Eric Menyuk credited as playing...
The Traveler
- Commander William T. Riker: And you have this ability, to travel?
- The Traveler: Yes.
- Commander William T. Riker: And others of your kind have the same ability?
- The Traveler: Oh, yes.
- Commander William T. Riker: Then why, in all of our history, is there no record of you or someone like you ever having visited us?
- The Traveler: What wonderful arrogance! There is no record because we have not visited you before.
- Commander William T. Riker: Why not?
- The Traveler: Well, because, up until now - if-if you'll forgive this - you've been... uninteresting.
- The Traveler: You do understand, don't you, that thought is the basis of all reality. The energy of thought, to put in your terms, is very powerful.
- Wesley Crusher: Is Mr. Kosinski like he sounds? A joke?
- The Traveler: No, that's too cruel. He has sensed some small part of this.
- Wesley Crusher: That space and time and thought... aren't the separate things they appear to be? I just thought the formula you were using said something like that...
- The Traveler: Boy, don't ever say that again, especially not at your age in a world that's not ready for such... such dangerous nonsense.
- The Traveler: Are you familiar with the intricacies of what is called here 'music'?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Somewhat.
- The Traveler: And such musical genius as I saw in one of your ship's libraries, one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others? Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played.