Brent Spiner credited as playing...
Lieutenant Commander Data
- [last lines]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Although I am... relieved to be rid of those alien personalities, in a sense, I am now... empty.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mm, I can imagine. Doctor Crusher told me that there were possibly dozens of personalities inside you.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I suspect the number was much greater. My impression is that there were thousands, of all ages and walks of life. It was a remarkable experience.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well, Data, you never may become fully human, but you've had an experience that transcends the human condition; you've been an entire civilization.
- [Data has taken the personality of Masaka. Picard faces him posing as Korgano]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [as Masaka] Korgano.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [as Korgano] Are you surprised to see me?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I thought I had escaped you.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You should know that is impossible.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: You are a fine hunter. But I am a powerful prey. You will never catch me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Do you want to be the prey... forever?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I thought I was alone. I thought I would not have to share the sky with you.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: But without me... you are not complete. I know you so well. You live for the chase - as do I. Will you not miss being the hunter? Pursuing me? Forcing me from the sky, so that you can rise again?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: You know me well, Korgano.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I think... that you are beginning to tire. It is difficult brightening the sky forever.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Mm... I am getting sleepy. You always do that to me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: So that you can wake with the dawn - and begin the hunt again.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Let the hunt begin again.
- [sighs]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I am eager for that.
- [falls asleep]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: As am I.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [as the Old Man; describing and drawing the sign of Masaka's temple] A line, as the unending horizon. A curve, as the rolling hillside. A point, as a distant bird. A ray, as the rising sun.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [as Ihat; about Masaka] You can't imagine her rage. She lets people... die of thirst. Terrible death. Sometimes... she burns them alive. She is glorious.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What have you done to Commander Data?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [possessed by Ihat] Commander Data? You mean the one who was here?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: He's gone. Who can say where?
- [first lines]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: How's it going, Data?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I have finished. The dimensions are accurate to within 1.3%.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I'm sure they are.
- [pause]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Data, you obviously don't have a problem with realism. But, you're here to work on your imagination. Maybe you should try something a little more... abstract. Here.
- [takes his work from the table]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I want you to start a new piece. I'd like you to sculpt...
- [sighs]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Music.
- Counselor Deanna Troi, Lt. Cmdr. Data: Counselor, music is a collection of acoustic vibrations. How can I reproduce a sound with clay?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Well, think of the effects that sounds have on people. The images that music brings to your mind. And then give it a form.
- [Data makes some faces and behinds constructing at a high speed and Deanna's face changes to one not of approval as he finishes a treble clef and he looks at her with a small smile]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [smiles] It's a start.
- Commander William T. Riker: [over communicator] Riker to Data. Please report to the bridge.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Acknowledged, Sir. On my way.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [as Ihat; on seeing Picard] Well, aren't we the persistent one.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ihat.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Is anyone else so charming?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Based on its present trajectory, the comet appears to have originated in the D'Arsay system.
- Commander William T. Riker: That's over 2 sectors away.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: That is correct, Sir.
- [camera pans to Data and to his side]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: This object has been en route for 87 million years.
- Commander William T. Riker: [looks to Picard] That's a long time alone in the dark.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Hmm.
- [hesitates]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Begin a full sensor analysis, Mr. Data, and log the findings with the Federation Astrophysical Survey.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Aye, Sir.
- [short pause]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: The comet's outer shell is composed primarily of gaseous hydrogen and helium surrounding an icy mantle. The inner core consists of heavier elements.
- [a bright light illuminates them and the bridge for a few seconds and vanishes]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What was that?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: There is a distortion within the comet's inner core. I believe we experienced an intense sensor echo.
- Commander William T. Riker: Can you correct for it?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I'm attempting to do so now, Sir. I have compensated for the effect. Sensors are reconfigured for a low-intensity sweep. We are still picking up some interference, but the distortion is manageable. At these settings, the scan will be complete in 39 hours.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [as Ihat] Do you understand pain? Death? That is all you need to know of Masaka. It is what she is.