Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Brent Spiner: Data

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• Counselor Deanna Troi : Have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up?

  Cmdr. Beverly Crusher : Not that we care about that in this day and age.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Uh huh.

  Cmdr. Beverly Crusher : [notices Data]  Thank you, Data.

  Data : [walks over to Worf] 

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : I've an odd craving for the blood of a live Kolar beast.

  Data : And have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up? Not that we care about tha...

• Data : I feel obliged to point out that the environmental anomalies may have stimulated certain rebellious instincts common to youth, which could affect everyone's judgment... Except mine of course.

  Cmdr. Beverly Crusher : Okay Data. What do *you* think we should do?

  Data : Saddle up, lock and load!

• Data : I seem to be missing several memory engrams.

  [Geordi shows him several microchips he is holding in his hand] 

  Data : There they are.

• Data : In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to act as a flotation device.

• Data : [Artim is getting over his distrust of Data, and beginning to bond with him]  My operation depends on specifications that do not change. I will never know the experience of growing up or tripping over my own feet.

  Artim : But you've never had adults telling you what to do all the time, or bedtimes, or having to eat food you don't like.

  Data : I would gladly accept the requirement of a bedtime in exchange for knowing what it is like to be a child.

  Artim : Do machines ever play?

  Data : Yes. I play the violin, and my chess routines are quite advanced.

  Artim : No, I mean, haven't you ever just played? For fun?

  Data : [tentative, unsure what the boy is getting at]  Androids do not have fun.

  Artim : Look, if you want to understand what it's like to be a child, you need to learn to play.

• Captain Picard : Data, what's the last thing you remember?

  Data : [singing]  His nose should pant, and his lip should curl...

  Captain Picard : From the mission.

• Commander Riker : [referring to his shaven face]  Smooth as an android's bottom, eh, Data?

  Data : I beg your pardon, Sir?

  Data : [later]  Commander! May I?

  [feels his face, shakes his head] 

• [there is a blemish on Worf's face] 

  Captain Picard : Have you been in a fight, Mr Worf?

  Lieutenant Commander Worf : [sighs]  No sir... it is a "gorch".

  Captain Picard : Gorch?

  Data : [whispers]  Pimple, sir.

  Captain Picard : Oh... it's hardly noticeable.

• Data : Captain, the boy is afraid of me.

  Captain Picard : It's nothing personal, Data. You have to remember, these people have rejected technology.

  Data : I am the personification of everything they have rejected.

  Captain Picard : Until this week, that young man probably never saw a machine, let alone one that walks and talks.

• Data : [discovering a Federation ship in the middle of a Ba'ku lake]  It is a holographic projection. Incomplete, I might add.

  Captain Picard : What you're seeing is a computer-driven image created by photons and force fields.

  Anij : I know what a hologram is, Captain. The question is, why would anyone want to create one of our village?

  Captain Picard : Data, if you were following the children and discovered this ship...

  Data : It is conceivable I was shot to protect the secret of its existence.

  Captain Picard : Why would they duplicate this village, except to deceive the Ba'ku?

  Anij : Deceive us?

  Captain Picard : To move you off this planet. You go to sleep one night in the village, wake up the next morning on this flying holodeck, transported en masse. Within a few days, they're relocated on a similar planet without ever realizing it.

  Data : Why would the Federation or the Son'a wish to move the Ba'ku?

  Captain Picard : I don't know.