%- FAVORITE "STAR TREK" QUOTES (TOS, TMP, TNG) COMPILED BY JEFF "KOGANUTS" KOGA Kirk: "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." --"The Corbomite Manuever", Stardate %% McCoy: "What am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?" --"The Corbomite Manuever", Stardate %% Sulu: "I'll save you, fair maiden." --"The Naked Time", Stardate %% Uhura: "Sorry, neither!" --"The Naked Time", Stardate %% Uhura: "Don't you think I'd shut if off if I could?!" --"The Naked Time", Stardate %% Kirk: "You're not going to admit that, for the first time in your life, you made a completely emotional decision based on desperation?" Spock: "No, sir." Kirk: "Mister Spock, you're a stubborn man!" Spock: "Yes, sir." --"The Galileo Seven", Stardate %% Spock: "The women!" --"The Menagerie", Stardate %% Keeper: "Captain Pike has illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant." --"The Menagerie", Stardate %% Spock: "There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." --"A Taste Of Armageddon", Stardate %% Kirk: "You belong in a circus...right next to the dog-faced boy!" --"This Side Of Paradise", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer." --"The Devil In The Dark", Stardate %% Spock: "Insufficient facts always invites danger, Captain." --"Space Seed", Stardate %% Kirk: "We both guessed right. Negotiations with the Klingon Empire on the verge of breaking down. Starfleet Command anticipates a surprise attack. We are to proceed to Organia, and take whatever steps are necessary to prevent the Klingons from using it as a base." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Organia's description, Mister Spock." Spock: "Inhabited by humanoids, a very peaceful, friendly people, living on a primitive level. Little of instrinsic value, approximately Class D-Minus on the Richter Scale of Cultures." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Another Armenia, Belgium..." Spock: "Sir?" Kirk: "The weak innocents...they always seem to be located on the natural invasion routes." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Well, we've been anticipating an attack. I'd say what we've just experienced very nearly qualifies." Spock: "Yes, it would seem to be an *unfriendly* act." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Uhura: "Automatic all-points relay from Starfleet Command, Captain. Code One." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Well there it is...war. We didn't want it, but we've got it." Spock: "Curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "Negotiating with the Organians will be time-consuming, Captain. And time is the one thing we'll have the least of." Kirk: "Well, we won't get it by talking, Mister Spock." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "The trigger's been pulled. We have to get there before the hammer falls." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 3198.4. We have reached Organia and established standard orbit. No signs of hostile activities in this area." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "Mister Spock and I are going down to the planet's surface. You will be in command. Your responsibility is to the *Enterprise*, not to us, is that clear?" Sulu: "Perfectly, sir." Kirk: "A Klingon fleet is in this quadrant. We know that Organia will be a target. If they should emerge..." Sulu: "We'll handle them, sir." Kirk: "You will *evaluate* the situation. If there is a fleet of them, you'll get out of here, Mister Sulu." Sulu: "But, uh, Captain--" Kirk: "No but's. You'll get to safety and alert the fleet. You will *not* attack alone. Mister Spock and I will be all right." Sulu: [Nods yes] --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "Mister Spock, let's you and I pay the Organians a visit." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "You'd think they have people beaming down everyday." Spock: "Yes, curious lack of interest." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Aelborne: "Welcome." Kirk: "Reception committee?" Spock, "It would seem so." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Aelborne: "You are our visitors. Welcome, welcome." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Aelborne: "I am Aelborne." Kirk: "I am Captain James T. Kirk, of the Starship Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets. This is my first officer, Mister Spock." Aelborne: [To Spock] "You're most welcome, my friend." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "I would like to speak to someone in authority." Aelborne: "We, we don't have anybody in authority. But I am the chairman of the Council of Elders, perhaps I will do. --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "Gentlemen, my government has informed me that the Klingons are expected to move against your planet, with the objective of making it a base of operations against the Federation. My mission, frankly, is to, uh, keep them from doing that." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Aelborne: "What you're saying, Captain, is that we seem to have a choice between dealing with you or your enemies." Kirk: "No, sir. With the Federation, you have a choice. You have none with the Klingons. The Klingons are a military dictatorship. War is their way of life. Life under the Klingon rule would be very unpleasant." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "We offer you protection." Aelborne: "We have no defenses, Captain, nor are any needed." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "Gentlemen, I have seen what the Klingons do to planets like yours. They are organized into vast slave labor camps. No freedoms whatsoever. Your goods will be confiscated. Hostages taken and killed. Your leaders confined. You'd be far better on a penal planet, infinitely better off." Aelborne: "Captain, we see that your concern is genuine, and we are moved. But again, we assure you that we are absolutely in no danger. If anybody is in danger, you are. And that concerns us greatly. It would be better if you'd return to your ship as soon as possible." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "You keep insisting that there's no danger, I keep assuring you that there is. Would you mind telling me--" Aelborne: "It is our way of life, Captain." Kirk: "That's the first thing that will be lost!" --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell you the truth." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Spock: "Captain, our information on these people and their culture is not correct. This is not a primitive society making progress toward mechanization. They are totally stagnant. There is no evidence of any progress as far back as my tricorder can register." Kirk: "That doesn't seem likely." Spock: "Nevertheless, it is true. For tens of thousands of years, there's been absolutely no advancement, no significant change in their physical environments. This is a laboratory specimen of an arrested culture." Kirk: "Thank you, Mister Spock, that might be useful." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "Gentlemen, I must get you to reconsider. We can be of immense help to you. In addition to military aid, we can send you specialists, technicians. We can show you how to feed a thousand people where one was fed before. We can help you builds schools, educate the young in the latest technological and scientific skills. Your public facilities are almost nonexistent. We can help you remake your world. End disease, hunger, hardship. All we ask in return is that you let us help you. Now..." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Aelborne: "Captain, since it is too late for you to escape, perhaps we should do something about protecting you." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "How does he know that?" Aelborne: "Oh, our friend Trefayne is really quite intuitive. You can rest assured that what he says is absolutely correct." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3198.4 %% Kirk: "So, we're stranded here, in the middle of a Klingon occupation army." Spock: "So it would seem. Not a very pleasant prospect." Kirk: "You have a gift for understatement, Mister Spock. It's not a very pleasant prospect at all." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardaet 3198.4 %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 3201.7. Mister Spock and I are trapped on the planet Organia, which is in the process of being occupied by the forces of the Klingon empire. The Organians have provided us with native clothing in the hopes that we may be taken for Organians." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "This is the ruling council?" Aelborne: "I am Aelborne, temporary head of the council. I bid you welcome." Kor: "No doubt you do." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "I am Kor, Military Governor of Organia." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: [To Kirk] "Who are you?" Aelborne: "Oh, he is Barona, one of our leading citizens." Kor: "And he has no tongue?" Kirk: "I have a tongue." Kor: "Good. You will be taught how to use it." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "Where is your smile?" Kirk: "My what?" Kor: "The *stupid*, idiotic smile everyone else seems to be wearing." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "A Vulcan? Do you also have a tongue?" Spock: "I am Spock, a dealer in kivas and trillium." Kor: "You do not look like a storekeeper." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "Take this man. Vulcans are members of the Federation, he may be a spy." Kirk: "He's no spy!" --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "Well, have we a ram among the sheep? You object to us taking him?" Kirk: "He's done nothing. Nothing at all." Kor: "Coming from an Organian, yours is practically an act of rebellion. Very good." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: [To council] "So you welcome me." [To Kirk] "Do you also welcome me?" Kirk: "You are here, there's nothing I can do about it." Kor: "Good, honest...hatred. Very refreshing." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "However, it makes no difference whether you welcome me or not. I am here and I will stay. You are now subjects of the Klingon Empire. You will find that there are many rules and regulations, they will be posted. Violation of the smallest of them...will be punished by death." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "You disapprove, Barona." Kirk: "You need my approval?" Kor: "I *'need'* your obedience. Nothing more. Will I have it?" Kirk: "You seem to be in command." Kor: "Yes...I am." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "I don't trust men who smile too much." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "You, Barona. You're the man." Kirk: "Me? I don't want the job." Kor: "Have I *asked* whether or not you want it?" --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "We Klingons have a reputaton for ruthlessness. You will find that it is deserved. Should one Klingon soldier be killed, a thousand Organians will die. I will have order. Is that clear?" --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Aelborne: "Commander, I assure you, our people want nothing but peace. We shall cause you no trouble." Kor: "I am sure you will not." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kirk: "What about Mister Spock?" Kor: "You are concerned?" Kirk: "He is my friend." Kor: "You have a poor choice of friends." --"Errand of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "He will be examined. If he is lying, he will die. If he is telling the truth, he will find that business has taken a turn for the worse." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "You do not like to be pushed. Very good. You may be a man I can deal with, Barona." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "Would you like to try our little truth-finder?" Kirk: "I don't understand it." Kor: "It's a mind-sifter...or mind-ripper, depeending on how much force is used. We can record every thought, every bit of knowledge in a man's mind. Of course, when that much force is used, the mind is emptied...permanently, I'm afraid. What's left is more vegetable than human." Kirk: "And you are proud of this?" Kor: "It is a tool. A weapon. Somewhat drastic, but very efficient. --"Errand Of Mercy, Stardate 3201.7 %% Kirk: "Are you sure you're all right?" Spock: "Perfectly, Barona. But it was an interesting experience." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kor: "In the meantime, keep the people in order." Kirk: "Or I will be killed." Kor: "That is exactly right. You will be killed." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kirk: "You didn't really think I was going to beat his head in, did you?" Spock: "I thought you might." Kirk: "You're right." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kirk: "It's a pleasure doing business with you, Mister Spock." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Kirk: "You were right, Mister Spock. A most satisfactory display." --"Errand Of Mercy", Stardate 3201.7 %% Spock: "I'm attempting to construct a mnemonic memory circuit, using stone knives and bearskins." --"The City On The Edge Of Forever", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a psychiatrist." --"The City On The Edge Of Forever", Stardate %% Kirk: "Let's get the hell out of here." --"The City On The Edge Of Forever", Stardate %% Kirk: "Spock, comment." Spock: "Very bad poetry." --"Catspaw", Stardate %% Kirk: "Well, at least we have them all together." Spock: "Fortuitous, Captain." --"Catspaw", Stardate %% Uhura: "It's a big galaxy, Mister Scott." Scott: "Aye." --"Metamorphosis", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not an escalator." --"Friday's Child", Stardate %% Spock: "'Oochy woochy coochy coo'?" --"Friday's Child", Stardate %% McCoy: "To coin a phrase...fascinating." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Scott: "Leave her alone!" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Scott: "She's not going with you!" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "Besides, you stiff-necked thistle-head, you could've gotten yourself killed." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Apollo: "Even for a god there's a point of no return." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% McCoy: "Spock's contaminating this boy, Jim." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "Mister Chekov, I think you've earned your pay for the week." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% McCoy: "Number One on our list of things to do." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "All right, Mister! You wanted worshippers? You've got enemies! You wanted us to worship--" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "Most mythology has its basis in fact." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Apollo: "Approach me!" Kirk: "We're busy!" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "We're tired of your phony fireworks!" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Palamas: "Please don't hurt them. Please." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Chekov: "Perhaps I can assist." Kirk: "How old are you?" Chekov: "Twenty-two, sir." Kirk: "Then I'd better handle it." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "All right, Lieutenant, you can come down from Mount Olympus now." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "Lieutenant, you have your orders and your duty." Palamas: "Yes, sir. My orders...and my duty." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Apollo: "I am Apollo. I've chosen you." Palamas: "I'm sure that's very flattering..." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Palamas: "Love you? Illogical. I'm not some kind of shepherdess you can awe." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% McCoy: "What the devil is that?" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Apollo: "Did I ask for so much?" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Apollo: "Take me. Take me. Take me..." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% McCoy: "I wish we hadn't had to do this." --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% Kirk: "Would it have hurt us a little just to gather few laurel leaves?" --"Who Mourns For Adonais?", Stardate %% McCoy: "'Doctor, if you don't cease your meddling, I will most certainly break your neck!' --"Amok Time", Stardate %% Kirk: "Well, are you a doctor or aren't you?" --"Amok Time", Stardate %% Spock: "Humans have no conception." --"Amok Time", Stardate %% Spock: "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." --"Amok Time", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." --"The Doomsday Machine", Stardate %% Kirk: "Gentlemen, *beam* me aboard." --"The Doomsday Machine", Stardate %% Kirk: "We come in peace." --"The Apple", Stardate %% Scott: "I guess you'll have to fire me, sir." --"The Apple", Stardate %% Kirk: "Mister Spock, do you know anyone on this ship who even remotely resembles Satan?" --"The Apple", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not an engineer." --"The Deadly Years", Stardate %% Chekov: "If I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples." --"The Deadly Years", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm not a magician, I'm just an old country doctor." --"The Deadly Years", Stardate %% Spock: "Extremely [little] joke, Ensign." --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardat" %% Kirk: "On the contrary, sir...it is *you* I take lightly." --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Chekov: "[Scotch] was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad." --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Scott: "He called you a tin-plated, overbearing dictator with delusions of Godhood!" Kirk: "And *that's* when you hit him!" Scott: "Ah, no, sir. We're big enough to take a *few* insults!" --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Kirk: "Scotty, you're confined to quarters." Scott: "Yes, sir. *Thank you*, sir! That'll give me a chance to catch up on me technical journals!" --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Kirk: "Storage facilities? Storage facilities? The what? The what?" --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Spock: "He heard you. He simply could not believe his ears." --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Scott: "I beamed the whole kit and kaboodle over to the Klingons' engine room... where they'll be no tribble at all." --"The Trouble With Tribbles", Stardate %% Kirk: "I don't want to hurt you." --"Bread and Circuses", Stardate %% McCoy: "Behold! I am the Archangel Garbriel!" --"Bread and Circuses", Stardate %% Andorian Ambassador: "Devote yourself to motivations of passion." --"Journey To Babel", Stardate %% Amanda: "Oh, that's not a dirty word!" --"Journey To Babel", Stardate %% Spock: "I've never seen him look so happy." --"Journey To Babel", Stardate %% McCoy: "Well, what do you know? I finally got the last word." --"Journey To Babel", Stardate %% Kirk: "Right, Mister Spock?" Spock: "Correct, Captain." Kirk: "Riiiight?" Spock: "Riiiight." --"A Piece Of The Action", Stardate %% Kirk: "Check?" Spock: "Right." --"A Piece Of The Action", Stardate %% Kirk: "Right?" Spock: "Check." --"A Piece Of The Action", Stardate %% Spock: "Sir, you are a superb starship captain. But as a taxi driver, you leave much to be desired." --"A Piece Of the Action", Stardate %% Boy: "Daddy, daddy, I hurt myself!" Guard: "Whatsa matter kid, you hurt yourself?" --"A Piece Of The Action", Stardate %% Kirk: "Spock, what are the odds of getting a royal fizzbin?" Spock: "I've never calculated them." --"A Piece Of The Action", Stardate %% Spock: "I would advise youse t'keep dialin', Oxmyx!" --"A Piece Of The Action", Stardate %% Scott: "It's...uh, well...it's green!" --"By Any Other Name", Stardate %% Spock: "Captain Garth..." Garth: "*Lord* Garth!" Spock: "As you wish. In any case..." --"Whom Gods Destroy", Stardate %% Miramanee: "There are no lacings...how is this thing removed?" --"The Paradise Syndrome", Stardate %% Miramanee: "There is much time...for everything." --"The Paradise Syndrome", Stardate %% Salish: "Behold, the god who bleeds!" --"The Paradise Syndrome", Stardate %% McCoy: "Where're you gonna find Spock's brain?" Kirk: "Is this a trick question, Bones?" --"Spock's Brain", Stardate %% Luma: "You are not Morg...you are not Imorg." --"Spock's Ban", Stardate %% Kara: "Brain and brain! What is brain?!" --"Spock's Brain", Stardate %% Spock: "While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I cannot trust him to replace a brain." --"Spock's Brian", Stardate %% McCoy: "Of course...a child could do it!" --"Spock's Brian", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner." --"The Empath", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm not an engineer." --"The Empath", Stardate %% Kirk: "In the heart, in the head, I won't stay dead." --"Day Of The Dove", Stardate %% Spock: "Yet you are pumping him full of your noxious potions, as if he were a human." --"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Stardate %% Kirk: "I am on my way to a meeting with Admiral Nogura which will last three minutes. Report to me on the Enterprise in one hour." Sonak: "Report to you, sir?" Kirk: "It is my intention....to be on that ship following that meeting. Report to me in one hour!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Why aren't the Enterprise transporters operating, Mister Scott?" Scott: A wee problem, sir, just temporary. Admiral, we have just finished eighteen months redesigning and refitting the Enterprise. How in the name of hell do they expect me to have her ready in twelve hours?!" Kirk: "Take me over, please." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Two and a half years as a chief of Starfleet operations may have made me a little stale, but I wouldn't exactly consider myself untried. They gave her back to me, Scotty." Scott: "Gave her back, sir? I doubt it was that easy with Nogura." Kirk: "You're right." Scott: "Well,...any man who could manage such a feat I wouldn't dare disappoint. She'll launch on time, sir, and she'll be ready." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Ensign: "Sir, if you'll follow me, I'll show you.." Kirk: "I think I can find my way, Ensign." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Sulu: "He wanted her back. He got her." Ensign: "And Captain Decker? He's been with this ship every minute of her refitting." Uhura: "Ensign, the possibilities of our returning from this mission in one piece may have just doubled." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: Admiral Kirk! Well, we're getting a top brass sendoff. Don't worry, she'll launch on schedule if we have to tow her out with our bare hands. Right Scott?" Scott: "Aye, ahh, that we will, sir." Kirk: "Let's talk." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "I'm replacing you as captain of the Enterprise. You'll stay on as executive office, temporary grade reduction to commander." Decker: "You personally are assuming command?" Kirk: "Yep." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "May I ask why?" Kirk: "My experience. Five years out there dealing with unknowns like this. My familiarity with the Enterprise, its crew." Decker: "Admiral, this is an almost totally new Enterprise. You don't know her a tenth as well as I do!" Kirk: "That's why you're staying aboard." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "I'm sorry, Will." Decker: "No, Admiral. I don't think you're sorry. Not one damm bit! I remember when you recommended me for this command. You told me how envious you were and how much you hoped you'd find a way to get starship command again. Well, sir, it looks like you found a way." Kirk: "Report to the Bridge, Commander. Immediately!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Oh my god! Starfleet, do you have them?" Voice: "Enterprise. What we got back didn't live long. Fortunately." Kirk: Starfleet, Kirk. Please express my condolences to their families. Commander Sonak's can be reached through the Vulcan Embassy." [To Rand] "There was nothing you could have done, Rand. It wasn't your fault." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "We'll have to replace Commander Sonak. I'd still like a Vulcan there, if possible." Decker: "None available, Captain. In fact there's no one who's fully rated on this design." Kirk: "You are, Mister Decker. I'm afraid you're going to have to double as science officer." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Well, for a man who swore he'd never return to the Starfleet.." McCoy: "Just a moment, Captain, sir. I'll explain what happened. Your revered Admiral Nogura invoked a little known, seldom used, Reserve Activation Clause. In simpler language, Captain, they drafted me!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Bones, there's a thing out there!" McCoy: "Why is any object we don't understand always called a thing?!" Kirk: "I need you. Damn it, Bones! I need you. Badly." McCoy: "Permission to come aboard." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "Well, Jim, I hear Chapel's an M.D. now. Well, I'm going to need a top nurse, not a doctor who'll argue every diagnosis with me. And they probably redesigned the whole sickbay too. I know engineers. They love to change things!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Well, Bones, do the new medical facilities meet with your approval?" McCoy: "They do not! It's like working in a damned computer center." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Ilia: "My oath of celebacy is on record." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "Jim. You're pushing. Your people know their jobs." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Scott: "It's borderline on the simulator, Captain. I cannot guarantee that she'll hold up." Kirk: "Warp drive, Mister Scott! Ahead warp, Mister Sulu." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Mister Chekov, stand by our phasers." Decker: "No! Belay that phaser order." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Chekov: "No casualties reported, Doctor." McCoy: "Wrong, Mister Chekov! There are casualties. My wits. As in frightened out of, Captain, sir!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Mister Decker. I'd like to see you in my quarters." McCoy: "Mind if I tag along, Captain?" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "All right explanation! Why was my phaser order countermanded?" Decker: "Sir. The Enterprise redesign increases phaser power by channeling it through the main engines. When they went into anti-matter imbalance, the phasers were automatically cutoff." Kirk: "Then you acted properly, of course." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "Thank you, sir. I'm sorry if I embarrassed you." Kirk: "You saved the ship!" Decker: "I'm aware of that, sir." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "Sir, you haven't logged a single star hour in two and a half years. That plus your unfamiliarity with the ship's design, in my opinion, sir, seriously jeopardizes this mission." Kirk: "I trust you will *nursemaid* me through these difficulties, mister." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever!" Spock: "Nor have you, Doctor. As your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Will you please....sit down!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "Well, isn't it lucky for you that we just happen to be heading your way." Kirk: "Bones. We need him. I need him." Spock: "Then my presence is to our mutual advantage." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Spock, transmit *now*..." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "It would seem our friendship messages have been received and understood, Mister Spock." Spock: "I would say that was a logical assumption, Captain." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "Captain, a maximum phaser strike directly at the beam might weaken it just enough for us to break free." Spock: "Break free to where, Commander? Any show of resistance would be futile, Captain." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Ilia (probe): "Decker." Spock: "Fascinating! Not Decker unit." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Ilia (probe): "I have recorded enough here. You will now assist me further." Kirk: "The Decker unit can assist you with much greater efficiency. Carry on with your assignment, Mr. Decker." Decker: "Yes, sir." Spock: "I am concerned with *that* being our only source of information, Captain." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "This Creator V'ger is looking for. What is it?" Ilia (probe): "V'ger does not know. But The Creator is on the third planet. V'ger has data which confirms this." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Spock: "And yet with all its pure logic, V'ger is barren. Cold. No mystery, no beauty. Should have..." Kirk: "Spock! What should you have known?" Spock: "Jim. This simple feeling is beyond V'ger's comprehension. No meaning, no hope. And Jim, no answers. It's asking questions." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "Jim, V'ger expects an answer." Kirk: "An answer?! I don't know the question." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Spock: "V'ger is a child. I suggest you treat it as such." McCoy: "Spock! This child is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth! Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Spock: "It knows only that it needs, Commander, but like so many of us, it does not know...what." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "Your child is having a tantrum, Mister Spock." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Bridge, secure all stations! Move out." McCoy: "What the hell kind of strategy is this?" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "It learns fast, doesn't it." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Engineering. Mr. Scott, be prepared to execute Starfleet Order 2005." Scott: "When, sir?" Kirk: "On my command." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Crewmember: "Why has the captain ordered self-destruct, Sir?" Scott: "I would say, lass, because he thinks, he hopes, that when we go up, we'll take the intruder with us." Crewmember: "Will we?" Scott: "When that much matter and antimatter are brought together, ah yes, we will indeed." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Not for us?" Spock: "No, Captain. Not for us. I weep for V'ger as I would for a brother. As I was when I came aboard so is V'ger now, empty, incomplete and searching. Logic and knowledge are not enough." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% McCoy: "Capture God? V'ger's liable to be in for one hell of a disappointment!" Spock: "Perhaps not, Doctor." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Decker: "Of course...we all create God in our own image!" --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Spock. Did we just see the beginning of a new lifeform?" Spock: "Yes, Captain. We've witnessed a birth. Possibly a next step in our evolution." Kirk: "I wonder..." McCoy: "Well, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby, and I hope we got this one off to a good start." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Mister Scott, shall we give the Enterprise a proper shakedown?" Scott: "I would say it's time for that, aye." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Kirk: "Out there. Thataway." --"ST:TMP", Stardate %% Saavik: "Captain's Log, Stardate 8130.3. Starship Enterprise on training mission to Gamma Hydra Section Fourteen, Coordinates 22-87-4. Approaching Neutral Zone. All systems normal, and functioning." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Saavik: "Mister Sulu, plot an intercept course." Sulu: "May I remind the captain that if a starship enters the zone..." Saavik: "I'm aware of my responsibilities, Mister." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Saavik: "Any suggestions, Admiral?" Kirk: "Prayer, Mister Saavik, the Klingons don't take prisoners." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Physician, heal thyself." McCoy: "Is that all you got to say? What about my performance?" Kirk: "I'm not a drama critic." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Well, Mister Saavik, are you going to stay with a sinking ship?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Saavik: "Permission to speak candidly, sir." Kirk: "Granted." Saavik: "I don't believe this was a fair test of my command abilities." Kirk: "And why not?" Saavik: "Because, there was no way to win." Kirk: "A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never occurred to you?" Saavik: "No, sir, it has not." Kirk: "How we deal with death, is at least as important as how we face life, wouldn't you say?" Saavik: "As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me." Kirk: "Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% McCoy: "Admiral, wouldn't it be easier to just put an experienced crew back on the ship?" Kirk: "Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young, Doctor." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Aren't you dead?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "I assume you're loitering around here to learn what efficiency rating I plan to give your cadets." Spock: "I am understandably curious." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "They destroyed the Simulator Room and you with it." Spock: "The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc with students and equipment. As I recall, you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was shall we say...unique." Kirk: "It had the virtue of never having being tried." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Oh, by the way, thank you for this." Spock: "I know of your fondness for antiques." Kirk: "'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Message, Spock?" Spock: "None that I'm conscious of. Except of course, happy birthday. Surely, the best of times." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Where are you off to now?" Spock: "The Enteprise. I must check in before your inspection. And you?" Kirk: "Home." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Why, bless me, Doctor, what beams you into this neck of the woods?" McCoy: "Beware Romulans bearing gifts. Happy birthday, Jim." Kirk: "Thanks." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3" %% Kirk: "Romulan ale, why Bones, you know this is illegal." McCoy: "I only use it for medicinal purposes. I got aboard a ship that brings them in a case every now and then. Now don't be afraid." Kirk: "2283." McCoy: "Yeah, well it takes this stuff a while to ferment." Kirk: "Ohh." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% McCoy: "Here, give me. Now, you open this one." Kirk: "I'm almost afraid to. What is it? Klingon aphrodisiacs?" McCoy: "No. More antiques for your collection." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Well, Bones, this is...charming." McCoy: "They're four-hundred years old. You don't find many with the lenses still intact." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "What is it?" McCoy: "They're for your eyes. For most patients your age, I'd usually recommend Retinax-Five" Kirk: "I'm allergic to Retinax." McCoy: "Exactly. Cheers." Kirk: "Cheers." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% McCoy: "Happy birthday." Kirk: "I don't know what to say." McCoy: "Well, you could say, 'Thank you.'" Kirk: "Thank you." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% McCoy: "Damn it, Jim, what the hell's the matter with you? Other people have birthdays, why are we treating yours like a funeral?" Kirk: "Bones, I don't want to be lectured." McCoy: "What the hell do you want? This is not about age, and you know it. It's about you flying a goddamn computer console when you want to be out there hopping galaxies." Kirk: "Spare me your notions of poetry please, we all have our assigned duties." McCoy: "Bull. You're a-hiding. Hiding behind rules and regulations." Kirk: "Who am I hiding from?" McCoy: "From yourself, Admiral." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Kirk: "Don't mince words, Bones, what do you really think?" McCoy: "Jim, I'm your doctor, and I'm your friend. Get back your command. Get it back before you turn into part of this collection. Before you really do grow old." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.3 %% Chekov: "Starship Log, Stardate 8130.4. Log entry by First Officer Pavel Chekov. Starship Reliant on orbital approach to Ceti Alpha VI in connection with Project Genesis. We are continuing our search for a lifeless planet to satisfy the requirement of a test site for the Genesis experiment. So far no success." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "Get on the com-pick to Doctor Marcus. Listen, maybe it's something we can transplant, hmm?" Chekov: "You *know* what she'll say." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% David: "Every time we have dealings with Starfleet I get nervous. We are dealing with something that could be perverted into a dreadful weapon. Remember that overgrown boy scout you used to hang around with? That's exactly the kind of man that'll--" Carol: "Listen kiddo, Jim Kirk was many things, but he was *never* a boy scout." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "Chekov, are you sure these are the correct coordinates?" Chekov: "Captain, this is the *garden spot* of Ceti Alpha VI!" Terrell: "I can barely see it." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Chekov: "There's nothing here. The tricorder must be broken." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "What the hell is that?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Chekov: "Botany Bay. Botany Bay? Oh no!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Chekov: "Khan!" Khan: [To Terrell] "I don't know you." [To Chekov] "But you, I never forget a face, Mister Chekov, isn't it? I never thought to see your face again." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "Chekov, who is this man?" Chekov: "Criminal, Captain. A product of late twentieth-century genetic engineering." Terrell: "What do you want with us? Sir, I demand to--" Khan: "You are in a position to demand nothing, sir. I, on the other hand, am in a position to grant nothing. What you see is all that remains of the ship's company and crew of the Botany Bay, marooned here fifteen years ago by Captain James T. Kirk." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "Listen, you men and women, you haven't--" Khan: "Captain, Captain, Cap..." [Laughs] "Save your strength, Captain." [Laughs] "These people have sworn to live and die at my command two-hundred years before you were born. Do you mean he never told you the tale? To amuse your captain, no? Never told you how the Enterprise picked up the Botany Bay lost in space from the year 1996, myself and the ship's company in cryogenic freeze." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "I've never even met Admiral Kirk." Khan: "Admiral? Admiral! Admiral... Never told you how *Admiral* Kirk sent seventy of us into exile here on this barren sandheap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us." Chekov: "You lie! On Ceti Alpha V there was life! A fair chance!" Khan: "This is Ceti Alpha V! Ceti Alpha VI exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet and everything was laid waste. *Admiral* Kirk never bothered to check on our progress. It was only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that allowed us to survive. On Earth, two-hundred years ago, I was a prince, with power over millions!" Chekov: "Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha V's only remaining *indigenous* lifeform. What do you think? It killed twenty of my people...including my beloved wife. Oh, not all at once. And not instantly to be sure. You see, their young enter through the ears, and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later, as they grow, follows madness...and death." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "That's better. Now, tell me...why are you here? And tell me where I may find James Kirk." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "I hate inspections." Sulu: "I'm delighted. Any chance to go aboard the Enterprise..." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Well I for one am glad to have you at the helm for three weeks. I don't think these kids can steer." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Permission to come aboard, Captain." Spock: "Welcome, Admiral. I think you know my training crew. Certainly they have come to know you." Kirk: "Yes, we've been through death and life together." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Mister Scott, you're all spaced-out. You're well." Scott: "I had a wee bout, sir, but uh, Doctor McCoy pulled me through." Kirk: "Wee bout of what?" McCoy: "Shore leave, Admiral." Kirk: "Oh, I see." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "And who do we have here?" Preston: "Midshipman First Class Peter Preston, engineer's mate, *sir*!" Kirk: "First training voyage, Mister Preston?" Preston: "Yes, *sir*!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Well, shall we start with the Engine Room?" Scott: "We'll see you there, and everything is in order." Kirk: "That'll be a pleasant surprise, Mister Scott." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "He's never what I expect, sir." Spock: "What surprises you, Lieutenant?" Saavik: "He seems so...human." Spock: "Nobody's perfect, Saavik." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Preston: "I believe you'll find everything ship-shape, Admiral." Kirk: "Oh do you? Do you have any idea, Midshipman Preston, how many times I've had to listen to Mister Scott on the com telling me his troubles? Do you have any idea the ribbing I've had to endure in the Officer's Mess to the effect that the Enterprise is a flying death trap?" Preston: "Oh no, sir. Well, this is the finest engine room in the whole Starfleet! If the Admiral can't see the facts for himself, then with all due respect, he's as blind as a Tiberian bat..." Scott: [Clears throat] Preston: "Sir!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Midshipman, you're a tiger." Scott: "My sister's youngest admiral. Crazy to get to space." Kirk: "Every young man's fancy. I seem to remember it myself." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Well, Mister Scott, are your cadets capable of handling a minor training cruise?" Scott: "Give the word, Admiral." Kirk: "Mister Scott, the word is given." Scott: "Aye, sir." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "But Admiral, what about the rest of the inspection?" Kirk: ["Later."] --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Lieutenant, have you ever piloted a starship out of Spacedock?" Saavik: "Never, sir." Spock: "Take her out, Mister Saavik." Saavik: "Aye, sir." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "For everything there is a first time, Lieutenant. Don't you agree, Admiral?" Kirk: "Mmm-hmm." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Would you like a tranquilizer?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Mister Sulu, you may...indulge yourself." Sulu: "Aye, sir!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Lieutenant, are you wearing your hair differently?" Saavik: "It's still regulation, Admiral." Kirk: ["Oh."] --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "May I speak, sir?" Kirk: "Self-expression doesn't seem to be one of your problems. Saavik: [No comment] Kirk: "You're bothered by your performance on the Kobayashi Maru." Saavik: "I failed to resolve the situation." Kirk: "There's no correct solution. It's a test of character." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "May I ask how you dealt with the test?" Kirk: "You may ask!" Saavik: [No comment] Kirk: "That's a little joke." Saavik: "Humor. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical." Kirk: "We learn by doing." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Who's been holding up the damn elevator?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "She change her hairstyle?" Kirk: "Haven't noticed." McCoy: "Wonderful stuff that Romulan ale." Kirk: "Hmm." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Never rains, but it pours." Kirk: "As a physician you of all people should appreciate the dangers of reopening old wounds." McCoy: "Sorry." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% David: "I've tried warning you before. Scientists have always been pawns of the military!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "Starfleet has kept the peace for over a hundred years. I cannot and will not subscribe to your interpretation of this event!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Jedda: "But what about Reliant? She's on her way." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "Get your gear together where it's handy." March: "And where are we going?" Carol: "That's for us to know and Reliant to find out." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "We have a problem. Something may be wrong on Regula One, we've been ordered to investigate." Spock: "If memory serves, Regula One is a scientific research laboratory." Kirk: "I told Starfleet Command all we have is a boatload of children, but we're the only ship in the quadrant. Spock, these cadets of yours, how good are they? How will they respond under real pressure?" Spock: "As with all living things, each according to his gifts. Of course, the ship is yours." Kirk: "No, that won't be necessary. Just get me to Regula One." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "As a teacher on a training mission, I am content to command the Enterprise. If we are to go on actual duty, it is clear that the senior officer on board must assume command." Kirk: "It may be nothing. Garbled communications. You take the ship." Spock: "Jim, you proceed from a false assumption. I am a Vulcan. I have no ego to bruise." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "You are about to remind me that logic alone dictates your actions?" Spock: "I would not remind you of that which you know so well. If I may be so bold, it was a mistake for you to accept promotion. Commanding a starship is your first, best destiny. Anything else is a waste of material." Kirk: "I wouldn't have presumed to debate you." Spock: "That is wise." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "In any case, were I to invoke logic, logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Kirk: "Or the one." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Sulu: "So much for the little training cruise." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nebia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's Flames before I give him up!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "What exactly is Genesis? Well, put simply, Genesis is life from lifelessness. It is a process whereby molecular structure is reorganized at the subatomic level into life-generating matter of equal mass. Stage One of our experiments was conducted in a laboratory. Stage Two of the series will be attempted in a lifeless underground. Stage Three will involve the process on a planetary scale. It is our intention to introduce the Genesis Device into a preselected area of a lifeless space body, a moon or other dead form. The device is delivered, instanteously causing what we call the Genesis Effect. Matter is reorganized with life-generating results. Instead of a dead moon, a living, breathing planet capable of supporting whatever we see fit to deposit on it." Spock: "Fascinating." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "The reformed moon represented here represents the merest fraction of the Genesis potential, should the Federation wish to fund these experiments to their logical conclusion. When we consider the cosmic problems of population and food supply, the usefulness of this process becomes clear. This concludes our proposal. Thank you for your attention." Spock: "It literally is genesis." Kirk: "The power of creation." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Dear Lord, do you think we're intelligent enough to... Suppose, what if this thing were used where life already exists?" Spock: "It would destroy such life, in favor of its new matrix." McCoy: "Its new matrix? Do you have any idea what you're saying?" Spock: "I was not attempting to evaluate its moral implications, Doctor. As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create." McCoy: "Not anymore. Now we can do both at the same time. According to myth, the Earth was created in six days. Now watch out! Here comes Genesis! We'll do it for you in six minutes!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "I do not dispute that in the wrong hands--" McCoy: "In the wrong hands? Would you mind telling me whose are the right hands, my logical friend? Are you by any chance in favor of these experiments?" Kirk: "Gentlemen, gentlemen, this isn't the--" Spock: "Really, Doctor McCoy, you must learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing. Logic suggests--" McCoy: "Logic? My god, the man's talking about logic! We're talking about universal armageddon! You green-blooded, inhuman--" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Admiral, sensors indicate a vessel in our area, closing fast." Kirk: "What do you make of her?" Saavik: "It's one of ours, sir. It's the Reliant." Spock: "Reliant?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Slow to one-half impulse power. Let's be friends." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Sir, may I quote General Order Twelve, 'On the approach of any vessel when communications have not been established--'" Spock: "Lieutenant, the admiral is well aware of the regulations." Saavik: "Aye, sir." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Joachim: "They're requesting communications, sir." Khan: "Let them eat static!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Joachim: "They're still running with shields down." Khan: "Of course, we are one big happy fleet!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Ah Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us, 'Revenge is a dish that is best served cold?' It is very cold...in space." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Uhura: "Admiral, the commander of the Reliant is signaling. He wishes to discuss terms of our surrender." Kirk: "Put it on-screen." Uhura: "But..." Kirk: "Do it! While we still have time." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Khan..." Khan: "You still remember, Admiral. I cannot help but be touched. I, of course, remember *you*." Kirk: "What is the meaning of this attack? Where is the crew of the Reliant?" Khan: "Surely I have made my meaning plain. I mean to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I deprive your ship of power and when I swing around you I mean to deprive you of your life! But I wanted you to know first who it was who had beaten you!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Khan, if it's me you want, I'll have myself beamed aboard. Spare my crew." Khan: "I make you a counterproposal. I'll agree to your terms, if...if in addition to yourself, you'll hand over all data and material regarding the project called Genesis." Kirk: "Genesis? What's that?" Khan: "Don't insult my intelligence, Kirk." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Give me some time to recall the data on our computers." Khan: "I give you sixty seconds, Admiral." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Clear the bridge." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Admiral..." Kirk: "Please, please, you've got to give us time. The Bridge is smashed, the computer's inoperative." Khan: "Time is a luxury you don't have, Admiral." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Fifteen seconds, Admiral." Kirk: "Khan, how do we know you'll keep your word?" Khan: "Oh, I've given you no word to keep, Admiral. In my judgement you simply have no alternative." Kirk: "I see your point. Stand by to receive our transmission." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Time's up, Admiral." Kirk: "Here it comes." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Where's the override? The override?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Sulu: "Sir, you did it." Kirk: "I did nothing! Except get caught with my britches down. Must be going senile." [To Saavik] "Mister Saavik, you go right on quoting regulations! Meantime, let's find out how badly we've been hurt." Uhura: [Gasp!] Saavik: [Gasp!] --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Preston: "Is the word given, Admiral?" Kirk: "The word is given. Warp speed." Preston: "Aye." [Dies] Scott: "Oh, why?" Kirk: "He wants to kill me for passing sentence on him fifteen years ago, and he doesn't care who stands between him and his vengeance." McCoy: "I'm sorry, Scotty." Scott: "He stayed at his post, when the trainees ran." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Admiral, this is Spock." Kirk: "Yes, Spock." Spock: "Engine Room reports auxilliary power restored. We can proceed at impulse power." Kirk: "Best speed to Regula One, Kirk out." [To Scott] "Scotty, I have to ask. Is there any chance of getting the mains back on the line?" Scott: "I do not think so, sir, but you'll have my best." [To McCoy] "Thanks. I know you tried, Doctor." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "You all right?" McCoy: "I don't know. Doctors lose patients sometimes, damn it. I'm still in the dark. How did he know about Genesis?" Kirk: "I don't know. But what's important now is to prevent him from getting his hands on it. You said it yourself, it's a bang that could rearrange the universe." McCoy: "There still may be time. You gave as good as you got." Kirk: "We're alive only because I knew something about these ships that he didn't." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "I'm going down there." McCoy: "Khan could be down there." Kirk: "He's been there. Hasn't found what he wants. Can you spare someone that maybe he won't hurt?" McCoy: "Yeah, I can spare me." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Begging the admiral's pardon, General Order Fifteen, 'No flag officer shall beam into a hazardous area without armed escort.'" Kirk: "There's no such regulation." Saavik: [No comment] Kirk: "All right, join the party." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Mister Spock, the ship is yours." Spock: "Jim, be careful." McCoy: "*We* will." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Oh my god." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Chekov: "He put creatures...in our bodies...to control our minds." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Captain, where's Doctor Marcus? Where're the Genesis materials?" Terrell: "He couldn't find them. Even the databanks were empty." Kirk: "Erased?" Terrell: "He tortured those people. But none of them would tell him anything. He went wild, he slit their throats. He wanted to tear the place apart. But it was late. He had to get back to the Reliant in time to blow you to bits." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Where's Reliant's crew? Dead?" Terrell: "Marooned on Ceti Alpha V. He's completely mad, Admiral. He blames you for the death of his wife." Kirk: "I know what he blames me for." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Kirk to Enterprise." Spock: "Spock here." Kirk: "Captain Spock, damage report." Spock: "Admiral, if we go by the book, like Lieutenant Saavik, hours would seem like days." Kirk: "I read you, Captain, let's have it." Spock: "The situation is grave, Admiral. We won't have main power for six days. Auxiliary power has temporarily failed. Restoration may be possible, in two days, by the book, Admiral." Kirk: "Meaning you can't even beam us back?" Spock: "Not at present." Kirk: "Captain Spock, if you don't hear from us within one hour, your orders are to restore what power you can, take the Enterprise to the nearest starbase, and alert Starfleet Command as soon as you're out of jamming range." Uhura: "Sir, we won't leave you behind." Kirk: "Uhura, if don't hear from us there won't be anyone behind. Kirk out." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Go? Where are we going?" Kirk: "Where they went." McCoy: "Suppose they went nowhere?" Kirk: "Then this'll be your big chance to get away from it all." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Genesis, I presume." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% David: "He killed everybody we left behind!" Carol: "Oh of course he didn't. David, you're just making this harder." Terrell: "I'm afraid even it's harder than you think, doctor. --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Chekov..." Chekov: "I'm...sorry, Admiral." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Terrell: "Your excellency, have you been listening?" Khan: "I have indeed, Captain. You have done well." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% David: "I knew it, you son of a bitch!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Captain, we are waiting. What is the delay?" Terrell: "All is well, sir. You...you have the coordinates to beam up Genesis." Khan: "First things, first, Captain. *Kill* Admiral Kirk." Terrell: "Sir, it is difficult. I try to obey, but..." Khan: "*Kill him*." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Kill him, Terrell, *now*!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "God's sakes! What is it?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Khan, you bloodsucker! You're going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? *Do you*?!" Khan: "Kirk...Kirk, you're still alive, my old friend." Kirk: "Still, old friend! You've managed to kill just about everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target!" Khan: "Perhaps I no longer need to try, Admiral." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Khan...Khan, you've got Genesis, but you don't have me. You were going to kill me, Khan, you're going to have to come down here! You're going to have to come down here!" Khan: "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on...hurting you." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "I shall leave you as you left me...as you left her. Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive! Buried alive!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "*Khan*! *Khan*!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "If Enterprise followed orders, she's long since gone. If she couldn't obey, she's...finished." David: "So are we, it looks like." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "I don't understand, who's responsible for all this. Who is Khan?" Kirk: "Well, it's a long story." David: "We appear to have plenty of time." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Is there anything to eat? I don't know about anybody else, but I'm starved." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "How can you think of food at a time like this?" Kirk: "First order of business...survival." Carol: "There's food in the Genesis cave. Enough to last a *lifetime*, if necessary." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "We thought this was Genesis." Carol: "This? It the Starfleet Corps of Engineers ten months in spacesuits to tunnel out all this. What we did in there, we did in a day." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "David, why don't you show Doctor McCoy and the lieutenant our idea of food?" David: "But we can't just sit here." Kirk: "Oh yes we can." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Admiral..." Kirk: "As your teacher Mister Spock is fond of saying, I like to think that there always are...possibilities." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "I did what you wanted. I stayed away. Why didn't you tell him?" Carol: "How can you ask me that? Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world, and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine. Not chasing through the universe with his father." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "Actually, he's a lot like you...in many ways. Please tell me what you're feeling." Kirk: "There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me. You showed me your son'd be happy to help. My son...my life that could've been...and wasn't. What am I feeling? Old...worn out." Carol: "Let me show you something...that'll make you feel...*young* as when the world was new." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Joachim: "Impulse power restored." Khan: "Excellent. More than a match for poor Enterprise." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "You did all this in a day?" Carol: "The matrix formed in a day. The lifeforms grew later at a *substantially* acclerated rate." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Carol: "Can I cook, or can't I?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Where is she?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Sir, may I ask you a question?" Kirk: "What's on your mind, Lieutenant?" Saavik: "The Kobayashi Maru, sir." Kirk: "Are you asking me if we're playing out that scenario now?" Saavik: "On the test, sir. Will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know." McCoy: "Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario." Saavik: "How?" Kirk: "I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship." Saavik: "What?" David: "He cheated." Kirk: "I changed the conditions of the test. Got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose." Saavik: "Then you never faced that situation. Faced death." Kirk: "I don't believe in the no-win scenario." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Kirk to Spock, it's two hours, are you ready?" Spock: "Right on schedule, Admiral. Just give us your coordinates and we'll beam you aboard." Kirk: "All right!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "I don't like to lose." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "By the book?" Kirk: "By the book! Regulation Forty-Six-A, 'If transmissions are being monitored during battle...'" Saavik: "'...no uncoded messages on an open channel.'" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "You lied." Spock: "I exaggerated." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Hours instead of days. Now we have minutes instead of hours." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "That young man, he's my son!" Spock: "Fascinating." --"STII:TWOK", STardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "She can still outrun us. And outgun us. But there is the Mutura Nebula at 1-5-3 Mark 4." Kirk: "Scotty, can we make it inside?" Scott: "The energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree so don't give me too many bumps." Kirk: "No promises. On your way." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Trouble with the nebula, sir. With all that static discharge and gas clouds our tactical this way. Visual won't function, and shields will be useless." Spock: "Sauce for the goose, Mister Saavik. The odds will be even." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "There she is! There she is! Ah! But not so wounded as we were led to believe. So much the better!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Joachim: "They go in there, we'll lose them." Khan: "*Explain* it to them!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Saavik: "Admiral, what if Reliant fails to follow us into the nebula?" Spock: "I think we can guarantee that she'll follow us, Lieutenant. Remind me to explain to you the concept of the human ego." Kirk: "Best speed, Scotty." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Uhura, patch me up." Uhura: "Aye, sir. You're on, Admiral." Kirk: "This is Admiral Kirk. We tried it once your way, Khan, are you game for a rematch? Khan...I'm laughing at the superior intellect." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Full impulse power." Joachim: "No, sir! You have Genesis! You can have whatever you--" Khan: "Full power! Damn you!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "I'll say this for him, he's consistent." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "We are now entering the Mutara Nebula." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Evasive starboard!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Damage, Mister Scott." Scott: "Admiral, I've got to take the mains off the line. It's ra...diation." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Your argument?" Joachim: "Yours...is the...superior." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Chekov: "Could you use another hand, Admiral?" Kirk: "Man the weapons console, Mister Chekov." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "He won't break off now. He followed me this far, he'll be back. But from *where*?" Spock: "He's intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two- dimensional thinking." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Chekov: "Torpedoes ready, sir." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Look sharp." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "Young Kirk...the game's not over." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "'To the last, I will grapple with thee.'" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Admiral, scanning an energy source on Reliant, a pattern I've never seen before." David: "It's the Genesis wave." Kirk: "What?" David: "They're on a buildup to detonation!" Kirk: "How soon?" David: "Encoded four minutes." Kirk: "We'll beam over and stop it." David: "You can't." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes or we're all dead." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Are you out of your Vulcan mind? No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!" Spock: "As you are so fond of observing, Doctor, I am not human." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "You're *not* going in there." Spock: "Perhaps you're right. What is Mister Scott's condition?" McCoy: "Well, I don't think that he--" Spock: "Sorry, Doctor, I have no time to discuss this logically. --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Remember." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Scott: "Spock, get out of there! *Spock!*" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Engine Room, what's happening?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "Good god, man, get out of there!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Scott: "No! No, Spock, *don't*!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Sulu: "Not going to make it, are we?" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Khan: "No! No, you can't get away! 'From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.'" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Officer: "Sir, the mains are back online." Kirk: "Bless you, Scotty. Go Sulu!