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Evolution

Picard: "In our travels we've encountered many other creatures, perhaps even stranger than ourselves. But we try to co-exist peacefully with them."

Stubbs: "Why does a mosquito bite your ear?  And who cares.  The answer is simple, call an exterminator."

Wesley: "I always get an 'A'." 
Guinan: "So did Doctor Frankenstein."

The Ensigns Of Command

Data: "… things can be replaced. Lives cannot."

Gosheven: "Here we will stand." 
Data: "Then here you will die."

LaForge (to Wesley Crusher regarding Picard wanting the impossible): "That's the short definition of Captain."

Sheliak: "The law is paramount."

The Survivors

Kevin: "Are eleven-thousand people worth fifty-billion?  Is the love of a woman worth the destruction of an entire species?"

Picard: "We are not qualified to be your judges.  We have no law to fit your crime."

Worf: "… may I say that your attempt to hold the Away Team with a non-functional weapon was an act of unmitigated gall. -- I admire gall."

Worf: "Good tea.  Nice house."

Who Watches The Watchers

Barron: "Without guidance, that religion could degenerate into inquisitions, holy wars, chaos."

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."

Picard: "We are born, we grow, we live, and we die.  In all the ways that matter we are alike."

Riker (to Picard): "The Mintakans are starting to believe in a god, and the one they've chosen is you."

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."

Troi: "That's the problem with believing in a supernatural being.  Trying to determine what he wants."

The Bonding

Picard: "'Tis at the heart of our natures to feel pain and joy.  It is an essential part of what makes us what we are."

Worf: "Every Klingon hopes to die in the line of duty."

Booby Trap

Leah Brahms Hologram: "I am not used to having people question my judgment."
LaForge: "And I'm not used to dying."

Leah Brahms Hologram (to LaForge): "Every time you look at the engine, you're looking at me. Everytime you touch it, it's me."

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."

LaForge: "Commander, we should be going like a bat out of hell."

LaForge: "Don't go away.  I mean, Computer, save program."

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."

The Enemy

Bochra: "And without [the VISOR], you can see nothing?" 
LaForge: "That's right." 
Bochra: "And your parents let you live?"

LaForge: "I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes …."

LaForge: "Welcome to Galorndon Core, where no good deed goes unpunished."

LaForge: "… there are times when it's necessary to die for one's ideals."

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."

Riker: "Close call." 
Picard: "Too close, Number One.  Brinkmanship is a dangerous game."

Tomalak: "Territories?  You would measure territories against a man's life?"

The Price

Dr. 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." 
Dr. Crusher: "Who needs rational when your toes curl up." 
Troi: "I'm afraid I'm going to loose myself.  I can't get enough of him.  Is it possible to fall in love in one day?" 
Dr. Crusher: "I did." 
Troi: "It was like this for you and Jack?" 
Dr. Crusher: "No, it was another fellow.  I fell in love in a 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.  
Dr. Crusher and Troi: "Nah."

DaiMon Goss (to Picard): "Fine, fine.  Just have your Klingon servant get us some chairs."

DaiMon Goss: "Doctor, you surprise me.  I have no wish to kill anyone. A short term crippling will suffice."

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."

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."

Riker (re: negotiating): "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?"

Troi: "God forbid I should miss my first look into worm hole."

The Vengeance Factor

Riker: "... I prefer equals." 
Yuta: "Even in the matters of love?" 
Riker: "Especially in the matters of love."

Worf: "Your ambushes would be more successful if you bathed more often."

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 Defector

Jarok: "Oh, what a fool I've been to come looking for courage in a lair of cowards."

Jarok: "One world's butcher is another world's hero.  Perhaps I am neither one."

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 …, if we stop this war before it begins."

Picard (quoting Shakespeare): "Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it."

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."

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."

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."

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?"

Tomalak: "You will still not survive our assault." 
Picard: "And you will not survive ours.  Shall we die together?"

Worf: "You are lucky this is not a Klingon ship.  We know how to deal with spies."

The Hunted

Danar: "To survive is not enough!  To simply exist is not enough."

Picard: "'Matter of internal security', the age old cry of the oppressor."

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."

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.  -- 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."

Worf: "Danar. You are cunning.  You must have Klingon blood."

The High Ground

Dr. Crusher: "I am trying to put life back into a wounded body with slight of hand."

