Brent Spiner credited as playing...
Data
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up?
- Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Not that we care about that in this day and age.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Uh huh.
- Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: [notices Data] Thank you, Data.
- Data: [walks over to Worf]
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: I've an odd craving for the blood of a live Kolar beast.
- Data: And have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up? Not that we care about tha...
- Data: I feel obliged to point out that the environmental anomalies may have stimulated certain rebellious instincts common to youth, which could affect everyone's judgment... Except mine of course.
- Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Okay Data. What do *you* think we should do?
- Data: Saddle up, lock and load!
- Data: [Artim is getting over his distrust of Data, and beginning to bond with him] My operation depends on specifications that do not change. I will never know the experience of growing up or tripping over my own feet.
- Artim: But you've never had adults telling you what to do all the time, or bedtimes, or having to eat food you don't like.
- Data: I would gladly accept the requirement of a bedtime in exchange for knowing what it is like to be a child.
- Artim: Do machines ever play?
- Data: Yes. I play the violin, and my chess routines are quite advanced.
- Artim: No, I mean, haven't you ever just played? For fun?
- Data: [tentative, unsure what the boy is getting at] Androids do not have fun.
- Artim: Look, if you want to understand what it's like to be a child, you need to learn to play.
- Captain Picard: Data, what's the last thing you remember?
- Data: [singing] His nose should pant, and his lip should curl...
- Captain Picard: From the mission.
- 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]
- [there is a blemish on Worf's face]
- Captain Picard: Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf?
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: [sighs] No sir... it is a "gorch".
- Captain Picard: Gorch?
- Data: [whispers] Pimple, sir.
- Captain Picard: Oh... it's hardly noticeable.
- Data: Captain, the boy is afraid of me.
- Captain Picard: It's nothing personal, Data. You have to remember, these people have rejected technology.
- Data: I am the personification of everything they have rejected.
- Captain Picard: Until this week, that young man probably never saw a machine, let alone one that walks and talks.
- Data: [discovering a Federation ship in the middle of a Ba'ku lake] It is a holographic projection. Incomplete, I might add.
- Captain Picard: What you're seeing is a computer-driven image created by photons and force fields.
- Anij: I know what a hologram is, Captain. The question is, why would anyone want to create one of our village?
- Captain Picard: Data, if you were following the children and discovered this ship...
- Data: It is conceivable I was shot to protect the secret of its existence.
- Captain Picard: Why would they duplicate this village, except to deceive the Ba'ku?
- Anij: Deceive us?
- Captain Picard: To move you off this planet. You go to sleep one night in the village, wake up the next morning on this flying holodeck, transported en masse. Within a few days, they're relocated on a similar planet without ever realizing it.
- Data: Why would the Federation or the Son'a wish to move the Ba'ku?
- Captain Picard: I don't know.