The Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 16 Quotes

Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Worf... I don't see how you can eat that stuff. It tastes like... liquid polymer.
Lieutenant: Delicious!

- Oh, very well.
- But I will require full payment in advance.
- No, no, I will pay you after.
- Yes, yes, of course. Heh. After.
- If you are lying, if there is no prison camp, no.
- I will kill you.

Dr. Julian Bashir: [to Data] I must admit, Commander, I didn't think you'd be so... personable.

Lt. Commander Data: [entered Picard's ready room] I am sorry to disturb you, sir.
Captain: Oh, not at all. I'm here studying the intricacies of Bajoran aqueduct management. I would welcome a little interruption.

- You should not have come.
- Who is this?
- I am worf, son of mogh.
- I have come to help you escape.
- He does not know.
- He must leave at once.
- No, it is too late for that now.
- He would bring others.

- Worf, I don't see how you can eat that stuff.
- It tastes like liquid polymer.
- Delicious.
- You know,
- I think I'm gonna try that kiosk on the other side of the promenade.
- It looked like they had some real food.

[Troi walks in on Worf who has just smashed his glass table during an agitated mok'bara exercise]
Counselor: Did the table do something wrong?
Lieutenant: No.
Counselor: I'm glad you weren't that hard on Ensign Lopez.
Lieutenant: He made a mistake. The duty roster was inaccurate.
Counselor: Would you like to talk about what's bothering you, or would you like to break some more furniture?

Lieutenant: [to Data, but really more to himself] In the Klingon MajQa ritual, there is nothing more important than receiving a revelation about your father. Your father is a part of you. Always. Learning about him teaches you about yourself. That is why no matter... where he is or what he has done... you must find him!

- That is why, no matter where he is or what he has done, you must find him.
- But I am not looking for my father.
- Yes, of course.
- Do not stop until you have the answer.
- Thank you, worf.

- Explore this image, data.
- Let it excite your imagination, focus on it.
- See where it leads you.
- Let it inspire you.
- I believe I understand, sir.
- Thank you.
- Good luck, Mr. Data.

L'Kor: You should not have come here, Worf.
Lieutenant: I do not understand.
L'Kor: You should not have come.

- How many klingons are being held here?
- Seventy-three.
- How many romulans guard the camp?
- Worf, there are things you do not understand.
- What do you mean?
- I must speak with the elders.

- in the starboard eps conduit.
- What's causing it?
- The problem is originating in sickbay.
- There has been an unauthorized access into the computer's bio-imaging systems.
- Better check it out.
- Aye, sir.

- Agreed.
- We're ready.
- Initiating energy transfer.
- Get ready, data.
- Power levels are rising.
- Should be any second now.

- Where is this planet?
- Not far from here.
- I could give you the location for a price.
- A klingon would rather die than be taken prisoner.
- I should kill you for spreading lies about my family.
- My father was killed defending khitomer.

- Man: Have the outer perimeters been checked?
- Perhaps we should double-check them.

- Certainly.
- Does your hair grow?
- I can control the rate of my follicle replenishment.
- However, I have not yet had a reason to modify the length of my hair.
- Why do you ask?
- Oh, just curious.
- Power conduits are ready.

- Think of it as an empty sky.
- I do not understand.
- Shh.
- Just dream, data.
- Dream.
- You are the bird.

[during a shutdown, Data has experienced some kind of vision]
Dr. Julian Bashir: Maybe you had a dream, or a hallucination.
Lt. Commander Data: I am not capable of either of those functions.
Dr. Julian Bashir: Yet you can't account for what happened today, can you?
Lt. Commander Data: At present, I cannot.
Dr. Julian Bashir: Well, maybe you should approach this from a more human standpoint. You're right that machines can't have hallucinations. But then again - most machines can't grow hair.

Captain: Explore this image, Data. Let it... excite your imagination. Focus on it. See where it leads you. Let it inspire you.

- Come in.
- Data, what are you doing?
- We were supposed to meet at...

