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Geordi: "Look, Sonya..."
Sonya: "Yes?"
Geordi: "I don't think you want to be around these control stations with that hot chocolate, do you?"
Sonya: "Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't even have this in engineering, it's just we were talking, I forgot I had it in my hand...I'm going to go finish it over here. Lieutenant La Forge, this is not going to happen again. (bumps into Captain Picard and splatters the drink on him) OH, NO! Oh, I'm sorry! Oh, Captain!"
Geordi: "Actually, it's my fault, sir."
Picard: "Indeed."
Sonya: "Oh, I wasn't looking...it's all over you!"
Picard: (deadpan) "Yes, Ensign, it's all over me."
Sonya: "At least let me, sir..." (tries to brush the stain off)
Picard: "Ensign? Uh, Ensign?"
Sonya: "Oh, Ensign Sonya Gomez."
Geordi: "Ensign Gomez is a recent academy graduate, Captain. She just transferred over at Starbase 173."
Picard: "Is that so? Well, Ensign Sonya Gomez, I think it would be simpler if I simply changed my uniform."
Geordi: "Captain, I must accept full responsibility for this."
Picard: "Yes, Chief Engineer, I think I understand."
Sonya: "I just want to say, sir, that I'm very excited about this assignment and I promise to serve you and my ship--your ship--this ship...to the best of my ability."
Picard: "Yes, Ensign, I'm sure that you will. Carry on."
Picard: "Crewman, what is going on?"
Q: "Welcome, Picard, to Shuttlecraft 6."
Picard: "Q!"
Q: "There, there, haven't we been careless? A little cleaning service I'm only too happy to provide." (brushes away the chocolate stain on Picard's tunic)
Picard: "We agreed you would never trouble my ship again!"
Q: "I always keep my arrangements, sir. Look...we're no where near your vessel."
Sonya: "Geordi...Lieutenant..."
Geordi: "It's okay. Go on."
Sonya: "Whatever's out here, we're going to be the first humans to see it and I want to be a part of that. I want to understand it."
Geordi: "Sonya, relax. You're here, you've made it, but, you won't last long banging into walls. It'll be there for you, believe me."
Sonya: "Okay."
Guinan: "Bridge, this is Ten Forward."
Riker: "Guinan? I don't remember you ever calling the bridge before."
Guinan: "Is everything all right?"
Riker: "How do you mean?"
Guinan: "Is there anything unusual happening?"
Riker: "No, Guinan, nothing out of the ordinary. Why do you ask?"
Guinan: "I'm not sure. It's just a feeling, had it a couple of times before, it's probably nothing. Forget that I called. Ten Forward out."
Q: "The locator beam won't help. They'll never think to look for you this far away."
Picard: "Enterprise, this is Picard...stop this foolishness, Q. Return me to the Enterprise."
Q: "I suggest you change your attitude. Petulance does not become you. We have business, Picard."
Picard: "Keeping me a prisoner here will not compel me to discuss anything with you."
Q: "It will in time."
Riker: "First Officer's Log, stardate: 42761.3. We've not been able to determine why or how Captain Picard left the Enterprise, we can't even be certain he's in the missing shuttle, although that is the assumption on which we are proceeding. For the last six hours, we've been searching without success."
Q: "Do we stay out here years, decades? I'm ageless, Picard, you are not."
Picard: "The Enterprise will continue with Riker as captain."
Q: "You are an impossibly stubborn human."
Picard: "Return me to my ship!"
Q: "If I return you to your ship, will you agree to give my request a full hearing?" (Picard nods, the scene shifts to Ten Forward) You're right, Picard, this is the proper venue for our discussion."
Guinan: "I knew it was you!"
Q: "You! Picard, if you had half the sense you pretend to, you'd get her off your ship, immediately, and if you'd like, I'd be more than pleased to expedite her departure."
Picard: "You know him?"
Guinan: "We have had some dealings..."
