Marina Sirtis credited as playing...
Counselor Deanna Troi
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [of Danar] He's intelligent, thoughtful - typically Angosian. I know what he's done. But when I'm with him, I cannot believe that he is randomly and deliberately violent. In fact, inherently, he has a non-violent personality.
- Capt. Picard: Counselor, it took five men to restrain him. And he took apart half the transporter room in the process.
- Prime Minister Nayrok: You were programed to survive. You can survive at the Lunar V settlement.
- Roga Danar: To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Roga, tell them what you want.
- Roga Danar: We want our lives back. We want to come home.
- Prime Minister Nayrok: I am not prepared to negotiate under threat, Danar. But if you will put down your weapons and return peaceably to Lunar V... I would be willing.
- Roga Danar: Mr. Prime Minister, with all due respect, you will have to force us. Or at least try.
- Capt. Picard: And my understanding is that these men are programed to survive, is that correct?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Yes, Captain.
- Capt. Picard: And that they will not kill unless their survival is at stake?
- Lt. Commander Data: It is against their nature to do so, Captain.
- Capt. Picard: Then let us hope they do not believe their survival is at stake.
- [Deanna is talking to Danar in the holding cell]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I want to help, if I can.
- Roga Danar: [sarcastic] Unlock the door.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Perhaps when this planet becomes a member of the Federation, we'll be able...
- Roga Danar: I will not be there to see it, Counselor. Because even with this overwhelming demand to survive that they've built into my soul... I would rather die than return to Lunar V.
- Capt. Picard: Mr. Danar, I'm transferring you to Angosian Security. They're en route, they will arrive shortly. I wanted to tell you... I have no choice. The Prime Minister insisted, and we have no right to refuse.
- Roga Danar: Well, you would be foolish to consider it otherwise, Captain, for they are very correct. I am dangerous. There is no place for me in a civilized society.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I do not believe that.
- Lt. Commander Data: Nor do I.
- Capt. Picard: I respect my officers' judgments. I wish I could help further. If a way appears, I will.
- Roga Danar: I appreciate your telling me that face to face.
- Capt. Picard: I thought you deserved that much.
- Roga Danar: And you deserve to know that I must use whatever means I can to escape.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [while talking to the imprisoned Roga Danar] Why do you have all this anger toward me?
- Roga Danar: A girl with long dark hair broke my heart a long time ago. Out of bitterness and resentment, I turned to crime.
- [laughs it off]
- Roga Danar: How about this one? My mother abandoned me when I was a little boy. I never got the guidance that a wild young man needed.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Why are you doing this?
- Roga Danar: Playing games? Isn't that what you do, Counsellor? Isn't that what all of you mind control experts do?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I am not a mind control expert. I came here because I sensed you were in pain.
- Roga Danar: And what do you sense now?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: The pain is gone.
- Roga Danar: It's interesting, isn't it?
- Roga Danar: I assume we are returning to Lunar V?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: That terrifies you.
- Roga Danar: I just killed three men to get out of there, Counselor. And I'm fully capable of killing you as well. That's a terrifying thought, isn't it? Even to me.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Do they mistreat you there?
- Roga Danar: [chuckles] Not at all. I'm comfortable, well-fed and housed... No, no, the Angosians take good care of their prisoners. It's simply a matter of never being able to leave.