1. Captain's log, stardate 41590.5.Copy !req
2. Having dropped off Counselor Troi
for a visit home,Copy !req
3. we were fortunately close
to the Sigma III systemCopy !req
4. when its Federation colony made
an urgent call for medical help.Copy !req
5. An accidental explosion has
devastated a mining operation.Copy !req
6. Include a burn unit with each kit.Copy !req
7. Identify the most critically injured
and beam them to cargo bay six.Copy !req
8. - Dr Crusher, this is the Captain.
- Dr Crusher here.Copy !req
9. Additional information. The number
of colonists at the site is 504.Copy !req
10. - Are you prepared for that many?
- We believe so, sir.Copy !req
11. Captain, we are now at warp 9.1, sir.Copy !req
12. We will be at the colony
in 3.2 hours, sir.Copy !req
13. Schematics suggest
the explosion was causedCopy !req
14. by a methane-like gas
seeping in from underground.Copy !req
15. Captain, I'm picking up
a force field. It's...Copy !req
16. The Q entity. It's identical
to the grid we encountered...Copy !req
17. - It reads solid, sir.
- Emergency. Full stop.Copy !req
18. Reversing power, sir.Copy !req
19. Not now, damn it, Q.Copy !req
20. Shields and deflectors up, sir.Copy !req
21. Now reading full stop, sir.Copy !req
22. Humans. I thought by now
you'd have scampered backCopy !req
23. to your own little star system.Copy !req
24. If this is Q I'm addressing,
we are on a mission of rescue...Copy !req
25. We the Q have studied our contact
with you, and are impressed.Copy !req
26. We have much to discuss,Copy !req
27. including perhaps the realization
of your most impossible dream.Copy !req
28. Intriguing as that is, we are on
an urgent journey. After, perhaps...Copy !req
29. You will abandon it! My business
with you takes precedence.Copy !req
30. If my magnificence blinds you,
then perhaps something more familiar.Copy !req
31. Starfleet Admiral Q, at your service.Copy !req
32. Space, the final frontier.Copy !req
33. These are the voyages
of the Starship Enterprise.Copy !req
34. Its continuing mission,
to explore strange new worlds...Copy !req
35. to seek out new life
and new civilizations...Copy !req
36. to boldly go
where no one has gone before.Copy !req
37. Captain's log, supplemental.Copy !req
38. Our rescue mission to Sigma III
has been halted by an immense gridCopy !req
39. and an untimely visit from Q.Copy !req
40. You're no Starfleet Admiral, Q.Copy !req
41. Neither am I an Aldebaran serpent,
Captain, but you accepted me as such.Copy !req
42. He's got us there, Captain!Copy !req
43. The redoubtable Cmdr Riker,
whom I noticed before.Copy !req
44. You seem to find this
all very amusing.Copy !req
45. I might, if we weren't on our way to
help some suffering, dying humans...Copy !req
46. Your species
is always suffering and dying.Copy !req
47. No, Lt Worf! Make no move
against him unless I order it.Copy !req
48. Pity! You might have learned
an interesting lesson.Copy !req
49. Macro head with a micro brain!Copy !req
50. You said you had the realization
of impossible dreams to offer us.Copy !req
51. When this rescue is completed,
I will listen to your proposal.Copy !req
52. Subject to its being acceptable...Copy !req
53. Subject to foolish human values?
Picard, why do you distrust me so?Copy !req
54. Why? At our first meeting,
you seized my vessel.Copy !req
55. You condemned all humans as savagesCopy !req
56. and tried us in a post-atomic
21st-century court of horrors,Copy !req
57. attacked my people
and again seized my vessel!Copy !req
58. And that angered you?
"Seized my vessel!"Copy !req
59. You interfered with
our Farpoint mission.Copy !req
60. You threatened to convict us
as ignorant savages,Copy !req
61. if, while dealing with
a powerful life form,Copy !req
62. we made any mistake,
and when we didn't...Copy !req
63. The Q became interested in you.Copy !req
64. Does no one here understand
your good fortune?Copy !req
