- [Data has been assigned to command the USS Sutherland]
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: Excuse me, sir. I'd like to request a transfer.
- Lt. Commander Data: May I ask why?
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: I don't believe I'd be a good first officer for you.
- Lt. Commander Data: Your service record to date suggests you would perform that function adequately.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: No, no, no, that's not what I mean. I don't think I'd be a good first officer for *you*.
- Lt. Commander Data: Why?
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: Frankly, sir, I don't believe in your ability to command this ship. You're a fellow officer and I respect that, but... no one would suggest that a Klingon would be a good ship's counselor or that a Berellian could be an engineer; they're just not suited for those positions. By the same token, I don't... think an android is a good choice to be captain.
- Lt. Commander Data: I understand your concerns. Request denied.
- Lt. Commander Data: Captain, I wish to submit myself for disciplinary action. I have disobeyed a direct order from a superior officer. Although the result of my actions proved positive, the ends cannot justify the means.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No, they can't. However, the claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history. Starfleet doesn't want officers who will blindly follow orders without analyzing the situation. Your actions were appropriate for the circumstances. And I have noted that in your record.
- [Data acknowledges with a nod and turns to leave]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Data... Nicely done!
- Lieutenant Worf: You drink with our enemies?
- Kurn: How many are Gowron's men? How many are Duras'? Does it matter? When we meet in battle, we will fight to the death, but here, here we're all warriors, all Klingons.
- [Commander Sela has claimed to be Tasha Yar's daughter]
- Guinan: How much do you know about what happened to the last ship called Enterprise?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Enterprise-C? It was lost at the battle of Narendra III, defending a Klingon outpost from the Romulans.
- Guinan: And the survivors?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: There were stories of prisoners taken back to Romulus, but these were only rumors.
- Guinan: No. There were survivors. And Tasha Yar was one of them.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Guinan - that was 23 years ago. Tasha Yar was only a child.
- Guinan: I know that. But I also know she was aboard that ship. And she was not a child. And I think... you sent her there.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: How can that be?
- Guinan: I don't know. I just know that you did.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Tasha died - a year before you came on the Enterprise. You never met her.
- Guinan: I know that.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: If you have only a vague intuition...
- Guinan: You can't just dismiss this. If I'm right, then you are responsible for this whole situation.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I think it's time that I met Commander Sela.
- [Picard has asked Sela about her mother, Tasha Yar]
- Sela: One night, when I was four years old, she came to me. She bundled me up, and she told me to stay quiet as we left the compound. I realized she was taking me away; she was taking me away from my home, my father... So I cried out. My father offered her life; he gave her a home; he gave her a child, and how did she repay him? By betrayal. They executed her!
- [she turns away and looks out the window for a moment, then turns back]
- Sela: Everything in me that was Human died that day with my mother. All that's left now is Romulan. Never doubt that.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [smiling] Doubts? I'm full of them. But nothing you have told me today can convince me that what your are saying is true.
- [Picard has managed to persuade Starfleet Command to establish a blockade against the Romulans]
- Commander William T. Riker: Nicely done. I hope we know what we're doing.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: So do I, Number One.
- [Worf has criticized Gowron for placing his own pride before the good of the Empire]
- Kurn: I did not wish to follow Gowron. You came to me and insisted that we support Gowron against the Duras family. The time for debate is over. We are Klingons. He is our leader. If that is not enough for you, then perhaps you made the wrong choice when you put on that uniform!
- Sela: Enough, Lursa. You have failed. I need to know the strength and capabilities of the Federation fleet. I don't have time for this!
- [last lines]
- Lieutenant Worf: Request permission to return to duty, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Granted.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: [to Data; who, after giving an order to move the ship to Gamma Eridon, is looking up something in the Science and tactical station] What are you doing?
- Lt. Commander Data: In disrupting the detection net, the Romulans may have caused a residual tachyon signature to form around their ships.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: But we have no way of detecting it.
- [Data finds what he is looking for and stands up and addresses the Conn officer]
- Lt. Commander Data: All stop.
- Ensign Craig: Aye, sir. All stop.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: [genuinely shocked] What? The fleet's been ordered to the Gamma Eridon!
- Lt. Commander Data: The tachyon signatures will not last long. By the time the fleet is redeployed, it will be too late. Begin to reconfigure sensors to detect ionized particle traces.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: This entire area's been flooded with tachyon particles! We'll never be able to find what you're are looking for.
- Lt. Commander Data: I am well aware of the difficulties. Please bring the phasers back online.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: [Hobson is starting to lose temper] That will flood three decks with radiation!
- Lt. Commander Data: We will initiate radiation protocol when necessary.
- Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson: [snaps accusingly] You don't give a damn about the people whose lives you're about to throw away! We're not just machines that you can...
- Lt. Commander Data: [interrupting; with a stern finality never seen before] Mr. Hobson! You will carry out my orders or I will relieve you of duty!
- [after a tense pause, Hobson backs down]
- Kurn: You and I will fight battles that others can only dream of. The time for glory is here. It is not a time to worry about stabilizers; it is a time to celebrate! For tomorrow we all may die! Come! Let us, the sons of Mogh, live this night as if it were our last!
- [after a skirmish between opposing Klingon factions]
- Kurn: You always did have fools working for you, Larg. Now you don't have as many!
- Captain Larg: You are lucky, Kurn, but luck always runs out. Someday, I will stand over your broken corpse and drink to the victory of the Duras!