Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 quotes

Data

I am superior, sir, in many ways, but I would gladly give it up to be human.

William Riker

Nice to meet you... Pinocchio.

William Riker

A joke.

Data

Ah! Intriguing.

William Riker

You're going to be an interesting companion, Mr. Data.

Q

It is an unknown, Captain. Isn't that enough?

Jean-Luc Picard

If you'd earned that uniform you're wearing you'd know that the unknown is what brings us out here.

Have you got some of a reason my atoms scattered all over space, boy?

Data

No, sir. But at your age, sir, I thought you shouldn't have to put up with the time, and trouble of a shuttlecraft.

Hold it right there, boy?

Data

Sir?

What about my age?

Data

Sorry, sir. If that subject troubles you...

Troubles me? What's so damn troublesome about not havin' died? How old you think I am anyway?

Data

137 years, Admiral, according to Starfleet records.

Explain how you remembered that so exactly.

Data

I remember every fact I am exposed to, sir.

I don't see no points on your ears boy, but you sound like a Vulcan.

Data

No, sir, I am an android.

Almost as bad.

Data

I thought it was generally accepted, sir, that Vulcans are an advanced, and most honorable race.

They are, they are, and damn annoying at times.

Data

Yes, sir.

Well, this is a new ship, but she's got the right name. Now you remember that you hear?

Data

I will sir.

You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home.

Data

Indications of what humans would call... a wild party.

Data

"There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a..."

Jean-Luc Picard

[frantically cutting off Data] Captain to Security, come in!

Data

Did I say something wrong?

Worf

I don't understand their humor, either.

Tasha Yar

Data. You are fully functional, aren't you?

Data

[intoxicated by the virus] We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain. I have pores. Humans have pores. I have... fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me... do I not... leak?

Beverly Crusher

Where are the calluses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings?

Jean-Luc Picard

Perhaps the good ones never get them.

Data

For example, what Lutan did is similar to what certain American Indians once did called "counting coup." That is from an obscure language known as French. "Counting coup..."

Jean-Luc Picard

Mr. Data, the French language for centuries on Earth represented civilization.

Data

Indeed? But surely, sir...

William Riker

I suggest you drop it, Mr. Data.

Data

Yes, sir. "Counting coup" could be something as simple as touching an enemy with a stick in battle or taking something from him and escaping.

Jean-Luc Picard

You speak of a code of honor, but what you are saying now, according to our customs, is called an act of war.

This is not an act of war, but of love! I want Lieutenant Yar to become my first one.

I challenge your right of supersedence!

No woman has challenged supersedence for over 200 years!

The right is mine, and I will have it. Natasha Yar, I challenge you to a struggle to the death.

Jean-Luc Picard

No! The challenge is unequivocally refused.

Then you shall have no treaty! No vaccine! And no Lieutenant Yar!

Data

[his fingers in a Chinese finger trap] Apologies, Captain. I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am, uh... stuck.

Jean-Luc Picard

Then get unstuck and continue with the briefing.

Data

Yes, sir. That is what I'm trying to do, sir, but the solution eludes me.

Geordi La Forge

My hero.

William Riker

"Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy."

Jean-Luc Picard

...where is this place?

Data

Where none have gone before.

Data

If the Enterprise were really this fragile, sir, she never would have left spacedock. Therefore, her systems' failures are not endemic to the ship, but are the result of the actions of an unknown adversary.

William Riker

We have a saboteur aboard.

Data

I believe I said that.

Data

It's elementary, my dear Riker. Sir.