Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Yesterday's Enterprise (1990)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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• Natasha Yar : I've been working with one of the officers on the Enterprise-C. He's, he's nice, I, I like him. I'm worried about what's going to happen to him.

  Lt. Commander Data : We may never know what happens. If they succeed, we will not even realize that these events occurred.

• Lt. Commander Data : There is a high degree of probability that the temporal rift is symmetrical, Captain.

  Capt. Picard : Then what would happen if the Enterprise-C were to fly back through it?

  Lt. Commander Data : Back, sir? The Enterprise-C would emerge in her own time, at almost the same instant she left.

  Capt. Picard : Right in the middle of the battle with the Romulans.

  Lt. Commander Data : Yes, sir.

  Capt. Picard : Is there any possibility she could survive?

  Lt. Commander Data : None, sir.

  Capt. Picard : Then sending them back would be a death sentence.

• Commander William T. Riker : With all due respect, sir, you'd be asking 125 people to die a meaningless death.

  Lt. Commander Data : Not necessarily meaningless, Commander. The Klingons regard honor above all else. If the crew of the Enterprise-C had died fighting for the survival of a Klingon outpost, it would be considered a meaningful act of honor by the Klingon Empire.