Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Descent (1993)
Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data, Lore
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Quotes
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data!
Counselor Deanna Troi : That's not Data.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What?
Lore : You should listen to her, Captain. She's way ahead of you.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Lore!
Lore : Right! But I am not alone.
[Data stands next to Lore]
Lt. Cmdr. Data : The sons of Soong have joined together; and together... we will *destroy* the Federation!
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Commander William T. Riker : Data? Data, are you all right?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Yes, sir.
Commander William T. Riker : What happened?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I got angry...
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Crosis : You'd do anything to feel that way again, even if it meant killing someone?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : No. That would not be ethical.
Crosis : You don't sound very sure of yourself. Is your ethical program functioning? Data? Do you have a friend?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Yes. His name is Geordi.
Crosis : If it meant that you could feel emotions again - the way you did on Ohniaka III - would you kill your friend? Would you kill Geordi?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Yes... I would.
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Counselor Deanna Troi : I don't think that an exploration of anger need necessarily lead to hatred or malice.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : But what if it does, Counselor? What if those are the only emotions I am capable of experiencing? Would that not make me a bad person?
Counselor Deanna Troi : We've served together for a long time; and I think I've come to know you pretty well. I have to believe, if you ever reach your goal of becoming human... you won't become a bad one.
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Prof. Stephen Hawking : I raise 50.
Isaac Newton : Blast! I fold.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I fold as well.
Albert Einstein : The uncertainty principle will not help you now, Stephen. Hmm? All the quantum fluctuations in the universe will not change the cards in your hand. I call. You are bluffing and you will lose!
Prof. Stephen Hawking : Wrong again, Albert.
[presents a hand of four 7s]
Albert Einstein : Vell.
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Isaac Newton : I invented physics. The day that apple fell on my head was the most momentous day in the history of science.
Prof. Stephen Hawking : Not the apple story again.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : That story is generally considered to be apocryphal.
Isaac Newton : [insulted] What? How dare you!
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[Data has tried with various methods to evoke different emotions in himself, without success]
Counselor Deanna Troi : I'm curious. Why're you ignoring the one emotion you've already experienced? Why aren't you trying to make yourself angry again?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Anger is a negative emotion. I wanted to concentrate on something more positive.
Counselor Deanna Troi : Data - feelings aren't positive and negative. They simply exist. It's what we do with those feelings that becomes good or bad.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : [on his 'other' emotion] It was just after I had killed the Borg. I looked down at his body... I felt something.
Counselor Deanna Troi : If you had to give this... feeling a name - what would you call it?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I believe... it was... pleasure...
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Crosis : How did it feel to get angry? Did it give you pleasure?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : It would be unethical to take pleasure in another being's death.
Crosis : You didn't answer my question. Did it feel good to kill?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Yes...
Crosis : If it is unethical to take pleasure from another being's death, you must be a very unethical person.
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[first lines]
Prof. Stephen Hawking : ...But then I said, "In that frame of reference, the perihelion of Mercury would have precessed in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein : [laughs] That is a great story.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Quite amusing, Dr. Hawking.
[Isaac Newton doesn't seem to get the joke]
Lt. Cmdr. Data : You see, Sir Isaac, the joke depends on an understanding of the relativistic curvature of space-time. If two non-inertial reference frames are in relative motion...
Isaac Newton : Do not patronise me, sir. I invented physics.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : Geordi, I believe I have experienced my first emotion.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : No offense, Data, but how would you know a flash of anger from some odd kind of power surge?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : You are correct in that I have no frame of reference to confirm my hypothesis. In fact, I am unable to provide a verbal description of the experience. Perhaps you could describe how it feels to be angry. I could then use that as a reference.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Yeah, okay. Well, when I feel angry, first I uh, first I feel... hostile.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Could you describe feeling hostile?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Well yeah, it's like feeling... beligerent, combative.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Could you describe feeling angry without referring to other feelings?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : No, I... I guess I can't. I just... feel angry.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : That was my experience as well. I simply... felt angry.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : Perhaps I have evolved to the point where emotions are within my grasp. Perhaps I will experience other emotions as time goes by.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Well, I hope you're right. I'd hate to think that anger is all you're capable of feeling.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : Stop it! Stop! Stop, Stop, Stop, Stop!
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : For the past six hours, I have attempted to produce an emotional response by subjecting myself to various stimuli.
Counselor Troi : Like what?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I listened to several operas known to be uplifting, I watched three holodeck programmes designed to be humorous and I made four attempts to induce sexual desire by subjecting myself to erotic imagery.
Counselor Troi : What happened?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Nothing.