Discovery and Opening of a Capsule From the Past Holding Cryogenic Patient Miles Monroe:The film opened in a futuristic-type society with bubble cars...it""s a subspace transmitter.If they activate the beacon, they""ll be able to establish a link with the Borg living in this century.We""ve known him seven years, Robert.He""s never paid me the smallest attention.Didn""t suppose he even knew what color my eyes were.Robert: We haven""t seen very much of him for the last few years.Howard: Go on, Leslie.Leslie: Well, he helped himself to another whiskey and soda.Began o wonder if he""d been drinking before.""I wouldn""t have another one if I were you,"" I said.I was quite friendly, not the least bit frightened.It never occurred to me I couldn""t manage him.He emptied his glass and said to me in a funny, abrupt way: ""Do you think I""m saying all this to you because I""m drunk?"" I said, ""That""s the most obvious explanation, isn""t it?"" Oh, it""s too awful having to tell you all this." [Later, he pessimistically wonders: "Somebody might be sick or something."]Ann teasingly compares her own dignified and sophisticated literature choices with the pulp mysteries that her elderly father reads (Unsolved Crimesis conspicuously under his arm):Ann: Here I am, practically a child, and I wouldn""t read the things you read.