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Engine Room. Well done, Scotty." McCoy: "Jim, I think you'd better get down here." Kirk: "Bones?" McCoy: "Better hurry." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% McCoy: "No! You'll flood the whole compartment!" Kirk: "He'll die!" Scott: "Die? He's dead already." McCoy: "It's too late, Jim." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Ship, out of danger?" Kirk: "Yes." Spock: "Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many... outweigh--" Kirk: "The needs of the few." Spock: "Or the one." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "I never took the Kobayashi Maru test...until now. What do you think of my solution?" Kirk: "Spock." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "I have been...and always shall be...your friend." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Spock: "Live long...and prosper." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "No..." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "We are assembled here today, to pay final respects, to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of a new life, the sunrise of a new world, a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice in vain, or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most...*human*." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% David: "Lieutenant Saavik was right. You never have faced death." Kirk: "No, not like this. I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way around death, and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing." David: "You knew enough, to tell Saavik that how we face death is at least as important as how we face life." Kirk: "Just words." David: "But good words. That's where ideas begin. Maybe you should listen to them." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% David: "I was wrong about you, and I'm sorry." Kirk: "Is that what you came here to say?" David: "Mainly. And also, that I'm proud...very proud...to be your son." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8130.4 %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 8141.6. Starship Enterprise departing for Ceti Alpha V to pick up the crew of U.S.S. Reliant. All is well. And yet, I can't help wondering about the friend I leave behind. 'There are always possibilities', Spock said. And if Genesis is indeed life from death, I must return to this place again." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8141.6 %% McCoy: "He's really not dead...as long as we remember him." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8141.6 %% Kirk: "'It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place that I go to, than I have ever known.'" Carol: "Is that a poem?" Kirk: "No. Something Spock was trying to tell me on my birthday!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8141.6 %% McCoy: "You okay, Jim? How do you feel?" Kirk: "Young! I feel young!" --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8141.6 %% Spock: "Space, the final frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." --"STII:TWOK", Stardate 8141.6 %% Spock: "Space, the final frontier. These are the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new lifeforms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "USS Enterprise, Captain's Personal Log. With most of our battle damage repaired we are almost home. Yet I feel uneasy. I wonder why? Perhaps it is the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our trainee crew have been reassigned. Lieutenant Saavik and my son, David, are exploring the Genesis Planet which he helped create. And Enterprise feels like a house with all the children gone. No. More empty even than that. The death of Spock is like an open wound. It seems that I have left the noblest part of myself back there on that newborn planet." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "How much refit time til we can take her out again?" Scott: "Eight weeks, sir. But you don't have eight weeks so I'll do it for you in two." Kirk: "Mr. Scott, have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?" Scott: "Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?" Kirk: "Your reputation is secure, Scotty." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% Crewmember: "Sir, I was wondering. Are they planning a ceremony when we get in? I mean a reception." Kirk: "A hero's welcome son, is that what you'd like Crewmember: [Nods yes] Kirk: "Well God knows there should be. This time we've paid for the party with our dearest blood." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% Uhura: "Would you look at that." Kirk: "My friends, The Great Experiment. The Excelsior, ready for trial runs." Sulu: "She's supposed to have transwarp drive." Scott: "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon!" Kirk: "Come, come, Mister Scott. Young minds, fresh ideas. Be tolerant. --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Bones. What the hell are you doing? Have you lost your mind?!" McCoy: "Jim, help me! You left me on Genesis. Why did you do that? Help me, Jim. Take me home." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% McCoy: "Then perhaps it's not too late. Climb the steps, Jim. Climb the steps of Mount Seleya." Kirk: "Mount Seleya? Bones, Mount Seleya is on Vulcan. We're home, on Earth." McCoy [As Spock]: "Remember." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% Maltz: "Impressive. They can make planets." Kruge: "Oh, yes. New cities, homes in the country, your woman at your side, children playing at your feet and overhead, fluttering in the breeze, the flag of the Federation. Charming!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown %% David: "This is where the fun begins, Saavik." Saavik: "Just like your father. So human." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Sarek. Ambassador, I had no idea you were here. I believe you know my crew." Sarek: "I will speak with you alone, Kirk." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Sir, your son meant more to me than you can know. I'd have given my life if it would have saved his. Believe me when I tell you he made no request of me." Sarek: "He would not have spoken of it openly." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "McCoy!" Sarek: "One alive, one not. Yet both in pain. --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "What must I do?" Sarek: "You must bring them to Mount Seleya and only there can both find peace." Kirk: "What you ask is difficult." Sarek: "You will find a way, Kirk. If you honor them both, you must." Kirk: "I will. I swear." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% David: "There are your lifeforms. These were microbes on the tube's surface. We shot them here from Enterprise. They were fruitful and multiplied." Saavik: "But how could they have evolved so quickly?" David: [Clears throat] --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Morrow: "Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behavior and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself. Do you understand me, Jim?" Kirk: "I hear you. I had to try." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Sulu: "The word, sir?" Kirk: "The word...is, 'No.' I am therefore going anyway." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Alien: "Mutara restricted. Take permits many. Money...more." McCoy: "There aren't going to be any damm permits. How can you get a permit to do a damm illegal thing?!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% McCoy: "How can you be deaf with *ears* like that?!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% McCoy: "Where's the logic in offering me a ride home, you idiot! If I wanted a ride home would I be trying to charter a spaceflight?!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "How many fingers am I holding up?" McCoy: "That's not funny." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Your sense of humor's come back." McCoy: "The hell it has." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "You're suffering from a Vulcan mind-meld, Doctor." McCoy: "That green-blooded son-of-a-bitch. It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Sulu: "*Don't* call me Tiny!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% McCoy: "You're taking me to the Promised Land?" Kirk: "What are friends for?" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Scott: "Up your shaft!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Uhura: "Well, you know what they say, Lieutenant, be careful what you wish for. You may get it." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Uhura: "This isn't reality...this is fantasy!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Uhura: "Is this enough excitement for you?" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Uhura: "Oh, I'll have Mister Adventure eating out of my hand, sir." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Uhura: "And Admiral? All my hopes." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Scott: "A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her." Kirk: "Thank you, Mister Scott, I'll try not to take that personally." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "That's what you get for missing staff meetings." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "My friends, I can't ask you to go any further. Doctor McCoy and I have to do this. The rest of you do not." Chekov: "Admiral, we're losing precious time." Sulu: "What course please, Admiral?" Kirk: "Mister Scott?" Scott: "I'd be grateful, Admiral, if you'd give the word." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Gentlemen, may the wind be at our backs." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Styles: "Bridge, this is the captain. How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock?" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Sulu: "One minute to space doors." McCoy: "Are you gonna just walk through?!" Kirk: "Calm yourself, Doctor." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "And...*now*, Mister Scott." Scott: "Sir?" Kirk: "The doors, Mister Scott!" Scott: "Aye, sir. I'm working on it!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Gentlemen, your work today has been outstanding. I intend to recommend you all for promotion...in whatever fleet we wind up serving." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Scan for vessels in pursuit." McCoy [As Spock]: "Scanning. Indications negative at this time." McCoy [As himself]: "Did I get it right?" Kirk: "Great, Bones. Just great." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Saavik: "It's time for total truth between us. This planet is not what you intended or hoped for, is it." David: "Not exactly." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Saavik: "Protomatter. An unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unpredictable." David: "But it was the only way to solve certain problems." Saavik: "So, like your father, you changed the rules." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% David: "If I hadn't, it might have been years or never." Saavik: "How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done and what is yet to come?" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Saavik: "David is dead." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "You Klingon bastards, you've killed my son!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "My god, Bones! What have I done?" McCoy: "What you had to do. What you always do. Turned death into a fighting chance to live." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% McCoy: "His mind's a void. It seems, Admiral, that I have all his marbles." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Klingon Commander, this is Admiral James T. Kirk. I am alive and well on the planet's surface. I know that this will come as a pleasant surprise to you, but our ship was a victim of an unfortunate accident. Sorry about your crew but as we say on Earth, 'Cest la vie.'" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "Beam the Vulcan up, and we'll talk." Kruge: "Give me what I want and I'll consider it." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "You should take the Vulcan too." Kruge: "No." Kirk: "But why?" Kruge: "Because you wish it." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "You fool! Look around you. The planet's destroying itself." Kruge: "Yes. Exhiliarating, isn't it?!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "If we don't help each other, we'll die here!" Kruge: "Perfect. Then that's the way it shall be." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Kirk: "I...have had...enough of...you!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Maltz: "I do not deserve to live." Kirk: "Fine, I'll kill you later." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Maltz: "Wait. You said you would kill me." Kirk: "I lied." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% McCoy: "I'm gonna tell you something that I never thought I'd ever hear myself say. But it seems I've missed you and I don't know if I could stand to lose you again." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% T'Lar: "What you seek has not been done since ages past and then only in legend. Your request is not logical." Sarek: "Forgive me, T'Lar. My logic is uncertain where my son is concerned." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% McCoy: "I choose the danger." [To Kirk] "Hell of a time to ask!" --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Spock: "My father says that you have been my friend. You came back for me." Kirk: "You would have done the same for me." Spock: "Why would you do this?" Kirk: "Because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Spock: "'I have been and ever shall be, your friend.'" Kirk: "Yes! Yes, Spock." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Spock: "Jim...your name is Jim." --"STIII:TSFS", Stardate %% Klingon Ambassador: "There, hold the image. *Hold*!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Klingon Ambassador: "Behold the quintessential devil in these matters, James T. Kirk, renegade and terrorist!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Klingon Ambassador: "Not only is he responsible for the murder of a Klingon crew, the theft of a Klingon vessel, see now the real plot and intentions! Even as this Federation was negotiating a peace treaty with us, Kirk was secretly developing the Genesis torpedo, conceived by Kirk's son, and test- detonated by the admiral himself! And the result of this awesome energy was euphamistically called The Genesis Planet! A secret base from which to launch the annihilation of the Klingon people! We demand the extradition of Kirk, we demand *justice*!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Sarek: "Klingon Justice is a unique point of view, Mister President." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Sarek: "Genesis was perfectly named. The creation of life, not *death*. The Klingons shed the first blood while attempting to possess its secrets." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Klingon Ambassador: "Vulcans are well known as the intellectual *puppets* of this Federation!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Sarek: "Your vessel did destroy U.S.S. Grissom. Your men did kill Kirk's son. Do you deny these events?" Klingon Ambassador: "We *deny* nothing. We have the right to preserve our race." Sarek: "Do you have the right to commit murder?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Sarek: "Mister President, I've come to speak on behalf of the accused." Klingon Ambassador: "Personal bias! His son was saved by Kirk." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Federation Council President: "Mister Ambassador, with all respect, the council's deliberations are over." Klingon Ambassador: "Then Kirk goes unpunished?" Federation Council President: "Admiral Kirk has been charged with nine violations of Starfleet regulations." Klingon Ambassador: "Starfleet regulations?! That's outrageous!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Klingon Ambassador: "Remember this well. There shall be no peace...as long as Kirk lives." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate Unknown %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 8390. We're in the third month of our Vulcan exile. And it was Doctor McCoy, with a fine sense of historical irony, who decided on a name for our captured Klingon vessel. And like those mutineers of five-hundred years ago, we too have a hard choice to make." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Let the records show, that the commander and the crew of the late Starship Enterprise have voted unanimously to return to Earth, to face the consequences of their actions in the rescue of their comrade, Captain Spock. Thank you all. Repair stations please." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Mister Scott." Scott: "Aye, sir?" Kirk: "How soon can we be underway?" Scott: "Well, give me one more day, sir. Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon? That's hard." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You'd think they could at least send a ship. It's bad enough to be court martialed and spend the rest of our lives mining borite, but to have to go home in this Klingon flea trap!" Kirk: "We can learn a thing or two from this flea trap. It's got a cloaking device that cost us a lot." McCoy: "I just wish we could cloak the stench!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Computer, resume testing." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "T'Planahoth, matron of Vulcan philosophy." Computer: "Correct." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "The universal atmospheric element compensator." Computer: "Correct." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Klingon mummification glyph." Computer: "Correct." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Nothing unreal exists." Computer: "Correct." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Computer: "How do you feel? How do you feel? How do you feel?" Spock: "I do not understand the question." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Amanda: "What is it, Spock?" Spock: "I do not understand the question, mother." Amanda: "Well, you're half human. The computer knows that." Spock: "The question is irrelevant." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Amanda: "Spock, the retraining of your mind has been in the Vulcan way, so you may not understand feelings. But as my son you have them. They will surface." Spock: "As you wish, since you deem them of value. But I cannot wait here to find them." Amanda: "Why? Were must you go?" Spock: "I must go to Earth...to offer testimony." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Amanda: "You do this...for friendship." Spock: "I do it because I was there." Amanda: "Spock, does the good of the many outweigh the good of the one?" Spock: "I would accept that as an axiom." Amanda: "Well then you stand here alive because of a *mistake*...made by your flawed, *feeling*, human friends. They have sacrificed their futures because *they* believed that the good of the *one*, you, was more important to them." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Humans make illogical decisions." Amanda: "They do indeed." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Saratoga Captain: "Starfleet Command, this is Saratoga, come in please. Come in ...*please*." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Starship Captain: "Emergency channel, zero-one-three-zero, code red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed. All non-essential fuel has been given...to slow our consumption of life-support reserves. Our chief engineer is trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Systems report, communications." Uhura: "Communcations systems all ready, sir. Communicatons Officer is ready as she'll ever be." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Mister Sulu." Sulu: "Guidance is functional. Onboard computer will interface with Federation memory bank." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Weapons systems." Chekov: "Operation, Admiral. Cloaking device now available in all flight modes." Kirk: "I'm impressed. That's a lot of work for a short flight." Chekov: "We are in an enemy wessel, sir. I do not wish to be shot down on the way to our own funeral." Kirk: "Good thinking." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Engine Room. Report, Mister Scott." Scott: "We're ready, sir. I've converted the dilithium sequencer into something a little less primitive. And Admiral, I have replaced the Klingon food packs. They were giving me a sour stomach." Kirk: "Oh, is that what it was." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Saavik, this is goodbye." Saavik: "Yes, Admiral." Kirk: "Thank you." Saavik: "Sir, I have not had the opportunity to tell you about your son. David died most bravely. He saved Spock. He saved us all. I thought you should know." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Saavik: "Good day, Captain Spock. May your journey be free of incident." Spock: "Live long and prosper, Lieutenant." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Permission to come aboard." Kirk: "Permission granted." Spock: "Thank you, Admiral." Kirk: "Jim. Spock, Jim! Don't you remember?" Spock: "It would not be proper to refer to you as Jim while you're in command, Admiral." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Also, I must apologize for my attire. I seem to have...misplaced my uniform." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Are you sure this is such a bright idea?" Kirk: "What do you mean?" McCoy: "I mean him...back at his post like nothing happened. I don't know if you've got the whole picture or not, but he's not exactly working on all thrusters!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "It'll come back to him." McCoy: "Are you sure?" Kirk: [No comment] McCoy: "That's what I thought." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Mister Sulu, take us home." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Controller #2: "Starfleet, this is Spacedock on emergency channel. We have lost all internal power." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Hi. Busy?" Spock: "Uhura is busy. I am monitoring." McCoy: "Mmm." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Well, I just wanted to say that it sure is nice to have your katra back in your head and not mine. What I mean is that may have carried your soul but I sure couldn't fill your shoes." Spock: "My shoes?" McCoy: "Forget it." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Perhaps we could cover a little philosophical ground? Life...death... life. Things of that nature." Spock: "I did not have time on Vulcan to review the philosophical disciplines." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Come on, Spock! It's me, McCoy! You really have gone where no man's gone before! Can't you tell me what it felt like?" Spock: "It would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame of reference." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You're joking!" Spock: "A joke is a story with a humorous climax." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You mean I have to *die* to discuss your insights on *death*?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Forgive me, Doctor, I am receiving a number of distress calls." McCoy: "I don't doubt it!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Cartwright: "Notify all stations, Starfleet emergency, red alert." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Cartwright: "Mister President, even with planetary reserves, we cannot survive without the sun." Federation Council President: "I'm well aware of that, Admiral." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "Ambassador Sarek, I'm afraid you are trapped here with us. It seems to be no way we can answer this probe." Sarek: "It is difficult to answer...when one does not understand the question." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sarek: "Mister President, perhaps you should transmit a planetary distress signal...while we still have time." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "This is the President of the United Federation Of Planets. No not approach Earth. The transmissions of an orbiting probe are causing critical damage to this planet. It has almost totally ionized our atmosphere. All power sources have failed. All Earth-orbiting starships are powerless. The probe is vaporing our oceans. We cannot survive unless a way can be found to respond to the probe. Further communications may not be possible. Save your energy. Save yourselves. Avoid the planet Earth at all costs! Farewell..." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Spock, what do you make of that?" Spock: "Most unusual. An unknown form of energy of great power and intelligence...evidently unaware that its transmissions are destructive. I find it illogical that its intentions should be hostile." McCoy: "Really?! You think this is its way of saying, 'Hi there,' to the people of the Earth?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "There are other forms of intelligence on Earth, Doctor. Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Uhura: "I think I have it, sir." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Fascinating. If my suspicion is correct, there can be no response to this message. --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Excuse me." Kirk: "Where're you going?" Spock: "To test my theory." Kirk: "Bones, you stay here." McCoy: "No way! Somebody's got to keep an eye on him!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Spock?" Spock: "The probe's transmissions are the songs sung by whales." Kirk: "Whales?" Spock: "Specifically, humpback whales." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "That's crazy? Who would send a probe hundreds of light years to talk to whales?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Whales have been on Earth far earlier than man." Spock: "Ten million years earlier. And humpbacks were heavily hunted by man. They've been extinct since the twenty-first century. It is possible that an alien intelligence sent the probe to determine why they lost contact." McCoy: "My god." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Does the species exist on any other planet?" Spock: "Negative, humpbacks were indigenous to Earth. Earth of the past." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "There must be an alternative!" Spock: "There is one possibility but of course I cannot guarantee success. We could attempt to find some humpback whales." McCoy: "You just said there aren't any except on Earth of the past." Spock: "Yes, Doctor. That is exactly what I said." McCoy: "Well, in that case. Now wait just a damn minute!" Kirk: "Spock, start your computations for time warp." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chapel: "We need that power to keep the medical and emergency facilities functioning." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Rand: "All underground storage facilities have been shut down due to contamination from the probe's wave." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Scotty, how long is this bay?" Scott: "Uh, about sixty feet, Admiral." Kirk: "Can you enclose it to hold water?" Scott: "I suppose I could. You planning to take a swim?" McCoy: "Off the deep end, Mister Scott!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "We've got to find some humpbacks." Scott: "Humpbacked...people?" Kirk: "Whales, Mister Scott, whales! About forty-five to fifty feet long. About forty tons each." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You're really going to try time-travel in this rust-bucket?" Kirk: "We've done it before." McCoy: "Sure. Slingshot around the sun, pick up enough speed, you're in time warp. If you don't, you're fried!" Kirk: "You prefer to do nothing?" McCoy: "I prefer a dose of common sense!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You're proposing that we go backwards in time, find humpback whales, then bring them forward in time, drop them off, and hope to hell they tell this probe what to go do with itself?!" Kirk: "That's the general idea." McCoy: "Well that's crazy!" Kirk: "You've a better idea? Now's the time." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Starfleet Command, this is Admiral James T. Kirk, enroute to Earth aboard a Klingon vessel. We have intercepted and analyzed the call of the probe threatening the Earth." Cartwright: "Satellite reserve power...now!" Kirk: "It is our opinion, that only the extinct species, humpback whale, can give the proper response to the probe. Do you concur with this opinion?" Cartwright: "Stabilize. Emergency reserve." Kirk: "Starfleet Command, do you read me?" Starfleet Communications Officer: "Go ahead, we hear you." Kirk: "Starfleet Command...if you read me...we're going to attempt time travel. We are computing our trajectory at this time..." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Cartwright: "Get him back! Get him back!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Ready to engage computer, Admiral." Kirk: "What's our target in time." Spock: "Late twentieth century." Kirk: "Can you be more specific?" Spock: "Not with this equipment. I've had to program some of the variables from memory." Kirk: "What are some of the variables?" Spock: "Availability of fuel components, mass of a vessel through a time continuum, and probable location of humpback whales, in this case, the Pacific basin." Kirk: "And you programmed all that from memory?" Spock: "I have." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "'Angels and ministers of grace, defend us." Spock: "_Hamlet_, Act One, Scene Four." Kirk: "No doubt about your memory, Spock." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "May fortune favor the foolish." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Steady as she goes..." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Now, Mister Sulu!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Earth... But when? Spock?" Spock: "Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the latter half of the twentieth century." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Is there no way of recrystalizing dilithium?" Scott: "Sorry, sir. We can't even do that in the twenty-third century." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "We could construct a device to collect their high-energy photons safely. These photons could then be injected into the dilithium chamber causing crystaline restructure...theoretically." Kirk: "Where would we find these reactors, theoretically?" Spock: "Nuclear power was widely used in naval vessels." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sulu: "San Francisco. I was born there." McCoy: "It doesn't look all that different." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Doctor McCoy. You, Mister Scott, and Commander Sulu will convert us a whale tank." McCoy: "Oh, joy." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "I want you all to be *very* careful. This is terra incognita. Many of their customs will doubtless take us by surprise." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "It's a foregone conclusion none of these people have ever seen an extraterrestrial before." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Let's do our job and get out of here. Our own world is waiting for us to save it, if we can." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% 1st Garbageman: "Don't tell me you two were fighting again. I thought you made up last night. Why are you two always fighting?" 2nd Garbageman: "I like the way she fights." 1st Garbageman: "Oh." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% 2nd Garbageman: "Anyways, I said to her, 'If you think I'm going to spend sixty dollars on a damn toaster oven, you're out of your mind.'" 1st Garbageman: "What'd she say to that?" 2nd Garbageman: "I said--" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% 1st Garbageman: "What the hell was that?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% 1st Garbageman: "Did you see that?" 2nd Garbageman: "No, and neither did you, so shut up!" 1st Garbageman: "Oh, I didn't see nothing!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Everybody remember where we parked!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Taxi Driver: "Hey, why don't you watch where you're going, you dumb-ass?!" Kirk: "Well, the double dumb-ass on you!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "It's a miracle these people ever got out of the twentieth century!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "The rest of you, break up. You look like a cadet review." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Antique Store Owner: "Yes, um, eighteen century American. Quite valuable. Are you sure you want to part with them?" Kirk: "How much will you give me for them?" Spock: "Excuse me, weren't those a birthday present from Doctor McCoy?" Kirk: "They will be again, that's the beauty of it." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "How much?" Antique Store Owner: "Well, they'd be worth more if the lenses were intact. I'll give you one-hundred dollars." Kirk: "Is that a lot?" Antique Store Owner: "Hm." Clock: [Chimes] --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Well, that's all there is. So don't splurge. All set? Good hunting." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Well, Spock, here we are. Thanks to your restored memory, a little bit of good luck, we're walking the streets of San Francicso, looking for a couple of humpback whales. How do you propose to solve this minor problem?" Spock: "Simple logic will suffice." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "I believe I shall begin by making use of this map. I have the distance and bearing which were provided by Commander Uhura. If we juxtapose our coordinates we should be able to find our destination...which lies at two- hundred eighty three point seven degrees--" Kirk: "I think we'll find what we're looking for at the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito. A pair of humpback whales named George and Gracie." Spock: "How do you know this?" Kirk: "Simple logic." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "What does it mean...exact change?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Would you mind telling me how we plan to convert this whale tank?" Scott: "Ordinarily I could do it with a piece of transparent aluminum." Sulu: "I'm afraid you're a number of years too early for that." Scott: "I know. We've got to find a twentieth century equivalent." McCoy: "But where?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Uhura: "Did you find it?" Chekov: "Yes, under U.S. Government. Now we need directions." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chekov: "Excuse me, sir, can you direct me to the naval base in Alameda? It's vere they keep the nuclear wessels. Nuclear wessels." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chekov: "Excuse me, uh, we are looking for nuclear wessels." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chekov: "Hello, we are looking for the nuclear wessels in Alameda. Could you tell me vere--" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Uhura: "Can you help us?" Chekov: "Please, please, we are looking for the naval base in Alameda. Could you tell me where the nuclear wessels are? Nu--" Passerby: "Ooh, I don't know if I know the answer to that. I think it's across the bay, in Alameda." Chekov: "That's what I said." Chekov and Uhura: "Alameda." Chekov: "I know that." Uhura: "But where is Alameda?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Song in bus: "Just we're in the future, The things we could've said. Let's just push the button, We'd be better off dead! 'Cause I hate you! And I berate you! And I can't wait to get to you. %% The sins of all the fathers Were given to the sons The only choice we're given Is how many megatons?! And I eschew you And I say, '*Screw you*! And I hope you're blue too. %% We're all bloody worthless-- --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Excuse me...excuse me! Would you mind stopping that noise?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Excuse me, would you mind stopping that damn noise?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Admiral, may I ask you a question?" Kirk: "Spock, don't call me, Admiral. You used to call me Jim. Don't you remember? Jim?" [Pause] "What's your question?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall I say, more colorful metaphors. 'Double dumb-ass on you!,' and so forth." Kirk: "You mean the profanity?" Spock: "Yes." Kirk: "That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you *swear* every other word." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "You'll find it in all the literature of the period." Spock: "For example?" Kirk: "All the collected works of Jacqueline Suzanne. The novels of Harold Robinson." Spock: "Ahh. The Giants." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "This is mankind's legacy. Whales hunted to the brink of extinction." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "To hunt a species to extinction is not logical." Gillian: "Whoever said the human race was logical?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "It's perfect, Spock. Male and female humpback in a contained space. We beam them up together, consider ourselves lucky." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "What you're hearing is recorded whalesong. It is sung by the male. He'll sing anywhere from six to as long as thirty minutes and then start again. In the ocean the other whales will pick up the song and pass it on. The songs change every year and we still don't know what purpose they serve. Are they some kind of navigational signal? Could they be part of the mating ritual? Or is it pure communication beyond our comprehension. Frankly, we just don't know yet." Tourist: "Maybe he's singing to that man." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "All right, who the hell are you and what were you doing in there?" Kirk: "Yeah, speak up, fellow." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Attempting the hell to communicate." Gillian: "Communicate?! Communicate what?! You have no right to be here!" Kirk: "You heard the lady." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Admiral, if we would assume that these whales are ours to do with as we please we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Okay, I don't know what this is about, but I want you guys out of here right now, or I call the cops." Kirk: "I assure you that won't be necessary. We're only trying to help." Gillian: "The hell you were, buster. Your friend was messing up my tanks and messing up my whales." Spock: "They like you very much, but they're not the hell your whales." Gillian: "I, I suppose they told you that, huh?" Spock: "The hell they did." Gillian: "Right." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Spock..." Spock: "Yes?" Kirk: "About those colorful metaphors that we discussed? I don't think you should try using them anymore." Spock: "Why not?" Kirk: "Well, for one thing you haven't quite got the knack of it." Spock: "I see." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "And another thing, it's not always necessary to tell the truth." Spock: "I cannot tell a lie." Kirk: "I don't mean lie. But, you could exaggerate." Spock: "Exaggerate?" Kirk: "Exaggerate! You've done it before. Can't you remember?" Spock: "The hell I can't." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Bob: "How you doing?" Gillian: "Fine." Bob: "Don't tell me fish stories, kiddo, I've known you too long." Gillian: "Bob, it's tearing me apart, okay?!" Bob: "I know. I feel the same thing, but we're stuck between a rock in a hard place. We can't keep them here without risking their lives, we can't let them go without taking the same chance." Gillian: "I *know*, I *know*." Bob: "And besides, we're not talking about human beings here. It's never been proven their intelligence is anywhere--" Gillian: "Oh, come on, Bob! I don't know about you, but my compassion for someone is not limited to my estimate of their intelligence!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Team Two, Kirk here." Chekov: "Admiral, we have found the nuclear wessel." Kirk: "Well done, Team Two." Chekov: "And Admiral...it is the Enterprise." Kirk: [Pause] "Understood." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "What's your plan?" Chekov: "We vill beam into night, collect the photons, and beam out! No one vill even know we were there!" Kirk: "Understood and approved. Keep me informed. Kirk out." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "There she is, from the institute. If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are leaving." Spock: "How will playing cards help?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Well, if it isn't Robin Hood and Friar Tuck!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Where are you fellows headed?" Kirk: "Back to San Francisco." Gillian: "You came all the way down here just to jump in and swim with the kiddies, huh?" Kirk: "Very little point in my trying to explain." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Well, yeah, I'll buy that. What about him?" Kirk: "Him? He's harmless. Back in the sixties, he was part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. I, I think he did a little too much L.D.S." Gillian: "L.*D*.S.?" Kirk: "Um-hmm." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Come on, why don't you let me give you a lift? I have a notorious weakness for hard-luck cases, that's why I work with whales." Kirk: "We don't want to be any trouble." Gillian: "You've already been that, come on." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Well, thank you very much." Gillian: "Don't mention it. And don't try anything either, I've got a tire iron right where I can get at it." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "So..." [Clears throat] "You were at, uh, Berkeley?" Spock: "I was not." Kirk: "Memory problems too." Gillian: "Oh." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "What about you? Where are you from?" Kirk: "Iowa." Gillian: "Oh, land lover." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "What did you mean when you said all that stuff back at the institute about extinction?" Spock: "I meant that--" Kirk: "He meant...what you said on the tour. That if things keep going the way they are, the humpbacks will disappear forever." Gillian: "No, that's not what he said, farm boy! 'Admiral, if we were to assume those whales are ours to do with as we please, we would be as guilty as those who caused,' past tense, 'their extinction.' I have a photographic memory, I see words." Spock: "Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "You're not one of those guys in the military, are you? Trying to teach whales to retrieve torpedoes or some dipshit stuff like that?" Kirk: "No, ma'am, no dipshit." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Gracie is pregnant." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "All right, who are you, and don't jerk me around anymore! I want to know how you know that!" Kirk: "We can't tell you that." Gillian: "But--" Kirk: "But if you, you let me finish me, I can tell you that we're not in the military, and we intend no harm towards the whales." Gillian: "Then what--" Kirk: "In fact, we may be able to help you in ways that...frankly you couldn't possibly imagine." Gillian: "Or believe, I'll bet." Kirk: "Very likely." %% Kirk: "You're not exactly catching us at our best." Spock: "That much is certain." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "I have a hunch...that we'd all be a lot happier if we discussed this, over dinner. What do you say?" Gillian: "Do you guys like Italian?" Spock: "No." Kirk: "Yes. No." Spock: "No." Kirk: "Yes." Spock: "No." Kirk: "Yes. I love Italian." [To Spock] "And so do you." Spock: [To Gillian] "Yes." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "Professor Scott! I'm Doctor Nichols, plant manager." Scott: "Ah!" Nichols: "Look, I'm *terribly* sorry. There's been an awful mix-up! Would you believe I was never told about your visit?!" McCoy: "I tried to clear things up, Professor Scott. I explained that you'd come all the way here from Edinbourgh, on appointment, to study methods of manufacturing by Plexicorp. But they don't seem to know anything about it." [Laughs] Scott: "Don't know anything about it?! I find it hard to believe that I've come *millions* of miles--" McCoy: "*Thousands*, *thousands*." Scott: "Uh, uh, thousands of miles, on an invited tour of inspection!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "Professor Scott, if you'll just--" Scott: "I demand to see the owners! I demand--" McCoy: "Professor Scott, just take it easy. Doctor Nichols has offered to take us around the plant personally!" Scott: "He has?" McCoy: "Yes!" Nichols: "With pleasure." Scott: "Well, that's different." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "Professor." Scott: "May, uh, my assistant join us?" Nichols: "Of course." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Don't bury yourself in the part!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sulu: "Hi!" Pilot: "Hi!" Sulu: "Good looking ship! Huey 204, isn't it?" Pilot: "Right on! You fly?" Sulu: "Oh, here and there." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sulu: "I flew something similar back in my academy days." Pilot: "All right. Then this must be, old stuff to you." Sulu: "Oh...yes, but interesting. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" Pilot: "Do it!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Well, this is a fine place you have here, Doctor Nichols." Nichols: "Thank you. I must say, Professor, your knowledge of engineering is most impressive." McCoy: "Yes, back home, we call him the Miracle Worker." Nichols: "Indeed." [Laughs] --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "May I offer you something, gentlemen?" Scott: "Doctor Nichols, I might be able to offer something to you." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "I noticed you're still working with polymers." Nichols: "Still?" [Laughs] "What else would I be working with?" Scott: "Aye, what else, indeed." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "I put it in another way. How thick would a piece of plexiglass need to be at sixty feet by ten feet to withstand the pressure of eighteen thousand cubic feet of water?" Nichols: "Oh, that's easy, six inches. We carry stuff that big in stock." Scott: "I, uh, noticed. Now suppose...just suppose...I were to show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job...but be only one inch thick. Woul that be worth something to you?" Nichols: [Laughs] "You're joking." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Perhaps the professor could use your computer." Nichols: "Please." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Computer? Computer?" McCoy: [Hands Scott the mouse] Scott: "Ah. Hello, computer." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "Just use the keyboard." Scott: "A keyboard! How quaint." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "Transparent aluminum?" Scott: "That's the ticket, laddie." Nichols: "It'd take years just to figure out the dynamics of this matrix." McCoy: "Yes, but you would be rich beyond the dreams of avarice!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "So, is it worth something to you...or should I just punch up Clear?" Nichols: "No! No." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Nichols: "Not now, Madeleine!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You, uh, realize, of course, if we give him the formula, we're altering the future." Scott: "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?" McCoy: "Yeah." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "You sure you won't change your mind?" Spock: "Is there something wrong with the one I have?" Kirk: "Little joke." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Goodbye, old friend." Gillian: "Wait a minute! How did you know Gracie is pregnant? Nobody knows that." Spock: "Gracie does." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "I'll be here." Gillian: "What... What, he's just going to hang around the bushes while we eat?" Kirk: "It's his way." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Do you trust me?" Kirk: "Implicitly." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "You know, I could take those whales somewhere...where they'd never be hunted." Gillian: [Laughs] "You can't even get yourself from Sausalito to San Franciso without a lift!" Kirk: "If you have such a low opinion of my abilities, how come we're here having dinner?" Gillian: "Sucker for hard luck cases." Kirk: [Laughs] --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Besides, I want to know why you travel around with that ditzy guy, who knows that Gracie is pregnant and calls you, 'Admiral.'" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "What is that?" Kirk: "What's what?" Gillian: "You have a pocket pager." Kirk: [No comment] Gillian: "Are you a doctor?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "What is it?! I thought I told you never to call me!" Scott: "Sorry, Admiral. We just thought you'd like to know, we're beaming them in now." Kirk: "All right, tell them, 'Phasers on stun, good luck, Kirk out.'" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "You want to try it from the top?" Kirk: "Why don't you tell me when those whales are leaving?" Gillian: "Who are you?" Kirk: "Who do you think I am?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Don't tell me...you're from outer space." Kirk: "No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space." Gillian: "Oh, well, I was close. I mean, I knew outer space was going to come into this sooner or later." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "The truth?" Gillian: "Oh, I am all ears." Kirk: [Laughs] Gillian: [Laughs] Kirk: [Laughs] "Okay...the truth." [Drinks] --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "I am from, what on your calendar, would be the late twenty-third century. I have come back in time...to bring...two humpback whales with me in an attempt to...repopulate the species." Gillian: "Well, why didn't you just say so? I mean, why all the coy disguises?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Can we have that to go, please?" Waiter: "Sure, who gets the bad news?" Gillian: "Don't tell me they don't use money in the twenty-third century." Kirk: "Well, we don't!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Well..." [Clears throat] "Admiral, that was the briefest dinner I've ever had in my life. And certainly the biggest cockamamie fish story I've ever heard." Kirk: "You asked." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Look, I don't have a clue who you are, really! You, you wouldn't want to show me around your spaceship, would you?" Kirk: "That wouldn't be my first choice, no." Gillian: "Well, there we are." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Let me tell you something. I'm here, to bring two humpbacks into the twenty-third century. If I have to, I'll go to the open sea to get them. I'd much rather have yours. It's better for me...it's better for you...it's better for them. Think about it." Gillian: "Who are you?" Kirk: "Think about it?! But don't take too long. I'm out of time. You change your mind, this is where I'll be." Gillian: "Here? In the park." Kirk: "Right." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Damn. Damn it! We've been so lucky. We've got two perfect whales right in our hands, and if we don't move quickly, we'll lose them." Spock: "In that event the probabilities are that our mission would fail." Kirk: "Our mission? Spock, you're talking about the end of every life on Earth. You're half human...haven't you got any goddamned feelings about that?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% C.D.O.: "We have an intruder, in Number Four, M.M.R. I say again, we have an intruder, in Number Four, M.M.R." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chekov: "Scotty, now would be a good time!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% F.B.I. Agent #1: "'Commander Pavel Chekov. Starfleet. United Federation Of Planets.'" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% F.B.I. Agent #1: "All right, Commander. Is there anything you want to tell us?" Chekov: "Like vhat?" F.B.I. Agent #1: "Like who you really are, and what you're doing here, and what these, these things here are." Chekov: "I am Pavel Chekov, a commander in Starfleet, United Federation of Planets. Service number 656-5827B." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% F.B.I. Agent #1: "All right, let's take it from the top." Chekov: "The top of vhat?" F.B.I. Agent #1: "Name." Chekov: "My name?" F.B.I. Agent #1: "No, *my* name!" Chekov: "I do not know your name!" F.B.I. Agent #1: "You play games with me, mister, and you're through!" Chekov: "I am? May I go now?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% F.B.I. Agent #1: "What do you think?" F.B.I. Agent #2: "He's a Ruskie." F.B.I. Agent #1: "That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life! Of course he's a Ruskie, but he's a *retard* or something!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chekov: "Don't move." F.B.I. Agent #1: "Okay, make nice, give us the ray gun." Chekov: "I varn you, if you don't lie on the floor, I vill have to stun you." F.B.I. Agent #1: "Go ahead, stun me." Chekov: "I'm wery sorry, but--" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Chekov: "It must be the radiation." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Any luck?" Uhura: "Nothing. Admiral, I should never have left him." Kirk: "You did what was necessary. Keep trying, you'll find him." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Scotty, you promised me an estimate on the dilithium crystals." Scott: "It's going slowly, sir. It'll be well into tomorrow." Kirk: "That's not good enough, Mister Scott. You've got to do better." Scott: "I'll try, sir. Scott out." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Boy, he's in a wee bit of a snit isn't he?" Spock: "He is a man of deep feelings." Scott: "Aye, what else is new." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Bob: "They left last night. We didn't want a mob scene with the press, it wouldn't have been good for them. Besides we thought it would be easier on you this way." Gillian: "You sent them away without letting me say goodbye?!" Bob: "Gillian!" Gillian: "You son-of-a-bitch!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Admiral! We have a problem!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Oh my god!" [Screams] --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Hello, Alice. Welcome to Wonderland!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "We can't go anywhere." Gillian: "What kind of a spaceship is this?!" Kirk: "It's a spaceship with a missing man." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Jim! You've got to let me go in there. Don't leave him in the hands of twentieth century medicine!" Spock: "Admiral, may I suggest that Doctor McCoy is correct. We must help Chekov." Kirk: "Is that the logical thing to do, Spock?" Spock: "No, but it is the human thing to do." Kirk: "Right." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Will you help us?" Gillian: "How?" McCoy: "Well, we're going to have to look like physicians." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "What's the matter with you?" Elderly Patient: "Kidney dialysis." McCoy: "Dialysis?! My god, what is this, the Dark Ages?! Here, you swallow that. And if you have any problems, just call me." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Unbelievable." Intern #1: "You have a different view, Doctor?" McCoy: "Sounds like the goddamned Spanish Inquisition to me!" Kirk: "Bad day." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Damn it, do you want an acute case on your hands?! This woman has immediate post-prandial, upper-abdominal distension." Gillian: [Screams in agony] McCoy: "Out of the way! Get out of the way!" Kirk: "What did you say she's got?" McCoy: "Cramps." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Young Doctor: "What's your degree in, dentistry?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "How do you explain slow impulse, low respiratory rate, and coma?" Young Doctor: "Fundascopic examination." McCoy: "Fundascopic examination is unrevealing in these cases!" Young Doctor: "A simple evacuation of the expanding epidoral hematoba will relieve the pressure!" McCoy: "My god, man! Drilling holes in his head's not the answer! The artery must be repaired! Now put away your butcher knives and let me save this patient before it's too late!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Doctors, doctors, such unprofessional behavior! Into that little room, please..." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "We're dealing with the medievalism here." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Kimotherapy...fundascopic examinations." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Name, rank." Chekov: "Chekov, Pavel. Rank...Admiral." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Usher: "How's the patient, Doctor?" Kirk: "He's going to make it." Usher: "He? You came in with a she?" Kirk: "One little mistake." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Not now, Pavel!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "What do you...what do you talking about? I'm coming with you!" Kirk: "You can't! Our next stop is the twenty-third century." Gillian: "Well I don't care! I've got nobody here! I have got to help those whales!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Scotty, beam me up!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "Surprise!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Spock, where the hell is the power you promised me!" Spock: "One damn minute, Admiral!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "I'm ready, Spock, let's go find George and Gracie!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Sulu?" Sulu: "I'm trying to remember how this thing worked. Got used to a Huey." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "Guess, Spock! Your best guess." Spock: "Guessing is not in my nature, Doctor." McCoy: "Well, nobody's perfect." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "You tricked me!" Gillian: "You need me." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Jogger: "What the hell was that?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Scotty, are the whale tanks secure?" Scott: "Aye, sir. But I've never beamed up four-hundred tons before!" Kirk: "Four-hundred tons?" Scott: "Well, it's not just the whales...it's the water!" Kirk: "Yes, of course." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "You, uh, you present the appearance of a man with a problem." Spock: "Your perception is correct, Doctor. In order to return us to the exact moment we left the twenty-third century, I have used our journey back through time as a reference, calculating the coefficient of elapsed time in relation to the accleration curve." McCoy: "Naturally." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "So what's your problem?" Spock: "Accleration is no longer a constant." McCoy: "Well then, you're just going to have to take your best shot." Spock: "Best shot?" McCoy: "Guess, Spock. Your best guess!" Spock: "Guessing is not in my nature, Doctor." McCoy: "Well...nobody's perfect." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Put it on-screen." Gillian: "How can you do that?" Uhura: "On-screen." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "What kind of ship is that?" Gillian: "A whaling ship, Doctor. Are we too late?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Admiral, there be whales here!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Oh, Mister Spock, have you accounted for the variable mass of whales in water for your time reentry program?" Spock: "Mister Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral, so...I will make a guess." Kirk: "A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "I don't think he understands." McCoy: "No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts." Spock: "Then you're saying...it is a complement." McCoy: "It is." Spock: "Ah. Then I will try to make the best guess I can." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "'They say the sea is cold but the sea contains the hottest blood of all.'" Gillian: "_Whales Weep Nine_, D.H. Lawrence." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "You know, it's ironic, when man was killing these creatures...he was destroying his own future." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "The beasties seem happy to see you, Doctor. I hope you like our little aquarium." Gillian: "A miracle, Mister Scott." Scott: "A miracle? That's yet to come." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "What does that mean?" Kirk: "It means that our chances of getting home are not too good. You might have lived a longer life if you'd stayed where you belong." Gillian: "I belong here. I am a whale biologist. Suppose by some miracle you do get them through. Who in the twenty-third century knows anything about humpback whales?" Kirk: "Good point." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Hold on tight, Lassie. It gets bumpy from here." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Then where the hell are we?" [Pause] "The probe..." Chekov: "The mains are down, sir. Aux power is not reponding." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Switch to manual control, Mister Sulu." Sulu: "I have no control, sir." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "My god, Jim! Where are we?" Kirk: "Out of control and blind as a bat." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Cartwright: "Get him back! Get him back!" Sarek: "Look!" Cartwright: "They're headed for the bridge!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Abandon ship!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Scott: "Admiral, you'll be trapped!" Kirk: "Go on!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "Why don't they answer? Why don't they sing?" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "Bring in the accused." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "Captain Spock, you do not stand accused." Spock: "Mister President, I stand with my shipmates." Federation Council President: "As you wish." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "The charges and specifications are...conspiracy, assault on Federation officers, theft of Federation property, namely the Starship Enterprise, sabotage of the U.S.S. Excelsior, willful destruction of Federation property, specifically the aforementioned U.S.S. Enterprise, and finally...disobeying direct orders of a Starfleet commander." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "Admiral Kirk, how do you plead?" Kirk: "On behalf of all of us, Mister President, I am authorized to plead, Guilty." Federation Council President: "So entered." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "Because of certain mitigating circumstances, all charges but one are summarily dismissed. The remaining charge, disobeying direct orders of a superior officer, is directed solely at Admiral Kirk. I'm sure the admiral will recognize the necessity of keeping discipline in any chain of command?" Kirk: "I do, sir." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "James T. Kirk, it is the judgement of this council that you be reduced in rank...to captain. And that as a consequence of your new rank, you be given the duties for which you have repeatedly demonstrated unswerving ability...the command of a starship." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Federation Council President: "Captain Kirk, you and your crew have saved this planet from its own shortsightedness. And we are forever in your debt." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "I'm so happy for you I can't tell you. Thank you...so much." Kirk: "Wait a minute, where are you going?" Gillian: "You're going to your ship, I'm going to mine. Science vessel. I got three-hundred years of catch-up learning to do." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "You mean this is goodbye?" Gillian: "But why does this have to be goodbye?" Kirk: "Well, like they say in your century, I don't even have your telephone number! [Laughs] Gillian: [Laughs] --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "How will I find you?" Gillian: "Don't worry. I'll find you." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Gillian: "See you around the galaxy." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Father." Sarek: "I am returning to Vulcan within the hour, I would like to take my leave of you." Spock: "It was most kind of you to make this effort." Sarek: "It was no effort. You are my son." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sarek: "Besides, I am most impressed with your performance in this crisis." Spock: "Most kind." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sarek: "As I recall, I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet. It is possible that judgement was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character." Spock: "They are my friends." Sarek: "Yes, of course." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sarek: "Do you have a message for your mother?" Spock: "Yes. Tell her, 'I feel fine.'" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Spock: "Live long and prosper, father." Sarek: "Live long and prosper, my son." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% McCoy: "We'll get a freighter." Sulu: "With all respect, Doctor, I'm counting on Excelsior." Scott: "Excelsior? Why in god's name would you want *that* bucket of bolts?!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "A ship is a ship." Scott: "If you say so, sir. That it will be done." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Kirk: "My friends, we've come home." --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sulu: "Helm is ready, Captain." Kirk: "All right, Mister Sulu...let's see what she's got!" --"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390 %% Sybok: "I can't believe you'd kill me for a field of empty holes." Settler: "All I have." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "'You'll have a great time, Bones. You'll enjoy your shore leave. You'll be able to relax.' You call this relaxing? I'm a nervous wreck. If I'm not careful I'll wind up talking to myself." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Greetings, Captain. I have been monitoring your progress. I regret to inform you that the record for free climbing El Capitan is in no danger of being broken." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Uh, Captain. I do not think you realize the gravity of your situation." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Look. I'm trying to make an ascent here! Why don't you go pester Doctor McCoy for awhile." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "Goddamn, irresponsible! Playing games with life!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "I believe that Doctor McCoy...is not in the best of moods." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Concentration is vital. You must be one with the rock." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Perhaps, because it is there, is not sufficient reason for climbing the mountain." Kirk: "I'm hardly in a position to disagree." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Hi, Bones! Mind if we drop by for dinner?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Talbot: "Welcome to Paradise City, my dear, capital of the so-called 'Planet of Galactic Peace. I'm St. John Talbot, the Federation representative on Nimbus III. My charming companion here is the Klingon consul, Korrd." Korrd: [Belchs] Dar: "I expect that's Klingon for, 'Hello.'" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "U.S.S. Enterprise shakedown cruise report. I think this new ship was put together by monkeys! Oh, she's got a fine engine, but half the doors won't open and guess who's job it is to make it right." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "'Let's see what she's got!', said the captain. And then we found out, didn't we?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Chekov: "Admit it, we're lost." Sulu: "All right, we're lost! But we're making good time." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "Beans, Spock, but no ordinary beans. These are from an old Southern recipe handed down to me by my father. And if you stick your Vulcan nose up at these, you're not only insulting me, but generations of McCoys!" Spock: "In that case, I have little choice but to sample your beans." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Am I to understand that your secret ingredient is alcohol?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "With that Vulcan metabolism he could eat a bowl of termites and it wouldn't bother him." Spock: "As you are so fond of pointing out, Doctor, I'm half human." McCoy: "Well, it certainly doesn't show." Spock: "Thank you." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "You really piss me off, Jim! Human life is far too precious to risk on crazy stunts. Maybe it didn't cross that macho mind of yours, but you should've been *killed* when you fell off that mountain." Kirk: "It crossed my mind." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "I've always known. I'll die alone." McCoy: "Well, I'll call Valhalla and have them reserve a room for you!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "God, I liked him better before he died!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "I am well versed in the classics, Doctor." McCoy: "Then how come you don't know 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat'?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "You told me you could have this ship operational in two weeks. I gave you three! What happened?" Scott: "I think you gave me too much time." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "I could use a shower." Spock: [Pauses] "Yes." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "If you ask me and you haven't, I think this a terrible idea. We're bound to bump into the Klingons and they don't exactly like you." Kirk: "The feeling's mutual." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "I miss my old chair." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "He reminds me of someone I knew in my youth." McCoy: "Why Spock, I didn't know you had one." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Uhura: "Captain, we're receiving transmission from Paradise City. They're demanding to know our intentions." Kirk: "Respond with static. Let them think we're having difficulty...which wouldn't be far from the truth." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Uhura: "Howdy, boys." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Spock." Spock: "Yes, Captain?" Kirk: "Be one with the horse!" Spock: "Yes, Captain." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Sybok: "Don't you have anything to say to me?" Spock: "You are under arrest for seventeen violations of the Neutral Zone Treaty." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "Mister Chekov, I've lost the Bird Of Prey. She must've cloaked." Chekov: "Raise shields!" Scott: "But the shuttle!" Chekov: "Do it. Go to red alert." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Stand by to execute Emergency Landing Plan...B." Chekov: "What's Emergency Landing Plan B?" Scott: "I don't have a clue." Kirk: "B, as in Barricade!" Scott: "He can't be serious!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Sybok: "How often have you done this?" Sulu: "Actually it's my first attempt." Korrd: [Growls] Kirk: "He's good. Really!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Damn it Spock! God damn it!" Spock: "Captain, what I have done..." Kirk: "What you have done is betray every man on the ship!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "Stop it, Jim! Spock could no more kill his own brother than he could kill you. If you want to punish him for what he's done, why don't you throw him in the Brig?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Useless. Unwise." [...] Kirk: "You could've warned me!" McCoy: "He did, Jim." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "This is the new Brig, Captain. It is escape-proof." Kirk: "How do you know?" Spock: "The designers tested it using the most intelligent and resourceful person they could find. He failed to escape." Kirk: "This person...by any chance didn't have pointed ears and an unerring capacity for getting his shipmates into trouble, did he?" Spock: "He did have pointed ears." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "What are you standing around for? Do you not know a jailbreak when you see one?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "It's a long and dangerous climb." McCoy: "Some of us get off on long and dangerous climbs." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "There's nothing amazing about it. I know this ship like the back of my hand." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "All right, look at it this way. We'll get a good workout." McCoy: "Yeah! Or a heart attack!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "I believe I've found a faster way." McCoy: "You two go ahead. I'll wait for the next car." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "I'm afraid I overshot the mark by one level." McCoy: "Nobody's perfect." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Scott: "Maybe you could wait 'til I'm a wee bit stronger. I don't think I could take it in my present condition...or yours." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Sybok, you are my brother, but you do not know me. I am not the outcast boy you left behind those many years ago. Since that time, I have found myself and my place. I know who I am and I cannot go with you." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "I know what my weaknesses are. I don't need Sybok to take me on a tour of them!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Well, don't just stand there. God's a busy man." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Excuse me. I'd just like to ask a question...what does God need with a starship?" McCoy: "Jim, you don't ask the almighty for his I.D.!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "You've not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% McCoy: "I doubt any god who inflicts pain for his own pleasure." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Mister Scott...please tell me the transporter is working!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "I'm a Vulcan. I am incapable of lying." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Damn you, sir! You will try!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "So, it's me you want you Klingon bastards! What are you waiting for?!" --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "I thought I was going to die." Spock: "Not possible. You were never alone." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Spock: "Please, Captain. Not in front of the Klingons." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Klaa: "I..*apologize*." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Chekov: "She has wonderful muscles." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Kirk: "Cosmic thoughts, gentlemen?" McCoy: "I thought you said men like us don't have families." Kirk: "I was wrong." --"STV:TFF", Stardate 8454.1 %% Sulu: "Stardate 9521.6. Captain's Log, U.S.S. Excelsior, Hikaru Sulu commanding. After three years, I have concluded my first assignment as master of this vessel, cataloging gaseous planetary anomalies in Beta Quadrant. We are heading home under full impulse power. I am pleased to report that ship and crew have functioned well." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Sulu: "My...god!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Sulu: "An incident?!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Excelsior Communications Officer: "Do we report this, sir?" Sulu: "Are you kidding?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "What are we doing here?" McCoy: "Maybe they're throwing us a retirement party." Scott: "That suits me, I just bought a boat." Uhura: "This had better be good. I'm supposed to be chairing a seminar at the Academy." Chekov: "Captain, isn't this just for top brass?" McCoy: "If we're all here, where's Sulu?" Kirk: "*Captain* Sulu. On assignment. Where's Spock?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Chief In Command: "The Klingon Empire has roughly fifty years of life left to it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Cartwright: "I must protest. To offer the Klingons safe haven within Federation space is *suicide*." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Cartwright: "The opportunity here is to bring them to their knees. Then we'll be in a far better position to dictate terms." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "The Klingons have never been trustworthy. I'm forced to agree with Admiral Cartwright. This is a *terrifying* idea." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Chief In Command: "You, Captain Kirk, are to be our first olive branch." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "We have volunteered to rendevous with the Klingon vessel which is bringing Gorkon to Earth, and to escort him safely through Federation space." Kirk: "Me?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "I have personally vouched for you in this matter, Captain." Kirk: "You...have personally...vouched..." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Chief In Command: "If there is no further business, I wish you and your crew godspeed." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Cartwright: "I don't know whether to congratulate you or not, Jim." McCoy: "I wouldn't." --"STVI"TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "We volunteered?!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "There is an old Vulcan proverb, 'Only Nixon could go to China.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "How could you vouch for me? That's an arrogant presumption." Spock: "My father requested that I open nego--" Kirk: "I know your father is the Vulcan Ambassador for heaven's sake, but you know how I feel about them." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "They're animals!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "Jim, there's an historic opportunity here." Kirk: "Don't believe them! Don't trust them!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "They are dying." Kirk: "Let them die!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "Has it occured to you, that this crew is due to stand down in three months? We've done our bid for king and country. You should've trusted me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "Lieutenant, it is agreeable to see you again." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Spock: "The lieutenant was the first Vulcan to graduate at the top of her class at the Academy." Kirk: "You must be very proud." Valeris: "I don't believe so, sir." McCoy: "She's a Vulcan all right." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "Did you find the Engine Room?" Scott: "Right where I left it, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Valeris: "Aft thrusters." Kirk: "Thank you, Lieuteant, one-quarter impulse power." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Valeris: "Captain, may I remind you that regulations specify thrusters only while in Spacedock?" Uhura: ["Tsk, tsk."] Spock: [Clears throat] McCoy: "Jim..." Kirk: "You heard the order, Lieutenant." Valeris: "Aye, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9521.6 %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 9522.6 I've never trusted Klingons...and I never will. I can never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me that our mission to escort the Chancellor of the...Klingon High Council to a *peace mission*...is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion. Now, I'd like to believe him...but how on Earth can history get past people like me?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "You piloted well out of Spacedock, Lieutenant." Valeris: "I've always wanted to try that, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Spock: "You've done well, Valeris. As your sponsor at the Academny, I have followed your career with satisfaction. And as a Vulcan, you have exceeded my expectations." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Valeris: "I do not understand this representation." Spock: "It is a depiction from ancient Earth mythology. The expulsion from Paradise." Valeris: "Why keep it in your quarters?" Spock: "It is a reminder to me that all things end." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Valeris: "It is of endings that I wish to speak. Sir, I address you as a kindred intellect. Do you not recognize that a turning point has been reached in the affairs of the Federation?" Spock: "Hmm. History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant. You must have faith." Valeris: "Faith?" Spock: "That the universe will unfold as this ship." Valeris: "But if that is logical, surely we must--" Spock: "Logic, logic, logic... Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Spock: "This will be my final voyage on board this vessel as a member of her crew. Nature abhors a vacuum. I intend you to replace me." Valeris: "I can only succeed you, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chekov: "Shall we raise our shields, Captain?" Kirk: "Never been this close." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "This is the Starship Enterprise, Captain James T. Kirk commanding." Gorkon: "This is Kronos One. I am Chancellor Gorkon." Kirk: "Chancellor, we've been ordered to escort you through Federation space to your meeting on Earth." Gorkon: "Thank you, Captain." Kirk: "Would you and your party care to dine this evening aboard the Enterprise with my officers...as guests of the United Federation of Planets?" Gorkon: "We would be delighted to accept your gracious invitation." Kirk: "We'll make arrangements to have you beamed aboard at 19:00 hours." Gorkon: "I shall look forward to that." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "I hope you're happy." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Valeris: "Captain, there is a supply of Romulan ale aboard. It might make the evening pass more...smoothly?" Kirk: "Officer thinking, Lieutenant." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chekov: "Guess who's coming to dinner?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "My I present Captain Spock, whom I believe you know." Gorkon: "Captain, face to face at last. You have my thanks." Spock: "Chancellor." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chang: "I have so wanted to meet you, Captain." Kirk: "I'm not sure how to take that." Kerla: "Sincere admiration, Kirk." Chang: "From one warrior to another?" Kirk: "Right." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Burke: "They all look alike." Samno: "What about that smell? You know only top-of-the-line models can even talk--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Valeris: "You men have work." Burke and Samno: "Yes, ma'am." Valeris: "Then snap to it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Gorkon: "I offer a toast. 'The undiscovered country.' The future." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Spock: "_Hamlet_, Act III, Scene I." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Gorkon: "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read it in the original Klingon." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kerla: "Captain Kirk, I thought Romulan ale was illegal?" Kirk: "One of the advantages of being a thousand light years from Federation Headquarters." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% McCoy: "To you, Chancellor Gorkon. One of the architects of our future." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Scott: "Perhaps we are looking at something of that future...here?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chang: "Tell me, Captain Kirk, will you be willing...to give up Starfleet?" Spock: [Clears throat] "I believe the captain feels that Starfleet's mission has always been one of peace." Chang: "Ah." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "Far be it for me to dispute my first officer, but Starfleet has always been--" Chang: "Come now, Captain, there's no need to mince words. In space, all warriors are cold warriors." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Uhura: "Uh, General, are you fond of...Shake...speare?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chekov: "We do believe that all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights." Azetbur: "Inalien. If only you could hear yourselves. Human rights. Why the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a Homo-sapians-only club." Chang: "Present company excepted, of course." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kerla: "In any case, we know where this is leading. The annihilation of our culture." McCoy: "That's not true." Kerla: "No?!" McCoy: "No!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chang: "'To be or not to be?' That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk. We need breathing room." Kirk: "Earth, Hitler, 1938." Chang: "I beg your pardon?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Gorkon: "Well...I see we have a long way to go." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "We must do this again sometime." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Gorkon: "You don't trust me, do you?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Gorkon: "If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Chang: "Well, most kind. 'Parting is such sweet sorrow,' hmm?" [Laughs] "Captain? Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Scott: "Thank God." Uhura: "Did you see the way they *ate*?" Chekov: "Horrible table manners." Spock: "I doubt that our behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy." Kirk: "I'm going to sleep this off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight?" McCoy: "I'm going to find a pot of black coffee." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9522.6 %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 9523.8 The Enterprise hosted Chancellor Gorkon and company to dinner last night. Our manners weren't exactly Emily Post. A note to the Galley, Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Valeris, do you know anything about a radiation surge?" Valeris: "Sir?" Kirk: "Mister Chekov?" Chekov: "Only the size of my head." Kirk: "I know what you mean." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "What's happened?" Spock: "We have fired on the chancellor's ship." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Commander: "We are betrayed!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Have you not a shred a decency...in you, Kirk? We come in peace, and you *blatantly* defile that peace! And for that, I shall blow you out of the stars!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "We haven't fired." Spock: "Captain...according to our databanks we have...twice." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "Shields up, Captain?" Valeris: "Captain, our shields!" Chekov: "Shields up, Captain?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Signal our surrender." Uhura: "Captain?" Kirk: "We surrender!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Are we firing torpedoes?" Kirk: "I wish I knew." McCoy: "It sure looks like it." --"STVI:TUC", Starate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I'm going aboard. Spock, you have the Conn." Spock: "I am responsible for involving you in this, I will go." Kirk: "No, I'll go. You will be responsible for getting me out of this." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "We will not be the instigators of interstellar war on the eve of universal peace." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kerla: "Have you lost your mind?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "My god, what has happened here?" Chang: "You dare to feign ignorance?" Kirk: "What happened?" Chang: "With a direct torpedo hit, you crippled our entire gravitational field! And two of your...Starfleet crew beamed aboard wearing magnetic boots...and did this." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Aren't you carrying a surgeon?" Chang: "We were until this disgrace!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Oh, sweet Jesus!" Kirk: "Can you help him?" McCoy: "Jim, I don't even know his anatomy!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Gorkon: "Don't let it end this way." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Under Article Number 184 of your...Interstellar Law, I am placing you under arrest, for the charge of assassinating...the Chancellor of the High Council." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "We tried to save him." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "They've been arrested." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "We will be able to follow the captain's movements." Valeris: "How did you achieve this, sir?" Spock: "Time is precious, Lieutenant." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "We must endeavour to piece together what happened tonight. According to our databank, this ship fired those torpedoes." Scott: "No way!" Spock: "I sympathize, Mister Scott. But we need evidence. Please accompany me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "And if we cannot peice together what happened? What then, sir?" Spock: "In that case, Mister Chekov, it resides in the purview of the diplomats." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Ambassador: "The Chancellor of the High Council is *dead*! The result of an *unprovoked* attack, while he travelled to see *you* on a flag* of *truce* on a mission of *peace*! Captain Kirk was legally arrested for the crime. May I remind you that he and *Doctor McCoy* boarded Kronos One of their own free will? None of these facts are in dispute, Mister President." Federation President: "I have ordered a full-scale investigation. In the meantime..." Klingon Ambassador: "In the meantime, we expect the Federation to abdige by the Articles of *Interstellar Law* which you claim to cherish! Kirk and Doctor McCoy will stand trial for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Federation President: "Ambassador Sarek, there must be some way to extradite these men." Sarek: "Mister President, I share a matter of personal responsibility in this matter. But I am obliged to confirm my esteemed colleague's legal interpretation." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Federation President: "What is the position of the Romulan government, Ambassador Nanclus?" Nanclus: "I must concur with my colleagues." Federation President: "But you can't possibly believe that James Kirk assassinated the Chancellor of the High Council!" Nanclus: "Mister President, I don't know what to believe." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Ambassador: "I'm waiting for your answer, sir." Federation President: "This president is not above the law." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chief In Command: "Sir, would you take a look at this? Colonel West." West: "We've prepared Operation Retrieve, based on the rising danger of terrorism between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Sir...we can go in, rescue the hostages, and get out in twenty-four hours with an acceptable rate of loss in both manpower and equipment. We have the technology to--" Federation President: "Yes, yes. But suppose you precipitate a full-scale war?" West: "Then, quite frankly, Mister President, we can clean their chronometers." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Nanclus: "Mister President, they are vulnerable. There will never be a better time." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chief In Command: "Sir. Those men have literally saved this planet." Federation President: "Yes, Bill, I know that. And now they're going to save it again...by standing trial." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "Four-hundred years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes, called 'sabot', into the machines to stop them." Uhura and Chekov: [No comment] Valeris: "Hence the word...sabotage." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "We are experiencing technical malfunction. All backup systems inoperative." Chekov: "Excellent...I, I, I mean...too bad." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Azetbur: "We will not extradite the prisoners, and you will make no attempt to rescue them in a military operation. We would consider...any such attempt... an act of war." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kerla: "Attack them now, while we still can!" First Klingon General: "Attack or be slaves in their world." Second Klingon General: "We can take whole by force what they propose to divide." Azetbur: "War is obsolete, General...as we are in danger of becoming." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% First Klingon General: "Better to die on our feet than live on our knees!" Azetbur: "That wasn't what my father wanted." Chang: "Your father was killed for what he wanted." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Azetbur: "The peace process will go forward. Kirk...Kirk will pay for my father's death." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Scott: "It is as I said, Mister Scott, inventory registers every torpedo." Spock: "Yet the databanks insist we fired. One computer is lying." Scott: "A computer doesn't lie." Spock: "Precisely, Mister Scott. Therefore, we must inspect each torpedo, visually." Scott: "That could take hours!" Spock: "Nevertheless--" Scott: "And if they're all there?!" Spock: "Then someone forged an entry in the databanks." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "Gorkon's daughter has been named chancellor. It was on the news." Scott: "I bet that Klingon bitch killed her father!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Her own father?" Valeris: "It is an old story, sir." Scott: "They don't place the same value on life as we do, Spock. You know that. Take my word, she did not shed one bloody tear!" Spock: "Hardly conclusive, Mister Scott, since Klingons have no tear ducts." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Lieutenant, any response from Starfleet since our dispatch?" Valeris: "Yes, sir." Spock: "And?" Valeris: "Commander Uhura is experiencing technical difficulty, sir." Spock: "Curious." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Very well, for twenty-four hours, we will agree that this conversation did not take place." Valeris: "A lie?" Spock: "An omission." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Scott: "But in twenty-four hours, we won't have a clue where Captain Kirk is!" Spock: "I know precisely where he will be." Scott: "You do?! Where?!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chief In Command: "It's a damned show trial!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "The Enterprise fired on Kronos One without provocation, the chancellor and his advisors, having been lulled into a false sense of security, by an invitation to a state dinner aboard Captain Kirk's vessel, at precisely 19:30 hours that same evening." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Commander: "After the first shot we lost our gravitational field. I found myself weightless and unable to function. Then two Starfleet crewmen came walking towards me." Klingon Defense Attorney: "But perhaps they merely wore Starfleet uniforms." Chang: "That remark is purely speculative, I move that it be stricken." Klingon Judge: "Colonel Worf, we are interested in facts, not theories!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Defense Attorney: "If the gravitational field was not functioning, how could these men be walking?" Klingon Commander: "They appeared to be wearing magnetic boots." Spock: "Gravity boots." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Doctor McCoy, would you be so good as to tell me...what is your current medical status?" McCoy: "Aside from a touch of arthritis, I'd say pretty good." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "And you have a singular wit, Doctor." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "For twenty-seven years, I've been the ship's surgeon aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. In three months I stand down." Chang: "Ahh. You know, I believe that you consumed rather a generous amount of ...Romulan ale in the Officer's Mess on the night in question. Am I right, Doctor?" Klingon Defense Attorney: "Objection!" Klingon Judge: "Sustained." McCoy: "We all did! All of us! That doesn't mean--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Was Chancellor Gorkon...alive when you first examined him?" McCoy: "Barely." Chang: "Now be careful, Doctor, have you ever, in your past, saved...patients as barely alive as he?" McCoy: "I didn't have the medical knowledge I needed for Klingon anatomy." Chang: "I see." McCoy: "You were there!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "You say you are due for retirement! May I ask, do your hands shake?" Klingon Defense Attorney: "Objection!" McCoy: "I was nervous!" Chang: "No. You were incompetant. You were incompetant! Whether deliberately or as a result of age combined with drink! The court will have to determine." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "My God, man! I tried to save him! I tried to save him! I was desperate to save him! He was the last best hope in the universe for peace." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "There we have it, citizens. We have finally established the particulars of the crime. And now, we come to the architect of this tragic event...James ...*Tiberius*...Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "What would your favorite author say, 'Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.' Tell us your sad story, Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Tell us that you planned to take revenge for the death of your son." Kirk: "That's not true." Klingon Defense Attorney: "Objection! Captain Kirk has not been identified as the assassin!" Klingon Judge: "Sustained." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "I offer into the record this exerpt from the captain's personal log." Kirk: "I have never trusted Klingons...and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them...for the death of my boy." Chang: "*Again*! *Again*!" Kirk: "I have never trusted Klingons...and I never will. I have never been able to forgive them...for the death of my boy." Chang: "Were those your words?" Kirk: "Those words were spoken by me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingo Defense Attorney: "Objection! My client's political views on *not* on trial!" Chang: "On the contrary! Captain Kirk's views and motives are indeed...at the very *heart* of the matter! This officer's record shows him to be an insubordinate, unprincipled, career-minded *opportunist*, with a history of violating the chain of command whenever it suited him!" Klingon Judge: "Continue." Chang: "Indeed, the record shows, that Captain Kirk once held the rank of admiral! And that Admiral Kirk was demoted for taking matters into his own hands in defiance of the regulations of the law! Do you deny the motives of these charges?! Don't wait for the translation! Answer me now!" Kirk: "I cannot deny it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "You were demoted?" Kirk: "Yes." Chang: "For insubordiation?" Kirk: "On occasion, I have disobeyed orders." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "And were you obeying or disobeying orders...when you arranged the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon?" Kirk: "I didn't know about the assassination until we boarded the ship." Chang: "Do you still deny that you did not fire on Kronos One?" Klingon Defense Attorney: "Your Honors, *please*!" Chang: "And do you still deny your men beamed aboard and shot the chancellor?" Klingon Defense Attorney: "Objection!" Kirk: "I cannot confirm or deny actions I did not witness." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Captain Kirk, are you aware, that as the captain of a starship, you are required to be responsible for the actions of your crew?" Kirk: "I am." Chang: "And if it should be proved that members of your crew *did* in fact carry out such an assassination..." McCoy: "Jim, they're setting us up! Your Honors--" Klingon Defense Attorney: "Do not answer!" Klingon Judge: "Captain Kirk, you will answer the question!" Kirk: "As captain...I am responsible for the conduct of the crew under my command." Chang: "Your Honors, the State rests." --STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Sulu: "Send to commander, Enterprise...'We stand ready to assist you. Captain Sulu, U.S.S. Excelsior.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Judge: "It is the determination of this court that the prisoners are... *guilty* as charged." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Defense Attorney: "I wish to note for the record that the evidence against my clients is entirely circumstantial. I *beg* the court to consider this, when pronouncing its sentence." Klingon Judge: "So noted." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Judge: "Captain James T. Kirk, Doctor Leonard McCoy, in the interests of ...fostering amity, for the forthcoming peace talks, the sentence of death is ...commuted. It is the judgement of this court, that without possibility of repreive or parole, you be taken from this place, to the dilithium mines of the penal asteroid of Rura Penthe, there to spend the rest of your natural lives!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "Rura Penthe." Chekov: "Known throughout the galaxy as the Aliens' Graveyard." Scott: "Better to kill them now and get it over with." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "A Bird of Prey?" Spock: "A Bird of Prey." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Scott: "A Bird of Prey cannot fire when she's cloaked." Spock: "All things being equal, Mister Scott, I would agree. However, things are not equal. This one can." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "We must inform Starfleet Command." Scott: "Inform them of what? A new weapon, that is invisible? Raving lunatics, that's what they'll call us. They'll say that we're so desperate to exornerate the captain, that we'll say anything." Spock: "And they would be correct. We have no evidence. Only a theory, which happens to fit the facts." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "I do not understand. If there was a ship underneath us, surely the assassins beamed aboard from that wessel, not Enterprise." Spock: "You're forgetting something, Mister Chekov. According to our databanks, this ship fired those torpedoes. If we did, the killers are here. If we did not, whoever altered the databanks is here. In either case, what we are looking for, is here." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "What are we looking for, sir?" Spock: "Lieutenant..." Valeris: "Two pairs of gravity boots." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Commandant: "This is the gulag Rura Penthe! There is no stockade, no guard tower, no electronic frontier! Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming! Punishment means exile from the prison to the surface! On the surface, nothing can survive! Work *well*, and you will be treated *well*. Work *badly*, and you will die." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Oh my god." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Uh, the uh, Universal Translator was confiscated." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "He's definately on about something, Jim." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "If this is your spot, we'll move on." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "He wants your obediance to the Brotherhood of Aliens." Kirk: "He's got it!" Martia: "And your coat." Kirk: "I'm afraid not. Besides, it wouldn't fit him." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Thanks." Martia: "This will help keep you warm." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "I'm Martia. You're Kirk and McCoy, I presume?" Kirk: "How did you know that?" Martia: "We don't get many presidential assassins." Kirk: "We didn't kill Gorkon!" Martia: "Of course not." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "But there is a reward for your death." McCoy: "It figures." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "We've been set up all along." Martia: "Somebody up there wants you out of the way." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "Why not simply waperize them?" Valeris: "Like this? At ease. As you know, Commander Chekov, no one can fire an unauthorized phaser aboard a starship." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "Suppose when they returned, they threw the boots into the refuse?" Spock: "I'm having the refuse searched. If my surmise is correct, those boots will cling to the killers' necks like a pair of Tiberian bats." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "Did someone fire off a phaser?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Scott: "Who fired that--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Ahh, Mister Scott, I understand you're having difficulty with the warp drive. How much time do you require for repair?" Scott: "There's nothing wrong with the bloody things." Spock: "Mister Scott, if we return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear. And we will never see the captain or Doctor McCoy alive again." Scott: "Could take weeks, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "A lie?" Spock: "An error." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "You understand, we have lost all contact with the captain and Doctor McCoy." Spock: "Yes, at the moment, they're surrounded by a magnetic shield. However, if I know the captain, at this time, he is deep into planning his escape." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "You've got him where you want him!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "They'll respect you now." Kirk: "That's a comfort." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I was lucky that thing had knees." Martia: "That was not his knee." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Bones, why don't you see what you can do for him. Let him know we're not holding a grudge." McCoy: "Suppose he's holding a grudge?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Three months before retirement. What a way to finish." Kirk: "We're not finished." McCoy: "Huh? Speak for yourself. One day, one night, Kobayashi Maru." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Bones, are you afraid of the future?" McCoy: "I believe that was the general idea that I was trying to convey." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I don't mean this future." McCoy: "What is this? Multiple choice?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Some people are afraid...of what might happen. I was terrified." McCoy: "What terrified you, specifically?" Kirk: "No more Neutral Zone. I was used to hating Klingons. It never even occurred for me to take Gorkon at his word. Spock was right." McCoy: "Try not to be too hard on yourself, we all felt exactly the same." Kirk: "No. Somebody felt a lot worse. I'm beginning to understand why." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Well, you've got any bright ideas, now's the time." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Time's the problem. You and I are nothing. But you heard the judge, the peace conference is on again. Whoever killed Gorkon is bound to attempt another assassination. Unless we can get out of here--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "Kirk, it's me, Martia. Listen, no one has ever escaped from Rura Penthe." Kirk: "Except us." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "It is possible. I know how to get outside the shield." Kirk: "How do we fit in?" Martia: "Getting outside the shield is easy. But after that it's up to you to get us off the surface before we freeze. Can you?" Kirk: "It's possible." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "I can't make it alone. And you're the likeliest candidate to come in this hell-hole for months." Kirk: "Candidate for what?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "Don't disappoint me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "What is it with you anyway?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Think we're finished?" McCoy: "More than ever." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Excelsior Communications Officer: "Sorry to wake you, sir." Sulu: "What is it?" Excelsior Communications Officer: "Starfleet urgently requests any data we have on the whereabouts of Enterprise." Sulu: "What?" Excelsior Communications Officer: "Apparently, they're refusing to acknowledge signal to return to Spacedock." Sulu: "Signal Starfleet that...we have no idea location, Enterprise." Excelsior Communications Officer: "Sir?" Sulu: "You having hearing problems, Mister?" Excelsior Communcations Officer: "No, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "Now we go to Starfleet!" Spock: "Now we expand our search to include uniforms." Chekov: "All uniforms?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "I think we've been had." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "They don't take girls." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "You are Crewman Dax?" Dax: "Yes, Commander, what is the problem?" Chekov: "Perhaps you know...Russian epic of Cinderella. If shoe fits, wear it." Spock: "Uh, Mister Chekov..." [Points down] --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "What kind of creature is this? Last night, you two were--" Kirk: "Don't remind me." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "Come on, we don't have a lot of time!" --"STVI"TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Mister Scott, start your engines." Scott: "Aye-Aye, sir." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Mister Chekov, set course for Rura Penthe." Chekov: "Mister Spock, Rura Penthe is deep inside the Klingon frontier. If we're discovered..." Spock: "Quite correct, Mister Chekov. What is required now is a feat of linguistic legerdomain and a degree of intrepidity, before the captain and Doctor McCoy freeze to death." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Leave me! I'm finished!" Kirk: "No! Bones, I'm wearing a viridium patch on my back! Spock slapped it there just before we went on Gorkon's ship!" McCoy: "Why that cunning little Vulcan!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Now that we're outside the shield, they'll be able to locate us from two sectors away!" McCoy: "If they're even looking for us." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "We am thy freighter...Ursva, six weeks out of Kronos. Over." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "We is condemning food...things and...supplies." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Communications Officer: "Don't catch any bugs." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Would you mind explaining that little...trick you do?" Martia: "I'm a Chameloid." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I've heard about you. Shape-shifters. I thought you were mythical." Martia: "Give a girl a chance, Captain. It takes a lot of effort." McCoy: "I don't doubt it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Stop me if I'm wrong, but do we have any way of knowing whether this is the real you?" Martia: "I thought I would assume a pleasing shape." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Martia: "We're outside the shield. Now it's your turn, Captain." Kirk: "If you say so." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Ask her what she's getting." Martia: "A full pardon...which doesn't cover this." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "An accident wouldn't have been good enough. Come on, Spock." Martia: "Good enough for one. Two would have looked suspicous. Killed while..." "Kirk": "...attempting escape. Now that's convincing for both!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% "Kirk": "Surprise!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% "Kirk": "Your friends are late." Kirk: "They'll be along." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I can't believe I kissed you." "Kirk": "Must have been your lifelong ambition!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Isn't it about time you became something else?" "Kirk": "I like it here." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "What took you so long?" "Kirk": "Kill him, he's the one!" Kirk: "Not me, you idiot! HIM!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Commandant: "No witnesses." Kirk: "Killed while trying to escape." McCoy: "Damn clever, if you ask me." Kirk: "It's a classic." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Klingon Commandant: "That's what he wanted." Kirk: "Who? Who wanted us killed?" Klingon Commandant: "Since you're all going to die anyway, why not tell you. His name is--" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it all to hell! Out of all the... Son of a..." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Couldn't you have waited two seconds? Spock: "Captain?" Kirk: "He was about to explain the whole thing!" Chekov: "You want to go back?" McCoy: "Absolutely not!" Kirk: "It's cold!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Escaped." Second Klingon General: "Kirk cannot know the location of the peace conference." Chang: "Are you sure? Will you take that chance?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "First rule of assassination, kill the assassins." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Scott: "Now we're back to square one." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "It's possible." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "You have to shoot. If you are logical, you have to shoot." Valeris: "I do not want to." Spock: "What you want is irrelevant, what you've chosen is at hand!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I'd just assumed you didn't." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "The operation is over." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "I did not fire. You cannot prove anything." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "I tried to tell you but you would not listen." Spock: "Neither of us was hearing very well that night, Lieutenant. There were things I tried to tell you, about having faith." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "You have betrayed the Federation...all of you!" McCoy: "And what do you think you've been doing?" Valeris: "Saving Starfleet!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Valeris: "'Klingons cannot be trusted.' You said so yourself, they killed your son. Did you not wish Gorkon dead? 'Let them die,' you said. Did I misinterpret you? And you were right. They conspired with us to assassinate their own chancellor. How trustworthy can they be?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Names, Lieutenant." Valeris: "I do not remember." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "A lie?" Valeris: "A choice." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Spock..." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "She does not know." Chekov: "Then we're dead." Spock: "I've been dead before." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Sulu: "Standing by, Captain Kirk." Kirk: "Sulu! You realize that by even talking to us, you're violating the regulations." Sulu: "I'm sorry, Captain, your message is breaking up." Kirk: "Bless you, Sulu." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Where is the peace conference? They're going to attempt another assassination." Sulu: "The conference is at Camp Khitomer, near the Romulan border." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Thank you, Captain." Sulu: "Don't mention it, Captain Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "I prefer it dark." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Dining on ashes. You all right?" Spock: "It was an arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this situation. You and the doctor might have been killed." Kirk: "The night is young." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We're both at extremes. Reality is probably somewhere in between." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "I couldn't get past the death of my son." Spock: "I was prejudiced by her accomplishments as a Vulcan." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Gorkon had to die before I understood how prejudiced I was." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Is it possible...that we too, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible, that we have outlived our usefulness? Would that constitute a joke?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Don't crucify yourself, it wasn't your fault." Spock: "I was responsible." Kirk: "For no actions but your own." Spock: "That is not what you said at your trial." Kirk: "That was as captain of the ship. Human beings--" Spock: "But, Captain, we both know that I am not human." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Spock, you want to know something? Everybody's human." Spock: "I find that remark...insulting." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Come on, I need you." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Federation President: "Madame Chancellor, members of the diplomatic corps, honored guests...the United Federation Of Planets welcomes you to Camp Khitomer." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "He's out there, somewhere." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "But if he's cloaked..." Kirk: "Then all we have is a neutron radiation surge, and by the time we're close enough to record it, we're ashes." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Go to impulse power for Khitomer orbit." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Federation President: "Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we *can* do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we *must*." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "I can see you, Kirk." Kirk: "Chang!" Chang: "Can you see me?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Oh, now be honest, Captain. Warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you, as it was meant to be. No peace in our time. 'Once more onto the breach, dear friends.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Reverse thrusters, full astern, one-half impulse power! Back off, back off!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "What's he doing?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "Incoming!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Azetbur: "We are a proud race. And we ... intend to go on being proud." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "'Tickle us do we not laugh, prick us do we not bleed, wrong us...shall we not revenge.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Gas. Gas, Captain. Under impulse power she expends fuel like any other vessel. We call it 'plasma'. But whatever the Klingon designation is it is merely ionized gas." Uhura: "Well what about all that equipment we're carrying to catalog gaseous anomalies? Well the thing's got to have a tailpipe." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "Doctor, would you care to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?" McCoy: "'Fascinating.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Scott: "She's packing quite a wallop! Shields weakening!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Sulu: "Shield's up. All right, now let's give them something else to shoot at." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Ahh, 'the game's afoot,' hmm?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "Our revels now are ended, Kirk." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "'Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Bones, where's my torpedo?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "Don't you wish you'd stood in bed?" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chang: "'I'm as constant as the Northern Star!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "I'd give real money if he'd shut up!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "We've got a heartbeat!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "She's ready, Jim! Lock and load!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Fire!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Sulu: "Target the center of that explosion and fire." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Mister President! Mister President!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Kirk, Enterprise." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Cartwright: "Arrest those men." Spock: "Arrest yourself!" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "We've got a full confession." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Sulu: "Cartwright. Just a minute." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Azetbur: "What's happened? What's the meaning of this?" Kirk: "It's about the future, Madame Chancellor. Some people think the future means the end of history. They're wrong. We haven't run out of history quite yet." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Your father called the future, 'the undiscovered country.'" --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "People can be very frightened of change." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Azetbur: "You've restored my father's faith." Kirk: "And you've restored my son's." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Once again, we've saved civilization as we know it." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "The good news is they're not going to prosecute." Uhura: "They might as well have prosecuted me. I felt like Lieutenant Valeris." McCoy: "Well, they don't arrest people for having feelings." Chekov: "It's a good thing too. If they did, we'd all have to turn ourselves in." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Sulu: "Captain Kirk." Kirk: "Captain Sulu, as much to the crew of the Enterprise, I owe you my thanks." Sulu: "Nice to see you back one more time, Captain Kirk. Take care." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% McCoy: "My God, that's a big ship." Scott: "Not so big as her captain, I think." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "So, this is goodbye." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Uhura: "I have orders from Starfleet Command. We're to put back to Spacedock immediately...to be decommisioned." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Spock: "If I were human, I believe my response would be, 'Go to hell!'...If I were human." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Chekov: "Course heading, Captain?" Kirk: "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8 %% Kirk: "Captain's Log, Stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of a new generation. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man...where no one, has gone before." --"STVI:TUC", Stardate 9529.1 %% Picard: "Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Q: "Thou art notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Q: "Now go back or thou shalt most certainly die." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "And now a personal request, sir. Permission to clean up the bridge." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "I am a Klingon, sir. For me to seek escape while my captain goes to battle--" Picard: "You are a Starfleet officer, Lieutenant." Worf: "Aye, sir." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Transmit the following in all languages and in all frequencies...'We surrender.'" --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Q: "You will now answer the charge of being a grievously savage race." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Q: "The prisoners will not be harmed, until they are found guilty." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Lieutenant, do you intend to blast a hole through the viewer?" --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "You reacted fast, Lieutenant." Picard: "But futilely." Worf: "I will learn to do better, sir." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "We do exactly what we would do if this Q never existed. If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% McCoy: "Have you got some reason you want my atoms scattered all over space, boy?" --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% McCoy: "Hold it right there, boy! What about my age?" Data: "Sorry, sir. If that subject troubles you--" McCoy: "What's so damned troublesome about not having died?" --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% McCoy: "I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan." Data: "No, sir. I am an android." McCoy: "Almost as bad." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Data: "I thought it was generally accepted, sir, that Vulcans are an advanced and most honorable race." McCoy: "They are. And also damned annoying at times." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% McCoy: "This is a new ship, boy, but she's got the right name. Now you remember that, you hear?" Data: "I will, sir." McCoy: "You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Data: "I am superior, sir, in many ways. But I would gladly give it up, to be human." Riker: "Nice to meet you, Pinnochio." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Sorry, sir. I seem to be commenting on everything." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Let's hope they find you as tasty as they did their last associates." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "Just hoping this isn't the usual way our missions will go, sir." Picard: "Oh no, Number One, I'm sure most will be much more interesting. Let's see what's out there. Engage." --"Encounter At Farpoint", Stardate 41 %% Tsiolkovsky Crewmember: "Well, hello, Enterprise, welcome. I hope you have a lot of pretty boys on board, because I'm willing, and waiting. In fact, we're going to have a real blowout here." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Indications of what humans would call, a wild party?" --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "You were right, someone blew out the hatch. They were all sucked out into space." Data: "Correction, sir. That's, 'Blown out.'" Riker: "Thank you, Data." Data: "Common mistake, sir." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "If you were any more perfect, Data, I'd have to write you up in a Starfleet medical textbook." Data: "I am already listed in several biomechanical texts, Doctor." Crusher: "Yes, of course." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "This ought to be easy for someone written up in biomechanical texts." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% "Picard": "Attention all decks, all divisions. Effective immediately, I have handed over control of this vessel to Acting Captain Wesley Crusher." Picard: "Acting Captain?" Wesley: "Thank you, Captain Picard, thank you. And with that order dawns a brave new day for the Enterprise." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Data: "'There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a--'" --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "But I got out of my uniform for you, Data." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "You are fully functional, aren't you?" Data: "Of course, but--" Yar: "How fully?" Data: "In every way, of course. I am programmed in multiple techniques." Yar: "Oh, you jewel! That's exactly what I hoped." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Troi: "Wouldn't you rather be alone with me? With me in your mind?" --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "So you mean I'm drunk! I feel strange, but also good." Picard: "Because, because you have lost the capacity for self-judgement. Now alcohol does this, Wesley." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Ah, good, Data, at least you're functioning." Data: "Fully, Captain." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Data: "We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain. I have pores, humans have pores. I have fingerprints, humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me, do I not...leak?" --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Captain, can I see you in your ready room? It's a private matter. No, actually, it's an urgent one!" --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Right now I find you extremely, *extremely*...of course we haven't time for that sort of thing." Picard: "What sort of thing?" Crusher: "Oh, *god*, would I love to show you." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Captain, my *dear* Captain. You owe me something, you do realize that, don't you? I'm a woman. I haven't had the comfort of a husband, a man." Picard: "Not now, Doctor, please." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Worf, you know what to do. Take us...uh--" Riker: "Take us out of there." Picard: "Right." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "It was an adult who did it!" --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "Data, we have eight or nine minutes at most. Can you finish by then?" Data: "No, this will take slightly more time than we have, sir." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "It's only fair to mention Wesley in a log entry, sir." Picard: "Fair is fair. And let's credit his science teacher too." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Data, I'm only going to tell you this just once. It never happened." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "I put it to you all. I think we shall end up with a fine crew, if we avoid temptation." --"The Naked Now", Stardate 41 %% Lutan: "Your skill impresses me. I like you." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Damn. Where are the callouses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings?" Picard: "Perhaps the good ones never get them." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "But I warn you, if you get hurt, I'll put you on report, Captain." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Have you treated well, Lieutenant?" Yar: "Fine, Captain, but they're showing some signs of wear." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Lutan: "What do you know of wants and feelings?" Picard: "Nothing. Well, almost nothing." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "Shaving is a human art form, Data. Technological perfection can shave too close." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Most interesting. Could this be Human Joke Number Six-Hundred and Sixty- Three?" Riker: "Negative, Data. That's a captain's order." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "I'm sorry, this is becoming a speech." Troi: "You're the captain, sir. You're entitled." --"Code Of Honor", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Data, you're circling the room like a buzzard." --"Haven", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing." --"Haven", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "Is Mister Kosinski what he seems? A joke?" Traveler: "No. It's too cruel." --"Where No One Has Gone Before", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Are you telling me that's a pussycat?" Worf: "Yes, I suppose you could call it that." --"Where No One Has Gone Before", Stardate 41 %% Traveler: "Up until now, you have been...uninteresting. It's only now that your lifeform begins to merit serious attention." --"Where No One Has Gone Before", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "Shall I call for Doctor Crusher, sir?" Picard: "Why, is someone ill?" --"Where No One Has Gone Before", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Possibility, a malfunction in their engines, sir?" LaForge: "Breaks my heart." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Yankee traders, I like the sound of that." Riker: "Well, sir, I doubt they wear red, white, and blue, or look anything like Uncle Sam." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "I say, 'Fight,' sir. There's nothing shameful in falling to a superior enemy." Picard: "And nothing shameful in a strategic retreat either." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Merde." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "I say put all available power into a full-out combined phaser and photon torpedo salvo. Destroy their ability to sustain this forcefield, sir." Worf: "Yes! Hit them hard and hit them fast." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Apologies, Captain. I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am stuck." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "My hero." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "What do you make of these?" Data: "Crystalline, mostly inert. Nothing to write home about." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Letek: "You work with your females, arm them, and force them to wear clothing." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "He has the right to meet death awake." Crusher: "Is that a male perspective?" Picard: "Rubbish." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Ferengi: "And they shamelessly clothe their females, inviting others to unclothe them. The very depth of perversion." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Not a moment too soon Jean-Luc, I mean, Captain." --"The Last Outpost", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Klingons are so unusual in their reactions, aren't they?" --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% Celle Delegate: "Sorry, wrong species." --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Elementary my dear, Riker, sir." --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Indubitably, sir. Indubitably." --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Captain Picard, you are now relieved of duty. I judge you to be disabled, mentally incapacitated--" --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "What the devil am I doing here?" Riker: "Sounds like our captain." --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Security Team Two reports they've discovered a puddle of blood outside the Celle quarters, and they can't find one of the delegates." Riker: "Lieutenant, this couldn't have waited a moment?" Yar: [To Picard] "It's good to see you, sir." [To Riker] "The problem is that one of the cooks has just been asked to broil reptile for the Anticans, and it looks like the Celle delegate." --"Lonely Among Us", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "They make love at the drop of a hat." Yar: "Any hat." --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Nice planet." --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Rivan: "Shall we go there now or remain and play?" Riker: "Play?" Rivan: "At love. Unless you don't enjoy that." --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Edo Girl: "I want to do something too, with you." Wesley: "Uh, what?" Edo Girl: "It's something you can teach me. Will you?" Wesley: "Uh, well, actually, there are some games I don't quite know yet." --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "I am not concerned with pleasure, Commander. I am a warrior." Riker: "Even Klingons need love now and then." Worf: "For what we would consider love, sir, I would need a Klingon woman." Riker: "What about plain old basic sex? You must have some need for that." Worf: "Of course, but with the females available to me, sir, Earth females, I must restrain myself too much. They are quite fragile, sir." Riker: "Worf, if anyone else had said that, I'd suspect he was bragging." Worf: "Bragging, sir?" --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Troi: "Sharing an orbit with a god is no small experience." --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Would you choose one life over a thousand?" Picard: "I refuse to let arithmetic decide questions like that." --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions." Riker: "When has justice been as simple as a rulebook?" --"Justice", Stardate 41 %% Ferengi: "As you humans say, 'I'm all ears!'" --"The Battle", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "Adults." --"The Battle", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "I hope you're right, Data." Data: "No question of it, sir." --"The Battle", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "There never is [profit] in revenge. Let the dead rest, and the past... remain the past." --"The Battle", Stardate 41 %% Q: "Oh, your species is always suffering and dying." --"Hide And Q", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "No. Lieutenant Worf, you will make no move against him unless I order it." Q: "Pity, you might have learned an interesting lesson Macrohead, with a microbrain." --"Hide And Q", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "What in the hell am I doing, crying? It is so frustrating to be controlled like this." Picard: "Don't worry, there's a new ship's standing order on the bridge. When one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted." --"Hide And Q", Stardate 41 %% Q: "Will you stop interrupting me? I mean, this is hardly a time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe." --"Hide And Q", Stardate 41 %% Q: "Let us pray for understanding and for compassion." Picard: "Let us do no such damn thing." --"Hide And Q", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "Worf, is this your idea of sex?" Worf: "This is sex, but I have no place for it in my life now." Q: "No place Microbrain? What possesses you?" --"Hide And Q", Stardate 41 %% Troi: "You spell 'knife' with a 'k.'" Picard: "I spell 'knife' with an 'n,' but then I never could spell." --"The Big Goodbye", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "Teenage mating rituals?" --"The Big Goodbye", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "If I leave town, the town leaves with me." --"The Big Goodbye", Stardate 41 %% Redblock: "Senseless killing is immoral. But killing for a purpose, can quite often be ingenious." --"The Big Goodbye", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "It was a nice place to visit, Number One, but I wouldn't want to die there." --"The Big Goodbye", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Mister LaForge...schtep on it." --"The Big Goodbye", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "And these small projections?" Data: "An android alarm clock. Is that amusing?" --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Data: "If you had an off switch, Doctor, would you not keep it a secret?" Crusher: "I guess I would." --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Lore: "Lesson Number One in becoming more human. You must observe all human customs." --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Lore: "I have more than I ever dreamed possible, brother..." --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "Now I call that communicating." --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Shut up, Wesley!" --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "Shut up, Wesley!" --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "I heard you know how to turn him on." Wesley: "This is serious, Wes!" --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "So just tell me to, 'Shut up, Wesley,' and I will." --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Data: "How sad, dear brother, you make me wish I were an only child." --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Lore: "The troublesome little man-child. Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?" --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Lore: "Back off or I'll turn your little man into a torch! I promise him exquisite pain!" --"Datalore", Stardate 41 %% Ramsey: "What do you think you're rescuing me from? My shipmates and I have all taken wives. A few even have children. You can't rescue a man froma place that he calls his home." --"Angel One", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Klingons appreciate strong women." --"Angel One", Stardate 41 %% Data: "How does stimulation of the olfactory nerves affect the enjoyment of sex?" --"Angel One", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "I think I may sneeze." LaForge: "A Klingon sneeze?" Worf: "Only kind I know." --"Angel One", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "Make it so." --"Angel One", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "No power in the universe can hope to stop the force of evolution. Be warned. The execution of Mister Ramsey and his followers may elevate them to the status of martyrs. Martyrs cannot be silenced." --"Angel One", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "If winning is not important, then Commander, why keep score?" --"11001001", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "I think he's pulling your leg. Believe it or not, Worf is developing a sense of humor." Riker: "I hope so, for their sake." --"11001001", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin-joint like this?" --"11001001", Stardate 41 %% Computer: "Recognized Picard, Jean-Luc, Captain. Recognized Riker, William T., Commander." Picard: "Set auto-destruct sequence." Computer: "Does the first officer concur?" Riker: "Set auto-destruct, now." Computer: "Auto-destruct will detonate in four minutes and fifty-nine seconds." --"11001001", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Cancel auto-destruct." Computer: "Does the first officer agree?" Riker: "Affirmative." Computer: "Auto-destruct cancelled." --"11001001", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "You're a man obsessed with what he does. Who knows what an obsessed man would do to keep going? Kill perhaps?" Mandl: "I create life! I don't take it!" --"Home Soil", Stardate 41 %% Lifeform: "Ugly Bags Of Mostly Water we try at peace, you do not listen. Boy In Dome On Sand Of Home, we kill." --"Home Soil", Stardate 41 %% Beverly: "Our children are not for sale." --"When The Bough Breaks", Stardate 41 %% Mirren: "It's a good thing you're cute, Wesley, or you could really be obnoxious." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "Did you hear what she said, Mordock? She said I was cute." Mordock: "Is that good, Wesley?" Wesley: "Yes, I think." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Only fools have no fear." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Rondon: "How dare you! I am Rondon! You despicable Melonoid slime worm! Liar!" --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Wesley: "Do you want this to become violent?!" --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Data: "There is nothing wrong with Captain Picard or with the ship's logs. Therefore, there must be something wrong with your original assumption." Remmick: "That is not acceptable, Mister Data." Data: "Acceptable or not, sir, it is the truth." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Remmick: "You don't like me very much, do you?" Worf: "Is it required...sir?" --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Crusher: "My personal feelings about Captain Picard are irrelevant to this investigation, and none of your business." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Quinn: "Maybe I have been playing politics too long. Perhaps I see conspiracies ...everywhere." --"Coming Of Age", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Why do you mock me? Why do you wish to anger me?" Korris: "Only to see if it is still possible." --"Heart Of Glory", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Cowards take hostages. Klingons do not." --"Heart Of Glory", Stardate 41 %% Korris: "Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar. Open your eyes and let the dream take flight." --"Heart Of Glory", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "You look for the battles in the wrong place. The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within." --"Heart Of Glory", Stardate 41 %% K'Nera: "How did they die?" Worf: "They died well." --"Heart Of Glory", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "I was just being polite, sir." --"Heart Of Glory", Stardate 41 %% Troi: "What happened to all the people?" Worf: "War?" Data: "Disease?" LaForge: "A dissatisfied customer?" --"The Arsenal Of Freedom", Stardate 41 %% Peddler: "Peace through superior firepower." --"The Arsenal Of Freedom", Stardate 41 %% "Rice": "Tell me about your ship, Riker. It's the Enterprise,isn't it?" Riker: "No, the name of my ship is the 'Lollipop'." "Rice": "I have no knowledge of that ship." Riker: "It's just been commissioned. It's a good ship." --"The Arsenal Of Freedom", Stardate 41 %% Peddler: "Impressive demonstration, isn't it?" Picard: "Demonstration? It tried to kill us." --"The Arsenal Of Freedom", Stardate 41 %% LaForge: "It's great to hear your voice, Captain. We're a little busy right now. I'll get right back to you." --"The Arsenal Of Freedom", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Mister LaForge, when I left this ship it was in one piece. I would appreciate your returning it to me in the same condition." --"The Arsenal Of Freedom", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "What do you want?" Armus: "Maybe I want nothing." Riker: "Then you would have killed all of us." Armus: "I still might." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Riker: "Data...Data something's got me!" --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Armus: "Touch him, and he dies." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Data: "I would guess that death is no longer sufficient to alleviate its boredom, therefore Commander Riker is alive." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Data: "You are capable of great sadism and cruelty. Interesting, no redeeming qualities." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Armus: "I do not serve things evil, I am evil." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our friends, our dignity, instead of defying you." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Hello, my friends. You are here now watching this image of me because I have died. It probably happened while I was on duty, and quickly, which is what I expected. Never forget I died doing exactly what I wanted to do. What I want you to know is how much I loved my life, and those of you who shared it with me. You are my family, you all know where I came from and what my life was like before. But Starfleet took that frightened, angry young girl and tempered her. I have been blessed with your friendship, and your love." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Ah, Worf. We are so much alike, you and I. Both warriors, orphans who found ourselves this family. I hope I met death with my eyes wide open." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "My friend Data, you see things with the wonder of a child. And that makes you more human than any of us." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Captain Jean-Luc Picard, I wish I could say you've been like a father to me, but I've never had one so I don't know what it feels like. But if there was one person in this universe who I would choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it's you. You who have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet. So you'll understand when I say, 'Death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others', which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes, just good memories. Hailing frequencies closed, sir." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Au revoir, Natasha." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Sir, the purpose of this gathering, confuses me." Picard: "Oh? How so?" Data: "I find my thoughts are not for Tasha, but for myself. I keep thinking, how empty it will be without her presence. Did I miss the point?" Picard: "No...no you didn't Data. You got it." --"Skin Of Evil", Stardate 41 %% Yar: "Behave yourselves, gentlemen." --"Symbiosis", Stardate 41 %% Data: "Voluntary addiction to drugs is a recurring theme in many cultures." --"Symbiosis", Stardate 41 %% Janice: "Thank you for Paris." --"Symbiosis", Stardate 41 %% Worf: "Swimming is too much like...*bathing*." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Starfleet's finest. Fancy meeting you here." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Tau Ceti III. It was a bar...rather an exotic one, as I remember. What do I win?" --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Rixx: "And watch your back...Picard." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Friendship must dare to risk, Counselor, or it is not friendship." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Data: "That was not a request, I was simply...talking to myself. A human idiosyncrasy, triggered by a fascination with a particular set of facts, or sometimes brought about by senility, or used as a means of weighing information before means of weighing information before reaching a conclusion, or as a--" Computer: "Thank you, sir, I comprehend." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Mister LaForge, ahead warp six." LaForge: "Aye, sir, full impulse." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Quinn: "Do Klingons fear death as much as humans? I could snap your neck in a second, but it wouldn't be as much fun." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Remmick: "We seek peaceful coexistence!" --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Data: "I believe it was a beacon." Picard: "A beacon?" Data: "Yes, sir. A homing beacon, sent from Earth." --"Conspiracy", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Welcome to the twenty-fourth century." --"The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41 %% Clemens: "Well, we won't be inviting these Romulans to our party, will we?" Data: "No. That would not be...appropriate." --"The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41 %% T-Bok: "Silence your dog, Captain." --"The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41 %% T-Bok: "Matters more urgent caused our absence. Now witness the result. Outposts destroyed, expansion of the Federation everywhere. Yes, we have indeed been negligent, Captain, but no more." --"The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41 %% T-Bok: "Do you understand my meaning, captain? We...are back." --"The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "There's still much to do, still so much to learn." --Picard, "The Neutral Zone", Stardate 41 %% Picard: "Counselor Troi is pregnant." Riker: "A baby? This is a surprise." Troi: "Especially to me." --"The Child", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "I hate to be indiscreet, but who's the father?" --"The Child", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "At ease, Lieutenant!" --"Where Silence Has Lease", Stardate 42 %% LaForge: "Sure is a damn ugly nothing." --"Where Silence Has Lease", Stardate 42 %% Nagilum: "To understand death, I must amass information on every aspect of it. The experiments shouldn't take more than a third of your crew, maybe half." --"Where Silence Has Lease", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Yes, absolutely, I do indeed concur wholeheartedly!" --"Where Silence Has Lease", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Ensign, if you encounter any holes...steer clear." --"Where Silence Has Lease", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "Thank you for the tea and crumpets. I'll be on my way." --"Elementary, Dear Data", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "And lower main shields." Riker: "Lower the shields...why, sir?" Picard: "In case we decide to surrender to them, Number One." --"The Outrageous Okana", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Take my Worf, please." --"The Outrageous Okana", Stardate 42 %% Scholar: "And you don't resent it? The V.I.S.O.R. or being blind?" LaForge: "Since they are both part of me and I really like who I am, why should I resent them?" --"Loud As A Whisper", Stardate 42 %% Riva: "The real secret is turning a disadvantage into an advantage." --"Loud As A Whisper", Stardate 42 %% Kareen: "Are you a Romulan?" Worf: [Growls] "Hardly." --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% Graves: "I'll tell you a little secret, sonny. I don't really believe I will be dying. I believe I've learned how to transfer my great intellect into the machine, thus cheating the Grim Reaper of his greatest prize." --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% "Data": "Just look at that face. The face of a thinker...a warrior...a man for all seasons. Yet, Ira Graves was not perfect. Perhaps his greatest flaw was that he was too selfless. He simply cared too much about his fellow man, with nary a thought to himself. A man of limitless accomplishments and unbridled modesty. I can safely say that to know Ira Graves was to love him. And to love him was to know him. Those who knew him...loved him. While those who did not know him...loved him from afar--" --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "What were your impressions of Doctor Graves?" Selar: "He seemed brilliant, egocentric, arrogant, chauvinistic." --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Why am I lying on the floor, in this undignified position, with the four of you standing over me, displaying expressions of--" --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% Data: "I hope I did not do anything unbecoming a Starfleet officer." Riker: "Does wrestling a Klingon targ ring a bell?" --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Did I win?" --"The Schizoid Man", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Natural causes? What in nature could cause that?" --"Unnatural Selection", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "Commander Data has a way with computers." --"Unnatural Selection", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "As androids go, you're in a class by yourself." --"Unnatural Selection", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "It's my understanding that one of the duties of the first officer on a Klingon ship is to assassinate the captain." Worf: "Yes, sir. When and if the captain becomes weak and unable to perform, it is expected that his honorable retirement should be assisted byt his first. The second officer would assassinate you for the same reasons." Riker: "This method of attrition could take a little getting used to." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Sentimental, Lieutenant?" Worf: "Efficiency, Commander." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Kargon: "I know I can count on every Klingon warrior in this crew to serve and die in battle. So I ask, Commander Riker, where are your loyalties?" Riker: "I have been assigned here to serve this ship and to obey your orders. I will do exactly that." Kargon: "Will you take oath to that effect?" Riker: "I just did." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "You have a problem?" Klag: "Yes, sir. I...don't believe you." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Mendon: "Didn't mean to offend you." Worf: "You didn't...yet." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Ensign Mendon, you may impress *me*." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Klag: "Perhaps we could get one of the females to breast-feed you." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Klag: "They are inquisitive. They want to know how you would endure." Riker: "Endure what?" Klag: "Them." Riker: [Pause] "One, or both?" --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Vekma: "I may be back for you." Riker: [To Klag] "Is she serious?" --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "And I will instruct you on Enterprise etiquette." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Klag: "He may be a spy, but he is not a coward." Kargon: "That only proves he's intelligent." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Kargon: "To be ordered to die is an expectation for any officer at any time." Klag: "For a Klingon perhaps, but Riker's people do not volunteer for death so easily." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Kargon: "You will die like a Klingon." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Stay where you are, Klag! I've relieved Captain Kargon. He was acting in an irrational manner. I'm your captain now." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "This is Captain William Riker of the Klingon vessel Pagh. I order you to lower your shields and surrender." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Klag: "You understand the Klingons better than I thought." Riker: "Thank you, my friend." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "I learned quite a bit." Picard: "Apparently not when to duck." Riker: "When *not* to duck would be more accurate." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "You come from a very brave and unique race. I'm glad you're here on the Enterprise." Worf: "Thank you, Commander. And welcome home." --"A Matter Of Honor", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Phillipa Louvois, and back in uniform. It's been almost ten years, but seeing you again like this...makes it seem like fifty. Do you know what I'd like to do if there weren't so many people around?" Louvois: "Break a chair across my teeth?" Picard: "After that." Louvois: "Oh, ain't love grand?" --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Louvois: "It brings a sense of order and stability to my universe to know you're still a pompous ass...and a damn sexy man." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Louvois: "All this passion over a machine?" --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Louvois: "Data is a toaster." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Wesley: "Data, you're supposed to rip the paper off." Data: "With the application of a little care, Wes, the paper can be utilized again." Troi: "Data, you're missing the point." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Data: "I would prefer not to answer that question." Picard: "Under the circumstances, I don't think Tasha would mind." Data: "She was special to me, sir. We were...intimate." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Data is a physical representation of a dream, an idea conceived by the mind of a man. His purpose? To serve human needs and interests. He is a collection of neural nets and heuristic algorithms. His responses are dictated by an elaborate software program written by a man. The hardware was built by a man. And a man will turn him off." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Pinocchio is broken...his strings have been cut." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Guinan: "There have always been disposable creatures." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well *there* it sits!" --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Louvois: "It is the judgement of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "You are a wise man, my friend." Data: "Not yet, sir. But with your help, I am learning." --"The Measure Of A Man", Stardate 42 %% Salia: "That's a superconducting magnet, isn't it?" --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "I don't know if she'll have time for you, Wes. She's destined to rule an entire world." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Do not be fooled by her looks. The body is just a shell." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% LaForge: "I suppose it had to happen. It usually does at about this age." Wesley: "What does?" LaForge: "Glands, erupting with hormones." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "That is how a Klingon lures a mate." Wesley: "Are you telling me to yell at Salia?" Worf: "No, no, no. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects. And claw at you." Wesley: "What does the man do?" Worf: "He reads love poetry. He ducks a lot." Wesley: "Worf, it sounds like it works great for the Klingons, but...I need to try something a little less...dangerous?" Worf: "Go to her door, beg like a human." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Data: "It should be that simple, Wesley. Judging my her appearance, it is likely you and Salia are biologically compatible. Of course, there could be a difference in the histocompatibility complex in the cell membrane, but--" Wesley: "Data, I want to meet her, not dissect her." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Now, the first words out of your mouth are the most important. You may want to start with something like this here." [To Guinan] "You are the most beautiful woman in the galaxy." [To Wesley] "But that might not work." Guinan: "Yes! Yes, it would." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "You don't know how long I've wanted to tell you that." Guinan: "But you were afraid." Riker: "Yes." Guinan: "Of me?" Riker: "Of us. Of what we might become." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Or that you might think it was a lie." Guinan: "Maybe I do think it's a lie." Riker: "Then you think I'm not sincere." Guinan: "I didn't say that. There's nothing wrong with a lie. It's like knocking at the door." Riker: "Then you're inviting me in?" Guinan: "I'm not sending you away." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "That's more than I expected." Guinan: "Is it as much as you hoped?" Riker: "To hope is to recognize the possibility. I had only dreams." Guinan: "Dreams can be dangerous." Riker: "Not these dreams. I dream of a galaxy where your eyes are the stars, and the universe worships the night." Guinan: "Careful! Putting me on a pedestal so high, you might not be able to reach me." Riker: "Then I'll learn how to fly. You are the heart of my day, and the soul of my night." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Guinan: "Shut up kid." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Guinan: "Now, tell me more about...my eyes?" --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Anya: "I cannot rely on your primitive technology. Kill the patient." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Guinan: "Just because a girl runs out doesn't mean she doesn't want you to follow." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Wesley: "A taste to remember me by." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Wesley: "I'm never going to feel this way about anyone else." Guinan: "You're right." Wesley: "I didn't expect you to say that." Guinan: "Oh, there will be others. But the next time you feel love will be different. Each time is different." Wesley: "Knowing that doesn't make it any easier." Guinan: "It isn't supposed to." --"The Dauphin", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Welcome to the bridge, Mister LaForge." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Fate...protects fools, children, and ships named Enterprise." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Data: "This is yet another example of how our actions produce random results." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Data: "That was not manual override." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "If it becomes necessary to fight, could you locate me some rocks to throw at them?" --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Troi: "In another time and place this could be funny." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "The victors invariably write the history to their own advantage." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Blue...blue...blue." Picard: "I hope that isn't a stutter." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "So how's it been here, Number One? Some old routine job?" --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Now I see why you want to handle all the away teams, Number One. That's where all the excitement is." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "It's a time-honored way of practicing medicine. With your head, and your heart, and your hands." --"Contagion", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "What a horrible way to die." --"The Royale", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "I'm a doctor, not a magician." --"The Royale", Stardate 42 %% Mickey D.: "No woman is worth dying for. Killing for, but not dying for." --"The Royale", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Baby needs a new pair of shoes." --"The Royale", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "You're telling me that I should just sit down, shut up, and wait." Riker: "Well, I wouldn't have put it quite like that." --"Time Squared", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Release him." Pulaski: "Do you know what you're doing?" Picard: "No. Release him." --"Time Squared", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "A lot of questions, Number One. Damned few answers." Riker: "Perhaps none of it was real at all, sir." Picard: "Hmm, maybe. Well...they say that if you travel far enough you will eventually meet yourself. Having experienced that, Number One...it's not something I would care to repeat." --"Time Squared", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "With all due respect, *be gone*...sir." --"The Icarus Factor", Stardate 42 %% Data: "It appears Lieutenant Worf is quite adamant about his solitude." --"The Icarus Factor", Stardate 42 %% Data: "If I were not a professional, and an android, I would be insulted." --"The Icarus Factor", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "There really is no substitute for holding the reins." --"The Icarus Factor", Stardate 42 %% Kyle: "You know, it's really a shame there's no ambo-jitsu ring nearby, because you really need to be put in your place." --"The Icarus Factor", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "I'm just glad humans have progressed beyond the need for such barbaric displays." Troi: "Have they? Commander Riker and his father are about to engage in a barbarism of their own." --"The Icarus Factor", Stardate 42 %% LaForge: "So what are you saying? That the Dremans are fated to die?" Riker: "It's something that needs to be considered." LaForge: "Well consider it considered and rejected." --"Pen Pals", Stardate 42 %% Sarjenka: "Data! Data! Where are you? Why won't you answer? Are you angry with me? Please...please...I'm so afraid! Don't leave me." Picard: "Wait. Oh, Data. That whisper in the darkness has become a plea. We cannot turn our backs." --"Pen Pals", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "In for a penny, in for a pound, is that what you're saying, Mister Data?" --"Pen Pals", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Oops." --"Pen Pals", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "O'Brien, take a nap. You didn't see *any* of this, you're not involved." O'Brien: "Right, sir. If you need me, I'll be here in the corner, dozing off." --"Pen Pals", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "You promised that you would never trouble my ship again." Q: "I always keep my agreements, sir. Look...we're nowhere *near* your vessel." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "Ah, the redoubtable Commander Riker...and Microbrain! Growl for me...let me know you still care." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "I add a little spice, a little excitement to your lives, and all you do is complain!" --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "It's not safe out here! It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "Why? Why, to give you a taste of your future...a preview of things to come. Con permiso, capitan? The hall's been rented, the orchestra engaged...it's time to see if you can *dance*." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "We'll just have to see how ready you are!" Guinan: "Q, *no*!" --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "You can't outrun them. You can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains...they regenerate and keep coming. Eventually, you'll weaken. Your reserves will be gone. They are relentless." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "If we all die...here, now...you will not be able to gloat!" --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "You wanted to frighten us...we're frightened. You wanted to show us that we are inadequate...for the moment, I will grant that. You wanted me to say that I need you...I *need you*!" --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Q: "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Q might have done the right thing for the wrong reason. Perhaps we needed a good kick in our complacency to get us ready for what's ahead." --"Q Who", Stardate 42 %% Grebnedlog: "We are far from home. Our ship is the Mondor. It is broken. We look for things. Things that make us go. We need help." --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% LaForge: "Don't tell me, their rubber band broke, right?" --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Grebnedlog: "We look for things. Things that make us go." LaForge: "Yeah, so I've heard." --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Reginod: "He is smart. He can make us go. We need him." --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Grebnedlog: "We wish to be nothing if not persistent." --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Grebnedlog: "Do not try to trick us. We can tell." --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "I was no hero, but an undisciplined, opinionated, loud-mouthed young man who was far out of his league. It was a great and painful lesson, and I learned it well. I only hope you won't need to learn it as I did." --"Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Grebnedlog: "Your people are violent." --Grebnedlog, "Samaritan Snare", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Klingons do not faint." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Klingons do not give in to illness." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "How would Commander Riker feel if he had the measles?" Pulaski: "Pretty silly." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "Worf! You're a romantic!" Worf: "It is among the Klingons that love poetry achieves its fullest flower." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "This is my security chief, Lieutenant Worf." Danilo: "I don't suppose security is much of a problem for you." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Danilo: "What the hell was that thing?" Worf: "Automated fire system. A force field contains the flame until the remaining oxygen has been consumed." Danilo: "Ah. What if I'd been under that thing?" Worf: "You would have been standing in the fire." Danilo: "Yeah, well, leaving that aside for the moment, I mean what would have happened to me?" Worf: "You would have suffocated and died." Danilo: "Yeah, ah...sweet mercy." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Brenna: "What are you staring at? Have you never seen a woman before?" Riker: "I thought I had." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Sometimes, Number One, you just have to...bow to the absurd." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "That isn't necessary. The ship will clean itself." Brenna: "Well, good for the bloody ship." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Brenna: "William, is something wrong?" Riker: "What do you mean?" Brenna: "Do you not like girls?" Riker: "'Course I do." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Is there a special technique to this foot-washing?" Brenna: "You generally start at the top, and work your way down." Riker: "I think I can handle that." Brenna: "Mmm. I was hoping you might." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Danilo: "Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Madam, have you ever considered a career in security?" Brenna: "If it's anything like baby-sitting, I'm an authority." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "It's not a question of harm. One William Riker is...unique, perhaps even special. But a hundred a him...a thousand of him...diminishes me in ways I can't even imagine." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "We certainly have a right to exercise control over our own bodies." Pulaski: "You'll get no argument from me." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "It's a match made in heaven." Riker: "Unfortunately, it will have to be a shotgun wedding." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Granger: "For three-hundred years we have denied the carnal side of our nature. How can we learn to put that aside?" Danilo: "Eh, well, you...you put a young couple together...and...you let nature take its course." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "I must be out of my mind." Pulaski: "Starfleet would probably agree with you." --"Up The Long Ladder", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "What a handsome race." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Judging a being by its physical appearance is the last major human prejudice, Wesley." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Lwuxana: "Jean-Luc, what naughty thoughts, but how wonderful you still think of me like that." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Lwuxana: "Delegates? The last time I saw something like that, it was being served on a plate." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Lwuxana: "I wasn't aware you had such handsome legs." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Lwuxana: "You never assume anything where Lwuxana Troi is concerned. Betazoid women are full of surprises." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Troi: "It's only at mid-life that a Betazoid female becomes...well...fully sexual if you know what I mean." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Troi explained this to me when we first started to see each other. A Betazoid woman, when she goes through this phase...quadruples her sex drive." Troi: "Or more." Riker: "*Or more*? You never told me that." Troi: "I didn't want to frighten you." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Less substance, more ambience." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "I am not a man." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Well, troubles. We've got some, Captain. It seems that a certain woman both wealthy and beautiful now thinks that she's going to marry me." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Lwuxana: "Ah, well. I didn't find a mate, but I did save the conference as well as your reputations. All in a day's work, I suppose." --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Lwuxana: "Jean-Luc! Shame on you for thinking such a thing!" --"Manhunt", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "Looks like it's just us, handsome." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "The Iceman wins again!" --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "You took my last chip, you could at least smile, Worf." LaForge: "Smiling would break his concentration." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Your deal." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% LaForge: "You were bluffing." Worf: "Klingons never bluff." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Klingons are not supposed to mind hardships. Nonetheless, I am delighted to be out of that damned coffin." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Whoever said getting there was half the fun never rode in a Class VIII probe." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Worf, so this is where you've been hiding. I told you we'd meet again. Aren't you going to greet me?" Worf: "I have nothing to say to you." K'Ehleyr: "Haven't changed a bit, hmm? Well, I missed you too." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Sir, I suggest Commander Riker or Data would better serve Special Emissary K'Ehleyr." Picard: "Are there any personal reasons that you don't want the assignment?" Worf: "Yes." Picard: "Any professional reasons?" Worf: "No. I withdraw my request, Captain." Picard: "Good." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "You are late." K'Ehleyr: "Sorry, I had to make myself beautiful." Worf: "I fail to understand why." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "I don't bite. Well...actually I do." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "There are always options." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Upon due consideration of the problem and all possible *options*, my original recommendation stands! Meeting adjourned!" --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Troi: "You're upset." K'Ehleyr: "Your finely honed Betazoid sense tell you that?" Troi: "Well...that and the table." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Lieutenant, I order you to relax." Worf: "I am relaxed!" --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Some calisthenics programs are better than others." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "I've noted that some people use humor as a shield. They talk much, yet say little." K'Ehleyr: "Whereas others take a simpler approach, say nothing." Worf: "When one does not have the words." K'Ehleyr: "Or is loathe to speak them." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Why didn't we do this six years ago?" Worf: "We were not ready." K'Ehleyr: "I was." Worf: "No. We were both too young, too unaware. We lacked commitment." K'Ehleyr: "Perhaps we lacked th courage as well." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "Poor android, whose behavior do you find more perplexing? Human or Klingon?" Data: "At the moment, I would find it difficult to choose." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Klingons do not surrender." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Data: "Sensors show lifeforms aboard, but I am unable to ascertain whether they are awake or dorment. However their propulsion system is inactive so I would hypothesize that the crew is asleep. However, I could be in error." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "I will tolerate no further insubordination. Drop your shields immediately." K'Temoc: "And if I refuse?" Worf: "Then die in ignorance. I can waste no more time on you." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Temoc: "Long live the Klingon Empire." Worf: "A wise decision, Captain." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "How did you like command?" Worf: "Comfortable chair." K'Ehleyr: "And you wore it well." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% K'Ehleyr: "I've never had such strong feelings toward anyone." Worf: "Nor have I." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "K'Ehleyr. I will not be complete without you." --"The Emissary", Stardate 42 %% Picard: "Starfleet is not a military organization. Its purpose is exploration." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "You care to surrender now, Captain?" --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "Captain, he needs an attitude adjustment." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "*Enter*!" --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "Just finished." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "You're outmanned, you're outgunned, you're outequipped. What else have you got?" Worf: "Guile." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Join me." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Worf: "I have wagered heavily in the ship's pool that you will take him past the sixth plateau." Riker: "And if I don't?" Worf: "I will be...irritated." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "Just remember, sir...Captain Riker's never lost." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Data: "In the strictest sense, I did not win." Troi: "Data..." Data: "I busted him up." --"Peak Performance", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "My grandfather was bit by a snake once. And after four days of *intense pain*...the snake died." --"Shades Of Grey", Stardate 42 %% Pulaski: "Passionate, as in erotic, Counselor?" --"Shades Of Grey", Stardate 42 %% Riker: "I am Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise." Picard: "Delighted you're feeling better, Captain. The...Admiral and I were worried about you." Data: "Captain, I do not believe you have the authority to promote me to the rank of admiral." --"Shades Of Grey", Stardate 42 %% Wesley: "I think I made a horrible mistake." --"Evolution", Stardate 43 %% Wesley: "I always get an 'A'." Guinan: "So did Doctor Frankenstein." --"Evolution", Stardate 43 %% Stubbs: "Why does a mosquito bite your ear? And who cares. The answer is simple, call an exterminator." --"Evolution", Stardate 43 %% Stubbs: "I don't think this is a wise idea. They already tried to kill me once." Riker: "One sure way into the record books." --"Evolution", Stardate 43 %% Sheliak: "The law is paramount." --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "I take it the Sheliak just hung up on us again." --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "This is hopeless. Fighting would be preferable." --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Gosheven: "Here we will stand." Data: "Then here you will die." --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Data: "That was the stun setting. This is not." --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Data: "This is a thing. And things can be replaced. Lives cannot." --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "I think you enjoyed that, Captain." Picard: "You're *damned* right!" --"The Ensigns Of Command", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "May I come down and approach you?" --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Should I incapacitate him, Commander?" --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Sir, may I say that your attempt to hold the Away Team with a non- functional weapon was an act of unmitigated gall." Kevin: "Didn't fool you, huh?" Worf: "I admire gall." --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Those Andorians did not have to contend with someone of my thoroughness. I will stake my reputation." --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Number One, I have the distinct impression we are being toyed with." --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Good tea. Nice house." --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "We're going to beam them aboard, directly onto the Bridge." Data: "But Captain, will they not protest?" Picard: "Let them." --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Kevin: "Are eleven-thousand people worth fifty-billion? Is the love of a woman worth the destruction of an entire species?" --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "We are not qualified to be your judges. We have no law to fit your crime." --"The Survivors", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "A very sensible people. For example, Mintakan women precede their mates. It's a signal to other women." Riker: "'This man is taken, get your own?'" Troi: "Not precisely. More like, 'If you want his services, I'm the one you have to negotiate with.'" Riker: "What kind of services?" Troi: "All kinds." Riker: "They are a sensible race." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Liko: "I believe I have seen The Overseer. He is called the Picard." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "The Mintakans are starting to believe in a god, and the one they've chosen is you." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Barron: "Without guidance, that religion could degenerate into inquisitions, holy wars, chaos." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "I am Jean-Luc...Picard." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "Liko, you don't want to kill me." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "That's the problem with believing in a supernatural being. Trying to determine what he wants." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "I neither desire your obedience, nor your worship." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "If you believe I am all-powerful, then you cannot hurt me. If, however, I am telling the truth...and I...am a mortal...you will kill me. But if the only proof you will believe is my death, then shoot." --"Who Watches The Watchers", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Every Klingon hopes to die in the line of duty." --"The Bonding", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Didn't any of you ever play with ships in bottles when you were boys?" Worf: "I did not play with toys." Data: "I was never a boy." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Admirable. They died at their posts." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "I just don't get it, Guinan. I can field strip a fusion reactor. I can realign a power transfer tunnel. Why can't I make things work with a woman like Christy? It's like...I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. Guinan: "You're doing fine with me." LaForge: "You're different." Guinan: "No, you're different." LaForge: "But I'm not trying now." Guinan: "That's my point." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Commander, we should be going like a bat out of hell." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Great, another woman who won't get personal with me on the Holodeck." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% Brahms: "I am not used to having people question my judgement." LaForge: "And I'm not used to dying." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "You worked in a lab on a static model. This is a working machine. It's got tens of thousands of light years on it." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Don't go away. I mean, Computer, save program." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Ensign Crusher, I relieve you." --"Booby Trap", Stardate 43 %% Crusher: "He's not going anywhere, Lieutenant." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Shoes are getting full of sand. I just hate that, don't you?" --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes, Commodore." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Welcome to Galorndon Core, where no good deed goes unpunished." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Crusher: "Lieutenant, I understand your feelings about the Romulans. But this is not the time or the place." Worf: "If you had seen them kill your parents, you would understand, Doctor, it is always the time and place for those feelings." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Crusher: "This Romulan didn't murder your parents and you are the only one who can save his life." Worf: "Then he will die." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Tomalak: "Territories. You would measure territories against a man's life?" --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Bochra: "And without it [the V.I.S.O.R.], you can see nothing?" LaForge: "That's right." Bochra: "And your parents let you live?" --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Bochra: "If the situation were reversed, would you not die to avoid capture?" LaForge: "I don't know, I might. If I thought it was necessary, if the stakes were high enough, but they'd have to be pretty damn high. I guess I'd make a pretty lousy Romulan." Bochra: "I no more wish to die than you do." LaForge: "Bochra, there are times when it's necessary to die for one's ideals. Do you believe this is one of those times?" --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "For what it's worth, I understand your bitterness." Worf: "With respect, sir, you cannot." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "So you blame all Romulans for that?" Worf: "Yes." Riker: "Forever. What if someday the Federation made peace with the Romulans?" Worf: "Impossible." Riker: "That's what your people said a few years ago, about humans. Think how many died on both sides in that war. Would you and I be here now like this? If we hadn't been able to let go of the anger and the blame. Where does it end, Worf? If that Romulan dies, does his family carry the bitterness another generation?" Worf: "Then you believe I should." Riker: "What I believe doesn't matter." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Patahk: "Come close to me, Klingon, let me die with my hands at your throat." Worf: "There is a substance within my cells which you need to survive." Patahk: "Then you've come to make me beg for my life?" Worf: "No." Patahk: "I would rather die than pollute my body with Klingon filth." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Commander, both our ships are ready to fight. We have two extremely powerful and destructive arsenals at our command. Our next actions will have serious repercussions." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Tomalak: "I assure you, I intend no deception." Picard: "Of course not." Tomalak: "You doubt my good faith?" Picard: "Let's just say my faith would be strengthened by a gesture from you. Such as powering down your disruptors." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "Close call." Picard: "Too close, Number One. Brinksmanship is a dangerous game." --"The Enemy", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "God forbid I should miss my first look at the wormhole." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Goss: "I am Daimon Goss. And these are my counsels Kole and Doctor Arridor. We'll need chairs." Picard: "I'm Captain Picard of the Enterprise. I am serving as host for these proceedings." Goss: "Good. Then see to it we get some chairs." Picard: "Let me explain." Goss: "Fine, fine. Just have your Klingon servant get us some chairs." Worf: "I am in charge of security." Goss: "Then who gets the chairs?" Picard: "Daimon, due to the delicate nature of these negotiations, all parties have agreed that one representative will suffice. Now, I will be happy to provide your counsels with accommodations, and you may have my chair." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Rai: "I never play the opening rounds anyway, inconsequential. Besides, there are much better things to negotiate on this ship. Like dinner tonight?" Troi: "What about youyr travelling companion?" Rai: "My travelling companion is...travelling. I sent her home?" Troi: "Why?" Rai: "You know why." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Mendoza: "You must play poker, Commander." Riker: "Poker? That a game of some sort?" --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Goss: "Doctor, you surprise me. I have no wish to kill anyone. A short term crippling will suffice." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Rai: "Am I moving too fast for you?" Troi: "No, I'm moving too fast for me." Rai: "I like that better." Troi: "I haven't been able to stop thinking about you all day." Rai: "You must have had a nice day." Troi: "Anticipation is fun." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "A card game doesn't exactly prepare me for this." Picard: "Yes, the stakes are higher, but then isn't that where the game gets interesting, Commander?" --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Rai: "I tucked my heart away, I didn't need it, I didn't want it. At the negotiating table...it can be fatal to have a heart. But I never realized how much I need mine until I looked at you." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Crusher: "You're unusually limber this morning." Troi: "I'll say. Devinoni Rai. It's ridiculous and wonderful. I feel completely out of control. Happy, terrified, but there's nothing rational about this." Crusher: "Who needs rational when your toes curl up." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "I'm afraid I'm going to lose myself. I can't get enough of him. Is it possible to fall in love in one day?" Crusher: "I did." Troi: "It was like this for you and Jack?" Crusher: "No, it was another fellow. I fell in love in day, it lasted a week. But what a week! Then I met Jack. Took months to figure it out with him." Troi: "Well then, maybe I should slow down, catch my breath, not let this thing get out of control. Crusher and Troi: "Nah." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "Deanna is just the woman to bring some meaning to your sorry existence, if you're smart enough to take it. I doubt you are." --"The Price", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Your ambushes would be more successful if you bathed more often." --"The Vengeance Factor", Stardate 43 %% Yuta: "As the sovereign has no further need for my services this evening, she suggested I might spend some time with you." Riker: "What a charming suggestion." Yuta: "She...appreciates the...affection you show me." Riker: "Was I that obvious?" Yuta: "Yes." --"The Vengeance Factor", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "Well, I've already dined. Maybe you know a good Acamarian dessert recipe." Yuta: "Does that not please you? Tell me what you want, William, I will do anything you wish." Riker: "Wait a minute." Yuta: "I don't understand. Don't you want me to give you pleasure?" Riker: "Not as a servant. I told you I prefer equals." Yuta: "Even in the matters of love?" Riker: "Especially in the matters of love." --"The Vengeance Factor", Stardate 43 %% Yuta: "William, this is not your concern." Riker: "It is now, you're about to commit a murder." Yuta: "It isn't murder, it's justice." --"The Vengeance Factor", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "Don't make me do this." --"The Vengeance Factor", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "You are lucky this is not a Klingon ship. We know how to deal with spies." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "You find something amusing?" Jarok: "Lieutenant Worf, I like him. To be more accurate I understand him, the warrior...proud, fearless, living only for combat. Exactly the type that will get us all killed if we're not careful." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Jarok: "Oh, what a fool I've been to come looking for courage in a lair of cowards." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Jarok: "One world's butcher is another world's hero. Perhaps I am neither one." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "You've made your choices, sir! You're a traitor! Now, if the taste of that drink is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry. But I will not risk my ship because you think you can dance on the edge of the Neutral Zone." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Jarok: "I will never see my child smile again. She will grow up believing that her father is a traitor, but she will grow up, if you act, Picard, if we stop this war before it begins. --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Tomalak: "You see, Picard, after we dissect your Enterprise for every precious bit of information, I intend to display its broken hull in the center of the Romulan capitol as a symbol of our victory. It will inspire our armies for generations to come. And serve as a warning to any other traitor who would create ripples of disloyalty." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Tomalak: "I urge you, Captain Picard, surrender. Consider the men and women you would lead into a lost cause." Picard: "If the cause is just and honorable, they are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalak?" --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Tomalak: "I expected more than an idle threat." Picard: "Then you shall have it." --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Tomalak: "You will still not survive our assault." Picard: "And you will not survive ours. Shall we die together?" --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "'...it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.'" --"The Defector", Stardate 43 %% Data: "I am afraid the prisoner has eluded us." Picard: "Eluded the Enterprise?" --"The Hunted", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "Why do you have all this anger toward me?" Danar: "A girl with long, dark hair broke my heart a long time ago. Out of bitterness and resentment, I turned to crime." [Laughs] "How about this one? My mother abandoned me when I was a little boy. I never got the guidance that a wild, young man needed." --"The Hunted", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "'Matter of internal security,' the age old cry of the oppressor." --"The Hunted", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "Danar. You are cunning. You must have Klingon blood." --"The Hunted", Stardate 43 %% Nayrok: "You were programmed to survive. You can survive at the Luna V settlement." Danar: "To survive is not enough! To simply exist is not enough." --"The Hunted", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "I have all the information I need for my report. Your prisoner has been returned to you, and you have a decision to make...whether to try and force them back or welcome them home. In your words, this is not our affair. We cannot interfere in the natural course of your society's development. And I'd say it's going to develop significantly in the next few minutes." --"The Hunted", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Why her?" Worf: "Sir, I believe she was the intended target of the abduction." Riker: "Why would they want to take a Federation hostage? Their fight doesn't involve us." Worf: "It does now." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "History has shown us that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Devos: "How do I combat an enemy who fails to register on my scanner, until they're literally standing in front of you, pointing a phaser at your head?" --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "You don't sound very optimistic." Devos: "I know my enemy, Commander. They don't leave much room for optimism." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Finn: "What's the point of not eating? You're the only one who's suffering. Do I look like it's bothering me? Okay, it's bothering me." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Devos: "Believe it or not, I always considered myself a moderate." Riker: "What changed your mind?" Devos: "Being stationed here for six months. Watching the body count grow. The three assassination attempts on my life." Riker: "Well, that'll change your point of view." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Devos: "In a world where children blow up children, everyone's a threat." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Beverly, it is our obligation to escape." Crusher: "He's prepared to kill you." Picard: "An excellent reason to escape." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Devos: "Already another one to take his place. It never ends." Riker: "He could've killed you. He didn't. Maybe the end begins with one boy putting down his gun." --"The High Ground", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 43539.1. We have moved into orbit around Bre'el IV. With the assistance of the planet's Emergency Control Center, we're investigating a catastrophic threat to the population, from a descending asteroidal moon." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "Given the choice between slim and none, I'll take slim anyday." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Make it so." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Q!" Q: "Red alert." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. We are no closer to finding a solution to the deteriorating orbit of the Bre'el IV moon. But with the arrival of Q, we now have a good idea of the cause." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "I'll take a look and see if there're any rules I haven't broken." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "We know you're behind this, Q." Q: "*These* aren't my colors! And what're you blathering about, Riker?!