Q: "Those dealings were two centuries ago. This creature is not what she appears to be. She's an imp, and where she goes, trouble always follows."
Picard: "You're speaking of yourself, Q, not Guinan."
Q: "Guinan? Is that your name now?"
Picard: "Guinan is not the issue here, you are! We had an agreement that you would stop meddling with us."
Q: "And so I have."
Picard: "What do you want, Q? You state your business and get on with it!"
Q: "I agree, Captain. Enough about this creature, she's diverting us from the purpose of my being here."
Riker: "Which is?"
Q: "Ahh, the redoubtable Commander Riker! And Microbrain! Growl for me, let me know you still care!"
Q: "After our last encounter I was asked to leave the Q Continuum. Since then I've been wandering vaguely, bored really, my existence without purpose. Then I remembered all the good times I had with you."
Riker: "The good times? The first time we met you, you put us on trial for the crimes of humanity!"
Q: "For which you were exonerated!"
Riker: "The next time we saw you, you asked me to join the Q Continuum!"
Q: "A big mistake that you didn't accept my offer. More and more I realized that here, here is where I want to be. Think of the advantages! Now, I neither expect nor require any special treatment, and if necessary, though I can't imagine why, I will renounce my powers and become as weak and as incompetent as all of you."
Guinan: (snorts in disgust)
Q: "You're not prepared for what awaits you."
Picard: "How can we be prepared for that which we do not know, but I do know that we are ready to encounter it."
Q: "Really?"
Picard: "Yes, absolutely, that's why we're out here."
Q: "Oh, the arrogance...they don't have a clue as to what's out here."
Guinan: "They will learn, adapt, that is their greatest advantage."
Q: "They're moving faster than expected, further than they should."
Picard: "By whose calculations?"
Q: "You judge yourself against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far; the Romulans, the Klingons; they're nothing compared to what's waiting. Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can possibly imagine and terrors to freeze your soul. I offer myself as a guide, only to be rejected out of hand."
Riker: "We'll just have to do the best we can without you."
Q: "What justifies that smugness?"
Picard: "Not smugness, not arrogance. We are resolute, we are determined...and your help is not required."
Q: "We'll just have to see how ready you are!"
Guinan: "Q!" (Q snaps fingers)
Data: "According to these readings we have travelled 7,000 light-years and are located near the system J-25."
Riker: "Travel time to the nearest starbase?"
Data: "At maximum warp, in two years, seven months, three days, eighteen hours, we would reach Starbase 185."
Riker: "Why?"
Q: "Why? Why, to give you a taste of your future, a preview of things to come. Con permiso, mon capitane. The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged, it's now time to see if you can dance." (disappears)
Picard: "Guinan, your people have been in this part of the galaxy."
Guinan: "Yes."
Riker: "What can you tell us?"
Guinan: "Only that if I were you, I'd start back now."
Picard: "Captain's log, stardate: 42761.9. Despite Guinan's warning, I feel compelled to investigate this unexplored sector of the galaxy before heading back."
Data: "There is a series of roads on this planet which indicates a highly industrialized civilization, but where there should be cities, there are only great rips in the surface."
Worf: "It is though some great force just scooped all the machine elements off the face of the planet."
Data: "It is identical to what happened to the outposts along the neutral zone."
Data: "The ship is strangely generalized in design. There is no specific bridge, no command center, there is no engineering section. I can identify no living quarters."
Riker: "Life signs?"
Data: "There is no indication of life."
Riker: "Lieutenant Worf, what is the alert status?"
Worf: "I detect no shields, no weapons of any known design."
Picard: "Hailing frequencies."
Worf: "Open."
Picard: "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise."
Worf: "No response."
Picard: "This is Captain Picard representing the United Federation of Planets."
Guinan: "My people encountered them a century ago. They destroyed our cities, scattered my people throughout the galaxy. They're called the Borg. Protect yourself, Captain, or they'll destroy you."
Q: "Interesting, isn't it? Not a he, not a she, not like anything you've ever seen. An enhanced humanoid."
