Patrick Stewart credited as playing...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- [Picard and Riker discuss Fermat's Theorem]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I find it stimulating. Also, it puts things in perspective. In our arrogance, we feel we are so advanced, and yet we cannot unravel a simple knot tied by a part-time French mathematician, working alone without a computer.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [reading "Hotel Royale" in his ready room] "It was a dark and stormy night..."
- [pauses and sighs]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That's not a promising beginning.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: It may get better.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [listening to Mickey D. and the bellboy] I don't believe this dialogue. Did humans really talk like that?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Not in real life. Remember, everything that's going on down there is taken from what Colonel Richey calls "a second-rate novel".
- [last lines]
- Commander William T. Riker: None of it makes any sense.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Like Fermat's Theorem, it's a puzzle we may never solve.