Top 200 Quotes From Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
[Rasmussen has asked the crew to fill out questionnaires for him]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: If I hand my assignment in on time, can I get a glimpse into next week's poker game?
[Hannah Bates claims to have detected a breach in the biosphere]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Hannah. My VISOR's positronic scan would've detected the leak. Its molecular pattern enhancer would've picked up even the smallest crack.
Hannah: The damn thing doesn't miss much, does it?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [after being denied access to Leah Brahms's personal files] Great! Another woman who won't get personal with me on the holodeck.
[Ro and La Forge are entering their spirited memorial service]
Ensign: I don't believe this - they think we're dead and they're having a party?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah. It's perfect!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I need to get down to Engineering and begin that analysis.
Scotty: Engineering? I thought you'd never ask!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: We are not dead!
Dr. Leah Brahms: Sometimes I feel more comfortable with engine schematics than people.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, maybe you just haven't met the right... people.
[Geordi tells Deanna about his experiences on Risa]
Counselor: And that's all?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah. Well, there was this...
Counselor: [anticipating] Yes?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Her name is Jonek.
Counselor: Ah!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: But, er... you wouldn't wanna hear about that. Better get ready for duty. Nice talking to you, Counselor.
[leaves quickly, leaving Deanna somewhat disenchanted]
Moriarty: I only want what you have the luxury of taking for granted. Freedom. I want to leave this holodeck.
Cmdr. William Riker: I think you know that's impossible.
Moriarty: Your crewmates here in my little ship in a bottle, seem a bit more optimistic,
Cmdr. William Riker: Oh?
Moriarty: They attempted to use your transporter device to remove a simulated object from the holodeck.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: If they tried it, they must have thought they were on to something.
Moriarty: Their attempt was futile because their transporter was a facsimile. I expect more form you.
[on the holodeck, several crew members are recreating the room, its equipment and instruments from their visions step by step]
Counselor: All right. You were lying on the table. You had a bright light shining in your eyes. Were there any smells in the room? Were there any sounds?
Commander William T. Riker: Yes. Yes, there was a sound. Computer, there were noises, coming from the darkness. Strange. Like whispering.
[the computer creates a rustling sound]
Kaminer: More like clicks. Clicking sounds.
[the computer changes to a single clicking]
Commander William T. Riker: Louder.
[more clicks can be heard]
Commander William T. Riker: Faster... More of them...
[the computer ends up producing a continuous, eerie clatter]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I've been in this room before.
Commander William T. Riker: We've all been here before.
[Moriarty has taken control of the ship's computer]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Somehow he managed to override the security lockouts and rewrite them. The man is brilliant in any century.
Q: Until next time. Ah, but... before I go, there's a debt I wish to repay, to my professor of the humanities. Data, I've decided to give you something very, very special.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: If your intention is to make me human, Q...
Q: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would never curse you by making you human. Think of it... as a going-away present.
[he disappears. Data suddenly starts laughing out of control]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data... Data, why are you laughing?
[Data calms down, somewhat bemused]
Lt. Cmdr. Data: I do not know. But it was a wonderful... feeling.
[last lines]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, I guess this is it, huh? So long, Hugh.
Third: Goodbye, Geordi. I will try to remember you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Captain, I... I wasn't expecting you here.
Captain: Neither was I.
[after Picard has been transported to Ventax II in his sleep wear]
[Dr. Crusher explains to La Forge what will happen to them after venting the cargo bay]
Doctor: Once the air is vented, the first thing you'll feel is an extreme pressure on your lungs. You have to resist the temptation to exhale.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Okay.
Doctor: Next, our hands and feet will get cold, then numb, and some of the capillaries on the exposed sections of the skin may burst.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Sounds like fun.
Doctor: We will have about fifteen seconds of useful consciousness, then about ten seconds of extreme disorientation, then we pass out.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Must be deja-vu.
Doctor: Both of us? About the same thing?
Dr. Leah Brahms: The computer never told you that I was married?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I never asked, and the computer is notorious for not volunteering information.
[Leijten is telling La Forge about a past relationship]
Lt. Cmdr. Susanna Leijten: What about you?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Mm, I enjoy the bachelor's life too much.
Lt. Cmdr. Susanna Leijten: That doesn't sound like my "little brother", who always wanted advice on women.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, obviously you were a... a great advisor.
Captain: Uh, Dr. Timicin, allow me to present Lwaxana Troi of Betazed. She's also a guest on board...
Lwaxana: And daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir of the Holy Rings of Betazed, and what are you doing for dinner?
Dr. Timicin: [looks quizzically at Picard] Well, I... don't know, really...
Captain: Er, Lwaxana, we have quite a bit of work planned...
Lwaxana: Well, the man's never been on board a starship before, Jean-Luc. Certainly, somebody ought to make him comfortable before you get started.
Captain: Well, it seems that Mrs. Troi is our acting ambassador of goodwill for today.
Lwaxana: You just think of me as your entertainment director.
[the three leave the transporter room]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to O'Brien] That man's in a lot of trouble.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data! Data, isn't this exciting? We are going to witness a moment in history!
Lt. Commander Data: [puzzled] Every nanosecond in this continuum is a moment in history, once it has elapsed.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, no, no, no, I mean, we are gonna see something that people will talk about for years! I mean, think about it: no more bulky warp engines, or nacelles. A ship just generates a soliton wave and then rides it through space, like a surfboard. This is going to be like being there to watch Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier, or Zefram Cochrane engage the first warp drive!
Lt. Commander Data: [emotionless] It should be interesting.
Lieutenant: [equally unenthusiastic] Very exciting.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm talking to the wrong crowd. Er, D-Donaldson! Donaldson, you're an engineer...!
[hurries off]
[after O'Brien has demonstrated to La Forge a transporter malfunction]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Glad I don't have anywhere to go.
Lieutenant: [after Jellico becomes captain of the Enterprise] I wonder how permanent this is gonna be.
Commander William T. Riker: I don't know. They don't usually go through the ceremony if it's just a temporary assignment.
[Shelby gets early on site without permission]
Lt. Cmdr Elizabeth Paula Shelby: Morning. Early bird gets the worm, eh? We've had some interesting results.
Commander William T. Riker: Commander Shelby... Walk with me, Commander.
Lt. Commander Data: [to La Forge] Early bird...? I believe Commander Shelby erred. There is no evidence of avifaunal or crawling vermicular life forms on Jouret IV.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That's not what she meant, Data. But you're right. She erred.
[several computer systems have been corrupted with Data's personal database]
Captain: When can you correct the problem?
Lt. Commander Data: We are currently attempting to isolate the corrupted circuit pathways. I reckon the process should take less than two hours.
Captain: What did you say?
Lt. Commander Data: I said the process should take less than two hours.
Commander William T. Riker: No, you just said 'I reckon'.
Lt. Commander Data: According to my memory logs, I did not use those words. Y'all must be mistaken.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: There - Data, you did it again.
Lt. Commander Data: [southern accent] Did wha-t?
[La Forge is in competition of prestige with Cmdr. Kaplan, chief engineer of the Intrepid]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [handing Data a data PADD] I just received this from Commander Kaplan, subspace.
Lt. Commander Data: [reads] "La Forge. I got the Intrepid's power conversion levels up to 97.1%. Maybe you should try cleaning your plasma grid once in a while".
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Can you believe the nerve of that guy?
Lt. Commander Data: [bewildered] We perform maintenance on the plasma grid at regular intervals.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I know. He's just trying to get me angry.
[he adjusts something on a control panel]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: There - that should do it. Computer, what are the current power conversion levels?
Enterprise: Power conversion levels are at 97.2%.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Too bad, Mr. Kaplan!
[sniggers gleefully]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Look, Mr. Scott, I'd love to explain everything to you, but the Captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.
[La Forge goes back to work; Scotty follows slowly]
Scotty: Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long will it really take?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did ya?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: This can be a, a little complicated. Listen, my advice is... ask somebody else for advice, at least someone who's... got more experience at... giving advice.