Picard: (to the Borg) "What is it you want? We mean you no harm. Do you understand me?"
Q: "Understand you? You're nothing to him! He's not interested in your life-form. He's just a scout, the first of many. He's here to analyze your technology. He may attempt to gain control of the ship. I wouldn't let him..."
Picard: "Mr. Worf, use whatever means to neutralize the invader!"



 

Guinan: "I wasn't there personally, but from what I'm told, they swarmed through our system, and when they left, there was little or nothing left of my people."
Riker: "Guinan, if they were that aggressive, why didn't he Borg attack? They could have, but they didn't."
Guinan: "They don't do that individually, that's not their way. When they decide to come, they're going to come in force. They don't do anything piecemeal."
Data: "Then the initial encounter was solely for the purpose of gathering information."
Guinan: "Yes."
Picard: "How do we reason with them, let them know that we're not a threat."
Guinan: "You don't! At least, I've never known anyone who did."
Picard: "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.--"
Borg Collective: "We have analyzed your defensive capabilities as being unable to withstand us. If you defend yourselves, you will be punished."
Picard: "Hmm."
Troi: "We're not dealing with an individual mind. They don't have a single leader, it's the collective minds of all of them."
Picard: "That would have definite advantages."
Troi: "Yes, a single leader can make mistakes which is far lass likely in the combined whole."
Q: "Picard! Ooh, Picard, are you sure you don't want me as a member of your crew?"
Picard: "Report, Lieutenant."
Worf: "That beam is draining our shields."
Riker: "If they pull down our shields, we're helpless."
Picard: "Warp 8, any heading, engage!"
Wesley: "Captain, the beam is holding us here!"
Riker: "Increase the power."
Worf: "Shields weakening."
Data: "Shields will be down in eighteen seconds."
Picard: "Locate the exact source of that tractor beam, lock on phasers."
Worf: "Phasers locked on target."
Picard: "Fire!"
Worf: "A type of laser beam is slicing into the saucer section!"
Riker: "They're carving us up like a roast."
Worf: "Sections 27, 28, 29 on decks 4, 5, and 6; destroyed."
Picard: "Casualties?"
Worf: "Eighteen were in that section and are missing."
Picard: "What is the condition of the alien ship?"
Worf: "They have sustained damage to 20% of their vessel. Life support's minimal."
Sonya: "Eighteen people...dead just like that."
Geordi: "I know, just put it out of your head."
Sonya: "No, I can't. I keep seeing them!"
Geordi: "Sonya, stop it! We'll have time to grieve later, now, right now let's just get these shields operative, hmm?"
Sonya: "Right, right. Of course."
Q: "The Borg is the ultimate user. They're unlike any threat your Federation has ever faced. They're not interested in political conquest, wealth or power as you know it, they're simply interested in your ship, its technology. They've identified it as something they can consume."
Riker: "You brought us here, you exposed us to it, and you cost us the lives of our shipmates!"
Q: "Oh, please."
Picard: "Number One...eighteen of our people have died. Please, tell us this is one of your illusions."
Q: "Oh, no. This is as real as your so-called 'life' gets."
Guinan: "I wouldn't go there if I were you."
Riker: "I don't know, Guinan, they paid us a visit, it seems only fair that we return the courtesy."
Picard: "Captain's log, supplemental. We have been attacked without provocation by an alien race which Guinan calls 'The Borg.' It appears that we have neutralized their vessel. Commander Riker is leading an away team in an attempt to learn more about them."
Riker: "I wonder why they don't react to us, or why the Enterprise didn't read any life signs, especially with this many of them."
Data: "Perhaps because this ship was being scanned for individual life signs. Apparently when they are in these slots they become part of the whole and no longer read as separate life signs."
Riker: "Captain?"
Picard: "Go ahead, Number One."
Riker: "Our readings were incorrect. The Borg crew survived, they appear to be in some kind of stasis."
Picard: "Explain."
