“‘Hello, Dianne. I heard you’re an empath. I’m a rather wink sensitive man myself. I’m doing a thesis on interspecies mating rituals. Would you care to join me in some empirical research?’”
“Did you assist him with his research, Counselor?”
“Absolutely not.”
“But I thought it was a topic you were interested in.”
(I love the absolutely guileless, innocent way that Data says that.)
“Aggressive. Adversarial.”
“Competition! For fun! It’s a game Jake and I play on the holodeck. It’s called baseball!”
“Baseball? What is this?”
“I was afraid you’d ask that.”
“Listening to Kira talk about all he was, all he did, all he was gonna do… I mean she made him sound larger than life… like he was some kind of military genius… but the Li Nalas I fought with…”
“Chief, Li Nalas was the hero of the Bajoran resistance. He performed extraordinary acts of courage for his people and died for their freedom… that’s how the history books on Bajor will be written and that’s how I’ll remember him when anybody asks.”
That’s the thing about faith. If you don’t have it you can’t understand it, and if you do – no explanation is necessary.
You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?
Of my friend, I can only say this: Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most… human.
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.
Let’s get the hell out of here.
Carrots!
Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings.
You got your girlfriend… a tracking device?!
Only a fool fights in a burning house.
Do not forget what he does here today. Do not let your children forget.
One does not patronize a Klingon warrior.
I will feed him.
The cha’DIch will be SILENT!
I know engineers. They love to change things.
“You say you are due for retirement. May I ask, do your hands shake?”
“Objection!”
“I was nervous!”
“No. You were incompetent. You were incompetent! Either deliberately, or as a result of age combined with drink, the court will have to determine.”
“My God, man! I tried to save him! I tried to save him! I was desperate to save him! He was the last, best hope in the universe for peace.”
Fly her apart, then!
It should be more illegal.