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "What kind of twisted pleasure does it give you to bring terror into their lives?" Q: "Whose lives?" Picard: "The millions of people down there who are watching as their moon falls out of sky!" Q: "Ah, I haven't the *vaguest* idea of what you're talking about, and I have a much more serious problem!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I'm no longer a member of the Qontinuum! My superiors have decided to punish me!" Picard: "And punish us as well, it would seem." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "You don't believe me, do you? Do you think I would humiliate myself like this?" Riker: "If it served your purpose, yes!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I stand before you defrocked! *Condemned* to be a member of this lowest of species. A normal, imperfect, *lumpen* human being!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Troi: "They made you human as part of your punishment." Q: "No, it was my request. I could've to exist as a Marcophian sea lizard, or a Belzoidian flea. Anything I wished, as long as it was *mortal*! And since I had only a fraction of a second to mull, I chose this, and asked them to bring me here." Troi: "Why?" Q: "Because in the universe, you're the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean- Luc." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "Sir, he is reading as fully human." Q: "What is there, an echo in here?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Troi: "I am sensing an emotional presence, Captain. I would normally describe it as being terrified." Q: "How rude!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "What is it you want, Q?" Q: "Your compassion." [Silence] Q: "All right, sanctuary on this ship...*dreary* as it may sound for the both of us." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Return that moon to its orbit." Q: "I have no powers! Q, the ordinary!" Picard: "Q, the liar! Q, the misanthrope!" Q: "Q, the miserable, Q, the desperate! What must I do to convince you people?" Worf: "Die." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Fine, you want to be treated as human?" Q: "Absolutely." Picard: "All right. Mister Worf, throw him in the Brig." Worf: "Delighted, Captain." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Worf: "You will walk or I will carry you!" Q: "Given the option, I'll...I'll walk." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Hey, I'm claustrophobic! I don't like it in here." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "It was a mistake! I *never* should've picked human! I knew it the moment I said it. To think of a future in this *shell*, forced to cover myself with a fabric because of some *outdated* human morality! To say nothing of being too hot or too cold. Growing feeble with age. Losing my hair. Catching a disease? Being ticklish? Sneezing? Having an itch? A pimple? *Bad breath*?" [To Worf] "Having to *bathe*?!" Worf: "Too bad!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Klingon! I should have said Klingon! In my heart of hearts, I am a Klingon, Worf!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "So you understand I could never survive in confinement. I mean this is cruel and unusual punishment. The universe has been my backyard." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "As a fellow Klingon, if you would speak to the captain on my behalf, I would be *eternally* grateful. Which doesn't mean as much as it used to, I admit." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Worf: "Be quiet! Or disappear back where you came from." Q: "I can't disappear...anymore than you could win a beauty contest." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "If I were to ask you a *very* simple question, do you think you might be able to answer it without it troubling your intellect too much? Ready? Here goes. Would I permit you to lock me away if I still had all my powers?" Worf: "You have fooled us too often, Q." Q: "Oh, perspicacity incarnate! Please don't feel compelled now to tell me the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Worf.'" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "*Romulan*! I should've said, 'Romulan and Klingon goat!'" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "The question is, what sort of *jaded* game is he up to this time?" Riker: "Maybe he just wants a big laugh. He'll take Bre'el IV to the edge of disaster and then pull the moon back." Picard: "Or he may have nothing to do with it at all." Riker: "You honestly think Q is telling the truth?" Picard: "Oh, I agree, this is highly unlikely." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "What the devil?!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Oh, you've come to apologize, how nice. All is forgiven, no offense taken." Picard: "Enough! Q, what exactly is going on?" Q: "Oh, well how can I know what's going on? I've been in this dungeon of yours, alone, helpless, *bored* to tears." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Truthfully, Jean-Luc, I've been entirely preoccupied by a most *frightening* experience of my on. A couple of hours ago, I realized that my body was no longer functioning properly. I felt weak. I could no longer stand. The life was oozing out of me. I lost consciousness." Picard: "You fell asleep." Q: "Oh, how terrifying. How can you stand it day after day?" Picard: "You'll get used to it." Q: "What other dangers await me? I'm not prepared for this, I need guidance." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "You have a moon in a deteriorating orbit. I've known moons throughout the universe. Big ones, small ones, I'm an expert. I could help you with this one, if you'll let me out of here." Picard: "Q, there are millions of lives at risk. If you have the power--" Q: "I don't have any powers! But I have the knowledge, locked up in this *puny* brain! You cannot afford to not take that advantage, can't you?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "*If* you are human, which I seriously doubt, you will have to work hard to earn our trust." Q: "I'm not worried about that, Jean-Luc. You only dislike me. There are others in the cosmos who truly *despise* me." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Can I have a Starfleet uniform?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "What are you looking at?" Data: "I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth...that you really are human." Q: "It's the ghastly truth, Mister Data. I can now stub my toe with the best of them." Data: "An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace, what I have always aspired to be." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Humans are such commonplace little creatures. They roam over the galaxy searching for something they know not what." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "The human race has an enduring desire for knowledge. And for new opportunities to improve itself." Q: "Well, there's certainly room for improvement. But the truth is, Data, they're a minor species in the grand scheme, not worth your envy." Data: "Oh, I do not feel envy." Q: "Well that's good." Data: "I feel nothing at all." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "That is part of my dilemma. I have the curiosity of humans, but there are questions that I will never have the questions to. What it is like to laugh, or cry, or to experience any human emotions." Q: "Hm. Well, if you ask me, these human emotions are not what they're cracked up to be." Data: "Hm." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "This is incredible!" LaForge: "You see something here, Q?" Q: "I think I just hurt my back! I'm feeling pain. I don't like it. Uh, what's the right thing to say, 'Ow?'" Data and LaForge: "Ow." Q: "*Ow*! I can't straighten up!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "Q, I've got a few people down on Bre'el IV who are going to be hurt!" Q: "Yes, yes, yes! Your marvelous plan will not only tear the moon to pieces, but your precious ship as well!" LaForge: "You got a better idea?" Q: "Well, I would certainly begin, by examining the cause, and not the symptom." LaForge: "We've done that already, Q, and there's no way to--" Q: "This is obviously the result of a large celestial object passing through at near-right angles to the plane of the star system. Probably a black hole." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "Can you recommend a way to counter the effect?" Q: "Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe." LaForge: "What?" Q: "Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the asteroid." LaForge: "Redefine gravity. And how am I supposed to do that?" Q: "You just do it! Ow! Where's that doctor anyway?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "Geordi is trying to say that changing the gravitational constant of the universe is beyond our capabilities." Q: "Oh. Well, in that case, never mind." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Ahh, Doctor Crusher, I see Starfleet has shipped you back into exile." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "Q says he has hurt his back." Crusher: "Uh-huh." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I've been under a lot of pressure lately...family problems." Crusher: "Mmm, well, don't expect too much sympathy from me. You have been a pain in our backside often enough." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients recover quickly, just to get away from you." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "You know, this might work? We can't change the gravitational constant of the universe, but if we wrap a low-level warp field around that moon, we could reduce its gravitational constant. Make it lighter so we can push it!" Q: "Glad I could help." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Ow, I think." Beverly: "Now what?" Q: "There's something wrong with my stomach." Beverly: "It hurts?" Q: "It's making noises." Beverly: "Maybe you're hungry." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I've never eaten before, what do I ask for?" Data: "The choice of meal is determined by individual taste." Q: "What do you like?" Data: "Although I do not require sustenence, I occasionally injest semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silcone-based liquid medium." Q: "Is it good?" Data: "It would be more apporpriate to say it is good for *me*, as it lubricates my biofunctions." Q: "That doesn't sound very appealing." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "What else is there?" Data: "A wide variety of items. The replicator can make anything you desire." Q: "How do I know what I desire?" Data: "I have observed, that the selection of food, is often influenced by the mood of the person ordering." Q: "I'm in a *dreadful* mood. Get me something appropriate." Data: "When Counselor Troi is unhappy, she usually eats something chocolate." Q: "Chocolate?" Data: "Mm. A chocolate sundae, for example. Although I do not speak from personal experience, I have seen it have a profound psychological impact." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I'll have *ten* chocolate sundaes." Bartender: "Ten?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "I have never seen anyone eat *ten* chocolate sundaes." Q: "I'm in a *really* bad mood. And since I've never eaten before, I should be ...very hungry." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "This is not a moment I've been looking forward to." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "I hear they drummed you out of the Qontinuum." Q: "I like to think of it as a significant career change." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "Just one of the boys, eh?" Q: "One of the boys with an I.Q. of two-thousand and five." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "The captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced he is truly human." Guinan: "Really?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "Seems human enough to me." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "This is a dangerous creature! You have no idea...why Picard would make her a member of the crew and not me!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "Must be terribly frightening for you to be totally defenseless after all of those centuries of being omnipotent!" Q: "I'm warning you, I still have friends in high places." Guinan: "Frightening one race after the other, teasing them like frightened animals, and you enjoying every moment of your victims' fears." Q: "From now on, I'll do missionary work, okay?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "You could learn a lot from this one." Q: "Sure, the robot who teaches the course in humanities." Data: "I am an android, not a robot." Q: "I beg your pardon." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "I enjoy that, and you'd better get used to it." Q: "What?!" Guinan: "Begging! You're a pitiful excuse for a human. The only way you're going to survive is on the charity of others." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Uph, I'm not hungry." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Help me! Somebody help me!" Guinan: "How the mighty have fallen." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. We have sustained light damage from an attack by an alien species known as the Calamarian. They apparently have a grievance with Q, no doubt one of many lifeforms that do." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "The Calamarian are not very hospitable creatures." Picard: "What did you do to them, Q?" Q: "Oh, nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "You tormented them!" Q: "A subjective term, Riker. One creature's torment is another creature's delight. They simply have no sense of humor, a character flaw with which you can personally identify." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "I say we turn him over to them." Q: "Oh, well, I take it back. You do have a sense of humor, a dreadful one at that." Riker: "I'm serious." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Of course. You *knew* this would happen, didn't you?" Q: "One can never anticipate the Calamarian. They're very intelligent, but very flighty." Picard: "Yes, but you must have so many enemies. Certainly you knew that if once you became mortal, some of them might look you up." Q: "It had occured to me." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "And for all your prodestations of friendship, your real reason for being here is protection." Q: "You're very smart, Jean-Luc. But I know human beings. They're all sopping over with compassion and forgiveness. They can't wait to absolve...almost any offense. It's an inherent weakness in the breed." Picard: "On the contrary, it is a strength." Q: "You call it what you will." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "Fighting off all of the species of which you insulted would be a full- time mission. That's not the one I signed up for." Picard: "Indeed." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Human or not, I want no part of you." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Troi: "It seems you have an advocate, Q." Data: "I am merely stating the facts, Counselor." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Picard thinks I can't cut it on his starship. I can do anything his little- trained minions can do." Data: "I do not perceive your skills to be in doubt, Q. The captain is merely concerned with your ability to successfully interact with his 'little-trained minions'." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "Human interpersonal relationships are more complex. Your experience may not have adequately prepared you." Q: "I'm not interested in human interpersonal relationships. I just want to prove to Picard that I'm indispensable." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Data: "To function aboard a starship, or in any human activity, you must learn to perform relationships." Q: "It's so hard." Data: "And of more immediate importance, is your ability to work within groups." Q: "I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "All right, everyone, this is what we're going to be doing..." LaForge: "Q, everybody knows what they're going to do except for you. Now here's what I need--" Q: "LaForge, obviously my knowledge and experience far exceeds yours by about, a *billion* times. So if you'll just step aside, gracefully." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "Q, your experience will be most valuable to me if you could manually control the field integrity." Q: "Don't be foolish. That would be a waste of my talents!" LaForge: "Q, get to the controls or get the hell out of here!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Who does he think he is, giving me orders?" Data: "Geordi thinks he is in command here, and he is correct." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "Shut up, Q!" Q: I will not be spoken to in this manner!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Crusher: "If he was mortal, he'd be dead." Q: "Well, let's not overstate the matter here, Doctor. I'm mortal and I survived." [Silence] Q: "Your cheers are overwhelming." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "Commander, he's not worth it." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "You're right, of course. I'm extraordinarily selfish. But it has served me so well in the past." Picard: "It will not serve you here." Q: "Don't be so hard on me, Jean-Luc. You've been mortal all of your life, you know about dying. I've never even given it a second-thought...or a first one for that matter. I could've been killed. If it hadn't been for Data, and that brief little he created, I would've been gone. No more me. And no one would've missed me, would they?" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Data may have sacrificed himself for me. Why?" Picard: "That is his special nature...to learn the lessons of humanity well." Q: "When I ask myself if I would've done the same for him, and I am forced to answer, 'No', I feel...I feel ashamed." Picard: "Q, I am not your father-confessor. You will receive no absolution from me." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "You have brought nothing more than pain and suffering to this crew. And I am still not entirely convinced that all this isn't all your latest attempt at a purile joke!" Q: "It is a joke, a joke on me, a joke on the universe. The king who would be man." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "As I learn more and more, what it is to be human, I am more and more convinced that I would never make a good one. I don't have what it takes. Without my powers I'm frightened of everything. I'm a coward...and I'm miserable...and I can't go on this way." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions...no pain. And yet you cover those qualities of humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it means anything to you, you're a better human than I." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Shuttle occupant, identify yourself." Q: "Don't try and talk me out of it, Jean-Luc." Picard: "Q, return to the ship immediately!" Q: "I just can't get used to following orders." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Please, don't fall back on your tired cliche of charging to the rescue just in the nick of time. I don't want to be rescued! My life as a human being has been a dismal failure! Perhaps my death will have a little dignity." Picard: "Q, there is no dignity in this suicide." Q: "Yes, I suppose you're right, death of a coward then, so be it. But as a human, I would have died of boredom." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "This goes against my better judgement. Transporter Room Three, lock onto Shuttle One, beam it back into its bay." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "What the hell is going on?!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "Not bad, Q! Not great. Aaah, huuh, but not bad." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Q!" Q2: "Ah! Sacrificing yourself for these humans? Do I detect a littttle selfless act?" Q: "You flatter me. I was only trying to put a quick end to a *miserable* existence!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "Ewweh! What a dreadful color!" Q: "Yeah." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "What're you doing here?" Q2: "Oh, I've been trying track of you." Q: "I always thought you were in my corner." Q2: "Naw, ah, no, nah. See, actually I was the one who got you kicked out." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "You know you're incorrigible, Q. You're a lost cause. I can't go to a *single* solar system without having to apologize for you, and I'm tired of it!" Q: "*I* wasn't the one who misplaced the entire Deltivid asteroid belt!" Q2: "Hey! This isn't about me. I've got better places to be." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "But somebody had to keep an eye on you to make sure you still didn't find a way to cause trouble, even as a member of this, hmm, limited species." Q: "Well, I, I hope I've been entertaining you." Q2: "Barely." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "But, I find these humans rather interesting. I'm beginning to understand what you see in them. After all of the things that you've done, they're still intent on keeping you safe!" Q: "A genetic *weakness* of the race." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "They just tried to, mmm, beam you up, back, whatever it is they call it!" Q: "Really?" Q2: "Ah, I stopped them." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Well, if the Calamarians hurry up and finish me off, we can get you back on your way." Q2: "Mmm, afraid I put them on hold too. You see, there's still this matter of the...selfless act." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "Now you and I both know that the Calamarian would've eventually destroyed the Enteprise to get to you. And that's really why you left, right?" Q: "It was a teeny bit selfless, wasn't it?" Q2: "Eew, yeah, and there's my problem! See, I can't go back to the Qontinuum, and tell them that you committed a selfless act just before you did! If I do, there's going to be questions, there's going to be explanations, for centuries!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I've learned my lesson, Q." Q2: "Remember who you're talking to. All-knowing, all-seeing." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q2: "Try and stay out of trouble." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "So they wanted to destroy me, did they?!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "If you think I tormented you in the past, my little friends, wait until see what I do with you now!" Q2: "Q..." Q: "I was just seeing if you were...still watching." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Well, I suppose that is the end of Q." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Au contraire, mon capitan! He's back!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "I'm forgiven! My brothers and sisters of the Qontinuum have taken me back. I'm immortal again! Omnipotent again!" Riker: "Swell." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Don't fret, Riker. My good fortune is your good fortune." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Riker: "I don't need your fantasy women!" Q: "Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Q!" Q: "But I feel like celebrating!" Picard: "I don't!" Q: "All right!" --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Now at the risk of being rude--" Q: "Yes, once again, I overstate my welcome. As a human, I was ill-equipped to thank you. But as myself, you have my everlasting gratitude. Until next time..." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Q: "Ah, but before I go, there's a debt I wish to repay to my professor of the humanities. Data, I've decided to give you something very, very special." Data: "If your intention is to make me human--" Q: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I would never curse you by making you human. Think of it, as a going-away present." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% LaForge: "Data, why are you laughing?" Data: "I do not know. But it was a wonderful...feeling." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Picard: "Perhaps there is a...residue of humanity in Q after all. Ensign, en--" Q: "Don't bet on it, Picard." --"Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1 %% Guinan: "All right, try this." Worf: "What is it?" Guinan: "Just try it." Worf: [Drinks] Guinan: "You see? It's an Earth drink. Prune juice." Worf: "Warrior's drink!" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate Unknown %% Guinan: "You, you always drink alone. It wouldn't hurt you to seek out a little ...companionship." Worf: "I would require a Klingon woman for...companionship. Earth females are too fragile." Guinan: "Not all of them." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate Unknown %% Guinan: "There are a few on this ship that would find you...tame." Worf: [Laughs] "Impossible." Guinan: "You never know until you try." Worf: "Then I will never know." Guinan: "Coward." Worf: "I was merely concerned for the...safety of my crewmates." Guinan: "Drink your prune juice." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate Unknown %% Worf: "Captain, something's happening. A new change in sensor readings." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate Unknown %% Guinan: "This isn't right. It's changed." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date Unknown %% Yar: "It's clearing now, Captain. Definitely Federation starship. Accessing registry." Riker: "Looks like they had a rough ride." Yar: "N.C.C.-1701...C. U.S.S....Enterprise." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date Unknown %% Picard: "Military Log, Combat Date 43625.2. While investigating an unusual radiation anomaly, the Enterprise has encountered what could almost be called a ghost from its own past...the Enterprise-C, the immediate predecessor to this battleship." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Wesley: "But that cruiser was destroyed with all hands over twenty years ago." Data: "Presumed destroyed. The Enterprise-C was last seen near the Klingon outpost Norendra III, exactly twenty-two years, three months, and four days ago." Riker: "And now they're here." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Riker: "Respectfully, if I may suggest regardless of where they came from, they are here now and they need our help!" Picard: "Commander, if that ship has travelled into the future, we would be dealing with variables that will alter the flow of our history." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "This is Captain Garrett, of the Federation starship Enterprise. To any Federation ship...we have been attacked by Romulan warships and require immediate assistance. We've lost warp drive, life support is failing." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation...of a Federation starship. Stand by to receive emergency teams." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Commander, we will handle this one step at a time. Stabilize their power systems, attend to their injured. And avoid all discussions of where and *when* they are." Riker: "Aye, sir." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Crusher: "The rest of the Bridge crew is dead. She has a back fracture and serious internal injuries. I'm going to have to get her back to the Enterprise." Garrett: "To where?" Riker: "We'll explain that later." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% LaForge: "It's pretty back, Commander. Looks like they were in a hell of a fight." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Recommendations?" Riker: "I'd hate to scrap her. Starfleet could certainly use another ship, even if she is old." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Guinan?" Guinan: "We need to talk. Somehow this...this is all wrong. This is not the way it's supposed to be." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "But you must have some idea how things have changed." Guinan: "I look at things, I look at people, and...they just don't feel right." Picard: "What things? What people?" Guinan: "You! Your uniform, the Bridge." Picard: "What's the matter with the Bridge?" Guinan: "It's not right!" Picard: "It's the same Bridge! Nothing has changed!" Guinan: "I know that. I also know it's wrong." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "What else?" Guinan: "Families. There should be children on this ship." Picard: "What?! Children on the Enterprise?! Guinan, we're at war!" Guinan: "No, we're not! At least we're not...supposed to be! This is not a ship of war. This is a ship of peace." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "What you're suggesting..." Guinan: "I'm not suggesting. That ship from the past is *not* supposed to be here. It's got to go back." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Voice: "Doctor Selar, report to Null-G Ward, stat. Doctor Selar, report to Null-G Ward, stat." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "Where did you come from? We weren't picking up any other Federation ships in this sector." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "What's the last thing you remember?" Garrett: "We were answering the distress signal." Picard: "Distress signal?" Garrett: "You must have heard it." Picard: [No comment] Garrett: "From the Klingon outpost, Norendra III." Picard: [No comment] Garrett: "But you didn't, did you?" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "This...Sickbay, I've never seen anything like it, even on a starbase. And your uniform. What ship is this, Captain?" Crusher: "Please try to be still." Garrett: "I must insist, what ship?" Picard: "You're aboard the Enterprise, Captain. 1701-*D*. You have come twenty-two years into the future." Garrett: "Twenty-two years." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "History has no record of your battle with the Romulans." Garrett: "We were responding to a distress call from the Klingon outpost on Norendra III! The Romulans were attacking it, we *engaged* them. But there were four Warbirds." Picard: "The Norendra III outpost was destroyed. It is regretable that you did not succeed. A Federation starship rescuing a Klingon outpost. Might have averted twenty years of war." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Castillo: "I guess I'm lucky to be alive at all." Yar: "You may not like the future. It's been a long war. The Federation has lost more than half its Starfleet to the *Klingons*." Castillo: "We were negotiating a peace treaty when I left." Yar: "A lot of changes, Lieutenant. A *lot* of changes." Castillo: "When we get a break, maybe you could...fill me in on some of them." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Is there any possibility she could survive?" Data: "None, sir." Picard: "Then sending them back would be a death sentence." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "She was the first Galaxy class warship built by the Federation. Forty-two decks, capable of transporting over six-thousand troops." Castillo: "How long have you been onboard?" Yar: "Four years. Straight out of the Academy. I was lucky to *get* the Enteprise." Castillo: "Yeah, me too. I mean, *my* Enterprise." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Crusher: "Where do you think you're going?" Garrett: "I'm resuming my duties, Doctor." Crusher: "Captain, you need at least another twenty-four hours." Garrett: "Nonsense, doctors always overprotect their patients." Crusher: "And captains always push themselves too hard." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "Doctor, my ship and my crew need me now. Twenty-four hours might as well be twenty-four years." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "I need more." Guinan: "There is no more. I wish there were. I wish I could prove it, but I can't." Picard: "Then I can't ask them to go back." Guinan: "You've got to." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Guinan, they will die moments after they return. How can I ask them to sacrifice themselves based solely on your intuition?!" Guinan: "I don't know. But I do know that this is a mistake. Every fiber in my being says this is a mistake! I can't explain it to myself, so I can't explain it to you. I only know that I'm right." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Who is to say, that this history is any less proper than the other?" Guinan: "I suppose I am." Picard: "Not good enough, damn it, not good enough! I will not ask them to die!" Guinan: "Forty-billion people have already died! This war is not supposed to be happening! You've got to send these people back to correct this!" Picard: "And what is to guarantee that if they go back they will succeed? Every instinct is telling me that this is wrong, it is dangerous, it is futile!" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Guinan: "We've known each other a long time. You have never known me to impose myself on anyone, or take a stance *based* on trivial or whimsical perceptions. This timeline must not be allowed to continue. Now I've told you what you must do. You have only your trust in me to help you decide to do it." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "Guinan?" Guinan: "Have you ordered yet, Tasha?" Yar: "No, not yet. Is anything wrong?" Guinan: "Nothing!" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "First time for everything." Castillo: "First time?" Yar: "It's just that I've never seen anything bother her before." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Castillo: "Hey, I've known you a whole day now, Lieutenant. I won't salute if you won't. What did she call you? Tasha." Yar: "Yeah." Castillo: "Most everyone calls me Castillo. My mother calls me Richard." Yar: "Okay, Castillo." Castillo: "No, I think maybe I'd like it better if you called me Richard." Yar: "Richard." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "This is the captain. Senior officers will report to my Ready Room immediately." Yar: "So much for lunch." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "If we send that ship back with new technology, we'll be altering the past." Riker: "But that's what you're talking about anyway isn't it? Altering the past?" Picard: "We're talking about *restoring* the past." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% LaForge: "But how could Guinan know that history has been altered if she's been altered along with the rest of us?" Data: "Perhaps her species has a perception that goes beyond linear time." Picard: "There are many things about her species we can't easily explain." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "But it is possible that she is correct. A ship from the past has travelled through time. How can we know what effect those events will have on the present? Indeed, we shall never know for certain if Guinan is correct. But I have decided the consequences of that possibility are too grave to be ignored." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Dismissed." Riker: "Sir, if you'd like my opinion..." Picard: "I think I'm aware of your opinion, Commander. This is a briefing, I am not seeking your consent." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Even their deaths could have prevented this war. If the Enteprise-C returns to the battle and its mission is a success, history will be irrevocably be changed. This timeline will cease to exist, and a new future will have been created. I've considered the alternatives. I'll go with Guinan's recommendation. Dismissed." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Crusher: "If she's right, we may not even be in an alternate timeline." LaForge: "Who knows if we're even dead or alive?" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Data: "If I interpret your facial expressions correctly, you are preoccupied with something...unpleasant." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Data: "We may never know what happens. If they succeed, we will not even realize that these events occurred." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "You believe this Guinan?" Picard: "I discovered, long ago, that she has a special wisdom. I've learned to trust it." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "Captain, I would be lying to you if I told you there was a chance in hell of coming out of this alive. Why doesn't your ship come back with us? The Romulans would be no match for your weaponry." Picard: "I can't do that." Garrett: "No, I suppose not. You don't belong in our time any more than we belong in yours." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "To be honest with you, Picard, a significant number of my crewmembers have expressed a desire to return even knowing the odds. Some because they can't bear to live without their loved ones. Some because they don't like the idea of slipping out in the middle of a fight." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "But I have told them, that in the here and now, the Federation needs another ship against the Klingons. And we'd better get used to being in the here and now." Picard: "But if you go back, it could be a great deal more helpful." [Pause] "The war is going very badly for the Federation, far worse than is generally known. Starfleet Command believes that defeat is inevitable. Within six months, we may have no choice but to surrender." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "So you're saying all this may be a result of our arrival here?" Picard: "One more ship won't make a difference in the here and now. But twenty- two years ago, one ship could've stopped this war before it started." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Garrett: "The Romulans will get a good fight. We'll make it one for the history books." Picard: "I know you will, Captain." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "I just wanted to say, 'Good luck.'" Castillo: "I'll try to put some of that tactical briefing to good use when we get back." Yar: "Your ship has much more maneuverability than the Romulan counterparts at that era. Actually, if you could just isolate... You'll do fine." Castillo: "If you get back to Earth, and you see a man, say in his late fifties, taking a hard, long look across a crowded room...hey, you never know." Yar: "Goodbye, Lieutenant." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Captain Garrett, damage report. Captain Garrett." Yar: "This is Lieutenant Yar, sir. Captain Garrett is dead." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Riker: "Certainly history never meant for this ship to go back into battle without her captain." Castillo: "I can't speak to that point, sir. But I can get us back to where we're supposed to be. I believe that's what Captain Garrett would want me to do." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Make it so." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Castillo: "We keep saying, 'Goodbye,' don't we?" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "I wish we had more time." Castillo: "More time? I think we got all the time we can handle." [Laughs] Yar: [Laughs] --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Castillo: "Lieutenant." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Guinan: "Can I get you something, Tasha?" Yar: "Guinan, I have to know something. What happens to me in the other timeline?" Guinan: "I don't have alternate biographies of the crew. As I said to the captain, it's just a feeling." Yar: "But there's something more when you look at me, isn't there? I can see it in your eyes, Guinan. We've known each other too long." Guinan: "We weren't meant to know each other at all! At least that's what I sense when I look at you." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Guinan: "Tasha, you're not supposed to be here." Yar: "Where am I supposed to be?" Guinan: "Dead." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "Do you know how?" Guinan: "No. But I do know that it was an empty death. A death without purpose." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "Captain, I request to transfer to the Enterprise-C." Picard: "For what reason?" Yar: "They need someone at Tactical." Picard: "We need you here." Yar: "I'm not supposed to be here, sir." Picard: "Sit down, Lieutenant." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "What did she say to you?" Yar: "I don't belong here, sir. I'm, I'm...supposed to be dead." Picard: "She felt it necessary to reveal that to you." Yar: "I felt it was necessary." Picard: "I see." %% Picard: "You realize that it is very possible that the Enterprise-C will fail. We will continue in this timeline, in which case, your life, hopefully, will continue for a long while." Yar: "I know how important it is that they don't fail, Captain. That's why I'm requesting this transfer." Picard: "You don't belong on that ship, Lieutenant." Yar: "No, Captain Garrett belongs on that ship. But she's dead. And I think there's a certain logic in this request." Picard: "There's no logic in this at all! Whether they succeed or not! The Enterprise-C will be destroyed." Yar: "But, Captain, at least with someone at Tactical, they will have a chance to defend themselves *well*. It may be a matter of seconds or minutes, but those *could* be the minutes that change history." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "Guinan says I died a senseless death in the other timeline. I didn't like the sound of that, Captain." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "I've always known the risks that came with a Starfleet uniform. If I'm to die in one...I'd like my death to count for something." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Lieutenant...permission granted." Yar: "Thank you, sir." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Yar: "I'll handle Tactical. Lieutenant Tasha Yar reporting for duty, sir." Castillo: "You're not part of my crew." Yar: "I am now. Captain Picard approved my request for a transfer." Castillo: "This isn't a joke, Tasha! We're coming back into the rift...into battle, we're not coming back." Yar: "I know the mission. These are my orders, Lieutenant." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Castillo: "But I don't want you here." Yar: "You need me here. Show me someone in your crew who can do the job better than I can." Castillo: "Welcome aboard. Take your station, Lieutenant." Yar: "Aye, sir." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Military Log, Supplemental. Lieutenant Yar has transferred to the Enterprise-C, where she has taken over tactical duties. Meanwhile, our long- range scanners picked up Klingon battle cruisers on an intercept course." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "They're not even troubling to cloak themselves." Riker: "They shouldn't be so confident, after the pasting we gave them on Archer IV." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Attention all hands. As you know, we could outrun the Klingon vessels. But we must protect the Enterprise-C until she enters the temporal rift. And we must succeed. Let's make sure that history never forgets...the name...Enterprise. Picard out." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% LaForge: "Engineering to Bridge, starboard power coupling is down, containment field generator three is damaged. Attempting to bypass." Riker: "If we lose antimatter containment..." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% LaForge: "Coolent leak. Bridge, we've got a coolent leak in the engine core, I can't shut it down. I estimate *two* minutes to a warp core breach!" --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Klingon: "Federation ship Enteprise, surrender and prepare to be boarded." Picard: "That will be the day." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Combat Date 43625.2 %% Picard: "Report, Mister Worf." Worf: "Readings fluctuated momentarily. It appeared to be a ship, but then it vanished." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate 43625.2 %% Guinan: "Captain, this is Guinan. Is everything all right up there?" Picard: [To Riker] "Guinan?" [To Guinan] "Yes, everything is fine. Is something wrong?" Guinan: "No, no, everything is fine, sorry to bother you." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate 43625.2 %% Guinan: "Geordi, tell me about...Tasha Yar." --"Yesterday's Enterprise", Stardate 43625.2 %% Troi: "It's not like Data to be secretive." Wesley: "And cautious. He's got that lab locked every minute." LaForge: "Now how do you know that?" --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "I am functioning within normal parameters." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "Purpose for exterior drapings, father?" Data: "It is an accepted custom that we wear clothing." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Data, I would like to have been consulted." Data: "I have not observed anyone else on board consulting you about their procreation, Captain." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "I fail to understand how a five-foot android with heuristic learning systems and the strength of ten men can be called a child." Troi: "You're never been a parent." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "I am genter neuter, inadequate." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "Congratulations, Data. It's a girl." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Wesley: "Parents. Nothing personal." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "Why is the sky black?" --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "Judging from their laughter, the children at school found my remarks humorous. So without understanding humor, I have somehow mastered it." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Data: "I can give her attention, Doctor, but I am incapable of giving her love." Crusher: "Now why do I find that so hard to believe?" --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "Father says that I would learn a great deal from someone as old as you." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "What are they doing?" Guinan: "It's called flirting." Lal: "They seem to be communicating telepathically." Guinan: "They're thinking the same thing, if that's what you mean." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "Guinan, is the joining of hands a symbolic act for humans?" Guinan: "It shows affection. Humans like to touch each other. They start with the hands, and go from there." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "He's biting that female!" Guinan: "No, he's not biting her. They're pressing lips together. It's called kissing." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "Wy are they leaving?" Guinan: "Lal, there are some things your father's just going to have to explain to you when he thinks you're ready." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Data: "Commander, what are your intentions towards my daughter?" Riker: "Your *daughter*? Nice to meet you. Excuse me." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "You are wise, father." Data: "It is the difference between knowledge and experience." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Haftel: "Captain, are we talking about breaking up a family? Isn't that a rather sentimental attitude about androids?" Picard: "They are living, sentient beings. Their rights and privileges in our society have been defined, I helped define them." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Haftel: "She is capable of running sixty-trillion calculations a second, and you have her working as a cocktail waitress." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Haftel: "Don't misunderstand me. I have great respect for your father." Lal: "You do not speak with respect." Haftel: "She seems very adversarial." Lal: "I am merely stating a fact, Admiral." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Troi: "Hello, Lal. How are you?" Lal: "Troi...Admiral...Admiral...An Admiral from Starfleet has come to take me away. Troi. I am...scared." Troi: "You are scared, aren't you?" Lal: "I feel it. How is this possible?" Troi: "I don't know." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "This is what it means to feel. This is what...means...feel." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Data: "Lal is my child. You ask that I volunteer to give her up. I cannot. It would violate every lesson I have learned about human parenting. I have brought a new life into this world and it is my duty, not Starfleet's, to guide her through these difficult steps to maturity. To support her as she learns. To prepare her to be a contributing member of society. No one can relieve me from that obligation. And I cannot ignore it. I am...her father." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "There are times, sir, when men of good conscience cannot blindly follow orders. You acknowledge their sentience, but you ignore their personal liberties...and freedom. Order a man to hand his chld over to the state. Not while I'm his captain." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "A malfunction...emotional awareness." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Data: "Lal, I am unable to correct the system failure." Lal: "I know." Data: "We must say 'Goodbye' now." --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Lal: "I feel..." Data: "What do you feel, Lal?" Lal: "I love you, father." Data: "I wish I could feel it with you." Lal: "I will feel it for both of us. Thank you for my life. Flirting... laughter...painting...family...female...humo--" [Dies] --"The Offspring", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 43685.2. As part of an exchange program, we are taking aboard a Klingon occupant to return the recent visit of Commander Riker to the cruiser Pagh." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Riker: "One does not patronize a Klingon warrior." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Riker: "This is not a Klingon ship, sir." Kurn: "No, Commander, it is not. If it were a Klingon ship, I would have killed you for offering your suggestion." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Troi: "Are you adjusting to your new environment, Commander?" Kurn: "I find the constraints a bit difficult to conform to. Just a while ago I had to stop myself from killing Commander Riker." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% LaForge: "No offense, sir." Kurn: "None taken. I never killed anyone at the supper table, Mister LaForge." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Worf: "I am a Klingon. If you doubt it, a demonstration can be arranged." Kurn: "That is the response of a Klingon. The respone I would expect from my older brother." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Worf: "On this ship, you are my commander and I obey. In Council Chamber, you are my cha'DIch. You do not insist, you obey." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Duras: "You claim a birthright you have forsaken?" Worf: "I have not forsaken my heritage. I am Klingon. My heart is of this world. My blood is as yours." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Duras: "You shall not wear this emblem of our people!" --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Worf: "It is a good day to die, Duras, and the day is not yet over." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Duras: "This is not your world, human. You do not command here." Picard: "I'm not here to command." Duras: "Then you must be ready to fight...something Starfleet does not teach you!" Picard: "You may test that assumption at your convenience." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Worf: "It is too dangerous, you must not go alone." Picard: "Hey, I'm your cha'DIch." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% K'Mpec: "It is good to see you again." Kahlest: "You are still too fat, K'Mpec." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% Picard: "Do not forget what happens here today. You must not let your children forget." --"Sins Of The Father", Stardate 43685.2 %% "Picard": "'Oh, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer.'" --"Allegiance", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "The replica was very convincing?" Riker: "Very convincing...but not perfect." Picard: "Not perfect in what way?" Riker: "Well, sir...I find it hard to believe that you're that good a singer." Picard: "Singer?...I look forward to reading your report, Commander. At least, I think I do." --"Allegiance", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "I told you he'd have a great time." --"Captain's Holiday", Stardate 43 %% Barclay: "I mean, I am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there's a party, and when he finally gets there, he winds up alone, in the corner, trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant." --"Hollow Pursuits", Stardate 43 %% Fajo: "What I've done was evil, selfish, immoral, unprincipled, illegal...well, I've learned to live with it." --"The Most Toys", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "I always thought Data would outlive us all, by centuries." --"The Most Toys", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "'He was a man...take him for all in all...we shall not look upon his like again.'" --"The Most Toys", Stardate 43 %% [Data must feel good about seeing Kivas Fajo locked up] Data: "No, sir...it does not. I do not have feelings. I am only an android." --"The Most Toys", Stardate 43 %% Hanson: "This is the third time we've pulled out the captain's chair for Riker. He just won't sit down." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Data: "Early bird? I believe Commander Shelby erred. There is no evidence of a avian or crawling vermicular lifeforms on Jure IV." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Shelby: "Data was available. I took him, we came." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Shelby: "There's no doubt anymore. It is the Borg." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Wesley, you may get straight 'A's in school, but there's a lot you need to learn about poker." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Will, what the hell are you still doing here?" --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Will, you're ready to work without a net. You're ready to take command. And you know, the Enterprise will go on just fine without you." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "Mister Worf, dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson...'We have engaged...the Borg.'" --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "You do an end run around me again, I'll snap you back so hard you'll feel like a first-year cadet again." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Shelby: "All you know how to do is play it safe." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Shelby: "If you cannot make the big decisions, Commander, I suggest you make room for someone who can." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% LaForge: "Move it people, let's move it!" --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Picard: "It's a bit of a tradition, Guinan, for the captain to tour the ship before a battle." Guinan: "Before a *hopeless* battle, if I remember the tradition correctly." Picard: "Not necessarily. Nelson toured the H.M.S. Victory before Trafalgar." Guinan: "But Nelson never returned from Trafalgar, did he?" Picard: "Ah, but the *battle* was won." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Shelby: "Shelby to Enterprise, we've found the captain's uniform and his communicator. We're resuming our search." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Crusher: "Jean-Luc..." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Shelby: "We were unable to retrieve him, sir. The captain has been altered by the Borg." Riker: "'Altered'?" Worf: "He *is* a Borg!" --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Crusher: "Will, he's alive. If we could get him back to the ship, I might be able to restore--" Riker: "This is our only chance to destroy them. If they get back into warp, our weapon is useless." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Locutus: "I am Locutus, of Borg. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service...*us*." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Riker: "Mister Worf...fire." --"The Best Of Both Worlds", Stardate 43 %% Worf: "The Borg ship is undamaged." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "They couldn't have adapted that quickly." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate Unknown %% Locutus: "The knowledge and experience of the human, Picard, is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses of action." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate Unknown %% Locutus: "Your resistence is hopeless...Number One." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "First Officer's Log, Stardate 44001.4. The Borg ship has resumed its course towards Earth. We are unable to pursue, pending repairs to the Enterprise." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% LaForge: "We should be back up in eight to twelve hours, Admiral." Hansen: "Well, we'll miss you at the party!" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Hansen: "We've mobilized a fleet of forty starships at Wolf 359, and that's just for starters. The Klingons are sending starships. Hell, we've even thought of opening communications with the Romulans!" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Hansen: "Lieutenant, a few years ago, I watched a freshman cadet pass four upperclassmen on the last hill of the forty-kilometer run at Delulin II. The damnest thing I ever saw, the only freshman to ever win the Academy Marathon. I made it my business to get to know that young fellow, and get to know him very, very well. And I'll tell you something. I never met anyone with more drive and determination or more courage than Jean-Luc Picard. And there is no way in hell that he would submit to the Borg. I want that clear." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Hansen: "He is...a casuality of war." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Hansen: "In less than twenty-four hours, this armada is going to hit that Borg vessel with everything we can muster. Either they survive or we don't. As for Picard, a great man has been lost. Your captain...my friend." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Hansen: "Commander Riker, I hearby promote you to the field commission of captain. The Enterprise is your ship now. Congratulations." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Riker: "Good luck, Admiral." Hansen: "Hmm. To us all." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Shelby: "The main navigational deflector is functional again. Sherman and Barclay are running through the final testing sequence now." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Riker: "Commander, we don't have to like each other to work well together. As a matter of fact, I'd like you to continue to keep me on my toes." Shelby: "Sir, I like to find that as the role of a first officer." Riker: "Damn, you *are* ambitious, aren't you Shelby?" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Shelby: "Captain Riker, based on our past relationship, there's no reason for me to expect to becoming your first officer except that you need me. I know how to get things done and I have the expertise on the Borg." Riker: "And you have a lot to learn, Commander." Shelby: "Yes, sir." Riker: "Almost as much as I had to learn when I came onboard as Captain Picard's first officer. A fact he reminded me of when I commented on what a pain-in- the-neck you were." Shelby: "Yes, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Data: "Starfleet reports it has engaged the Borg at Wolf 359, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44001.4 %% Riker: "Captain's Log, Stardate 44003.3. Repairs are complete, and the Enterprise is warping to rendevous with Starfleet at Wolf 359. Communications from the site of battle have been cut off, possibly due to Borg interferance." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Lieutenant Worf, everyone in this room shares my respect for your service to this ship. But right now, I need your experience at Tactical. Commander Data, I realize your very nature omits ambition. Nevertheless, I want you to know that I seriously considered you as first officer." Data: "Thank you, sir." Riker: "But this is not the time for change. I need all of you where you are, where Captain Picard always relied on you. I have been, reluctantly, forced to conclude that Commander Shelby, our expert on the Borg, is an ideal choice at this time for a first officer." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Troi: "In two or three weeks, Nanites may be all that's left of the Federation." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "I'm sure Captain Picard would have something meaningful and inspirational to say right now. To tell you the truth, I wish he was here, 'cause I'd like to here it too. I know how difficult this transition has been you all of you. I can take over for him. But I can never replace Captain Picard, nor would I ever try. Whatever the outcome, I'm sure our efforts in the coming battle, will justify his faith in all of us. Dismissed." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "What would you do?" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Guinan: "May I speak to you, Captain?" Riker: "Actually, Guinan, I--" Guinan: "You know, Picard and I used to talk every now and then when one of us needed to. I guess I'm just used to having the captain's ear." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "What's on your mind?" Guinan: "I've heard a lot of people talking down in Ten-Forward. They expect to be dead in the next day or so. They trust you, they like you, but they don't believe anyone can save them." Riker: "I'm not sure anyone can." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Guinan: "When a man is convinced he's going to die tomorrow, he'll probably find a way to make it happen. The only one who can turn this around is you." Riker: "I'll do the best I can." Guinan: "You're going to have to do something you don't want to do. You have to let go of Picard." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Maybe you haven't heard, I tried to kill him yesterday!" Guinan: "You tried to kill whatever that is on the Borg ship...not Picard. Picard is still here with us...in this room. If he had died, it would've been easier. But he didn't. They took him from us, a piece at a time." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Guinan: "Did he ever tell you why we're so close?" Riker: "No." Guinan: "Oh. Then let me just say that...our relationship...is beyond friendship, beyond family. And I *will* let him go. And you must do the same." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Guinan: "There can only be *one* captain." Riker: "It's not that simple. This was his crew, he wrote the book on this ship!" Guinan: "If the Borg know everything he knows, it's time to throw that book away. You must let him go, Riker. It's the only way to beat him...the only way to save him. And *that*, is now your chair, Captain." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "The Tolstoi...the Kyushu...the Melbourne." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Commander Shelby, prepare to initiate your plan to separate the saucer section when we find the Borg." Shelby: "Sir, I must remind you that Captain Picard was briefed on that plan. The Borg will be prepared for it." Riker: "I'm aware of that, Commander. In fact, I'm counting on it." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Mister Data, Mister Worf, I have a special mission for you." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Locutus of Borg, this is Captain William T. Riker of the U.S.S. Enterprise." Locutus: "You may speak." Riker: "We wish to end the hostilities." Locutus: "Then you must unconditionally surrender." Riker: "We are prepared to meet to discuss your terms." Locutus: "It is unlikely you are prepared to discuss terms. It is more likely that this is an attempt at deception." Riker: "Come now, Locutus. If Picard's knowledge and experience is a part of you, then you know that I have never lied to him. You should also implicitly trust me, is that not so?" Locutus: "Picard implicitly trusted you." Riker: "Then trust me now. Meet to discuss your terms." Locutus: "Discussion is irrelevant. There are no terms. You will disarm all your weapons and escort us to Sector 001, where we will begin assimilating your culture and techno--" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "We would like time to prepare our people for assimilation." Locutus: "Preparation is irrelevant. Your people will be assimilated as easily as Picard has been. Your attempt at a delay will not be successful, Number One. We will proceed to Earth, and if you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Then take your best shot, Locutus, 'cause we are about to 'intervene'." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Make it so." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Wesley: "They're ignoring the saucer section completely." Riker: "Just as you should, Captain." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "Fire antimatter spread." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "Shuttle launch confirmed. Departing Enterprise in exactly three seconds." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Worf: "Shuttle has penetrated the Borg electromagnetic field." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Worf: "Mission accomplished. We have him." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% O'Brien: "Transport successful, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Once he was wired into the Borg, they knew everything that he knew. I just hope it goes both ways." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Crusher: "Jean-Luc, it's Beverly. Can you hear me?" Locutus: "Beverly...Crusher, Doctor." Crusher: "Yes." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Locutus: "A futile manuever. Incorrect strategy, Number One, to risk your crew and ship to retrieve only one man. Picard would never have approved. You underestimate us, if you believe this abduction is any concern." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Locutus: "There is no need for apprehension. I intend no harm...no harm. I will continue aboard this ship to speak for the Borg while they continue, without further diversion, to Sector 001, where they will force your unconditional surrender." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Crusher: "As long as these Borg implants are functioning, there's no way I can separate the man from the machine." Data: "Then perhaps, there is a way I can access the machine, Doctor." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Locutus: "Worf, Klingon species, a warrior race. You too will be assimilated." Worf: "The Klingon Empire will never yield!" Locutus: "Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species." Worf: "I like my *species* the way it is!" Locutus: "A narrow vision. You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the Borg." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Locutus: "The android, Data, primitive artificial organism. You will be obsolete in the new world order." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "Captain, the Borg have entered Sector 001." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Ensign Crusher, at their current speed, when will they reach Earth?" Wesley: "Twenty-seven minutes." Riker: "The soonest we can intercept?" Wesley: "Forty-two minutes." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "Counselor, hopefully you will be able to determine whether I am reaching Captain Picard." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% O'Brien: "At what point should I shut it down if there's a problem?" Data: "I do not know. I have never done this before." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "Neural connection is complete. I have access to the Borg subspace signal. Processing...processing." Troi: "Data..." Data: "Standby. Processing...processing." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "Fascinating. The Borg group consciousness is divided into subcommands, necessary to carry out all functions. Defense, communications, navigation. They are all controlled by a root command." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "What is causing the increased neural activity is unclear." Troi: "No it's not. It's him! It's Picard!" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Troi: "Troi to Bridge. Data has made first contact with Captain Picard." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "It is Captain Picard himself who has somehow managed to intiate contact." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Worf: "Sir, the Borg have halted their approach to Earth." Troi: "I think we got their attention." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "They're worried. They're worried because we have access to Picard. Mister Data, we have two minutes to figure out what we can do with it." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "It is clear the Borg are either unwilling or unable to terminate their subspace links." Crusher: "*That* might be their Achille's heel, Captain...their interdependency." Riker: "What do you mean, Doctor?" Crusher: "He is part of their collective consciousness now. Cutting him off would be like asking us to disconnect an arm or a foot. We can't do it." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "They act as a single mind." Riker: "One of them jumps off a cliff, they all jump off?" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Mister Data, is it possible to plant a command into the Borg collective consciousness?" Data: "It is conceivable, sir. But it would require altering the pathway from the root command, to affect all intricate branchpoints in the--" Riker: "Make every effort, Mister Data." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "Sir, what command shall I attempt to plant?" Riker: "Something straightforward, like 'Disarm your weapons systems.'" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Mister Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship." Wesley: [What?!] Riker: "You heard me, a collision course!" Wesley: "Yes, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Picard: "Sleep..." Crusher: "He's regaining consciousness." Picard: "Sleep..." Troi: "It's Captain Picard speaking, not Locutus." Picard: "Sleep, Data." Crusher: [To Picard] "You're exhausted." Data: "Yes, Doctor." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Data: "If I may make a supposition. I do not believe his message was intended to express fatigue, but to suggest a course of action." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Mister Crusher, engag--" Data: "Data to Bridge, standby." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Mister Data, your final report." Data: "Standby." Riker: "I *can't*, Mister Data!" --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Mister Data, what the hell happened?" Data: "I successfully planted a command into the Borg collective consciousness. It misdirected them to believe that it was time to regenerate. In effect, I put them all to sleep." Riker: "Sleep?" Data: "Yes, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Commander Shelby, take an Away Team and confirm that the Borg are... asleep." Shelby: "Delighted, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "I'd say we're looking at a self-destruct sequence initiated by the Borg's malfunction. Do you want us to attempt to disarm it?" Crusher: "There's no way to know what the destruction of the Borg ship will do to him." Data: "We should also consider the advantages of further examination of the Borg and their vessel, sir." Riker: "I don't think so." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Troi: "How do you feel?" Picard: "Almost human...with just...a bit of a headache." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "How much do you remember?" Picard: "Everything...including some brilliantly unorthodox strategy from...a former first officer of mine." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Picard and Riker: "Come." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Picard: "You'll make a fine officer for the task force, Commander." Shelby: "We'll have the fleet back up in less than a year." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "I imagine you'll have your choice of any Starfleet command, sir." Riker: "Everyone is so concerned about my next job. With all due respect, Commander," [To Picard] "Sir, my career plans are my own business, and no one else's. but it's nice to know I have a few options." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Shelby: "I hope I have the fortune of serving with you again, sir." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Riker: "Course for Station McKinley ready and laid in, sir." Picard: "Make it so, Number One." --"The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3 %% Picard: "They took everything I was! They used me to kill...and to destroy... and I couldn't stop them! I tried so hard!" --"Family", Stardate 44 %% Data: "One Seven Three Four Six Seven Three Two One Four Seven Six Charlie Three Two Seven Eight Nine Seven Seven Seven Six Four Three Tango Seven Three Two Victor Seven Three One One Seven Eight Eight Eight Seven Three Two Four Seven Six Seven Eight Nine Seven Six Four Three Seven Six Lock." --"Brothers", Stardate 44 %% Soong: "Yep...you're right on time." --"Brothers", Stardate 44 %% Lore: "'Often-Wrong's got a broken heart...can't even tell his boys apart.'" --"Brothers", Stardate 44 %% Data: "You know that I cannot grieve for you, sir." Soong: "You will...in your own way." --"Brothers", Stardate 44 %% Data: "Goodbye...father." --"Brothers", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "They're brothers, Data. Brothers forgive." --"Brothers", Stardate 44 %% Troi: "This is a banana split...and it's quite possibly one of the greatest things in the universe." --"Suddenly Human", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "Worf, the big guy who never smiles. The *Klingon*! Will Riker, your first officer! He's...he's very good at poker! Loves to cook...he listens t jazz music...plays the trombone! Commander Data, the android who sits at Ops. *Dreams* of being human...never gets the punchline of a joke! Deanna Troi, your ship's counselor. Half Betazoid...loves chocolate. The arrival of her mother makes you shudder!" --"Remember Me", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "O'Brien, Geordi, Worf, Wesley...my *son*! They have been the living, breathing backbone of this ship for over three years! They deserve more than to be shrugged off...brushed aside, just pinched out of existence like that! They all do. They deserve so much more." --"Remember Me", Stardate 44 %% Traveler: "It's not over Wesley...there's still a way." --"Remember Me", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "We will start with the assumption that I am *not* crazy." --"Remember Me", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "If there's nothing wrong with *me*...there must be something wrong with the universe." --"Remember Me", Stardate 44 %% ?: "You two have successfully divided the evening between you." Worf: "I suspect conspiracy...but far be it from me to accuse a superior officer." --"Legacy", Stardate 44 %% Ishara: "I don't want to kill you, Data...but I will." --"Legacy", Stardate 44 %% Picard: "With all trust comes the possibitity of betrayal." Data: "Then perhaps it is better not to trust." --"Legacy", Stardate 44 %% Worf: "You know my feelings." K'Ehleyr: "Maybe I've forgotten." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% K'Ehleyr: "What shall I tell Alexander, that he has no father?" --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% Alexander: "I don't want to be a warrior!" --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% K'Ehleyr: "The son who betrays his people to the Romulans, just like his father did." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% K'Mpec: "'All for the glory of the Klingon Empire'...that should be my epitaph." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% Gowron: "That could take hours!" K'Ehleyr: "Or days, depending on your cooperation." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% K'Ehleyr: "Don't play the wounded Klingon to me, Duras. You don't do it very well." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% K'Ehleyr: "You talk like a Ferengi!" --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% Duras: "What is *that* doing here?" "He has claimed the right of vengence." Duras: "You have no *rights* here, traitor." Worf: "K'Ehleyr...was my mate." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% Duras: "Kill me and you are a traitor forever!" Worf: "Then that...is how it shall be!" --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% Alexander: "Are you my father?" Worf: "Yes...I am your father." --"Reunion", Stardate 44 %% Troi: "Lots of things improve with age...maybe your trombone playing will be one of them." --"Future Imperfect, Stardate 44 %% Picard: "Wesley, you will be missed." --"Final Mission", Stardate 44 %% Riker: "What, no seconds?" Data: "I have discovered, sir, a certain level of impatience when I calculate a lengthy time interval to the nearest second." --"The Loss", Stardate 44 %% Troi: "Spare me the inspirational anecdote." --"The Loss", Stardate 44 %% Riker: "You'd be surprised how far a hug can go with Geordi...or Worf." --"The Loss", Stardate 44 %% Troi: "Oh, and the next time you call me aristocratic..." --"The Loss", Stardate 44 %% Data: "I have good news. Keiko has made a decision designed to increase her happiness. She has cancelled the wedding." --"Data's Day", Stardate 44 %% Beverly: "I don't want to be known as the Dancing Doctor...again." --"Data's Day", Stardate 44 %% Beverly: "They don't do a lot of tap dancing at weddings." --"Data's Day", Stardate 44 %% Data: "There may be a relationship between humor and sex which I am not aware of." --"Data's Day", Stardate 44 %% Data: "Feline supplement...Seventy-Four." Spot: "Meow." --"Data's Day", Stardate 44 %% Data: "I would be chasing an untamed armathoid without cause." Beverly: "A wild goose chase?" --"Data's Day", Stardate 44 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 44429.6. We're on a mapping survey near the Cardassian sector. It has been nearly a year since peace treaty ended the long conflict between the Federation and Cardassia." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "Last time I was in this sector, I was on the Stargazer running at warp speed ahead of a Cardassian warship." Troi: "Running, Captain? You? That's hard to believe." Picard: "Believe it." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "I'd been sent to make preliminary overtures for a truce. And I had lowered my shields as a gesture of goodwill. The Cardassians were not impressed. They had taken out most of my weapons and damaged the impulse engines before I could regroup and run." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Worf: "The Cardassians have no honor. I do not trust them." Troi: "They are our allies now, Mister Worf. We have to trust them." Worf: "Trust is earned. Not *given* away." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "I hope their scout ship makes contact soon. It's never a good idea to stay too long in a Cardassian border without making your intentions known." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% O'Brien: "What, wh...what is it?" Keiko: "Kelp buds, plankton loaf, and sea berries." O'Brien: "Oh. Sweetheart, I'm not a fish." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% O'Brien: "Isn't that what marriage is about...sharing?" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Keiko: "What kind of food?" O'Brien: "Scalloped potatoes, mutton shanks, ox tails and cabbage." Keiko: "Kind of heavy." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% O'Brien: "Ah, I can still remember the aromas when mother was cooking." Keiko: "She *cooked*?" O'Brien: "She didn't believe in a replicator. She thought real food was more nutritious." Keiko: "She handled *real meat*? She *touched* it and *cut* it?" O'Brien: "Yeah, like a master chef. She was fantastic!" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% O'Brien: "But I'll make something special for you tonight. You'll love it, I promise." Keiko: "Okay. Maybe I'll have something special for you tonight too." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation starship Enterprise." Macet: "I am Gul Macet of the Cardassian ship Tragor." Picard: "Why have you fired on us?" Macet: "Curious question, Captain. In *war* one attacks one's enemies." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "Gul Macet, the Federation and the Cardassians have struggled too hard for peace...to abandon it so easily." Macet: "*We* are not the ones who have abandoned it, captain." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Hayden: "Jean-Luc, I don't have to tell you the Federation is not prepared for a new sustained conflict. You *must* preserve the peace, no matter what the cost." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. We have entered Cardassian territory and are proceeding on our quest to locate the Phoenix." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% O'Brien: "But who I choose to spend my free time with...that's my business." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Keiko: "What's what you're singing?" O'Brien: "What? Oh, it's just a little song. A bunch of us used to sing it together on the Rutledge. I hadn't thought about it in years." Keiko: "What's it about?" O'Brien: "Oh, it's about war...and glory." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Keiko: "*What* are these little dark things?" O'Brien: "Capers." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "Gul Macet, you see we are doing everything in our power to reach the Phoenix." Macet: "Yes, and accomplishing nothing, I'm sorry to say." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "Mister Data, estimated time to intercept with the Phoenix." Data: "At our present speed of warp four, sixteen hours, forty-four minutes." Picard: "Ensign, increase to warp nine." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "I think, when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable like...like old leather. And finally...feels so humiliated one can't remember feeling any other way." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% O'Brien: "The only people left alive were in an outlying district of the settlement. I was sent there with a squad to reinforce them. Cardassians were advancing on us. Moving through the streets, destroying, killing. I was with a group of women and children, and two Cardassian soldiers burst in. I stunned one of them...the other one jumped me. We struggled. One of the women threw me a phaser, and I fired. The phaser was set at maximum. The man just...just incinerated there before my eyes. I'd never killed anything before. When I was a kid I'd, I'd worry about swatting a mosquito. It's not you I hate, Cardassian. I hate what I became because of you." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Macet: "There are those who...crave war, who need it. I am not one of them, Captain. And I am beginning to see...that neither are you. We have had our full measure. The lasting peace begins here...with the two of us." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44429.6 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 44431.7. We have estabished communication with Captain Maxwell and he has agreed to come on board." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Riker: "Welcome aboard, sir. I'm Commander Riker, first officer." Maxwell: "I know all about you, commander. Fine work you did with the Borg. We all owe you on that one." Riker: "Thank you, sir." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "O'Brien? Miles O'Brien?" O'Brien: "Hello, captain. Good to see you again." Maxwell: "How are you? I had no idea you were on the Enterprise. This is my tactical officer on the Rutledge. Best I ever had." O'Brien: "Thank you, sir." Maxwell: "O'Brien has the ability to size up a situation instantly. Then come up with options to fit all contingencies. Remarkable." O'Brien: "Well if that's true, I learned it from you, sir." Maxwell: [Laughs] "But you got that silver tongue by kissing the stone, right?" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "You must think I've gone mad." Picard: "The thought had occured." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "Picard, I have to tell you. I was grateful when I realized it was you Starfleet had sent after me. Someone who knows what it's really like out here." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "Smells musty around here...like a bureaucrat's office!" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "You have killed nearly seven-hundred people. And you have taken us to the brink of war." Maxwell: "I have *prevented* war! Or at the very least delayed it a good long time." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "You're a fool, Picard. History will look at you, and say, 'This man was a fool.'" Picard: "I'll accept the judgement of history." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "We're not going after any more Cardassian ships. You're going to return to your bridge...and set a course for Starbase 211. The Phoenix and the Enterprise will return to Federation space together. Those are Starfleet's orders. I will...permit you the dignity of retaining your command during the voyage. But the only alternative is to put you in the Brig, and tow your ship back to the starbase in disgrace." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. With the Phoenix in close formation, we are proceeding directly to Starbase 211." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "The Cardassians live to make war." O'Brien: "That's what everybody thinks about the enemy." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "You were on Cetleg. You saw what they did." O'Brien: "Yes, sir." Maxwell: "What was the name of that fellow who always hung around you like a puppy?" O'Brien: "Will Kaden. Stompy." Maxwell: "Stompy! Stomp..." [Laughs] "Was cool under fire as a mountain lake." O'Brien: "Yes, sir." Maxwell: "He died at Cetleg, didn't he?" O'Brien: "Yes, sir." Maxwell: "What was that song of his? One he always sang? One I liked?" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% O'Brien: "'The minstrel boy to the war has gone, in the ranks of death you will find him.'" Maxwell and O'Brien: "'His father's sword he hath girded on, and his wild harp slung behind him. Lands of songs said the warrior-bard, though all the world betrays thee. One sword at least thy rights shall guard, one faithful harp shall praise thee.'" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Maxwell: "I'm not going to win this one, am I, Chief?" --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. Captain Maxwell has turned his ship over to his first officer and transported aboard the Enterprise. I have confined him to quarters for the return voyage." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Macet: "Well, his loyalty is admirable...even if it is misplaced." Picard: "The loyalty that you would so quickly dismiss does not come easily with my people, Gul Macet. You have much to learn about us." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "Benjamin Maxwell *earned* the loyalty of those who served with him. You know in war, he was twice honored with the Federation's highest citation for courage and valor. And if he could not find a role for himself in peace, we can pity him, but we shall not dismiss him." Macet: "You are welcome to your opinion, Captain. I, for one, am grateful that he is under lock and key." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "One more thing, Gul Macet. Maxwell was right. Those ships were not carrying scientific equipment, were they? A research station, within arm's reach of three Federation sectors? Cargo ships running with high energy subspace fields that jam sensors?" Macet: "If you believe that the transport ship was carrying weapons, Captain, why didn't you board it as Maxwell had requested?" Picard: "I was here to protect the peace. A peace that I firmly believe is in the interest of both our peoples. I had attempted to board that ship, I'm quite certain that both sides would now be arming for war." Macet: "Captain, I assure you..." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Picard: "Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet...we'll be watching." --"The Wounded", Stardate 44431.7 %% Durken: "I will have to say that this morning, I was the leader of the universe as I knew it. This afternoon, I am only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day." --"First Contact", Stardate 44 %% Brahms: "So *you're* the one who's been fouling up my engine designs." --"Galaxy's Child", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "Captain, I'd like to announce the birth of a large baby...something." --"Galaxy's Child", Stardate 44 %% Guinan: "That was Setting Number One. Anyone want to see Setting Number Two?" --"Night Terrors", Stardate 44 %% LaForge: "Eliminate LaForge." --"Identity Crisis", Stardate 44 %% Crusher: "Worf, I have an opening in my workshop." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate Unknown %% Troi: "You've made tremendous progress." Barclay: "I, uh, I, I guess." Troi: "Don't you think so?" Barclay: "Well, I just feel more comfortable, uh, playing somebody else. And maybe all of this, is, is, is not any better than, eh, escaping in, into a Holodeck fantasy." Troi: "I disagree. This isn't fantasy, it's theatre. You used to withdraw onto the Holodeck. You isolated yourself inside your own imagination avoiding contact with real people. Look at yourself now. Look at all the other people you're with. You're not just acting, you're *interacting*. --"The Nth Degree", Stardate Unknown %% Troi: "Give yourself some credit, Mister Barclay." Barclay: "Maybe...you're right." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 44704.2. We have arrived at the Argus Array, a remote subspace telescope at the very edge of Federation space. The unmanned structure mysteriously stopped relaying its data nearly two months ago." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Barclay: "Commander..." LaForge: "Yeah, Reg?" Barclay: "Thanks for uh, assigning me to this mission." LaForge: "Don't mention it. You're one of my top engineers, it's about time you got in on some of the interesting stuff." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% LaForge: "This...this is why I'm in Starfleet." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. An intense energy surge from the alien probe has severely disabled the shuttle's onboard computer. The Away Team has been transported directly to Sickbay, where Lieutenant Barclay remains under observation." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Barclay: "You shouldn't have to wait too long for the results." Crusher: "What do you mean?" Barclay: "Couldn't you use a global mode in your scanner? It would be a lot faster." Crusher: "That's not possible. We're talking about human cells here, not isolinear circuits. I think you'd better stick to Engineering, Lieutenant." Barclay: "A cell has an electromagnetic signature, just as a circuit element does. Theoretically, it should work, with just a few adjustments. I could set it up for you if you like." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Picard: "I'm willing to entertain suggestions." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Barclay: "Lieutenant Barclay to Captain Picard, you can fire photon torpedoes, maximum yield, full spread." Riker: "We're too close." Barclay: "I'm certain the shields will hold." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% LaForge: "I don't know how he did it, but shield strength has been increased by three-hundred percent! That should be enough, Captain." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Picard: "Thank you, Mister Barclay." Barclay: "You're welcome, Captain. Barclay out." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Barclay: "I'm sorry if I overstepped my authority." LaForge: "Don't mention it." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44704.2 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 44705.3. The Enterprise has destroyed the alien probe, but now we are left with the difficult task of repairing the Argus Telescope. Failure to do so would represent an incalculable scientific loss." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Riker: "Mister Barclay, everyone is still trying to figure out exactly how you did it." Barclay: "Well, it just occurred to me that I could set up a frequency harmonic between the deflector and the shield grid, using the warp-field generator as a power-flow anti-attainguator, and that of course, naturally created an amplification of the inherent energy output." Riker: "Uh-huh, I see that." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Data: "A standard isolation procedure would be advisable." LaForge: "I agree. We'll cut off each reactor from the damaged control system, and repair them one-by-one." Riker: "How long will that take?" LaForge: "Two to three weeks, at least." Picard: "All right, Mister LaForge." Barclay: "I don't agree." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "We could repair all of the reactors, simultaneously, instead of one- by-one." Picard: "'Simultaneously'? All eighteen?" Barclay: "Yes." LaForge: "But the Argus computer is inoperable" Barclay: "Not entirely. The core memory is still intact. We could program a completely new control system." Data: "An interesting suggestion, Lieutenant. However, that approach would require more time than our original plan. At least seven weeks." Barclay: "I could have it ready for you in two days." Riker: "What?!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Crusher: "That was a real improvement!" Barclay: "Same time? Day after tomorrow?" Crusher: "Same time." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "Reg? May I join you?" Barclay: "Of course, please. Sit down, Counselor." Troi: "Hard at work." Barclay: "I'm getting prepared for tomorrow's meeting in Engineering. We're planning our repair strategy." Troi: "I really enjoyed the scene you just performed." Barclay: "Hmm. You're a very forgiving audience." Troi: "Not at all. I thought you were brilliant." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "You've changed." Barclay: "Is that a professional opinion?" Troi: "Yes, pure observation." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "I'm proud of you, Reg. I'm glad for you too." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "I'd better be going." Barclay: "Must you?" Troi: I think so." Barclay: "Wouldn't you like to take a walk with me...to the Arboretum? The Zamenes should be in bloom." Troi: "Reg, as your former counselor, I don't think it would be appropriate." Barclay: "I don't need a counselor. What I need is the company of a charming, intelligent woman." Troi: "Good night." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Einstein: "G, Sub-I, J, of T, as T approaches infinity. Hmm?" Barclay: "G, of T, over G-Lot." Einstein: "Thirty? So it is! So it is!" Barclay: "But I still don't see how you're going to incorporate quantum principle into general relativity, without guessing the cosmological constant a lot more than you're doing here." Einstein: "But if you increase the value, as you suggest, then you face the possibility of twenty-six dimensions instead of ten." Barclay: "I don't think I could deal with that." Einstein: "I certainly could not." [Laughs] Barclay: "If the semi-set curved into the subatomic, the infinities might cancel each other out!" Einstein: "Good Scott! They just might!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "What was that all about?" Barclay: "I had some ideas late last night. I needed to consult with the computer about some quantum-electrodynamic calculatons. A Holodeck-Einstein program seemed like the best way. I guess I went a little overboard!" LaForge: "'A little'? Most of the stuff on that blackboard was way out of my league. And yours too." Barclay: "Not really. I just hadn't thought along those lines before. It's all really pretty evident now, and if you were to put your mind to it, I suppose--" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "Reg, ever since our run-in with that probe something's different about you." Barclay: "What? Because I'm beginning to behave like the rest of the crew? With confidence in what I'm doing?" LaForge: "You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "Reg, something's wrong with you. And we can't ignore that." Barclay: "Yes, but I've finally become the person I've always wanted to be. Do we have to ask why?" LaForge: "Yeah, I think we do." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Crusher: "I couldn't even *guess* at your I.Q. level now." Barclay: "Probably somewhere between twelve-hundred and fourteen-fifty." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Crusher: "Lieutenant, you could very well be the most advanced human being who has ever lived." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "What's he done? I mean, we're talking about locking a man up for being too smart." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Has Mister Barclay done anything that could be considered...potentially threatening?" Troi: "Well, he did make a pass at me last night...a good one!" LaForge: "I'd hardly consider that a threat." Troi: "No, but it's certainly unusual behavior for Barclay." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Crusher: "There's something else, Captain. He taught violin technique at the music school last night." Riker: "I didn't know Barclay played the violin." Crusher: "He *didn't*. Not until last night." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Until he does something more...menacing, I see no reason why we should prevent him from continuing his work." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Riker: "You said he made a pass at you, but you failed to mention whether he was successful or not." Troi: [Just smiles] Riker: [Looks at Crusher] Crusher: [Just smiles] --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "Computer, begin new program. Create as follows, workstation here. Now, create a standard alpha-numeric console positioned for the left hand. Now, an iconic-display console positioned for the right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core utilizing neural scan interface." Computer: "There is no such device on file." Barclay: "No problem. Here's how you build it." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Computer, respond." Barclay: "I *am* responding, sir. I'm sorry if I caused you any alarm. It was necessary in order to secure the array." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Riker: "Barclay! Barclay? What's going on? Barclay!" Barclay: "Yes, Commander, it's me." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "I'm sorry, Captain. I was only trying to help." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "Our computer was too slow to compensate for the overload on the array, so I created an interface that communicated my thoughts directly to the central processing unit." Riker: "Exactly what does that mean?" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Mister Barclay, remove yourself from the computer system. Leave the Holodeck." Barclay: "I'm afraid I can't do that, sir." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "My primary and cerebral functions are now operating almost entirely from within the computer. They have expanded to such a degree that it would be *impossible* to return to the confines of my human brain. Any attempt to do so would mean my death." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "That's it. I've disconnected the audio and visual pickups. We can talk without being monitored by the computer." Worf: "By *Barclay*." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "It is almost impossible to tell where Barclay ends and the computer begins." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Riker: "How do we get him out of there?" LaForge: "We don't. Not without killing him." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "This is an intolerable situation. I have no wish to harm him, but I cannot allow Mister Barclay to continue to act as the computer. I don't care how smart he is." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Make it so." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "How're you doing?" Barclay: "I wish I could convey to you what it's like for me now...what I've become." LaForge: "Yeah? Try." Barclay: "I can conceive almost infinite possibilites and can fully explore each of them in a nanosecond! I perceive the universe as a single equation and it is so simple!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "I understand." LaForge: "You understand?" Barclay: "Everything!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% LaForge: "Well, do you understand how this happened to you?" Barclay: "I believe it is a gift, that I have been chosen to fulfill a great promise." LaForge: "Uh-huh." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "Do you suppose this has changed the way people think about me?" LaForge: "Well, to tell you the truth, Reg, we don't know what to think." Barclay: "I have been concerned about that, but soon everyone will be able to understand what I can do for humanity!" LaForge: "What do you mean?" Barclay: "We have always perceived that the maximum speed of the Enterprise was a function of warp. But I know now, there are no limits. We will explore new worlds that we could never before have reached in our own lifetime. *I* will take us to them." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Mister Barclay, this is a direct order. Discontinue whatever it is you're doing." Barclay: "I really would rather not, sir." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "Hello, Deanna." Troi: "Reg..." Barclay: "I'm sorry we can't take that walk at the Arboretum." Troi: "So am I." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "Reg, you've frightened all of us. I'm sure that wasn't your intent." Barclay: "Young children are sometimes frightened of the world. That doesn't mean that their parents should let them stay in their cribs." Troi: "Are we children to you now?" Barclay: "I can see so much more now than you are capable of. You should trust that." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "Deanna, I've always wanted to earn your respect." Troi: "You've got it...from all of us." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "We don't need any more convincing. Please, obey the captain's orders. Stop whatever it is you're doing." Barclay: "You must trust me." Troi: "How can we trust an officer who doesn't follow orders?" Barclay: "Trust me." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Troi: "The captain will do everything in his power to stop you." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "Commander..." LaForge: "What?" Barclay: "You're too late." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Barclay: "I want you to know, Lieutenant Worf, that I understand your duty in this matter..." Worf: "Phasers, maximum setting." Barclay: "...and that I will in no way take your actions personally." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Data: "We are experiencing a quantum-level oscillation delay." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Cytherian: "...Electrochemical stimulus response, cranial plate, bipedal locomotion, endoskeletal...contiguous external antigument! Hmm." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard, of the Federation Starship Enterprise." Cytherian: "Hierarchical collective command structure!" Picard: "Who are you?" Cytherian: "Interrogative!" Picard: "I am interrogative, yes!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "And I would appreciate an explanation." Barclay: "I think I can help you with that, Captain." Riker: "Mister Barclay! I thought it would be fatal if you left the Holodeck." Barclay: "The Cytherians have reintegrated me, sir." Cytherian: "Cytherians, mmm-hmm." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "What do you want of us?" Cytherian: "The same as you...as one." Picard: "Mister Barclay..." Barclay: "You're both on the same mission, Captain." Picard: "'Mission'?" Barclay: "Yes, sir. The Cytherians are exploring the galaxy, just as we are. The only difference is that they never leave their home. They bring others here. Their only wish, an exchange of knowledge. They want to know us!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44705.3 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 44721.9. After ten days in the company of the Cytherians, the Enterprise has been safely returned to Federation space. We bring back knowledge of their race that will take our scholars decades to examine. Lieutenant Barclay is apparently no worse for his experience." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% Troi: "So how much do you remember?" Barclay: "I, I, I remember doing everything. I just don't remember how or why!" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% Troi: "How do you feel now?" Barclay: "Smaller." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% LaForge: "Just plain old Barclay, huh?" Barclay: "It always seems to come back to that, doesn't it?" --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% Troi: "You know, almost everyone has a moment in their lives when they exceed their own limits, achieve what seems to be impossible." LaForge: "The tricky part is what happens afterwards." Troi: "You almost always feel a sense of loss. But it is possible to carry something of that experience through the rest of your life in ways that you're not even aware of now." Barclay: "I, uh, I think I know what you're saying." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% LaForge: "Either way, Reg, you're an important part of this crew. In fact, I could really use your help with that Level Three Diagnostic." Barclay: "Sure." Troi: "Excuse me, Commander, but um, I believe Mister Barclay and I have a date scheduled, for a walk in the Arboretum?" LaForge: "The diagnostic can wait. I'll see you later." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% Barclay: "You really, you really don't have to do that." Troi: "I know." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% Barclay: "May I? Checkmate in nine moves." Troi: "I didn't know you played chess." Barclay: "I don't." --"The Nth Degree", Stardate 44721.9 %% Q: "I would've died back then had it not been for you." Picard: "We all make mistakes." --"Qpid", Stardate 44 %% Worf: "Sir, I protest, I am not a merry man!" --"Qpid", Stardate 44 %% Data: "Counselor, I believe your aim is improving." --"Qpid", Stardate 44 %% Guy: "I am the greatest swordsman in all of Nottingham!" Picard: "There's something you should know." Guy: "And what might that be?" Picard: "I'm not from Nottingham!" --"Qpid", Stardate 44 %% Data: "Honey? I'm home!" --"In Theory", Stardate 44 %% Picard: "Now would be a good time, Mister O'Brien." --"In Theory", Stardate 44 %% Worf: "You bore that well." --"Disaster", Stardate 45 %% Worf: "You are ten centimenters dilated. You may now give birth." --"Disaster", Stardate 45 %% Worf: "You will feel a sharp pain while I remove the placenta." --"Disaster", Stardate 45 %% Lefler: "Your neutrinos are drifting." --"The Game", Stardate 45 %% Brackett: "Three weeks ago, one of our most *celebrated* ambassadors and advisors to Federation leaders for generations, disappeared. He left no word of his destination. Two days ago, intelligence reports placed him on Romulus, and I assure you it was an unauthorized visit." --"Unification I", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "A defection?" Brackett: "If it is, the damage to Federation security would be immeasurable." --"Unification I", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45236.4 As I study the intelligence reports and Ambassador Spock's disappearance, I cannot help but feel a *deeper*, more personal concern about his mission. For I know this man, through his father. It was barely a year ago that I shared a mind meld with the Vulcan Sarek. Now we must meet again, as I attempt to find an explanation for his son's actions." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "The man is dying. And it's my honor to tell him that his son may have betrayed the Federation." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Riker: "How well did you know Spock?" Picard: "I only met him once. What I know of him comes from history books. And, of course, a mind meld with his father." Riker: "Well that must cover a lot of ground." Picard: "Not as much as you'd imagine. Sarek and Spock. Well, sometimes, fathers and sons--" Riker: "Mmm, understood." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Perrin: "Mint tea. It's been years since I had any. Vulcans have some kind of strange concoction they call mint. You'd never recognize it." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Perrin, do you know why I've come to Vulcan? I must talk to you about Spock." Perrin: "He didn't even say, 'Goodbye' to his father before he left!" Picard: "Is it possible he could've been abducted?" Perrin: "No! He wrapped up all of his affairs carefully. He knew he was going." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Do you have any idea why he may have disappeared like this?" Perrin: "Captain, as far as I'm concerned, he disappeared a *long* time ago." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Would it be inappropriate to ask what happened between you and Spock?" Perrin: "Not between us...between Spock and his father. Oh, they had argued for years. That was family. But when the debates over the Cardassian War began, he attacked Sarek's position...*publicly*! He showed no loyalty for his father." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "I was not aware that Sarek was offended by Spock's opposition." Perrin: "*I* was offended. I made sure that Spock knew it. I'm very protective of my husband. I do not apologize for it." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Perrin: "If you could see Sarek as I do, wasting in bed, whispering to himself. He wants to see his son. He wants to heal any...rift that may still remain. Now it may be too late." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Perrin, would you allow me to see Sarek?" Perrin: "If it were anyone else, I would never permit it. But you are a part of him, and he of you." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% LaForge: "This is going to be like putting together a big jigsaw puzzle when you don't even know what the picture's supposed to be." Riker: "Yup." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Perrin: "He is like this...most of the time. His emotions have taken over." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Perrin: "Sarek, you will listen!" Sarek: "Go from me!" Perrin: "Picard is here." Sarek: "No more chaos! No more!"" --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Sarek! I've come a long way to see you." Sarek: "I will not answer!" Picard: "I must talk to you about your son." Sarek: "I wish no one with me!" Picard: "About Spock." Sarek: "Spock?" Picard: "Yes. He's *missing*." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Sarek: "Is that you...Picard?" Picard: "Hello, old friend." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Sarek: "You're here, on Vulcan." Picard: "I need your help. I must find Spock." Sarek: "He's not here, I know." Picard: "He's been reported on Romulus." Sarek: "Romulus?" Picard: "Yes." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Is there anyone on Romulus he might know, or choose to contact?" Sarek: "Pardek?" Picard: "Who is Pardek?" Sarek: "It could be...Pardek!" Picard: "Who is Pardek?" Sarek: "He is a Romulan senator. Spock has maintained a relationship with him over the years. I don't know how they met. At the Khitomer Conference, I'd imagine." Picard: "Pardek represented Romulus." Sarek: "Yes! I'm sure he did. In fact, I recall Spock coming to me with optimism about maintaining a continual *dialogue* with the Romulans. I told him that it was illogical to maintain such an expectation. Spock was always so impressionable. This Romulan Pardek had no support at home! Of course, in the end, I was later proven correct." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Sarek: "I gave Spock the benefit of experience, of logic! He never listened. Never listened." Picard: "It has been suggested that Spock might have defected." Sarek: "Never! I will accept many things, but never that!" --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "But you believe that he might have gone there to see Pardek." Sarek: "The Romulan senator? How do you know Pardek?" Picard: "I've heard of him." Sarek: "That's what he's done! He's gone to see Pardek." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Do you know what business they might have together?" Sarek: "No! No, I never knew what Spock was doing. When he was a boy he would disappear for days into the mountains. I would ask him where he had gone, what he had gone, he refused to tell me. I *insisted* that he tell me. He would not. I forbade him to go, he ignored me. I punished him, he endured it. Silently, but always he would turn to the mountains when night arrived." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Sarek, we are a part of each other. I know that he has caused you pain. But I also know...that you love him." Sarek: "Tell him, Picard." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Peace, and long life." Sarek: "Live long and... And... Live long and... Spock! My son!" Picard: "And prosper." --"Unification I", Stardate 45235.4 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45240.1. To cross the Neutral Zone, I will require a cloaked ship. To that end, I have set a course for the Klingon homeworld. After all we did for Gowron during the recent war, I'm certain he would be happy to return the favor." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Picard: "Still no response from the Klingons, Mister Worf?" Worf: "No, sir." Picard: "He's ignoring me, what other explanation is there?" Riker: "It'd seem after hailing him for three days, he could've found a *minute* to talk to you." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Worf: "I believe I know why our messages are not being answered. Gowron has been rewriting Klingon history." Riker: "Rewriting history?" Worf: "Yes, he is claiming that it was his courage, his *genius*, that brought an end to the civil war." Picard: "I see." Worf: "In the new version, there's no mention made of the Federation's help in his rise to power." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Picard: "Mister Data, your resourcefulness never ceases to amaze me." Data: "Thank you, sir." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Worf: "Captain, we are being hailed by the Klingon homeworld." Picard: "Gowron or K'Tal?" Worf: "Neither, sir. It is the junior adjutant to the diplomatic delegation." Riker: "Junior adjutant." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% B'Ijik: "Greetings, Captain. I regret to inform you that Gowron and the High Council are quite busy and won't be able to speak with you today." Picard: "Is Gowron aware that we have been transmitting messages for the past three days?" B'Ijik: "Captain, Gowron wishes that it were possible to talk with everyone who wants an audience, but he is only one man. The demands on his time are formidable. If you would like me to take him a message--" Picard: "A message?!" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Picard: "Very well, tell Gowron, Leader of the High Council of the Klingon Empire, that his Arbiter Of Succession, Jean-Luc Picard, needs...a favor." B'Ijik: "A favor?" Picard: "I require a cloaked vessel." B'Ijik: "A cloaked vessel...is no small favor, Captain." Picard: "It is for a mission that could have repercussions throughout the quadrant." B'Ijik: "How would it benefit the Klingon Empire? I'm sure Gowron would ask." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Picard: "The only benefit to the Klingon Empire...would be our gratitude." B'Ijik: "That is what you want me to tell him?!" Picard: "Yes. And, please add that, if he is unable to provide us with a ship, then I am sure there are others in the Klingon Empire...who would be willing to help me. And then, they would have our gratitude." B'Ijik: "I see." Picard: "Also, please tell Gowron that I am *immensely* gratified that he is prospering so well. A tribute to his skilled leadership." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Crusher: "They're not removable, are they, Data?" Data: "Removable?" Crusher: "Your ears." Data: "No, Doctor. They are fully integrated components." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Crusher: "Your right eye is point zero zero four higher than the left." Picard: "Nobody's perfect, Doctor. But--" Crusher: "If you want a proper fit to your prosthetics, trust your tailor." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Picard: "Anything from Gowron?" Riker: "No, sir, but if when you're done with your tailor, you join me in the cargo bay? Mister LaForge has made some progress with the metal fragments." Beverly: "These two still have an appointment with Mister Mott to have their hairpieces designed." Picard: "Twenty minutes, Number One." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% K'Vada: "I know my duty, Captain. When I am given orders, I follow them, but I do not like secrets! I want to know* why* we are going on this mission." Picard: "I'm sorry, it's a classified matter." K'Vada: "You're going after the defector, aren't you?" Picard: "Defector?" K'Vada: "Do you think information like that *stays* a secret? Ambassador Spock has gone to Romulus, and you are going after him." Picard: "Captain, your orders are to take us to a set of coordinates near Romulus and to bring us back. And that is all I am prepared to discuss." K'Vada: "If we are discovered by the Romulans, it means death for us all!" Picard: "I realize that." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% K'Vada: "It may not be what you're used to on a Starfleet ship." Picard: "Quite nice, thank you." Data: "Captain K'Vada, is this the captain's quarters, or my own?" K'Vada: "Both. We have limited space. We are a military ship, not a pleasure craft." Picard: "Of course, this will be fine." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% K'Vada: "You will sleep Klingon style! We do not soften our bodies by...putting down padding." Picard: "Good! I prefer it that way!" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% K'Vada: "You will take your meals with *us*! But we do not serve Federation food." Picard: "Ah, I've been looking forward to gagh! Haven't had it for quite a while. Very fresh." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% K'Vada: "Well, Captain, we are at the border of the Neutral Zone. You mean to do this, do you?" Picard: "Yes I do." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.1 %% Riker: "First Officer's Log, Stardate 45240.6. The Enterprise is nearing Qualor II, home of a Federation surplus depot operated by the Zakdorn. We hope to find out how the salvaged deflector array ended up in the hands of the Ferengi." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Riker: "I'm Commander William Riker from the Starship Enteprise." Dokachin: "Dokachin, Quartermaster Surplus Depot Zed One Five." Riker: "I need some information about a Vulcan ship, the T'Pau. It was sent to you a few years ago." Dokachin: "Did you arrange an appointment?" Riker: "An appointment? No." Dokachin: "The I will be unable to help you. You may communicate with Scheduling." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Riker: "Who does he think he is?" Troi: "The quartermaster of the supply yard, with information you need." Riker: "Right." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Riker: "Mister Dekashen?" Dokachin: "Dokachin. Krim Dokachin." Riker: "Mister Dokachin, the information I need involves a matter of major importance to the Federation. I'll need access to your logs, your files, my people can do the work." Dokachin: "I don't allow outsiders into my computer system." Riker: "All right, one of your people can do the work." Dokachin: "I wish I had the people to spare, I don't." Riker: "Well, sir, what would you suggest?!" Dokachin: "I don't know. Contact me when you reach orbit." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Riker: "I don't believe this!" Troi: "He's king to his particular hill, Commander. You have to treat him that way." Riker: "Counselor, this feels like a perfect job for you." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Riker: "Thank you for coming on board, Mister Dokachin." Dokachin: "Quite a ship you have." Riker: "We're tied into your computers if you'd like to access the files." Dokachin: "I usually don't see them in such good condition. By the time they get to me they're always falling apart." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Troi: "Mister Dokachin, we must find this ship and you're the only one who can help us." Dokachin: "Who are you?" Troi: "Deanna Troi, ship's counselor." Dokachin: "He probably figures that we don't get to see a lot of handsome women out this way. And someone like you might get a little more coorporation from me. He's probably right." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Dokachin: "I suppose this is your first visit to a junkyard, isn't it?" Troi: "Mm-hm." Dokachin: "You'd be surprised at some of the things I find onboard these ships." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Dokachin: "I once found a fourteen foot Caldorian eel aboard a freighter, in someone's locker." Troi: "Are you serious?" Dokachin: "If you have time, I'll show it to you. I still have it. Nursed it back to health." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Riker: "The T'Pau is missing?" Dokachin: "The T'Pau...is missing." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Dokachin: "In all the time that the Zakdorn have operated this depot, nothing has ever been lost. Never!" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "These quarters were obviously intended for one crewman, sir. There is but a single sleeping space." Picard: "I'm sure the Klingons found it amusing to put us in here together." Data: "Since I do not require sleep, I propose you take the...shelf, sir. I am content to stand." Picard: "Very well, Mister Data, thank you." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "Are you comfortable, sir?" Picard: "I suppose so." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "Good night, Captain. Sleep well, sir." Picard: "Thank you." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "What're you doing?" Data: "Sir? Was I making noise, sir?" Picard: "No, not exactly." Data: "I was processing all of the information we have accumulated on Romulan society. I am preparing for the task of impersonating a Romulan." Picard: "I see." Data: "Would you like me to discontinue, sir?" Picard: "No. No, please, go on." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "What're you looking at?" Data: "I am not looking at anything, sir. I am continuing to organize my files." Picard: "But you were looking at me." Data: "I am sorry if I was disturbing you, sir. I will not look in your direction." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "Do you not wish to sleep, sir?" Picard: "I don't think so, Mister Data." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "Sarek is dead." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "Well, Mister Data, what do you think?" Data: "I would not have thought it possible, sir. I am eager to test the success of our efforts. It does remain to be seen whether the Romulans will accept us." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "Captain, you have seemed unusually pensive since we received the news of Ambassador Sarek's death." Picard: "Sarek and I shared a particular bond. Our lives touched in an unusual way. I admit I feel the effects of his death. The tenure of this mission has changed, Mister Data, at least it has for me. We were sent to confront Spock about his disappeance, and now I also have to tell him that his father is dead." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "I do not entirely understand, sir. As a Vulcan, Ambassador Spock would simply see death as the logical result of his father's illness." Picard: "It's never quite that simple, not even for a Vulcan. Certainly not for Spock, who is half-human. Years spent in conflict. And now the chance to resolve those differences is gone." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "Considering the exceptionally long lifespan of Vulcans, it does seem odd that Sarek and Spock did not choose to resolve those differences in the time allowed." Picard: "Father and son. Both proud, both stubborn, more alike than either of them were prepared to admit. A lifetime spent building emotional barriers, they are very difficult to break down. And now the time has come when it's too late. It's a difficult moment. It's a lonely one. It's a moment that Spock is about to face." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% K'Vada: [Laughs] "Don't you two look *sweet*?!" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% K'Vada: "Be careful, android! Some Romulan beauty might take a liking to you! Lick that paint right off your ears." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% K'Vada: "You! Do you know what the Romulans will do to you if they discover who you are?" Picard: "I have a good idea." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% K'Vada: "Just so we understand each other...my orders don't include rescue missions!" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "Data, you're moving about in a very...well, *android* way." Data: "I am sorry, Captain. I will be more careful." Picard: "Don't call me 'captain'." Data: "I understand, sir." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Data: "I have clearly determined Pardek's routine. On days when the Senate is not in session, he invariably comes to this section at the medium hour." Picard: "Very well, let's um, sample the local cuisine, shall we?" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Soup Woman: "I haven't seen you before." Data: "We are here for the day, from the city of Rateg." Soup Woman: "Rateg? I don't think so." Data: "Why do you say that?" Soup Woman: "You don't sound like you're from Rateg." Data: "It is a misconception that all Rategs speak with a particular inflection. In fact, there are twelve different--" --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "We come from several kilometers outside the city." Soup Woman: "Or perhaps you come from the security forces to watch the intersessor's office. Is he in trouble?" Picard: "You're mistaken, madam." Soup Woman: "Doesn't matter to me. I don't know when he opens. Eat your soup, courtesy of a *loyal* establishment. Jolan tru." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "Perhaps you should appear to enjoy your soup, sir." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Pardek: "Welcome to Romulus, Captain Picard." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Pardek: "I am Pardek. You are among friends, Captain." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Picard: "I have come on an urgent mission from the Federation. I am looking for Ambassador Spock." Spock: "Indeed! You have found him, Captain Picard." --"Unification I", Stardate 45240.6 %% Spock: "What are you doing on Romulus?" Picard: "That was to have been my question of you, sir." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "It is no concern of *Starfleet*." Picard: "On the contrary, it is very much Starfleet's concern. You're in a position to compromise the security of the Federation." Spock: "You may assure your superiors, Captain, that I am here on a personal mission of peace, and *I* will advise Starfleet when it is appropriate." Picard: "That is not satisfactory." Spock: "You cannot remain here, Captain Picard." Picard: "And I will not return without a full explanation." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Ambassador, with great respect for all that you have achieved on behalf of the Federation, this sort of...cowboy diplomacy, will not easily be tolerated anymore." Spock: "Cowboy diplomacy." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "If you wish to undertake a mission with obvious repercussions for the Federation, then you should *discuss* it with the Federation. I am here as their representative. You'll have to discuss it with me." Spock: "That is precisely what I had hoped to avoid." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "I also have the responsibility of being the bearer of unhappy news." Spock: "Sarek. Sarek is dead." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "Walk with me, Picard." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "I know of your mind meld with my father, which enabled him to complete his last mission." Picard: "It was an honor. He's a great man." Spock: "He was a great representative of the Vulcan people and of the Federation." Picard: "I was with him before coming here. He expressed his pride in you... his love." Spock: "Emotional disarray, it was a symptom of the illness from which he suffered." Picard: "No, those feelings came from his heart. He shared them with me, I know." Spock: "Sarek would no more approve my coming here than you do, Picard." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "For some time now, I've been aware of a growing movement here of people who seek to learn the ideals of the Vulcan philosophy. They've been declared enemies of the state, but there are a few in the Romulan hierarchy like Pardek, who are sympathetic. *He* asked me to come now, because he believes it may be time to take the first step toward reunification." Picard: "Reunification? After so many centuries? After so many fundamental differences that've evolved between your peoples?" Spock: "It would seem unlikely to succeed, but I cannot ignore the potential rewards that a union between our two worlds would bring." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Why would you not bring something so important to the attention to your own people? Or the Federation? Spock: "A personal decision, Captain. Perhaps you are aware of the small role I played in the overture to peace with the Klingons." Picard: "*History* is aware of the role you played, Ambassador." Spock: "Not entirely. It was *I* who committed Captain Kirk to that peace mission and *I* who had to bear the responsibility for the consequences to him and to his crew. Quite simply, I am unwilling to risk anyone's life but my own on this occasion." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "So I ask that you respect my wishes and *leave*." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Ambassador, your logic escapes me. If I didn't know better, I would say that your judgement is influenced by your emotions." Spock: "You speak as if my father would if he were here, Picard." Picard: "I speak as a Starfleet officer. And I cannot ignore the risks to you." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "I was involved with cowboy diplomacy, as you described it, long before you were born." Picard: "Nevertheless, sir, I am not prepared to leave until your affairs are complete." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "In your own way, you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew." Picard: "Then I'm in good company, sir." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% K'Vada: "We have more important things to attend to than acting as your nurse-maid!" --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% K'Vada: "Piggyback?" Data: "A human metaphor, pardon me." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Data: "Thank you for your coorporation." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "I sense you have a closed mind, Captain. Closed minds have kept these two worlds apart for centuries. In the Federation, we have learned from experience to view the Romulans with distrust. We can either choose to live with that emity, or seek a way to change it. I choose the latter." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "I will be the first to cheer when the Neutral Zone is abolished." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "But I wonder if this movement is strong enough to reshape the entire Romulan political landscape." Spock: "One can begin to reshape the landscape with a single flower, Captain." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Pardek: "So what do you think of your enemy, Captain Picard?" Picard: "These people are no one's enemy, Senator." Pardek: "Many of my colleagues fear what they have to say. But I have learned to listen carefully. Children like D'Tan are our future. Old men like me will me will not be able to hold on to ancient prejudice and hostility. Young people won't allow it. But now, now that they've met their first real Vulcan, it has only inspired them more." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Spock: "I did not anticipate such a passionate response to my arrival." Pardek: "Romulans are passionate people. The Vulcans will learn to appreciate that quality in us." --"Unification II", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "First Officer's Log, Stardate 45245.8. The Enterprise remains at Qualor II as we continue to investigate the theft of the surplus Vulcan ship. The trail has led us to the former wife of a desceased smuggler." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Amarie: "A new face." Riker: "Same one I've always had." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Amarie: "And what would you like to hear?" Riker: "Know some blues?" Amarie: "Look at me, mister. What'd you think?" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Amarie: "Suck salt?" Riker: "Never cared for it." Amarie: "Hmm, good for you. Nasty habit." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Amarie: "So who are you looking for?" Riker: "Who says I'm looking for anybody?" Amarie: "Your face, your uniform, in a place like this?" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "Okay, I'm looking for you." Amarie: "Oh, you just made my day." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "I have to ask you about your husband." Amarie: "Well, it was nice while it lasted. Which husband?" Riker: "The dead one, I'm afraid." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "He was into some bad business. And he took the evidence with him." Amarie: "His one endearing quality. He always cleaned up after himself." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Amarie: "And what do you want from me?" Riker: "I was hoping you might know his business partners." Amarie: "And why should I help you?" Riker: "To be honest, I can't think of a good reason." Amarie: "Well, you did kill my ex-husband. And that's not a bad start. So why don't you drop a few coins into the jar and I'll see what I remember." Riker: "I don't carry money." Amarie: "Well, you don't offer much, do you?" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "Move over." Amarie: "Oh, just what I need, another set of hands." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "Know this one? Twentieth-century Earth. Maybe I can teach you a lick or two." Amarie: "You already have." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Pardek: "Ambassador Spock, of Vulcan." Spock: "Proconsul." Neral: "Oh, please, I have never liked titles ever since I was a lowly yulan in the Romulan Guard." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Neral: "It's been years since 'ol Pardek's been invited to an official function. He's, he's far too attached to the common man for most people's comfort." Spock: "That is their loss. I have found Pardek to have a unique insight into many issues." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Neral: "Let me tell you something, Spock. We are going to start something here, you and I, that will redraw the face of the quadrant." Spock: "Are you prepared to support reunification?" Neral: "I believe must eventually come. Our two worlds need each other." Spock: "Forgive me, I...I did not expect to hear a Romulan proconsul speak like a member of your underground." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Neral: "Times are changing. And leaders who refuse to change with them, well, will no longer be leaders." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Neral: "Jolan tru, Spock. Oh...live long and prosper." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "You let their emotions sway you." Spock: "On the contrary, I am pursuing the most logical course." Picard: "You're as skeptical as I am. Is it logical to ignore your own good sense?" Spock: "I fear the influence of Sarek has covered your attitudes, Captain, toward reunification and perhaps toward me." Picard: "That is the second time you have accused me of speaking with another man's voice. It's true he will always be a part of me. His experience, his spirit. But I speak with my own voice, not his." Spock: "Curious. That I should hear him so clearly, now that he is dead." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "It is possible that I have brought my argument with Sarek to you, Captain. If so, I apologize. Picard: "Is it so important that you win one last argument with him?" Spock: "No, it is not, but it is true that I will miss the arguments. They were, finally, all that we had." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "But your fight with Sarek is over, Spock. You have none with me." Spock: "I always had a different vision than my father. The ability to see *beyond* pure logic. He considered it weak. But I have discovered it to be a source of extraordinary strength. Sarek would've seen this mission of reunification as a fool's errand. Somehow I think it is not." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "Logic cannot explain why, I only know that I must persue this." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "If the Romulans do have an ulterior motive, it is in the best interests of all concerned that we determine what it is. So, I will play the role that they would have me playing." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "I'll take this opportunity to remove my ears." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "Intrigues me, this Picard." Data: "In what manner, sir?" Spock: "Remarkably analytical, and is dispassionate, for a human. I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him. There is almost a Vulcan quality to the man." Data: "Interesting. I have not considered that." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Data: "And Captain Picard has been a role model in my quest to be more human." Spock: "More human?" Data: "Yes, Ambassador." Spock: "Fascinating. You have an efficient intellect, superior physical skills, no emotional impediments. There are Vulcans who aspire all their lives to achieve what you've been given, by design." Data: "Hm." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Data: "You are...half-human?" Spock: "Yes." Data: "Yet you have chosen a Vulcan way of life." Spock: "I have." Data: "In effect, you have abandoned what I have sought...all my life." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Data: "Ambassador Spock, may I ask a personal question?" Spock: "Please." Data: "As you examine your life, do you find that you have missed your humanity?" Spock: "I have no regrets." Data: "No regrets. That is a human expression." Spock: "Yes. Fascinating." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Worf: "Do you know any Klingon opera?" Amarie: "I don't get a lot of requests for it." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Worf: "Surely you must know at least one theme from 'Actoo and Maylorta'?" Amarie: "I may be little rusty." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Worf: "Maylorta..." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Omag: "What is that dreadful noise?! It sounds like a Bardakian pronghorn moose!" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Omag: "You know what I want to hear." Amarie: "Yeah, yes, I know." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Worf: "A *fat* Ferengi has just entered the establishment." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Omag: "Where's the waiter? Isn't there a waiter in this sorry place?!" Riker: "Is there a problem?" Omag: "Yes. I need more napkins!" Riker: "Use your sleeve." Omag: "What did you say?!" Riker: "Use one of their sleeves, I don't care." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Omag: "What are you?" Riker: "Commander William Riker, U.S.S. Enterprise." Omag: "Oh, am I supposed to stand up and *salute*?!" [Laughs] --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Omag: "Can't somebody get me a napkin?!" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "Who would want a Vulcan ship?" Omag: "Hypothecially speaking?!" Riker: "'Hypothetically speaking'." Omag: "I never learned to speak hypothetical." [Laughs] --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "Let me explain what'll happen to you if you don't tell me about the Vulcan ship. Your rite of passage though this sector will be revoked, and more than that, I will be *very* unhappy." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "Enjoy your dinner." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "Captain Picard, welcome to Romulus. I trust you've enjoyed your visit?" [To Data] "And this is the android I've come to respect in battle." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Pardek: "How could they know of this location? Someone has betrayed us!" Spock: "Yes, you did." Pardek: "Spock, we've been friends for eighty years." Spock: "It is the only logical conclusion. You asked me to come to Romulus, you arranged the meetings with the proconsul. And you knew that Picard and Data had returned to the surface with new information." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "The great Spock." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Pardek: "Jolan tru, Spock." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "Do not be distressed. Your dream of reunification is not dead. It will simply take a different form. The Romulan conquest of Vulcan." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Riker: "First Officer's Log, Supplemental. The Enterprise has reached Galorndon Core, near the border of the Neutral Zone." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "Excuse me, I'm just finishing up a speech, for you, Mister Spock. I rather enjoy writing, I don't get to do it very often in this job." Data: "Perhaps you would be happier in another job." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "Please feel free to change any words that you wish. I tried to make it sound Vulcan, a lot of unneccessarily long words." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "I will not read this or any other statement." Sela: "If you do not, you will die! All of you will die!" Spock: "Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to coorperate." Sela: "I hate Vulcans! I hate the logic! I hate the arrogance!" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "This is Ambassador Spock of Vulcan. By now, Federation sensors are tracking three Vulcan ships crossing the Neutral Zone. These ships carry the future of the Romulan and Vulcan people. Our long conflict is finally over." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "Impossible! There's no way they could've gotten out of this room!" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% "Riker": "That's far enough! Stay right where you are. Drop your weapons." Sela: "How did you get in here?" "Riker": "Drop your weapons. Drop your weapons." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "I'm afraid I don't know too much about Romulan disruptor settings." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "Cowboy diplomacy?" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "Well done, Mister Data. Though...I don't think you got Commander Riker's hair quite right." Data: "I will be more observant in the future, sir." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "This is Ambassador Spock of Vulcan. By now, Federation sensors are now tracking three Vulcan ships crossing the Neutral Zone. These ships carry a Romulan invasion force and must be stopped. I repeat, these ships carry a Romulan--" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Sela: "You'll never get out of this building." Data: "I disagree, Commander. After studying the design of this structure, I have determined that our best route of escape would be the underground exit to the east of this wing. I have disconnected certain security scanners to assist us." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Data: "I am afraid we cannot allow you to warn your guards." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "Not bad." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "What will you do now?" Romulan #2: "What we have always done. Continue to teach, pass on the ideals to a new generation, work for the day when new thoughts may be spoken aloud." Picard: "The Federation will welcome that day." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "Captain, I will not be coming with you." Picard: "Ambassador--" Spock: "The reason for my coming here has never been more clear. The union of the Vulcan and the Romulan people will not be achieved by politics or by diplomacy. But it will be achieved. The answer has been here before us all along. An inexorable evolution toward a Vulcan philosophy has already begun. Like the first Vulcans, these people...are struggling to a new enlightment. And it may take decades or even centuries for them to reach it. But they will reach it. And I must help." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "I have learned that it is useless to argue with you once your mind is set." Spock: "Not at all, Captain. I have found our arguments quite useful...almost as useful as those I had with my father." Picard: "Would it surprise you to learn...that he found them equally valuable?" --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Spock: "Ironically, you may know Sarek better than his own son does. My father and I...never chose to meld." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% Picard: "I offer you the chance to touch...what he shared with me." --"Unification II", Stardate 45245.8 %% LaForge: "I'm talking to the wrong crowd." --"New Ground", Stardate 45 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45397.3. Two days ago, Starbase 514 lost contact with the Research Vessel Vico, which was sent to explore the interior of the Black Cluster. We are en route to investigate." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. A young boy, shielded from our initial sensor scans, has been discovered pinned beneath a fallen beam. The degree of damage to the Vico is making our rescue attempt difficult." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Riker: "It's going to be okay." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Are you going to lift that?" Data: "Yes." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "How can you lift something so heavy?" Data: "I am an android. My strength is many times that of a human." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "It is going to be...okay." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. A thorough search of the Vico has revealed no additional survivors. We have begun the process of counseling the boy with regard to the tragedy." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Crusher: "You've got your work cut out for you." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "His world is gone, Data. You're going to have to help him build a new one." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Geordi, as a child, did you ever experience a traumatic event?" LaForge: "You're wondering about Timothy?" Data: "Yes." LaForge: "I was...caught in a fire once. I must have been, I don't know, about five, I guess? It was before I got the first V.I.S.O.R. And, it was only a couple of minutes before my parents found me and pulled me out. And nobody got hurt, but...I tell you...that was the longest couple of minutes in my life. It was a while after that before I could even let my parents get out of earshot. It was like...I absolutely needed to know that they were there, you know?" Data: "Timothy no longer has that kind of support." LaForge: "Yeah." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Teacher: "Dara and her brother found themselves in the land of Targus, where the ruler, Eliamos the Magnificent, had proclaimed his law, 'No children will be tolerated within the great kingdom.' When Dara saw the proclamation she just laughed, and said, 'How magnificent a ruler, to be frightened by the likes of us!'" --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "What do you think?" Data: "Do you wish a frank evaluation?" Timothy: [Nods yes] Data: "It lacks the harmony that characterized this particular temple, and the Docharan culture in general." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "You hate it." Data: "No. I am not capable of hatred." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "I can't do anything right." Data: "You are making an unwarranted extrapolation." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Incredible." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Data, how come you can do that?" Data: "I am designed to exceed human capacity, both mentally and physically." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Androids are better than humans?" Data: "Better is a highly subjective term. I do not for example possess the ability to experience emotion as humans do." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "No emotions? You mean you can't be happy...or sad?" Data: "That is correct." Timothy: "Why not?" Data: "My positronic brain is not capbable of generating those conditions." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Data, can we build something else...later?" Data: "That would be acceptable." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "I am designed to exceed human capacity. That is correct." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "Hello, Timothy. Are you ready to go?" Timothy: "Yes, Counselor, I am ready." Troi: "How do you feel?" Timothy: "I am functioning within estabished parameters." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "Established parameters? You sound like Data!" Timothy: "I am an android." Troi: "I see. Well, let's go for a walk, shall we?" Timothy: "That would be acceptable." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "So, what would you like?" Timothy: "Androids do not eat or drink. However, we sometimes like to taste things." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Would you like anything, Counselor?" Troi: "No, I'm fine, thank you." Timothy: "As you wish." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "So, you're no longer human." Timothy: "I am an android." Troi: "When did this happen?" Timothy: "I've always been an android." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "What's it like being an android?" Timothy: "I am designed to exceed human capacity, both mentally and physically." Troi: "You don't? No emotion at all?" Timothy: "That is correct." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Picard: "Data, I would like you to make Timothy the best android he can possibly be." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Timothy, your head movements are counterproductive. Can you be still?" Timothy: "But you do it." Data: "The servo mechanisms in my neck are designed to approximate human movements. I did not realize the effect was so distracting." Timothy: "I like it." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Data, are there any other androids in Starfleet?" Data: "No. I am the only one." Timothy: "How come you're not captain?" Data: "My service record does not yet warrant such a position." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Data, what's the most scariest thing that ever happened to you?" Data: "Fear is not a quality that I possess." Timothy: "Because you're emotionless." Data: "Correct." Timothy: "Well, what, what if you, you had a nightmare?" Data: "I have never had a nightmare. I do not require sleep. Are you having disturbing dreams?" Timothy: "I do not require sleep." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Is that satisfactory?" Timothy: "It's perfect." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Crusher: "Transfer circuits are functioning properly." Timothy: "Within established parameters?" Crusher: "Absolutely. Input processing, pattern recognition, all within established parameters." Data and Timothy: "Thank you, Doctor." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Perhaps you should return to your quarters." Timothy: "I'm fine. The servo mechanisms in my mouth are designed to appoximate human movements." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: [Practices yawning] Timothy: "That is not bad." Data: "Thank you." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Timothy, you understand that you may speak to me about anything you wish ...any subject." Timothy: "I understand." Data: "At times, I too find it...difficult to share my thoughts with others. I am not always confident that I am...expressing myself in a manner which humans can comprehend." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "He laughed." Troi: "Yes, it's nice to see, isn't it?" Data: "It is certainly not consistent with his android persona." Troi: "I'd say that he is beginning the process of letting go of that fantasy." Data: "Hmm. Then my work with him is done." Troi: "No, I, I don't think it is, Data." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "This is great. How is yours?" Data: "The complex polysaccharides, in reaction with the carbon dioxide, produces an unusual combination of texture and effervescence." Timothy: "But how does it taste? Is it good?" Data: "I am not capable of tasting in the manner you suggest. However, I can analyze the composition of a dessert, then make comparative conclusions about its possible effect on the human palatte. But I neither like it, nor dislike it." Timothy: "Oh, I didn't realize that." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "I have often wondered what it must be like to have one's mouth...water in anticipation of the arrival of a confection. Or to feel the pleasure I have observed in humans as they consume it." Timothy: "You sound like you don't want to be an android." Data: "I am an android. That will never change." Timothy: "But if you could change, would you?" Data: "I have often wished to be human. I have studied people carefully, in order to more closely approximate human behavior." Timothy: "Why? We're stronger and smarter than humans. We can do more than they can." Data: "I cannot take pride in my abilities. I cannot take pleasure in my accomplishments." Timothy: "But we never have to feel bad either." Data: "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could ...taste my dessert." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Timothy, androids do not lie." Timothy: "It was...me." Data: "Please explain." Timothy: "It was me. I killed them all." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Sir, drop the shields." Riker: "That's suicide, Data." Data: "Captain, *drop* the shields." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Picard: "Make it so." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Troi: "Timothy's a boy feeling a great deal of pain. But, he is a boy again. Is this difficult for you, Data?" Data: "Difficult?" Troi: "To watch him, moving away from being like you." Data: "That would require an emotional context which I cannot provide." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Data: "Hello, Timothy." Timothy: "Hi, Data. How are you?" Data: "I am operating within established parameters." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "I, I think that was pretty silly when I had my hair like yours and everything." Data: "I have been told that imitation is the highest form of flattery." --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Timothy: "Can we still do things together? Even if I'm not really an android?" Data: "I have many human friends. I would be pleased to count you among them." Timothy: "'That would be...acceptable.'" --"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45429.3. While on a mapping survey, we are conveying a delegation of Ullian to Caldra IV. These telepathic historians conduct their research by retrieving long forgotten memories." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Tarmin: "Perhaps someone else would care to try?" [To Crusher] "You, Madam? You're thinking about that first childhood kiss. Would you like to remember more about it?" --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Jev: "Father, you know you're not supposed to probe someone's memory unless they've given you permission." Tarmin: "You are right. But sometimes, with a beautiful woman, I cannot help myself." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% LaForge: "How about you, Commander? Have any memories you feel like digging up?" Riker: "None that I'd care to share with an audience." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Data: "It is perplexing to me that the Ullians' ability to retrieve memory is so highly prized. If an event were important enough to be recovered, why would it have been forgotten?" LaForge: "Well, it's not quite the same for us as it is for you, Data. You record every second of every moment of your life." Data: "That is correct." LaForge: "And then if you want to recall anyone of those moments, you just access the proper memory circuit." Data: "My understanding of the human brain suggests the process is the same for you. Each memory is encoded in chains of molecules. If you want to retrieve it you simply access the proper RNA sequence." LaForge: "Yeah, that's true." Data: "Then in what way is it different?" LaForge: "Sometimes there are memories we just can't access at the spur of the moment. For instance, I have no recollection of how I'd spent my last birthday. Birthdays are important occasions, and you would think that I remember how I spent the day. Right now, I can't even remember...where I was." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% LaForge: "On the other hand, I remember everything about the time I got my first pet, a Cirkacian cat. I was eight. I remember how funny-looking he was, I remember how excited I was. It was if it happened yesterday." Data: "Perhaps you remember the pleasant memories and forget the unpleasant ones." LaForge: "No, sometimes the bad memories can be the most intense of all." Data: "It would seem there is no predictable pattern to human memory." LaForge: "'It would seem'." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Crusher: "Captain, Mister Tarmin gave us a demonstration of his abilities this afternoon. It's fascinating. Perhaps you would like to resurrect some memories?" Tarmin: "I'd be happy to probe your recollections, Captain. Most people find it an enjoyable experience." Picard: "I'm sure. However, I don't think I would make a particularly good subject." Crusher: "I'm sure you'd be ideal. And, you must have some *intriguing* memories." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Tarmin: "We won't be on your ship for long. This may be your last chance." Picard: [Laughs] "Yes. Well..." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Tarmin: "Well you, Mister Worf, I would love to explore Klingon memories." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Worf: "Klingons do not allow themselves to be...probed." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Worf: "I am not fearful." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Tarmin: "I have rarely encountered such squeamish people!" --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Troi: "It's not easy having an overbearing parent. Believe me, I know how you feel." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Jev: "Oh, that's right, you're an empath." Troi: "Oh, I can't read Ullians. But I do know a certain Betazoid mother who is a great deal like your father." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Troi: "I've learned to remind myself that my mother and I are two separate individuals." Jev: "And have you enjoyed much success with this approach, Counselor?" Troi: "No. But I do keep reminding myself." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Jev: "Imzati..." --"Violations", Stardate 45429.3 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45430.9. Counselor Troi has fallen into a deep coma. After thorough examination, Doctor Crusher has been unable to find signs of illness or infection." --"Violations", Stardate 45430.9 %% Riker: "Deanna, I don't know if you can hear me, I've, I've heard doctors say that even when someone's in a coma, they may be able to hear when people talk to them. But it might help, to stimulate the brain...speed healing. In fact, I think you did that for me once, when I was in pretty bad shape. I just thought...it might help to hear a friendly voice...even if you don't know you're hearing it. We've been buzy mapping the sector. It's been pretty routine. Themost unusual thing we've seen is a binary star system. Let's see, what else. I finished the personnel review that we were working on. You can check it out...when you wake up. I miss you. Please don't stay away too long." --"Violations", Stardate 45430.9 %% Jev: "You killed her!" --"Violations", Stardate 45430.9 %% Crusher: "Medical Log, Stardate 45431.7. Commander Riker is the second officer who has fallen into an unexplained coma. I have examined the Ullians and ruled out the possibility that they carry a harmful organism." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% Tarmin: "I have been accused of putting people to sleep with one too many stories, Captain. But this is the first time it's ever been suggested that I might be the cause of someone's coma." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% LaForge: "How did I know you were going to say that." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% LaForge: "I spent two hours having a cozy little chat with the computer." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% Troi: "It's like waking up from a nightmare and not remembering what it was about." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% Tarmin: "We're to be prisoners?" Picard: "No, please, don't look on it like that." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% Jev: "It's a pleasant memory, stay with it." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% Troi: "It's Tarmin. It's your father." --"Violations", Stardate 45431.7 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45433.2. We have set a course for Starbase 440, where the Ullians will disembark and return home." --"Violations", Stardate 45433.2 %% Jev: "My father has never been one to admit that he's wrong." --"Violations", Stardate 45433.2 %% Jev: "So lovely." --"Violations", Stardate 45433.2 %% Jev: "Why do you have to be so nice? So...so nice." --"Violations", Stardate 45433.2 %% Troi: "It was you. It was always you!" --"Violations", Stardate 45433.2 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45435.8. Doctor Crusher, Commander Riker regained consciousness while we were en route to the Ullian homeworld. The slow process of their recovery has begun." --"Violations", Stardate 45435.8 %% Tarmin: "It's been three centuries since we treated anyone for this...this form of rape. But there are medical records from that era. It was a time of great violence for my people. A time we thought we had put far behind us. That this could happen now...is unimaginable." --"Violations", Stardate 45435.8 %% Picard: "Earth was once a violent planet too. At times, the chaos threatened the very fabric of life, but like you, we evolved. We found other ways to handle our conflict. But I think no one can deny that the seed...of violence ...remains within each of us. We must recognize that...because that violence is capable of consuming each of us...as it consumed your son." --"Violations", Stardate 45435.8 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 45494.2. We're investigating a series of subspace signals that may indicate intelligent life in the Epsilon Solar system. We are within sensor range." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "A characteristic response to the Kriskoff Gambit is to counter with the El Mitra Exchange, particularly since I have already taken both of your rooks. By missing that opportunity, you have left your king vulnerable." Troi: "We'll see." Data: "As you wish, Counselor." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "Intriguing. You have devised a completely unanticipated response to a classic attack. You will checkmate my king in seven moves." Troi: "Data, chess isn't just a game of plays and gambits. It's a game of intuition." Data: "Hmm." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "You are a challenging opponent, Counselor." Troi: "Thanks. But don't think a compliment's going to get you out of our bet. You owe me one Sumerian Sunset made in the *traditional style*...as you can only make it, Data." Data: "I will honor our agreement." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Kristin: "What do you think?" Beverly: "Well, it looks like you tucked when you should've flattened out." Kristin: "Something like that." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Beverly: "If I remember correctly, the last time you graced my Sickbay, you were diving off the Cliffs of Heaven on Sumico IV, Holodeck Program Forty-Seven C." Kristin: "Same thing, only that time I flattened out when I should've tucked." Beverly: "Well, as your doctor, I would like to recommend the Emerald Wading Pool on Sirus IV. A lot safer." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "The navigators on this ship have been doing flight handling assessments the same way for years, Ensign!" Ro: "And I found a better way." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "Do you mind if we discuss changes in procedure before you make them?" Ro: "If I had to come to you in advance and ask you to do it my way--" Riker: "I might have said--" Ro: "No." Riker: "Yes, maybe." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "The point is that I didn't get the chance." Ro: "The point is, with all due respect, Commander, you are trying to turn me into your idea of the model officer." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "The rules on this ship do not change just because Ro Laran decides they do." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "One Sumerian Sunset, made in the traditional style." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "It's beautiful." Data: "I hope you enjoy it." [Flash] "I hope you enjoy it." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "I don't know who any of you are." Picard: "Neither do I. I don't...I don't even remember who I am." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% LaForge: "Looks like we're all in the same boat." Riker: "Make that the same starship." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Well, it looks like I'm the pilot." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "This console is tactical configuration." Worf: "Yes, phaser power status, intruder scan, torpedo guidance." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "A good chance, this is our ship. Looks like you're the leader." Worf: "Perhaps we should not jump to conclusions. *I* am decorated as well." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "The remains of another ship." LaForge: "It's a good possibility." Worf: "Or perhaps, we were engaged in battle."" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "Um, Computer, status report." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "That rules out our distress signal." Riker: "If we even knew where to send it." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "This ship must have a crew." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "Bridge to all personnel, select a representative from your group to contact the Bridge and report on your status. Remain where you are, and stay calm. Bridge out." Kristin: "Well that helps a lot." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Crusher: "At least I have an idea of what I'm doing here." Kristin: "But, what about me? I mean I'm a patient in a bathing suit. That doesn't say much." Crusher: "No it doesn't." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Kristin: "Do you have any clothes around here I could borrow? At least until I figure out where the swimming pool is?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "I've just completed a survey of our tactical systems. We are equipped with ten phaser banks, two-hundred and fifty photon torpedoes, and a high- capacity shield grid." MacDuff: "We're a battleship." Worf: "Yes, it appears so." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "We should start with the most crucial areas first." Ro: "Main Engineering, Deck Thirty-Six, I'm on my way." Riker: "Whoa, wait a minute. We've got to coordinate our efforts here first." Ro: "I just need to *do* something." Riker: "Look, I feel the same way, we all do, but if anything's going to get done..." Ro: "I know, I just...it's really an ugly feeling I don't like being so out of control." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "It'd be nice if we all had names." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "As soon as the ship is operational, we must make it combat-ready." Picard: "Well, I would recommend that before we prepare for combat we try to access the ship's logs, find out who we are, what our purpose here might be." Worf: "Well I disagree. We must first make ourselves ready for battle. *That* is the highest priority." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "Now we are ready." Picard: "Question is, for what?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "We should run a full diagnostic on all command systems." Worf: "A full diagnostic would require us to take our systems offline. We would be defenseless." Picard: "If we're going to trust *our* lives to these systems, we should be certain that they're not going to fail." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Well, that's it for the living quarters on this deck. What's next?" Riker: "There's a large room up ahead called Ten Forward." Ro: "Let's go." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "So if everything were back to the way it was supposed to be, what do you think you'd be doing now?" Riker: "I'd be having more fun than searching this ship, I'd imagine." Ro: "Fun." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "Well, with that Holodeck we just saw. I think I could conjure up an interesting program or two." Ro: "Now that's disappointing." Riker: "Why?" Ro: "You don't strike me as a man who needs a Holodeck to have a good time." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "Have you found out anything that might give us some insight into what happened?" Troi: "Not specifically, but there are two things that seem unusual. The bartender is an artificial lifeform." Data: "Can I get you something? A beverage?" Riker: "No, thank you." Ro: "No, I'm fine." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "Your memories are gone as well?" Data: "The databanks that identify who I am...are not functioning." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "You're going to mention something else?" Troi: "I don't know if it means anything, but I seem to have an ability that the others don't. I have a very strong sense of what other people are feeling. At times, it's...almost..." Riker: "Is something wrong?" Troi: "No. Just for a moment, you seemed familiar." Riker: "You remember me?" Troi: "Not exactly, I, I mean I don't know who you are, but...there's something about you." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Computer: "Commanding Officer, Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Executive Officer, Commander Keiran MacDuff. Second Officer, Commander William Riker. Operations Officer, Lieutenant Commander Data. Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Beverly Crusher. Ship's Counselor, Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi. Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge. Security Chief, Lieutenant Worf. Helm Officer, Ensign Ro Laran." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "Your next priority will be to retrieve any information you can about this ship's mission. Contact the Operations Officer to assist you." LaForge: "Aye, sir." Ro: "He's in Ten Forward, waiting tables." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "Captain...I regret my recent behavior. I assumed an attitude of authority that was...unwarranted." Picard: "Mister Worf, we're all doing the best we can in a difficult situation. Think nothing more of it." Worf: "Thank you, Captain." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "This vessel is called the Enterprise. We are part of an organization called The United Federation Of Planets." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "Our choice is clear." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "These are your quarters." Troi: "Thanks for your help. Come in for a minute?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "Nothing feels right. This room, this ship, most of all, this war we're fighting." Riker: "I don't imagine war ever feels right." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "What is it?" Troi: "That same feeling. *You* seem familiar, you're the only thing that does." Riker: "Can you remember anything specific about us?" Troi: "I don't know... It's, it's more like remembering an emotion, feelings that you're somehow associated with." Riker: "I hope they're good feelings." Troi: "Yes they are." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "This entire situation is a little bit unnerving." Riker: "It's been a long day, we've all been through a lot." Troi: "We certainly have." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Hi." Riker: "I know I didn't get the wrong room." Ro: "I just didn't like the way my quarters were decorated. Besides, I have this funny feeling that maybe I spend most of my off hours here." Riker: "Really." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "For all we know, you and I could be married." Riker: "For all we know, you and I could hate each other." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Sort of exciting, isn't it? You just don't know?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "We might regret this." Ro: "Regret *what*? Aren't you being a little presumptuous?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Like I said, I just didn't like the way my quarters were decorated." Riker: "Then maybe we should switch quarters." Ro: "Maybe we should stay right here and see what happens." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "What if I snore in my sleep?" Ro: "What makes you think you're going to *get* any sleep?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "Well done, Captain." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "Doctor, the success of this mission would be much more *likely* if we could get our memories back." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% LaForge: "You must have been one hell of a bartender." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% LaForge: "Well it's too bad there aren't more of you around. We could certainly use the help." Data: "Yes." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% LaForge: "I wonder why you're the only one on board?" Data: "I have expended considerable thought with respect to my apparent uniqueness among the crew." LaForge: "Any conclusions?" Data: "Several possibilities suggest themselves. I may represent an entire *race* of artificial lifeforms. If so there may be a home planet for others of my kind, a shared history and a culture of which I am not presently aware." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% LaForge: "Then again, you could've been built just for this ship." Data: "I have considered that possibility as well. It may also be the case that every starship in the Federation is equipped with an artificial lifeform such as myself." LaForge: "Hmm. If that's true, maybe you all look alike. A standard-issue android, hard to construct, so only one allowed per vessel." Data: "Hmm." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "There is another possibility. Perhaps my origin is unique. In that case I am alone." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "I'm restless. Mind if I visit for a while?" Riker: "Please." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "What's wrong?" Troi: "Everything. Every time I think about this war, our mission, I feel a sense of panic like a hand is closing around my throat." Riker: "You're never going to feel good about this war, none of us will. But we've got to complete our mission." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "I've been doing a little research. Trying to find out more about William T. Riker." Troi: "What have you discovered?" Riker: "He's a musician, for one thing." [Plays trombone] Troi: "Very impressive." Riker: "No one was more surprised than I." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "So what else has your research uncovered about William Riker?" Riker: "Exactly medically inclined, loves to climb mountains, is from somewhere called Alaska, enjoys exotic food, and takes his vacations on a planet called Risa." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "_Ode To Psyche_ by John Keats." Riker: "Open it." Troi: "'To Will. All my love, Deanna.'" Riker: "That may explain some of the familiar feelings we have." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "I don't know what to think." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Counselor?" Troi: "Ensign." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Am I interrupting anything?" Riker and Troi: "No." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "I was just visiting, uh... We'll talk again soon, Commander." Riker: "Of course. Thank you, Counselor." Ro: "Bye." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "And what was all of that about?" Riker: "Oh, we were just discussing the...situation we're all in." Ro: "Mmm, good. Because I have a feeling that I used to be the jealous type." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "Doctor, is it absolutely necessary to see the medical files to attempt treatment?" Crusher: "It would be *dangerous* to do without them." Riker: "It's a risk I think we have to take." MacDuff: "He's right, Captain. I volunteer for the procedure." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Crusher: "We're lucky we didn't lose you." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Crusher: "Do you remember anything more about yourself?" MacDuff: "No, I'm sorry, Doctor." Crusher: "Back to square one." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "I find myself having grave concerns about our mission." MacDuff: "Concerns as, as to its success?" Picard: "No, no, no, more fundamental doubts. Whether or not it can be *justified*." MacDuff: "I have been asking myself the same thing. I'm sure our superiors feel their orders are justified." Picard: "Orders we can't even *verify*." MacDuff: "Orders we can't *ignore*." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "But I can't also ignore that we greatly outclassed the *one* enemy vessel we encountered. And every single possible shred of information which might shed some light on this situation has been conveniently eliminated! I feel...as though I have been handed a weapon, sent into a room, and told to shoot a stranger. Well I need some moral context to jusify that action." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "I'm not content simply to obey orders." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "I need to know that what I am doing is *right*." MacDuff: "So do I. I'd feel a lot better if all the questions were answered. And if you want to abandon our mission until our memories return that's your choice, but I must ask you...is it right to risk prolonging this war? To allow the needless deaths of thousands on both sides...solely on the basis of our moral discomfort?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "Memory or no, it seems clear that you and I were born for battle... more so than the others." Worf: "I thought this as well." MacDuff: "It's conceivable that that is the very reason why we have been assigned to this vessel." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "The Enterprise has science officers, medical specialists, engineers. Our captain is undoubtedly an *accomplished* diplomat. But we...we are the warriors. There are times for diplomacy, this is not one of them." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Worf: "You are concerned about the captain." MacDuff: "I am concerned about completing our mission and ending this war...in victory." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "We may soon face a critical moment. The success of our mission may hang on a split-second decision. Hesitation would kill us all. I know that they're counting on us would surely die as well. We cannot let this happen. That'll be all." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Data: "We are through the perimeter, sir." Riker: "That was too easy." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "Phaser banks ready, loading torpedoes." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "What are the defensive capabilities of the Central Command?" Data: "Armaments consist of four laser cannons and thirty-nine cobalt-fusion warheads with magnetic propulsion. Defensive shield output is four-point- three-kilojules." Riker: "One photon torpedo ought to do it." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Troi: "Data, how many people on that station?" Data: "Fifteen-thousand, three-hundred-eleven." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "We're within range, Captain." Picard: "Standby." MacDuff: "Waiting on your orders, sir." Troi: "Captain, this isn't right." MacDuff: "The rest of our forces are depending on us." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "How could our mortal enemy be over one-hundred years behind us in weapons technology?" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% MacDuff: "Their battleships will be on their way right now. We must attack!" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "I do not fire on defenseless people." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "Mister Worf, open a channel to the Lysians." MacDuff: "Delay that order! There's something wrong with the captain, I'm taking command of this vessel! Fire all weapons!" --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. We are on a course to Starbase 301. Doctor Crusher has been working steadily, and has restored the memories of most of the crew." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Picard: "One photon torpedo would've ended their war." Riker: "It almost did." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "I hope I'm not interrupting." Ro and Troi: "No." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: [To Riker] "I was hoping to run into you." Troi: [To Riker] "Please, sit down." Riker: "Well, I'm glad that I ran into the, the two of you. When you have no memory of who you are, or who anybody else is, you find yourself in a hairy--" Ro: "The counselor tells me that at times like that, we might do the things that we've always wanted to do." Riker: "She said that?" Troi: "It's psychologically valid." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Ro: "Commander, don't worry about it. But as far as I'm concerned, you and I have shared something that we will treasure forever." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Riker: "Well, I'm a little confused." Troi: "Well, if you're still confused tomorrow, you know where my office is." --"Conundrum", Stardate 45494.2 %% Hugh: "Locutus..." Picard: "Yes, I am Locutus of Borg." --"I, Borg", Stardate 45 %% Hugh: "Why are you here?" Picard: "This is a primitive culture. I am here to facilitate its incorporation. Identify yourself." Hugh: "Hugh." Picard: "Identify yourself!" Hugh: "We are Hugh." Picard: "This is not a Borg identification." Hugh: "Third Of Five." --"I, Borg", Stardate 45 %% Picard: "This culture will be assimiliated." Hugh: "They do not wish it." Picard: "Irrelevant." Hugh: "They will resist us. Picard: "Resistance is futile. Hugh: "Resistance is *not* futile. Some have escaped." Picard: "They will be found. It is inevitable. All will be assimilated.". Hugh: "Must Geordi be assimilated?" Picard: "Yes." Hugh: "He does not wish it. He would rather die than be assimilated." Picard: "Then he will die." Hugh: "No, Geordi must not die. Geordi is a friend." --"I, Borg", Stardate 45 %% Picard: "You will assist us to assimilate this vessel. You are Borg. You will assist us." Hugh: "I will not." Picard: "What did you say?" Hugh: "I will not assist you." Picard: "I"? Hugh: "Geordi must not be assimiliated." Picard: "But you are Borg." Hugh: "No. I am Hugh." --"I, Borg", Stardate 45 %% Riker: "Sensors?" Data: "I am having difficulty scanning the object. It appears to be approximately two-hundred-million kilometers in diameter." Riker: "That's nearly as large as the Earth's orbit around the sun." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "A Dyson sphere?" Picard: "A very old theory, Number One, I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of it. In the twentieth century, a physicist called Freeman Dyson postulated the theory that an enormous hollow sphere could be constructed around a star. This would have the advantage of harnessing all the radiant energy of that star, and any population living on the interior surface would have virtually inexhaustable sources of power." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "Are you saying you think there're people living in there?" Data: "Possibly a great number of people, Commander. The interior surface area of a sphere this size is the equivalent of more than two-hundred and fifty million Class-M planets." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "Commander, the transporter is still online. It's being fed power from the auxillary systems." Riker: "The rematerialization subroutine's been disabled." LaForge: "Yeah, and that's not all. The phase inducters are connected to the emitter array. The override is completely gone, and the pattern buffer's been locked into a continuous diagnostic cycle." Riker: "This doesn't make any sense. Locking the unit into a diagnostic mode just sends the matter array through a pattern buffer. Why would anyone--" LaForge: "There's a pattern in the buffer still." Riker: "It's completely intact. There's less than point-zero-zero-three percent signal degredation. How is that possible?" LaForge: "I don't know, I've never seen a transporter jury-rigged like this before." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "Could someone survive inside a transporter buffer for seventy-five years?" LaForge: "I know a way to find out." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Ah, thank you, lad." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "I'm Commander William Riker, Starship Enterprise. Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge." Scott: "The Enterprise? I should've known. I bet Jim Kirk himself pulled the gal out of mothballs to come looking for me!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Captain Montgomery Scott. Tell me, how long have I been missing?" Riker: "Well--" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "Captain Scott, Lieutenant Worf." Scott: "Lieutenant?" Worf: "Yes." Riker: "Captain, perhaps there are a few things we should talk about." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Riker: "We should probably get you to Sickbay. Doctor Crusher will want to have--" Scott: "You've changed the resonator array!" Riker: "Geordi, I think our guest is going to have a lot of engineering questions." LaForge: "Not to worry, Commander, I'll take care of it." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "What've you done with the duotronic enhancers?" LaForge: "Well, those were *replaced* with isolinear chips about forty years ago. A lot more efficient now. Oh, that's an E.P.S. power tap there!" Scott: "Ahh." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Oh, is that a conduit interface?" LaForge: "Yeah, it is." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "You were saying it's as big as life. You mean the Dyson sphere." Scott: "Aye, a natural Dyson sphere! Can you imagine the engineering skills needed to design such a structure?" LaForge: "Yeah, I know, it's pretty amazing." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "Can I ask you a question? What in the world made you think of using the transporter pattern buffer to survive?" Scott: "Well, we didn't have enough supplies to wait for the rescue, so we had to think of something." LaForge: "Yeah, but locking it into a diagnostic cycle so that the pattern wouldn't degrade and then cross-connecting it with the phase inducers to provide a regenerative power source. That's absolutely brilliant." Scott: "Well, I think was only fifty percent brilliant. Franklin deserves better." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "You know, I think you're going to enjoy the twenty-fourth century, Mister Scott. We've made some pretty incredible advances these last eighty years." Scott: "Oh, from what I've seen, you've got a fine ship, Mister LaForge. A real beauty here. I must admit to being a bit overwhelmed." LaForge: "Hmm, wait 'til you see the Holodeck." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Well, I'll say this about your Enterprise. The doctors are a fair sight prettier." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "I'm Jean-Luc Picard. Welcome aboard the Enterprise, Captain Scott." Scott: "Thank you, sir, and call me Scotty." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "How're you feeling?" Scott: "I don't know. How am I feeling?" Crusher: "Other than a few bumps and bruises, I'd say you feel fine for a man of a hundred and forty-seven." Scott: "And I don't feel a day over a hundred and twenty." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "I need to get down to Engineering to begin that analysis." Scott: "Engineering? I thought you'd never ask!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Crusher: "Captain, the first thing you need to get is some rest. Now this has been a shock to your system and I want you to not push yourself." LaForge: "We're pretty busy down there anyway, Captain Scott. I promise I'd be happy to give you a tour just as soon as the doctor says it's okay." Beverly: "I'll find someone to show you your quarters." Scott: "Aye..." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Good lord, man, where have you put me?" Kane: "These are standard guest quarters, sir. I can try and find something bigger if you want." Scott: "Bigger? In my day, even an admiral wouldn't have had such quarters in a starship!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "You know, I remember a time we had to transport the Dohlman of Elas. You never had anyone whine and complain so much about quarters as she did." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "You know, these quarters remind me of a hotel room in Argelius. Oh now there is a planet! Everything a man wants right at his fingertips! 'Course, in the first visit, I got into a *wee* bit of trouble!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Bartel: "Can I help you, sir?" Scott: "Oh, I don't think so, lassie, but I'll let you know if you can." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "We're in Engineering. Call me Scotty!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "I'm not here for a tour, laddie. I'm here to help!" LaForge: "That's very kind, but I'm sure we can handle it." Scott: "I was a Starfleet engineer for fifty-two years, Mister LaForge. I think I'm still useful." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Laddie, you need to phase-lock the warp fields within three percent, or they'll become unstable!" LaForge: "What?!" Scott: "Well look here! The warp--" LaForge: "We use a multi-phase auto-containment field now. It's meant to operate above three percent." Scott: "Uh, well, that would make the difference." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "I remember...a time when the old Enterprise was spiraling towards Psi 2000. And the captain wanted to try a cold start of the warp engines. And I told him, that without a proper phase-lock, it would take at least thirty minutes. 'You cannot change the laws of physics!', I told him! But, he wouldn't believe me! So, I had to come up with a whole new engine start-up routine." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Do you know that your dilithium crystals are going to fracture?!" LaForge: "We recomposit the crystals while they're still inside the articulation frame." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now, and they want it their way. But the secret is to give only what they need, not what they want!" LaForge: "Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour." Scott: "How long would it really take?" LaForge: "An hour!" Scott: "Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did you?" LaForge: "Well of course I did." Scott: "Oh, laddie, you've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "Captain Scott! I've tried to be patient, I've tried to be polite. But I've got a job to do here! And quite frankly, you're in the way!" Scott: "I was driving starships while your great-grandfather was still in *diapers*! I think you'd be a little grateful for some help! I'll leave you to work, Mister LaForge!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "What in blazes is *this*?!" Waiter: "Didn't you order scotch?" Scott: "Laddie, I was drinking scotch a hundred years before you were born. And I can tell you that whatever this is, it is definately not scotch." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Data: "I believe I may be of some assistance. Captain Scott is unaware of the existence of synthehol." Scott: "S-synthehol?" Data: "Yes, sir. It is an alcohol-substitute now being served aboard starships. It simulates the appearance, taste, and smell of alcohol, but the intoxicating effects can be easily dismissed." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "You're not quite, uh, *human*, are you?" Data: "No, sir. I am an android. Lieutenant Commander Data." Scott: "Synthetic scotch, synthetic commanders." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "What is it?" Data: "It is-- Hm! It is-- It is *green*." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Computer: "Please enter program." Scott: "The android at the bar said you could show me my old ship. Let me see it!" Computer: "Insufficient data. Please specify parameters." Scott: "The Enterprise! Show me the Bridge of the Enterprise, you chattering piece of--" Computer: "There have been five Federation ships with that name. Please specify by registry number." Scott: "N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A, B, C, or D." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Here's to you, lads." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "I don't know what it is exactly, but I would be *real* careful. It's real--" Picard: "Aldeberan whisky. Who do you think gave it to Guinan?" Scott: "Ahh." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Constitution class." Scott: "Aye. You're familiar with them?" Picard: "There's one in the Fleet Museum, but...but then, of course, this is *your* Enterprise." Scott: "I actually served on two. This was the first. She was also the first ship I ever served on as Chief Engineer. You know, I served aboard eleven ships...freighters, cruisers, starships...but this is the only one I think of. The only one I miss." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "The first vessel I that I served on as captain, was called the Stargazer. It was an overworked, underpowered vessel, always on the verge of flying apart at the seams. And every measurable sense, my Enterprise is far superior. But there are times, when I would give almost everything, to command the Stargazer again." Scott: "Yeah, it's like the first time you fall in love. You don't ever love a woman quite like that again." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never meet again." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "What do you think of the Enterprise-D?" Scott: "She's a beauty. With a good crew." Picard: "But..." Scott: "But...when I was here, I could tell you the speed we were traveling by the feel of the deckplates. But on your ship, I feel like I'm just in the way." Picard: "Oh, seventy-five years is a long time." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "If you would care to study some technical schematics or--" Scott: "I'm not eighteen! I can't start out like a raw cadet! Yeah, there a comes a time when a man finds that he can't fall in love again. He knows that it's time to stop." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "I don't belong on your ship. I belong on this one. This was my home. This is where I had a purpose. But it's not real. It's just a computer- generated fantasy. And I'm just an old man who's trying to hide in it." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Computer, shut this bloody thing off. It's time I acted my age." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Mister LaForge...I would like *you* to accompany Captain Scott. LaForge: "Me, sir." Picard: "Yes. Look, this is not an order. It's a request, and it's one that you must feel perfectly free to decline. You see, one of the most important things in a person's life is to feel *useful*. Now, Mister Scott is a Starfleet officer, and I would like him to feel useful again." LaForge: "I'll go with him, sir." Picard: "Thank you." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "Are you feeling all right?" Scott: "Well, never get drunk unless you're willing to pay for it the next day. I'll manage." LaForge: "Okay..." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "But when they can build ships like your Enterprise, who would want to pilot an old bucket like this?" LaForge: "I don't know, if this ship were operational, I'd bet she'd run circles around the Enterprise at impulse speeds. Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% LaForge: "You know, if we could get these engines back online, we could track them with their impulse ion trail." Scott: "Are you deaf? The main drive assembly's shot, the inducers have melted, the power couplings are wrecked. We'd need a week just to get started! But, we don't have a week, so, we've no sense in crying about it!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Shut the duterium from the main cryo pump to the auxillary tank." LaForge: "The tank can't withstand that kind of pressure." Scott: "Where'd you get that idea?!" LaForge: "What do you where'd I get that idea? It's in the impulse engine specifications." Scott: "Regulation 42/15? Pressure variances on the IRC Tank storage?" LaForge: "Yeah!" Scott: "Forget it. I wrote it. A good engineer is always a *wee* bit conservative, at least on paper." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Take the Bridge, Commander." LaForge: "Oh no. You're the senior officer here." Scott: "Oh, I may be captain by rank, but I never wanted to be anything else but an engineer." