Brent Spiner credited as playing...
Lieutenant Commander Data
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: The Edo want to execute my son. I will not allow that to happen, Jean-Luc!
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [to Picard] Most interesting, sir. The emotion of motherhood is, compared to all others felt by human...
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: SHUT UP!
- [runs out]
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: You were right, sir. I do tend to babble.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: It was probably unwise of us to attempt to place a human colony in this area. Of course, there are 3,004 other planets in this star cluster in which we could have colonized. The largest and closest...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Data, don't babble.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Babble, sir? I'm not aware that I ever babble, sir. It may be that from time to time I have considerable information to communicate, and you may question the way in which I organize it...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Please, organize it into brief answers to my questions.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: How do I explain my refusing to obey their laws down there, not permitting the Crusher boy... to be executed? And by so doing, do I endanger this vessel and more than a thousand other lives?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Would you choose one life over one thousand, sir?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I refuse to let arithmetic decide questions like that.