Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 43539.1. We have moved into orbit around
Bre'el IV. With the assistance of the planet's Emergency Control Center,
we're investigating a catastrophic threat to the population, from a descending
asteroidal moon."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "Given the choice between slim and none, I'll take slim anyday."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Make it so."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Q!"
Q: "Red alert."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. We are no closer to finding a solution to
the deteriorating orbit of the Bre'el IV moon. But with the arrival of Q, we
now have a good idea of the cause."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "I'll take a look and see if there're any rules I haven't broken."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "We know you're behind this, Q."
Q: "*These* aren't my colors! And what're you blathering about, Riker?!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "What kind of twisted pleasure does it give you to bring terror into
their lives?"
Q: "Whose lives?"
Picard: "The millions of people down there who are watching as their moon falls
out of sky!"
Q: "Ah, I haven't the *vaguest* idea of what you're talking about, and I have a
much more serious problem!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I'm no longer a member of the Qontinuum! My superiors have decided to
punish me!"
Picard: "And punish us as well, it would seem."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "You don't believe me, do you? Do you think I would humiliate myself like
this?"
Riker: "If it served your purpose, yes!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I stand before you defrocked! *Condemned to be a member of this lowest of
species. A normal, imperfect, *lumpen* human being!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Troi: "They made you human as part of your punishment."
Q: "No, it was my request. I could've to exist as a Marcophian sea lizard, or a
Belzoidian flea. Anything I wished, as long as it was *mortal*! And since I
had only a fraction of a second to mull, I chose this, and asked them to bring
me here."
Troi: "Why?"
Q: "Because in the universe, you're the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean-
Luc."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "Sir, he is reading as fully human."
Q: "What is there, an echo in here?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Troi: "I am sensing an emotional presence, Captain. I would normally describe
it as being terrified."
Q: "How rude!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "What is it you want, Q?"
Q: "Your compassion." [Silence] "All right, sanctuary on this ship...*dreary*
as it may sound for the both of us."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Return that moon to its orbit."
Q: "I have no powers! Q, the ordinary!"
Picard: "Q, the liar! Q, the misanthrope!"
Q: "Q, the miserable, Q, the desperate! What must I do to convince you people?"
Worf: "Die."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Fine, you want to be treated as human?"
Q: "Absolutely."
Picard: "All right. Mister Worf, throw him in the Brig."
Worf: "Delighted, Captain."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "You can't do this to me, Jean-Luc."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Worf: "You will walk or I will carry you!"
Q: "Given the option, I'll...I'll walk."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "You've disappointed me, Jean-Luc. I'm very disappointed!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Hey, I'm claustrophobic! I don't like it in here."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "It was a mistake! I *never* should've picked human! I knew it the moment I
said it. To think of a future in this *shell*, forced to cover myself with a
fabric because of some *outdated* human morality! To say nothing of being too
hot or too cold. Growing feeble with age. Losing my hair. Catching a
disease? Being ticklish? Sneezing? Having an itch? A pimple? *Bad
breath*?" [To Worf] "Having to *bathe*?!"
Worf: "Too bad!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "'Klingon'! I should have said 'Klingon'! In my heart of hearts, I am a
Klingon, Worf!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "So you understand I could never survive in confinement. I mean this is
cruel and unusual punishment. The universe has been my backyard."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "As a fellow Klingon, if you would speak to the captain on my behalf, I would
be *eternally* grateful. Which doesn't mean as much as it used to, I admit."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Worf: "Be quiet! Or disappear back where you came from."
Q: "I can't disappear...anymore than you could win a beauty contest."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "If I were to ask you a *very* simple question, do you think you might be
able to answer it without it troubling your intellect too much? Ready? Here
goes. Would I permit you to lock me away if I still had all my powers?"
Worf: "You have fooled us too often, Q."
Q: "Oh, perspicacity incarnate! Please don't feel compelled now to tell me the
story of 'The Boy Who Cried Worf'."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "*Romulan*! I should've said 'Romulan and Klingon goat'!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "The question is, what sort of *jaded* game is he up to this time?"
Riker: "Maybe he just wants a big laugh. He'll take Bre'el IV to the edge of
disaster and then pull the moon back."
Picard: "Or he may have nothing to do with it at all."
Riker: "You honestly think Q is telling the truth?"
Picard: "Oh, I agree, this is highly unlikely."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "What the devil?!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Oh, you've come to apologize, how nice. All is forgiven, no offense taken."
Picard: "Enough! Q, what exactly is going on?"