65. "Seized my vessel!"Copy !req
66. The complaints of a closed mind,Copy !req
67. too accustomed
to military privileges.Copy !req
68. But you, Riker, and I remember you
well, what do you make of my offer?Copy !req
69. We don't have time for these games.Copy !req
70. Games? Did someone say games?Copy !req
71. And, perchance for interest's sake,
a deadly game?Copy !req
72. To the game.Copy !req
73. Where are we?Copy !req
74. A Class-M world. Gravity
and oxygen within our limits.Copy !req
75. Twin moons. Where are we?Copy !req
76. Considering the power demonstrated
by Q the last time... anywhere.Copy !req
77. Assuming this place even exists.Copy !req
78. But it won't be boring.
If Q is anything, he's imaginative.Copy !req
79. Seems our Captain
wasn't meant to be here.Copy !req
80. Security, this is the Captain.Copy !req
81. Security?Copy !req
82. Engineering, this is the bridge.Copy !req
83. Turbolift control, do you read?Copy !req
84. This is the Captain.Copy !req
85. Sir! Over there!Copy !req
86. Join me, Riker. A good game
needs rules and planning.Copy !req
87. Didn't your own Hartley say,Copy !req
88. "Nothing reveals humanity so well
as the games it plays"?Copy !req
89. Almost right.Copy !req
90. Actually, you reveal yourselves
best in how you play.Copy !req
91. Sir, what he has in mind might
provide us with vital information.Copy !req
92. Incredible. I was just thinking
about an old-fashioned lemonade.Copy !req
93. And so it became that.
An excellent thirst-quencher.Copy !req
94. It gets rather hot
out here on this plain.Copy !req
95. What about my people?Copy !req
96. Whatever they'd like, of course.Copy !req
97. "Drink not with thine enemy."Copy !req
98. The rigid Klingon code. That explains
something of why you defeated them.Copy !req
99. Still fascinated with the human past?
Perhaps you're not that original.Copy !req
100. Au contraire. It's the human future
which intrigues us.Copy !req
101. And it should concern you the most.Copy !req
102. Of all the species,
yours cannot abide stagnation.Copy !req
103. Change is the heart of what you are.
But into what? That's the question.Copy !req
104. That is what humans call... a truism.Copy !req
105. - You mean hardly original?
- You're the one who said it.Copy !req
106. While we're at it...
this isn't part of any human future.Copy !req
107. True. I borrowed this
from your stodgy Captain's mind.Copy !req
108. This is the dressing
for a game we will play.Copy !req
109. Now, games require rules, rewards,Copy !req
110. dangers, familiar settings.
That sort of thing.Copy !req
111. This isn't that familiar to me. Data?Copy !req
112. This is from Europe's Napoleonic era.
Late-18th, early-19th centuries.Copy !req
113. This is
a campaign-headquarters tent.Copy !req
114. His uniform is that
of a French Army marshal.Copy !req
115. Outranking even an admiral.Copy !req
116. Would I go from a Starfleet admiral
to anything else?Copy !req
117. Of course you wouldn't.Copy !req
118. But Napoleonic equipment
on an alien planet,Copy !req
119. one so different it has twin moons?Copy !req
120. As you said,
I am nothing if not imaginative.Copy !req
121. The game should reflect that.Copy !req
122. Shall it be a test of strength?
Meaningless, since you have none.Copy !req
123. A test of intelligence, then?
Equally as meaningless!Copy !req
124. But it needs risk, something to win.
And something to lose.Copy !req
125. If we must play a game,
what would we win?Copy !req
126. The greatest possible future
you can imagine.Copy !req
127. Which requires something
totally disastrous if you lose.Copy !req
128. The point of this game shall be,Copy !req
129. can any of you stay alive?Copy !req
130. If your game is fair, we will.Copy !req
131. For shame, Worf!Copy !req
132. Fairness is such a human concept.
Think imaginatively!Copy !req
133. This game shall in fact be...
completely unfair.Copy !req
134. - You've gone too far!
