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Time's Arrow, Part II

Realm of Fear

Man of the People

Relics

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'."

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."  
Scott: "You're not quite, uh, human, are you?"  
Data: "No, sir. I am an android.  Lieutenant Commander Data."   
Scott: "Synthetic scotch, synthetic commanders."

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."

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."

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!"

LaForge: "... Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away."

Picard: "Mister Data, could this be a Dyson Sphere?" 
Data: "The object does fit the general parameters of Dyson's theory."  
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 inexhaustible sources of power."  
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."

Picard: "How're you feeling?"  
Scott: "I don't know.  How am I feeling?"  
Dr. 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."

Picard (in Holodeck): "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."

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."  
Scott: "To the Enterprise and the Stargazer. Old girlfriends we'll never meet again."

Picard: "Mister LaForge ... 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."

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!"

Scott: "Well, I'll say this about your Enterprise.  The doctors are a fair sight prettier."

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!"

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."

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!"

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."

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.  Computer, shut this bloody thing off.  It's time I acted my age."

Scott: "... never get drunk unless you're willing to pay for it the next day. ..."

Scott: "... A good engineer is always a wee bit conservative, at least on paper."

Scott: "Geordi, I have spent my whole life, trying to figure out crazy ways of doing things. ..."

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."

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."  
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."  
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." 

Scott: "... 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."

Scott: "A ship is only as good as the engineer who takes care of her."

Schisms

True Q

Dr. Crusher: "Wait a minute!  You, you can't just come in here and take her away from everything she's ever known!"  
Q: "I assure you I can."  
Dr. Crusher: "She has plans for herself!  A career and a family!"  
Q: "I'm rescuing her from that miserable existence."  
Dr. Crusher: "That 'miserable existence' is all she's known for the last eighteen years.  You have no right to take her away from it!"

Dr. Crusher: "You are going to have to make some hard choices about your future.  And you can't make them if you're going to ignore the truth."

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."

Q: "What is it about these squirming little infants that you find so appealing?"  
Dr. Crusher: "I'm sure that's beyond your comprehension, Q."   
Q: "I desperately hope so."

Q: "The future contains wonders you can't even imagine.  The universe could be your playground."

Riker: "You can't make someone love you."

Riker: "You can't snatch people and put them into your fantasies and expect them to respond."

Amanda Rogers: "For me?"  
Riker: "It's all yours."   
Rogers: "It's so...big."  
Riker: "For honors students, only the best."

Rogers: "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."

Troi: "Amanda's a Q?"  
Dr. 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.  And then like mawkish humans, they became attached to it."

Rascals

Riker: "We consider our families one of our strengths."

A Fistful of Datas

Picard: "I'm really not much of an actor."

Worf: "I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program."

Trivia

Data character in holodeck program cross-dresses as floozy.

The Quality of Life

Chain of Command, Part I

Captain Jellico: "... get that fish out of my ready room."

Chain of Command, Part II

Picard: "THERE ... ARE ... FOUR ... LIGHTS!"

Trivia

Only appearance of Picard naked (after Gul Madred slices off his clothes).

Ship In A Bottle

Professor Moriarty: "Policemen -- I'd recognize them in any century."

Aquiel

Face Of The Enemy

Tapestry

Q (to Picard): "You're dead, this is the afterlife -- and I'm God."

Picard (to Q): "I refused to believe that the afterlife is run by you!  The universe is not so badly designed."

Birthright, Part I

Troi (to Worf standing over a broken table): "Did the table do something wrong?"

Birthright, Part II

Starship Mine

Lessons

The Chase

Klingon Commander (Re: projection): "That's all?  If she were not dead, I would kill her."

Picard: "Without cooperation we will get nowhere."

Frame of Mind

Dr. Crusher: "When you're under conditions of extreme stress, the mind manufactures all kinds of things."

Troi: "Don't be afraid of your darker side.  Have fun with it."

Troi: "Sometimes it's healthy to explore the darker side of the psyche.  Jung called it 'owning your own shadow.'"

Suspicions

Rightful Heir

Second Chances

Data: "I have found that humans baggy their uniqueness -- that sense that they are different from everyone else."

Riker: "What the future holds no one knows. But forward we look, and forward we go."

Timescape

Data (to Troi Re: mating rituals): "I thought it was a topic you were interested in."

Descent, Part I

03/07/99

Sir Isaac Newton hologram: "... I invented physics.  The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science."
Doctor Stephen Hawking hologram: "Not the apple story again."
Data: "That story is generally considered to be apocryphal."

Data: "When I play poker with my shipmates, it often appears to be a useful forum for exploring the different facets of humanity.  I was curious to see how three of history's greatest minds would interact in this setting.  So far, it has proved to be most illuminating."

Einstein: "The uncertainty principal will not help you now, Stephen.   All the quantum fluctuations in the universe will not change the cards in your hand."

Borg Drone: "You have killed Torsus.  I will make you suffer for this."

Data (fending off Borg angrily): "Stop it! -- Stop!  Stop!   Stop!  Stop!"

