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		TREKCORE > TNG > EPISODES > WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS > Audio Clips Below are high quality audio caps from this episode presented in mp3 format. Please let us know if we've missed a favorite quote of yours from this episode and we'll try and add it!  Many thanks to Kyle C. Haight for these files!   Picard: "Captain's Log, Stardate 43173.5. We are en route to Mintaka III where a three-man Federation anthropological field team has been studying the inhabitants. Our mission is to resupply the outpost and repair their malfunctioning reactor." Dr. Crusher: "Crusher to Enterprise. Medical emergency. Two to beam directly to Sickbay." Picard: "Doctor Crusher." Dr. Crusher: "Before you start quoting me the Prime Directive, he'd already seen us. The damage was done. It was either bring him aboard or let him die." Picard: "Then why didn't you let him die?" Dr. Crusher: "Because we were responsible for his injuries." Picard: "I'm not sure that I concur with that reasoning, Doctor. But now that he's here, you must remove all memory of his encounter with the away team." Dr. Crusher: "By erasing short term recall?" Picard: "It has been accomplished before." Dr. Crusher: "I am familiar with Doctor Pulaski's technique. But I can't guarantee it will be effective on Mintakan brain chemistry. Their lie-zone levels are much lower." Riker: "First officer's log, Stardate 43174.2. Counsellor Troi and I are beaming down to Mintaka Three to locate Doctor Palmer and to determine the extent of the cultural contamination. Doctor Crusher has temporarily altered our features and skin colour. She's also implanted subcutaneous communicators so that any transmissions we receive will be inaudible to the Mintakans." Troi: "Mintakan emotions are quite interesting. Like the Vulcans, they have highly ordered minds. A very sensible people. For example, Mintakan women precede their mates. It's a signal to other women." Riker: "This man's taken, get your own? Troi: "Not precisely. More like, if you want his services, I'm the one you have to negotiate with." Riker: "What kind of services?" Troi: "All kinds." Riker: "They are a sensible race." Picard: "Are you suggesting..." Barron: "You must go down to Mintaka Three." Riker: "Masquerading as a god?" Picard: "Absolutely out of the question. The Prime Directive... Barron: "Has already been violated. The damage is done. All we can do now is minimise it." Picard: "By sanctioning their false beliefs? Barron: ""By giving them guidelines. Letting them know what the Overseer expects of them." Picard: "Doctor Barron, I cannot, I will not, impose a set of commandments on these people. To do so violates the very essence of the Prime Directive." Barron: "Like it or not, we have rekindled the Mintakans' belief in the Overseer." Riker: "And are you saying that this belief will eventually become a religion?" Barron: "It's inevitable. And without guidance, that religion could degenerate into inquisitions, holy wars, chaos." Picard: "Horrifying. Doctor Barron, your report describes how rational these people are. Millennia ago, they abandoned their belief in the supernatural. Now you are asking me to sabotage that achievement, to send them back into the Dark Ages of superstition and ignorance and fear? No!"   Picard: "Tell me about this group's leader." Riker: "Nuria. Exceptionally clear-minded, sensible. The Mintakans trust her judgment. If we can convince her that you are not a god..." Picard: "She might be able to persuade the others." Barron: "And how do you propose to convince her?" Picard: "She believes the Picard is a magical figure. I'm going to show her how the magic works. I'm going to bring her aboard." Data: "Counsellor, sensors indicate five Mintakans in your immediate vicinity. Four are motionless. The fifth is eight meters away, proceeding south. Is Nuria one of these five? Troi: "Mmm hmm." Data: "Was that intended to be an affirmative? Riker: "Yes, Data, it was." Data: "Is Nuria the closest of the five?" Troi [OC]: "Uh un." Riker: "Negative." Data [OC]: "Is Nuria the one in motion?" Troi: "Mmm hmm." Riker: "Lock sensors on Nuria." Data: "Locked on. We can beam Nuria aboard at will." Picard: "Look at me. Look at me. Feel the warmth of my hand, the rhythm of my pulse. I'm not a supreme being. I'm flesh and blood, like you." Nuria: "Not like me." Picard: "Like you. Different in appearance, yes. But we are both living beings. We are born, we grow, we live and we die. In all the ways that matter, we are alike." Nuria: "But you are the Picard!" Picard: "There is something I want you to see." Liko: "Nothing is beyond your power! You are the Overseer. I will prove it!" (He aims the arrow at Picard) Nuria: "Liko!" Picard: "If you believe I am all-powerful, then you cannot hurt me. If, however, I am telling the truth and I am mortal, you will kill me. But if the only proof you will believe is my death, then shoot." Nuria: "Liko, don't do it!" Oji: "Father, no!" (Oji jolts Liko's arm enough to deflect the arrow into Picard's shoulder.) Picard: "Captain's Log, supplemental. Dr. Crusher has repaired my injury with her usual skill. Mr. La Forge will supervise the dismantling of the observation post after I make one last visit to Mintaka III." Nuria: "Picard, why should a people so advanced want to learn about us?" Picard: "We were once as you are now. To study you is to understand ourselves." Fento: "But why did you have to hide yourself from us?" Liko: "Because their presence would affect us, just as it affected me." Picard: "It is our highest law that we shall not interfere with other cultures." Oji: "Then revealing yourselves was an accident. Picard: "Oh, yes, and now we must leave you." Oji: "Why? There's so much you can teach us." Picard: "But that, too, would be interference. You must progress in your own way." Nuria: "So we will. You have taught us there is nothing beyond our reach." Picard: "Not even the stars." Nuria: "Pahkee." (A little boy gives Picard a woven belt or some such memento) Nuria: "I wish you good journeys, Picard. Remember my people." Picard: "Always."