Dr. Crusher: "They're dying.  I'm seeing a complicated set of conditions.  Their DNA is warped somehow and it's distorting their entire cellular chemistry." 
Finn: "You can't do anything." 
Dr. Crusher: "I can make them more comfortable, that's all.  The damage is too extensive.  -- If I could detect their condition earlier?" 
Finn: "You could reverse the damage." 
Dr. Crusher: "Perhaps!  I don't know.  What happened to them?" 
Finn: "It's the inverter. It's given our cause a new life but it asks for our lives in return."  
Dr. Crusher: "What does it do?" 
Finn: "We transport through a dimensional shift that the Rutian sensors can't trace." 
Dr. Crusher: "Dimensional shifting?!  You can't do that with humanoid tissue." 
Finn: "There are risks, the designers told us, but it works." 
Dr. Crusher: "You're showing the same distorted readings.  Not as severe as the others but --"  
Finn: "Doesn't matter!" 
Dr. Crusher: "It does if it kills you." 
Finn: "Don't you know, a dead martyr is worth ten posturing leaders."

Dr. Crusher: "You should be drawing, not killing people." 
Finn: "I can do both." 
Dr. Crusher: "How can you have such a casual attitude toward killing?" 
Finn: "I take my killing very seriously, Doctor.  You are an idealist." 
Dr. Crusher: "I live in an ideal culture.  There's no need for your kind of violence.  We've proven that." 
Finn: "Your origins on Earth are from the American continent, are they not?" 
Dr. Crusher: "North America!"  
Finn: "Yes! I've read your history books.  This is a war for independence and I am no different than your own George Washington."   
Dr. Crusher: "Washington was a military General, not a terrorist." 
Finn: "The difference between generals and terrorists, Doctor, is only the difference between winners and losers.  You win, your called a general.  You lose --" 
Dr. Crusher: "You are killing innocent people.  Can't you see the immorality of what you're doing?  Or have you killed so much you've become blind to it?" 
Finn: "How much innocent blood has been spilled for the cause of freedom in the history of your Federation, Doctor?  How many good and noble societies have bombed civilians in war; have wiped out whole cities?  And now that you enjoy the comfort that has come from their battles, their killing, you frown on my immorality?  I'm willing to die for my freedom, Doctor. And in the finest tradition of your own great civilization, I'm willing to kill for it too."

Data: "Are you referring to the Elway theorem?" 
Wesley: "... What if they're using interdimensional travel?" 
Data: "But the Elway theorem proved to be entirely inaccurate. All research was abandoned by the mid-23rd Century." 
LaForge: "-- It would certainly be untraceable by any standard method of detection." 
Data: "But it was proven to be fatal.  To use this technology would be an irrational act." 
Picard: "We may be dealing with irrational people ...." 

Data: "Sir, I am finding it difficult to understand many aspects of Onsuta conduct?  Much of their behavioral norm would be defined by my program as unnecessary and unacceptable?" 
Picard: "... By my program as well, Data." 
Data: "But if that is so, Captain, why are their methods so often successful?  I have been reviewing the history of armed rebellion and it appears that terrorism is and effective way to promote political change." 
Picard: "Yes it can be, but, I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun."  
Data: "Yet there are numerous examples when it was successful:  the independence of the Mexican state from Spain, the Irish Unification of 2024 and the Kinsey Rebellion." 
Picard: "Yes, I am aware of them." 
Data: "Then would it be accurate to say that terrorism is acceptable when all options for a peaceful options for peaceful settlement is foreclosed?" 
Picard: "Data, these are questions that mankind has been struggling with throughout history.  Your confusion is only human."

Devos: "How do I combat an enemy that fails to register on any scanner, until they're literally standing in front of you, pointing a phaser at your head?"

Devos: "Believe it or not, I always considered myself 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."

Devos: "In a world where children blow up children, everyone's a threat."

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."

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."

Finn: "I'm not releasing you.  I need you here." 
Dr. Crusher: "To find a way to reverse the effects of the dimensional shift? I can do that right now. Stop using it!"

Picard: "History has shown us that strength may be useless when faced with terrorism."

Picard: "They're mad." 
Dr. Crusher: "I don't know anymore.  The difference between a mad man and a committed man willing to die for a cause, it's all become blurred over the last few of days."

Picard: "You have made a grave miscalculation." 
Finn: "Oh?!"  
Picard: "You have assaulted a Federation starship, killed and wounded several members of her crew, kidnapped two of her officers, and you don't expect a response?"  
Finn: "On the contrary, I'm counting on it." 
Picard: "You want Federation involvement?" 
Finn: "Captain, the Federation has a lot to admire in this.  But there is a hint of moral cowardice in your dealings with non-aligned planets.  Your doing business with a government that is crushing us and you say you're not involved. You're very, very much involved.  You just don't want to get dirty."  
Picard: "You accuse us of cowardice while you plant bombs in shadows?"  
Finn: "I am fighting the only war that I can against an intractable enemy.  Now I'm fighting a big war against a more powerful adversary.  Can't you see how that helps me?" 
Doctor Crusher: "I'm afraid I can't." 
Picard: "He's added another chair to the negotiation table." 
Finn: "You added the chair, Captain.  I am simply forcing you to sit in it.  The Federation will quickly tire of our little war.  They'll want you back.  They will want to get as far from Rutia as they can and I will not make it easy.  Eventually the Federation will force the government into making concessions, and then a few more, and then a few more.  Until we can finally reach and honorable agreement that saves face for all sides, except, we win." 
Picard: "You understand I will not cooperate with you in any way." 
Finn: "You've already cooperated Captain, just by coming here."

