Spock: "Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected."
-- "The Squire of Gothos"

Spock: "I object to intellect without discipline; I object
to power without constructive purpose."
-- "The Squire of Gothos"

Kirk: "Our missions are peaceful -- not for conquest. When 
we do battle, it is only because we have no choice."
-- "The Squire of Gothos"

Q: "Thou art notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too
far already.  Thou art directed to return to thine own solar
system immediately."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Q: "Now go back or thou shalt most certainly die."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Worf: "And now a personal request, sir.  Permission to clean up
the bridge."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Picard: "Transmit the following in all languages and in all
frequencies: 'We  surrender.'"
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Q: "You will now answer the charge of being a grievously
savage race."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Q: "The prisoners will not be harmed, until they are found
guilty."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Picard: "We do exactly what we would do if this Q never
existed.  If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who
we really are."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Q: "Savage life forms never follow even their own rules." 
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Q: "Generosity has always been my weakness."
-- "Encounter At Farpoint"

Q: "Oh, your species is always suffering and dying."
-- "Hide And Q"

Picard: "No.  Lieutenant Worf, you will make no move against
him unless I order  it."
Q: "Pity, you might have learned an interesting lesson
nacrohead, with a microbrain."
-- "Hide And Q"

Yar: "What in the hell am I doing, crying?  It is so frustrating
to be controlled like this."
Picard: "Don't worry, there's a new ship's standing order on the
bridge.  When one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted."
-- "Hide And Q"

Q: "Will you stop interrupting me?  I mean, this is hardly a
time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe."
-- "Hide And Q"

Q: "Let us pray for understanding and for compassion."
Picard: "Let us do no such damn thing."
-- "Hide And Q"

LaForge: "Worf, is this your idea of sex?"
Worf: "This is sex, but I have no place for it in my life now."
Q: "No place, microbrain?  What possesses you?"
-- "Hide And Q"

Q: "You [humans] reveal yourselves best in how you play." 
-- "Hide And Q"

Q: "Of all the species yours cannot abide stagnation." 
-- "Hide And Q"

Q: "This really isn't the time to teach you the true nature 
of the universe." 
-- "Hide And Q"

Q: "You're going to miss me."
-- "Hide And Q"

Picard: "You promised that you would never trouble my ship
again."
Q: "I always keep my agreements, sir.  Look...we're nowhere
*near* your vessel."
-- "Q Who"

Q: "Ah, the redoubtable Commander Riker...and Microbrain! 
Growl for me...let me know you still care."
-- "Q Who"

Q: "I add a little spice, a little excitement to your lives, and all
you do is complain!"
-- "Q Who"

Q: "Why?  Why, to give you a taste of your future...a preview
of things to come.  Con permiso, mon capitaine?  The hall is
rented, the orchestra engaged...it's now time to see if you can
*dance*."
-- "Q Who"

Q: "We'll just have to see how ready you are!"
Guinan: "Q, *no*!"
-- "Q Who"

Q: "You can't outrun them.  You can't destroy them.  If you
damage them, the essence of what they are remains...they
regenerate and keep coming.  Eventually, you'll weaken.  Your
reserves will be gone.  They are relentless."
-- "Q Who"

Picard: "If we all die...here, now...you will not be able to
gloat!  You wanted to frighten us...we're frightened.  You
wanted to show us that we are inadequate...for the moment, I
will grant that.  You wanted me to say that I need you...I *need
you*!"
-- "Q Who"

Q: "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better
go back home and crawl under your bed."
-- "Q Who"

Q: "It's not safe out here!  It's wondrous, with treasures to
satiate desires both subtle and gross.  But it's not for the timid."
-- "Q Who"

Picard: "Q might have done the right thing for the wrong
reason.  Perhaps we needed a good kick in our complacency to
get us ready for what's ahead." 
--"Q Who"

Picard: "Q!"
Q: "Red alert."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental.  We are no closer to
finding a solution to the deteriorating orbit of the Bre'el IV
moon.  But with the arrival of Q, we now have a good idea of
the cause."
--"Deja Q"