[Aquiel is upset when La Forge admits that he has read through her personal logs]
Lt. Aquiel Uhnari: I'm sorry. It's...just that I tell my sister things I wouldn't tell anyone else. I guess I was feeling a little...exposed.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'd feel the same way.
Lt. Aquiel Uhnari: Especially if I had seen you in that wig!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: All right, look. Ever since you came on board, you've been badgering me, and I've taken it. I've shown you courtesy, and respect, and a hell of a lot of patience. Oh, no, no, no, wait a minute! I've tried to understand you, I've tried to get along with you, and in return, you accused, tried and convicted me without even bothering to hear my side of it. So, I'm guilty, okay, but not of what you think! Of something much worse. I'm guilty of... reaching out to you, of hoping we could connect. I'm guilty of a terrible crime, Doctor: I offered you friendship.
[last lines]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You take care of yourself out there.
Scotty: Aye.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [on his success at poker] Lady Luck left me long ago.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You remember, the crystal's been re-oriented to adjust the direction of the lattice structure.
Dr. Leah Brahms: Remember? Why would I remember.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: [to Georgi] Geordi, as a child, did you ever experienced a traumatic event?
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: You wondering about Timothy?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Yes.
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: I was caught in a fire once. I have must been... I don't know, five I guess. It was before I got the first Visor... It was only a couple of minutes until my parents found me and pulled me out. And nobody got hurt, but let me tell you... it was one of the longest couple of minutes of my life. It was a while after that before I could let my parents get out of ear shot. It was like... I absolutely needed to know that they were there, you know?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Timothy no longer has that kind of support.
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: [sadly acknowledging] Yeah.
[Worf has been given a painting from Data for his birthday. Shortly after, he appears slightly dizzy]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Worf, are you all right?
Lieutenant: Yes. Yes, I... think Data's painting is making me dizzy.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Captain - we can do it. We can modify the transporters.
Captain: Excellent.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It'll take fifteen years and a research team of a hundred...
Captain: Mr. La Forge... I believe we will postpone.
Capt. Jean: [to Geordi; about Timothy; looking at a map of the Vico, the destroyed science vessel] The boy was found here.
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Mm-hm, In the hallway outside the computer core. His mother was the ship's systems engineer. Second away team found her body here, inside the core.
Capt. Jean: And his father?
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Ship's second officer. He was most likely on the bridge when it was exposed to space.
Capt. Jean: [grimly] Most likely.
Q: I think I just hurt my back. I'm feeling pain... I don't like it. What's the right thing to say, 'ow'?
Lt. Cmdr. Data,27448: 'Ow'.
Q: OW! I can't straighten up!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: If this is the wrong symbol, it might turn the Enterprise into a big chunk of rock.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [unbeknownst to Data, Picard has successfully rebooted his ethical program] You know, Data. I've been thinking about some of the times we've had together. Like the time we went sailing on Devala Lake. Remember that?
Lt. Commander Data: [Data seems a little distracted] I have a complete memory record of that day.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You decided to go swimming.
[laughing at the memory]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And when you jumped out the boat you sank straight to the bottom.
Lt. Commander Data: I did not have enough buoyancy to get back to the surface.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You had to walk over a kilometre to get back to shore.
Lt. Commander Data: 1 kilometre, 46 metres.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It took two weeks to get all the water out of your servos.
Lt. Commander Data: I am ready to irradiate your existing brain cells.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data... if you ever go back to the way you were, you might not be able to forgive yourself for what you're about to do.
Lt. Commander Data: [something is troubling Data] I am getting some anomalous readings from your neural net. I will have to do further tests before I proceed. Someone will come and take you back to your cell.
[Data and La Forge indulge in another Sherlock Holmes adventure]
Lt. Commander Data: [as Holmes] With practice, handwriting can be forged. It takes a trained eye to notice certain... discrepancies. For example, whether someone is right-... or left-handed.
[he throws a matchbox to a holographic gentleman, who catches it]
Lt. Commander Data: Your brother was right-handed. The alleged suicide note was written by a left-handed individual, such as yourself!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Er, Data... it's in his right hand.
Lt. Commander Data: [puzzled] Curious. There seems to be a problem with the holodeck's spatial orientation systems.
Gentleman: [derisively] London's greatest detective, huh?
Lt. Commander Data: I have often wondered about my own mortality, as I have seen others around me age. Until now, it has been theoretically possible that I would live an unlimited period of time. And although some might find this attractive, to me it only reinforces the fact that I am... artificial.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I never knew how tough this must be for you.
Lt. Commander Data: Tough? As in difficult?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Knowing that you would outlive all your friends.
Lt. Commander Data: I expected to make new friends.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: True.
Lt. Commander Data: And then to outlive them as well.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: My sister didn't know a thing about animals, and she was able to train *her* cat. How complicated could it be?
Lt. Commander Data: What did she train her cat to do?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: She had that cat jumping into her arm on command.
Lt. Commander Data: Interesting. Perhaps I could modify your sister's techniques to keep Spot from jumping on the console. Do you know how she was able to train her cat?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, as I recall, she walked around for two months with a piece of tuna in her blouse.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Oh, that's perfect.
Hannah: What?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: If the answer to all of this is in a VISOR created for a blind man who never would have existed in your society. No offense intended.
Commander William T. Riker: Mr. La Forge, we need warp power now!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Matter-antimatter mixture ratio settings... at optimum balance. Reaction sequence... corresponding to specified norms. Magnetic plasma transfer to warp field generators per program specs. Commander, we should be going like a bat out of hell!
[Data has suggested the use of emergency transporter armbands as a protection from the frozen timeframe on the Enterprise]
Geordi: Captain, I think this is gonna work. But... it's gonna take some time.
Captain: Well, Mister La Forge - it would seem that time is something that we have plenty of.
Taurik: I'm a little puzzled. Why are we intentionally damaging the shuttlecraft?
Lieutenant: We're evaluating hull resiliency. Starfleet requires periodic testing.
Taurik: I see. I don't believe I'm familiar with that requirement.
Lieutenant: Probably because you're not a senior officer.
Taurik: If you wish, I could reconfigure the phaser to fire a low-intensity burst that would not harm the shuttle's hull. The test procedure would not be affected.
Lieutenant: It's just fine the way it is. Now, give me another burst, about 4 seconds, right here.
Taurik: Do you want me to fire from this position?
Lieutenant: Actually, why don't you do it from over here.
Taurik: That would be consistent.
Lieutenant: Consistent with what?
Taurik: With making it appear that this shuttle had fled an attack.
Lieutenant: What makes you think that's what we're doing?
Taurik: The pattern of fire you've asked for is similar to what might result if the shuttle had fled an attacker while engaging in evasive maneuvers.
Lieutenant: It's an amazing coincidence.
Taurik: Yes sir, it is indeed. Shall we proceed with the testing?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: At first I thought the catwalk was spinning. As it turns out, it was me. I was lucky Ensign Fletcher was there to grab me; it's a long way down to the bottom of the warp core.
[La Forge and Ro are crawling through a Jefferies tube]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Section 2... B... A... Section 1!
Ensign: Finally. I never want to see this part of the Enterprise again.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I hear you. This is what starship designers call 'easy access'.
Counselor: [on Ardra] She has an incredibly focused mind. It was virtually impossible to sense any deception - or anything else, for that matter.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The best magicians will never let you see what's up their sleeve, Counselor.
Doctor: [referring to Guinan] If she's right, we may not even be in an alternate timeline.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Who knows if we're even dead or alive?
Lieutenant: Words come later. It is the scent that first speaks of love.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Thanks, Worf. That helps a lot!
[Geordi and Leah have settled their personal problems]
Dr. Leah Brahms: I wouldn't change a thing - except for the way I behaved. I guess I came here with my own set of preconceptions about you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, I guess I'm just glad that I got the opportunity to get to know you. The real you.
