Jonathan Frakes credited as playing...
Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker
- [Q has made appear two scantily clad women to fawn on Riker]
- Commander William T. Riker: I don't need your fantasy women.
- Q: Oh, you're so stolid! You weren't like that before the beard.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Captain, the aliens have disappeared. And so has the shuttle.
- Commander William T. Riker: Scan the sector.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I have, sir.
- Capt. Picard: Well... I suppose that is the end of Q.
- [with a flash, Q appears on the bridge with a trumpet, accompanied by a mariachi band]
- Q: AU CONTRAIRE, MON CAPITAINE! HE'S BACK!
- [the band starts playing, accompanied by Q with gusto]
- Capt. Picard: Shuttle occupant, identify yourself.
- Q: [appears onscreen] Don't try to talk me out of it, Jean-Luc.
- Capt. Picard: Q, return to the ship immediately.
- Q: I just can't get used to following orders.
- Lieutenant Worf: Captain, the plasma cloud is moving toward the shuttle.
- Q: It's easier this way. They won't bother you after I'm gone.
- Commander William T. Riker: Engineering, prepare to extend shields.
- Q: Please. Don't fall back on your tired cliché of charging to the rescue just in the nick of time. I don't want to be rescued. My life as a human being has been a dismal failure. Perhaps my death will have a little dignity.
- Capt. Picard: Q, there is no dignity in this suicide.
- Q: [thinks] Yes, I suppose you're right. Death of a coward, then. So be it. But as a human, I would have died of boredom.
- Q: I'm forgiven! My brothers and sisters of the Continuum have taken me back. I'm immortal again! Omnipotent again!
- Commander William T. Riker: Swell.
- Q: [about the Calamarain, which he has tortured in the past] They simply have no sense of humor - a character flaw with which you can personally identify.
- Commander William T. Riker: I say we turn him over to them.
- Q: Oh, well, I take it back. You do have a sense of humor, a dreadful one at that.
- Q: I know human beings. They're all sopping over with compassion and forgiveness. They can't wait to absolve... almost any offense. It's an inherent weakness of the breed.
- Capt. Picard: On the contrary, it is a strength.
- Q: You call it what you will. But I think you'll protect me, even though I've tormented you now and again.
- Commander William T. Riker: Fighting off all the species which you've insulted would be a full-time mission. That's not the one I signed up for.