Worf: "Doctor, I will not attempt to leave sickbay without your approval. The restraining field is not necessary." Beverly: "Worf, there is no restraining field."
	Beverly: "Be my guest. Just don't expect a lot of conversation. He is in full Klingon-mode: honorable, strong and closed-minded."
	Troi: "He's been injured, Alexander, and he's... embarrassed. To have anyone see him now would make him feel worse... even if it were you." Alexander: "This is part of that Klingon stuff, isn't it? My mother always said that Klingons had a lot of dumb ideas about honor." Troi: "Alexander, that... "Klingon stuff" is very important to your father." Alexander: "Well, it isn't very important to me. I don't care about being Klingon, I just want to see my father."
	Russell: "Well, I'd say your patient's recovery is going well. I've never seen anyone up on their feet so soon after this kind of surgery." [...] "You're not even going to acknowledge what I did for him are you? You just can't admit that it was my research which made this possible." Beverly: "I'm delighted that Worf is going to recover. You gambled. He won. Most of your patients aren't so lucky. You scare me, Doctor. You risk peoples' lives and justify it in the name of research. But genuine research takes time... sometimes a lifetime of painstaking, detailed work to get results. Not you -- you take shortcuts... right through living tissue. You put your "research" ahead of your patients, and as far as I'm concerned, that's a violation of our most sacred trust. No one remembers the patients who died unnecessarily... not in the glow of a remarkable achievement like this one, do they? I'm sure the work you've done here will be hailed as a stunning breakthrough. Enjoy your laurels, Doctor. I'm not sure I could."
	Picard: "You or I could learn to live with a disability of this kind. But to Worf... his life ended when those containers fell on him. We don't have to agree with it... we don't have to understand it... but we do have to respect his beliefs." Riker: "I can respect his beliefs, but Worf wants me to take an active role in ending his life."
	Riker: "I hate everything about it... the casual disregard for life... the way it tries to cloak suicide in some glorious notion of honor. I may have to respect your beliefs... but I don't have to like them." Worf: "It is not something I expect you to understand." Riker: "No... All you really expect me to do is bring you the knife and then walk away, so you can kill yourself in peace. Well, I'm not going to make it that easy for you."

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