Quotes
| 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." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Picard: |
"And Miss Rogers..." |
| Rogers: |
"Yes?" |
| Picard: |
"You've won yourself a rare opportunity. Avail yourself of it." |
| Rogers: |
"I will, sir. And thank you." |
| Rogers: |
"For me?" |
| Riker: |
"It's all yours." |
| Rogers: |
"It's so...*big*." [Laughs] |
| Riker: |
"For honors students, only the best." |
| 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." |
| Riker: |
"I have to get going. I have to get back to Cargo Bay Two." |
| Rogers: |
"Well, tha, thanks for...walking me down." |
| Riker: |
[Smiles] "Sure." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Beverly: |
"No, not as much as I'd like." |
| Rogers: |
"Did you have any other children?" |
| Beverly: |
"My husband died a number of years ago, Wes was our only child." |
| Rogers: |
"Was he old enough to know his father?" |
| Beverly: |
"Jack died when he was five." |
| Rogers: |
"My parents died when I was a baby too. I don't remember anything about them. Sometimes I wonder what they were like." |
| LaForge: |
"Commander, are you all right?! You okay?" |
| Riker: |
"I didn't see it coming." |
| 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--" |
| Data: |
"Temperature in the reaction chamber...has returned to normal." |
| 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: |
[Flash] "And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient." |
| Picard: |
"Q!" |
| Q: |
"Mon capitan." |
| 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." |
| Troi: |
"Amanda's a Q?" |
| Beverly: |
"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 Beverly] "And then like markish humans, they became attached to it." |
| Q: |
"What is it about these *squirming* little infants that you find so appealing?" |
| Beverly: |
"I'm sure that's beyond your comprehension, Q." |
| Q: |
"I desparately hope so." |
| 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." |
| 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!" |
| 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." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Beverly: |
"She has plans for herself! A career and a family!" |
| Q: |
"I'm *rescuing* her from that miserable existence." |
| Beverly: |
"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." |
| Q: |
"Well, there now, that's better. Crusher gets more shrill with each passing year." |
| 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." |
| 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*!" |
| 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." |
| 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*." |
| Q: |
"I knew I could count on you, Jean-Luc." |
| 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." |
| 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?" |
| Q: |
"She has *potential*, this one." |
| 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." |
| Rogers: |
"Leave me alone! I'm not going anywhere with you!" |
| 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." |
| Q: |
"She's quite a little spitfire now, isn't she?" |
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