- Guinan: You know, I've never been to a formal inquiry.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Well, I'll see if I can arrange one for you. All you have to do is disobey orders, violate medical ethics and cause an interstellar incident.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [narrating] Klingons make threats as a matter of course. On the other hand, sometimes they follow through.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I don't want you to get involved in this.
- Nurse Alyssa Ogawa: Is that an order, Doctor?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Yes.
- Nurse Alyssa Ogawa: Too bad you're not my boss anymore.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You're the loneliest person in the world right now. No one can say anything, no one can do anything that will help. And you think that it will never go away. And you're right, it won't. But you can get used to it. I know it doesn't feel like that now; but you can.
- [Crusher has taken over the role of a facilitator in a scientific debate]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [narrating] I figured the hard part was over. I'd stepped out on a limb and it hadn't broken. Not bad for my first venture into scientific diplomacy.
- [after a test for his metaphasic shield has failed, Dr. Reyga is determined to prove to everyone that his invention is sound]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [narrating] I couldn't help but admire his tenacity. He just wasn't going to accept defeat, and I hoped he *would* prove himself. But that was the last time I saw him alive.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [after telling Guinan what happened] So that's the story. That's how I ended my career.
- Guinan: Backhand volley.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: What?
- Guinan: That's how I did it. Geordi kept hitting to my backhand at the net.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Guinan, two people have died on this ship, two lives that ended horribly, and you're worried about your tennis game?
- Guinan: Are you upset?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I don't know, you tell me. You're supposed to be wise.
- Guinan: Well, if you *are* upset, why are you moping around here, why don't you do something about it?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I've done everything I could think of; it got me fired!
- Guinan: Do you think Dr. Reyga killed himself?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: No.
- Guinan: Do you think there's a murderer on board?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Yes!
- Guinan: Then why're you still sitting here?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Don't you get it? If I start digging around again...
- Guinan: [ironic] ... you could be relieved of duty.
- [last lines]
- [Dr. Crusher presents Guinan with a tennis racquet in acknowledgement for her support]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Now, I did some research. This is the latest design, state of the art. It is specifically designed to cushion all vibration, so you will never have tennis elbow again.
- Guinan: Thank you... Doctor, this looks like a great racquet, but, uh... I don't play tennis. Never have.
- [first lines]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [after her door has chimed twice] All right, come in!
- [Guinan enters]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Guinan. What's wrong?
- Guinan: I need a doctor. Geordi beat me in straight sets today; I think I've developed tennis elbow.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Well, you'd better go to sickbay. I think Dr. Selar is on duty.
- Guinan: I don't wanna see Dr. Selar, I always see you. I'm very particular about my doctors.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Well, you'd better get a new one, because I'm not a doctor on this ship anymore.
- [Dr. Crusher is treating Guinan's arm]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Make a fist.
- Guinan: Do I have to hit you with my fist before you tell me what happened?
- Guinan: You know, when you're a doctor and you have patients, you're in control. But when you send someone out on a mission, all you can do is sit and watch.