Q: "Oh, well how can I know what's going on? I've been in this dungeon of
yours, alone, helpless, *bored* to tears."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Truthfully, Jean-Luc, I've been entirely preoccupied by a most *frightening*
experience of my on. A couple of hours ago, I realized that my body was no
longer functioning properly. I felt weak. I could no longer stand. The life
was oozing out of me. I lost consciousness."
Picard: "You fell asleep."
Q: "Oh, how terrifying. How can you stand it day after day?"
Picard: "You'll get used to it."
Q: "What other dangers await me? I'm not prepared for this, I need guidance."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "You have a moon in a deteriorating orbit. I've known moons throughout the
universe. Big ones, small ones, I'm an expert. I could help you with this
one, if you'll let me out of here."
Picard: "Q, there are millions of lives at risk. If you have the power--"
Q: "I don't have any powers! But I have the knowledge, locked up in this *puny*
brain! You cannot afford to not take that advantage, can't you?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "*If* you are human, which I seriously doubt, you will have to work hard
to earn our trust."
Q: "I'm not worried about that, Jean-Luc. You only dislike me. There are
others in the cosmos who truly *despise* me."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Can I have a Starfleet uniform?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "What are you looking at?"
Data: "I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth...that
you really are human."
Q: "It's the ghastly truth, Mister Data. I can now stub my toe with the best of
them."
Data: "An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace, what I have
always aspired to be."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Humans are such commonplace little creatures. They roam over the galaxy
searching for something they know not what."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "The human race has an enduring desire for knowledge. And for new
opportunities to improve itself."
Q: "Well, there's certainly room for improvement. But the truth is, Data,
they're a minor species in the grand scheme, not worth your envy."
Data: "Oh, I do not feel envy."
Q: "Well that's good."
Data: "I feel nothing at all."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "That is part of my dilemma. I have the curiosity of humans, but there
are questions that I will never have the questions to. What it is like to
laugh, 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."
Data: "Hm."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "This is incredible!"
LaForge: "You see something here, Q?"
Q: "I think I just hurt my back! I'm feeling pain. I don't like it. Uh,
what's the right thing to say, 'Ow'?"
Data and LaForge: "Ow."
Q: "*Ow*! I can't straighten up!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "Q, I've got a few people down on Bre'el IV who are going to be hurt!"
Q: "Yes, yes, yes! Your marvelous plan will not only tear the moon to pieces,
but your precious ship as well!"
LaForge: "You got a better idea?"
Q: "Well, I would certainly begin, by examining the cause, and not the symptom."
LaForge: "We've done that already, Q, and there's no way to--"
Q: "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."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "Can you recommend a way to counter the effect?"
Q: "Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe."
LaForge: "What?"
Q: "Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass
of the asteroid."
LaForge: "Redefine gravity. And how am I supposed to do that?"
Q: "You just do it! Ow! Where's that doctor anyway?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "Geordi is trying to say that changing the gravitational constant of the
universe is beyond our capabilities."
Q: "Oh. Well, in that case, never mind."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Ahh, Doctor Crusher, I see Starfleet has shipped you back into exile."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "Q says he has hurt his back."
Beverly: "Uh-huh."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I've been under a lot of pressure lately...family problems."
Beverly: "Mmm, well, don't expect too much sympathy from me. You have been a
pain in our backside often enough."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients recover
quickly, just to get away from you."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "You know, this might work? We can't change the gravitational constant
of the universe, but if we wrap a low-level warp field around that moon, we
could reduce its gravitational constant. Make it lighter so we can push it!"
Q: "Glad I could help."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Ow, I think."
Beverly: "Now what?"
Q: "There's something wrong with my stomach."
Beverly: "It hurts?"
Q: "It's making noises."
Beverly: "Maybe you're hungry."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I've never eaten before, what do I ask for?"
Data: "The choice of meal is determined by individual taste."
Q: "What do you like?"
Data: "Although I do not require sustenence, I occasionally injest semi-organic
nutrient suspension in a silcone-based liquid medium."
Q: "Is it good?"
Data: "It would be more apporpriate to say it is good for *me*, as it lubricates
my biofunctions."
Q: "That doesn't sound very appealing."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "What else is there?"
Data: "A wide variety of items. The replicator can make anything you desire."
Q: "How do I know what I desire?"
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."
Data: "When Counselor Troi is unhappy, she usually eats something chocolate."
Q: "'Chocolate'?"
Data: "Mm. A chocolate sundae, for example. Although I do not speak from
personal experience, I have seen it have a profound psychological impact."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I'll have *ten* chocolate sundaes."
Bartender: "Ten?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
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."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "This is not a moment I've been looking forward to."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Guinan: "I hear they drummed you out of the Qontinuum."
Q: "I like to think of it as a significant career change."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Guinan: "Just one of the boys, eh?"