Crosis: "Biological organism -- Klingon.  Biological organism -- human.  ...  Artificial life-form -- Starfleet rank -- Lieutenant Commander.   Name -- Data."

Riker: "Data, are you alright?"
Data: "Yes, Sir."
Riker: "What happened?"
Data: "I got angry."

Riker: "They were fast, aggressive, almost vicious.  It was more like fighting Klingons than Borg."

Riker: "I don't believe they were part of the Borg Collective.   I think they were acting as individuals.  ...  One of them referred to himself as I."
Worf: "And that Borg showed concern for a fallen comrade.  He even call him by name."

Picard: "The Borg's entire existence was centered around acquiring cultures and technology.  If that's changed, then they must have a new objective.   We have to find out what it is."

Data: "... I believe I have experienced my first emotion."
LaForge: "... how would you know a flash of anger from some odd kind of power surge?"
Data: "You are correct in that I have no frame of reference to confirm my hypothesis.   In fact, I am unable to provide a verbal description of the experience.   Perhaps you could describe how it feels to be angry.  I could then use that as a reference."
LaForge: "... when I feel angry, first -- I feel -- hostile."
Data: "Could you describe feeling hostile?"
LaForge: "... It's like feeling belligerent, combative."
Data: "Could you describe feeling angry without referring to other feelings?"
LaForge: "No, I guess I can't.  I just feel angry."
Data: "That was my experience as well.  I simply felt angry."

Data: "Perhaps I have evolved to the point where emotions are within my grasp.  Perhaps I will experience other emotions as time goes by."
LaForge: "... I hope you're right.  I hate to think anger is all you're capable of feeling."

Admiral Nechayev: "...  You found a single Borg at a crash site, brought it aboard the Enterprise, studied it, analyzed it, and eventually, found a way to send it back to the Borg with a program that would have destroyed the entire Collective once and for all.  But instead, you nursed the Borg back to health, treated it like a guest, gave it a name and then sent it home.  Why?"
Picard: "When Hugh was separated from the Collective, he began to grow, to evolve into something other than an automaton.  He became a person.  When that happened, I felt I had no choice but to respect his rights as an individual."
Nechayev: "Of course you had a choice.  You could have taken the opportunity to rid the Federation of a mortal enemy.  One that has killed tens of thousands of innocent people.  And which may kill even more.
Picard: "No one is more aware of the danger than I am.  But I'm also bound by my oath and my conscience to uphold certain principles.  And I will not sacrifice them in order to ..."
Nechayev: "Your priority is to safeguard the lives of Federation citizens, not to wrestle with your conscience."

Data: "For the past six hours, I have attempted to produce an emotional response by subjecting myself to various stimuli."
Troi: "Like what?"
Data: "I listened to several operas known to be uplifting.  I watched three holodeck programs designed to be humorous.  And I made four attempts to induce sexual desire by subjecting myself to erotic imagery."
Troi: "What happened?"
Data: "Nothing."
Troi: "...  Why are you ignoring the one emotion you've already experienced?   Why aren't you trying to make yourself angry again?"
Data: "Anger is a negative emotion.  I wanted to concentrate on something more positive."
Troi: "... feelings aren't positive and negative.  They simply exist.  It's what we do with those feelings that becomes good or bad.  For example, feeling angry about an injustice could lead someone to take a positive action to correct it."
Data: "But my study of humanity indicates there are some emotions that are harmful, such as jealousy or hatred."
Troi: "Those are very strong emotions and you're right, very little good can come from them.  But I don't think that an exploration of anger need necessarily lead to hatred or malice."

Data: "When I was fighting the Borg, I felt angry.  ... just after I had killed the Borg, I looked down at his body.  I felt ... pleasure."

Riker: "Sending Hugh back to the Borg was a very risky -- a very dangerous choice, but it was the moral thing to do."
Picard: "Well, it may turn out that the moral thing to do was not the right thing to do."

LaForge: "You can't put your life on the line just to prove some theory.  ..."
Data: "... it is my life, and I have a right to risk it if I choose."

Picard: "What is your designation?"
Crosis: "I do not have a designation.  My name is Crosis."
Picard: "Crosis?  How did you get that name?"
Crosis: "It was given to me by the 'One'."
Picard: "Who is that?"
Crosis: "The one who will destroy you."
Picard: "But you are Borg.  Your goal is not to destroy but to assimilate us into your Collective."
Crosis: "We do not assimilate inferior biological organisms.  We destroy them."

Data: "...  On Ohniaka Three -- I was forced to kill a Borg.   I got angry."
Crosis: "How did it feel to get angry?  Did it give you pleasure?"
Data: "It would be unethical to take pleasure in another beings death."
Crosis: "You didn't answer my question.  Did it feel good to kill?"
Data: "--  Yes."
Crosis: "If it is unethical to take pleasure from another being's death, you must be a very unethical person."

Data: "The sons of Soong have joined together, and together, we will destroy the Federation."