Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Masterpiece Society (1992)

Dey Young: Hannah Bates

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• Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Oh, that's perfect.

  Hannah Bates : What?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : If the answer to all of this is in a VISOR created for a blind man who never would have existed in your society. No offense intended.

• Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : So... guess if I had been conceived on your world, I wouldn't even be here now, would I?

  Hannah Bates : No.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : No. I'd have been... terminated as a fertilized cell.

  Hannah Bates : It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life with disabilities.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I should be here, whether or not I might have something to contribute?

• Hannah Bates : I was born to be one of the best scientific minds of my generation, and in the past five days, I have encountered technology that I have barely imagined. I've got to ask myself, if we're so brilliant, how come *we* didn't invent any of these things?

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Well, maybe necessity really is the mother of invention.

• Hannah Bates : All of us in this colony have been living in the dark ages. It's like we're victims of a 200-year-old joke. Until you came, all we could see was to the wall of our biosphere. Suddenly, our eyes have been opened to the infinite possibilities.

• Hannah Bates : We were innocent. It will never be that way again.

• [Hannah Bates claims to have detected a breach in the biosphere] 

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : Hannah. My VISOR's positronic scan would've detected the leak. Its molecular pattern enhancer would've picked up even the smallest crack.

  Hannah Bates : The damn thing doesn't miss much, does it?

• [Hannah and a few other colonists have asked to be allowed to leave their planet, but are facing strong opposition from their leaders] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [mediating]  In five days, you've seen only the most superficial evidence of what life is like outside this biosphere.

  Hannah Bates : Would you ever choose to live aboard a ship in a bottle, Captain? You are in command of a starship. You live to explore the unknown. We ask for that same privilege.