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    computer, and touches a pad.</p>
  <p> PICARD<br>
    (to himself and cutting<br>
    off Data)<br>
    There's more than one way to skin<br>
    a bureaucratic cat.</p>
  <p> DATA<br>
    Sir?</p>
  <p> PICARD<br>
    There's no record of a launch to<br>
    the Ficus quadrant. Not unusual<br>
    if you consider the chaos of the<br>
    early twenty-second century, but someone<br>
    had to load that ship.</p>
  <p> DATA<br>
    Ah, yes, the manifest.</p>
  <p> A page appears on t