Dr. Leah Brahms: Me too.
[Riker, Dr. Crusher, La Forge and Worf are playing poker at somewhat "higher" stakes]
Doctor: If I win, all of you shave your beards off!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Wait a minute, wait a minute, w... what if you lose? What are *you* gonna give up?
Doctor: I'm open for suggestions.
Commander William T. Riker: Well, I've always wanted to see you as a brunette.
Doctor: Oh, I did that once when I was thirteen; I couldn't change it back fast enough.
Commander William T. Riker: Makes me even more curious!
[the men laugh avidly]
Dr. Leah Brahms: It's curious, this modification was due to be introduced...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: In the next class starship.
Dr. Leah Brahms: How did you know that?
Taibak: Welcome, Mr. La Forge. We've waited a long time to meet you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I can tell you've gone to a lot of trouble.
Taibak: Indeed we have.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [about training Spot] I've got an idea: how about a phaser? A low stun setting at just the right moment might do the trick.
Lt. Commander Data: Geordi - I cannot stun my cat.
Centurion: You're lying!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I never lie when I've got sand in my shoes, Commodore.
Lt. Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III: [of his holo-fantasies] You know, the people that I create in there are m... more real to me than anyone I meet out here. Except... maybe you, Commander.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I need you out here, Reg - now more than ever.
Lieutenant: Captain! Request permission to be excused from Commander Hutchinson's reception.
Captain: Permission granted... I wish I could excuse myself as well.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Er, Captain, permission to be...
Captain: Mr. La Forge, I cannot excuse my entire senior staff! Mr. Worf beat you to it.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Captain - I have to admit I've been having second thoughts about this plan.
Captain: In what way?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well...
[sighs]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I've been getting to know him - the Borg.
Captain: I see.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: He's not what I expected, Captain. He's got feelings. He's homesick. I don't know, it... it just doesn't seem right using him this way.
Captain: Centuries ago, when laboratory animals were used for experiments, scientists would sometimes become attached to the creatures. This would be a problem if the experiment involved killing them. I would suggest that you unattach yourself from the Borg, Mr. La Forge.
[La Forge has provided the Borg with an energy supplying device]
Third: Why do you do this?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm just a nice guy at heart. You feeling better?
Third: You are not Borg.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That's right. And I hope to stay that way.
Third: You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That's gratitude for you.
[the Enterprise has picked up the debris of a space-related object]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: This is gonna be like puttin' together a big jigsaw puzzle when you don't even know what the picture's supposed to be.
[Spot has messed up Geordi's quarters and smashed a few items along the way]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Training - definitely!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I just don't get it, Guinan. I can field-strip a fusion reactor; I can realign a power transfer tunnel. Why can't I make anything work with a woman like Christy? It's like... I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say.
Guinan: You're doing fine with me.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You're different.
Guinan: No, *you're* different.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: But I'm not trying now.
Guinan: That's my point.
Scotty: Laddie, you need to phase-lock the warp fields within 3% or they'll become unstable.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: What?
Scotty: Well, look. Here's the warp...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [Scotty recoils as a console beeps; turning the alarm off] We use a multiphase auto-containment field now. It's meant to operate above 3%.
Scotty: Oh, well... that would make the difference.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know, I've always thought that technology could solve almost any problem. It enhances the quality of our lives, lets us travel across the galaxy - even gave me my vision - but sometimes you just have to turn it all off. Even the gypsy violins.
Dr. Leah Brahms: Violins?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Different program.
Captain: If we can get to the root command, we can introduce an invasive programming sequence through its biochip system, and then return it to the hive.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The Borg are so interconnected it would act like a virus.
Captain: Which would infect the entire Collective. We could disable their neural network at a stroke.
Doctor: Infect it? You make it sound as if it's a disease.
Captain: Quite right, Doctor. If all goes well, a terminal one.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to holographic Leah Brahms] Don't go away. I mean, er... computer, save program.
[Data is talking about his first months of activation, when he was at risk of systems failure]
Lt. Commander Data: I came to the conclusion, it would be safer - and easier - to shut myself down and start again.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but if you had done that you wouldn't have remembered any of the things that had happened to you.
Lt. Commander Data: Mm. In a way, it would have been like committing suicide.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So what did you do?
Lt. Commander Data: I decided against the procedure. I chose instead to treat the problems I was having with my systems as challenges to overcome, rather than obstacles to be avoided.
[Roga Danar is on the loose on the Enterprise]
Lieutenant: There is a full contingent of Security at all shuttlebays.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You want my advice? Double it!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Welcome to Galorndon Core, where no good deed goes unpunished.
Third: We... are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Just look around, pal. You're hardly in a position to make any demands.
Third: We must return to the Collective.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Who's "we"?
Third: We... are Borg.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but... there's only one of you. Do you have a name? A means of identification?
Third: Third of Five.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [understanding] There were five on your ship. Is that it, just a number?
Third: Third of Five.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Does kinda suit you.
Scotty: Well, thank you, lads. Oh, well, we got to get Franklin out of there.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Someone else's pattern is still in the buffer?
Scotty: Aye, Matt Franklin. We went in together.
[working on the console]
Scotty: Something's wrong. One of the inducers has failed. Boost the gain on the matter stream. Come on, Franklin. I know you're still in there.
[sighing]
Scotty: It's no use. His pattern has degraded 53%. He's gone.
Commander William T. Riker: I'm sorry.
Scotty: So am I. He was a good lad.
Captain: The question is, how're we going to deal with it?
Commander William T. Riker: We could confine him to his quarters.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: How can we do that? What's he done? I mean, we're talking about locking a man up for being too smart.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Perhaps I have evolved to the point where emotions are within my grasp. Perhaps I will experience other emotions as time goes by.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, I hope you're right. I'd hate to think that anger is all you're capable of feeling.
[Scotty and Geordi are working to restore the Jenolan's systems]
Scotty: Shunt the deuterium from the main cryo-pump to the auxiliary tank.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Er, the tank can't withstand that kind of pressure.
Scotty: [laughs] Where'd you... where'd you get that idea?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: What do you mean, where did I get that idea? It's in the impulse engine specifications.
Scotty: Regulation 42/15 - Pressure Variances on the IRC Tank Storage?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah.
Scotty: Forget it. I wrote it. A good engineer is always a wee bit conservative, at least on paper. Just bypass the secondary cut-off valve and boost the flow. It'll work.
[La Forge has told Bochra that he was born blind]
Centurion: And your parents let you live?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: What kind of question is that? Of course they let me live!
Centurion: No wonder your race is weak. You waste time and resources on defective children.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know, I think you're gonna enjoy the 24th century, Mr. Scott. We've made some pretty incredible advances these last 80 years.
Scotty: Well, from what I've seen, you've got a fine ship, Mr. La Forge. A real beauty here. I must admit to being a bit overwhelmed.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Hmm. Wait 'til you see the holodeck.
Captain: One of the aims of the exchange program, Commander, is for us all to learn tolerance. As for my crew, it may be healthy to shake up the status quo occasionally.
Commander William T. Riker: The Commander certainly appears to have the crew on its toes, sir.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And then some...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to Kurn] No offense, sir.
Kurn: None taken. I never kill anyone at the supper table, Mr. La Forge.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Geordi, you do not seem to appreciate Ensign Tyler's enthusiasm.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Mm, she's enthusiastic, all right - about me.
Scotty: I remember a time when the old Enterprise was spiraling toward PSI 2,000.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [giving a PADD to a subordinate] Yeah. Thank you.
Scotty: And the captain wanted to try a cold start of the warp engines, and I told him that without a proper phase-lock, it would take at least 30 minutes. "You cannae change the laws of physics," I told him, but he wouldn't believe me, so I had to come up with a whole new engine start-up routine. Do you know that your dilithium crystals are going to fracture?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [closing the chamber] We recomposite the crystals while they're still inside the articulation frame.
