Vila and Avon in “Unfinished Business”

Vila

What's the matter with you?

I was thinking about Pinder, and the way he said "pleased to make your acquaintance, ma'am".

Vila

Is that worrying you? Listen, if it'll set your mind at rest, I never thought you were a woman.

He said it as though it were a phrase he had been taught.

Vila

Maybe Egrorian gives him lessons in etiquette as well as judo.

Or maybe he has been taught that that was the way of addressing a stranger. Servalan, for instance.

Vila

Servalan? She wouldn't do any deals with Egrorian. He's like us, outside the Federation.

We know how much she would like to get her hands on Orac.

Vila

Not enough to hand us a weapon like the tachyon funnel.

No. That's why this time, Vila, I think we have to play this one very cagily.