The Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 2 Quotes

- I'd like to take a closer look at those burns.
- Take a tissue sample, please.
- Yes, doctor.

- Damage to the epidermis only.
- Initiate a circulatory probe.

- Signal's holding.
- The imaging scanners still haven't isolated the microbes.
- I'll try increasing molecular dispersion.
- His signal resolution's down to 55 percent.
- Don't worry. I can hold him together.

- Do I walk away and let the emitter blow itself to hell?
- Or do I crawl in the jefferies tube with 20 hook spiders?
- Mm, what happened?
- It was the hardest thing I ever did.
- But I got through it.
- After that, I was never quite so afraid of spiders.

- Calm, calm. Stay calm.
- Computer, let's try some music.
- Something soothing.

- Aye, sir.
- The imaging scanners are actuating.
- Got it.
- Pattern acquisition positive.
- Programming bio-filter.
- Don't worry, reg, this won't hurt a bit.

- I'm not endangering anyone else and I really wish you...
- I think it would be in your best interest to take a leave of absence.
- Reg, I'm temporarily relieving you of duty.
- Fine.
- Fine.
- Do what you have to do, counselor.

- I'm ready.
- O'brien: Engaging interlock, buffers in synch...
- Oh, wait a minute.
- I'm reading an ionic fluctuation in the matter stream.
- Oh. No problem.
- Okay, energizing.

- Reg, you're up.
- Reg?
- Aye, sir.
- O'brien: Engaging interlock.
- Buffers in synch.
- Phase coils are...
- I'm sorry. I just can't do this.

- Reg, welcome aboard.
- You ready to work?
- Start by downloading the ship's science logs.
- Aye, sir.

- Take that transporter system apart piece by piece if you have to.
- Mr. Worf, I want a level 3 security alert until further notice.
- Aye, sir.
- I'll run a micro-cellular scan of Mr. Barclay's arm.
- It might take some time, but if there's a problem, I'll find it.
- Keep me apprised. Dismissed.

[Lt. Barclay has asked O'Brien to beam him over to the USS Yosemite and back again]
Barclay: Commander La Forge wants some tricorder readings on those fluctuations.
Chief: We can do that from right here.
Barclay: No, I... the... the transporter sensors may not be sensitive enough. Now, I'm giving you an order... Mr. O'Brien.
Chief: Aye, sir.
[he programs the transporter]
Chief: You don't mind my making an observation, sir? You forgot to bring a tricorder.

Barclay: Every single time that I tried to do it, I had this certain feeling. I guess you could call it... mortal terror.

- Blast analysis indicates the explosion originated here in the center of the transport chamber.
- How is that possible?
- The transporter is still functional.
- Could they have beamed aboard an explosive device?
- Commander riker, could you come here, please?
- Excuse me.

Barclay: The idea of being... deconstructed molecule by molecule, it's more than I can stand. Even when I was... a child, I always had a dreadful fear that, if ever I was dematerialized, that I would... never come back again whole. I know, sounds crazy, but...
Counselor: It's not crazy at all. You *are* being taken apart molecule by molecule.

- Why don't you get some rest?
- We've got everything under control here.
- I think I'll do that, sir. Thank you.
- La forge to counselor troi.
- Troi [over com]: Go ahead, commander.
- Counselor, do you have a minute?

Barclay: [to the replicator] Water.
Enterprise: Specify temperature.
Barclay: I don't care! Just give me water!

- Structural reinforcement is at 240 percent.
- Activating containment field.
- Well, that should do it.
- Reg, we've locked on to the coordinates of the plasma streamer.
- Go ahead and beam aboard a sample.
- Aye, sir.

- The analysis of the fragments is not yet complete.
- Captain, if there's evidence of similar ionization in those fragments, it could mean that they tried to beam aboard material from the streamer.
- If the plasma exploded, that would explain a few things.
- Let me know when the analysis is complete.
- La forge: Aye, sir.

- And it's important not to move around too much.
- Right.
- Initializing the backup pattern buffer.
- Holding at stand by.
- You ready, reg?
- Energize.

- Ogawa: It's gone.
- Neuro-electrical activity in the cerebral cortex.
- Nothing.
- Now his respiratory system's active.
- What the hell is going on?
- Here you are, lieutenant.

- 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.

- If you don't mind my making an observation, sir.
- You forgot to bring a tricorder.
- Either there's something in there, or I'm going crazy and I've just got to know.
- You can understand that, can't you?
- Yes, sir, I can. Stand by, sir.