Riker: "We know you're behind this, Q."
Q: "*These* aren't my colors!  And what're you blathering
about, Riker?!"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "What kind of twisted pleasure does it give you to bring
terror into their lives?"
Q: "Whose lives?"
Picard: "The millions of people down there who are watching as
their moon falls out of the sky!"
Q: "Ah, I haven't the *vaguest* idea of what you're talking
about, and I have a much more serious problem!  I'm no longer
a member of the Qontinuum!  My superiors have decided to
punish me!"
Picard: "And punish us as well, it would seem."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "You don't believe me, do you?  Do you think I would
humiliate myself like this?"
Riker: "If it served your purpose, yes!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I stand before you defrocked!  *Condemned to be a member
of this lowest of species.  A normal, imperfect, *lumpen*
human being!"
--"Deja Q"

Troi: "They made you human as part of your punishment."
Q: "No, it was my request.  I could've to exist as a Marcophian
sea lizard, or a Belzoidian flea.  Anything I wished, as long as
it was *mortal*!  And since I had only a fraction of a second to
mull, I chose this, and asked them to bring me here."
Troi: "Why?"
Q: "Because in the universe, you're the closest thing I have to a
friend, Jean-Luc."
--"Deja Q"

Data: "Sir, he is reading as fully human."
Q: "What is there, an echo in here?"
--"Deja Q"

Troi: "I am sensing an emotional presence, Captain.  I would
normally describe it as being terrified."
Q: "How rude!"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "What is it you want, Q?"
Q: "Your compassion."  [Silence]  "All right, sanctuary on this
ship...*dreary* as it may sound for the both of us."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Return that moon to its orbit."
Q: "I have no powers!  Q, the ordinary!"
Picard: "Q, the liar!  Q, the misanthrope!"
Q: "Q, the miserable, Q, the desperate!  What must I do to
convince you people?"
Worf: "Die."
Q: "Oh, very clever, Worf.  Eat any good books lately?"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Fine, you want to be treated as human?"
Q: "Absolutely."
Picard: "All right.  Mister Worf, throw him in the brig."
Worf: "Delighted, Captain."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "You can't do this to me, Jean-Luc."
--"Deja Q"

Worf: "You will walk or I will carry you!"
Q: "Given the option, I'll...I'll walk."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "You've disappointed me, Jean-Luc.  I'm very
disappointed!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Hey, I'm claustrophobic!  I don't like it in here."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "It was a mistake!  I *never* should've picked human!  I
knew it the moment I said it.  To think of a future in this
*shell*, forced to cover myself with a fabric because of some
*outdated* human morality!  To say nothing of being too hot or
too cold.  Growing feeble with age.  Losing my hair.  Catching
a disease?  Being ticklish?  Sneezing?  Having an itch?  A
pimple?  *Bad breath*?"  [To Worf]  "Having to *bathe*?!"
Worf: "Too bad!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "'Klingon'!  I should have said 'Klingon'!  In my heart of
hearts, I am a Klingon, Worf!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "So you understand I could never survive in confinement.  I
mean this is cruel and unusual punishment.  The universe has
been my backyard."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "As a fellow Klingon, if you would speak to the captain on
my behalf, I would be *eternally* grateful.  Which doesn't
mean as much as it used to, I admit."
--"Deja Q"

