The Best Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 18 Quotes

Lt. Daniel Kwan: I didn't want to do it... But I saw them. And they laughed at me! They laughed.

- A little.
- So I will say good night.
- Good night.
- We should get an early start tomorrow.
- I think we should.
- I'll see you in the morning.

- I thought so as well.
- Maybe we should try to access the engineering logs from utopia planitia.
- We might find out more about him.
- There may be something in them about lieutenant kwan as well.
- Mm-hm.

- Counselor, are you all right?
- Let's get out of here.

- Nara: Are you all right?
- I don't know.

- I know what I have to do.
- Dan, no.
- I have unlocked the controls.
- Computer: Shutdown procedure initiated.
- There's still plasma in the injector.
- It'll take time to vent off.
- Tell me what happened.
- Maybe I can help.
- I know what I have to do.

- May I ask you something?
- The work lieutenant kwan was doing, was it unusual in any way?
- He was refitting a field coil.
- But it was probably the first time that particular panel's been opened since the ship was built.
- Thank you.

- We thought we had all the time in the world.
- Something must have happened to him, counselor.
- Something terrible because it's not like Dan to take his own life.
- I understand.
- Please, find out what it was.

- I know what I have to do.
- Computer: Warning, what are you doing?
- Plasma venting system will engage in 70 seconds.
- You're alive.
- You're all right.

- Aah! Calloway: He's dead.
- You killed him.
- No.
- You know what you have to do.

- Maybe it's the inhibitor, I'm so used to sensing what people are feeling, and now I can't.
- Perhaps I should talk to lieutenant Pierce alone.
- That might be a good idea.
- I will meet you in your quarters later.
- I'll be waiting for you.

[Data is talking about his first months of activation, when he was at risk of systems failure]
Lt. Commander Data: I came to the conclusion, it would be safer - and easier - to shut myself down and start again.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but if you had done that you wouldn't have remembered any of the things that had happened to you.
Lt. Commander Data: Mm. In a way, it would have been like committing suicide.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So what did you do?
Lt. Commander Data: I decided against the procedure. I chose instead to treat the problems I was having with my systems as challenges to overcome, rather than obstacles to be avoided.

- I remember seeing a plasma conduit right there.
- The main odn line runs right behind that panel.
- It lifts out so you can get to it.
- Kwan was working on that conduit the day before he died.
- Can you open it?
- Sure.
- It'll take just a minute.

- Or had ever been involved with.
- Is there someone in particular that you're talking about?
- Is there someone in particular you would rather I not be involved with?
- You sound like a man who's asking his friend if he can start dating his sister.
- No, no, I was merely...
- Never mind. Excuse me, sir.

- That's what triggered my hallucination.
- My mind must have taken elements from my own life and then created a situation, that in many ways mirrored what happened to Pierce.
- If you hadn't been there,
- I would have jumped, just like he did.

- Just like what happened in the nacelle tube.
- There are things we do not understand, yet they exist nonetheless.
- Perhaps I should let you get some rest.
- Oh, it's all right.
- No.
- If you will excuse me, counselor.

- about how to do things, some of them very good ideas.
- But not all?
- No.
- But after he settled in, we got along fine.
- Excuse me a minute.
- Feel free to look around.
- Troi: Where was lieutenant kwan's station?
- Right there.

- We finally finished the nacelle-tube refit last night.
- After pulling two double shifts mamm
- I'm really looking forward to spending some time with maddy.
- Ensign Calloway.
- That doesn't sound like a man who's planning on taking his own life.
- No, no, it does not.

- So I was seeing through his eyes.
- And Finn was trying to get away from him.
- She was afraid of him.
- I think it is time we had another conversation with lieutenant Pierce.
- Ensign Calloway.
- Thank you for your help.

- Security override.
- Authorization, troi delta-2-9.
- Stop it.
- Stop it!
- Stop it!

- The inhibitor seems to be working.
- Have you found anything?
- No, nothing unusual.
- I don't remember seeing these during my empathic experience.
- Have they been here since the ship was built?
- No, they were installed two years ago.

- He said he had to go somewhere.
- Troi to worf.
- Computer, where is lieutenant worf?
- Woman: Lieutenant won' is in ensign Calloway's quarters.
- Counselor?
- Take lieutenant Pierce to his quarters and hold him there.

[last lines]
Lieutenant: Counselor... When I pulled you from the plasma stream, you seemed... surprised I was alive.
Counselor: Well, actually - in my hallucination, you were killed.
Lieutenant: May I ask by whom?
Counselor: Well, you know what they say, Mr. Worf: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

- Release the exterior hull plate.
- We may have to jettison the core.
- Aye, sir.
- What happened?
- He locked out the controls.
- Before we knew what was happening, he stepped up onto the walkway.
- See if you can help shut down the plasma flow.
- I'm afraid if we try to get any closer, he'll jump through the forcefield.

- 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.

- Something happened when you removed the panel.
- There's something in there.
- I am getting readings that indicate organic material embedded in this wall.
- Organic?
- You're right.
- Let me reconfigure the emitter beam.
- We might be able to see what it is.

Lt. Daniel Kwan,12585: [respectively] I know what I have to do.

Lieutenant: I would never want to come between you and someone you are involved with, or had ever been involved with.
Commander William T. Riker: Is there someone in particular that you're talking about?
Lieutenant: No. - Is there someone in particular you would rather I not be involved with?
Commander William T. Riker: Mr. Worf, you sound like a man who's asking his friend if he can start dating his sister.

Lieutenant: We have played poker many times. I have never known you to bluff.
Counselor: Well, it wouldn't be much of a bluff if you knew, would it?

- Woman: No. No, please.
- Please, please.
- No, don't.
- Computer: Warning, plasma venting system will engage in 80 seconds.

- it looks like we'll need a second field generator.
- I am needed here.
- I will join you as soon as I can.
- All right.
- Worf: Apparently, my help was not so good after all.
- Calloway: Yes, it was, you were wonderful.
- Worf: I think I know what is wrong.
- The generator's dispersion...