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 Picard: "Captain's Log,
stardate 41590.5. Having dropped off Counselor Troi at
Starbase G6 for a shuttle visit home we were fortunately
close to the Sigma Three solar system when its
Federation colony transmitted an urgent call for medical
help. An accidental explosion has devastated a mining
operation there." |
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 Q: "Humans. I thought by now
that you would've scampered back to your own little star
system."
Picard: "If this is Q I am addressing, we are on
a mission of rescue to group of badly injured..."
Q: "We the Q have studies our recent contact with
you and are impressed. We have much to discuss.
Including perhaps the realisation of your most
impossible dream."
 Picard: "However intriguing that may be Q we are
in the midst of
an urgent journey. Once that is
completed then perhaps..."
Q:
"You will abandon that mission, Captain. My business
with you takes precedence. If my magnificence blinds
you, then perhaps something more familiar."
(Flash, followed by the appearance of "Admiral" Q)
Q: "Starfleet Admiral Q at your service." |
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 Picard: "Captain's Log,
supplemental. Our rescue mission to the Sigma Three
solar system has been halted by an immense grid and an
untimely visit from Q." |
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 Picard: "You're
no Starfleet admiral Q."
Q: "Neither am I an Aldeberran serpent Captain,
but you accepted me as such."
Riker: "Well he's got us there Captain."
Q: "Ahh, the redoubtable Commander Riker whom
I
noticed before. You seem to find this all very amusing."
Riker: "I might, if we weren't on our way to help
some suffering and dying humans who..."
Q: "Your species is always suffering and dying." |
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 Picard: "No Lieutenant Worf.
You will make no move against him unless I order it."
Q: "Pity. Might have learned an interesting
lesson, macro-head! With a micro-brain!"
Worf: "Arrrgggg....!" |
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 Picard: "Captain's
Log..."
Computer: "Captain's loooggggg..."
Picard: "Damn it, I can't even make a log entry."
Yar: "I wish i could help you Captain."
Picard: "Where is everyone else?"
Yar: "Down on some planet."
Picard: "Some planet? What are you doing here?"
 Yar:
"Well, I, err... It sounds strange, but I'm in a penalty
box."
Picard: "A penalty box?"
Yar: "Q's penalty box. It sounds strange, but it
definitely isn't. I know that one more penalty by anyone
and I'm gone."
Picard: "Gone?"
Yar: "Yes! I am gone! It is so frustrating to be
controlled like this!"
Picard: "Lieutenant. Tasha, it's all right."
 Yar:
"What the hell am I doing? Crying?"
Picard: "Don't worry. There's a new ship's
standing order on the Bridge. When one is in the penalty
box, tears are permitted."
Yar: "Captain. Oh, if you weren't a captain."
Q: "Consorting with lower ranked females Captain?
Especially ones in penalty boxes, destructive to
discipline they say but then again you're what, only
human? Penalty over,"
(Complete Picard/Yar/Q scene) |
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 Picard: "A marshall of France.
Ridiculous!"
Q: "Well one takes the jobs he can get. For
example star log entry. Stardate today, this is Q
speaking for Captain Jean-Luc Picard who we consider to
be too bound by Starfleet customs and traditions to be
useful to us. The Enterprise is now helpless, stuck like
an Earth insect in amber while its bridge crew plays out
a game whose real intent is to test whether the first
officer is worthy
 of the greatest gift the Q can offer."
Picard: "So you're taking on Riker this time?
Excellent. He'll defeat you just as I did."
Q: "Shall we wager in that Captain? Your starship
command against...?"
Picard: "Against your keeping out of humanity's
path for ever. Done?"
Q: "Done. You've already lost Picard. Riker will
be offered something impossible to refuse." |
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 Q: "You have only one chance
to save them now. Send them back to the ship."
Riker: "You'll let me beam them?"
Q: "Send them the same way I do. I've given you
the power. Do you understand I have given you the power
of the Q. Use it." |
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 Picard: "Captain's Log,
stardate 41591.4. Twelve minutes out from quadrant Sigma
Three where the survivors of an underground disaster
desperately need our help. Aboard the Enterprise first
officer William T. Riker needs help nearly as badly but
this is a subject far out of my experience, out of any
humans experience." |
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 Picard: "How the hell do I
advise you? You know the implications as well as I."
Riker: "no one has ever offered to turn me into a
god before."
Picard: "What the Q has offered you has got to be
close to immortality Will. They're not lying about
controlling time and space, we've seen it in what they
can do."
Riker: "You've also seen it in what I can do."
 Picard:
"If you are going to refuse his offer, you must not
allow yourself to use this power again. It's too great a
temptation for us at our present stage of development."
Riker: "Are you worried that I won't be able to
say no to it?"
Picard: "You tell me. Are you strong enough to
refuse to use that power."
Riker: "Certainly."
Picard: "No matter how tempted? No matter how
difficult Q makes it for you?"
Riker: "You have my word."
Picard: "Good. I know what your word means." |
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 Riker: "I should've never made
that agreement with you. I could've saved that child."
Picard: "You were right not to try. Once you
became accustomed to that power number one."
Riker: "When I used it before what happened? I
save most of our bridge crew."
Picard: "And when you grow to like it too much?"
Riker: "As soon as it's convenient Captain, I
want a meeting with you and your Bridge staff."
Picard: "As soon as we are secure of this rescue
operation I will discuss all that this new power..." |
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 Picard: "Perhaps they're all
remembering that old saying 'power corrupts...'."
Riker: " '...And absolute power corrupts
absolutely'." |
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 Riker: "Data."
Data: "No. No, Sir."
Riker: "But its what you've always wanted Data.
To become human."
Data: "Yes Sir, that is true but I never wanted
to compound one illusion with another. It might be real
to Q, perhaps even you Sir but it would never be so to
me. Was it not one of the Captain's favourite authors
who wrote 'this above all, to thy known self be true'.
Sorry Commander, I must decline." |
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 Worf: "No! She is from a world
now alien to me."
LaForge: "Worf, is this your idea of sex?"
Worf: "This is sex! But I have no place for it in
my life now."
Q: "No place micro-brain, what posses you?" |
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 Riker: "How did you know Sir?
I feel like such an idiot."
Picard: "Quite right, so you should. Its all over
Q, you have no further business here."
Q: "Human you have just destroyed yourself."
Picard: "Pay off your wager."
Q: "I recall no wager!"
Picard: "I'm sure your fellow Q remember you
agreed to never trouble our species again. Just as
they're aware you failed to tempt a human to join you."
Q: "Noooooooooo...!" |
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 Data: "Sir, how is it that the
Q can handle time and space so well and us so badly?"
Picard: "Perhaps some day we will discover that
space and time are simpler than the human equation. No
co-ordinates laid in number one?"
Riker: "Yes Sir. You have my co-ordinates LaForge?"
LaForge: "Yes Sir, on the board."
Picard: "Engage." |
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