Chase fast enough, hunt well enough. Open your jaw wide enough and eventually the prey runs right into the mouth of the beast.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
[after Vadic's ship The Shrike is hit by an asteroid] Will, did you just throw an asteroid?
Goddamn right I did.
[after witnessing a new life form] "To seek out new life."
I think we should boldly get the hell out of here.
You’re only ever really as good as those around you. Your crew become a part of you. Complete you. They lift you up to accomplish the things you never could do alone. Well, thank you. And now, if you don't mind, I think my haddock's getting cold.
Excuse me, Admiral. You went on and on about your crew. Your life in Starfleet. Did you have a life outside of that? What about a real family?
Young man, Starfleet has been the only family I have ever needed.
You know, we have saved the galaxy more than a few times.
And hopefully they'll remember.
Or they might remember that time that someone hot-dropped the saucer section of the Enterprise-D on a planet. Or that time that someone threw the Prime Directive out the window so they could snog a villager on Ba'ku. Or the time that you boys nearly wiped out all of humanity by creating a time paradox in the Devron system. Basically, when it comes to rescues from danger... you two have a real "chicken and egg" thing happening.
Those were the days.
KKrinn
Pride leads us into traps. But patience... Patience brings great rewards.
[speaking to Jean-Luc Picard about their son Jack Crusher] Please don't spend time burdening yourself when you can unburden him.
Fate has a way of surprising us.
Which one's that?
The USS Voyager. She made her name farther out than... any of those other relics had ever gone. I was reborn there. She was my home. Her crew were my family. And now...
You're just trying to find another. We all long for connection. But we're just a little bit alone, aren't we? Stars in the same galaxy, but light-years between us.
Oh, you are definitely your father's son. He, too, has a knack for the, um, poetic drive-by observation. Can be very annoying. But it can also make a person feel seen.
Yeah, well, I can't say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn't entirely unfamiliar.
AIDr. Altan Inigo Soong
Before I gifted Picard my golem, my intention was to live beyond my years. To become my own legacy. Now I see, in my final days -- that wasn't just poor humanity, it was poor science. Because evolution is not an act of preservation. It's addition. [...] Into this new golem will go a bit of Lal, B-4... of Lore... And, of course, a great deal of Data. This time, with the wisdom and true human aesthetic of age with the hope that, in totality, something -- someone -- will rise to be the best of us.
[Geordi has activated Daystrom Android M-5-10]
[turns to Geordi] Geordi? [to Jean-Luc Picard] Captain?
Yes. Data, is that you?
Yes, sir! No, sir! I... I am not certain.
He's like you, Jean-Luc.
I am Data.
Synthetic, but...
No, I was Data.
Human.
There are many of myself inside Daystrom Android M-5-10, but... currently, one voice speaks to you more... more fondly.
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?
Can I confirm? [malfunctioning] Can I?
Is he malfunctioning?
I don't know!
Memory records indicate what appears to be the Changelings' main objective.
Go on.
The project manifest lists the missing item.
Data, can you tell us what was stolen?
Jean-Luc Picard.
Yes, Data, I'm here. I repeat: can you tell us what was stolen?
Jean-Luc Picard. Jean-Luc Picard... Manifest inquiry: Jean-Luc Picard.
Is there a reset switch?
[Lore personality manifests, chuckling] I'm Lore. [personality changes] I am B-4... [personality changes] I am Soong. No... I am more.
Data, it is vital that you tell us what was taken from the lab.
[Daystrom Android M-5-10 transmits a hologram from his eyes, of a figure in a stasis container]
What is this?
It is what the Changelings stole from Daystrom.
Human remains...
Jean-Luc Picard.
[The hologram reveals the remains to be those of Jean-Luc Picard's original body]
[as Data]: Captain. Geordi. I am no longer on the Enterprise. The Scimitar...
That was many, many years ago.
Hmm. That would explain why... [switches to Lore] you're so old! Time has been very cruel to you.
And here's the problem, Admiral. You remember Lore?
Data's brother. But, surely, he was deactivated.
Archived, is more like it. Simply put, this unit is currently home to both Data and Lore simultaneously.
[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.
ALAlandra La Forge
So, has Lore always been this arch?
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.
Lore has a perverted sense of what it means to be human.
What do you want, Lore?
[as Lore] No more than you want for your children. Nothing more than these Changelings want. Survival. It's human nature, pal.
This is Spot. This simple creature managed something quite miraculous. Something of which I did not know I was capable. In a way, he taught me to love. He is the best of me. The last of me.
[Lore has just erased Data, but Data has reappeared as Lore glitches out]
LLore
What is happening?
I merely discovered the error in your deception. That my memories were not without value to you. I knew because they belong to me, you would see them as trophies and be unable to resist them. [Lore collapses against Data] You took the things that were me and, in doing so, you have become me. We are one now. We... are me. [Data and Lore embrace each other as Lore fades away] Goodbye, brother.
LLore
Goodbye, brother.
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