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Hannah Bates: "If we're so brilliant, how come WE didn't invent any of these things?"
Geordi: "Well, maybe the necessity really is the mother of an invention. You never really look for something until you need it."
   
Picard: "If we ever needed a reminder of the importance of the Prime Directive, we have it now..."
Riker: "They're Human. The Prime Directive doesn't apply."
Picard: "Doesn't it? Our very presence damaged, perhaps destroyed, a way of life. Whether or not we agree with that way of life... whether or not they are Human... is ultimately irrelevant, Number One. We are responsible."
Riker: "We had to respond to the threat from the core fragment... didn't we?"
Picard: "Yes. Of course we did. And I wish I could see any other course we could have taken.
But I would submit, in the end, we proved ourselves just as dangerous to that colony as any
stellar fragment could ever be."
   
Conor: [to Troi] "I have to wonder why, with all the hundreds of genetically compatible women here... I would fall in love with you"

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