Jonathan Frakes credited as playing...
Riker
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [after Will kisses her] Yuck!
- Commander Riker: Yuck?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I've never kissed you with a beard before.
- Commander Riker: I kiss you and you say "yuck"?
- Commander Riker: Our guests have arrived. They're eating the floral arrangements on the banquet tables.
- Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: I guess they don't believe in cocktails before dinner.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Oh, my God. Are they vegetarian? That's not in there.
- Captain Picard: Perhap we should have the chef whip up a light balsamic vinaigrette, something that goes well with chrysanthemums.
- Commander Riker: [referring to his shaven face] Smooth as an android's bottom, eh, Data?
- Data: I beg your pardon, Sir?
- Data: [later] Commander! May I?
- [feels his face, shakes his head]
- Commander Riker: [the Enterprise is rocked by a photon torpedo from the Son'a ship] Photon torpedo. Isn't that the universal greeting when communications are down?
- Geordi La Forge: I think it's the universal greeting when you don't like someone.
- Commander Riker: [to Lt. Daniels] Tell them our transceiver assembly is down, that we can send messages but not receive them.
- Lt. Daniels: I don't think they believe us.
- Commander Riker: Why not?
- [the Enterprise is rocked by a photon torpedo from a Son'a ship]
- Commander Riker: Photon torpedo.
- [Walking over to Geordi]
- Commander Riker: Isn't that the universal greeting when communications are down?
- Geordi La Forge: I think it's the universal greeting when you don't like someone.
- Commander Riker: [Deanna absent-mindedly plays with the nape of his neck] You haven't done that in a long time.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: What?
- Commander Riker: What you're doing to my neck.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Was I doing something to your neck?
- Commander Riker: You got a minute?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Sure.
- Commander Riker: I need a little counseling.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Well, there's a first time for everything.
- Commander Riker: [lying down, putting his head in her lap] So do I lie down or what?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Um... well, whatever makes you comfortable. But this isn't one of the usual therapeutic postures.
- Commander Riker: But it is comfortable.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Mm-hmm. Why don't you try sitting up.
- Commander Riker: Why don't you try lying down?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Well, you're in quite a mood today. Do you really need counseling, or did you come down here to play?
- Commander Riker: I think I'm having a midlife crisis.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I believe you.
- Commander Riker: I'm not sleeping well.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Dr. Crusher has something that can take care of that.
- Commander Riker: What I need, I can't get from Dr. Crusher.
- Commander Riker: [reading up on the Son'a] Half-century ago, they conquered two primitive races, the Tarlac and the Ellora, and then integrated them into their culture as a labor class. Look at this. "The Son'a are known to have produced mass quantities of the narcotic ketracel-white. Their ships are rumored to be equipped with isolytic subspace weapons outlawed by the second Khitomer Accord."
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Why would we be involved with these people?
- Commander Riker: Good question.
- Commander Riker: Do you think it's possible for two people to go back in time, fix a mistake they've made?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: On this ship? Anything's possible.