Lieutenant: If we held Barclay suspended in mid-transport at the point where matter starts to lose molecular cohesion,
Lieutenant: The molecules would begin to emit nucleonic particles. We may be able to derive a pattern the computer would recognize.
Lieutenant: And reprogram the bio filters and screen the microbes out. I think this will work, Reg.
Barclay: You suspend me? I don't like the sound of this.
[last lines]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know... down there, I... I didn't know who you were. And yet... somehow... I believed you. I trusted you.
Lt. Cmdr. Susanna Leijten: That must have been because of all the good advice I used to give you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Thanks.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [after Spot has made Data give her the ball of wool to play with] I don't know about Spot, but it seems to me *your* training is coming along just fine.
Scotty: Take the bridge, Commander.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Oh, no. You're the senior officer here.
Scotty: Oh, I may be captain by rank; but I never wanted to be anything else but an engineer.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I should have told you straight out.
Dr. Leah Brahms: Well if you had, then I never would have had a chance to see the look on your face when you walked in on me and me in the holodeck.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The look on my face? How about the look on your face? I will remember that for a long time.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm running a level 1 diagnostic.
Commander William T. Riker: For thirty hours? It would never take you more than four. You're incapable of that level of incompetence, Mr. La Forge!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You remember about a year ago when we were caught in that booby trap the Menthars set?
Guinan: Mm-hmm.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Okay, while we were trying to get out of it, I went down to the holodeck to study an engine prototype that was made when the Enterprise was first designed. And the computer, well, it gave me an image of the engine, but it also created this hologram of the designer, Dr. Leah Brahms.
Guinan: So you met a computer-simulated female.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but not an ordinary computer-simulated female. I mean, she was brilliant, of course, but warm, you know, friendly. It was like we worked as one. I would start a sentence, she'd finish it. What I didn't think of, she did. It was just so comfortable. Okay, I know it was just a holographic image, but the computer was able to incorporated personality traits from her Starfleet record.
Commander William T. Riker: Gentlemen, we're giving you an assignment. The one thing we don't want to hear is that it's impossible.
Captain: I need the transporters to function, despite the hyperonic radiation.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but that's imp... Yes, sir.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know, I'll bet you were the kind of little girl who was always climbing one branch higher than the other kids.
Dr. Farallon: Anything to get to the top of the tree.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And I bet you never fell.
Dr. Farallon: Oh, no, I fell all the time, usually breaking a bone in the process. I just never let it stop me.
[Aquiel's dog has chewed up La Forge's shoes]
Lt. Aquiel Uhnari: Maura, shame on you! That's not like you. What a naughty dog!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It's all right, don't worry about it. At least she's chewing them up in pairs.
Lwaxana: Mr. Homn is my valet. He doesn't say much.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [under his breath] How can he?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to Hedril] It's called a visor. It enables me to see.
Hedril: Like my vocal enhancer. It helps me make sounds.
Lwaxana: I see you've already met my star pupil. Hedril's picked up spoken language much faster than the others.
Lt. Commander Data: It is often the case that children learn languages more easily than adults.
Lwaxana: Deanna was quite good at languages when she was little. Uh, where is Deanna?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, she must be here somewhere.
Lwaxana: Hedril, darling...?
[Makes strange face]
Hedril: What?
Lwaxana: Um, go find your father, dear. I want to talk to him.
[Puts hand to head]
Lt. Commander Data: Mrs. Troi?
Lwaxana: Oh, I'm just a little tired. Heh. This constant telepathy with the Cairn... um... no, I'm... I'm fine, really.
[Leaves]
Commander William T. Riker: I think it would be best if you weren't so personally involved with Aquiel right now; there's a lot about her we don't know.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And there's a lot about her that I do know. And if she's innocent I want to help her prove it.
Commander William T. Riker: I think you've let your personal feelings cloud your judgement.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm not the one making judgements.
Doctor: [to Third of Five] When we first found you, you were dying. I saved your life.
Third: Why?
Doctor: It's my duty to help those who are hurt.
Third: [looks at Geordi] You give us food.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [nods] Right.
Third: Is that your duty?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [Dr. Crusher gives Geordi a curious look; awkwardly] Yeah, that's right.
Captain: I understand that before the Jenolen crashed, it had conducted an extensive survey of the Dyson sphere. Have we been able to access any of those records?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: We did try to download their memory core, but it was pretty heavily damaged in the crash. We actually haven't been able to get much out of it.
Captain: Hmm. Perhaps Captain Scott could be of use in accessing that material.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It's possible. He does know those systems better than any of us. I'll have Lt. Bartel beam down with him.
Captain: Mr. La Forge... I would like you to accompany Captain Scott.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Me, sir?
Captain: Yes. Look, this is not an order. It's a request, and it's one that you must feel perfectly free to decline. You see, one of the most important things in a person's life is to feel useful. Now, Mr. Scott is a Starfleet officer, and I would like him to feel useful again.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'll go with him, sir.
Captain: Thank you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know, I'm curious. What were you dreaming about when we woke you up?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: I have not fully assimilated its impact. I would prefer to study the images further before discussing them.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Mm... Sounds like it must've been pretty strange.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: 'Strange'... is not a sufficient adjective to describe the experience.
Guinan: Maybe it was your old visor.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: What are you talking about?
Guinan: Well, the one you wore on the holodeck when you were with her.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Guinan, it's the same visor.
Guinan: Really? Oh, I figured it was probably the one that lets you see what you want to see.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So... guess if I had been conceived on your world, I wouldn't even be here now, would I?
Hannah: No.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No. I'd have been... terminated as a fertilized cell.
Hannah: It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life with disabilities.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I should be here, whether or not I might have something to contribute?
[after being hit by an energy wave, everybody on the Enterprise appears to have lost their memories]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Looks like we're all in the same boat.
Commander William T. Riker: Make that the same starship.
[last lines]
Ro: I was raised with Bajoran beliefs. And I even followed some of the practices. But I never really believed in a life after death. And then suddenly I was dead... and there was this other life. And that made me feel like I'd been pretty arrogant, to discount everything I'd been taught, you know? Now I don't know what to believe.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Hmm... Well, maybe we should develop our own interphase device. If it can teach Ro Laren humility, it can do anything.
[both laugh heartily]
Doctor: [Picard, Riker, Crusher, LaForge and Troi have assembled in the Observation Lounge to discuss Amanda Rogers, a new intern aboard the Enterprise, who mysteriously contained a warp core breach by sheer force of will alone] She's a little shaken up, but she's gonna be fine.
Commander William T. Riker: You said she was adopted. Could she be an alien?
Doctor: She's human. There's nothing more unusual about her. Not that my instruments can detect.
Captain: Commander, have you been able to determine the cause of the warp breach?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, Sir. Everything was normal and then suddenly it's like the laws of physics went right out the window.
Q: [Q materialises in one of the empty chairs wearing his usual Starfleet uniform] And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient.
Captain: [a collective air of dismay suddenly descends on the room] Q!
Q: Mon Capitan.
Captain: Are you responsible for this incident in Engineering?
Q: [surprisingly upfront about it] Of course. I needed to find out if what I suspected about the girl were true.
Captain: That being?
Q: That she's a Q.
Counselor: Amanda's a Q?
Doctor: How is that possible? Her, her parents... her biological parents were human.
Q: Well, not exactly. They had assumed human form in order to visit Earth, I suppose for... for amusement. But in vulgar human fashion they proceeded to conceive a child...
[he winks at Beverly who looks thoroughly insulted]
Q: ... and then like mawkish humans they became attached to it. What is it about these squirming little infants that you find so appealing?
Doctor: I'm sure that's beyond your comprehension, Q.
Q: I desperately hope so.
Counselor: What happened to Amanda's parents?
Q: They died in an accident.
[that gets Picard's attention but keeps it to himself for now]
Q: None of us knew whether she had inherited the capacities of the Q but recently they've begun to emerge and er... as an expert in humanity... I was sent to investigate.
