- [when a riot breaks out in Ten Forward, Guinan produces a huge energy rifle from behind the bar, and fires a blast into the ceiling. Everyone stops and stares]
- Ensign Gillespie: What is that?
- Guinan: This is a little souvenir I picked up from Magus III. That was setting number one. Anyone wanna see setting number two?
- [last lines]
- Lt. Commander Data: Sir - as my final duty as Acting Captain, I order you to bed. I shall do the same for all personnel.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Very well, Mr. Data. And Mr. Data - thank you.
- Lt. Commander Data: Pleasant dreams, sir.
- [Troi in a telepathic conversation with Hagan]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Once before, you said "double". What did you mean? What is double?
- Andrus Hagan: Mates. Too bright. Twin. Cannot leave the twin. One moon circling.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: What do you mean? You can't leave?
- Andrus Hagan: No. No, please. Can't.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: You want to leave. Why can't you?
- Andrus Hagan: Can't go. Help! One moon circling. Eyes. That's it. Eyes... in the dark.
- [repeated line]
- Alien Voice: Eyes... in the dark... One moon circles...
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: We have to dream in order to survive. If we don't reach REM sleep, we don't dream, we... we begin to lose our cognitive abilities, we find it hard to concentrate, we forget... how to do the most ordinary task. Then we become irritable, paranoid; some people experience hallucinations.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You're describing the situation on this ship.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: There is an inevitable conclusion to this pattern. And if I can't find a way to stop it... we will all go insane!
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: No matter what I do, no one can reach REM sleep, no one can dream. Except for you.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Except me. And... all I have is nightmares. I can hardly sleep at all anymore.
- [she looks at Hagan who is lethargically lying on the sickbed]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: In the end, I'll be like him. Just like him.
- [Troi has suggested passing on a message to the aliens in her dream]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: How do I tell them what to do?
- Lt. Commander Data: If you are correct, Counselor, I believe they have already told us what to do, and are waiting for us to do it. When we are ready, the only message you should attempt to convey is: "Now!"
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Okay, all power's been channeled to the, um... the...
- Lt. Commander Data: The main deflector dish.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yes! Right, the... deflector dish.
- [sighs]
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So... um... What do we do now?
- Lt. Commander Data: Data to bridge. Mr. Worf, activate the deflector.
- Lieutenant Worf: I am no longer a warrior. I'm no longer strong. I... I feel...
- Counselor Deanna Troi: What? What do you feel?
- Lieutenant Worf: I feel fear.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: To admit that you're afraid gives you strength.
- Lieutenant Worf: Something is waiting for us. I am not strong enough to fight it!
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voiceover] Captain's log, stardate 44631.2. We are proceeding through the rim of an uncharted binary star system, where we may have located the USS Brittain. The missing science vessel failed to arrive at its destination and has not been heard from since a distress call 29 days ago.