- Game penalty!Copy !req
135. Where is she, Q?
You can forget your game...Copy !req
136. To use a 20th-century term,
she's in a penalty box.Copy !req
137. She'll remain there unharmed
unless one of you merits a penalty.Copy !req
138. Unfortunately, there's only one box.Copy !req
139. If any of you are sent there,
dear Tasha must give the box up.Copy !req
140. And where does she go?Copy !req
141. Into nothingness!Copy !req
142. I entreat you to obey
the rules of the game.Copy !req
143. The only one who can destroy
your Tasha now is you.Copy !req
144. Captain's log...Copy !req
145. Damn it.
I can't even make a log entry.Copy !req
146. I wish I could help you, Captain.Copy !req
147. Where is everyone else?Copy !req
148. Down on some planet.Copy !req
149. - Some planet? Why are you here?
- Well, I...Copy !req
150. It sounds strange...Copy !req
151. but, I'm in a penalty box.Copy !req
152. A penalty box?Copy !req
153. Q's penalty box. It sounds strange,
but it definitely isn't.Copy !req
154. I know that one more penalty...Copy !req
155. by anyone... and I'm gone.Copy !req
156. - Gone?
- Yes! I am gone!Copy !req
157. It is so frustrating
to be controlled like this!Copy !req
158. Lieutenant...Copy !req
159. Tasha, it's alright.Copy !req
160. What in the hell am I doing?
Crying?Copy !req
161. Don't worry.Copy !req
162. There is a new standing order
on the bridge.Copy !req
163. When one is in the penalty box,
tears are permitted.Copy !req
164. Captain...Copy !req
165. If you weren't a captain...Copy !req
166. Consorting with lower-rank females?Copy !req
167. Especially ones in penalty boxes?
Destructive to discipline, they say.Copy !req
168. But then again, you're what?
Only human.Copy !req
169. Penalty... over.Copy !req
170. A marshal of France?Copy !req
171. Ridiculous!Copy !req
172. One takes the jobs he can get.Copy !req
173. For example,
starlog entry, stardate today.Copy !req
174. This is Q speaking
for Capt Jean-Luc Picard,Copy !req
175. who we consider too bound
by Starfleet customs and traditionsCopy !req
176. to be useful to us.Copy !req
177. The Enterprise is now helpless,
stuck like an Earth insect in amber,Copy !req
178. while its bridge crew plays out
a game, whose real intent is to testCopy !req
179. whether the First Officer is worthy
of the greatest gift the Q can offer.Copy !req
180. So, you're taking on Riker this time.Copy !req
181. Excellent.
He'll defeat you, just as I did.Copy !req
182. Shall we wager on that?
Your starship command against...Copy !req
183. Against your keeping out of
humanity's path for ever!Copy !req
184. - Done?
- Done. You've already lost.Copy !req
185. Riker will be offered something
impossible to refuse.Copy !req
186. Geordi, can you see Worf?Copy !req
187. I'd see the freckles on his nose
if he had them, sir.Copy !req
188. He's at the third ridge.Copy !req
189. The third ridge?Copy !req
190. Moving well, too.Copy !req
191. Good. He sees them.Copy !req
192. Listen to me, Q. You seem
to have some need for humans.Copy !req
193. Concern regarding them.Copy !req
194. Why do you demonstrate it
through this confrontation?Copy !req
195. Why not a simple, direct explanation,
a statement of what you seek?Copy !req
196. Why these games?Copy !req
197. Why these games?
Why, the play's the thing!Copy !req
198. I'm surprised you need ask. Your
human Shakespeare explained it all.Copy !req
199. He did
but don't depend on one view...Copy !req
200. A pity you don't know
the content of your own library.Copy !req
201. Hear this, and reflect.Copy !req
202. "All the galaxy's a stage..."Copy !req
203. World, not galaxy.
"All the world's a stage."Copy !req
204. You know it. If he were
living now, he'd have said galaxy.Copy !req
205. How about this?
"Life is but a walking shadow,Copy !req
206. a poor player that struts
and frets his hour upon the stageCopy !req
207. and then is heard no more."Copy !req
208. "It is a tale told by an idiot,Copy !req
209. full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing."Copy !req
210. I see. So how we respond to a game
tells you more about usCopy !req
211. than our real life?