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Data: "I will endeavor to speed up the process, sir." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "I bet you two bottles of scotch that they're inside the sphere. And that they went *in* right through the hatch." LaForge: "Yeah, no bet here." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "Geordi, I have spent my whole life, trying to figure out crazy ways of doing things. I'm telling you, as one engineer to another...I can *do* this." --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "The plasma intercooler's gone! The engines are overheating!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "It's coming apart, lad! I can't do anything else!" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Scott: "There now, that wasn't so bad, was it?" --"Relics", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 46125.3 Starfleet has dispatched two science vessels to study the Dyson sphere, while we proceed to Starbase 55." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% LaForge: "So, this alien space-baby, which is about the size of a four story building, *really* felt the Enterprise was its mother." Scott: "Oh, you're pulling an old man's leg!" LaForge: "No, really! It was suckling power directly from ship's fusion reactors. So Doctor Brahms and I changed the power frequency from twenty-one centimeters to point-zero-two centimeters." Scott: "And you soured the milk!" --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Scott: "Oh, enjoy these times, Geordi. You're the chief engineer of a starship. And it's a time of your life that'll never come again. When it's gone, it's gone." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Scott: "Now, lad, I thought you were going to buy me a drink in Ten-Forward." LaForge: "Actually, I had a better idea." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Scott: "You're giving me one of your shuttles?" Picard: "Well, call it an extended loan. Since you lost your ship saving ours it seemed only fair." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Riker: "She's not much to look at." Scott: "Laddie, every woman has her own charm. You just have to know where to look for her." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% LaForge: "Well, she's a little slow, but she'll certainly get you to the Norpon Colony, if that's really where you want to go." Scott: "The Norpon Colony is for old men to retire. Maybe someday, I'll end up there. But not yet." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Picard: "Well, bon voyage, Mister Scott." Scott: "Thank you, sir. For everything." Data: "Mister Scott." Troi: "Good-bye." Scott: "Bye-bye." Riker: "Scotty." Scott: "Thank you." Beverly: "Bye. Be well." Scott: "Mmm." Worf: [No comment] Scott: [No comment] --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Scott: "A good crew." LaForge: "Yeah, they are." Scott: "And a fine ship. A credit to her name. But I've found that a ship is only as good as the engineer who takes care of her. And from what I can see, the Enterprise is in good hands." --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% LaForge: "You take care of yourself out there." Scott: "Aye!" --"Relics", Stardate 46125.3 %% Data: "Throughout the ages, from Keats to Giorchamo, poets have composed odes to individuals who have had a profound effect upon their lives. In keeping with that tradition, I have written my next poem...in honor of my cat. I call it, Ode...to Spot." --"Schisms", Stardate 46 %% Data: "Felus catus. Is your taxonomic nomenclature An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature? Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Control your hunting skills and natural defenses. %% I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. %% A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents. You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance. And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion, It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotions. %% Oh, Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display Cannote a fairly well developed cognitive array. And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend, I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend." --"Schisms", Stardate 46 %% Data: "Commander Riker, you have anticipated my denouement. However, the sentiment is appreciated. I will continue." --"Schisms", Stardate 46 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 46192.3. We have arrived at Starbase 112 with the loading-relief supplies destined for Tagra IV, an ecologically-devastated planet in the Argoles Cluster. We have also taken on a rather unusual passenger." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "Her transcript is *very* impressive. She's done honors work in neurobiology, plasmadynamics, and nicoregeneration. I'd say that's pretty well-rounded." Rogers: "Well that's a nice way of saying that I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my life." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "I've arranged to have you work in all the major departments while you're here. And I'm willing to bet that by the time it's over, you'll have a pretty idea what field you're interested in." Picard: "Or, at least what field you're *not* interested in." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "For me?" Riker: "It's all yours." Rogers: "It's so...*big*." [Laughs] Riker: "For honors students, only the best." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Well, I could've brought my zoo." Riker: "Your zoo?" Rogers: "Well, it's just what my parents call it. Three dogs isn't that many, is it?" Riker: "It depends how they get along." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "See all these readouts? That's your heart rate, your blood pressure, all your vital signs. You're in good shape! You might just live to be my age." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "I hear you've been accepted to the Academy. I have a son there." Rogers: "Oh. Being posted on the Enterprise, I guess you don't get to see him very often." Crusher: "No, not as much as I'd like." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Did you have any other children?" Crusher: "My husband died a number of years ago, Wes was our only child." Rogers: "Was he old enough to know his father?" Crusher: "Jack died when he was five." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% LaForge: "Commander, are you all right?! You okay?" Riker: "I didn't see it coming." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Hard to imagine how much energy is harnessed in there." Data: "Imagination is not necessary. The scale is readily quantifiable. We are presently generating twelve-point-seven-five billion gigawatts per--" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Commander, have you been able to determine the cause of the warp breach?" LaForge: "No, sir. Everything was normal, and then, suddenly, it's like the laws of physics went right out the window." Q: "And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Q!" Q: "Mon capitan." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Are you responsible for this incident in Engineering?" Q: "Of course! I needed to find out if what I suspected about the girl were true." Picard: "That being..." Q: "That she's Q." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Troi: "Amanda's a Q?" Crusher: "How is that possible? Her, her parents, her biological parents were human!" Q: "Well, not exactly. They had *assumed* human form, in order in visit Earth, I suppose, for, for amusement. But in *vulgar* human fashion, they proceeded to conceive a child." [Winks at Crusher] "And then like markish humans, they became attached to it." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "What is it about these *squirming* little infants that you find so appealing?" Crusher: "I'm sure that's beyond your comprehension, Q." Q: "I desparately hope so." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "None of us knew whether she had inherited the capacities of the Q, but recently they've become to emerge, and uh, as an expert in humanity, I was sent to investigate." Riker: "You? An expert in humanity." Q: "Not a very *challenging* field of study, I grant you." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% LaForge: "Are you saying that you created a core breach just to...*test* this girl?" Q: "Uh-huh." Troi: "What would have happened if she couldn't stop it?" Q: "Then I would've known that she wasn't a Q!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "If this child does not learn how to control her powers, she accidentally destroy herself. Or all of you! Or perhaps your entire galaxy!" Picard: "I find it hard to believe that you're here to do us a favor." Q: "You're quite right, I wouldn't. But there are those in the Qontinuum, who have an *overexaggerated* sense of responsibility. They think that we need to take precautions to the little dear from running amok." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "And once you've taught her, then you'll go away?" Q: "And leave her here? Of course not! She'll come back to the Qontinuum where she belongs." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "Wait a minute! You, you can't just come in here and take her away from everything she's ever known!" Q: [Laughs] "I assure you I can." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "She has plans for herself! A career and a family!" Q: "I'm *rescuing* her from that miserable existence." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "That miserable existence is all she's known for the last eighteen years. You have *no* right to take her away from it!" Q: "Mon capitan, I *really* think we need to speak privately." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Well, there now, that's better. Crusher gets more shrill with each passing year." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Q, what is it you really want?" Q: "Well since you know so much about the Q, I thought you'd be the perfect person to introduce me to the child. Let her know that she can...trust me." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "I don't trust you, Q. Why should I expect Amanda to?" Q: "Well, she'd better, because I'm all she's got. She needs me to help her prepare for her future with the Q." Picard: "But what if she doesn't want that future? It must be her decision!" Q: "Oh, *yes*, *yes*, *yes*!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Do you think that she will want to remain an emfeebled mortal?" Picard: "But if she really is Q, she must understand what that means." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Very well, I will introduce you. But...we cannot argue like this in front of her. We must at least appear to be..." Q: [Embraces Picard] "Pals?" Picard: "*Civil*." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "I knew I could count on you, Jean-Luc." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "I find it odd that any Q could die in an accident." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "There's my girl!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Amanda, uh, allow me to introduce, uh, Q, uh, he's, um, he's an aquaintance of ours. We've, uh, we've known him...for years." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Very impressive the way you contained that explosion. What else have you done?" Rogers: "I, I don't understand." Q: "Telekinesis, teleportation." [Looks at Picard] "Spontaneous combustion of someone you don't like. That sort of thing?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "She has *potential*, this one." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "I see no reason why she can't return to the Qontinuum right now." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "I, I don't want to go anywhere." Q: "Don't worry. With time you'll overcome the disadvantages you suffered as a child. No one will hold it against you for having been human." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Leave me alone! I'm not going anywhere with you!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "You agree that she has a right to choose her own future, but the first chance you get, you try to abduct her!" Q: "Oh! You're overreacting as usual, Picard. I was merely testing her powers." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "She's quite a little spitfire now, isn't she?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "What's going on, Q? What's your *real* purpose here?" Q: "I think I've been perfectly clear. The Qontinuum has a vested interest in this young woman." Picard: "If you wish to protect that investment, I suggest that you approach her differently." Q: "Oh, she was being impetuous. She'll just have to start behaving like a Q." Picard: "If I'm not mistaken, she just did." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "Listen, I can only imagine how you feel. It certainly would be easier if this had never happened, or if it would just go away. But it's not going to go away. And you need someone to help you. And the person who can help you is...Q." Rogers: "He's so horrible." Crusher: "He's the only one who can help you understand who you are." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "But I don't want any of this to disrupt my time here. I, I want to do everything that I'm expected to do. And I don't want you to treat me any differently...please." Crusher: "You've got a deal." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q2: "Your progress, Q?" Q: "As anticipated, there're some problems. I need time. However, there is the possibility we won't have to terminate the girl." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Hello, my dear. I've been told I behaved badly. I apologize. However, you have every reason to chastize me. But then again, what's done is done, right?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "I'd like to ask you some questions." Q: "Anything." Rogers: "What exactly are the Q?" Q: "It'd be so much easier to show you than to tell you. If you would agree to take a short visit to the Qontinuum--" Rogers: "No. Just tell me." Q: "Well, to put it simply, we're omnipotent. There's nothing, nothing we can't do." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "And what do you do with this power?" Q: "Anything we want." Rogers: "Do you use it to help others?" Q: [Laughs] "I think you've missed the point, my dear. Clearly you've spent far too much time with humans." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: As a Q, you can have your heart's desire, instantly, whatever that may be. Would you like precious jewels, works of art? Would you like to walk along the Rings Of Tauti?" Rogers: "I'm not interested in any of those things." Q: "Of course not! You're a Q! But surely there must be *something* that you want. Something that you never *dreamed* was possible. Tell me Amanda... what is it?" Rogers: "I'd like to know what my parents look like. My real parents." Q: "How quaint." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "You seem distracted." Rogers: "Well, I just saw my parents." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Would...would you bring your husband back?" Crusher: "Amanda, I don't know. I don't think that I could make...a decision like that until I was actually faced with it." Rogers: "I am faced with it." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Uhh, thought she'd *never* leave!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "It's time for another lesson." Rogers: "Well, I have to finish this experiment first." Q: "What are you doing?" Rogers: "We're delivering live vaccine baccili to Tagra. I'm supposed to find the best nutrient solution so we can keep them living while they're in stasis." Q: "Fascinating. I, I just had a splendid idea! Why don't we...combine what you're doing with our lesson, and we'll show you how to finish in no time." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Well, I think that I should finish it the way Doctor Crusher showed me." Q: "Oh, I'm sure she'd be delighted if we sped things along. I mean, think what it would mean. You could double, even triple the work load!" Rogers: "Well..." Q: "Good." Rogers: "I guess so." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Well, if it isn't Number Two." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "You're attracted to him!" Rogers: "I am not." Q: "I think you are! How repulsive! How do you stand all that hair all over his face?!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "I'm sorry, Doctor." Q: "Don't be sorry. If she wants to make things difficult on herself, that's her business." Crusher: "Why did you interfere with what she was doing?" Q: "She's a Q. Making her plod through human chores...is beneath her." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "She asked not to be treated differently." Q: "That doesn't mean she should be bored to death!" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Crusher: "I don't interfere with what you're teaching." Q: "You would be incapable of interfering!" Crusher: "And I don't think it's asking too much for you to do the same!" Q: [Turns Crusher into a dog] Crusher [As dog]: [Barks] Rogers: [Turns dog back into Crusher] Crusher: "...and if you stay out of mine!" Q: "Well, now you put it like that, I think you're absolutely right." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Have you been practicing your teleportation?" Rogers: "Yes, but it's kind of hard. I keep ending up somewhere I don't want to be." Q: "Well, it don't do to be sloppy. We should hone your abilities. I have a wonderful idea." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Why don't we play a little game?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "You're still thinking like a human." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Now do you understand? What do humans have to offer you that even *begins* to compare with that. Your future contains wonders you can't even imagine. The universe could be your playground." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "You don't have to eat, you know. It's a *nasty* human habit you could easily do without." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Riker: "Hello, ladies." Troi: "Hello, Will." Rogers: "Commander Riker, um, won't you join us?" Riker: "I'd love to but I have other plans." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Riker: "What is this all about?" Rogers: "I thought it might be nice to spend some time alone together." Riker: "I think it would be nice if you took us back to Ten Forward." Rogers: "Are you sure? You wouldn't want to stay here with me for awhile?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "The moonlight is so beautiful. Isn't it nicer here than at Ten Forward?" Riker: "Yes, it's very pleasant. But that's not the point." Rogers: "Oh. I think it is." Riker: "No. You can't snatch people and put them into your fantasies, and expect them to respond." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "Don't you like me? Even just a little bit?" Riker: "You're a very lovely young lady. But, none of this, is *real*." Rogers: "My feelings are real." Riker: "I know. But you can't make someone love you." Rogers: "Can't I?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Riker: "Oh, Amanda. You're so beautiful." Rogers: "Do you love me?" Riker: "More than anything." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Rogers: "You're right. None of this is real. I thought it would be romantic. But it's empty." Riker: "Amanda..." Rogers: "Just go back to Ten Forward." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "What are you driving at, Picard?" Picard: "Well, the circumstances of their death is quite odd. A tornado somehow escaped the Weather Modification Net and touched down in only one spot... Amanda's home." Q: "Well...you can never predict the weather." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "But you see, there were no storm fronts in Kansas that day. Witnesses reported that the funnel materialized, spontaneously, directly over Amanda's home, destroyed it, and disappeared." Q: "If you say so, I wasn't there." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Q: "Don't be foolish, Picard, she has no choice. She never did. If she's truly a Q, then she must return to the Qontiuum where she belongs. But if she were some sort of hybrid, neither human nor Q, then..." Picard: "You would be so despicable." Q: "Don't be naive. You have no idea what it means to be Q. With unlimited power comes responsibility. Do you think it is unreasonable for us to allow omnipotent beings to roam free through the universe?" --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "So what have you concluded? Does she live? Or does she die?" Q: [Pause] "I haven't decided yet." --"True Q", Stardate 46192.3 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 46193.8. We have arrived at Tagra IV and have begun delivering supplies. In the meantime, I am faced with a crisis of a *different* nature." --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Rogers: "Q? Answer me! Are you afraid to face me?" Q: "She's such a plucky little thing now, isn't she? I really do enjoy you, you know." --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Picard: "Amanda's question deserves an answer, Q. You've made yourself judge and jury, and if necessary, executioner. By what right have you appointed yourself to this position?" Q: "Superior morality." Picard: "Oh yes, I recall how you used your superior morality when we first encountered you! You put us on trial for the crimes of humanity!" Q: "The jury's still out on that, Picard. Make no mistake." --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Picard: "Your...pergent pretence at being the moral guardians of the universe strikes me as being hollow, Q! I see no evidence that you are guided by a superior moral code, or any code whatsoever! You may be merely omnipotent! And I don't deny that your...parlor tricks are very impressive! But morality, I don't see it! I don't acknowledge it, Q! I would put human morality against the Q's anyday! And perhaps...that's the reason that we fascinate you so. Because...our...puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence...a moral center! And if so, I can think of no crueler irony in that you should destroy this young woman, who's only crime is that she's too human!" Q: "Jean-Luc...sometimes I think the only reason I come here, is to listen to these *wonderful* speeches of yours!" --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Q: "You have it within yourself to refrain from using the power of Q. If you can do that you can stay here." Rogers: "Well I'm staying here." Q: "Think about this. This is not so easy. Your parents were given this choice, and they were unable to resist the temptation of using their power." Rogers: "All I wanted since this whole thing began is to become a normal human being again! I know I can resist." --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Picard: "Is this your doing, Q?" Q: "Not this time, Picard." --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Q: "I told you it would be harder to resist than you thought." Rogers: "I couldn't let all those people die. Ever since I got here I've been fighting this. I've been denying the truth...denying what I am. I am Q." --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Rogers: "I hope I can come back and see you." Crusher: "You're a Q! You can do anything you want!" --"True Q", Stardate 46193.8 %% Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 46271.5. The Enterprise has entered orbit at Dinonicus VII, but our scheduled rendezvous with the supply ship Biko has been delayed for another forty-eight hours. In the meantime, many members of the crew are taking advantage of the delay to persue their own projects... myself included." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46271.5 %% Picard: "Yes, gentlemen." LaForge: "Captain, we'd like your permission to take the Engineering computer offline for a couple of hours. We're working on a new interface that would allow Data to access an emergency backup in the event of a ship-wide systems failure." Data: "In theory, my neural network should be able to sustain key systems until primary control is restored." Picard: "Mmm. Sounds like an intriguing experiment. I'll be interesting in seeing the results. Permission granted." LaForge: "It's possible we might even be able to run some secondary systems through Data, weapons controls, and so--" Picard: "Yes, I get the idea, Mister LaForge. Thank you. Please proceed." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46271.5 %% Crusher: "Jean-Luc, I need to talk to you about _Something For Breakfast_." Picard: "Breakfast?" Crusher: "The play." Picard: "Ah yes, it's, uh, it's a very intriguing drama, but I really don't have the time it would take to learn a part. And, uh, anyway, I'm not much of an actor." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46271.5 %% Crusher: "That's no problem." Picard: "Oh?" Crusher: "Oh, you wouldn't be playing one of the leads." Picard: "Oh." Crusher: "It's a very small part, only two lines!" Picard: "Really?" Crusher: "It's the role of the butler!" Picard: "Well, I'll think about it and let you know." Crusher: "You would be *wonderful*, Jean-Luc." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46271.5 %% Picard: "Mister Worf, is there some reason why you're trying to give yourself more work?" Worf: "No, sir, I simply wish to use the extra time--" Picard: "Enjoy yourself! You have the free time! Use it." Worf: "Yes, sir. Thank you, sir." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46271.5 %% Alexander: "Father! What did he say?" Worf: "The captain saw it fit to release me from my duties." Alexander: "You mean you can go?" Worf: "I can go." Alexander: "Saddle up, father." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46271.5 %% Worf: "You wrote this program yourself?" Alexander: "Lieutenant Barkley helped me." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46 %% Worf: "Hmm, I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46 Alexander: "No, no, no, no. That was too easy. Computer, Level Four." --"A Fistful Of Datas", Stardate 46 %% Picard: "They will live their lives, and never know any difference." Troi: "In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted." Picard: "In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs, and all this might just be an elabrorate simulation running inside a little device sitting on someone's table." --"Ship In A Bottle", Stardate 46 %% Barclay: "Computer, end program." --"Ship In A Bottle", Stardate 46 %% Q: "Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're *dead*." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by *you*. The universe is not so badly designed!" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "You are not God!" Q: "Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out, or smite you or something." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Maurice: "Dead...*before* your time." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "My only regret is dying and finding you here!" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Arrogant, undisciplined, with far too much ego and far too little wisdom. I was much more like *you*." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Q: "So if you had to do it all over again?" Picard: "Things would be different." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Q: "Nothing you do here will cause the Federation to collapse or galaxies to explode. To be blunt, you're not that important." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Then I won't die?" Q: "Of course you'll *die*. It'll just be at a later time." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Corey: "When did you start backing away from a good fight?" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Marta: "...the three of us, I mean." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "Why didn't you ever say anything?" Marta: "At this moment...I really have no idea why not." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Q: "Morning, darling." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Q: "Well, let's see...so far you've managed to get slapped by one woman, a drink thrown in your face by another, and alienate your two best friends. You're doing pretty well so far...the only thing left to avoid is getting stabbed through the heart!" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Corey: "I don't know who you are any more, but you're not my friend." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Marta: "Goodbye, Johnny." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Q: "Vell, vell, vell...vot seems to be ze trouble, Loytenant Picard?" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "I can't live out my days as that person! That man is bereft of passion ...and imagination! That is not who I am!" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "The one who was less like *me*." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Q: "Are you asking me for something, Jean-Luc?" Picard: "Give me the chance to put things back the way they were before." Q: "Before, you died in Sickbay. Is that what you want?" --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Picard: "I would rather die as the man I was than live the life I just saw." --"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown %% Locutus: "Resistance is futile. And you will disarm your weapons, and escort us to Sector 001. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you." --"Emissary", Stardate 43997 %% Tactical Officer: "Direct hit! Decks One through Four!" --"Emissary", Stardate 43997 %% Sisko: "Have you seen Jennifer?" --"Emissary", Stardate 43997 %% Sisko: "Jennifer! Hold on!" Tactical Officer: "Sir..." Sisko: "Just help me to get her free!" Tactical Officer: "She's gone! There's nothing we can do! We have to leave!" --"Emissary", Stardate 43997 %% Tactical Officer: "We've got to go now, sir!" Sisko: "Damn it! We just can't leave her here!" --"Emissary", Stardate 43997 %% Sisko: "Jake! There you are! How're they biting?" Jake: "Small fries, threw them back. Want to go for a swim?" Sisko: "Don't have time, we have to get ready." --"Emissary", Stardate 46379.1 %% Sisko: "It won't be so bad. I've heard that Bajor is a *beautiful* world." Jake: "So why can't we live on the planet instead a small space station?" Sisko: "The station is in orbit of Bajor. It'll be just like shore duty." Jake: "Will there be kids there?" Sisko: "Absolutely, *lots* of kids!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46379.1 %% Sisko: "Come on! What'd you say? We'll take the pond with us." --"Emissary", Stardate 46379.1 %% Jake: "Is *that* it?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46379.1 %% Sisko: "Commence Station Log, Deep Space Nine, Commander Benjamin Sisko, Stardate 46388.2. At the request of the Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet has agreed to establish a Federation presence in this system, following the withdrawal of the Cardassian Occupational Forces. The first contingent of officers, including my Chief Of Operations Miles O'Brien, arrived two days ago on the Enterprise." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% O'Brien: "I'm told the Cardassians decided to have some fun the day they left. Four Bajorans were killed trying to protect their shops." Sisko: "Why hasn't anybody cleaned this up?" O'Brien: "We've got all available personnel assigned to repairing primary systems, sir. The Cardassians took every component of value. We're virtually defenseless. I discussed this with Major Kira, the attache assigned to you by the Bajoran government, and they said--" Sisko: "Understood." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Monk #1: "Welcome, Commander. Please enter. The prophets await you." Sisko: "Another time, perhaps." Monk #1: "Another time." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% O'Brien: "When my wife Keiko saw our quarters, she started talking about visiting her mother in Kumamoto." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jake: "Dad, there is nothing to sleep on in there except a cushion on the floor." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% O'Brien: "I almost forgot. Captain Picard wants to see you as soon as possible." Sisko: "He does." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jake: "Is *this* the food replicator?" O'Brien: "I'm afraid they're all offline. There's plenty of emergency rations. I could send some down." Jake: "Dad..." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% O'Brien: "I'd like to ask the designer what he was thinking about when they built this place. I still haven't been able to find an O.D.N. Access." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% O'Brien: "Uh, that's the Prefect's Office up there." Sisko: "So all others have to look up with respect. Cardassian architecture." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "Is it my imagination, or is it unusually warm?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "I guess it's time to meet Major Kira." O'Brien: "Sir, we you ever served with any Bajoran women?" Sisko: "No, why?" O'Brien: "I was just wondering, sir." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "...they become meaningless!" Bajoran Bureaucrat: "I just don't agree, Kira!" Kira: "You are throwing it...all away...all of you!" Bajoran Bureaucrat: "You're being a fool!" Kira: "Well then, don't ask my opinion next time!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "Yes?!" Sisko: "I'm Benjamin Sisko." Kira: "I suppose you want the office." Sisko: "Well, I thought I'd say 'Hello' first, and *then* take the office, but we could do it any order you like." Kira: "Hello." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "Is something bothering you, Major?" Kira: "You don't want to ask me that, Commander." Sisko: "Why not?" Kira: "Because I have a bad habit of telling the truth! Even when people don't want to hear it." Sisko: "Perhaps I want to hear it." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "I don't believe the Federation has *any* business being here." Sisko: "The provisional government disagrees with you." Kira: "The provisional government and I don't agree on a lot of things, which is probably why they sent me to this god-forsaken place!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "I have been fighting for Bajoran independence...since I was old enough to pick up a phaser!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "We *finally* drive the Cardassians out...and what do our members do? They call up the Federation and *invite* them right in!" Sisko: "The Federation is only here to help--" Kira: "Help us. Yes, I know! The Cardassians said the same thing sixty years ago." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "Major, when I was ordered here, I requested a Bajoran national as my first officer. It made sense. It still does, at least to me." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "We've been having a lot of break-in's lately. No need for you to come along, Commander." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "That's enough!" Odo: "Who the hell are you?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "Odo, this is our new Starfleet commander." Odo: [To Sisko] "I don't allow weapons on the Promenade. That includes phasers." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Quark: "Commander, my name is Quark. I used to run the local gambling establishment. This...is my brother's boy." [Snarls at Nog] "Surely you can see he has only a perpheral involvement in all this. We're scheduled to depart tomorrow. If we could be permitted to take him, I promise you he will be *severely*--" Sisko: "That won't be possible." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "Quark probably sent the two of them here to steal the ore samples in the first place." Sisko: "Major, there's a Ferengi legal tradition. It's called plea bargaining. I might let the boy go, but I want something in exchange from Mister Quark. Something *very* important." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% O'Brien: "O'Brien to Sisko." Sisko: "Go ahead." O'Brien: "Sir, the Enterprise hailed us again. Captain Picard is waiting to see you." Sisko: "Acknowledged." [To Kira] "This won't take long." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Picard: "Commander, yes! Please, come in! Welcome to Bajor." Sisko: "It's been a long time, Captain." Picard: "Have we met before?" Sisko: "Yes, sir. We met in *battle*. I was on the Saratoga at Wolf 3-5-9." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Picard: "I assume that you have been briefed on the events leading to the Cardassian withdrawal." Sisko: "Yes, sir. I understand they spent the last half-century robbing the planet of every valuable resource before abandoning it." Picard: "They left the Bajorans without a means of self-sustaining. The relief efforts we've been coordinating are barely adequate. I...I've come to know the Bajorans. I'm a strong proponent of their entry into the Federation." Sisko: "Is it going to happen?" Picard: "Not easily. The ruling parties are at each other's throats. Factions that were united against the Cardassians have resumed old conflicts." Sisko: "Sounds like they're not ready." Picard: "Your job is to do everything, short of violating the Prime Directive, to make sure that they are." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Picard: "I have been made aware by Starfleet of your objections to this assignment. I have...I would've thought that after three years spent at the Utopia Planetia Yards, that you would be ready for a change." Sisko: "I have a son that I'm raising on my own, Captain. This is not the ideal environment." Picard: "Unfortunately, as Starfleet officers, we do not always have the luxury to serve in an ideal environment." Sisko: "I realize that, sir. And I am investigating the possibility of returning to Earth for civilian service." Picard: "Then perhaps Starfleet should be considering a replacement for you." Sisko: "That's probably a good idea." Picard: "I'll look into it." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Picard: "In the meantime, however--" Sisko: "In the meantime, I will do the job I've been ordered to do to the best of my ability, *sir*." Picard: "Dismissed." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "It's really quite simple, Quark. You're not going to leave." Quark: "'Not going to leave'? But we're packed and ready to go." Sisko: "Unpack." Quark: "I don't understand, Commander. Why would you want me to stay?" Odo: "I'm curious myself." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Odo: "The man is a gambler and a thief." Quark: "I'm not a thief." Odo: "*You* are a *thief*." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "My officers, Bajoran engineers, all their families depend on the shops and the services of this Prominade. If people like you abandon it, this is going to become a ghost town. We need someone to step forward and say, 'I'm staying. I'm rebuilding.' We need a community leader, and it's going to be ...you, Quark." Quark: [Laughs] "Community leader?!" [Laughs] Odo: "Seems reasonable. You have all the character references of a politician." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Quark: "How could I possibility operate my establishment under Starfleet Rules Of Conduct?" Sisko: "This is still a Bajoran station. We're just here to administrate. You run honest games, you won't have any problems from me." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Quark: "Commander, I've made a career when to leave. And this Bajoran provisional government is far too provisional for my tastes. When governments fall, people like me are lined up...and shot." Sisko: "There is that risk. But then you are a *gambler*, Quark." Odo: "And a thief." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "You know, Quark, that poor boy is about to spend the best years of his life inside a Bajoran prison. I'm a father myself. I know what your brother must be going through. The boy should be with his family, not in some cold jail cell. Think about it. It's up to you." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Odo: "You know, at first, I didn't think I was going to like him." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "Major?" Kira: "Everyone else is busy repairing the primaries. I suppose Starfleet officers aren't used to getting their hands dirty." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "In the refugee camps, we learned to do whatever needed to be done. It didn't matter who you were." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "I was just talking with our good neighbor Quark. He's laying odds that the government is going to fall." Kira: "Quark knows a good bet when he hears one." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Kira: "This government will be gone in a week and so will you." Sisko: "What happens to Bajor then?" Kira: "Civil war." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Monk #1: "Commander...it is time." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Opaka: "Your arrival has been greatly anticipated." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Opaka: "Have you ever explored your pa, Commander?" Sisko: "Pa?" Opaka: "A Bajoran draws courage...from his spiritual life. Our lifeforce...our pa...is replenished by the Prophets." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Opaka: "Commander...I cannot give you what you deny yourself." Sisko: "I'm sorry?" Opaka: "Look for solutions from *within*, Commander." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "Hey!" Sisko: "I'm sorry! It's just that this-- Jenn?" Jennifer: "Yes? Sisko: "Jennifer?" Jennifer: "I'm sorry, did we meet last night at George's party?" Sisko: "George? Jennifer... Wait a minute, this is impossible." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "Are you okay?" Sisko: "I know this place. This is Gilgo Beach, where we met!" Jennifer: "We met here before?" Sisko: "I was carrying three lemonades. The sand was burning my feet. And I stopped...here!" [Screams with joy] "Do you realize how incredible this is?" [Laughs] Jennifer: [No comment] Sisko: "No, of course you don't." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "I... Jennifer...have a lemonade." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "I, I'm afraid I don't accept drinks from strange men on the beach." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "So tell me the truth. Have we really met before?" Sisko: "No." Jennifer: "Then how do you know my name?" Sisko: "Uh, uh, George told me...at the party!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "Are you going to tell me *your* name?" Sisko: "Sisko. Ben Sisko. I just graduated from Starfleet Academy. I'm waiting for my first posting." Jennifer: "Aah, a junior officer." Sisko: "Yeah." Jennifer: [Laughs] "My mother warned me to watch out for junior officers." Sisko: "Your mother is going to adore me." [Laughs] Jennifer: [Laughs] --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "You're awfully sure of yourself." Sisko: "It's not everyday you meet the girl you want to marry." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jennifer: "Do you use this routine a lot with women?" Sisko: "No, never before...and never again." Jennifer: "Sure." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "How about letting me cook dinner for you tonight? My father was a gourmet chef. I will make for you his famous oberjin stew." Jennifer: [Laughs] "I don't know." Sisko: "You're supposed to say, 'Yes!'" Jennifer: "I'll probably be sorry." Sisko: [Laughs] --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "Kai Opaka, I--" Opaka: "I can't unite my people until the Prophets have been warned. You will find the temple...not for Bajor, not for the Federation...but for your own pa. It is quite simply, Commander, the journey you have always been destined to take." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Jake: "What?" Sisko: "I was just thinking...how much you look like your mom." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Quark: "What'll you have, Commander?" Sisko: "How's the local synthale?" Quark: "Ah, you won't like it. I love the Bajorans, such a deeply spiritual culture, but they make a dreadful ale. Never trust ale from a god-fearing people or a Starfleet commander who has one of their relatives in jail." --"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2 %% Sisko: "Station Log, Stardate 46390.1 The Enterprise has been ordered to the Lavois System. They're scheduled to depart in 0500 hours after offloading three Runabout class vessels. Meanwhile, our medical and science officers are arriving, and I am looking forward to a reunion with a very old friend." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Bashir: "Jadzia...uh. Maybe we could get together later for dinner...or, or, or, or, or, or a, or a drink?" Dax: "I'd be delighted." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "He's a little *young* for you, isn't he?" Dax: "He's twenty-seven, I'm twenty-eight." Sisko: "*Three-hundred* twenty-eight, maybe." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "Did you tell him about that slug inside of you?" Dax: "Yes, Benjamin, he know's I'm a Trill. He finds it fascinating. He's never met a joined species before." Sisko: "I wonder if he'd been as fascinated if you still looked the way you did the last time I saw you." Dax: "Perhaps not." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "This is going to take some getting used to." Dax: "Don't be ridiculous. I'm still the same old Dax...more or less." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Kira: "I'm afraid we've had some security problems. Looks like looters got in here." Bashir: "Oh, this'll be *perfect*. Real...frontier medicine." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Kira: "Frontier medicine?" Bashir: "Major, I had my choice of any job in the fleet." Kira: "*Did* you?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Bashir: "I didn't want some cushy job or a research grant, I wanted *this*! The farthest reaches of the galaxy. One of the most remote outposts available. *This* is where the adventure is. This is where heroes are made, right...here ...in the wilderness." Kira: "This wilderness...is my home." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Kira: "You can make yourself useful by bringing your Federation medicine to the natives. Oh, you'll find them a friendly, simple folk." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dax: "Benjamin, I was happy when I heard you accepted this assignment. I've been worried about you." Sisko: "It's good to see you too...old man." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dax: "Curzon..." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Lieutenant: "The captain's in the Ready Room, Chief. Should I tell him you're here?" O'Brien: "Uh, that's okay. Thank you." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Picard: "This is your favorite transporter room, isn't it?" O'Brien: "Number three, yes, sir." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Picard: "You know, yesterday, I called down here, and I asked for you without thinking. It won't be quite the same." O'Brien: "It's just a transporter room, sir." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% O'Brien: "Permission to disembark, Captain." Picard: "Permission granted." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% O'Brien: "Message coming in from their commander, Gul Dukat." Kira: "*Dukat*. Used to be the Cardassian prefect of Bajor." O'Brien: "He's requesting permission to come aboard, to greet us. Surely a coincidence that the Enterprise just left." Sisko: "Mister O'Brien, tell Gul Dukat I look forward to meeting him." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dukat: "Good day, Commander." Sisko: "Gul Dukat." Dukat: "Excuse my presumption, but, this was my office only two weeks ago. I'm not used to being on this side of the desk. I'll be honest with you, Commander. I miss this office. I was not happy to leave it." Sisko: "Drop by anytime you're feeling homesick." Dukat: "You're very gracious." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dukat: "And allow me to assure you that we only want to be helpful in this difficult transition. You are far from the Federation fleet...alone in this remote outpost with *poor* defense systems. Your Cardassian neighbors will be quick to respond to any problems you might have." Sisko: "We'll try to keep the dog off your lawn." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dukat: "So...tell me, what did you think of Kai Opaka? I know you went to the surface to see her. I understand you brought back an Orb. We thought we had all of them. Perhaps we could have an exchange of information, pool our resources?" Sisko: "I don't know anything about an *Orb*." Dukat: "We will be in close proximity should you wish to reconsider my suggestion." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "Are we reduced to chasing metaphors to solve this?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Kira: "Nice work, Constable." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Kira: "What the hell is happening out there?" O'Brien: "I don't know. They're just gone." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "Are your navigational readings going crazy?" Dax: "I'll recalibrate what I have a moment." Sisko: "Take your time...." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "I'd say we just found our way into a wormhole." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "Dax, we might have just discovered the first stable wormhole known to exist." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dax: "We just landed." Sisko: "On what?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Dax: "It's beautiful." Sisko: "You have a strange eye for beauty, Dax." Dax: "You don't think this is one of the most idillic settings you've ever seen?" Sisko: "We are standing on a rock face! Do you see the storm?" Dax: "It's as clear as a summer's day." --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Sisko: "Who are you? Who are you?" "Jennifer": "It is corporeal. A physical entity." Sisko: "What? What did you say?" "Picard: "It is responding to visual and auditory stimuli. Linguistic communication." Sisko: "Yes. Linguistic communication. Are you capable of communicating with me?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% "Opaka": "What...are you?" Sisko: "My species is known as human. I come from a planet called Earth." "Jake": "Earth?" Sisko: "This is what my planet looks like. You and I are very different species. It will take time...for us to understand one another." "Jake": "What is this...time?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46390.1 %% Kira: "First Officer's Log, Stardate 46392.7. We're preparing to launch a rescue mission to find Commander Sisko. But first our navigational sensors must be recalibrated to work under the conditions reported by Lieutenant Dax." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "Mister O'Brien...what would it take to move this station to the mouth of the wormhole?" O'Brien: "This isn't a starship, Major. We've got six working thrusters to pilot us and that's it. A hundred sixty million kilometer trip would take two months." Kira: "It has to be there tomorrow." O'Brien: "Well that's not possible, sir." Kira: "That wormhole might just reshape the future of this entire quadrant. The Bajorans *have* to stake a claim to it. And I have to admit that claim would be a lot stronger if there's a Federation prescence to back it up." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "You have Ops, Mister O'Brien. Lieutenant, you're with me." Dax: "Aye, sir." Kira: "You too, Doc. Time to be a hero." Bashir: "Yes, sir!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "Constable." Odo: "This is a security matter, I'm in charge of security." Kira: "Security here on this station. I cannot justify taking you into this wormhole. We have no idea what we're dealing with in there. It could become--" Odo: "Major...I was found in the Denorius Belt. I don't know where I came from ....no idea if there are any others like me. All my life I've been forced to pass myself as one of you, always wondering who I really am. Well the answers to a lot of my questions may be somewhere on the other side of that wormhole." [Pause] "You coming?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Picard": "The creature must be destroyed before it destroys us." "Locutus": "It is malevolent." Alien Batter: "Aggressive...adversarial." "Picard": "It must be destroyed." Sisko: "I am not your enemy. I was sent here by the people *you* contacted." "Picard": "Contacted?" Sisko: "With your devices. Your Orbs!" "Picard": "We seek contact with other lifeforms. Not corporeal creatures who *annihilate* us!" Sisko: "I have not come to *annihilate* anyone." "Locutus": "Destroy it now." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "My species respects life above all else! Can you say the same? I do not understand the threat that I bring to you! But I am not your enemy. allow me to prove it." "Jake": "Prove it?" Sisko: "It can be argued that a human is ultimately the sum of his experiences." "Jake": "Experiences? What is this?" Sisko: "Memories. Events from my past, like this one." "Jake": "Past?" Sisko: "Things that happened before now." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "You have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about." "Jake": "What comes before now is no different than what is now. Or what is to come. It is one's existence." Sisko: "Then for you, there is no linear time." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Jennifer": "Linear time, what is this?" Sisko: "My species lives in one point in time. And once we move *beyond* that point, it becomes the past. The future, all that is still to come, does not yet exist for us." "Jennifer": "Does not exist yet?" Sisko: "That is the nature of linear existence. And if you examine it more closely, you will see that you do not need to fear me." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% O'Brien: "Is the station's inertial mass low enough to break orbit?" Computer: "Procedure is not recommended." O'Brien: "Damn it, I didn't ask for an opinion. Just tell me whether or not we can get enough thrust with only a partial field established!" Computer: "Affirmative." O'Brien: "All right, *thank* you." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% O'Brien: "Computer, transfer energy from the inertial dampeners to reinforce the subspace field." Computer: "Procedure is not recommended." O'Brien: "Damn it, transfer the energy!" Computer: "Unable to comply. Level One safety protocols have cancelled request." O'Brien: "Cancelled?!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% O'Brien: "Computer, you and I need to have a little talk." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Bashir: "Well they have to listen to reason, haven't they? Any more than what could happen if we go in there." Odo: "Doctor, most people in my experience wouldn't know reason if it walked up and shook their hand. You can count Gul Dukat among them." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Odo: "So much for reason." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Jennifer": "Jennifer." Sisko: "Yes, that was her name." "Jennifer": "She is part of your existence." Sisko: "She is part of my past. She is no longer alive." "Jennifer": "But she is part of your existence." Sisko: "She was a most important part of my existence. But I lost her some time ago." "Jennifer": "Lost? What is this?" Sisko: "In a linear existence, we can't go back into the past to get something we left behind. So...it's lost." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Jennifer": "It is inconceivable that such a species could exist in such a manner! You are deceiving us." Sisko: "No! This is the truth. This day, this, this park...it was almost fifteen years ago...far in the past. It was a day that was very important. A day that shaped every day that followed. That is the essence of a linear existence. Each day affects the next." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "Listen to it!" Jennifer: "You're right!" Sisko: "The sound of children playing. What could be more beautiful?" Jennifer: "So you like children." Sisko: "That almost sounds like a domestic inquiry." Jennifer: "I've heard Starfleet officers don't want families because they complicate their lives." Sisko: "Starfleet officers don't often find mates who want to raise families on a starship." Jennifer: "That almost sounds like a domestic inquiry." Sisko: "I think it was." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "As corporeal entities, humans find physical touch to cause pleasure." "Jennifer": "Pleasure. What is this?" Sisko: "Good feelings, happiness." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Tactical Officer": "But this is your existence." Sisko: "It is difficult to be here. More difficult than any other memory." "Tactical Officer": "Why?" Sisko: "Because...because this was the day...that I lost Jennifer." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "I don't want to be here." "Jennifer": "Then why do you exist here?" Sisko: "I don't understand." "Jennifer": "You exist *here*." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "Are you still there? What just happened?" "Jennifer": "More of your kind." Sisko: "Another ship? In the wormhole?" "Jennifer": "Wormhole? What is this?" Sisko: "It is how we describe the passage that brought me here." %% "Picard": "It is terminated." Sisko: "Terminated?" "Picard": "Our existence is disrupted whenever one of you enters the passage." Conn Officer: "Your linear nature is inherently desruptive!" Ops Officer: "You have no regard for the consequences of your acts!" Sisko: "That's not true. We're aware that every choice we make has a consequence." "Vulcan Captain": "But you claim that you do not know what it will be." Sisko: "We don't." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Jake": Then how can you take responsibility for your actions?" Sisko: "We use past experience to help guide us. For Jennifer and me, all the experiences in our lives prepared us for the day we met on the beach. Helped us recognize that we had a future together. When we married, we accepted all the consequences of that act, whatever they might be, including the consquences of *you*." "Jake": "Me?" Sisko: "My son, Jake." "Jennifer": "A child with Jennifer." Sisko: "Yes." "Jennifer": "Linear...procreation?" Sisko: "Yes. Jake is the continuation of our family." "Jennifer": "The sound of children playing." %% Alien Batter: "Aggressive...adversarial." Sisko: "Competition! For fun! It's a game that Jake and I play on the Holodeck. It's called baseball!" Jake: "Baseball? What is this?" Sisko: "I was afraid you'd ask that." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "I'll throw this ball out to you, and this other player stands in between us with a bat, a stick. And he, and, and he tries to hit the ball in between these two white lines." [Silence] Sisko: "Well, the rules aren't important. --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "What's important is...it's linear! Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. He might swing and miss! He might hit it! The point is, you never know. You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can. But in the end, it comes down to throwing one pitch after another, and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape." Alien Batter: "And you have no idea what that shape is until it is completed." Sisko: "That's right! In fact, the game wouldn't be worth playing if we *knew* what was going to happen." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% "Jake": "You value your ignorance of what is to come?" Sisko: "That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives, day by day. And we explore the galaxy trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I'm here. Not to conquer you with weapons or with ideas...but to coexist and to learn." "Tactical Officer": "If all you say is true, why do you exist here?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "First Officer's Log, Supplemental. We've rendezvoused with the space station at the former coordinates of the wormhole. Unfortunately, our scans have revealed no trace of either the wormhole, or Dukat's ship. A few minutes ago, three Cardassian warships crossed the border, no doubt on their way to search for Dukat." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Jasad: "I am Gul Jasad of the Cardassian Guard, Seventh Order. Where is our warship?" Kira: "With any luck, they're in the Gamma Quadrant, on the other side of the wormhole." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Jasad: "What wormhole? Our sensors showed no indication of a wormhole in this sector." Kira: "That's because it just collapsed." Jasad: "What?!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "Red alert. Shield's up." O'Briend: "What shields?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Bashir: "I don't believe the Cardassians would ever attack a Federation outpost." O'Brien: "Doctor, you ever studied your military history of the Border Wars?" Bashir: "Yes?" O'Brien: "You ever heard of the Cetleg III Massacre?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "I would assure, Mister O'Brien, you would agree surrender is not a preferable option?" O'Brien: "You know what they do to their prisoners, sir." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "What is the point of bringing me back again to *this*?!" "Jennifer": "*We* do not bring you here. *You* bring *us* here." "Tactical Officer": "You exist here." Sisko: "Then give me the power to lead you somewhere else! Anywhere else!" "Opaka": "We cannot give you what you deny yourself. Look for solutions from *within*, Commander." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "I was ready to die with her." "Tactical Officer": "Die? What is this?" "Jennifer": "The termination of their linear existence." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "I never left this ship." "Jennifer": "You exist here." Sisko: "I, I exist here." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "I don't know if you can understand. I see her like this. Every time I close my eyes...in the darkness...in the blink of an eye...I see her...like this." "Jennifer": "None of your past experiences prepared you for this consequence." Sisko: "And I have never figured out how to live without her." "Jennifer": "So you choose to exist *here*. It is not linear." Sisko: "No...it's not linear." [Cries] --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "Fire six photon torpedoes across Jasad's bow." O'Brien: "We only have six photons, Major." Kira: "We're not going to win this battle with torpedoes, Chief." O'Brien: "Aye, sir." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Jasad: "This is your answer?" Kira: "You don't think Starfleet took command of this space station without the ability to defend it, do you?" Jasad: "Defend it?" [Laughs] "Your space station could not *defend* itself against *one* Cardassian warship." Kira: "You're probably right, Jasad. And if you were dealing with a Starfleet officer they'd probably...admit...we have a hopeless cause here. But I am just a Bajoran, who's been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians ...all her life. So if you want a war...I'll give you one!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% O'Brien: "Major...remind me never to get into a game of Roladin Wilddraw with you." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Dax: "Their lead ship is sending out a subspace message asking for reinforcements." Bashir: "Yes!" Kira: "Too soon for a victory celebration, Doctor." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "Battle stations." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Odo: "Odo to Ops." Kira: "Go ahead." Odo: "I've got wounded people down here! Have you seen that doctor of yours anywhere?!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% O'Brien: "I'm going to have to shut down the primary power flow or the whole Promenade will go up. Bloody Cardassians! I just got the damn thing fixed!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Bashir: "Press there. *Hard*." Odo: "Look, Doctor, maybe I should find you someone--" Bashir: "Hold...it...there." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Kira: "What did I tell you, Jasad! *There's* your wormhole!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "Sorry to be late, Major. Our friend, Gul Dukat, had some problems on the other side of the wormhole. I see you've had a few of your own." Kira: "A few, Commander." --"Emissary", Stardate 46392.7 %% Sisko: "Station Log, Commander Benjamin Sisko, Stardate 46393.1. The lifeforms who created the wormhole have agreed to allow safe passage for all ships travelling to the Gamma Quadrant. With the arrival of the Enterprise, the Cardassians have left the area." --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %% Picard: "I suspect that the sight of their warship being towed by a Federation Runabout took their heart out of their fight." Sisko: "We're not done with the Cardassians yet. Not with the strategic importance of that wormhole." Picard: "Well, you put Bajor on the map, Commander. This will shortly become a leading center of commerce and of scientific exploration. And for Starfleet, one of our most important posts." --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %% Sisko: "Captain, regarding our conversation about someone to replace me--" Picard: "Yes, I'm sorry I haven't had time yet to communicate that to Command." Sisko: "I would prefer you ignore it, sir." Picard: "I'm not sure that I can. Are you certain that's what you want, because we cannot afford to have a commanding officer who is--" Sisko: "I'm...certain, sir." --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %% Picard: "Good luck, Mister Sisko ." --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %% Bashir: "Where can someone practice with his phaser around here?" --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %% Quark: "New rules?!" Kira: "You can't cheat every customer who walks to Bajor[?] anymore, Quark. You're our community leader now." Quark: "Well, perhaps we could discuss these new rules...over a drink." Kira: "If you don't take that hand off my hip, you'll never be able to raise a glass with it again." --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %% Quark: "Ohh, I love a woman in a uniform!" --"Emissary", Stardate 46393.1 %%