Picard: "Beverly, it is our obligation to escape." 
Dr. Crusher: "He's prepared to kill you." 
Picard: "An excellent reason to escape."

Riker: "People don't just appear and disappear."

Riker: "You don't sound very optimistic." 
Devos: "I know my enemy, Commander.  They don't leave much room for optimism."

Deja Q

Data: "To function in any human activity, you must learn to form relationships."

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: "Hmm! Well, if you ask me, these human emotions are not what they're cracked up to be."
Data: "Hmm!"

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."

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."

LaForge: "I'll take a look and see if there're any rules I haven't broken."

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."

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 puerile joke!" 
Q: "It is a joke, a joke on me, a joke on the universe.  The king who would be man."

Q: "I'm no longer a member of the Continuum!  My superiors have decided to punish me!"
Picard: "And punish us as well, it would seem."

Q: "You don't believe me, do you?  Do you think I would humiliate myself like this?"
Riker: "If it served your purpose, yes!"

Q: "I stand before you defrocked!  Condemned to be a member of this lowest of species.  A normal, imperfect, lumped human being!"

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." 
Q: "Oh, very clever, Worf.  Eat any good books lately?"

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?  Having to bathe?"

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'."

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."

Q: "This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them!"

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." 
Q: "Humans are such commonplace little creatures.  They roam over the galaxy searching for something they know not what."  
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."

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!"

Q: "… I would certainly begin, by examining the cause, and not the symptom."

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?"

Q: "I've been under a lot of pressure lately ... family problems."  
Dr. Crusher: "Hmm, well, don't expect too much sympathy from me.  You have been a pain in our backside often enough."

Q: "Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients recover quickly, just to get away from you."

Q: "Ow, I think." 
Dr. Crusher: "Now what?" 
Q: "There's something wrong with my stomach." 
Dr. Crusher: "It hurts?" 
Q: "It's making noises." 
Dr. Crusher: "Maybe you're hungry." 
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 sustenance, I occasionally ingest semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silicone-based liquid medium." 
Q: "Is it good?"  
Data: "It would be more appropriate to say it is good for me, as it lubricates my bio-functions." 
Q: "That doesn't sound very appealing." 
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: "Mmm! A chocolate sundae, for example.  Although I do not speak from personal experience, I have seen it have a profound psychological impact." 
Q: "I'll have ten chocolate sundaes." 
Bartender: "Ten?" 
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."

Q: "This is not a moment I've been looking forward to." 
Guinan: "I hear they drummed you out of the Continuum." 
Q: "I like to think of it as a significant career change." 
Guinan: "Just one of the boys, eh?"  
Q: "'One of the boys' with an IQ of two-thousand and five." 
Data: "The Captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced he is truly human."  
Guinan: "Really?  ... Seems human enough to me." 
Q: "This is a dangerous creature!  You have no idea!  Why Picard would make her a member of the crew and not me?" 
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?" 
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." 
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." 
Q: "Uph, I'm not hungry." 

Q: "Help me!  Somebody help me!" 
Guinan: "How the mighty have fallen."

Q: "The Calamarian are not very hospitable creatures." 
Picard: "What did you do to them, Q?" 
Q: "Oh, nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque."
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."
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."  
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 occurred to me." 
Picard: "And for all your protestations 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." 
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.  Human or not, I want no part of you."

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'."

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." 
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!" 
Q: "Who does he think he is, giving me orders?" 
Data: "Geordi thinks he is in command here, and he is correct."

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."

Q (to Data): "There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions ... no pain. And yet you covet those qualities of humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it means anything to you, you're a better human than I."

Q: "Please, don't fall back on your tired clich� 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."

Q: "Q!" 
Q2: "Ah! Sacrificing yourself for these humans?  Do I detect a little selfless act?" 
Q: "You flatter me.  I was only trying to put a quick end to a miserable existence!"

Q: "The king who would be man!"

Q: "The universe has been my playground."

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."

