Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Nth Degree (1991)

Gates McFadden: Doctor Beverly Crusher

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• Barclay : The moon, yes, that'll be my home, my... Paradise. I shall find there all the souls that I love: Socrates, Galileo... And when I arrive, they will question my worthiness. "What the devil is *he* doing there among us?" Philosopher, scientist, poet, musician, duellist! Here lies Hercule Savinien De Cyrano de Bergerac!

  [to Beverly, as Roxane] 

  Barclay : I would not have you weep any less for that charming, good and handsome Christian. I only ask this: that as the great cold surrounds my bones, you allow a double meaning for your mourning veil. And when you let fall your tears for him, some few will be... for me.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : [blinking away tears]  ... That was a real improvement.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : [analyzing Barclay's brainpower]  I couldn't even guess at your IQ level now.

  Barclay : Probably somewhere between 1200 and 1450.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : But that isn't all. The corpus callosum, the connecting bridge between both sides of the brain? It is so active now that the hemispheres are essentially behaving as one.

  Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge : So it's not just raw intelligence we're talking about here?

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : No. Creativity, resourcefulness, inspiration, imagination, they've all been enhanced. Lieutenant - you could very well be the most advanced human being who has ever lived.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : He taught violin technique at the music school last night.

  Commander William T. Riker : I didn't know Barclay played the violin.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : He didn't. Not until last night.