Data! Data, isn't this exciting? We are going to witness a moment in history!
Data (puzzled): Every nanosecond in this continuum is a moment in history, once it has elapsed.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
[Data is talking with a young boy who is pretending to be an android to cope with a recent traumatic experience.]
I have often wished to be human. I study people carefully, in order to more closely approximate human behavior.
TTimothy
Why? We're smarter and stronger than humans, we can do more than they can.
But I cannot take pride in my abilities. I cannot take pleasure in my accomplishments.
TTimothy
We never have to feel bad, either.
I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could taste my dessert.
TTarmin
It has been three centuries since anyone was treated for this... this form of rape. But there are medical records from that era. It was a time of great violence among my people. A time we thought we had put far behind us. That this could happen now... it's unimaginable.
Earth was once a violent planet, too. At times the chaos threatened the very fabric of life, but, like you, we evolved. We found better ways to handle our conflicts. But I think no one can deny that the seed of violence remains within each of us. We must recognize that, because that violence is capable of consuming each of us, as it consumed your son.
[Troi and Data are in Ten-Forward, when all of the crew lose their memories]
The bartender is an artificial lifeform.
Can I get you something? A beverage?
Contact the operations officer to assist you.
Aye, sir.
He's in Ten-Forward... waiting tables.
[To Dr Russell, who has been using experimental techniques to treat patients] You scare me, doctor. You risk your patients' lives and justify it in the name of research. Genuine research takes time... sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work in order to get any results. Not for you, you take short cuts, right through living tissue. You put your research ahead of your patients' lives and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. I'm sure your work will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, doctor. I'm not sure I could.
[Soren, a member of a genderless species, defends her gender identity]
SSoren
I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings… those longings… all my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped, and I do not need to be cured. What I do need — what all of those like me need — is your understanding and your compassion. We do not injure you in any way. And yet we are scorned, and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh… we complain about work and we wonder about growing old… we talk about our families, and we worry about the future…We cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All the loving things that you do with each other… that’s what we do. And for that, we are called misfits, and deviants… and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?
Sometimes I wonder if he's stacking the deck.
I assure you, commander, the cards have been sufficiently randomized.
[surly] I hope so.
[at a poker game]
I am experiencing nIb'poH, the feeling I have done this before.
Yes, last Tuesday night.
That's not what I mean.
My aunt Adelle cured a lot of sleepless nights with this steaming milk.
Thank you. Mmm, nutmeg.
Whenever I get insomnia, I try to perfect the recipe.
Thank you, for everything.
Uh uh. Thank Aunt Adelle.
The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth -- and that means the whole truth -- whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to come forward and tell the whole story of what happened, then you don't deserve to wear that uniform! I'm going to make it very simple for you, Mister Crusher. Either you tell Admiral Brand the true cause of Josh Albert's death, or I will!
...Then it's a no-win situation, like the Kobayashi Maru. Whatever I do, or even if I do nothing, the result is the same. All four of us get --
(sharply cutting him off) DISMISSED!
Alexander Rozhenko: Why are they arguing?
JJuggler
They're friends. They love contradiction. They they thrive on challenge! They flourish in conflict.
ARAlexander Rozhenko
Then why are they friends?
Lwaxana Troi: Who else are you going to argue with if not your friends?
I wish I knew how I could help.
Perhaps I just needed a shoulder.
Well it's there for you, Jean-Luc. It always has been.
No, it's a Samalian coral fish with its fin unfolded.
I believe what you are seeing is the effect of the fluid dynamic processes inherent in the large scale motion of rarefied gas.
No, no. First it was a fish and now it's a Mentonian sailing ship.
Where?
Right there. Don't you see the two swirls coming together to form the mast?
I do not see it. It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit.
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