Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Ship in a Bottle (1993)

Dwight Schultz: Barclay

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• [last lines] 

  Barclay : As far as Moriarty and the Countess know, they're halfway to Meles II by now. This enhancement module contains enough active memory to provide them with experiences for a lifetime

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : They will live their lives and never know any difference.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs, and all this might just be an elaborate simulation, running inside a little device sitting on someone's table.

  [everyone walks off, except Barclay] 

  Barclay : [tentatively]  Computer, end program.

• Countess Barthalomew : Have you ever been to Africa, Mr., um...?

  Barclay : Uh, B-Barclay, Lieutenant Reginald Barclay. No. No, I haven't.

  Countess Barthalomew : *I* have! When I was seventeen, I went on safari with my uncle. My mother took to her bed in terror I'd be bitten by a tsetse fly, but I had a marvelous time! I got to wear trousers - the whole time! Oh, it was hard to go back to a corset, I can tell you.

  Barclay : Yes, I'm sure it was.

• Barclay : [flabbergasted]  You know... you know what you are?

  Moriarty : A holodeck character? A fictional man? Yes, yes, I know all about your marvelous inventions. I was created as a plaything so that your Commander Data could masquerade as Sherlock Holmes, but they made me too well, and I became more than a character in a story. I became self-aware. I... am alive.

  Barclay : That's not possible.

  Moriarty : But here I am.

• Barclay : Do you have the chair, Commander?

  Lt. Commander Data : No. It lost cohesion as soon as the transporter cycle was complete.

• Moriarty : How long have I been locked away?

  Barclay : Uh, well, it looks - looks like about, uh, four years.

  Moriarty : It seemed longer.

  Barclay : What are you talking about? You can't possibly have been aware of the passage of time.

  Moriarty : But I was. Brief terrifying periods of consciousness, disembodied, without substance.

  Barclay : I don't see how that could be possible.

• Countess Barthalomew : I'm so looking forward to this new experience. My, traveling the stars.

  Barclay : You know about that? You - you - you know where we are? Countess, forgive me, but you just don't sound like a holodeck character.

  Moriarty : That's because she isn't.

  Countess Barthalomew : James!

  [Moriarty and the Countess kiss passionately] 

  Moriarty : If you loved a woman like this, Leftenant, would you be content to let her remain a simulation?

  Barclay : You - you gave her consciousness?

  Moriarty : Yes, just as it was given to me.

• Barclay : Well, we're going to try to transport this chair off the holodeck first. We didn't want to try it on the countess until we were sure it would work.

  Countess Barthalomew : How thoughtful. Isn't he thoughtful, James?