Geordi La Forge quotes from Star Trek: Picard

Daystrom Android M-5-10

[turns to Geordi] Geordi? [to Jean-Luc Picard] Captain?

Jean-Luc Picard

Yes. Data, is that you?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Yes, sir! No, sir! I... I am not certain.

Beverly Crusher

He's like you, Jean-Luc.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

I am Data.

Geordi La Forge

Synthetic, but...

Daystrom Android M-5-10

No, I was Data.

Geordi La Forge

Human.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

There are many of myself inside Daystrom Android M-5-10, but... currently, one voice speaks to you more... more fondly.

Jean-Luc Picard

The evening of the robbery, something was taken. Something more... deadly than a portal weapon. We believe that you witnessed that event. Can you confirm?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Can I confirm? [malfunctioning] Can I?

Worf

Is he malfunctioning?

Geordi La Forge

I don't know!

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Memory records indicate what appears to be the Changelings' main objective.

Geordi La Forge

Go on.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

The project manifest lists the missing item.

Jean-Luc Picard

Data, can you tell us what was stolen?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Jean-Luc Picard.

Jean-Luc Picard

Yes, Data, I'm here. I repeat: can you tell us what was stolen?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Jean-Luc Picard. Jean-Luc Picard... Manifest inquiry: Jean-Luc Picard.

Worf

Is there a reset switch?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

[Lore personality manifests, chuckling] I'm Lore. [personality changes] I am B-4... [personality changes] I am Soong. No... I am more.

Jean-Luc Picard

Data, it is vital that you tell us what was taken from the lab.

Geordi La Forge

What is this?

Worf

It is what the Changelings stole from Daystrom.

Beverly Crusher

Human remains...

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Jean-Luc Picard.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

[as Data]: Captain. Geordi. I am no longer on the Enterprise. The Scimitar...

Jean-Luc Picard

That was many, many years ago.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Hmm. That would explain why... [switches to Lore] you're so old! Time has been very cruel to you.

Geordi La Forge

And here's the problem, Admiral. You remember Lore?

Jean-Luc Picard

Data's brother. But, surely, he was deactivated.

Geordi La Forge

Archived, is more like it. Simply put, this unit is currently home to both Data and Lore simultaneously.

Daystrom Android M-5-10

[switches to Data] I apologize for the outburst, Captain. I am not in complete control of this body, [switches to Lore] nor I am in complete control of my utter revulsion at your ancient face.

So, has Lore always been this arch?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

Did the tree move? Or did the apple just fall far from it? When you're constantly subjected to these... self-righteous, self-proclaimed heroes, spewing their morality as if vomit were somehow virtuous then sometimes, dear, a little bend, a little arch, a little antagonizing flair is required.

Geordi La Forge

Lore has a perverted sense of what it means to be human.

Geordi La Forge

What do you want, Lore?

Daystrom Android M-5-10

[as Lore] No more than you want for your children. Nothing more than these Changelings want. Survival. It's human nature, pal.

Data

I believe... we're good here.

Geordi La Forge

Hey, Data! You just used a contraction!

Data

No, I didn't!

Geordi La Forge

No, I-- I heard you! Clearly...

Data

It appears I'm capable of using contractions now. And you are, too!

Geordi La Forge

Oh, that certainly is new!

Data

Many things are new to me, including myself. I am still Data, but also Lore, B-4... All that Doctor Soong programmed into this body.

Geordi La Forge

Well, tell me -- how do you feel?

Data

I feel... I feel!

Geordi La Forge

Admiral. Ladies and gentlemen. Allow me to introduce you to the newest version of a very old friend.

William Riker

With an upgrade, I'm told.

Data

Oh, I am mostly myself, I assure you, albeit with a dash of computational joie de vivre.

Jean-Luc Picard

The last time we spoke, you wished to experience death. As happy as I am that you're here, I hope that we haven't betrayed that wish.

Data

No, sir. I know that me is resting peacefully. But this me... this me would rather be no place else in the universe.

Geordi La Forge

Hopefully we have enough juice to get us there.

Data

What makes you think "there" hasn't already been destroyed?

Geordi La Forge

Data, could you try to be a little more positive?

Data

[with a strained grin] I hope we die quickly.

Jean-Luc Picard

The Enterprise-D... but... how?

Geordi La Forge

Thank the good old Prime Directive. The saucer was retrieved from Veridian III, so as not to influence the system. I've been restoring it bit by bit over the past twenty years. Engines and nacelles come from the USS Syracuse.

Data

Strange... Seeing it makes me feel...

You're not the only one, Data.

Geordi La Forge

And, obviously, we can't use the Enterprise-E.

Worf

That was not my fault.

Jean-Luc Picard

Mr. La Forge, may I?

Geordi La Forge

Absolutely, Admiral.

Jean-Luc Picard

Computer: initiate system reactivation procedures.

Authorization acknowledged. USS Enterprise now under command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Jean-Luc Picard

Well, I hereby accept the field demotion.