Commander William T. Riker: You... an expert in humanity?
Q: Not a very challenging field of study, I grant you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Are you saying that you created a core breach just to test this girl?
Q: Uh huh.
Counselor: What would have happened if she couldn't stop it?
Q: Then I would have known she wasn't a Q.
Doctor: And now that you know - what do you intend to do?
Q: Instruct her. If this child does not learn how to control her power she may accidentally destroy herself... or all of you... or perhaps your entire galaxy?
Captain: I find it hard to believe that you're here to do us a favour.
Q: You're quite right. I wouldn't. But there are those in the Continuum...
[raises his eyes skyward]
Q: ... who have an over exaggerated sense of responsibility. They think that we need to take precautions to keep the little dear from running amok.
Doctor: And once you've taught her... then you'll go away?
Q: And leave her here? Of course not. She'll come back to the Continuum where she belongs.
Doctor: Wait a minute! You, you can't just come in here and take her away from everything she's ever known.
Q: [laughs that off] I assure you I can.
Doctor: She has plans for herself. She wants to have a career and a family.
Q: I'm rescuing her from that miserable existence.
Doctor: That miserable existence is all she's known for the last eighteen years. You have no right to take her away from it!
Q: [bored with the direction this conversation has taken] Mon Capitan, I really think that we need to speak privately.
[Q transports them both to Picard's Ready Room]
Q: Well, there, that's better. Crusher gets more shrill with each passing year.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to Daniel Sutter] Children are a lot stronger than you think. As long as they know you love them, they can handle just about anything life throws at 'em, you know?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: How could it have been so far off? It was based on every piece of information on record about Leah Brahms. Okay, with an admitted margin for error, but this is an error that's about a light year wide.
Guinan: Not what you hoped for, huh?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Hoped? Guinan, the woman is about as friendly as a Circassian plague cat. Only cares about her work, hates what I've done to *her* engines; and - to top it all off - she's married.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Captain Scott, this really isn't...
Scotty: We're in engineering. Call me Scotty.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Scotty, this really isn't a good time for a tour. We're running a phase seven survey of the Dyson sphere.
Scotty: I'm not here for a tour, laddie. I'm here to help.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That's very kind, but I'm sure we can handle it.
Scotty: I was a Starfleet engineer for 52 years, Mr. La Forge. I think I'm still useful.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You're right. We'd be grateful for any help you could give us.
Scotty: Good. Let's get to work.
Wesley: He wants the impossible!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That's the short definition of 'captain'.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [Bochra has jerry-rigged a tricorder with Geordi's VISOR to detect the neutrino beacon and they can be rescued] Let er' rip.
[La Forge's last line of the series]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Sure goes against everything we've always heard about not polluting the timeline, doesn't it?
Captain: Commander, have you been able to determine the cause of the warp breach?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, sir. Everything was normal, and then suddenly it's like the laws of physics went right out the window.
[characteristic flash of Q appearing]
Q: And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient.
[last lines]
Captain: Geordi... I'm very sorry that you didn't find your mother.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Thank you, sir. You know, it's funny. When I was down there... it was so real. I felt like I had a chance to say goodbye.
Captain: Mr. La Forge, how long before the baryon sweep begins on the Enterprise?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: About 25 minutes, sir.
Captain: Then I have enough time to go back to the ship and get my saddle.
Counselor: Your saddle?
Captain: Yes, a saddle is a, a very... personal... thing. It has to be, er... broken in, used, cared for.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You keep a saddle on board the Enterprise?
Captain: Oh, yes. Yes, er, I never know when I will have the opportunity to ride.
Counselor: I see.
Captain: It's perfectly normal. You know, most, er, most serious riders do have their own saddles.
Counselor: Of course.
Cmdr. Hutchinson: Absolutely!
Captain: Dr. Vassbinder gave an hour-long dissertation on the ionization effect of warp nacelles, before he realized that the topic was supposed to be - psychology!
Geordi: Why didn't anybody tell him?
Captain: There was no opportunity. There was no pause.
Captain: [droning in a foreign accent] He-just-kept-talking-in-one-looong-incredibly-unbroken-sentence-moving-from-topic-to-topic-so-that-no-one-had-a-chance-to-interrupt-it-was-really-quite-hypnotic.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I don't know, Data, my gut tells me we ought to be listening to what this guy's trying to tell us.
Lt. Commander Data: Your gut?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It's just a... a feeling, you know, an instinct. Intuition.
Lt. Commander Data: But those qualities would interfere with rational judgment, would they not?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You're right, sometimes they do.
Lt. Commander Data: Then... why not rely strictly on the facts?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Because you just can't rely on the plain and simple facts. Sometimes they lie.
Capt. Picard: How long before we have warp power again?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, we're gonna have to manufacture a new conduit, that's at least six hours work.
Capt. Picard: [with feigned disappointment] Six hours? The banquet will be completely over by then; that's very unfortunate.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I could try and speed things up a bit.
Capt. Picard: Oh, no! No, uh... I wouldn't want to sacrifice the safety of the ship.
[La Forge and Scotty are trying to get the Jenolan up and running]
Scotty: [muttering] Bunch of old, useless garbage!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Huh?
Scotty: I say it's old, Mr. La Forge. It can't handle the interface of your power converter. This equipment was designed for a different era. Now it's just a piece of junk.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, I don't know, it seems like some of it's held together pretty well.
Scotty: Century out of date. It's just... obsolete!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, you know, that's interesting, because I was just thinking that a lot of these systems haven't changed much in the last 75 years. This transporter is basically the same system we use on the Enterprise. Subspace radio and sensors still operate under the same basic principle; impulse engine design hasn't changed much in the last 200 years. If it wasn't for all the structural damage, this ship still might be in service today.
Scotty: Maybe so. But when they can build ships like your Enterprise, who'd want to pilot an old bucket like this?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I don't know. If this ship were operational, I bet she'd run circles around the Enterprise at impulse speeds. Just because something's old doesn't mean you throw it away.
Tarrana: Look!
[the holo-grid is beginning to show through Nikolai's simulation of Boraal in a pool of water]
Lieutenant: Do not worry. It is an omen.
Dobara: What does it mean?
Lieutenant: It is the sign of LaForge. It is a message to travelers. It is said when these lines appear and disappear in a pool of water...
[the scene cuts to Engineering where LaForge is listening on the com-channel]
Lieutenant: ... the road ahead will be filled with good fortune.
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Hang in there, Worf.
[works some controls]
Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge: Give me just a second. There, that should do it.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: [the simulation stabilises] You see. Our journey is already blessed. The road ahead is long. Let us have a meal together and then we'll make preparations to leave.
[after the Boraalans have dispersed]
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Worf, very good work. Apparently, we don't make such a bad team after all.
Lieutenant: [Worf can barely hide his contempt] We are not a team. I am here because Captain Picard ordered me here.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: Worf, don't we both share the same goal? Aren't we both trying to make this plan work?
Lieutenant: Only because you forced us into it.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I'm not ashamed of what I did. I'm not sorry I saved their lives.
Lieutenant: You have not changed. You still expect people to solve the problems you create.
Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko: I'm not here to work out the issues of our childhood. I'm here to save a people who I care about, and if that upsets you, then so be it.
[Nikolai storms off]
[after an accident, Ro thinks they are dead and some kind of spirits]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: But... my uniform! My VISOR! Are you saying I'm some blind ghost with clothes?
Ensign: I don't have all the answers. I've never been dead before.
[La Forge is carrying out a ship-wide diagnostic for chemical agents]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Ferrazene has a complex molecular structure; it breaks down into bilenium and tarrisite. Do the sensors scan for those?
Enterprise: Ship's sensors scan for both compounds.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And are *they* present on the Enterprise?
Enterprise: Bilenium and tarrisite are not present.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Do any of the substances break down into by-products that are not scanned for?
