Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

All Good Things... (1994)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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• Capt. Picard : [of Q]  He's always had a certain fascination with humanity, with myself in particular. I think he has more than a passing interest in what happens to me.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : That is true. Q's interest in you has always been very similar to that of a master and his beloved pet.

• Picard : It's like the chicken and the egg, Will, the chicken and the egg! We-we think it started in the past, but it didn't. It started right here, in the future! That's why it's getting larger in the past.

  Data : I think I know what the Captain is talking about. If I'm not mistaken, he's describing a paradox.

  Picard : Yes, right, that's it!

• Jessel : [to La Forge]  If you're really his friend, you'll get him to take that gray out of his 'air.

  Data : Jessel...

  Jessel : Looks like a bloody skunk!

• O'Brien : We have to realign the entire power grid. We'll all be burning the midnight oil on this one.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : [passing]  That would be inadvisable.

  O'Brien : Excuse me?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : If you attempt to ignite a petroleum product on this ship at 0000 hours, you will activate the fire suppression system, which would seal off this entire compartment.

  O'Brien : That was just an expression.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Expression of what?

  O'Brien : A figure of speech. I was trying to tell him that we'd be working late.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Ah. Then 'to burn the midnight oil' implies late work?

  O'Brien : Yeah, that's right.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Hm. I am curious. What is the etymology of that idiom?

  O'Brien : Hm?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : How did it come to be used in contemporary language?

  O'Brien : I-I don't know, sir.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : [having heard 'burning the midnight oil']  It appears we will be required to ignite the midnight petroleum, sir.

• [Data's last line of the series] 

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Would you care to deal, sir?

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : It appears to be a multi-phasic temporal convergence in the space-time continuum.

  Doctor Crusher : In English, Data.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : It is, in essence, an eruption of anti-time.