Riker: "Given a choice between slim and none, I'll take slim any day."

Troi: "I am sensing an emotional presence, Captain.  I would normally describe it as being terrified."
Q: "How rude!"

Worf: "Be quiet!  Or disappear back where you came from." 
Q: "I can't disappear ... anymore than you could win a beauty contest."

A Matter Of Perspective

Yesterday's Enterprise

Garrett: "Doctors always overprotect their patients."
Beverly: "And captains always push themselves too hard."

Guinan: "It's an Earth drink.  Prune juice."
Worf: "Warrior's drink!"
Guinan: "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: "There are a few on this ship that would find you ... tame."
Worf: "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."

Guinan: "This is not a ship of war.  This is a ship of peace."

Guinan: "Tasha, you're not supposed to be here."
Yar: "Where am I supposed to be?"
Guinan: "Dead."
Yar: "Do you know how?"
Guinan: "No.  But I do know that it was an empty death.  A death without purpose."

Klingon Commander: "Federation ship Enterprise, surrender and prepare to be boarded." 
Picard: "That will be the day!"

LaForge: "Who knows if we're even dead or alive."

Picard: "Let's make sure history never forgets the name ... 'Enterprise'."

Tasha Yar: "I'm not supposed to be here, sir. I'm ... supposed to be dead!"

The Offspring

Data: "I can give her attention, Doctor, but I am incapable of giving her love." 
Dr. Crusher: "Now why do I find that so hard to believe?"

Data: "Lal, I am unable to correct the system failure." 
Lal: "I know." 
Data: "We must say goodbye now." 
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...."

Data: "It is the struggle itself that is most important.  It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal.  The effort yields its own rewards."

Data: "Our function is to contribute in a positive way to the world in which we live."

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."

Data: "Commander, what are your intentions toward my daughter?"

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."

Haftel: "She is capable of running sixty-trillion calculations a second, and you have her working as a cocktail waitress."

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."

Lal: "Purpose for exterior draping, father?" 
Data: "It is an accepted custom that we wear clothing."

Lal: "I am gender neuter, inadequate."

Lal: "Judging from their laughter, the children at school found my remarks humorous.  So without understanding humor, I have somehow mastered it."

Lal: "Father says that I would learn a great deal from someone as old as you."

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."

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."

Lal: "He's biting that female!" 
Guinan: "No, he's not biting her.  They're pressing lips together.  It's called kissing."

Lal: "You are wise, father." 
Data: "It is the difference between knowledge and experience."

Picard: "Data, I would like to have been consulted." 
Data: "I have not observed anyone else on board consulting you about their procreation, Captain."

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've never been a parent."

Picard: "There are times ... 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 child over to the state.  Not while I'm his captain."

Picard: "A malfunction ... emotional awareness."

Sins Of The Father

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."

Kurn: "I never killed anyone at the supper table ...." 

Picard: "Do not forget what happens here today.  You must not let your children forget."

Riker: "One does not patronize a Klingon warrior."

Worf: "It is a good day to die ... and the day is not yet over."

Allegiance

"Picard": "Oh, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer."

Captain's Holiday

Riker: "I told you he'd have a great time."

Riker: "The more difficult the task, the sweeter the victory."

Riker: "I believe there are two ensigns stationed on deck 39 who know nothing about it."

Tin Man

Hollow Pursuits

Barclay: "... 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."

Picard: "It's easy to transfer a problem to someone else.  Too easy."

Picard hologram (to Riker): "Sir, you have no sense of fair play."

Troi: "There's nothing wrong with a healthy fantasy life.  As long as you don't let it take over."

The Most Toys

Data: "Perhaps something occurred during transport."

Fajo: "What I've done was evil, selfish, immoral, unprincipled, illegal ... well, I've learned to live with it."

Sarek

Menage A Troi

Picard: "My love is like a fever, longing still for that which longer nurses the disease."

Transfigurations

Worf (to LaForge): "It is the scent that first speaks of love."

The Best Of Both Worlds

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Admiral J. P. Hanson: "The truth is, hell, we are not ready."

Commander Elizabeth Paula Shelby: "My priority has been to develop some kind, any kind of defense strategy."
Riker: "Obviously nothing we have now can stop them."
Shelby: "We've been designing new weapons, but they're all still on the drawing board."
Hanson: "We expected much more lead time.  Your encounter with the Borg was over 7,000 light years away."
Picard: "If this is the Borg, it would indicate that they have a source of power far superior to our own."

Hanson: "This is the third time we've pulled out the captain's chair for Riker.   He just won't sit down."

Shelby: "... we've tested the sections of the Enterprise hull that were damaged by the Borg.  There were some unusual magnetic resonance traces."
Riker: "A Borg footprint?"
Shelby: "That's my theory."

