The Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 22 Quotes

Isabella: I came to say I'm sorry I frightened you.
Clara: That's okay.
Isabella: And I misled you. I wasn't really your Isabella.
Clara: For a while you were.

- I don't see anybody.
- She's invisible.
- I spent two weeks on that.
- That was really mean.
- I didn't do it. I didn't.
- Clara, there's no such thing as invisible people.
- You're lying.
- Hey.
- Isabella, stop.

- We'll have full warp capability in 20 minutes.
- Inform all sections we'll be leaving this area in one hour.
- Sir?
- Mister la forge,
- I want you to drive the warp engines to full power, and direct an energy beam out into the nebula.
- Aye, sir.

- This area is not designated for children. Are you lost?
- Where are you supposed to be?
- We were only playing. We're sorry.
- Return to your quarters.
- And we will forget this incident.
- Thank you.
- Come on.

- a nebula which has formed around a neutron star.
- We are eager to investigate this unique formation.
- We've got elevated quantities of hydrogen, helium and trionium, but nothing the shields can't handle.
- Shields up.
- Take us in, ensign.
- One quarter impulse.
- Aye, sir.

Counselor: Maybe you could draw me a picture. I'd love to see what she looks like.
Clara: You don't think she's real.
Counselor: I think she's real for you, and THAT is real enough for me.

- Hello?
- Is anybody there?
Isabella: Hello.
- Isabella?
- Hello, Clara.

[first lines]
Clara: I like to cook all kinds of stuff, like yogurt and raisin salad, chocolate chip pancakes and... purple omelets.
Counselor: [disgusted] Purple omelets?
Clara: You put grape juice in the eggs. Isabella doesn't like it very much. She says it tastes funny.
Counselor: I can see her point.

- 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.

- You take a big piece of Clay like this.
- You push your hand into it.
- Warp field generators are standing by.
- Captain, we should be able to illuminate any strands within 2000 kilometers of the ship.
- Picard: Proceed.
- Initiating field generation.

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to Daniel Sutter] Children are a lot stronger than you think. As long as they know you love them, they can handle just about anything life throws at 'em, you know?

- Mr. Data, remodulate our shield frequencies.
- Aye, sir.
- No effect.
- Shield strength has dropped to 64 percent.
- We've got about eight minutes before this thing drains our shields.
- Any ideas?

- Isabella?
- Isabella?
- Don't you wanna talk to me?
- I'm not mad at you.

- Who is it?
- Troi: Counselor troi.
- Hello, Clara.
- Hi.
- I came to ask if you'd like to go to a ceramics class.
- Can Isabella come too?
- No. Let's do something with Isabella another day.
- Well, okay.

- could cause a problem.
- Agreed.
- Ensign, bring us about.
- Take us out of the nebula.
- Data: That may be difficult, sir.
- I am detecting a significant number of strands behind us.
- Do your best, ensign.
- Aye, sir.
- Troi: Hot chocolate.

- Let's see, anything here?
- Maybe Isabella knows that you've got new friends now.
- In fact, I'll bet she doesn't come around as much anymore.
- Maybe.
- What about in the closet?
- Okay.
- Anybody in here?
- Looks pretty empty to me.

[Data and Guinan view the cloud formations of a nebula]
Guinan: No, it's a Samarian coral fish with its fin unfolded.
Lt. Commander Data: I believe what you are seeing is the effect of the fluid dynamic processes inherent in the large-scale motion of rarified gas.
Guinan: No. no. First it was a fish, and now it's a Mintonian sailing ship.
Lt. Commander Data: Where?
Guinan: Right there. Don't you see the two swirls coming together to form the mast?
Lt. Commander Data: I do not see it... It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment.
[he looks out at the nebula again]
Lt. Commander Data: Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit.

- Give me a couple of minutes here, captain.
- Clara, now.
- I'm sorry, commander.
- Why do you keep disappearing like that?
- The grownups don't believe
- I'm real.
- When they're around,
- I have to be invisible.

- I don't think I'm going, doctor.
- I hear it's a very uninhibited atmosphere.
- Personally, I don't think I'm ready for that kind of fun.
- Try to talk him into tavila minor.
- They have a cruise down the jokri river.
- The iridescent currents are beautiful.

- See, Isabella?
- You have to stick your finger into the soil as far as it can go.
- We're making a home for the seeds.
- Now they need to be watered.
- But the baby seeds are very small, so we mustn't give them too much to drink.

- And that's part of the continuity of our human species.
- When Clara grows up, she will make rules for her children.
- To protect them.
- As we protect her.
- Please don't hurt us.
- If you still want to be my best friend,
- I'd like that very much.

- and that creates the drag coefficient we've been experiencing.
- Is there anything like this on record?
- La forge: No, sir.
- Do you know how many of them there might be?
- No, but if we run the warp field generators through the deflector grid, we could radiate a field outside the ship.
- We'd be able to see for ourselves.
- Let's do it.

- Why don't I take Clara?
- I think she'd like that.
- I'll see if there's any room left in the class. In the meantime,
- I think you should make yourself more available to Clara.
- Let her know she doesn't have to rely on Isabella when she needs someone to talk to.
- Counselor, thank you.

- between yourself and the life forms attacking this ship.
- You're obviously an intelligent being.
- There's no reason to hide from us.
- Talk to us.
- Or can you only communicate by threatening a small child?
- I'm scared, Isabella.

- Stress on the hull would be too great.
- Captain, the density appears to be lower off the starboard bow.
- Ensign, bring us to a bearing
- 030 Mark 5.
- Aye, sir.
- Fonnard velocity holding.
- Steady as she goes.

Captain: [to "Isabella," the energy life form] You are seeing this ship, all of us, from a unique perspective - from a child's point of view. It must seem terribly unfair and restrictive to you. As adults, we don't always stop to consider how everything we say and do shapes the impressions of young people, but if you're judging us, as a people, by the way we treat our children - and I think there can be no better criterion - then you must understand how deeply we care for them. When our children are young, they don't understand what might be dangerous. Our rules are to keep them from harm, real or imagined, and that's part of the continuity of our Human species. When Clara grows up, she will make rules for *her* children, to protect them - as we protect her.

[Guinan and Clara talk about imaginary friends]
Clara: If the other grown-ups don't understand, how come you do?
Guinan: Well, maybe because when I was your age, I had one.
Clara: You did?
Guinan: Mmm.
Clara: What was she like?
Guinan: It... wasn't a she.
Clara: What was *he* like?
Guinan: It wasn't a he.
Clara: 'It'?
Guinan: It was a Tarcassian razor beast. It had dark brown fur and gold eyes and huge spiny wings, and it would fly past so fast nobody could see it but me.
Clara: Sounds scary.
Guinan: Oh, it was. Especially when he smiled.

- You left me alone.
- I had to do everything by myself.
- You're scaring me.
- I was going to protect you, Clara.
- I liked you.
- But now I don't care.
- Now, when the others come, you can die along with everyone else.

Guinan: I knew, as long as that razor beast was around, nothing could hurt me. You know, over the years, his body kind of faded away, but the idea stayed, and I just don't seem to talk to him as often as I used to.
Counselor: You still talk to it?
Guinan: Oh, yeah. When I'm afraid or... I get confused or a little scared. I just don't think you should have to give up an imaginary friend.