Worf: "Be quiet!  Or disappear back where you came from."
Q: "I can't disappear...anymore than you could win a beauty
contest."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "If I were to ask you a *very* simple question, do you think
you might be able to answer it without it troubling your intellect
too much?  Ready?  Here goes.  Would I permit you to lock me
away if I still had all my powers?"
Worf: "You have fooled us too often, Q."
Q: "Oh, perspicacity incarnate!  Please don't feel compelled
now to tell me the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Worf'."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "*Romulan*!  I should've said 'Romulan and Klingon
goat'!"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "The question is, what sort of *jaded* game is he up to
this time?"
Riker: "Maybe he just wants a big laugh.  He'll take Bre'el IV
to the edge of disaster and then pull the moon back."
Picard: "Or he may have nothing to do with it at all."
Riker: "You honestly think Q is telling the truth?"
Picard: "Oh, I agree, this is highly unlikely."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Oh, you've come to apologize, how nice.  All is forgiven,
no offense taken."
Picard: "Enough!  Q, what exactly is going on?"
Q: "Oh, well how can I know what's going on?  I've been in
this dungeon of yours, alone, helpless, *bored* to tears."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Truthfully, Jean-Luc, I've been entirely preoccupied by a
most *frightening* experience of my on.  A couple of hours
ago, I realized that my body was no longer functioning
properly.  I felt weak.  I could no longer stand.  The life was
oozing out of me.  I lost consciousness."
Picard: "You fell asleep."
Q: "Oh, how terrifying.  How can you stand it day after day?"
Picard: "You'll get used to it."
Q: "What other dangers await me?  I'm not prepared for this, I
need guidance."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "You have a moon in a deteriorating orbit.  I've known
moons throughout the universe.  Big ones, small ones, I'm an
expert.  I could help you with this one, if you'll let me out of
here."
Picard: "Q, there are millions of lives at risk.  If you have the
power--"
Q: "I don't have any powers!  But I have the knowledge, locked
up in this *puny* brain!  You cannot afford to not take that
advantage, can't you?"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "*If* you are human, which I seriously doubt, you will
have to work hard to earn our trust."
Q: "I'm not worried about that, Jean-Luc.  You only dislike me. 
There are others in the cosmos who truly *despise* me."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Can I have a Starfleet uniform?"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "What are you looking at?"
Data: "I was considering the possibility that you are telling the
truth...that you really are human."
Q: "It's the ghastly truth, Mister Data.  I can now stub my toe
with the best of them."
Data: "An irony.  It means that you have achieved in disgrace,
what I have always aspired to be."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Humans are such commonplace little creatures.  They roam
over the galaxy searching for something they know not what."
--"Deja Q"

Data: "The human race has an enduring desire for knowledge. 
And for new opportunities to improve itself."
Q: "Well, there's certainly room for improvement.  But the
truth is, Data, they're a minor species in the grand scheme, not
worth your envy."
Data: "Oh, I do not feel envy."
Q: "Well that's good."
Data: "I feel nothing at all."
--"Deja Q"

Data: "That is part of my dilemma.  I have the curiosity of
humans, but there are questions that I will never have the
questions to.  What it is like to laugh, or cry, or to experience
any human emotions."
Q: "Hm.  Well, if you ask me, these human emotions are not
what they're cracked up to be."
Data: "Hm."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "This is incredible!"
LaForge: "You see something here, Q?"
Q: "I think I just hurt my back!  I'm feeling pain.  I don't like
it.  Uh, what's the right thing to say, 'Ow'?"
Data and LaForge: "Ow."
Q: "*Ow*!  I can't straighten up!"
--"Deja Q"

LaForge: "Q, I've got a few people down on Bre'el IV who are
going to be hurt!"
Q: "Yes, yes, yes!  Your marvelous plan will not only tear the
moon to pieces, but your precious ship as well!"
LaForge: "You got a better idea?"
Q: "Well, I would certainly begin, by examining the cause, and
not the symptom."
LaForge: "We've done that already, Q, and there's no way to--"
Q: "This is obviously the result of a large celestial object
passing through at near-right angles to the plane of the star
system.  Probably a black hole."
--"Deja Q"

Data: "Can you recommend a way to counter the effect?"
Q: "Simple.  Change the gravitational constant of the universe."
LaForge: "What?"
Q: "Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby
altering the mass of the asteroid."
LaForge: "Redefine gravity.  And how am I supposed to do
that?"
Q: "You just do it!  Ow!  Where's that doctor anyway?"
Data: "Geordi is trying to say that changing the gravitational
constant of the universe is beyond our capabilities."
Q: "Oh.  Well, in that case, never mind."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Ahh, Doctor Crusher, I see Starfleet has shipped you back
into exile."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I've been under a lot of pressure lately...family problems."
Beverly: "Mmm, well, don't expect too much sympathy from
me.  You have been a pain in our backside often enough."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor.  I'm sure your
patients recover quickly, just to get away from you."
--"Deja Q"