Enterprise: Dardilion contains the by-product nilizene. Sensors do not routinely scan for that substance.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [impatient] Well, this isn't a routine situation. Scan for the nilizene.
Enterprise: There is no nilizene on the Enterprise.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [ironic] How did I know you were gonna say that?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: John - I really want to thank you.
John: For what?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I don't know how, or even why, but down on the planet, you gave me something, a... a new confidence.
John: I doubt I can take credit for that. Perhaps I only helped you find something you already had.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I can't believe what we were about to do.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That's her.
Lieutenant: Which one?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The one on the right. Don't stare!
Lieutenant: Why not?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Because she'll see!
Lieutenant: Good. You must let her see the fire in your eyes.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [of the energy life form scanning the ship's data banks] It's looking over everything, Commander, going to school. Let's just hope it doesn't blow us to kingdom come while it's figuring out how to blow us to kingdom come.
Lieutenant: [about the transformations on the Enterprise] We have been receiving reports from the rest of the ship. Part of deck 12 is now an aqueduct.
Counselor: What are we being transformed into?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm not sure I want to find out.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Personal logs... diagnostics... duty logs, they all appear normal; there's no evidence of anything that could lead to Data's shutdown.
Commander William T. Riker: Maybe we should ask his cat.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I make a great fungilli.
Dr. Leah Brahms: I love fungilli.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Is that right?
Barclay: I've finally become the person I've always wanted to be. Do we have to ask why?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, I think we do.
Lt. Commander Data: It provides a sense of completion to my future. In a way, I am not that different from anyone else. I can now look forward to death.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Never thought of it that way.
Lt. Commander Data: One might also conclude that it brings me one step closer to being human. I am mortal.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Broccoli makes me nervous, Captain. He makes everybody nervous.
Capt. Picard: "Broccoli"?
Commander William T. Riker: Young Mr. Crusher started that, I guess it's caught on.
Capt. Picard: Let's just get that *un*-caught, shall we?
Scotty: Geordi, I have spent my whole life trying to figure out crazy ways of doing things. I'm telling ya, as one engineer to another - I can do this.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [sighs] All right. Let's do it.
Scotty: [ecstatic] Aye!
Commander William T. Riker: Could someone survive inside a transporter buffer for 75 years?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I know a way to find out.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Geordi, I believe I have experienced my first emotion.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No offense, Data, but how would you know a flash of anger from some odd kind of power surge?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: You are correct in that I have no frame of reference to confirm my hypothesis. In fact, I am unable to provide a verbal description of the experience. Perhaps you could describe how it feels to be angry. I could then use that as a reference.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, okay. Well, when I feel angry, first I uh, first I feel... hostile.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Could you describe feeling hostile?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well yeah, it's like feeling... beligerent, combative.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Could you describe feeling angry without referring to other feelings?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, I... I guess I can't. I just... feel angry.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: That was my experience as well. I simply... felt angry.
[at Leah Brahms' arrival]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Welcome aboard, Dr. Brahms. I'm... Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, Chief Engineer.
Dr. Leah Brahms: La Forge. So you're the one who's fouled up my engine designs.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: This oughta be a lot of fun!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I was just passing by. I was wondering what you were up to.
Lt. Commander Data: [sitting in front of a screen] I am using the time to catch up on my study of poetry.
[La Forge walks round to take a look]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data, there's nothing on the screen.
Lt. Commander Data: That is not entirely correct. While it is true the display is currently blank, this... emptiness has a poetic meaning. Therefore, it cannot be considered 'nothing' as such.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Says who?
Lt. Commander Data: The ancient Doosodarians. Much of their poetry contains such lacunae or empty spaces. Often, these pauses measured several days in length, during which poet and audience were encouraged to fully acknowledge the emptiness of the experience.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I remember a few lectures from Starfleet Academy that seemed that way.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Captain Scott, I've tried to be patient, I've tried to be polite, but I've got a job to do here, and quite frankly, you're in the way.
[La Forge has suggested an alternative way to get out of the energy trap instead of letting the computer fly the ship]
Captain: Have you analyzed the risk factor?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The numbers say it's even money. It's no better than turning it over to the computer, but no worse either - but I say forget the numbers! There's no way the computer can compensate for the human factor, the, the intuition, the experience.
Captain: And the wish to stay alive.
Commander William T. Riker: I think it's time we spoke to the captain about Broccoli. That's what Wesley calls him. Keep that to yourself.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, it fits.
[La Forge inquires Guinan on her views about men]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: As a woman, what's the first thing you look at?
Guinan: His head.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: His mind, of course.
Guinan: No - his head. I'm attracted to bald men.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Seriously?
Guinan: Seriously.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Why?
Guinan: Maybe because a bald man was kind to me once, when I was hurting. Took care of me.
[arguably alluding to the events in 'Time's Arrow']
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The Hera is missing. That's all. Until I hear something different, my mother just might as well have taken the crew on an unscheduled holiday.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Okay, all power's been channeled to the, um... the...
Lt. Commander Data: The main deflector dish.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yes! Right, the... deflector dish.
[sighs]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So... um... What do we do now?
Lt. Commander Data: Data to bridge. Mr. Worf, activate the deflector.
Holo: Your sword, sir.
Commander William T. Riker: I don't have a sword.
Holo: How do you expect to fight without your sword, sir?
Commander William T. Riker: I don't expect to fight.
Holo: Ha! Do I detect a streak of yellow along the good fellow's back?
[the three "musketeers" roar with laughter]
[Riker has barely avoided a Cardassian warship in the nebula]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Do I wanna know how close that was?
Commander William T. Riker: No. Get ready to deploy the mines.
Third: Are you ever... lonely?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Sometimes. But that's why we have friends.
Third: Friends?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Sure. Someone you can talk to. Who will be with you when you're lonely. Someone... someone who makes you feel better.
Third: Like Geordi - and Hugh.
Lt. Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III: Being afraid all of the time, of forgetting somebody's name, not, not knowing... what to do with your hands. I mean, I, I am the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there's a party. And then, when he finally gets there, he winds up alone, in the corner, trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You're just shy, Barclay.
Lt. Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III: Just shy... Sounds like nothing serious - doesn't it? You can't know.
[last lines]
[it has been revealed that warp fields can cause subspace instabilities, which would make warp flight potentially impossible]
Captain: You know, Geordi, I spent the better part of my life exploring space. I have charted new worlds, I've... met dozens of new species. And I believe that these were all valuable ends in themselves. And now it seems that... all this while, I was... helping to damage the thing that I hold most dear.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It won't turn out that way, Captain. We still have time to make it better.
Scotty: What have you done with the duotronic enhancers?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [taking a panel off to show him] Well, those were replaced with isolinear chips about 40 years ago. It's a lot more efficient now.
[Scotty moves to touch one]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [stopping him] Oh! That's an EPS power tap there.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [about Hugh] He's nothing like what I expected.
Guinan: How so?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I don't know, it's... it's like he's just... some kid who is far away from home.
Guinan: Do you know that you are the second person today to refer to that Borg as though it was some sort of lost child?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Anyway, I'm having second thoughts about what we're doing here. I mean, programming him like some sort of walking bomb, sending him back to destroy the others.
Guinan: Let me tell you something. When that kid's big brothers come looking for him, they're not gonna stop till they find him. And then they're gonna come looking for us. And they will destroy us. And they will not do any of the soul-searching that you are apparently doing right now.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Then why don't you go and talk to him? It might not be so clear cut then.
Guinan: Because I wouldn't have anything to say.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [sighs] Then why don't you just listen? That is what you do best, isn't it?
Lt. Commander Data: [voice-over] Friendly insults and jibes - another form of human speech that I am attempting to master. In this case, with the help of Commander Geordi La Forge.
[he walks into the barbershop where La Forge is having his hair trimmed]
Lt. Commander Data: [voice-over] I consider Geordi to be my best friend.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Here for a trim?
