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The giant ship hails Captain Shaw, and its captain introduces herself as Vadic. She claims that she's a bounty hunter and Jack Crusher is a wanted criminal. She gives Shaw one hour to make a decision, and then lowers her ship's shields as a sign of good faith. ''Titan''[='s=] scans reveal that her ship is armed to the teeth; there's no way they can fight their way out, and also no way the ship is merely for bounty hunting. Vadic proves her point by using her ship's tractor beam to ''throw the ''Eleos'' at the ''Titan'' bodily'', resulting in a collision that the shields barely handle. A cursory search of Memory Alpha reveals that Jack ''is'' indeed an intergalactic fugitive, and Shaw has him held in the brig, with Picard trying in vain to get Jack to reveal what the big deal is. Riker, meanwhile, needles Picard about Jack's resemblance to himself[[note]]where Jack's apparent age lines up with the last time he and Beverly saw each other[[/note]]. Vadic hails again, and mentions her ship's MeaningfulName: the ''Shrike'', a carnivorous Earth bird that strikes with surgical precision. As shrikes take apart their victims, Vadic claims, so her ship will disassemble the ''Titan''.
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The giant ship hails Captain Shaw, and its captain introduces herself as Vadic. She claims that she's a bounty hunter and Jack Crusher is a wanted criminal. She gives Shaw one hour to make a decision, and then lowers her ship's shields as a sign of good faith. ''Titan''[='s=] scans reveal that her ship is armed to the teeth; there's no way they can fight their way out, and also no way the ship is merely for bounty hunting. Vadic proves her point by using her ship's tractor beam to ''throw the ''Eleos'' at the ''Titan'' bodily'', resulting in a collision that the shields barely handle. A cursory search of Memory Alpha reveals that Jack ''is'' indeed an intergalactic fugitive, and Shaw has him held in the brig, with Picard trying in vain to get Jack to reveal what the big deal is. Riker, meanwhile, needles Picard about Jack's resemblance to himself[[note]]where Jack's apparent age lines up with the last time he and Beverly saw each other[[/note]]. Vadic hails again, and mentions her ship's MeaningfulName: the ''Shrike'', a carnivorous Earth bird that strikes with surgical precision. As shrikes take apart their victims, Vadic claims, so her ship will disassemble the ''Titan''.
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* NeverMyFault: Among the things Shaw berates Seven for, that she persuaded him to rescue Picard and Riker, never mind that he’s the captain and he clearly didn’t trust or respect her even before she helped Picard and Riker take the shuttlecraft.
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'''Picard:''' Oh. So you're a freedom fighter?\\
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'''Picard:''' Oh. So [[SarcasmMode Oh, so you're a freedom fighter?\\fighter?]]\\
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* ListOfTransgressions: Picard confronts Jack with his extensive criminal record.
-->'''Picard:''' You're accused of organized crime on Andoria, actual terrorism on Binar III and you're wanted for the death of a man on Andreus 5.\\
'''Jack:''' That's unfair, he's a Falsetti, and they go into a deep hibernation for seven cycles, so is he dead or is he alive? Who's to say?\\
'''Picard:''' Says here you were recently sighted on Kemiyo. That's a war zone.\\
'''Jack:''' It's a rebellion. The Kemiyans have been fighting against their oppressors for decades. I brought them medicine, supplies.\\
'''Picard:''' Oh. So you're a freedom fighter?\\
'''Jack:''' Only in the sense that a doctor fights for the freedom of his patient to not be dead. I'm that, at best. At worst? Well, I'm a thief.\\
'''Picard:''' Of stolen medical supplies, yes. But also, stolen weapons and other prohibited cargo.\\
'''Jack:''' Currency is currency and medicine isn't free.
-->'''Picard:''' You're accused of organized crime on Andoria, actual terrorism on Binar III and you're wanted for the death of a man on Andreus 5.\\
'''Jack:''' That's unfair, he's a Falsetti, and they go into a deep hibernation for seven cycles, so is he dead or is he alive? Who's to say?\\
'''Picard:''' Says here you were recently sighted on Kemiyo. That's a war zone.\\
'''Jack:''' It's a rebellion. The Kemiyans have been fighting against their oppressors for decades. I brought them medicine, supplies.\\
'''Picard:''' Oh. So you're a freedom fighter?\\
'''Jack:''' Only in the sense that a doctor fights for the freedom of his patient to not be dead. I'm that, at best. At worst? Well, I'm a thief.\\
'''Picard:''' Of stolen medical supplies, yes. But also, stolen weapons and other prohibited cargo.\\
'''Jack:''' Currency is currency and medicine isn't free.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Despite Starfleet's opposition to working with bounty hunters, Shaw admits that Vadic's claim on Jack has legal validity.
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* MeaningfulName: {{Invoked}} by Vadic as she gives a ColdHam ToThePain description of how the ''Shrike'' resembles its Earth namesake.
-->"It's an Earth creature. A small carrion bird, one that doesn't attack in anger or malice, one that isn't made frantic by hunger but rather kills surgically, ''carefully''. Give me the boy now or continue to delay, but with each ticking moment, I will take another piece of you. I'll peck, and I'll jab at everything that makes you you. Every system that makes your ship your ship, until there's nothing left but the choice to have given me what you could have given me now. But certainly... take your time."
