Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Lieutenant Worf: Captain! Request permission to be excused from Commander Hutchinson's reception.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Permission granted... I wish I could excuse myself as well.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Er, Captain, permission to be...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. La Forge, I cannot excuse my entire senior staff! Mr. Worf beat you to it.
- Lt. Commander Data: It has been quite a day. Has it not?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [slightly surprised about the comment] Yes, it has.
- Lt. Commander Data: However, a change of routine is often invigorating, and can be a welcome diversion after a long assignment.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Exactly.
- Lt. Commander Data: [after a pause] I understand that Arkaria has some very interesting weather patterns.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [bewildered] Mr. Data? Are you all right?
- Lt. Commander Data: Yes, sir. I am attempting to fill a silent moment with non-relevant conversation.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Ah. Small talk.
- Lt. Commander Data: Yes, sir. I have found that humans often use small talk during awkward moments. Therefore, I have written a new subroutine for that purpose. How did I do?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Perhaps it was a little... too non-relevant.
- [last lines]
- Lieutenant Worf: Captain - you keep a saddle on board?
- Commander William T. Riker: Mr. Worf, I'm surprised at you.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Anyone who is an experienced rider naturally has his own saddle.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: It's perfectly normal.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Actually it came in handy. I only wish I'd had the opportunity to use it on a horse.
- Lieutenant Worf: [confused] Of course...
- Kelsey: If I were you, Mr. Mott, I'd be trying to find another way off this ship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I plan on leaving the same way you do. On your ship.
- Kelsey: What ship?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Come on, Kelsey. If you've been planning this so long, you must have a way of getting off the Enterprise and leaving this system. I think you have a ship coming for you. I plan to be on it.
- Kelsey: It's a small ship, Mott. I don't think there's gonna be room for both of us.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'm sorry to hear that. I'll send your regrets.
- [Picard keeps Devor at bay with a laser welder]
- Devor: You're Starfleet. You won't kill me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You sure?
- [Devor starts to look doubtful when he is suddenly knocked out - with a hypospray]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Seems you're right.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. La Forge, how long before the baryon sweep begins on the Enterprise?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: About 25 minutes, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Then I have enough time to go back to the ship and get my saddle.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Your saddle?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, a saddle is a, a very... personal... thing. It has to be, er... broken in, used, cared for.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You keep a saddle on board the Enterprise?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, yes. Yes, er, I never know when I will have the opportunity to ride.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I see.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's perfectly normal. You know, most, er, most serious riders do have their own saddles.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Of course.
- Cmdr. Hutchinson: Absolutely!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Profit - this is all about profit?
- Kelsey: I prefer to think of it as commerce.
- Lt. Commander Data: [Communicating with Capt. Picard as Kelsey, the thief Picard was fighting on board, is making her escape] Sir, an unidentified scout ship has just beamed someone off the Enterprise. Do you know anything about it?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [Holding the stabilizing unit of the container of dangerously unstable material Kelsey was stealing that he managed to remove without her noticing] I know they won't get far.
- [Kelsey's departing ship soon explodes]
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voiceover] Captain's log, stardate 46682.4. The Enterprise is docked at the Remmler array, where it will undergo a routine procedure to eliminate accumulated baryon particles. In preparation for the sweep, we are evacuating the ship.