- Deanna Troi: I was just leaving the reception when this Ktarian walks up to me and says...
- Deanna Troi: [impersonating Dr. Mizan] "Hello, Diane. I understand you're an empath. I'm a very
- [winks]
- Deanna Troi: sensitive man myself. I'm doing a thesis on interspecies mating rituals. Would you care to join me in some empirical research?"
- Lt. Commander Data: [after La Forge has commented on Dr. Mizan, the Ktarian] Did you help him with his research, Counselor?
- Deanna Troi: Absolutely not!
- Lt. Commander Data: I thought it was a topic you were interested in.
- [last lines]
- Lt. Commander Data: I have been testing the aphorism, "A watched pot never boils." I have boiled the same amount of water in this kettle sixty-two times. In some cases I have ignored the kettle; in others, I have watched it intently. In every instance, the water reaches its boiling point in precisely 51.7 seconds. It appears I am not capable of perceiving time any differently than my internal chronometer.
- Commander William T. Riker: Why don't you turn it off?
- Lt. Commander Data: Sir?
- Commander William T. Riker: Data, people do not *have* internal chronometers. Why don't you see what happens if you turn yours off?
- Lt. Commander Data: Thank you, sir. I will try that.
- [Riker nods and gets up to leave, but stops]
- Commander William T. Riker: Just don't be late for your shift!
- [Dr. Crusher is treating a cut on Riker's forehead]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You've gotta stop playing parrises squares as if you're twenty-one years old. One of these days, you're gonna fall and break your neck, and I'm not gonna be able to heal that as easily.
- Commander William T. Riker: I wasn't playing parrises squares.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Worf's calisthenic program?
- Commander William T. Riker: No.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I give up. What was it?
- Commander William T. Riker: I was trying to feed Spot.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Dr. Vassbinder gave an hour-long dissertation on the ionization effect of warp nacelles, before he realized that the topic was supposed to be - psychology!
- Geordi La Forge: Why didn't anybody tell him?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: There was no opportunity. There was no pause.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [droning in a foreign accent] He-just-kept-talking-in-one-looong-incredibly-unbroken-sentence-moving-from-topic-to-topic-so-that-no-one-had-a-chance-to-interrupt-it-was-really-quite-hypnotic.
- Commander William T. Riker: [after Crusher has suggested to take care of Spot] Oh, by the way - you'll need this!
- [throws her a phaser]
- [Data has suggested the use of emergency transporter armbands as a protection from the frozen timeframe on the Enterprise]
- Geordi La Forge: Captain, I think this is gonna work. But... it's gonna take some time.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well, Mister La Forge - it would seem that time is something that we have plenty of.
- Commander William T. Riker: [confused about recent events] Captain?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [sighs] It's going to take... a little time to explain, Number One.
- Lt. Commander Data: It is the flash point of a warp core explosion. And it is expanding.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Expanding? I thought time was suspended on this ship.
- Lt. Commander Data: We were incorrect, sir. I have determined that time is moving forward at an infinitesimal rate.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Why didn't we notice it before?
- Lt. Commander Data: Our initial conclusion was based on our observations of the crew, The warp core breach moves at a much faster rate. The motion of the cloud is within my visual detection threshold. At its current rate of expansion, it will consume the Enterprise in approximately 9 hours, 17 minutes.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Is there anything we can do to stop it?
- Lt. Commander Data: It is no longer a question of stopping it, sir. The explosion has already occurred. The fact that it is moving slowly changed nothing
- [first lines]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Oh, you really did it this time, Will. This is not just a scrape, this is a very deep cut.