Episode Quotes

Worf: "I've always found the Blaxian night the most stimulating experience."
Troi: "Worf! We were walking bare-foot on the beach, with balalaika music in the air. Ocean breeze washing over us. Stars in the sky, a full-moon rising. And the most you can say is 'stimulating'?"
Worf: "It was .. VERY stimulating."


Geordi: "Captain Picard to the bridge. Captain, we've got a problem with the warp core, or the phase inducers or some other damn thing."


Jessel: "How do ya like ya tea?"
Picard: "Tea? Earl Grey, hot."
Jessel: "Of course it's hot! What do you want in it?"
Picard: "Nothing!"


O'Brien: "We'll all be burning a midnight-oil on this one."
Data: "That would be inadvisable."
O'Brien: "Excuse me?"
Data: "If you intend to ignite a petrolium product on this ship at zero-hundred hours, you will activate the fire suppression system, which would seal off this entire compartment."
O'Brien: "That was just an expression."
Data: "Expression of what?"


Worf: "What is a Q?"
Yar: "It's a letter in alphabet as far as I know."


Q: [to Picard] "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars, make room for other more worthy species."


Picard: "Q... what's going on here? Where's the anomaly?"
Q: [as an old man] "Where's your mommy? Well I don't know..."
Picard: "Stop this foolishness and answer me!"


Q: [to Picard] "Don't you recognize your old stomping grounds? This is Earth, France. About, oh, 3 and a half billion years ago, give or take an eon or two. Smells awful, doesn't it? All that sulfur and volcanic ash. Really must speak to the maid."


Q: "Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you. You had such a good potential, but then again, all good things must come to an end."


Q: "Seven years ago I said we'd be watching you. And we have been. Hoping your ape-like race would demonstrate some growth... give some indication that your minds have room for expansion. And what have we seen instead? You spending time worrying about Commander Riker's career... listening to Counselor Troi's pedantic psychobabble... indulging Data in his witless exploration of humanity..."
Picard: "We have journeyed to countless new worlds... made contact with new species... expanded man's understanding of the universe..."
Q: "In your own paltry, limited way. You have no idea how far you still have to go."
Picard: "We are what we are, Q - and we're doing the best we can. It's not for you to set the standard by which we're judged."


Picard: "I should have done this a long time ago. I was quite a card player in my youth, you know."
Troi: "You were always welcome."
Picard: "So. Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit."

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