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"All Good Things, Part II"
(The thrilling conclusion)
SCENE TEN
[Scene opens in the transporter room. A couple of REDSHIRTS stand at the controls. One of them is reaching towards the console to beam someone aboard. Wesley bursts in the room, his hair wild and his uniform torn.]WESLEY: Stop! Stop the machine! Don�t beam even one more person aboard!
REDSHIRT #1: If you say so.
[Wesley slumps against the wall, exhausted but relieved.]
REDSHIRT #2: Don�t you even want to know who we were going to beam aboard?
WESLEY: Sure.
REDSHIRT #1: Lieutenant Worf and Lieutenant Data.
WESLEY: Well, why didn�t you say so?! Beam them up.
REDSHIRT #1: If you say so. [Begins fiddling with the console.] Man! What�s with that guy?
REDSHIRT #2: �Stop! Stop the machine! I mean, Go! Beam them up!�
[The transporter activates, and Worf and Data beam up.]
WORF [with menace]: Why weren�t we beamed up immediately? Who�s responsible?
WESLEY: Me, sir, but I can explain-
WORF: [Slaps WESLEY] Shut up, Wesley! Data and I have some alien butt to kick...
WESLEY: But Mr. Worf!
DATA: [Slaps WESLEY] Shut up, Wesley! [He turns to go and then turns back to WESLEY.] You must understand- as a humanlike android, I cannot feel angry or displeased with you. But, my protocol chip said it was the appropriate action to take.
WORF [in the doorway]: Data?
DATA: Coming!
[Carnage ensues. Worf and Data kick alien booty all over the ship.]
COMMERCIAL BREAK
SCENE ELEVEN
PICARD [voiceover]: Captain�s log, Stardate eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine. With the help of Mr. Data and Mr. Worf, the Ferengi have been repelled from the ship, and life on the Enterprise is returning to normal.[Scene opens on the bridge with PICARD, RIKER, WESLEY, WORF, DATA, TROI, O�BRIEN, and others.]
PICARD: Well, I certainly hope that we have all learned something from this. Wesley warned us not to let the Ferengi beam up, and it seems as though he was right. So, I guess that the moral of this story is that we all need to treat Wesley more like an officer and less like a child.
WESLEY: With all due respect, sir, I think the moral of this episode is-
PICARD : [Slaps WESLEY] Shut up, Wesley! Your Captain was not finished talking. Now, as a reward for your good judgement, and since Chief O'Brien is very busy with his other series, I am putting you in charge of the transporter room from now on. You are officially promoted to Transporter Chief. No one can beam aboard without your permission.
WESLEY: Thank you, sir.
PICARD: Now, Mr. Data, lay in a course for Santa Barbara. This crew deserves a little R&R.
WESLEY: But what about all the grain in the cargo holds for the colonists at Bligelious VII?
PICARD: Quite right, my boy. We must do something about that, mustn't we? [over intercom] Mr. LaForge, jettison all cargo in cargo holds. No sense wasting fuel. Let's lighten our load.
JEORDI [through intercom]: Aye, aye, sir.
WESLEY: That wasn't what I meant at all! The colonists are going to starve to death!
PICARD: Boy, get off my bridge before I have Riker find a leather belt to beat you with.
SCENE TWELVE
WESLEY: [At the bar in 10 Forward, alone, holding a drink] ...And then he just threw me off the bridge. Can you believe it? I mean, there are people starving over there. I mean, dying of hunger! Can you believe it? These people! I just don't get it. How does someone like this get command of a starship? What are they thinking at Star Fleet Headquarters? I mean, the guy is just totally out of it, know what I mean? Totally out of it...[camera shot of an unsympathetic GUINAN, polishing glasses behind the bar.]
WESLEY: I just... I just can't believe it! Nobody takes me seriously around here! Nobody takes anything seriously around here. It�s like they don�t think this is for real or something. Like this is all some kind of game. Or like it�s all a holodeck program or something. I�m the only one who treats this like it�s the real world. Am I the only sane person on this vessel?
[GUINAN says nothing, but gives WESLEY an annoyed look.]
WESLEY: What am I supposed to do? I mean, you tell me- what am I supposed to do?
GUINAN: Shut up, WESLEY.
THE END
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