LaForge: "You know, this might work?  We can't change the
gravitational constant of the universe, but if we wrap a low-level
warp field around that moon, we could reduce its gravitational
constant.  Make it lighter so we can push it!"
Q: "Glad I could help."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Ow, I think."
Beverly: "Now what?"
Q: "There's something wrong with my stomach."
Beverly: "It hurts?"
Q: "It's making noises."
Beverly: "Maybe you're hungry."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I've never eaten before, what do I ask for?"
Data: "The choice of meal is determined by individual taste."
Q: "What do you like?"
Data: "Although I do not require sustenence, I occasionally
injest semi-organic nutrient suspension in a silcone-based liquid
medium."
Q: "Is it good?"
Data: "It would be more appropriate to say it is good for *me*,
as it lubricates my biofunctions."
Q: "That doesn't sound very appealing."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "What else is there?"
Data: "A wide variety of items.  The replicator can make
anything you desire."
Q: "How do I know what I desire?"
Data: "I have observed, that the selection of food, is often
influenced by the mood of the person ordering."
Q: "I'm in a *dreadful* mood.  Get me something appropriate."
Data: "When Counselor Troi is unhappy, she usually eats
something chocolate."
Q: "'Chocolate'?"
Data: "Mm.  A chocolate sundae, for example.  Although I do
not speak from personal experience, I have seen it have a
profound psychological impact."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I'll have *ten* chocolate sundaes."
Bartender: "Ten?"
Data: "I have never seen anyone eat *ten* chocolate sundaes."
Q: "I'm in a *really* bad mood.  And since I've never eaten
before, I should be ...very hungry."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "This is not a moment I've been looking forward to."
--"Deja Q"

Guinan: "I hear they drummed you out of the Qontinuum."
Q: "I like to think of it as a significant career change."
--"Deja Q"

Guinan: "Just one of the boys, eh?"
Q: "'One of the boys' with an IQ of two-thousand and five."
--"Deja Q"

Data: "The captain and many of the crew are not yet convinced
he is truly human."
Guinan: "Really?" [stabs Q with a fork] "Seems human enough
to me."
--"Deja Q"

Guinan: "Must be terribly frightening for you to be totally
defenseless after all of those centuries of being omnipotent!"
Q: "I'm warning you, I still have friends in high places."
Guinan: "Frightening one race after the other, teasing them like
frightened animals, and you enjoying every moment of your
victims' fears."
Q: "From now on, I'll do missionary work, okay?"
--"Deja Q"

Guinan: "You could learn a lot from this one."
Q: "Sure, the robot who teaches the course in humanities."
Data: "I am an android, not a robot."
Q: "I beg your pardon."
--"Deja Q"

Guinan: "I enjoy that, and you'd better get used to it."
Q: "What?!"
Guinan: "Begging!  You're a pitiful excuse for a human.  The
only way you're going to survive is on the charity of others."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Help me!  Somebody help me!"
Guinan: "How the mighty have fallen."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Captain's Log, Supplemental.  We have sustained light
damage from an attack by an alien species known as the
Calamarian.  They apparently have a grievance with Q, no
doubt one of many lifeforms that do."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "The Calamarian are not very hospitable creatures."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "What did you do to them, Q?"
Q: "Oh, nothing bizarre, nothing grotesque."
Riker: "You tormented them!"
Q: "A subjective term, Riker.  One creature's torment is
another creature's delight.  They simply have no sense of
humor, a character flaw with which you can personally
identify."
--"Deja Q"

Riker: "I say we turn him over to them."
Q: "Oh, well, I take it back.  You do have a sense of humor, a
dreadful one at that."
Riker: "I'm serious."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Of course.  You *knew* this would happen, didn't
you?"
Q: "One can never anticipate the Calamarian.  They're very
intelligent, but very flighty."
Picard: "Yes, but you must have so many enemies.  Certainly
you knew that if once you became mortal, some of them might
look you up."
Q: "It had occured to me."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "And for all your protestations of friendship, your real
reason for being here is protection."
Q: "You're very smart, Jean-Luc.  But I know human beings. 
They're all sopping over with compassion and forgiveness. 
They can't wait to absolve...almost any offense.  It's an
inherent weakness in the breed."
Picard: "On the contrary, it is a strength."
Q: "You call it what you will."
--"Deja Q"

Riker: "Fighting off all of the species of which you insulted
would be a full-time mission.  That's not the one I signed up
for."
Picard: "Indeed."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Human or not, I want no part of you."
--"Deja Q"

