The Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 6 Quotes

- Answering all stop, captain.
- Data: According to the instruments, sir, our speed never exceeded warp 1.5.
- La forge: All stopped, sir.
- But where is this place?
- Where none have gone before.

Ssestar: [catching Riker in a snare] Sorry. Wrong species.

[Dr. Crusher suspects Picard to be under the influence of an alien entity]
Doctor: Please - are you Jean-Luc?
Captain: He is here.
Doctor: The Jean-Luc I know?
Captain: And more.
Doctor: The 'more' frightens me.
Captain: And elates us. We wish you could understand the glorious adventure ahead.
Doctor: You and...?
Captain: Soon we'll both be home.

- How could it? It's meaningless.
- Then we should let him try it.
- What do you mean, let him try it?
- Don't talk about me in the third person as if I'm not standing right here.
- Yes, we might as well let him try it.
- "We might as well let him try it."
- You are too generous.
- Boy. Boy. Don't play with that.

- Why not?
- No.
- I will help.
- As you wish.
- I've laid in the reciprocal course back, captain.
- Tell the captain I am ready, first officer.
- We're ready for you to engage, captain.
- As before, begin at warp 1.5.
- Warp 1.5, sir.

- can you do it again?
- Can you get us home?
- Well, of course, I can.
- I'll just do what I did before.
- Coming, riker?
- Commander riker will join you in a moment.

- Now run. This place isn't safe at all.
- Tasha, what's wrong?
- You look scared to death.
- I was...
- This is crazy.
- I was at the colony where I grew up.
- Being chased by a rape gang.
- Are you all right?
- Mm-hm.
- Well, you're safe now.

- He should be encouraged, but told none of this.
- We've gotta get back home.
- Take him to main engineering.
- Yes, sir.
- I'll be on the bridge.
- Riker: Yes, sir.
- -
- Put it out!
- How?
- Put the flame out in your thoughts!

Badar: I admit some of my people are impulsive, and we all have reason to hate the Selay.
Lieutenant: They appear to have the same feelings about you, sir.
Badar: Ah, the nature of politics.

Lieutenant: We can learn something from non-disclosure?
Lt. Commander Data: [smoking pipe] Indubitably, my good woman.
[Yar looks quizzically at Riker]
Commander William T. Riker: It's something the Captain mentioned. Sherlock Holmes. Indubitably, Data has been studying him.

- Man: Aye, sir.
- Since you're concerned about these tests.
- Yes, sir.
- Captain, if I may,
- I'll ask counselor troi to look these visitors over.
- Very good.

- He could die and with him any chance we have.
- Doctor, Wes, we all have other friends on board this ship.
- If we stay here much longer, we may lose the ability to distinguish between thought and reality.
- Now, regardless of the risk, wake him, now.

- With him, nothing. Empty space.
- It's as though he isn't even here.
- Something about this concerns me.
- I don't know what.
- I can point to no reason, yet.
- But stay concerned, please.
- The safety of the enterprise may be entrusted to these two.

Lt. Commander Data: A mystery is only a mystery as long as it remains uninvestigated, sir.

- What is it?
- A klingon targ.
- My pet.
- From home.
- But when I was a child.
- You're telling me it's a kitty cat?
- I suppose you could call it that.

Lt. Commander Data: I believe the Captain is now his separate self, sir. Much of what happened is naturally missing.
Captain: What're you talking about, Data? Is this still Sherlock Holmes?
Lt. Commander Data: Indubitably, sir. Indubitably.
Captain: Hmm. Well, at least you got rid of the damned pipe.

Lt. Commander Data: It's elementary, my dear Riker. Sir.

- Can you get us back?
- I will try.
- Number one, take him down to main engineering.
- I'll be on the bridge.
- No.
- He's very weak.
- The captain is right. We must hurry.
- But first, I request a moment with the captain, alone.

- I feel such an abundance of well-being on the ship.
- It feels like...
- Quite wonderful.
- Riker [over intercom]: Engineering to bridge, we 're ready.
- On my order,
- Mr. Data, Mr. La forge, engage.

- Captain, captain.
- We need your help.
- What's wrong?
- Don't you see what's following us?
- Ensign, what are you doing?

Lieutenant: The problem is, is that one of the cooks has just been asked to broil reptile for the Anticans - and it looks like the Selay delegate.

Captain: The immortal Sherlock Holmes would have an interesting view of our mystery, I believe.
Commander William T. Riker: But I'm afraid we're going to have to find our solution... without history's greatest consulting detective.
Lt. Commander Data: [to himself, inaudibly] Holmes...?

Captain: [confused, having been beamed back out of the energy cloud] What the devil am I doing here?
Commander William T. Riker: Sounds like our Captain.

Lt. Commander Data: [quoting Sherlock Holmes] We must fall back on the old axiom, that when other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable... must be the truth.

Commander William T. Riker: We no longer enslave animals for food purposes.
Badar: But we have seen Humans eat meat.
Commander William T. Riker: You've seen something as fresh and tasty as meat, but inorganically materialized, out of patterns used by our transporters.
Badar: This is sickening. It's barbaric!

Commander William T. Riker: You're on notice that all of your weapons, no matter what their basic function, are being confiscated. Violence will not be tolerated on the Enterprise.
Badar: Of course not. And if any does occur, let me assure you, it will not be we Anticans who start it.
Lieutenant: Thank you, sir.
[Riker and Yar leave the Anticans' quarters]
Badar: But... we will *finish* it.

- Instead of returning to our own galaxy, the enterprise has gone forward to a place in the universe which is uncharted and unknown.
- Our present position puts us at over a billion light years from our galaxy.
- Data, you have the helm.
- I'll be in engineering.

- Or do you see this as the beginning of it?
- We believe it the outer rim.
- Mama, do you understand these things?
- Can you tell me where my ship is?
- What is this place?
- Captain?
- You were reported headed for...
- Just a moment, number one.

- Picard: Space, the final frontier.
- These are the voyages of the starship enterprise.
- Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Lieutenant: So, Worf, why the interest in this? It's just routine maintenance on the sensor assemblies.
Lieutenant: Simple, Geordi. Our Captain wants his junior officers to learn, learn, learn.

- or on the traveler, on his well-being.
- Picard [over intecom]: Think of him as someone you care deeply for.
- All decks, all stations.
- Battle stations.
- I will need kosinski back on the main computer.
- You need me?

- Affirmative, number one.
- You ready?
- We are.
- Picard [over intercom]: La forge, set in warp 1.5.
- Warp 1.5, sir.
- Engage.
- All right, here we go.

- You, darling.
- What are you doing here?

- Well, sufficient to say for now that these symbols and their relation...
- Something troubles you in the way this is configured?
- Kosinski: However, those of you who are sufficient in...
- Assistant: How about it now?
- But shouldn't these be connected?
- Here?

- Two million, 700,000 light years, sir.
- I can't accept that.
- Data: You must, sir.
- Our comparisons show it to be completely accurate.
- La forge: And I calculate that at maximum warp, sir, it would take over
- 300 years to get home.