Q: "'One of the boys' with an IQ of two-thousand and five."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "The captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced he is truly
human."
Guinan: "Really?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Guinan: "Seems human enough to me."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "This is a dangerous creature! You have no idea, why Picard would make her a
member of the crew and not me!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Guinan: "Must be terribly frightening for you to be totally defenseless after
all of those centuries of being omnipotent!"
Q: "I'm warning you, I still have friends in high places."
Guinan: "Frightening one race after the other, teasing them like frightened
animals, and you enjoying every moment of your victims' fears."
Q: "From now on, I'll do missionary work, okay?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Guinan: "You could learn a lot from this one."
Q: "Sure, the robot who teaches the course in humanities."
Data: "I am an android, not a robot."
Q: "I beg your pardon."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Guinan: "I 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
going to survive is on the charity of others."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Uph, I'm not hungry."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Help me! Somebody help me!"
Guinan: "How the mighty have fallen."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental. We have sustained light damage from an
attack by an alien species known as the Calamarian. They apparently have a
grievance with Q, no doubt one of many lifeforms that do."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "The Calamarian are not very hospitable creatures."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "What did you do to them, Q?"
Q: "Oh, nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "You tormented them!"
Q: "A subjective term, Riker. One creature's torment is another creature's
delight. They simply have no sense of humor, a character flaw with which you
can personally identify."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "I say we turn him over to them."
Q: "Oh, well, I take it back. You do have a sense of humor, a dreadful one at
that."
Riker: "I'm serious."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Of course. You *knew* this would happen, didn't you?"
Q: "One can never anticipate the Calamarian. They're very intelligent, but very
flighty."
Picard: "Yes, but you must have so many enemies. Certainly you knew that if
once you became mortal, some of them might look you up."
Q: "It had occured to me."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "And for all your prodestations of friendship, your real reason for
being here is protection."
Q: "You're very smart, Jean-Luc. But I know human beings. They're all sopping
over with compassion and forgiveness. They can't wait to absolve...almost any
offense. It's an inherent weakness in the breed."
Picard: "On the contrary, it is a strength."
Q: "You call it what you will."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "Fighting off all of the species of which you insulted would be a full-
time mission. That's not the one I signed up for."
Picard: "Indeed."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Human or not, I want no part of you."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Troi: "It seems you have an advocate, Q."
Data: "I am merely stating the facts, Counselor."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Picard thinks I can't cut it on his starship. I can do anything his little-
trained minions can do."
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'."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "Human interpersonal relationships are more complex. Your experience may
not have adequately prepared you."
Q: "I'm not interested in 'human interpersonal relationships'. I just want to
prove to Picard that I'm indispensable."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "To function aboard a starship, or in any human activity, you must learn
to perform relationships."
Q: "It's so hard."
Data: "And 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."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Mister Worf, keep a close eye on Q's friends out there."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "All right, everyone, this is what we're going to be doing..."
LaForge: "Q, everybody knows what they're going to do except for you. Now
here's what I need--"
Q: "LaForge, obviously my knowledge and experience far exceeds yours by about,
a *billion* times. So if you'll just step aside, gracefully."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "Q, your 'experience' will be most valuable to me if you could manually
control the field integrity."
Q: "Don't be foolish. That would be a waste of my talents!"
LaForge: "Q, get to the controls or get the hell out of here!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Who does he think he is, giving me orders?"
Data: "Geordi thinks he is in command here, and he is correct."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "Shut up, Q!"
Q: I will not be spoken to in this manner!" [Why didn't Wesley respond like
this?]
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Data: "Q, I strongly suggest that you coorperate."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Beverly: "If he was mortal, he'd be dead."
Q: "Well, let's not overstate the matter here, Doctor. I'm mortal and I
survived."
[Silence]
Q: "Your cheers are overwhelming."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "Commander, he's not worth it."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Come."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "You're right, of course. I'm extraordinarily selfish. But it has served me
so well in the past."
Picard: "It will not serve you here."
Q: "Don't be so hard on me, Jean-Luc. You've been mortal all of your life, you
know about dying. I've never even given it a second-thought...or a first one
for that matter. I could've been killed. If it hadn't been for Data, and
that brief little he created, I would've been gone. No more me. And no one
would've missed me, would they?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Data may have sacrificed himself for me. Why?"
Picard: "That is his special nature...to learn the lessons of humanity well."
Q: "When I ask myself if I would've done the same for him, and I am forced to
answer, 'No', I feel...I feel ashamed."
Picard: "Q, I am not your father-confessor. You will receive no absolution from
me."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "You have brought nothing more than pain and suffering to this crew.
