- Lieutenant Worf: Madam, have you ever considered a career in Security?
- Brenna Odell: If it's anything like babysitting, I'm an authority!
- Brenna Odell: And what are you staring at? You never seen a woman before?
- Commander William T. Riker: I thought I had.
- Lieutenant Worf: [about Klingon tea ceremony] It is a test of bravery - of one's ability to look at the face of mortality. It is also a reminder that death is an experience best shared - like the tea.
- Doctor Pulaski: Worf, you're a romantic!
- Lieutenant Worf: It is among the Klingons that love poetry achieves its fullest flower.
- [Worf shows Odell how to use the replicator]
- Danilo Odell: Whisky!
- [a glass materializes, Danilo sniffs it, takes a sip, and winces in disgust]
- Danilo Odell: Terrible! It has no bite.
- Lieutenant Worf: [to replicator] Chech'tluth!
- [a smoking Klingon goblet appears. Odell takes a sip... and then a deep breath, as his eyes cross]
- Danilo Odell: [hoarsely] Now, that's what I call a wee drop of the creature.
- Lieutenant Worf: I am fine.
- Doctor Pulaski: You're not fine, you fainted.
- Lieutenant Worf: I did not faint. Klingons do not faint.
- Doctor Pulaski: Excuse me, I'll rephrase: this Klingon suffered a dramatic drop in blood pressure; his blood glucose level dropped. There was deficient blood flow resulting from circulatory failure. In other words, he curled up his toes and lay unconscious on the floor.
- Lieutenant Worf: Doctor, there is no need to insult me.
- Brenna Odell: You may have all the time in the world, but I've dozens of frightened and hungry children and women to look after.
- Commander William T. Riker: And what about the men?
- Brenna Odell: Well, I'm sure they'll find their comfort as they always do - in the bottom of a mug of homebrew!
- [Riker observes Brenna cleaning the floor]
- Commander William T. Riker: That isn't necessary. The ship will clean itself.
- Brenna Odell: Well - good for the bloody ship.
- Commander William T. Riker: I can see why your father wants to marry you off.
- Brenna Odell: Oh! And why is that?
- Commander William T. Riker: So he can have a pipe and a mug of beer in peace.
- [Odell has complained about "lightning bolts" falling from the ceiling]
- Danilo Odell: Yeah, what the hell was that thing?
- Lieutenant Worf: Automated fire system. A force field contains the flame until the remaining oxygen has been consumed.
- Danilo Odell: Ah, yeah, w-what if I had been under that thing?
- Lieutenant Worf: You would have been standing in the fire.
- Danilo Odell: Yeah, well, leaving that aside for the moment, I mean, what would have happened to me?
- Lieutenant Worf: You would have suffocated and died.
- Danilo Odell: Ye-ah, sweet mercy.
- [Brenna argues with Picard about the plan to sustain the Mariposan colonists by merging their genetic pool with her own people's]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ms. Odell, you were the one who wanted a new home.
- Brenna Odell: But I don't know if I want to be Eve!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: They started out together. It seems only... fitting they should end up together.
- Doctor Pulaski: It's a match made in heaven.
- Commander William T. Riker: Unfortunately, it will have to be a shotgun wedding.
- Danilo Odell: Sir, would you happen to be married?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No, why?
- Danilo Odell: No. Er, well, er, you see, sir, I have a daughter.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Felicitations!
- [Granger has asked to take fresh DNA from some of the Enterprise crew in order to clone them, which Riker refuses]
- Commander William T. Riker: One William Riker is... unique, perhaps even special, but a hundred of him, a thousand of him... diminishes me in ways I can't even imagine.
- Prime Minister Granger: You would be preserving yourself.
- Commander William T. Riker: Human beings have other ways of doing that. We have children.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I must be out of my mind.
- Doctor Pulaski: Starfleet will probably agree with you.
- Prime Minister Granger: They're so different.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It is the differences that has made us strong.
- Brenna Odell: [glancing over to Granger] What does he do again?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Prime Minister.
- Brenna Odell: Hm... Sounds important.
- Doctor Pulaski: Tell me, is your entire population made up of clones, Prime Minister?
- Lieutenant Worf: Clones?
- Commander William T. Riker: Clones?
- Prime Minister Granger: Clones.
- Doctor Pulaski: [about the Mariposan clone colony] They've got two or three generations, and then the fading will be terminal. They're among the walking dead now. They just haven't been buried.
- Brenna Odell: [yelling] Father!
- Danilo Odell: Remember what I said about the moment of pain? Well, 'tis about to begin!
- [takes another slug of the Klingon drink]
- [Picard has just discoverd the source of the beacon: the SS Mariposa]
- Lt. Commander Data: Mariposa. The Spanish word for "Butterfly".
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Thank you, Data.
- Lt. Commander Data: I thought it might be significant, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It doesn't appear to be, Data.
- Lt. Commander Data: No, sir.
- [the Bringloidi are asked to beam over to a cargo bay]
- Danilo Odell: Right, lads, everybody back onto the infernal machine!
- Doctor Pulaski: [about the Bringloidi] You know, they were anachronistic in 2123. It will be interesting to see how they cope.
- Commander William T. Riker: They'll learn and adapt. If Danilo Odell is any indication, they'll be running this place inside of a week.
- Chief Miles O'Brien: [to a pig that is standing behind him, resisting its Bringalodi handler] Shoo! damn you, Shoo!
- Brenna Odell: [to a tipsy Danilo Odell] Are you drunk yet or can you talk to Dr. Polaski about the children?
- Danilo Odell: What about them?
- Brenna Odell: She wants to send them to school with the ship's children.
- Danilo Odell: [gasping from the Klingon drink] Oh... an' what do you think?
- Brenna Odell: [smiles] I think it's a good idea.
- [pause]
- Brenna Odell: [shouts] So go 'andle it!
- [Danilo stumbles off, tipsy and disoriented]
- Danilo Odell: [Being introduced to Worf as chief of security] I don't suppose security is much of a problem for you.