Lt. Commander Data: My hair does not require trimming, you lunkhead.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: What?
Lt. Commander Data: My hair does not require trimming...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: "Lunkhead"?
Lt. Commander Data: I am experimenting with friendly jibes and insults. It was not meant as a serious disparagement.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [chuckles] Well - just don't try it on the Captain.
Third: You will be assimilated.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yes, but before that happens, could we ask you a few questions?
Hannah: I was born to be one of the best scientific minds of my generation, and in the past five days, I have encountered technology that I have barely imagined. I've got to ask myself, if we're so brilliant, how come *we* didn't invent any of these things?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, maybe necessity really is the mother of invention.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm seeing my reflection in a panel. Forgot what a handsome guy I am.
Captain: Your next priority will be to retrieve any information you can about this ship's mission. Contact the Operations Officer to assist you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Aye, sir.
Ensign: He's in Ten Forward, waiting tables.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: We could have been trapped here for hours, days - maybe years.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Part of what we do is learn more about other species.
Third: We assimilate species. Then we know everything about them.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah. I know.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You must have been one hell of a bartender.
[on seeing Data operating the computer panels at high speed]
Doctor: We don't have designations, we have names. I'm Beverly. This is Geordi.
Third: Do I have a name?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Do you want one?
Third: A name.
Doctor: I'm Beverly, he's Geordi, and you...
Third: You.
Doctor: You...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, no, wait a minute - that's it: Hugh! What do you think?
Third: 'You'?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, not 'you'. 'Hugh'.
Third: 'Hugh'.
Doctor: Okay. Now, I'm Beverly.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm Geordi.
Third: We are Hugh.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I've been rationing his portions of energy. I think he understands. When he cooperates, he gets fed, if not...
Doctor: Like a rat in a cage.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Ro! Boy, am I glad to see you. And I'm really glad that you can see *me*.
[Barclay is back to his old self]
Counselor: So how much do you remember?
Barclay: I - I remember doing everything. I just don't remember how or why.
Counselor: How do you feel now?
Barclay: Smaller.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Just plain old Barclay, huh?
Barclay: Always seems to come back to that, doesn't it?
Lt. Commander Data: Why is Spot under the bed?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Probably because she knows if I catch her, I'm gonna kill her.
Rasmussen: Um, your... prosthesis. What do you... what do you call it again?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: A VISOR.
Rasmussen: VISOR, right, a VISOR! You know, I have a picture of you wearing that in my office. How do you like it?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It allows me to see. I like it just fine.
Rasmussen: You know, Homer was blind. And Milton. Bach. Monet. Wonder...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Think of it this way: every time you talk about yourself, you use the word 'we': 'we want this', 'we want that'. You don't even know how to think of yourself as a single individual. You don't say '*I* want this', or '*I* am Hugh'. We - are all - separate - individuals. *I* am Geordi. *I* choose what I want to do with my life. *I* make decisions for myself. For somebody like me, losing that sense of individuality is almost worse than dying.
[last lines]
Counselor: It'll take time, Geordi. A long time. But we will reconstruct your memory. Together.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm just not sure. About anything.
Counselor: Believe it or not, that's a good sign. A beginning. Now, let's go back to the shuttlecraft. There was a Romulan ship, and the first thing you did was...?
[last lines]
Doctor: Jean-Luc, if I might ask, how many people are there on board?
Captain: 1,014 - including your guest, Dr. Quaice.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Is there something wrong with that count, Doctor?
Doctor: [relieved] No. That's the exact number there should be.
[a Romulan assistant removes Geordi's VISOR]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Hey!
Taibak: Your VISOR will be returned to you. But first, I want to show you something.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Sh... show me something? That'll be a nice trick, seeing as how I can't see anything without the VISOR.
Taibak: That is not quite true...
Dr. Leah Brahms: I am not used to having people question my judgment.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And I'm not used to dying.
Lt. Commander Data: [voice-over] My friend Chief O'Brien often says that above all else, he wants to make Keiko happy. Since cancelling the wedding will make her happy, I must conclude the Chief will be pleased at her decision.
Lt. Commander Data: I have good news.
Chief: Oh?
Lt. Commander Data: Keiko has made a decision designed to increase her happiness: she has cancelled the wedding.
Chief: She what? Cancelled the wedding? Today? Without even a word? Of all the childish, selfish, irresponsible things to do...!
[storms out, very upset]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Next time, maybe *I* should deliver the good news.
Lt. Commander Data: [voice-over] Commander Maddox. It would appear that my program designed to predict emotional responses needs... adjustment.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Reg, ever since our run-in with that probe, something's different about you.
Barclay: What? Because I'm beginning to behave like the rest of the crew? With confidence in what I'm doing?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!
[La Forge and Data are in a shuttle preparing to go through the wormhole]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know, if this doesn't work, the thought of spending the rest of my life in here is none too appealing.
Lt. Commander Data: There is a bright side, Geordi. You will have me to talk to.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [after Wesley has been out-bluffed by Riker despite having a winning hand] Wesley, you may get straight A's in school, but there's a lot you need to learn about poker.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So, you were saying a little earlier that you were on your way to the Norpin colony when you experienced warp engine failure?
Scotty: Aye, that's right. See, we had an overload in one of the plasma transfer conduits and the captain brought us out of warp and we hit some gravimetric interference, and there it was, as big as life. Oh, is that a conduit interface?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, it is. You were saying, "it's as big as life." You mean the Dyson sphere.
Scotty: Aye, an actual Dyson sphere. Can you imagine the engineering skills needed to even design such a structure?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, I know. It's pretty amazing. So what happened when you first approached it?
Scotty: Well, we began our standard survey of the surface and we were just completing the initial orbital scan when our aft power coil suddenly exploded.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Hmm.
Scotty: The ship got caught in the sphere's gravity well and down we went. Franklin and I were the only ones to survive the crash.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Can I ask you a question? What in the world made you think of using the transporter pattern buffer to survive?
Scotty: Well, we... didn't have enough supplies to wait for the rescue, so we had to think of something.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but locking it into a diagnostic cycle so that the pattern wouldn't degrade and then cross-connecting it with the phase inducers to provide a regenerative power source... that's absolutely brilliant.
Scotty: Well, I think it was only 50% brilliant, 'cause Franklin deserves better.
Lt. Commander Data: [Data has just found out about his early years and - to his surprise - about his "mother"]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I can understand that this might all be a little disconcerting for ya Data... It came out of the blue, and it doesn't fit into your logical processors.
Lt. Commander Data: That is true.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: But that's life, Data. Part of being human is learning how to deal with the unexpected - to risk new experiences, even when they don't fit into your preconceptions.
Lt. Commander Data: I admit I am finding it difficult to accept the possibility of a past about which I know nothing. But it is also true, I am curious to learn more about it.
[first lines]
Commander William T. Riker: Damage report!
Doctor: Casualty reports coming in from all over the ship!
Lt. Commander Data: The starboard nacelle has sustained a direct impact. We are venting drive plasma.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Initiating emergency core shutdown!
Ensign: Inertial dampers failing. We're losing attitude control.
Commander William T. Riker: This is the bridge. All hands to emergency escape pods!
Lt. Commander Data: Core shutdown was unsuccessful. We are losing antimatter containment.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: We've got to eject the core!
Lt. Commander Data: Ejection systems offline. Core breach is imminent.
Captain: All hands abandon ship! Repeat: all hands aban...!
[the Enterprise explodes]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [modulating a dekyon emission in Data's positronic brain] You know, it's possible we've tried this a thousand times and it's never worked.
Doctor: Do you have the feeling that you've done this before?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, I don't.
Doctor: Neither do I. Maybe that's a good sign.
Lt. Commander Data: Is there a problem, Geordi?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I hear music.
Lt. Commander Data: I now realize that my life aboard the Enterprise was a waste. My quest to become human misguided. An evolutionary step in the wrong direction.
