LeVar Burton credited as playing...
Geordi
- Captain Picard: We're going to stop by Sector 441 on our way to the Goran system.
- Geordi La Forge: They *are* in opposite directions.
- 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.
- Captain Picard: When was the last time we aligned the torque sensors?
- Perim: Two months ago, sir.
- Captain Picard: They don't sound right.
- Geordi La Forge: [checking] The torque sensors *are* out of alignment. By 12 microns. You could hear that?
- Captain Picard: When I was an ensign, I could detect a 3-micron misalignment.
- Geordi La Forge: I had to reconstruct Data's neural net and replace these. They contain memory engrams.
- Captain Picard: How were they damaged?
- Geordi La Forge: By a Son'a weapon. There's no doubt about it, Captain. That's what caused Data to malfunction.
- Captain Picard: But the Son'a report claims that they didn't fire until after he malfunctioned.
- Geordi La Forge: Well, I don't believe it happened that way.
- Captain Picard: Why would they fire on him without provocation?
- Geordi La Forge: All I know is that he was functioning normally until he was shot. Then his fail-safe system was activated.
- Captain Picard: Fail-safe?
- Geordi La Forge: His ethical and moral subroutines took over all of his basic functions.
- Captain Picard: But you're saying he still knew the difference between right and wrong.
- Geordi La Forge: In a sense, that's all he knew. The system was designed to protect Data against anyone who might try to take advantage of his memory loss.
- Captain Picard: And yet he attacked us, and he told the Ba'ku that we were a threat.