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Star Trek: The Next Generation · Season 1, Episode 15

William T. Riker, Data and others in “Unfinished Business”

WTWilliam T. Riker

Travel time to the nearest starbase?

Data

[OC] At maximum warp, in two years, seven months, three days, eighteen hours we would reach Starbase 185.

WTWilliam T. Riker

Why?

Q

Why? Why, to give you a taste of your future, a preview of things to come. Con permiso, Capitan. The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It's now time to see if you can dance.

(Q vanishes)

Jean-Luc Picard

Guinan, your people have been in this part of the galaxy.

Guinan (quietly): Yes.

WTWilliam T. Riker

What can you tell us?

Guinan

Only that if I were you, I'd start back now.

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