Counselor: Data, all I'm sensing from you is anger and hatred. Have you felt any other emotions?
Lt. Commander Data: There are no other emotions.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data, just because you haven't experienced certain emotions doesn't mean they don't exist. Lore is only feeding you the negative ones.
[first lines]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Personal log, Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, stardate 44885.5 - I'm en route to the planet Risa to attend an artificial intelligence seminar. Captain Picard has ordered me to arrive a few days early to have some fun and relax. I intend to follow his orders to the very best of my ability.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [after he and Ro have rematerialized in the middle of their own memorial service] Well, it looks like a great party. You mind if we join you?
Lt. Commander Data: It is fortunate we were able to coordinate your return on the Teldarian cruiser.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah. When I heard the Enterprise had been ordered to the Krios system, I thought I might be forced to endure another couple of weeks on Risa.
Lt. Commander Data: I am sorry to hear you did not enjoy yourself.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I was joking.
Lt. Commander Data: Joking? Ah! "Forced to endure" Risa. Your actual intent was to emphasize that you *did* enjoy yourself. Yes. I see how that could be considered quite amusing.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [laughs] I missed you, Data!
[Riker, Troi and La Forge are looking for Barclay in his holo-fantasy]
Commander William T. Riker: You want us to search through all this to find him?
Counselor: It could provide us with valuable information about what's troubling him. You know, there's nothing wrong with a healthy fantasy life, as long as you don't let it take over.
Commander William T. Riker: You call this healthy?
Counselor: You're taking it so seriously. It's not without its element of humor.
[they come across another, Troi look-alike character]
Holo: I am the Goddess of Empathy. Cast off your inhibitions and embrace love, truth, joy...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Oh - my - God.
Holo: Discard your façades, and reveal your true being to me.
Counselor: [indignantly] Computer, discontinue...
Commander William T. Riker: Computer, belay that order!
Commander William T. Riker: [to Troi] We want to get more insight into what's been troubling this poor man, remember?
Commander William T. Riker: [to La Forge] Quite a healthy fantasy life - wouldn't you say?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [agreeing] Mm.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Leah, do you like Italian food?
Dr. Leah Brahms: Like it? Wait till I make you my fungilli.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Computer, subdued lighting.
[lights turn off]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, that's too much. I don't want it dark. I want it cozy.
Enterprise: Please state your request in precise candle power.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: See, it's not a matter of precision, computer, it's a matter of mood.
Lt. Commander Data: I have created twenty-three individual illustrations in the past six hours, twenty-seven minutes. I believe you could say... I have been inspired.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'll say.
Lt. Commander Data: Geordi, a conflict has arisen between the planetary evolution team and the stellar physicists. Each wishes to be the first to use the thermal imaging array.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, tell 'em to flip a coin. We've got to work together on this mission, otherwise we're never gonna get it done.
Lt. Commander Data: A coin? Very good. I will replicate one immediately.
Geordi: Hello, Captain. Or should I call you 'Ambassador'?
Picard: Oh, I haven't been called that for some time either.
Geordi: How about 'Mr. Picard'?
Picard: How about 'Jean-Luc'?
[before Leah Brahms' arrival]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I'm not necessarily expecting anything romantic here. It's just... I know, whatever - Leah Brahms and I are gonna be good friends.
[last lines]
Captain: Have we any idea what came through the rupture before we were able to shut it down?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: No, sir. We were unable to track it once it left the cargo bay.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Maybe it was a probe of some kind.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Possibly they were simply curious, explorers, like ourselves.
Commander William T. Riker: Ensign Rager and I were lucky to have escaped. Lieutenant Hagler is dead. Whoever it was that sent that thing was more than simply curious.
Lt. Commander Data: Geordi. It is good to see you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Thanks, Data. I've never been to a better funeral.
Captain: Warp without warp drive.
Commander William T. Riker: They're gonna put you out of a job, Geordi.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I hope so, Commander.
Scotty: You know, we used to have something called a dynamic mode converter. You wouldna have something like that on your Enterprise, would you?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I haven't seen anything like that in a long time, but I bet I might be able to come up with something similar.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Ferengi codes are damn near impossible to break.
Captain: Gentlemen, I have the utmost confidence in your ability to perform... the impossible.
[first lines]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No question about it. She was bluffing, Worf.
Lieutenant: Bluffing is not one of Counselor Troi's strong suits -... - No, it would've been unwise to call. Yes, my hand was not strong enough.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You had jacks and eights, and she bluffed you with a pair of sixes.
Lieutenant: How did *you* know what I had?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Let's just say I had a special insight into the cards.
[points at his VISOR]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Maybe next time you should bring a deck that's not transparent to infrared light.
[Worf looks at him suspiciously]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [jovially] Not to worry, Worf. I only peek after the hand is over.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [about Ensign Ro] She doesn't belong here. She doesn't even belong in the uniform, as far as I'm concerned.
Guinan: Really?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Really.
Guinan: Sounds like someone I'd like to know.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Glad you were with us out here in the real world today, Mr. Barclay.
[after Barclay's input has prevented a warp engine failure]
Centurion: I no more wish to die than you do.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Bochra - there are times when it's necessary to die for one's ideals. Do you believe this is one of those times?
[after a long pause, Bochra lowers the phaser]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Come on. Let's go find that beacon.
[La Forge is working on Data's open head]
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I must admit, Data, I never get used to seeing you like this.
Lt. Commander Data: I do not understand. You are constantly working on similar electronic systems, yet their appearances do not disturb you.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, but you're not just another electronic system.
Lt. Commander Data: Thank you, Geordi. Nor are you just another biological organism.
Martin: We have immeasurably extended the potential of humanity - physically, psychologically... We have evolved beyond... beyond...
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Beyond us.
Martin: Frankly - yes. No one in this society would be blind, for example. No offense intended.
[the Enterprise is faced with a cloud-like distortion]
Captain: Back us off, Ensign. Nice and slow.
Ensign: Aye, sir. Captain, maneuvering thrusters are not responding.
Lt. Commander Data: The distortion field is fluctuating.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: All main systems just went down. Power levels are dropping rapidly.
Commander William T. Riker: Red alert.
Lt. Commander Data: There is an energy build-up in the distortion field.
Counselor: We have to get out of here, now.
Lt. Commander Data: Captain, something is emerging.
[another starship is coming out of the cloud]
Commander William T. Riker: Shields up. Evasive maneuvers.
Lieutenant: Shields inoperative.
Ensign: The helm is not responding.
Lt. Commander Data: The vessel is on a collision course. Impact in 36 seconds.
Captain: Hail them.
Lieutenant: No response.
Captain: Suggestions?
Commander William T. Riker: Decompress main shuttlebay. The explosive reaction may blow us out of the way.
Lt. Commander Data: Captain, I suggest we use the tractor beam to alter the other ship's trajectory.
Captain: Make it so, Mr. Worf.
Lieutenant: Engaging tractor beam.
[the two ships collide]
Picard: This is not my time. I don't belong here.
Geordi: What?
Picard: I was somewhere else a few moments ago.
Geordi: What do you mean? You've... you've been right here with me.
Picard: No, no, no! I was somewhere else. I was... It was a long time ago, there was someone talking. I was t... I w... I-I... I was talking to someone. Beverly. I was talking to Beverly!
Geordi: It's okay, Captain. Everything's gonna be all right.
Picard: I'm not senile, you know. This did happen! I-I... I was here, I was talking to you, and then... and then I was somewhere else. I was, er... I was on the Enterprise. I was back on the Enterprise. At least I... I think that's where it was. I was in sickbay! I, er... Well, it-it might, it might have been a hospital...
Geordi: Captain, I think we should go back to the house and call your doctor.
Picard: Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking; "It's the Irumodic Syndrome. He's beginning to lose his mind, the old man." Well, it's not that! And I'm not daydreaming either!
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Sometimes, "just passing by" means "just passing by".
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