yes. At least, that's what we hope.
He must not be allowed to use that weapon.
All other concerns are secondary.
You understand me?
Yes, sir.
All hands... battle stations.
Initiate the force field.
Captain's Personal Log, supplemental.
We're heading toward Federation space at maximum warp.
The crew has responded with the dedication
I've come to expect of them.
And like a thousand other commanders
on a thousand other battlefields,
I wait for the dawn.
How long?
A matter of hours.
We must begin the procedure now.
How long until we reach the Rift?
Seven minutes.
Data, what's our current position?
How soon until we reach the fleet?
At our current velocity, we will arrive at sector 1045
in approximately 40 minutes, sir.
"For now we see but through a glass darkly."
Sir?
He said he is a mirror.
Of you, sir?
Yes.
I do not agree.
Although you share the same genetic structure,
the events of your life
have created a unique individual.
If I had lived his life,
is it possible that I would've rejected my humanity?
The B-4 is physically identical
to me, although his neural pathways
are not as advanced.
But even if they were, he would not be me.
How can you be sure?
I aspire, sir, to be better than I am.
B-4 does not... nor does Shinzon.
We are passing through the Bassen Rift, sir.
The projection will return when we have cleared it.
It's interfering with our uplink from Starfleet cartography?
The Rift affects all long-range communica...
Commander Riker, evasive maneuvers.
Target weapon systems and shields.
I don't want the Enterprise destroyed.
Can you learn to see in the dark, Captain?
Report.
He's firing through the cloak. We can't get a lock.
He disabled our warp drive with his first shot.
We only have impulse, Captain.
Mr. Worf, prepare a full phaser spread.
Zero elevation.
All banks on my mark.
Scan for shield impact.
Stand by, photon torpedoes.
Aye, sir.
Fire.
You're too slow, old man.
Attack pattern Shinzon Theta.
We are losing dorsal shields!
Full axis rotation to port.
Fire all ventral phasers.
Minimal damage to the Scimitar.
Defensive pattern Kirk Epsilon.
Get the shields on line, Geordi.
I'm already on it.
Counselor Troi, report to the Bridge.
Captain...
we are being hailed.
On screen.
Captain Picard...
will you join me in your ready room?
You can't trace my holographic emitters, Captain,
so don't bother.
And you can't contact Starfleet.
It's just the two of us now, Jean-Luc.
As it should be.
Why are you here?
To accept your surrender.
I can clearly destroy you at any time.
Lower your shields
and allow me to transport you to my ship.
And the Enterprise?
I have little interest in your quaint vessel, Captain.
Look at me, Shinzon.
Your heart, your hands...
your eyes
are the same as mine.
The blood pumping within you...
the raw material is the same.
We have the same potential.
That's the past, Captain.
It can be the future.
Buried deep within you,
beneath all the years of pain and anger,
there is something that has never been nurtured.
The potential to make yourself a better man.
And that is what it is to be human.
To make yourself more than you are.
Oh, yes.
I know you.
There was a time you looked at the stars
and dreamed of what might be.
Childish dreams, Captain,
lost in the dilithium mines of Remus.
I am what you see now.
I see more than that.
I see what you could be.
The man who is Shinzon of Remus and Jean-Luc Picard
could never exterminate the population of an entire planet.
He's better than that.
He is what his life has made him.
Then, what will you do with that life?
Waste it in a blaze of hatred?
There is a better way.
It's too late.
Never, never. You still have a choice.
Make the right one now.
I can't fight what I am.
Yes, you can.
I'll show you my true nature.
Our nature.
And as Earth dies,
remember, I will always forever be Shinzon
of Remus.
And my voice shall echo through time
long after yours has faded to a dim memory.
Two ships de-cloaking, sir.
Romulan.
Captain.
Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse.
We are being hailed.
On screen.
Captain Picard, Commander Donatra
of the Warbird Valdore.
Might we be of assistance?
Assistance?
The Empire considers this a matter of internal security.
We regret you've become involved.
Commander, when this is over, I owe you a drink.
Romulan ale, Captain.
Let's get to work.
You heard the lady.
Let's go to work.
Mr. Worf, coordinate our attack
with the Valdore Tactical Officer.
Triangulate all fire on any shield impact.
Aye, sir.
Aft shields down to 40 percent.
Keep our bow on the Scimitar.
Auxiliary power to forward shields.
Aye, sir.
Target the flanking warbird.
All forward disruptor banks on my mark.
Forward shields down to 10 percent.
Bring us about.
Drop cloak on the aft port quadrant.
Prepare for full emergency stop.
What?
You heard me.
He's losing his cloak.
Stand by all forward disruptor banks.
She's almost on us.
Not yet.
Praetor!
Full stop!
Fire!
Restore the aft cloak and bring us about.
I'm afraid that drink will have to wait, Captain.
Do you have life support?
For the moment.
But we're dead in the water.
Understood.
We are losing
structural integrity on decks 12 through 17, sections
four through ten.
Emergency force fields are holding.
Evacuate those decks
and reroute field power to forward shields.
Captain...
I think I may have a way to find them.
Prepare for a lateral run.
All starboard disruptors.