This... tale told by an idiot.Copy !req
212. Interesting.Copy !req
213. Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Perhaps a little Hamlet?Copy !req
214. I know Hamlet. What he might say
with irony, I say with conviction.Copy !req
215. "What a piece of work is man.
How noble in reason."Copy !req
216. "How infinite in faculty."Copy !req
217. "In form, in moving,
how express and admirable."Copy !req
218. "In action, how like an angel.
In apprehension, how like a god."Copy !req
219. You don't see your species like that?Copy !req
220. I see us one day becoming that, Q.Copy !req
221. Is it that which concerns you?Copy !req
222. Those soldiers have formed
a skirmishing line, I think it is.Copy !req
223. And they're headed this way.Copy !req
224. Armed with ball-and-powder muskets?Copy !req
225. That's what they look like, sir.Copy !req
226. Muskets are appropriate to the
1790-1800 French uniform, sir.Copy !req
227. But it is hardly a weapon
by our standards.Copy !req
228. A lead ball propelled by gunpowder.
100 meters at best, with accuracy.Copy !req
229. Against phasers? Just one phaser
could finish off an entire regiment.Copy !req
230. Except that it hardly sounds like Q
to give us an advantage like that.Copy !req
231. Unless...Copy !req
232. Drop your weapons!Copy !req
233. That was me, Worf. I was checking
that the phasers still operate.Copy !req
234. Incredible. He came out of nowhere.Copy !req
235. A warrior's reaction.Copy !req
236. Report. What did you find?Copy !req
237. They may wear old Earth uniforms,
but they aren't human at all.Copy !req
238. More like vicious animal things.Copy !req
239. Those soldiers
are moving in fast, sir.Copy !req
240. Data, if you've got a theory
about what's happening...Copy !req
241. Think fast, Cmdr Riker,
and move fast.Copy !req
242. Those aren't muskets!Copy !req
243. You have one chance to save them.
Send them back to the ship.Copy !req
244. You'll let me beam them?Copy !req
245. Send them the same way I do.
I've given you the power.Copy !req
246. Do you understand?
I've given you the power of the Q.Copy !req
247. Use it.Copy !req
248. Use your power.Copy !req
249. Use your power.Copy !req
250. Lieutenant, take the conn position.
Engineering?Copy !req
251. - Engineering, sir.
- Are all systems back on line?Copy !req
252. Back on line, sir?
They were never off.Copy !req
253. Captain, you'd better look at this.Copy !req
254. There's been no interruption in
course or speed. Both are constant.Copy !req
255. It's as though we never stopped.Copy !req
256. We never did, Lieutenant.Copy !req
257. Q suspended time.Copy !req
258. - Where's Cmdr Riker?
- He was with us.Copy !req
259. He must still be on the planet.Copy !req
260. We were under attack
by these... animal things.Copy !req
261. - Animal things?
- Maybe Data can explain better, sir.Copy !req
262. You may find it aesthetically
displeasing. I'll file a report.Copy !req
263. Data...Copy !req
264. Sir, the important thing is
why is Cmdr Riker missing?Copy !req
265. Understood. But I suspect
Cmdr Riker is perfectly safe,Copy !req
266. at least in a physical sense.Copy !req
267. Q has an interest in him.Copy !req
268. In fact, Q's entire visit
concerns our First Officer.Copy !req
269. - And the reason for that, sir?
