I'll have 10 chocolate sundaes.
I have never seen anyone eat 10 chocolate sundaes.
I'm in a really bad mood. And since I've never eaten before, I should be very hungry.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
Q (with foreboding as Guinan enters Ten-Forward): This is not a moment I've been looking forward to.
I hear they drummed you out of the Continuum.
I like to think of it as a significant career change.
Guinan (sardonic): Just one of the boys, eh?
One of the boys with an IQ of 2005.
The Captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced he is truly human.
Really?
[She picks up a fork and stabs Q's hand with it.]
AAAAAHHHH!!!
Guinan (coolly): Seems human enough to me.
The Calamarain are not very hospitable creatures. They exist as swirls of ionised gas.
What did you do to them, Q?
Nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque.
You tormented them.
A subjective term, Riker. One creature's torment, is another creature's delight. They simply have no sense of humour, a character flaw with which you can personally identify.
I say we turn him over to them.
Oh, I take it back. You do have a sense of humour. A dreadful one at that.
I'm serious.
This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them!
All right, everyone, this is what we're going to be doing.
LLaForge
Q, everybody already knows what they're going to do, except for you, Now here's what I need.
La Forge, obviously my knowledge and experience far exceed yours by about a billion times. So, if you'll just step aside gracefully.
LLaForge
Q, your experience will be most valuable to me if you can manually control the field integrity.
Don't be foolish. That would be a waste of my talents.
LLaForge
Q, get to the controls or get the hell out of here! Data, you're my liaison to the Bridge. I'll need you with me.
Who does he think he is, giving me orders?
Geordi thinks he is in command here...and he is correct.
Q, you exceed your own standards for self-preoccupation.
[After Q stole a shuttle] This goes against my better judgment. Transporter Room 3, lock onto Shuttle 1 and beam it back into its bay.
CCrewman
Aye, sir.
[after Riker gives him a disapproving look] It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft!
QQ2
Not bad, Q. Not great, but not bad.
What are you doing here?
QQ2
Oh, I've been keeping track of you.
I always thought you were in my corner.
QQ2
Ah, no. See, actually, I was the one who got you kicked out. You know, you're incorrigible Q? You're a lost cause. I can't go to a single solar system without having to apologize for ya, and I'm tired of it!
I wasn't the one who misplaced the entire Deltivid Asteroid Belt!
[After Q gives him two attractive women] I don't need your fantasy women!
Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard.
[Picard has invited Data to inspect a painting session.]
Hm. Ensign Williams' striking style is heavily influenced by geometric constructivism. Lt. Wright has effectively fused the incongruities of the surrealists with the irrationality of Dadaism. [Data proceeds to Picard's painting.] Interesting.
Oh! Thank you. In what way?
While suggesting the free treatment of form usually attributed to Fauvism, this quite inappropriately attempts to juxtapose the disparate cubistic styles of Picasso and Leger. In addition, the use of colour suggests a haphazard mélange of clashing styles. Furthermore, the unsettling overtones of proto-Vulcan influences--
Thank you, Mister Data.
You are welcome, sir. If I can be of further assistance--
No! Thank you.
[Guinan gives Worf a small glass of deep purple liquid]
All right, try this.
What is it?
Just try it.
[Worf drinks. After a moment, he looks at the glass, astonished, then up at Guinan]
You see? It's an Earth drink. Prune juice.
[looking at the glass appreciatively]
[awestruck] A warrior's drink.
How can I ask them to sacrifice themselves based solely on your intuition?
I don't know. But I do know that this is a mistake. Every fiber in my being says this is a mistake. I can't explain it to myself, so I can't explain it to you. I only know that I'm right.
Who is to say that this history is any less proper than the other?
I suppose I am.
Not good enough, damn it, not good enough! I will not ask them to die!
40 billion people have already died. This war is not supposed to be happening. You've got to send those people back to correct this.
And what is to guarantee that if they go back, they will succeed? Every instinct is telling me this is wrong, it is dangerous, it is futile!
We've known each other a long time. You have never known me to impose myself on anyone, or take a stance based on trivial or whimsical perceptions. This timeline must not be allowed to continue. Now, I've told you what you must do. You have only your trust in me to help you decide to do it.
RGRachel Garrett
To be honest with you, Picard... a significant number of my crew members have expressed the desire to return, even knowing the odds. Some because they can't bear to live without their loved ones; some because they don't like the idea of slipping out in the middle of a fight. But I have told them that, in the here and now the Federation needs another ship against the Klingons, and we'd better get used to being in the here and now.
But, if you go back, it could be a great deal more helpful. The war is going very badly for the Federation... far worse than is generally known. Starfleet Command believes that defeat is inevitable. Within six months, we may have no choice but to surrender.
RGRachel Garrett
And you're saying that all this may be a result of our arrival here?
One more ship will make no difference in the here and now, but 22 years ago, one ship could have stopped this war before it started.
RGRachel Garrett
Mr. Castillo.
RCRichard Castillo
Yes, Captain.
RGRachel Garrett
Inform the crew we're going back.
RCRichard Castillo
Yes, Captain.
RGRachel Garrett
The Romulans will get a good fight. We'll make it one for the history books.
Can I get you something, Tasha?
Guinan, I have to know something. What happens to me in the other time line?
I don't have alternate biographies of the crew. As I said to the captain, it's just a feeling.
But there's something more when you look at me, isn't there? I can see it in your eyes, Guinan. We've known each other too long.
We weren't meant to know each other at all! At least...that's what I sense when I look at you. Tasha, you're not supposed to be here.
Where am I supposed to be?
Dead.
Do you know how?
No. But I do know it was an empty death. A death without purpose.
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