Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Picard
- Admiral Matthew Dougherty: Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.
- Captain Picard: How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? Hmm? A thousand, fifty thousand, a million? How many people does it take, Admiral?
- 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.
- Captain Picard: I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.
- Anij: It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.
- Captain Picard: Mr. Worf, do you know Gilbert and Sullivan?
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: No sir, I have not had a chance to meet all the new crew members since I have been back.
- Anij: Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time?
- Captain Picard: A perfect moment?
- Anij: When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live in that moment.
- Captain Picard: Seeing my home planet from space for the first time.
- Anij: Yes. Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception. We've discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, full of powerful forces. Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.
- Captain Picard: If a court-martial is the only way to tell the Federation what is happening here, Admiral... I welcome it.
- Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: You either need a new uniform or a new neck.
- Captain Picard: Yew-cheen-chef-faw. My collar size is exactly as it was at the academy.
- Cmdr. Beverly Crusher: Of course it is.
- 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.
- 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.
- Captain Picard: Don't panic!
- Anij: I've been shot at, thrown into the lake out of a ship that's come to abduct us - what's there to panic about?
- Anij: At one time, we explored the galaxy just as you do.
- Captain Picard: You have warp capability?
- Anij: Capability, yes. But where can warp drive take us except away from here?
- [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.
- [to 300-year-old Anij]
- Captain Picard: I should warn you - I've always been attracted to older women.
- Captain Picard: Bridge to Commander Worf... Worf?
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: Captain?
- Captain Picard: I don't know how they do it on Deep Space 9, but on the Enterprise, we still report for duty on time.
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: [Worf jumps out his bunk, bashes his head]
- [on intercom]
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: Sorry sir, I'm on my way.
- Captain Picard: We'll skip the court martial this time. Picard out.
- Captain Picard: We were under the impression they were being held against their will.
- Anij: It's not our custom to have guests here at all, let alone hold anyone against their will.
- Sojef: The artificial life form would not allow them to leave. In fact, he told us they were our enemies and that more would follow.
- Anij: Are you our enemy?
- Sojef: Anij.
- Captain Picard: My people have a strict policy of non-interference in other cultures. It's our Prime Directive.
- Anij: Your directive apparently doesn't include spying on other cultures.
- 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.
- Captain Picard: Mr. Worf, our job is to come up with a plan to safely capture Data.
- Lieutenant Commander Worf: I've already had Commander La Forge modify this tricorder with one of Data's actuation servos. Its operational range is only four meters, but it will shut him down.
- Captain Picard: Good to have you back, Mr. Worf.
- Admiral Matthew Dougherty: We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.
- Captain Picard: Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?