Troi: "It seems you have an advocate, Q."
Data: "I am merely stating the facts, Counselor."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Picard thinks I can't cut it on his starship.  I can do
anything his little trained minions can do."
Data: "I do not perceive your skills to be in doubt, Q.  The
captain is merely concerned with your ability to successfully
interact with his 'little trained minions'."
--"Deja Q"

Data: "Human interpersonal relationships are more complex. 
Your experience may not have adequately prepared you."
Q: "I'm not interested in 'human interpersonal relationships'.  I
just want to prove to Picard that I'm indispensable."
Data: "To function aboard a starship, or in any human activity,
you must learn to perform relationships."
Q: "It's so hard."
Data: "And of more immediate importance, is your ability to
work within groups."
Q: "I'm not good in groups.  It's difficult to work in a group
when you're omnipotent."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "All right, everyone, this is what we're going to be doing..."
LaForge: "Q, everybody knows what they're going to do except
for you.  Now here's what I need--"
Q: "LaForge, obviously my knowledge and experience far
exceeds yours by about, a *billion* times.  So if you'll just step
aside, gracefully."
LaForge: "Q, your 'experience' will be most valuable to me if
you could manually control the field integrity."
Q: "Don't be foolish.  That would be a waste of my talents!"
LaForge: "Q, get to the controls or get the hell out of here!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Who does he think he is, giving me orders?"
Data: "Geordi thinks he is in command here, and he is correct."
--"Deja Q"

LaForge: "Shut up, Q!"
Q: I will not be spoken to in this manner!"
--"Deja Q"

Beverly: "If he was mortal, he'd be dead."
Q: "Well, let's not overstate the matter here, Doctor.  I'm
mortal and I survived."
[Silence]
Q: "Your cheers are overwhelming."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "You're right, of course.  I'm extraordinarily selfish.  But it
has served me so well in the past."
Picard: "It will not serve you here."
Q: "Don't be so hard on me, Jean-Luc.  You've been mortal all
of your life, you know about dying.  I've never even given it a
second-thought...or a first one for that matter.  I could've been
killed.  If it hadn't been for Data, and that brief little he
created, I would've been gone.  No more me.  And no one
would've missed me, would they?"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Data may have sacrificed himself for me.  Why?"
Picard: "That is his special nature...to learn the lessons of
humanity well."
Q: "When I ask myself if I would've done the same for him,
and I am forced to answer, 'No', I feel...I feel ashamed."
Picard: "Q, I am not your father-confessor.  You will receive no
absolution from me."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "You have brought nothing more than pain and suffering
to this crew.  And I am still not entirely convinced that all this
isn't all your latest attempt at a puerile joke!"
Q: "It is a joke, a joke on me, a joke on the universe.  The king
who would be man."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "As I learn more and more, what it is to be human, I am
more and more convinced that I would never make a good one. 
I don't have what it takes.   Without my powers I'm frightened
of everything.  I'm a coward...and I'm miserable...and I can't
go on this way."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "There are creatures in the universe who would consider you
the ultimate achievement, android.  No feelings, no
emotions...no pain.  And yet you covet those qualities of
humanity.  Believe me, you're missing nothing.  But if it means
anything to you, you're a better human than I."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Where's the Main Shuttlebay?"
Computer: "Main Shuttlebay is located on Deck Four."
Q: "Take me there."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Shuttle occupant, identify yourself."
Q: "Don't try and talk me out of it, Jean-Luc."
Picard: "Q, return to the ship immediately!"
Q: "I just can't get used to following orders."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "It's easier this way!  They won't bother you after I'm
gone!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Please, don't fall back on your tired cliche of charging to
the rescue just in the nick of time.  I don't want to be rescued! 
My life as a human being has been a dismal failure!  Perhaps
my death will have a little dignity." 
Picard: "Q, there is no dignity in this suicide."
Q: "Yes, I suppose you're right, death of a coward then, so be
it.  But as a human, I would have died of boredom."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "This goes against my better judgement.  Transporter
Room Three, lock onto Shuttle One, beam it back into its bay."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "It's a perfectly good shuttlecraft."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Q!"
Q2: "Ah!  Sacrificing yourself for these humans?  Do I detect a
littttle selfless act?"
Q: "You flatter me.  I was only trying to put a quick end to a
*miserable* existence!"
--"Deja Q"

