Ellen Geer credited as playing...
Dr. Kila Marr
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- Dr. Kila Marr: [addressing her son through Data] Tell me... that you understand, Renny. That... that you know I d... I did it for you, 'cause I love you, because I wanted to give you peace at last.
- Lt. Commander Data: I do not find such a file in your son's journals, Doctor; however, from what I know of him, by his memories and his writing, I do not believe he would be happy. He was proud of your career as a scientist, and now you have destroyed that. You say you did it for him, but I do not believe he would have wanted that. Yes... I believe your son would be very sad now. I am sorry, Doctor, but I cannot help you.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [on the Crystalline Entity] If we can determine what its needs are, we might find other sources to supply it.
- Dr. Kila Marr: Its needs are to slaughter people by the thousands. It is nothing but a giant killing machine!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Doctor, the sperm whale on Earth devours millions of cuttlefish as it roams the oceans. It is not evil; it is feeding. The same may be true of the Entity.
- Dr. Kila Marr: That would be small comfort for those who have died to feed it. We're not talking about cuttlefish; we're talking about people!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I would argue that the Crystalline Entity has as much right to be here as we do.
- Dr. Kila Marr: [about her son] I left him with friends. I chose to pursue my own career. I planned to go back but things kept interfering, and... I kept thinking, "I'll go next... month," but there weren't any more "next months."
- Dr. Kila Marr: How long will you live, Data?
- Lt. Commander Data: There has been no predetermined limit placed on my existence, Doctor.
- Dr. Kila Marr: [sighs in relief] I'm glad. As long as you're alive, he'll be alive.
- Dr. Kila Marr: I don't understand. Why are we pursuing the Entity if not to destroy it?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: We're not hunters, Doctor, nor is it our role to exact revenge.
- Dr. Kila Marr: What do you propose? We track it down, greet it warmly, and ask it if it would mind terribly not ravaging any more planets?
- Dr. Kila Marr: [to Data] My son died on Omicron Theta. He was sixteen when the colony was attacked. That is the reason I have become an expert on the Crystalline Entity. I have spent my life studying it, tracking it, and hoping one day to find it - and if I learn you have been helping that thing in any way whatsoever, I will see to it that you are disassembled piece by piece.