Gates McFadden credited as playing...
Doctor Beverly Crusher
- [Crusher, treating a man, is assisted by an Ansata boy]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Thank you. You're very helpful. You could learn to do this when you grow up. If you grow up...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Beverly, it is our obligation to think of escape.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [referring to Finn] He's prepared to kill you.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: An excellent reason to escape.
- Kyril Finn: This is a war for independence. And I am no different than your own George Washington.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Washington was a military general, not a terrorist.
- Kyril Finn: The difference between generals and terrorists, Doctor, is only the difference between winners and losers.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I'm sorry. If I'd only gone back to the ship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I should've beamed you up.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You wouldn't dare.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, yes, I would, and should.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Without my permission?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: If you don't follow orders.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: If you'd give reasonable orders, I'd obey.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Doctor, I will be the judge of what is reasonable!
- Kyril Finn: I am fighting the only war that I can against an intractable enemy. Now I'm fighting a big war against a more powerful adversary. Can't you see how that helps me?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I'm afraid I can't.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: He's added another chair to the negotiating table.
- Kyril Finn: *You* added the chair, Captain; I am simply forcing you to sit in it.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [some of the Ansata terrorists] What happened to them?
- Kyril Finn: It's the inverter. It's given our cause a new life, but it asks for our lives in return.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: What does it do?
- Kyril Finn: We transport through a dimensional shift that the Rutian sensors can't trace.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Dimensional shifting? You can't do that with humanoid tissue.
- Kyril Finn: There are risks... the designers warned us. But... it works.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [Beverly scans Finn with her tricorder] You're showing the same distorted readings. Not as severe as the others, but...
- Kyril Finn: [brushes it off] It doesn't matter.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: It does if it kills you.
- Kyril Finn: Don't you know? A dead martyr's worth ten posturing leaders.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: What happened to them?
- Kyril Finn: It's the inverter. It's given our cause a new life, but... it asks for our lives in return.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You've scared the hell out of me, Finn! You've controlled me through fear, just like you've tried to control this whole continent!
- Kyril Finn: You haven't tasted real fear yet, Doctor.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Is that the best you can do? Is fear the only weapon you have?
- Kyril Finn: No, but... it's a good one.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You know what scares me the most, Finn? It scares me to think that you might win this fight, and gain real power!