Q2: "Ewweh!  What a dreadful color!"
Q: "Yeah."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "What're you doing here?"
Q2: "Oh, I've been trying track of you."
Q: "I always thought you were in my corner."
Q2: "Naw, ah, no, nah.  See, actually I was the one who got
you kicked out."
--"Deja Q"

Q2: "You know you're incorrigible, Q.  You're a lost cause.  I
can't go to a *single* solar system without having to apologize
for you, and I'm tired of it!"
Q: "*I* wasn't the one who misplaced the entire Deltivid
asteroid belt!"
Q2: "Hey!  This isn't about me.  I've got better places to be."
--"Deja Q"

Q2: "But somebody had to keep an eye on you to make sure
you still didn't find a way to cause trouble, even as a member
of this, hmm, limited species."
Q: "Well, I, I hope I've been entertaining you."
Q2: "Barely."
--"Deja Q"

Q2: "But, I find these humans rather interesting.  I'm beginning
to understand what you see in them.  After all of the things that
you've done, they're still intent on keeping you safe!"
Q: "A genetic *weakness* of the race."
Q2: "They just tried to, mmm, beam you up, back, whatever it
is they call it!"
Q: "Really?"
Q2: "Ah, I stopped them."
Q: "Well, if the Calamarians hurry up and finish me off, we can
get you back on your way."
Q2: "Mmm, afraid I put them on hold too.  You see, there's
still this matter of the...selfless act."
--"Deja Q"

Q2: "Now you and I both know that the Calamarian would've
eventually destroyed the Enterprise to get to you.  And that's
really why you left, right?"
Q: "It was a teeny bit selfless, wasn't it?"
Q2: "Eew, yeah, and there's my problem!  See, I can't go back
to the Continuum, and tell them that you committed a selfless
act just before you did!  If I do, there's going to be questions,
there's going to be explanations, for centuries!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I've learned my lesson, Q."
Q2: "Remember who you're talking to.  All-knowing,
all-seeing."
--"Deja Q"

Q2: "Hmm, fine, hmm, huuh, you got your powers back!"
Q2: "Try and stay out of trouble."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "So they wanted to destroy me, did they?"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "If you think I tormented you in the past, my little friends,
wait until see what I do with you now!"
Q2: "Q..."
Q: "I was just seeing if you were...still watching."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Well, I suppose that is the end of Q."
Q: "Au contraire, mon capitaine!  He's back!"
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I'm forgiven!  My brothers and sisters of the Continuum
have taken me back.  I'm immortal again!  Omnipotent again!"
Riker: "Swell."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "Don't fret, Riker.  My good fortune is your good fortune."
--"Deja Q"

Riker: "I don't need your fantasy women!"
Q: "Oh, you're so stolid!  You weren't like that before the
beard!"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Q!"
Q: "But I feel like celebrating!"
Picard: "I don't!"
Q: "All right!"
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Now at the risk of being rude--"
Q: "Yes, once again, I overstate my welcome.  As a human, I
was ill-equipped to thank you.  But as myself, you have my
everlasting gratitude.  Until next time..."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "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."
Data: "If your intention is to make me human--"
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."
--"Deja Q"

LaForge: "Data, why are you laughing?"
Data: "I do not know.  But it was a wonderful...feeling."
--"Deja Q"

Picard: "Perhaps there is a...residue of humanity in Q after all. 
Ensign, en--"
Q: "Don't bet on it, Picard."
--"Deja Q"

Q: "I would've died back then had it not been for you."
Picard: "We all make mistakes."
--"Qpid"

Worf: "Sir, I protest, I am not a merry man!"
--"Qpid"

Data: "Counselor, I believe your aim is improving."
--"Qpid"

Guy: "I am the greatest swordsman in all of Nottingham!"
Picard: "There's something you should know."
Guy: "And what might that be?"
Picard: "I'm not from Nottingham!"
--"Qpid"

Q: "The pain. The anguish. If I didn't know any better I 
would have thought you were already married." 
--"Qpid"