What is it?
She's here.
He's resisting me.
No!
Remember me.
Now!
Fire at will.
Prepare a boarding party. Bring me Picard.
You.
Get the cloak back!
Target all shield coordinates, beta three.
All disruptors, fire.
Captain, we've lost central shielding on deck 29.
Divert all power and compensate.
Intruder alert.
Number One.
Let's go.
Security detail to deck 29.
The Romulans fought with honor.
Yes, they did, Mr. Worf.
Worf, cover me.
Medical team to the Bridge.
...functioning on reserve power only.
Did you check the system status?
Report.
We have exhausted our complement of photon torpedoes.
Phaser banks are down to four percent, sir.
What if we targeted all our phasers
in a concentrated pattern?
The Scimitar's shields are still at 70 percent.
It would make no difference, Captain.
We have damage on all decks.
He wants to look me in the eye.
We've got him.
He thinks he knows exactly what I am going to do.
Geordi, divert all power to the engines.
Take it from life support, if you have to.
Give me everything you've got.
Ready, Captain.
We are being hailed, sir.
Deanna, stand by.
Open a channel.
I hope you're still alive, Jean-Luc.
Oh, yes, I am.
Don't you think it's time to surrender?
Why should the rest of your crew have to die?
Shinzon, I don't think I ever told you...
about my first Academy evaluation.
In particular, I was thought to be extremely...
...overconfident.
Captain, as much as I enjoy listening to you talk,
I really think...
On my mark, Deanna.
All hands, brace for impact.
Engage.
Hard to port!
Divert all power to the engines.
Full reverse.
No!
Reconfiguring now.
Computer, stand by auto-destruct sequence Omega.
Recognize voice pattern Jean-Luc Picard.
Authorization: Alpha-Alpha-3-0-5.
Auto-destruct is off-line.
Disruptors are not functional, sir.
Deploy the weapon.
Kill everything on that ship.
Then set a course for Earth.
We must complete our mission.
Matrix initiated.
Sequencing procedure
for thalaron radiation transfer...
activated.
Some ideals are worth dying for, aren't they, Jean-Luc?
Thalaron intermix procedure initiated.
Deployment of targeting arms commencing.
How long until he can fire?
The targeting sequence should take
about seven minutes, Captain.
When the targeting arms
are fully deployed, the matrix on the Bridge
will relay the thalaron radiation
to the firing points at their tips.
No one on the Enterprise will survive.
How can he? He'll kill you.
It's not about me anymore.
Prepare for a site-to-site transport.
Captain, I don't think that the transpor...
That's an order, Commander.
Sir, allow me to go.
Data, this is something I have to do.
- Sir... - Data.
You have the Bridge, Commander.
Try and put some distance between you and the Scimitar.
Now, Mr. La Forge.
Aye, sir.
That's it.
Transporters are down.
The system is fused.
Counselor Troi, please assume command.
Geordi, come with me.
Thalaron intermix level...
30 percent.
Four minutes to firing sequence.
Thalaron intermix level, 50 percent.
Three minutes to firing sequence.
Thalaron intermix level, 60 percent.
Two minutes to firing sequence.
Thalaron intermix level, 80 percent.
I'm glad we're together now.
Our destiny's complete.
One minute to firing sequence.
Thalaron intermix level completed.
30 seconds to firing sequence.
Good-bye.
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three...
Data?
Captain...
It's Data.
Captain, we're being hailed.
On screen.
Open a channel.
This is Commander Donatra of the Valdore.
We're dispatching shuttles with medical personnel and supplies.
Thank you, Commander.
You've earned a friend
in the Romulan Empire today, Captain.
I hope the first of many.
Valdore out.
Geordi, prepare the shuttlebay for arrivals.
They, uh, they don't know our procedures.
Just open the doors.
I'll take care of it, Captain.
You have the Bridge, Number One.
Thank you.
To absent friends.
To family.
First time I saw Data, he was leaning against a tree
in the holodeck trying to whistle.
Funniest thing I ever saw.
No matter what he did, he couldn't get
the tune right.
What was that song?
Can't remember the song.
Come.
Will.
Permission to disembark, sir.
Granted.
So... where's the Titan off to?
The Neutral Zone.
We're heading up the new task force.
Apparently the Romulans are interested in talking.
Well, I can't think of a better man for the job.
If I may, just a word of advice about your first command?
Anything.
When your First Officer
insists that you can't go on away missions...
Ignore him.
I intend to.
Serving with you has been an honor.
The honor was mine, Captain.
I don't know if all this has made any sense,
but I wanted you to know what kind of man he was.
In his quest to be more like us
he helped us to see what it means to be human.
My...
my brother was not human?
No, he wasn't.
But his wonder,
his curiosity about every facet
of human nature allowed all of us
to see the best parts of ourselves.
He evolved.
He embraced change
because he always wanted to be better than he was.
I...
I do not understand.
Well, I hope someday you will.
Captain, the warp engines are ready to go on line.
I'm on my way.
Please inform Commander La Forge.
We'll talk later.
Never saw the sun
Shining so bright...
Shining so bright
Never saw things...
Going so right.
Going so right...