- I wish I knew.Copy !req
270. Q first became interested in him
at Farpoint.Copy !req
271. I have no idea what it means.Copy !req
272. Meanwhile, we must proceed
with our rescue mission.Copy !req
273. Something amuses you? Perhaps
you'll share the joke with me.Copy !req
274. The joke is you!Copy !req
275. Strange gratitude,Copy !req
276. from one who has been granted a gift
beyond any human dream.Copy !req
277. How can you not appreciate being able
to send your friends to their ship,Copy !req
278. or send the soldiers back to the
nothingness from which they came?Copy !req
279. You must understand that you can
send yourself back to the ship,Copy !req
280. or to Earth, or change your shape,
become anything you want to be.Copy !req
281. - What do you need?
- Need?Copy !req
282. You want something from us.
Desperately.Copy !req
283. Want something from you foolish,
fragile nonentities? Come, Riker!Copy !req
284. You sound like your Captain.Copy !req
285. Now, that's a compliment, Q,
but not an answer.Copy !req
286. Riker, we have offered you a gift
beyond all other gifts!Copy !req
287. Out of the goodness of your heart.Copy !req
288. After Farpoint, I returned
to where we exist, the Q Continuum.Copy !req
289. Which means what?Copy !req
290. The limitless dimensions
of the galaxy in which we exist.Copy !req
291. - I don't understand.
- Of course you don't.Copy !req
292. And you never will,
until you become one of us.Copy !req
293. Until? Would you mind
going over that again?Copy !req
294. If you'd stop interrupting me!Copy !req
295. This is hardly a time to be teaching
you the true nature of the universe.Copy !req
296. However...Copy !req
297. At Farpoint...
we saw you as savages only.Copy !req
298. We discovered instead
that you are unusual creatures...Copy !req
299. in your own limited ways.Copy !req
300. Ways which, in time,
will not be so limited.Copy !req
301. We're growing.Copy !req
302. Something about us
compels us to learn, explore.Copy !req
303. Yes, the human compulsion.Copy !req
304. Unfortunately for us,
this power will grow stronger,Copy !req
305. century after century,
aeon after aeon.Copy !req
306. Aeons... Have you any idea
how far we'll advance?Copy !req
307. Perhaps in a future that you cannot
yet conceive, even beyond us.Copy !req
308. You see, we must know more
about this human compulsion.Copy !req
309. That's why we selected you
to become part of the Q,Copy !req
310. so you can bring to us
this human need and hunger,Copy !req
311. that we may better understand it.Copy !req
312. I suppose that's meant
as a compliment.Copy !req
313. Or maybe it's my limited mind.Copy !req
314. But to become a part of you?Copy !req
315. I don't even like you.Copy !req
316. You're gonna miss me.Copy !req
317. Come on! Not again!Copy !req
318. Cmdr Riker, what's going on?
I was sitting in school and...Copy !req
319. Worf! My phaser's gone.
Are you armed?Copy !req
320. No.Copy !req
321. Where is Q? if you have an answer
to any of this...Copy !req
322. Look out!Copy !req
323. Wesley! No!Copy !req
324. No, damn it!Copy !req
325. Damn it to hell!Copy !req
326. You... !Copy !req
327. You did that!Copy !req
328. And that's not all!Copy !req
329. That grid, their wounds...Copy !req
330. Only the Q can do that.Copy !req
331. Captain's log, stardate 41591.4.Copy !req
332. 1 minutes out
from Quadra Sigma III,Copy !req
333. where the survivors of a disaster
desperately need us.Copy !req
334. On the Enterprise,
First Officer William T RikerCopy !req
335. needs help nearly as badly.Copy !req
336. But this is a subject
far out of my experience.Copy !req
337. Out of any human's experience.Copy !req
338. How the hell do I advise you?Copy !req
339. You know the implications
as well as I.Copy !req
340. No one has ever offered
to turn me into a god before.Copy !req
341. What the Q has offered you
has to be close to immortality.Copy !req
342. It's no lie
about controlling time and space.Copy !req
343. - We've seen it in what they can do.