Q: "I admit he [Worf] would make a perfect throw rug at 
Nottingham Castle." 
--"Qpid"

Q: "I thought every marriage was an execution." 
--"Qpid"

Q: "She [Vash] is many things, none of them innocent." 
--"Qpid"

Q: "We are going to have fun. I'll take you to places 
no human could ever hope to see."
--"Qpid"

Beverly: "Her transcript is *very* impressive.  She's done
honors work in neurobiology, plasmadynamics, and
nicoregeneration.  I'd say that's pretty well-rounded."
Rogers: "Well that's a nice way of saying that I haven't decided
what I'm going to do with my life."
--"True Q"

Beverly: "I've arranged to have you work in all the major
departments while you're here.  And I'm willing to bet that by
the time it's over, you'll have a pretty idea what field you're
interested in."
Picard: "Or, at least what field you're *not* interested in."
--"True Q"

Rogers: "Well, I could've brought my zoo."
Riker: "Your 'zoo'?"
Rogers: "Well, it's just what my parents call it.  Three dogs
isn't that many, is it?"
Riker: "It depends how they get along."
--"True Q"

Picard: "Commander, have you been able to determine the cause
of the warp breach?"
LaForge: "No, sir.  Everything was normal, and then, suddenly,
it's like the laws of physics went right out the window."
Q: [Flash]  "And why shouldn't they?  They're so
inconvenient."
--"True Q"

Picard: "Q!"
Q: "Mon capitaine."
--"True Q"

Picard: "Are you responsible for this incident in Engineering?"
Q: "Of course!  I needed to find out if what I suspected about
the girl were true."
Picard: "That being..."
Q: "That she's Q."
--"True Q"

Troi: "Amanda's a Q?"
Beverly: "How is that possible?  Her, her parents, her biological
parents were human!"
Q: "Well, not exactly.  They had *assumed* human form, in
order in visit Earth, I suppose, for, for amusement.  But in
*vulgar* human fashion, they proceeded to conceive a child." 
[Winks at Beverly]  "And then like mawkish humans, they
became attached to it."
--"True Q"

Q: "What is it about these *squirming* little infants that you
find so appealing?"
Beverly: "I'm sure that's beyond your comprehension, Q."
Q: "I desperately hope so."
--"True Q"

Q: "None of us knew whether she had inherited the capacities of
the Q, but recently they've become to emerge, and uh, as an
expert in humanity, I was sent to investigate."
Riker: "You?  An expert in humanity."
Q: "Not a very *challenging* field of study, I grant you."
--"True Q"

LaForge: "Are you saying that you created a core breach just
to...*test* this girl?"
Q: "Uh-huh."
Troi: "What would have happened if she couldn't stop it?"
Q: "Then I would've known that she wasn't a Q!"
--"True Q"

Q: "If this child does not learn how to control her powers, she
accidentally destroy herself.  Or all of you!  Or perhaps your
entire galaxy!"
Picard: "I find it hard to believe that you're here to do us a
favor."
Q: "You're quite right, I wouldn't.  But there are those in the
Continuum, who have an *overexaggerated* sense of
responsibility.  They think that we need to take precautions to
the little dear from running amok."
--"True Q"

Beverly: "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."
--"True Q"

Beverly: "Wait a minute!  You, you can't just come in here and
take her away from everything she's ever known!"
Q: [Laughs]  "I assure you I can."
--"True Q"

Beverly: "She has plans for herself!  A career and a family!"
Q: "I'm *rescuing* her from that miserable existence."
Beverly: "That 'miserable' existence is all she's known for the
last eighteen years.  You have *no* right to take her away from
it!"
Q: "Mon capitaine, I *really* think we need to speak privately."
--"True Q"

Q: "Well, there now, that's better.  Crusher gets more shrill
with each passing year."
--"True Q"

Picard: "Q, what is it you really want?"
Q: "Well since you know so much about the Q, I thought you'd
be the perfect person to introduce me to the child.  Let her
know that she can...trust me."
--"True Q"

Picard: "I don't trust you, Q.  Why should I expect Amanda
to?"
Q: "Well, she'd better, because I'm all she's got.  She needs me
to help her prepare for her future with the Q."
Picard: "But what if she doesn't want that future?  It must be
her decision!"
Q: "Oh, *yes*, *yes*, *yes*!"
--"True Q"

