Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Deja Q (1990)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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Quotes 

• Capt. Picard : Return that moon to its orbit.

  Q : I have no powers! Q the ordinary.

  Capt. Picard : Q the liar! Q the misanthrope!

  Q : Q the miserable, Q the desperate! What must I do to convince you people?

  Lieutenant Worf : Die.

  Q : Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?

• Q : I've been entirely preoccupied by a most frightening experience of my own. A couple of hours ago, I realized that my body was no longer functioning properly. I felt weak, I could no longer stand. The life was oozing out of me, I lost consciousness.

  Capt. Picard : You fell asleep.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : Captain, the aliens have disappeared. And so has the shuttle.

  Commander William T. Riker : Scan the sector.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I have, sir.

  Capt. Picard : Well... I suppose that is the end of Q.

  [with a flash, Q appears on the bridge with a trumpet, accompanied by a mariachi band] 

  Q : AU CONTRAIRE, MON CAPITAINE! HE'S BACK!

  [the band starts playing, accompanied by Q with gusto] 

• Q : I'm no longer a member of the Continuum. My superiors have decided to punish me!

  Capt. Picard : And punish us as well, it would seem.

• Q : My life as a human being has been a dismal failure. Perhaps my death will have a little dignity.

  Capt. Picard : Q, there is no dignity in this suicide.

  Q : Yes, I suppose you're right; death of a coward then, so be it. But as a human, I would have died of boredom.

• Capt. Picard : Fine. You want to be treated as human?

  Q : Absolutely.

  Capt. Picard : All right. Mr. Worf - throw him in the brig!

  Lieutenant Worf : Delighted, Captain.

• Q : You're right, of course. I'm extraordinarily selfish. But it has served me so well in the past.

  Capt. Picard : It'll not serve you here.

  Q : Don't be so hard on me, Jean-Luc. You've been a mortal all your life, you know all about dying. I've never given it a second thought. Or a first one, for that matter. I could've been killed. If it hadn't been for Data and that one brief delay he created, I would've been gone. No more me... And no one would have missed me, would they?

• [last lines] 

  Capt. Picard : Perhaps there's a... residue of humanity in Q after all.

  [raises his hand] 

  Capt. Picard : Ensign, en...

  [with a flash, a cigar appears in his hand, with a miniature of Q's head floating in the smoke] 

  Q : Don't bet on it, Picard.

• [the Calamarain close in on Q's shuttlecraft] 

  Capt. Picard : This goes against my better judgment... Transporter room 3, lock on to shuttle 1, beam it back into its bay.

  Transporter Chief : [over comm]  Aye, Captain.

  Capt. Picard : [to Riker]  It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft.

• [Picard releases Q from the brig] 

  Capt. Picard : If you are human, which I seriously doubt, you will have to work hard to earn our trust.

  Q : I'm not worried about that, Jean-Luc. You only dislike me. There are others in the cosmos who truly despise me.

• Q : You have a moon in a deteriorating orbit. I've known moons through the universe - big ones, small ones. I'm an expert. I could help you with this one, if you let me out of here.

  Capt. Picard : Q, there are millions of lives at risk. If you have the power...

  Q : I don't have any powers! But I have the knowledge, locked up in this puny brain. You cannot afford to not take that advantage, can you?

• Q : I know human beings. They're all sopping over with compassion and forgiveness. They can't wait to absolve... almost any offense. It's an inherent weakness of the breed.

  Capt. Picard : On the contrary, it is a strength.

  Q : You call it what you will. But I think you'll protect me, even though I've tormented you now and again.

  Commander William T. Riker : Fighting off all the species which you've insulted would be a full-time mission. That's not the one I signed up for.

• Capt. Picard : [to the newly mortal Q who's been attacked by an alien race called the Calamarain]  You must have so many enemies. Surely you knew that if once you became mortal... some of them might look you up.