
The unexplained behavior of the exocomp has greatly puzzled both Doctor Farallon and myself. If the exocomp had gone back into the access tunnel, it would have been destroyed.Īct Two " Second officer's log, stardate 46315.5. A few seconds later, the plasma conduit explodes. Farallon tries to send it back into the access tunnel, it blocks her commands and overloads her control pad, shocking her hand and making her drop the pad. However, the exocomp returns without finishing its task, and when Dr. The exocomp is then sent into an access tunnel to seal a plasma conduit. Data estimates that the same tasks would have taken two engineers over nine hours. On the station, Data successfully completes fourteen separate tasks in less than an hour with help from the exocomp. With Data's and La Forge's approval, Picard approves. Farallon proposes putting the exocomps to work on the project to help accelerate progress. In contrast to the ingenious nature of the exocomps, however, the particle fountain is behind schedule and over budget, and Picard is not very sympathetic. Farallon explains how she modified a common industrial servo mechanism over the course of several years to create the exocomps, giving them both the ability to replicate tools utilizing a micro-replication system to effect repairs and a capacity to learn similar to that used by Data.


Farallon as they beam aboard the Enterprise. Lieutenant Commander Data meets with La Forge and Dr. Doctor Farallon is coming aboard to demonstrate the device that carried out the repairs." Repairs to the particle fountain seem to have succeeded and it is now functioning smoothly. La Forge, glancing down at the exocomp with Farallon, tells Data that he is not quite sure.Īct One " Captain's log, stardate 46315.2. Aboard the Enterprise, Data asks how the repair of the power grid was completed so quickly. The exocomp is sent into an access tunnel, and repairs the malfunction very quickly, preventing a shutdown of the station's core which would have taken four months to return to its power level again. Farallon uses this opportunity to show Commander La Forge another project she has been working on, an exocomp: adaptive tools used for maintenance purposes. While Lieutenant Commander La Forge is talking with the project lead, Doctor Farallon, a malfunction occurs in one of the station's power grids. The USS Enterprise-D arrives at Tyrus VIIA to evaluate the technology for possible use on Carema III. Mister La Forge has been assigned to evaluate the situation."

So far the project has been fraught with problems, and is well behind schedule. We have just come into orbit of Tyrus VIIA to monitor progress on the Tyran particle fountain, a radically new mining technology. It’s as far as they get, though, as Captain Picard summons them to the bridge, much to the disappointment of the doctor.

After La Forge lays down an aggressive bet to open the hand, Crusher calls his bet immediately, which draws a very nervous call from Riker, but La Forge assures the first officer he has this. If she wins the next hand, all the men will have to shave off their beards if one of them win, she will become a brunette. Crusher comments on her superstitious distrust of bearded men and decides on an unusual stake. Riker, Worf, La Forge, and Crusher are playing poker in Riker's quarters, and the small talk drifts towards beards as, with La Forge recently deciding to grow his, all the men are sporting one.
