:27:03
Fascinating.
:27:05
If my suspicion is correct, there
can be no response to this message.
:27:10
- Where are you going?
- To test my theory.
:27:13
- Bones, you stay here.
- No way, I want to keep an eye on him.
:27:35
As suspected, the transmissions
are the songs sung by whales.
:27:42
- Whales?
- Specifically, humpback whales.
:27:46
That's crazy. Who would send
a probe to talk to a whale?
:27:50
Whales were on Earth
far earlier than man.
:27:54
10 million years earlier.
Humpbacks were heavily hunted.
:27:58
They died out in the 21st century.
:28:01
The alien probe could be here
to determine why they lost contact.
:28:07
Could the humpback's answer
to this call be simulated?
:28:13
The sounds, but not the language.
We would be responding in gibberish.
:28:17
- Can the species be found elsewhere?
- Humpbacks were indigenous to Earth.
:28:25
Then we have no choice.
We must destroy the probe.
:28:30
To attempt to do so
would be futile.
:28:34
We can't just turn away.
There must be an alternative.
:28:38
There is one possibility.
We could attempt to find some whales.
:28:44
You just said there aren't any,
except on Earth of the past.
:28:50
In that case...
Wait just a damn minute.
:28:55
Spock, start your computations
for time warp.