Quotes
| Q: |
"These aren't my colors!" |
| Q: |
"I stand before you defrocked. Condemned to be a member of this lowest of species. A normal, imperfect, lumpen human being." |
| Data: |
"Sir, he is reading as fully human." |
| Q: |
"What is there, an echo in here?" |
| Troi: |
"I am sensing an emotional presence, Captain. I would normally describe it as being terrified." |
| Q: |
"How rude." |
| Q: |
"I have no powers. Q, the ordinary." |
| Picard: |
"Q, the miserable, Q, the misanthrope." |
| Q: |
"Q, the powerless, Q, the desperate! What must I do to convince you people?" |
| Worf: |
"Die." |
| Q: |
"Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?" |
| Picard: |
"Mister Worf, throw him in the Brig." |
| Worf: |
"Delighted, Captain." |
| Worf: |
"You will walk or I will carry you." |
| Q: |
"Given the option, I'll...I'll walk." |
| Q: |
"Hey, I'm claustrophobic in here." |
| 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 To think of a future in this shell, forced to cover myself with a fabric because of some outdated human morality.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." |
| Q: |
"'Klingon'! I should have said 'Klingon'. In my heart of hearts, I am a Klingon." |
| Worf: |
"Be quiet! Or disappear back where you came from." |
| Q: |
"I can't disappear...any more than you can win a beauty contest." |
| Q: |
"Oh, perspicacity incarnate. Please don't feel compelled now to tell me the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Worf'." |
| Q: |
"How can I know what's going on? I've been in this dungeon of yours, alone, helpless, bored to tears." |
| 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 ofme. I lost consciousness." |
| Picard: |
"You fell asleep." |
| Q: |
"This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them!" |
| 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." |
| 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: |
"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." |
| 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?" |
| 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." |
| Q: |
"Ah, Doctor Crusher, I see Starfleet has shipped you back into exile." |
| Q: |
"I've been under a lot of pressure lately...family problems." |
| 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." |
| 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 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: |
"Although I do not speak from experience, I have seen it have a profound effect." |
| 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." |
| Guinan: |
"I hear they drummed you out of the Continuum." |
| Q: |
"I'd like to think of it as a significant career change." |
| Guinan: |
"Just one of the boys, eh?" |
| Q: |
"'Just one of the boys' with an IQ of 2005." |
| Q: |
"OW!" |
| Guinan: |
"Seems human enough to me." |
| Q: |
"The robot who teaches the course in Humanities." |
| Data: |
"I am an android, not a robot." |
| Q: |
"I beg your pardon." |
| Q: |
"Help me! Somebody help me!" |
| Guinan: |
"How the mighty have fallen." |
| Picard: |
"What did you do to them, Q?" |
| Q: |
"Oh, nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque." |
| Q: |
"One creature's torment is another creature's delight." |
| Q: |
"They simply have no sense of humor. A character flaw with which you can personally identify." |
| Riker: |
"I say we hand 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 was serious" |
| Q: |
"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." |
| Q: |
"I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in groups when you're omnipotent." |
| Q: |
"Who does he think he is, giving me orders?" |
| Data: |
"Geordi thinks he is in command here, and he is correct." |
| Picard: |
"You have brought nothing but pain and suffering to this crew and I am still not entirely convinced that this isn't 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." |
| LaForge: |
"Commander, he's not worth it." |
| 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 are 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 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." |
| Picard: |
"It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft." |
| Q: |
"I always thought you were in my corner." |
| Q2: |
"Ah, no. See, actually I was the one who got you kicked out." |
| 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." |
| Q: |
"I've learned my lesson, Q." |
| Q2: |
"Remember who you're talking to. All knowing, all seeing." |
| Q: |
"I'm forgiven! My brothers and sisters of the Continuum have taken me back. I'm immortal again! Omnipotent again!" |
| Riker: |
"Swell." |
| Q: |
"Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard." |
| Picard: |
"Perhaps there's a residue of humanity in Q after all. Ensign, en--" |
| Q: |
"Don't bet on it, Picard." |
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