- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, I envy you, Wesley Crusher... You're just at the beginning of the adventure.
- [last lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Crusher.
- Ensign Wesley Crusher: Yes, sir?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What are you doing in such a filthy uniform?
- Ensign Wesley Crusher: You don't look so shipshape yourself, sir.
- [Picard presses Wesley's hand]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Wesley... you will be missed.
- Ensign Wesley Crusher: [to Picard] Sir, in the past three years, I've lived more than most people do in a lifetime. I think I'm very lucky, no matter what happens. How many people get to serve with Jean-Luc Picard?
- [after Picard has been seriously injured, Dirgo doesn't give him any chance for survival]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Dirgo, I would appreciate it if you didn't bury me before I'm gone.
- Ensign Wesley Crusher: If there is one thing that I've learned from you, it's that you don't quit. And I'm not gonna quit now. I've seen you think yourself out of worse situations than this; and I'm gonna think us out of this. You're not gonna die. I'm not gonna let you die. I'll get to the water. And I'll keep you alive, until they find us. I promise.
- Ensign Wesley Crusher: Sir... you don't know this. No one knows this. Because I've never told anyone. All of the things that I've worked for - school, my science projects, getting into the Academy... I've done it all because I want you to be proud of me.
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voiceover] Captain's log, stardate 44307.3. I am preparing to leave by shuttlecraft for Pentarus 5, where I have been asked to mediate a dispute among the selanite miners, a contentious group unfortunately prone to violence. But first I must deal with a situation of a far more personal nature.