And I am still not entirely convinced that all this isn't all your latest
attempt at a purile joke!"
Q: "It is a joke, a joke on me, a joke on the universe. The king who would be
man."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "As I learn more and more, what it is to be human, I am more and more
convinced that I would never make a good one. I don't have what it takes.
Without my powers I'm frightened of everything. I'm a coward...and I'm
miserable...and I can't go on this way."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate
achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions...no pain. And yet you cover
those qualities of humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it
means anything to you, you're a better human than I."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Where's the Main Shuttlebay?"
Computer: "Main Shuttlebay is located on Deck Four."
Q: "Take me there."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Shuttle occupant, identify yourself."
Q: "Don't try and talk me out of it, Jean-Luc."
Picard: "Q, return to the ship immediately!"
Q: "I just can't get used to following orders."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "It's easier this way! They won't bother you after I'm gone!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Please, don't fall back on your tired cliche of charging to the rescue just
in the nick of time. I don't want to be rescued! My life as a human being
has been a dismal failure! Perhaps my death will have a little dignity."
Picard: "Q, there is no dignity in this suicide."
Q: "Yes, I suppose you're right, death of a coward then, so be it. But as a
human, I would have died of boredom."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "This goes against my better judgement. Transporter Room Three, lock
onto Shuttle One, beam it back into its bay."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "What the hell is going on?!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "Not bad, Q! Not great. Aaah, huuh, but not bad."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Q!"
Q2: "Ah! Sacrificing yourself for these humans? Do I detect a littttle
selfless act?"
Q: "You flatter me. I was only trying to put a quick end to a *miserable*
existence!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "Ewweh! What a dreadful color!"
Q: "Yeah."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "What're you doing here?"
Q2: "Oh, I've been trying track of you."
Q: "I always thought you were in my corner."
Q2: "Naw, ah, no, nah. See, actually I was the one who got you kicked out."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "You know you're incorrigible, Q. You're a lost cause. I can't go to a
*single* solar system without having to apologize for you, and I'm tired of
it!"
Q: "*I* wasn't the one who misplaced the entire Deltivid asteroid belt!"
Q2: "Hey! This isn't about me. I've got better places to be."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "But somebody had to keep an eye on you to make sure you still didn't find a
way to cause trouble, even as a member of this, hmm, limited species."
Q: "Well, I, I hope I've been entertaining you."
Q2: "Barely."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "But, I find these humans rather interesting. I'm beginning to understand
what you see in them. After all of the things that you've done, they're still
intent on keeping you safe!"
Q: "A genetic *weakness* of the race."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "They just tried to, mmm, beam you up, back, whatever it is they call it!"
Q: "Really?"
Q2: "Ah, I stopped them."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Well, if the Calamarians hurry up and finish me off, we can get you back on
your way."
Q2: "Mmm, afraid I put them on hold too. You see, there's still this matter of
the...selfless act."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "Now you and I both know that the Calamarian would've eventually destroyed
the Enteprise to get to you. And that's really why you left, right?"
Q: "It was a teeny bit selfless, wasn't it?"
Q2: "Eew, yeah, and there's my problem! See, I can't go back to the Qontinuum,
and tell them that you committed a selfless act just before you did! If I do,
there's going to be questions, there's going to be explanations, for
centuries!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I've learned my lesson, Q."
Q2: "Remember who you're talking to. All-knowing, all-seeing."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q2: "Hmm, fine, hmm, huuh, you got your powers back!"
Q2: "Try and stay out of trouble."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "So they wanted to destroy me, did they?"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "If you think I tormented you in the past, my little friends, wait until see
what I do with you now!"
Q2: "Q..."
Q: "I was just seeing if you were...still watching."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Well, I suppose that is the end of Q."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Au contraire, mon capitan! He's back!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "I'm forgiven! My brothers and sisters of the Qontinuum have taken me back.
I'm immortal again! Omnipotent again!"
Riker: "Swell."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "Don't fret, Riker. My good fortune is your good fortune."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Riker: "I don't need your fantasy women!"
Q: "Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Q!"
Q: "But I feel like celebrating!"
Picard: "I don't!"
Q: "All right!"
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Now at the risk of being rude--"
Q: "Yes, once again, I overstate my welcome. As a human, I was ill-equipped to
thank you. But as myself, you have my everlasting gratitude. Until next
time..."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Q: "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."
Data: "If your intention is to make me human--"
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."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
LaForge: "Data, why are you laughing?"
Data: "I do not know. But it was a wonderful...feeling."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1
Picard: "Perhaps there is a...residue of humanity in Q after all. Ensign, en--"
Q: "Don't bet on it, Picard."
-- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1