As my final duty as acting captain, I order you to bed.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
EEinstein
G sub I, J of t as t approaches infinity.
G of t over G naught.
EEinstein
So it is, so it is.
I still don't see how you're going to incorporate quantum principle into general relativity without adjusting the cosmological constant a lot more than you're doing here.
EEinstein
If we increase the value as you suggest, we must face the possibility of twenty six dimensions, instead of ten.
I don't think I could deal with that.
EEinstein
I certainly could not.
If the semiset curved into the subatomic, the infinities might cancel each other out.
EEinstein
Gruss Gott. They just might.
LLaForge
We had a meeting at oh seven hundred.
I'm sorry, Commander. Thank you, Professor. End programme
LLaForge
"You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!"
[Lt. Barclay has had his intelligence greatly increased by an alien probe and is attempting to interface with the computer.]
Computer. Begin new program. Create as follows. Work station chair. Now, create a standard alphanumeric console positioned for the left hand. Now an iconic display console positioned for the right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core utilizing neural scan interface.
CComputer
There is no such device on file.
No problem; here's how you build it.
I perceive the entire universe as a single equation and it's so simple.
CACytherian Alien
Emotive, electrochemical stimulus response; cranial plate; bipedal locomotion. Endoskeletal. Contiguous external integument.
I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard, of the Federation Starship Enterprise.
CACytherian Alien
Hierarchical collective command structure.
Who are you?
CACytherian Alien
Interrogative!
May I? (moves a piece) Checkmate in nine moves.
DTDeena Troi
I didn't know you play chess.
I don't…
[To Picard] You are the most impossible person to buy a gift for!
I've just been paid a visit by Q.
Q? Any idea what he's up to?
He wants to do something nice for me.
I'll alert the crew.
[Q has dressed Worf as Will Scarlet.]
Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man!
[Worf smashes Geordi's mandolin against a tree.]
...Sorry.
VVash
Meet my new partner.
Him?!
VVash
Why not?
I'll tell you why not...!
Now, Jean-Luc, let's not be unkind...
He's devious, and amoral, and unreliable, and irresponsible, and... and definitely not to be trusted.
VVash
Remind you of someone you know?
(forced to smile) As a matter of fact, it does.
The Federation does have enemies, we must seek them out!
Oh yes, that's how it starts, but the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum in a battlefield, sit at it and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishments severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed.
You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy. "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that day--
ANAdm. Norah Satie
How dare you! You who consort with Romulans invoke my father's name in support of your traitorous arguments! It is an offense to everything I hold dear. And to hear those words used to subvert the United Federation of Planets. My father was a great man. His name stands for integrity, and principle! You dirty his name when you speak it! He loved the Federation! But you, Captain, corrupt it! You undermine our very way of life! I will expose you for what you are! I've brought down bigger men than you, Picard!
We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again.
I believed her. I-- I helped her. I did not see what she was.
Mr. Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged.
I think... after yesterday, people will not be so ready to trust her.
Maybe. But she, or someone like her, will always be with us. Waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price we have to continually pay.
LTLwaxana Troi
We raise them, we care for them, we suffer for them, we keep them from harm their whole lives. Now eventually, it's their turn to take care of us.
TTimicin
No parent should expect to be paid back for the love they have given their children.
LTLwaxana Troi
Well, why the hell not?
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