- And in what I can do.Copy !req
344. If you are to refuse his offer,
you must not use this power again.Copy !req
345. It's too great a temptation
at our present stage of development.Copy !req
346. You fear I won't be able to say no?Copy !req
347. You tell me. Are you strong enough
to refuse to use that power?Copy !req
348. Certainly.Copy !req
349. No matter how tempted?
No matter how difficult Q makes it?Copy !req
350. You have my word.Copy !req
351. Good. I know what your word means.Copy !req
352. In orbit of Quadra Sigma III.Copy !req
353. Ready to beam down rescue team
to underground emergency area.Copy !req
354. This way, sir.Copy !req
355. Are there any others?Copy !req
356. Gone. It's just us.Copy !req
357. Commander!Copy !req
358. There's somebody under here!Copy !req
359. You're getting close, Data.Copy !req
360. It's too late. She's dead.Copy !req
361. If only we'd gotten here
a little sooner.Copy !req
362. Sir, if indeed
you have the power of Q...Copy !req
363. I don't understand. Certainly
you can't bring her back to life.Copy !req
364. I can't. I'm prevented from that
by a promise.Copy !req
365. I was wrong to make that agreement.
I could have saved that child.Copy !req
366. You were right not to try. Once you
get accustomed to that power...Copy !req
367. When I used it before,
I saved most of our bridge crew!Copy !req
368. And when you grow to like it
too much?Copy !req
369. As soon as it's convenient,Copy !req
370. I want a meeting with you
and your bridge staff.Copy !req
371. As soon as we are secure
with this rescue operation,Copy !req
372. I'll discuss all
that this new power...Copy !req
373. We can confer here,
if no one objects.Copy !req
374. The bridge is fine.
I've called the entire staff.Copy !req
375. Correction.
Knowing the decision you face,Copy !req
376. I have permitted you this gathering.Copy !req
377. Of course, Jean-Luc.Copy !req
378. Wesley, this meeting is not for you.Copy !req
379. Why not, sir? You helped
make me a bridge officer.Copy !req
380. Acting Ensign.Copy !req
381. Alright. He stays.Copy !req
382. Because I've been given unusual
powers, I'm not suddenly a monster.Copy !req
383. Except for these abilities,
and I don't yet know how far they go,Copy !req
384. I'm the same William T Riker
you've always known.Copy !req
385. Well?Copy !req
386. Everyone still looks uncomfortable.Copy !req
387. Perhaps they all remember
that saying, "power corrupts."Copy !req
388. And absolute power
corrupts absolutely.Copy !req
389. You believe I haven't thought
of that, Jean-Luc?Copy !req
390. And have you noticed how you and I
are now on a first-name basis?Copy !req
391. Number One.Copy !req
392. Will...
something has happened already.Copy !req
393. In what way?Copy !req
394. Haven't you seen how much
I regretted not saving that child?Copy !req
395. Using the power of Q to save her
may not have been wrong.Copy !req
396. No more than it was wrong to save you
from those soldier things.Copy !req
397. Let's keep in mind that that
particular danger was invented by Q.Copy !req
398. What we represent to the Q,
Commander, are lowly animals,Copy !req
399. tormented into performing
for their amusement.Copy !req
400. Actually,
they think very highly of us.Copy !req
401. We have a quality of growth
which they admire.Copy !req
402. Or fear.Copy !req
403. No, we've learned the Q
do not admire us.Copy !req
404. The Q has muddled your mind.Copy !req
405. Don't you understand
his incredible gift to me?Copy !req
406. Are these truly your friends,
brother?Copy !req
407. Let us pray.
For understanding and for compassion.Copy !req
408. Let us do no such damn thing! What is
this need of yours for costumes?Copy !req
409. Have you no identity of your own?Copy !req
410. I come in search of the truth.Copy !req
411. You come in search
of what humanity is!Copy !req
412. I forgive your blasphemy!Copy !req
413. Don't you see, Riker?Copy !req
414. He's nothing but a flimflam man.
He has been since we met at Farpoint!Copy !req
415. Flimflam?Copy !req