- Lieutenant Kelly tried to re-program the bio-filter.
- Well, it looks like he pushed molecular dispersion past the integrity point.
- Your patterns got caught in the beam.
- The residual energy from the plasma streamer.
- It must have amplified the charge in the buffer enough to keep your patterns from degrading.

- You know, I feel better already.
- There's no need to rush.
- No, no, no.
- We talked about confronting my fears.
- The best way out is through.
- You said that once, remember?
- I suppose I did.
- I'm gonna beam over there.
- I can do it.

- Barclay to enterprise.
- One to beam back.
- O'brien: Stand by, sir.

- I'm reading a 92 percent increase in mass.
- There's something in the beam with him.
- Security to transporter room 3.
- Worf [over com]: Right away.
- I'm setting up a force field around the chamber.

- Aye, sir.
- Barclay, I'm gonna need a systems engineer on this away team.
- I'll ask ensign dern to join you.
- I meant you, barclay.
- Shouldn't I stay here and set up the remote link?
- Dern can do that. Come on, let's go.

- Acknowledged.
- Have commander riker come to my ready room as soon as he's on board.
- Data: Aye, sir.
- La forge: La forge to transporter room 3. I'm ready to go.
- Stand by, commander.

- Standard analysis begins with a resonance frequency scan.
- That sounds like a good place to start.
- Let's do that.
- Data: Initiating resonance sweep.
- Frequency range at three...
- Barclay, check the containment field.
- The field is at its maximum limit, but it is holding.

- Are you all right, lieutenant?
- I'm fine. Yes, thank you.

- Molecular resolution at 60 percent.
- Engaging static mode.
- His pattern is locked and holding.
- Starting bio-filter scan.

- Computer, more birds.
- End stress reduction program.
- Water.
- Computer: Specify temperature.
- I don't care. Just give me water.

[last lines]
[O'Brien has introduced Christina, his pet spider, to Barclay]
Barclay: She's... very large.
Chief: I found her on Titus IV. Almost stepped on her by accident.
[Barclay starts to feel uneasy]
Chief: Oh, I'll... get us a couple of drinks, okay? Keep an eye on her, will you?
Barclay: Sure.
[O'Brien leaves. Christina meanwhile climbs on Barclay's arm]
Barclay: Er - Chief...?

- He has second and third degree burns over most of his body, but I don't think they were the cause of his death.
- I'd like to take him back to do an autopsy.
- You're sure about this, sir?
- Sure.
- Please, proceed.
- It'll only take a minute.
- Oh, it should be a smooth ride over.
- Good. Good.

- to see what happens to matter when it is beamed aboard under similar conditions.
- La forge: That's a good idea.
- We'll prepare a new container.
- Reg, I don't wanna take any chances here.
- Start setting up a level 5 containment field here in engineering, okay?
- Aye, sir.

Enterprise: Peripheral symptoms include: sleeplessness
[Barclay nods]
Enterprise: , accelerated heart rate
[Barclay feels his chest]
Enterprise: , diminished eyesight leading to acute myopia
[Barclay starts squinting]
Enterprise: .

- Geordi.
- Hmm?
- Lieutenant barclay appears inordinately preoccupied with his physiological condition.
- I have seen him check his pulse rate as well as his visual acuity several times over the last 20 minutes.
- Thanks, data.

- My visor's picking up bio-magnetic energy.
- Highly complex patterns.
- You know,
- I think these things are alive.
- Reg?
- Reg.
- Reg.

Barclay: [working with O'Brien on the transporter] You know, maybe ignorance really is bliss.
Chief: Sir?
Barclay: Well, if I didn't know so much about these things, maybe they wouldn't scare me so much.

Lieutenant: If we held Barclay suspended in mid-transport at the point where matter starts to lose molecular cohesion,
Lieutenant: The molecules would begin to emit nucleonic particles. We may be able to derive a pattern the computer would recognize.
Lieutenant: And reprogram the bio filters and screen the microbes out. I think this will work, Reg.
Barclay: You suspend me? I don't like the sound of this.

- without a problem.
- I've heard of problems.
- What about transporter psychosis?
- Transporter psychosis?
- There hasn't been a case of that in over 50 years.
- Not since they perfected the multiplex pattern buffers.
- Reg, transporting really is the safest way to travel.