John de Lancie credited as playing...
Q
- [Q claims to be indebted to Picard]
- Q: Without your assistance on our last encounter, I would never have survived. I would have taken my own life but for you.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: We all make mistakes.
- Q: Jean-Luc, it's wonderful to see you again. How about a big hug?
- [he puts his feet up on Picards desk]
- Q: Well, don't just stand there, say something.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Get out of my chair!
- Q: I had such high hopes for you, Picard. I thought you were a bit more... evolved than the rest of your species, but now I realize you're just as weak as all the others. Still, it pains me to see the great Jean-Luc Picard brought down... by a woman.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [alarmed] What woman?
- Q: [chuckles] Don't play coy with me, Captain. I witnessed your little spat with Vash. Nor will I soon forget the look of anguish on your face, the pain, the misery. If I didn't know better, I would have thought you were already married!
- Q: You've never actually been to the ruins at Tagus III, have you?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No. They were sealed off more than a century ago.
- Q: Well, that explains it, then. How can you write about something that you've never seen? I know! Why don't I take you there?
- [he changes into an explorer outfit]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Out of the question. That would mean breaking Taguan law.
- Q: Must you always be so ethical? I suppose we could travel back in time. You could see what Tagus was like two billion years ago. They really knew how to party back in those days.
- [with the help of his men, Picard has rescued "Lady Marian"]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: If you have hurt any of my people...
- Q: Sadly enough, they're all fine, but my point is, they could've been killed - and so might've you - all for the love of a maid. My debt to you, Picard, is paid. If you've learned how weak and vulnerable you really are, if you finally see how love has brought out the worst in you.
- Vash: Nonsense! You're absolutely wrong. It's brought out the best in him. His nobility, courage, self-sacrifice, tenderness.
- Q: Oh, you're good. You're really good.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Some other time, Q. Right now, I have other matters to attend to.
- Q: Yes, your speech, I read it. It's dull, plodding, pedantic - much like yourself.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I don't want your help, your advice, your favors, or for that matter, *you*, do you understand? Once and for all!
- Q: You would have me stand idly by as she led you to your destruction?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes!
- Q: As you wish.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: So, where are you off to now?
- Vash: I haven't made up my mind.
- [Q appears next to them]
- Q: After all, she has the entire universe to choose from.
- Vash: Meet my new partner.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Him?
- Vash: Why not?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'll tell you why not!
- Q: Now, Jean-Luc, let's not be unkind.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: He's devious, and amoral, and unreliable, and irresponsible, and... and definitely not to be trusted!
- Vash: Remind you of someone you know?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: As a matter of fact, it does.
- Q: [on Vash] She's found a vulnerability in you - a vulnerability I've been looking for for years. If I had known sooner, I would've appeared as a female.