Riker: "There are slots along the wall, kind of like compartments. There are two Borg in each one."
Data: "Captain, I would theorize that the Borg are somehow interconnected through these slots and are working collectively."
Riker: "It's like a juggernaut. It could begin moving at any moment."
Data: "The technology required to achieve this biological and technological interface is far beyond our capabilities. There are many advantages."
Riker: "Speed being the most obvious. This ship, literally, just thinks what it wants and then it happens."
Riker: "They either don't see us or don't see us as a threat."
Riker: "Captain, this is incredible. We've entered what appears to be the Borg nursery."
Picard: "Describe it."
Riker: "From the look of it, the Borg are born as a biological life form. It seems that almost immediately after birth, they begin artificial implants. Apparently the Borg have developed the technology to link artificial intelligence directly into the humanoid brain. Astounding."
Riker: "Captain, the Borg seem to be using their combined power to repair the ship!"
Picard: "Transporter Chief, beam the away team directly to the bridge!" (away team beams in) "Let's get the hell out of here, warp 8! Now, Mr. Crusher, engage!"
(Enterprise jumps to warp)
Data: "Captain, the Borg are in pursuit."
Picard: "On screen. Magnify."
Riker: "Increase to ten to the third power. It's continuing to regenerate!"
Picard: "Let's see if we can outrun them. Mr. La Forge, I want maximum warp for as long as we can hold it."
Geordi: "Yes, sir. We are now passing warp 8.5...8.8...warp 9!"
Riker: "Arm the photon torpedoes. Let's see if we can slow them down."
Worf: "Torpedoes armed!"
Picard: "Fire."
(Enterprise opens fire)
Worf: "They had no effect."
Geordi: "Bridge, this is engineering, we are now at warp 9.65."
Worf: "The Borg are still gaining."
Q: "They will follow this ship until you exhaust your fuel. They will wear down your defences. Then you will be theirs. Admit it, Picard, you're out of your league! You should have stayed where you belong!"
Picard: "Captain's log, supplemental. We are unable to maintain the gap between the Enterprise and the Borg ship."
Worf: "There are no reports of any damage to the Enterprise!"
Data: "Captain, the target was not the ship; the weapon was designed to drain the shields."
Worf: "Confirmed. Shield effectiveness has been reduced 12%."
Q: "You can't outrun them, you can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains. They regenerate and keep coming. Eventually, they will weaken. Your reserves will be gone. They are relentless!"
Q: "Where's your stubbornness now, Picard? Your arrogance? Do you still profess to be prepared for what awaits you?"
Worf: "The Borg ship is re-establishing its tractor beam."
Riker: "Lock on photon torpedoes."
Worf: "Yes, sir!"
Data: "Without our shields, at this range there is a high degree of probability that a photon detonation could destroy the Enterprise."
Riker: "Prepare to fire..."
Q: "I'll be leaving now. You thought you could handle it. So handle it."
Picard: "Q! End this!"
Q: "Moi? What makes you think I'm either inclined or capable to terminate this encounter?"
Picard: "If we all die, here, now, you will not be able to gloat! You wanted to frighten us? We're frightened. You wanted to show us that we were inadequate? For the moment, I grant that! You wanted me to say 'I need you'? I NEED YOU!"
Q: "That was a difficult admission. Another man would have been humiliated to say those words. Another man would have rather died than ask for help."
Picard: "I understand what you have done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew."
Q: "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here! It's wondrous! With treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid."
Guinan: "Q set a series of events into motion bringing your contact with the Borg much sooner than it should have come. Now, perhaps when you're ready, it might be possible to establish a relationship with them. But, for now, for right now, you're just raw material to them. Since they're aware of your existence..."
Picard: "...they will be coming."
Guinan: "You can bet on it."
Picard: "Maybe Q did the right thing for the wrong reason."
Guinan: "How so?"
Picard: "Well, perhaps what we most needed was a kick in our complacency to prepare us for what lies ahead."