Donna Murphy credited as playing...
Anij
- 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.
- 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: 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?
- 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: [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.