-->"It's an Earth creature. A small carrion bird, one that doesn't attack in anger or malice, one that isn't made frantic by hunger but rather kills surgically, ''carefully''. Give me the boy now or continue to delay, but with each ticking moment, I will take another piece of you. I'll peck, and I'll jab at everything that makes you you. Every system that makes your ship your ship, until there's nothing left but the choice to have given me what you could have given me now. But certainly... take your time."
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* OutsideContextProblem: At this point no one has a clue who Vadic is and what the Shrike is capable of. Once they get a good look at its weapon systems, which includes five types of torpedoes and several weapons they don't recognize, the Titan bridge crew is well aware they are outside its' weight class.
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* OutsideContextProblem: At this point no one has a clue who Vadic is and or what the Shrike ''Shrike'' is capable of. Once they get a good look at its weapon systems, which includes five types of torpedoes and several weapons they don't recognize, the Titan ''Titan'' bridge crew is well aware they are outside its' its weight class.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Shaw's tact leaves something to be desired, but he was absolutely right in not wanting to risk the lives of his crew to save Picard and Riker after their rogue mission goes awry.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint:
** Shaw's tact leaves something to be desired, but he was absolutely right in not wanting to risk the lives of his crew to save Picard and Riker after their rogue mission goesawry.awry.
** Shaw is also right that Jack's multiple aliases and criminal records make him very untrustworthy.
** Shaw's tact leaves something to be desired, but he was absolutely right in not wanting to risk the lives of his crew to save Picard and Riker after their rogue mission goes
** Shaw is also right that Jack's multiple aliases and criminal records make him very untrustworthy.
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* MultipleIdentityIDs: Jack is revealed to have multiple aliases, and they all have his initials: Jack Canby, John Carson, James Cole, and Jarlis Carvel (the last one being Shaw's favorite).
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* MildlyMilitary: Picard has no right to give the orders he does. He might have been an admiral once, but ''today'' he's retired and is therefore outside the chain of command. For Shaw to ignore him and just throw Jack to the wolves would be a JerkAss move, but he'd have military law entirely on his side. To keep the show MovingAtTheSpeedOfPlot, this LoopholeAbuse is not addressed.
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* MildlyMilitary: Picard has no right to give the orders he does. He might have been an admiral once, but ''today'' he's retired and is therefore outside the chain of command. For Shaw to ignore him and just throw Jack to the wolves would be a JerkAss move, but he'd have military law entirely on his side. To keep the show MovingAtTheSpeedOfPlot, moving, this LoopholeAbuse is not addressed.
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* MildlyMilitary: Picard has no right to give the orders he does. He might have been an admiral once, but ''today'' he's retired and is therefore outside the chain of command. For Shaw to ignore him and just throw Jack to the wolves would be a JerkAss move, but he'd have military law entirely on his side. To keep the show MovingAtTheSpeedOfPlot, this LoopholeAbuse is not addressed.
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Jack Crusher manages to disable the force field over the brig and begins a mad dash through the ship. Seven finds him at the transporter room, holding an ensign at bay and demanding the transporters be unlocked. Picard interprets this as Jack performing a HeroicSacrifice for TheNeedsOfTheMany, and Shaw obligingly orders the transporter unlocked. However, at that exact moment, Riker returns to the bridge with Beverly Crusher, healed but still recuperating. Her wordless HeldGaze is enough, and ''Admiral'' Picard suddenly overrides Shaw's order, insisting that Jack will remain here: "Because he's my son." He orders the ''Titan'' into the nebula, and Vadic, LaughingMad, orders the ''Shrike'' to pursue.
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Jack Crusher manages to disable the force field over the brig and begins a mad dash through the ship. Seven finds him at the transporter room, holding an ensign at bay and demanding the transporters be unlocked. Picard interprets this as Jack performing a HeroicSacrifice for TheNeedsOfTheMany, and Shaw obligingly orders the transporter unlocked. However, at that exact moment, Riker returns to the bridge with Beverly Crusher, healed but still recuperating. Her wordless HeldGaze is enough, and ''Admiral'' Picard suddenly overrides Shaw's order, insisting that Jack will remain here: "Because he's my son." He orders the ''Titan'' to fire torpedoes and fly into the nebula, and Vadic, LaughingMad, orders the ''Shrike'' to pursue.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Jack reminds Picard and Riker that the ''Eleos'' has been on the run for months and, after having been moored in the Ryton Nebula for too long, its systems are now running on fumes and fried.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Jack reminds Picard and Riker that the ''Eleos'' has been on the run for months and, after having been moored in the Ryton Nebula for too long, its systems are now running on fumes andfried.fried.
** The DeflectorShields on the ''Titan'' can only do so much when Vadic hits them with the full, kinetic mass of the ''Eleos''. As Sidney explains, physics will always be physics.
** Jack reminds Picard and Riker that the ''Eleos'' has been on the run for months and, after having been moored in the Ryton Nebula for too long, its systems are now running on fumes and
** The DeflectorShields on the ''Titan'' can only do so much when Vadic hits them with the full, kinetic mass of the ''Eleos''. As Sidney explains, physics will always be physics.
