Brent Spiner credited as playing...
Lieutenant Commander Data
- Lt. Commander Data: I believe you and I have something in common.
- Roga Danar: We do?
- Lt. Commander Data: Yes. We have both been programed.
- Roga Danar: Ah, yes. Yes, you've been talking to Counselor Troi. It is not at all the same, android.
- Lt. Commander Data: I do not mean to belittle your condition. I understand your dilemma. But... I am curious. My program can be altered. Yours cannot?
- Roga Danar: The man I was is still inside me, but this... this conditioning has been imposed - woven together with my thoughts, and my feelings, and my responses. How do you separate the program from the man?
- Lt. Commander Data: Without further analysis of your condition from Counselor Troi or Dr. Crusher, I cannot say. But I believe it is possible.
- Roga Danar: Yeah, *doctors*! The Angosian *doctors* did this to me. If it could be undone, wouldn't they undo it?
- Lt. Commander Data: I cannot answer that.
- Roga Danar: Nor can I. Yet I ask myself that question every moment of every day.
- Roga Danar: My improved reflexes have allowed me to kill 84 times. And my improved memory lets me remember each of those 84 faces. Can you understand how that feels?
- Lt. Commander Data: I am incapable of any feeling.
- Roga Danar: Why, then I envy you.
- 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.
- Commander William T. Riker: Status report, Mr. Data.
- Lt. Commander Data: I am afraid the prisoner has eluded us, sir.
- Capt. Picard: [incredulous] Eluded the Enterprise?
- 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.