Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- [last lines]
- Commander William T. Riker: I've only been there once, but they've got this great club - I don't remember the name of it. They serve those blue concoctions.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: It's across the square from the Zanza Men's Dance Palace.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's called the Blue Parrot Cafe - and you're buying.
- Jenice Manheim: I've thought a lot about this over the years, and perhaps you're leaving out your greatest fear - the real reason you left.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Which was?
- Jenice Manheim: That... life with me would have somehow made you... ordinary.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [ponders this, then laughs embarrassed] You're wonderful. And am I that transparent?
- Jenice Manheim: Only to me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Data, I want this to be an away team of one - you. I don't think there's any reason to risk anyone else.
- Lt. Commander Data: It is reasonable, sir. After all, I am a machine, and dispensable.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: In-dispensable is the appropriate word.
- Lt. Dean: [during a fencing lesson] Interesting move, sir. What technique was that?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The technique of a desperate man.
- Lt. Dean: Interesting move, sir. What technique was that?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The technique of a desperate man.
- Lt. Dean: [aware of repeating themselves exactly] Captain, what was that?
- Jenice Manheim: You've done well. A great starship on the far reaches of the galaxy... It's everything you'd hoped.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [laughs awkwardly] Not exactly. Nothing works just as you hope.
- Jenice Manheim: Why didn't you come to meet me that last day in Paris?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I was afraid.
- Jenice Manheim: Oh! I didn't want *this*!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What?
- Jenice Manheim: The truth.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, you want me to lie?
- Jenice Manheim: Of course! A nice, soft, painless lie.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, I got the days confused, I thought it was Tuesday when it was Wednesday. I went to the Café Moulin instead of the Café des Artistes.
- Jenice Manheim: Ah! That's better. It was raining and you couldn't find a cab.
- [in another time distortion, Picard, Riker and Data, inside a turbolift, come face to face with themselves outside the turbolift]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [inside turbolift] It's us before we stepped into the turbolift.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [outside lift] It's happening again.
- Lt. Commander Data: [outside] I feel no disorientation.
- Lt. Commander Data: [inside] Nor do I.
- [turbolift doors close, leaving the outside crew alone in the corridor]
- Commander William T. Riker: What was that?
- Lt. Commander Data: I believe what could be termed as The Manheim Effect is becoming more pronounced.
- Commander William T. Riker: This is where we started, if we are us.
- Lt. Commander Data: Oh, we are us, sir, but they are also us; so, indeed... we are both us, at different points along the same time continuum.
- Jenice Manheim: [after Paul and Janice Manheim have been beamed aboard the Enterprise] Jean-Luc. I thought the voice sounded familiar.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Hello.
- Jenice Manheim: I should have known. Who else would have charged to my rescue?
- Dr. Paul Manheim: [of Jenice] Perhaps I'm not a man who should have a woman like her. She deserves better.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You underestimate her. I know. Because *I* once did.
- Lt. Commander Data: I see time as a constant, whereas humans perceive time as flexible, hence the expression "time flies when you're having fun," which until now has always confused me.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well, I want you to put a stitch in time, and, uh... save much more than nine.
- Lt. Commander Data: Sir?
- Commander William T. Riker: [about the time distortion] The captain of the Lalo described it as a hiccup.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Hiccup?
- Lt. Commander Data: Actually, sir, that may be an incorrect analogy.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: How so, Data?
- Lt. Commander Data: A hiccup is a spasmatic inhalation with closure of the glottis, accompanied by a peculiar sound. If we were to continue this analogy to a body function, what occurred would be best represented by...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Enough, Data.
- Gabrielle: [downcast] He's not coming. Why? What did I do to drive him away?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [reflective] Maybe you did nothing, maybe he had no choice. Maybe he was afraid.
- Gabrielle: Of what? Of me?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, of being... connected. Rooted. Perhaps, if he's as young as you are, he doesn't know yet exactly what it is he wants to do. Maybe...
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [reflects some more, then sighs] Enough of this self-indulgence. Exit!
- Jenice Manheim: I expect you to always come charging to my rescue.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'll do my best.
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voiceover] Captain's log, stardate 41697.9. We're en route to Sarona 8 for much-needed shore leave. The entire crew is looking forward to the diversion. On a personal note, I have allowed myself the luxury of a head start.