Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Deja Q (1990)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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• [Q has been turned into a human by the Continuum] 

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace what I have always aspired to be.

• Q : [analyzing the cause for the Bre'el IV moon's trajectory]  This is obviously the result of a large celestial object passing through at near right angles to the plane of the star system. Probably a black hole.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Can you recommend a way to counter the effect?

  Q : Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : Captain, the aliens have disappeared. And so has the shuttle.

  Commander William T. Riker : Scan the sector.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I have, sir.

  Capt. Picard : Well... I suppose that is the end of Q.

  [with a flash, Q appears on the bridge with a trumpet, accompanied by a mariachi band] 

  Q : AU CONTRAIRE, MON CAPITAINE! HE'S BACK!

  [the band starts playing, accompanied by Q with gusto] 

• Q : Until next time. Ah, but... before I go, there's a debt I wish to repay, to my professor of the humanities. Data, I've decided to give you something very, very special.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : If your intention is to make me human, Q...

  Q : No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would never curse you by making you human. Think of it... as a going-away present.

  [he disappears. Data suddenly starts laughing out of control] 

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Data... Data, why are you laughing?

  [Data calms down, somewhat bemused] 

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I do not know. But it was a wonderful... feeling.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : I have observed that the selection of food is often influenced by the mood of the person ordering.

  Q : I'm in a dreadful mood. Get me something appropriate.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : When Counselor Troi is unhappy, she usually eats something chocolate.

  Q : Chocolate?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Mm. A chocolate sundae for example. Although I do not speak from personal experience, I have seen it have a profound psychological impact.

  Q : [to waitress]  I'll have ten chocolate sundaes.

  Waitress : Ten?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I have never seen anyone eat ten chocolate sundaes.

  Q : I'm in a really bad mood. And since I've never eaten before, I should be... very hungry.

• [Q is sitting with Data at the bar in Ten Forward, when Guinan enters] 

  Q : This is not a moment I've been looking forward to.

  Guinan : [approaching]  I hear they drummed you out of the Continuum.

  Q : I like to think of it as a significant career change.

  Guinan : Just one of the boys, eh?

  Q : One of the boys with an IQ of two thousand and five.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : The Captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced he is truly human.

  Guinan : Really?

  [Guinan picks up a sharp-tined fork and stabs the back of Q's hand, who screams in pain] 

  Guinan : Seems human enough to me.

• Q : [of La Forge]  Who does he think he is, giving me orders?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Geordi thinks he is in command here - and he is correct.

• Q : Picard thinks I can't cut it on his starship. I can do anything his little-trained minions can do.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I do not perceive your skills to be in doubt, Q. The Captain is merely concerned with your ability to successfully interact with his little-trained minions.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : Of more immediate importance is your ability to work within groups.

  Q : I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent.

• Guinan : [referring to Data]  You could learn a lot from this one.

  Q : Sure, the robot who teaches the course in humanities.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I am an android, not a robot.

  Q : [sarcastically]  I beg your pardon.

  Guinan : I'd enjoy that. And you'd better get used to it.

  Q : What?

  Guinan : Begging! You're a pitiful excuse for a human. The only way you're gonna survive is on the charity of others.

• Q : I think I just hurt my back. I'm feeling pain... I don't like it. What's the right thing to say, 'ow'?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data , Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : 'Ow'.

  Q : OW! I can't straighten up!

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : I have the curiosity of humans; but there are questions that I will never have the answers to - what it is like to laugh or... or cry. Or to experience any human emotions.

  Q : Hm - well, if you ask me, these human emotions are not what they're cracked up to be.

• Q : [the Enterprise is trying to correct the orbit of a moon with the ship's tractor beam before it collides with the planet Bre'el IV]  And if you're wrong the moon will crumble due to subspace compression. Don't say I didn't warn you.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Shut up, Q.

  Q : [suddenly rising]  I will not be spoken to in this manner!

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : [as if to say deal with him]  Data.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Q, I strongly suggest that you cooperate.

  [Q reluctantly returns to his seat in Engineering] 

• Q : What do you like?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Although I do not require sustenance, I occasionally ingest a semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silicone-based liquid medium.

  Q : Is it good?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : It would be more accurate to say it is good for me, as it lubricates my bio-functions.