Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Masks

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

[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.

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?

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?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voiceover with a scene of a comet and a bright shining yellow circle] Captain's Log, Stardate 47615.2. We have encountered a rogue comet in sector 1156. It is not native to this region of space.
[cut to Data's hand working ship computers]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: And there is no previous record of this object on any federation charts.
[view of personnel on bridge with Data at his post and Riker and Picard in the center]

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.