Brent Spiner credited as playing...
Lieutenant Commander Data
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Have you ever been for a real moonlight swim?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: One can swim in moonlight?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: How about you, Mr. Worf?
- Lieutenant Worf: [shakes his head] Swimming is too much like... bathing.
- [Data is screening records of orders from Starfleet]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [to himself] Startling. Quite extraordinary, in fact.
- Computer Voice: Direction unclear. Please repeat request.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: That was not a request. I was simply... talking to myself!
- [becomes conscious of that fact]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: A human idiosyncrasy, triggered by a fascination with a particular set of facts. Or sometimes brought about by senility. Or used as a means of weighing information before reaching a conclusion. Or as a...
- Computer Voice: Thank you, sir. I comprehend.
- [last lines]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Captain, I have attempted to trace the message Remmick was sending. I believe it was aimed at an unexplored sector of our galaxy.
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: Any idea what the message was, Data?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I believe it was a beacon.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: A beacon?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Yes, sir. A homing beacon - sent from Earth.
- [in space, the beeping signal of a transmission can be heard, fading out]
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: ...So the guy staggers to his feet and goes back to the girl, right? Well, she smiles, looks him straight in the eye and says "Just try that in hyperspace!"
- [laughs]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I see. So the difficulty in attaining such complex positioning in zero gravity environment, coupled with the adverse effects it would have on the psychological wellbeing of the average human male, is what makes this anecdote so amusing. Yes - very humorous indeed. Hysterical, in fact.
- [laughs mechanically]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [Data is working one of the aft science stations after the Enterprise has been suddenly diverted to the planet Dytallix B] Commander, I have the readout on Dytallix B.
- Commander William T. Riker: Go ahead.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Dytallix B is the fifth of six planets circling the red giant known as Mira. One side faces the sun where temperatures reach up to 180 degrees Celsius. The mines line the temperate zone between the day and night zones, but they are long abandoned.
- Commander William T. Riker: Why the devil would we be going to this place? Are there any lifeforms indigenous to the planet?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I believe the answer to both questions is no, Sir. In a manner of speaking, it is nothing more than a lifeless hunk of rock, a useless ball of mud, a worthless chunk of...
- Commander William T. Riker: [interrupting] Thankyou Data. I get the idea.