Episode Quotes

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Admiral Hanson: "This is the third time we've pulled out the captain's chair for Riker. He just won't sit down."
   
Data: "Early bird? I believe Commander Shelby erred. There is no evidence of avian or crawling vermicular lifeforms on Jouret IV."
   
Shelby: "Data was available. I took him. We came."
   
Picard: [to Riker] "Will, what the hell are you still doing here?"
   
Picard: [to Riker] "Will, you're ready to work without a net. You're ready to take command. And you know, the Enterprise will go on just fine without you."
   
Riker: [to Shelby] "You do an end run around me again, I'll snap you back so hard you think you are a first-year cadet again."
   
Shelby: [to Riker] "All you know how to do is play it safe."
   
Shelby: [to Riker] "If you cannot make the big decisions, Commander, I suggest you make room for someone who can."
   
Picard: "It's something of a tradition, Guinan, captain touring the ship before a battle."
Guinan: "Before a hopeless battle, if I remember the tradition correctly."
Picard: "Not necessarily. Nelson toured the H.M.S. Victory before Trafalgar."
Guinan: "Yes, but Nelson never returned from Trafalgar, did he?"
Picard: "No, but the battle was won."
   
Shelby: "There's no doubt anymore. It is the Borg."
   
Geordi: "Wesley, you may get straight 'A's in school, but there's a lot you need to learn about poker."
   
Picard: "Mister Worf, dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson...We have
engaged...the Borg."
   
Shelby: "Shelby to Enterprise, we've found the captain's uniform and his communicator. We're resuming our search."
   
Data: "We were unable to retrieve him, sir. The captain has been altered by the Borg."
Riker: "'Altered'?"
Worf: "He is a Borg!"
   
Beverly: "Will, he's alive. If we could get him back to the ship, I might be able to restore..."
Riker: "This is our only chance to destroy them. If they get back into warp, our weapon is useless."
   
Locutus: "I am Locutus, of Borg. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service...*us*."
   
Riker: "Mister Worf...fire."

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