[on the transport device of the terrorists] Captain, anyone who is willing to transport in this manner would suffer significant internal damage that could be detected.
It sounds as though they may require the services of a doctor.
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You added the chair, Captain, I am just making you sit in it.
He's prepared to kill you.
An excellent reason to escape.
But if that is so, Captain, why are their methods so often successful? I've been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change.
Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
Yet there are numerous examples when it was successful: the independence of the Mexican state from Spain, the Irish Unification of 2024, and the Kenzie Rebellion.
Yes, I am aware of them.
Then would it be accurate to say that terrorism is acceptable, when all options for peaceful settlement have been foreclosed?
Data, these are questions that mankind has been struggling with throughout history. Your confusion is… only human.
[After Q appears on the bridge naked]
Q!
[playfully mocking his embarrassment] Red alert!
And since I was given only a fraction of a second to mull, I chose this, and asked them to bring me here.
Why?
Because in all the universe, you are the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean-Luc.
I have no powers! Q the ordinary!
Q the liar! Q the misanthrope!
Q the miserable, Q the desperate! What must I do to convince you people?
Die!
Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?
(to Worf) I can't disappear any more than you could win a beauty contest.
If I ask a very simple question, do you think you might be able to answer it without it troubling your intellect too much? (He enters the cell) Ready? Here goes. Would I permit you to lock me away if I still had all my powers?
You have fooled us too often, Q.
Perspicacity incarnate! Please don't feel compelled now to tell me the story of the boy who cried Worf.
Can I have a Starfleet uniform? What are you looking at?
I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth, that you really are human.
It's the ghastly truth, Mr. Data. I can now stub my toe with the best of them.
An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace what I have always aspired to be.
This is incredible!
You see something, Q?
I think I just hurt my back. I'm feeling pain. I don't like it. What's the right thing to say?
DGData & Geordi
"Ow."
Ow!
Can you recommend a way to counter the effect?
Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.
What?
Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the asteroid!
Redefine gravity. And how am I supposed to do that?!
You just do it!
I'm not good in groups. It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent.
Dr Crusher, Starfleet have sent you into exile again.
Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients must recover quickly... (sotto voce) just to get away from you.
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