LaForge: "Wesley, you may get straight 'A's in school, but there's a lot you need to learn about poker."

O'Brien: "... Commander Shelby and Data beamed down to the planet's surface an hour ago."
Riker: "On who's authority?"
O'Brien: "On her's, Sir."

Shelby: "Early bird gets the worm, eh?"

Data: "Early bird?  I believe Commander Shelby erred.   There is no evidence of avifaunal or crawling vermicular life forms on Jouret Four."

Shelby: "The soil contains the same magnetic resonance traces.   That's our footprint.  There's no doubt any more.  It is the Borg."

Shelby: "One theory is that their systems are decentralized with redundant power sources located throughout the ship."
Data: "That is a reasonable conclusion.  Borg technology has given each member of their society the ability to interface and function collectively.  It is likely they have constructed their ships with the same philosophy."
W. Crusher: "You knock out one generator and another one takes over without interuption."
Riker: "What kind of damage would we have to do to shut them down?"
Shelby: "Projections suggest that a Borg ship ... could continue to function effectively even if 78% of it was inoperable."
W. Crusher: "And our best shot barely scratched the surface."

Riker: "If we have a confrontation, I don't want a crew fighting the Borg at the same time they're fighting their own fatigue."

Picard: "Mister Worf, dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson.  We have engaged the Borg."

Borg: "Jean-Luc Picard, Captain of the starship Enterprise, registry number NCC-1701-D.  You will lower your shields and prepare to transport yourself aboard our vessel.  If you do not cooperate, we will destroy your ship."
Picard: "You have committed acts of aggression against the United Federation of Planets.  If you do not withdraw immediately ..."
Borg: "You will surrender yourself or we will destroy your ship.  Your defensive capabilities are unable to withstand ...
[Picard cuts communications]
Riker: "What the hell do they want with you?"
Shelby: "I thought they weren't interested in human life-forms, only our technology."
Picard: "Their priorities seem to have changed.  (to Worf)  Open.
Worf: "Channel open."
Picard: "We have developed new defense capabilities since our last meeting.  And we are prepared to use them if you do not withdraw from Federation space."

Shelby: "Data, fluctuate phaser resonance frequencies, random settings, keep them changing, don't give them time to adapt."

Picard: "As long as they're looking for us, they won't hurt anyone else."

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."

Shelby: "All you know how to do is play it safe."

Shelby (to Riker): "If you can't make the big decisions, Commander, I suggest you make room for someone who can."

Guinan: "Trouble sleeping?"
Picard: "It's something of a tradition, Guinan -- captain touring a ship before a battle."
Guinan: "Oh.  Before a hopeless battle if I remember the tradition correctly."
Picard: "Not necessarily.  Nelson toured the H.M.S. Victory before Trafalgar."
Guinan: "Yes, but Nelson never returned from Trafalgar, did he?"
Picard: "No, but the battle was won."
Guinan: "Do you expect this battle to be won?"
Picard: "We may yet prevail.  That's -- a conceit.  But, it's a healthy one."

Guinan: "We survived.  As will humanity survive.  As long as there's a handful of you to keep the spirit alive, you will prevail.  Even if it takes a millennium."

Worf: "They on on a direct course to sector 001, the Terran system."
Riker: "Earth."

[After Picard's abduction and transport to Borg vessel]
Borg: "Captain Jean-Luc Picard.  You lead the strongest ship of the Federation fleet.  You speak for your people."
Picard: "I have nothing to say to you.  And I will resist you with my last ounce of strength."
Borg: "Strength is irrelevant.  Resistance is futile.  We wish to improve ourselves.  We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.   Your culture will adapt to service ours."
Picard: "Impossible.  My culture is based on freedom and self-determination."
Borg: "Freedom is irrelevant.  Self-determination is irrelevant.  You must comply."
Picard: "We would rather die."
Borg: "Death is irrelevant.  Your archaic cultures are authority driven.   To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications.  You have been chosen to be that voice."

B. Crusher: "What if we look at this from the mosquito's point of view?"
Data: "Interesting megaphor, Doctor.  What is your idea?"
B. Crusher: "If we sting them in a tender spot, they might stop for a minute to scratch."

Riker: "The Captain?"
Data: "We were unable to retrieve him, Sir.  The Captain has been altered by the Borg."
Riker: "Altered?"
Worf: "He is a Borg."

Locutus [Picard's Borg name]: "I am Locutus of Borg.   Resistance is futile.  Your life, as it has been is over.  From this time forward, you will service us."
Riker: "Mr. Worf -- fire."