416. You offer Riker jealousy.Copy !req
417. What I offer
is clearly beyond your comprehension.Copy !req
418. How can you claim
friendship for Riker,Copy !req
419. while obstructing the greatest
adventure ever offered a human?Copy !req
420. Obstructing? Then it's not certain.
He's not yet committed.Copy !req
421. The truly evil part of this
is your jealousy.Copy !req
422. You love each one of your people.Copy !req
423. Demonstrate it. You have the powerCopy !req
424. to leave each one of them with a gift
proving your affection.Copy !req
425. There'd be no harm to give them
something I know they'd like?Copy !req
426. How touching!Copy !req
427. A plea to his former Captain.Copy !req
428. "May I please give happiness
to my friends, sir? Please, sir?"Copy !req
429. In fact, I authorize and support
your idea, Riker.Copy !req
430. Please, feel free to cooperate
with him if you wish.Copy !req
431. - Are you certain, sir?
- Quite certain.Copy !req
432. By all means,
demonstrate your gifts of affection.Copy !req
433. Don't be frightened. There is
no way I could harm any of you.Copy !req
434. Shall I guess your dreams?Copy !req
435. We'll leave now, Wesley.Copy !req
436. No! Wesley I may know best of all.
Our friendship, our long talks...Copy !req
437. No, please!Copy !req
438. Have your favorite wish,
my young friend.Copy !req
439. You're ten years older. A man!Copy !req
440. Not bad!Copy !req
441. No!Copy !req
442. No, sir.Copy !req
443. But it's what you've always wanted,
to become human.Copy !req
444. Yes, sir. That is true.Copy !req
445. But I never wanted to compound
one... illusion with another.Copy !req
446. It might be real to Q...Copy !req
447. perhaps even you, sir.Copy !req
448. But it would never be so to me.Copy !req
449. Was it not one of the Captain's
favorite authors who wrote,Copy !req
450. "This above all:
to thine own self be true"?Copy !req
451. Sorry, Commander, I must decline.Copy !req
452. And you, my friend.
I know what you want.Copy !req
453. You're as beautiful as I imagined.Copy !req
454. And more.Copy !req
455. Then we can throw away the visor?Copy !req
456. I don't think so, sir.Copy !req
457. The price is a little too high
for me.Copy !req
458. And... I don't like
who I'd have to thank.Copy !req
459. Make me the way I was.Copy !req
460. Please!Copy !req
461. Proud warrior Worf!Copy !req
462. Without a single tie
to his own kind.Copy !req
463. No!Copy !req
464. She is from a world now alien to me!Copy !req
465. Worf, is this your idea of sex?Copy !req
466. This is sex.Copy !req
467. But I have no place
for it in my life now!Copy !req
468. No place, micro brain?
What possesses you?Copy !req
469. Cmdr Riker, it's too soon for this.Copy !req
470. Is this because your mother objects?Copy !req
471. No.Copy !req
472. I just want to get there
on my own. Honest.Copy !req
473. But it's easier, boy!
Listen to Riker!Copy !req
474. How did you know, sir?Copy !req
475. I feel like such an idiot.Copy !req
476. Quite right. So you should.Copy !req
477. It's over.
You have no business here.Copy !req
478. You have destroyed yourself.Copy !req
479. - Pay off your wager.
- I recall none!Copy !req
480. Your fellow Q know you agreed
never to trouble humans again,Copy !req
481. just as they know you failed
to tempt a human to join you.Copy !req
482. No! if I can do one more thing...Copy !req
483. I strongly suspect it's some
explaining you have to do now.Copy !req
484. Extraordinary!Copy !req
485. Captain, we are showing
that same hole in time again.Copy !req
486. Our instruments say we just
beamed back from our rescue mission.Copy !req
487. Sir, how is it that the Q can...Copy !req
488. handle time and space so well,
and us so badly?Copy !req
489. Perhaps someday we will discoverCopy !req
490. that space and time
are simpler than the human equation.Copy !req
491. No coordinates laid in, Number One?Copy !req
492. Yes, sir.
You have my coordinates, La Forge.Copy !req
493. Aye, sir.Copy !req
494. On the board.Copy !req
495. Engage.Copy !req