- This is a homing device.
- It will allow you to find my ship when I return.
- I will not be landing in the same location.
- When will you return?
- Fifty hours.
- Do not be late.

- This is just the kind of thing that might get me published in the start/eet cybernetics journal.
- Would you mind if I authored a paper on this?
- Of course not.
- Thank you, data.
- And sweet dreams.

Lt. Commander Data: I do not understand.
Dr. Noonien Soong: You're not supposed to. No man should know where his dreams come from. It spoils the mystery - the fun.

- You're a klingon.
- Where did you come from?
- That does not matter.
- I have come to take you home.
- Home? This is my home.
- Man: Ba'El.
- It is very important you tell no one you saw me.

[last lines]
L'Kor: [to Worf] We are not leaving here... and neither are you.

Ba'el: Have they begun the ceremony?
- Yes. We're about to begin.

- 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.

- to commander rudman aboard the merrimack as soon as you...
- I am well aware of your request, commander.
- Lieutenant, are you all right?
- Yes, sir, I'm fine.
- I will send your schedule, sir.
- Excuse me.

- You have no information
- I could use.
- I would not be so sure.
- It is about your father, mogh.
- My father died 25 years ago at khitomer.
- That is what you believe.
- What if I tell you he is still alive?

[Doctor Bashir has commented on Data's more "human" attributes]
Lt. Commander Data: Most people are interested in my extraordinary abilities - how fast I can compute, my memory capacity, how long I will live. No one has ever asked me if my hair will grow, or noticed that I can breathe.
Dr. Julian Bashir: Well, your creator went to a lot of trouble to make you seem human. I find that fascinating.

- Hold on.
- I'm picking up a power surge.
- Reduce the transfer rate.
- La forge: Reducing rate by 20 percent.
- What happened?
- Bashir: The power connections blew.
- It sent out some kind of plasma shock.
- La forge: His synaptic energy is dropping.

Dr. Noonien Soong: I wasn't sure you'd ever develop the cognitive abilities to make it this far, but if you're here, if you can see me... you've crossed over the threshold from being a collection of circuits and subprocessors and have started a wonderful journey.
Lt. Commander Data: What type of journey?
Dr. Noonien Soong: Think of it... think of it as an empty sky.
Lt. Commander Data: I do not understand.
Dr. Noonien Soong: Sshhh. Just dream, Data. Dream.
[long pause]
Dr. Noonien Soong: Data... YOU are the bird.

- You were down a good 30 seconds.
- That cannot be possible.
- I have a memory record for that period of time.
- I can recall a series of images.
- I saw Dr. Soong.
- My father.

Lt. Commander Data: I have created twenty-three individual illustrations in the past six hours, twenty-seven minutes. I believe you could say... I have been inspired.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'll say.

Captain: [on Data's vision] I am curious, Mr. Data, why are you looking at all these other cultures?
Lt. Commander Data: The interpretation of visions and other metaphysical experiences are almost always culturally derived, and I have no culture of my own.
Captain: Yes, you do. You're a culture of one, which is no less valid than a culture of one billion.

Dr. Julian Bashir: Remarkable. You know, this is just the kind of thing that might get me published in the Starfleet Cybernetics Journal. Would you mind if I authored a paper on all this?
Lt. Commander Data: Of course not.
Dr. Julian Bashir: Thank you, Data. And... sweet dreams.

- I'm hoping it's a medical scanner.
- I wanted to use your computer to find out how it works.
- I suggest we take it to engineering and run a complete circuit-pathway diagnostic.
- Splendid.
- I must admit, commander,
- I didn't think you'd be so personable.

- I sell information.
- I do not give it away.
- Ah, you do this for profit.
- I have my reasons, Mr. Worf.
- What reasons could you have for letting these people suffer?
- We will arrive in the carraya sector in approximately three hours.
- I suggest you get some rest.

- I am not capable of either of those functions.
- Yet you can't account for what happened today, can you?
- At present, I cannot.
- Well, maybe you should approach this from a more human standpoint.
- You're right that machines can't have hallucinations.
- But then again, most machines can't grow hair.