Brent Spiner credited as playing...
Lieutenant Commander Data
- [last lines]
- Commander William T. Riker: In all trust, there is the possibility of betrayal. I'm not sure you were... prepared for that.
- Lt. Commander Data: Were you prepared, sir?
- Commander William T. Riker: I don't think anybody ever is.
- Lt. Commander Data: Hm... Then it is better not to trust?
- Commander William T. Riker: Without trust, there's no friendship, no closeness. None of the emotional bonds that make us who we are.
- Lt. Commander Data: And yet you put yourself at risk.
- Commander William T. Riker: Every single time.
- Lt. Commander Data: Perhaps I am fortunate, sir, to be spared the emotional consequences.
- Commander William T. Riker: Perhaps.
- Ishara Yar: Are you able to have friends?
- Lt. Commander Data: Yes.
- Ishara Yar: But you don't have feelings, do you?
- Lt. Commander Data: Not as such. However, even among humans, friendship is sometimes less an emotional response, and more a sense of... familiarity.
- Ishara Yar: So, you can become used to someone.
- Lt. Commander Data: Exactly. As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The input is eventually anticipated, and even missed when absent.
- Ishara Yar: [before beaming back to her planet] You know, Data, I wasn't always lying to you. That time we spent talking... that was the closest thing to friendship I've ever had - if that means anything to you.
- Lt. Commander Data: Energize.
- Ishara Yar: Our parents were killed in some crossfire, just after I was born. Some people took care of us for a few months, but then... one day we came home and they were gone. So Tasha took care of me; and when I was old enough, I joined the Coalition.
- Lt. Commander Data: Tasha did not?
- Ishara Yar: My sister hated the cadres. She blamed them for our parents' death. For everything. You know, she refused to join, and she left as soon as she had the chance. I always thought she was weak for doing that. But... maybe I was wrong, maybe... maybe she made the right choice.
- Lt. Commander Data: [explaining why he supports Ishara Yar with such determination] We must free the crewmen. She appears to be our best hope of doing so. In addition... I have become used to her.
- Lt. Commander Data: Your friendship with me was part of the deception, was it not? You misled me at each step, and yet... I was completely unaware.
- Commander William T. Riker: Data, what's on your mind?
- Lt. Commander Data: Recent events have left me puzzled, sir. It has been days since Ishara left, and yet my thoughts seem to dwell on her. Almost as if I were experiencing a feedback loop in my mnemonic network.
- Commander William T. Riker: I know what you mean.
- Commander William T. Riker: Data, have you got a flush or a full house?
- Lt. Commander Data: It will cost you twenty to make that determination, sir.
- Ishara Yar: If it wasn't for my implant setting off all the alarms, I could guide you to your men.
- Lt. Commander Data: We could remove the implant.
- Ishara Yar: No. It has a micro-explosive inside that detonates on contact with air. When you join a cadre, you join for life.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You keep using the word 'peace'. We've heard a different version of life on Turkana IV.
- Hayne: Ancient history. Where did you hear that?
- Lt. Commander Data: A former crewman was born here.
- Hayne: Where is he now?
- Lt. Commander Data: *She* was killed in the line of duty.
- Hayne: Yeah, that's as good a way to die as any.
- [first lines]
- Lieutenant Worf: [Requesting another poker card] One.
- Commander Riker: Are you trying to fill another inside straight, Worf? Don't say I didn't warn you.
- Lieutenant Worf: [Looking at his card] Pah!
- Counselor Troi: I fold.
- Lt. Commander Data: I will raise you three.
- Commander Riker: No cards? The best poker face I've ever seen. Dealer takes two. Your three and ten more.
- Lt. Commander Data: I will see your ten and raise you twenty.