Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- [Picard has rescued Lwaxana from DaiMon Tog]
- Lwaxana Troi: Thank you, Jean-Luc. You were most convincing. You certainly convinced me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I am truly grateful, Mrs. Troi, that you risked your life to save my people. I'll have you home in a few hours.
- Lwaxana Troi: Oh, no, no, no, no, that won't be necessary. I'd just love to hear more of your poetry.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [disentangling himself from Lwaxana] Uhh... Perhaps another time. Please.
- [offers her his chair, then walks up to Wesley at the helm]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Crusher, set course for Betazed.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [low voice] Warp nine.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Ferengi codes are damn near impossible to break.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Gentlemen, I have the utmost confidence in your ability to perform... the impossible.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [playing the role of Lwaxana's fanatic lover] My love... is a fever, longing still, For that which longer nurseth the disease.
- Lwaxana Troi: Tell me more.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors see; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who, in despite of view, are pleased to dote. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
- [Wesley has missed his lift to Starfleet Academy and therefore has to stay on the Enterprise]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'm just thinking that... I'm saying goodbye to you, as you are today.
- Wesley Crusher: But I thought you said I wasn't going to be able to go.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The Academy must make you wait, that's true; but... when I review your service to this ship, your crewmates, I cannot in all conscience make *you* wait for the Academy. You see, Wesley... in my eyes, you're an acting ensign in title only. I hereby grant you field promotion to full ensign with all the commensurate responsibilities and privileges of that rank. Congratulations.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: When I have pluck'd the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again. It needs must wither.
- Lwaxana Troi: [after she has been beamed from the Ferengi ship Krayton to the Enterprise and is sitting on Picard's knee] You wonderfully jealous fool, you.
- DaiMon Tog: Captain, I trust there will be no further action taken against us?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Such as my reporting this incident to your superiors who may question your competency as DaiMon? I will think about it. Screen off.
- Lwaxana Troi: Thank you, Jean-Luc. You were most convincing. You certainly convinced me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I am truly grateful, Mrs. Troi, that you risked your life to save my people. I'll have you home within a few hours.
- Lwaxana Troi: Oh, no, no, no, no, that won't be necessary. I'd just love to hear more of your poetry.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Perhaps another time.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [Standing up] Please. Mister Crusher, set course for Betazed.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Warp nine!
- DaiMon Tog: Captain Picard, so good of you to meet us. We were on our way to Betazed to return our guests.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Of course you were, DaiMon. But you're still holding Lwaxana Troi.
- Lwaxana Troi: When will you get it through your thick head that it's over between us, Jean-Luc?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [after having the transmission muted] I think I know what she's doing. You have to fight to get her back, Captain.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [Re-opening the transmission] Er, er. It's not over between us, Lwaxana. You're mine and I will not let you go. I insist you return to my side immediately.
- Lwaxana Troi: You mean, you still care?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: My love is a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease.
- Lwaxana Troi: Tell me more.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, for they in thee a thousand errors see. But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, who in despite of view are please'd to dote. Shall I compare the to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
- DaiMon Tog: You didn't tell me that you and Captain Picard were...
- Lwaxana Troi: You said you didn't want to hear about my other romances.
- Lwaxana Troi: I have a new love, Jean-Luc. And you can't keep killing all my lovers. That simply has to stop.
- DaiMon Tog: Killing?
- Lwaxana Troi: Oh, he's insanely jealous.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Listen, Tog, I must possesses Lwaxana. And if that means destroying your ship in the process, so be it.
- DaiMon Tog: Captain, I had no idea Lwaxana was...
- Lwaxana Troi: Don't let him threaten you. You can defeat him.
- Lwaxana Troi: [to Picard] The only way you'll ever get me back is over Tog's dead body!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That can be arranged. Mister Worf, arm phaser banks and photon torpedoes. If Lwaxana Troi is not in my arms in ten seconds, throw everything you've got at the Krayton.
- DaiMon Tog: But you will destroy Lwaxana!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again. It needs must wither. Nine, eight. 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Seven, six.
- DaiMon Tog: No, wait.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Five, four.
- DaiMon Tog: Beam her to their Bridge, now!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Two, one.