- Jean-Luc Picard: What is this?
- Q: This? This is home.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And where are the crew of the Stargazer?
- Q: Oh, how quaint. How provincial. How yesterday's Enterprise of you. There is no Stargazer.
- Jean-Luc Picard: What do you mean? What have you done?
- Q: Show them a world of their own making and they ask you what you've done. So human of you.
- Jean-Luc Picard: Q, have you had enough of playing games with other people's lives? I am no longer your pawn.
- Q: Oh, you undersell yourself, Jean-Luc. You are more than just a piece. Why, you're the very board upon which this game in played.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And I am too old for your *bullshit*!
- Q: Old. Yes! How unfair time is. So many wrinkles. So many disappointments.
- Q: You see, I thought to myself, I thought, "I really must see Jean-Luc." So I simply sought out the nearest explosion.
- Jean-Luc Picard: What do you want, Q?
- Q: Oh, I could tell you... but you're far too clever to listen. That said, we are never too old to be students of our own behavior, Jean-Luc.
- Jean-Luc Picard: I have had enough of your stupid, patronizing...
- [Q slaps Picard, bloodying his nose]
- Q: And I've had enough of your obstinance, your stubbornness, and your insistence on changing in all ways but the one that matters! This is not a lesson. It's a penance.
- Seven of Nine: Five to beam up... plus the Borg Queen.
- Cristóbal Rios: Um, I'm sorry, for a moment there, it sounded like you said "Borg Queen."
- Seven of Nine: She's in a stasis tube if that makes it any better.
- Jean-Luc Picard: Will you come to the point?
- Q: You want me to cut to the chase?
- Jean-Luc Picard: [enraged] Yes!
- Q: Well, the chase is cut, Picard! The chase is bleeding, the chase is dying in your arms, and I am but a suture in the wound!
- [Q's face quivers slightly, and he takes a few uneasy steps back]
- Jean-Luc Picard: [frowns] Are you... Q, you're not well.
- Jean-Luc Picard: Q, have you had enough of playing games with other people's lives? I am no longer your pawn.
- Q: You undersell yourself, Jean-Luc You are more than just a piece. Why, you're the very board upon which this game is played.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And I am too old for your bullshit
- Q: Old, yes! How unfair time is. So many wrinkles. So many disappointments.
- Jean-Luc Picard: What do you want, Q? Will you come to the point?
- Q: You want me to cut to the chase?
- Jean-Luc Picard: Yes!
- Q: Well, the chase is cut, Picard. The chase is bleeding. The chase is dying in your arms, and I am but a suture in the wound.
- Jean-Luc Picard: [pauses] Are you... Q, you are not well...