Q: "Do you think that she will want to remain an enfeebled
mortal?"
Picard: "But if she really is Q, she must understand what that
means."
--"True Q"

Picard: "Very well, I will introduce you.  But...we cannot argue
like this in front of her.  We must at least appear to be..."
Q: [Embraces Picard]  "Pals?"
Picard: "*Civil*."
--"True Q"

Q: "I knew I could count on you, Jean-Luc."
--"True Q"

Q: "There's my girl!"
--"True Q"

Picard: "Amanda, uh, allow me to introduce, uh, Q, uh, he's,
um, he's an aquaintance of ours.  We've, uh, we've known
him...for years."
--"True Q"

Q: "Very impressive the way you contained that explosion. 
What else have you done?"
Rogers: "I, I don't understand."
Q: "Telekinesis, teleportation,"  [Looks at Picard] 
"Spontaneous combustion of someone you don't like.  That sort
of thing?"
--"True Q"

Q: "She has *potential*, this one."
--"True Q"

Rogers: "I, I don't want to go anywhere."
Q: "Don't worry.  With time you'll overcome the disadvantages
you suffered as a child.  No one will hold it against you for
having been human."
--"True Q"

Picard: "You agree that she has a right to choose her own
future, but the first chance you get, you try to abduct her!"
Q: "Oh!  You're overreacting as usual, Picard.  I was merely
testing her powers."
--"True Q"

Q: "She's quite a little spitfire now, isn't she?"
--"True Q"

Q: "[To Picard]Don't let a little thing like death slow 
down that rapier wit." 
--"Tapestry"

Q: "It's bad form to laugh at one's god." 
--"Tapestry"

Q: "My, my...we're simply riddled with regrets about 
our youth, aren't we?" 
--"Tapestry"

Q: "I gave you something most mortals never experience...
a second chance at life. And now all you can do is complain?"
--"Tapestry"

Q: "But I do know everything." 
--"Q-Less"

Q: "These mating rituals you humans indulge in really are 
quite disgusting." 
--"Q-Less"

Q: "I suppose it's my fate to be the galaxy's whipping 
boy.  Heavy is the burden of being me."
--"Q-Less"

Q: "[To Sisko]You hit me. Picard never hit me." 
--"Q-Less"

Q: "The galaxy can be a dangerous place when you're 
on your own." 
--"Q-Less"

Q: "I hate to interrupt such a thrilling display 
of naked avarice, but I feel it's only fair to warn 
you that the station is hurtling towards its doom." 
--"Q-Less"

Q: "When I look at a gas nebula, all I see is a cloud of 
dust, but seeing the universe through your eyes allowed 
me to experience...wonder."
--"Q-Less"

Q3: "Oh, don't bother, Captain.  Let me take you to lunch instead!"
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "Welsh rabbit, just like your grandfather used to make."
Neelix: "I didn't know the Captain liked rabbits... what's a rabbit?"
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "You're all mortals!  [to Kes] You only live to be nine years old!
Oh, how I envy you!  The thing I want more than any other is to die!"
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "I die not for myself but for you."
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "I apologize for the inconvenience, but I really must be going now."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "That's what happens when you put a woman in the captain's seat."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "Is this a ship of the Valkyries?"
--"Deathwish"

Q: [to Chakotay] "Facial art.  Ooh!  How very wilderness of you."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "Has anyone ever told you you're angry when you're beautiful?"
--"Deathwish"

Janeway: "Consider for a moment, that you've been transported into the 24th
century, 75,000 light years from earth.  You're having a very strange dream."
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "If only I could let you see what my life is like."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "He's a dangerous man.  He started the hundred-year war between the
Romulans and Vulcans.  He will never be allowed to reintegrate."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "If you choose according to the wishes of the Continuum, we'll give
you something."
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "I've been on that road, and every place it leads.  I've played the games,
I've petted the dog, I've read the books, I've even been the scarecrow!"
--"Deathwish"

Q: "We've all been the scarecrow!"
--"Deathwish"

Q: "Of course there's no suffering!  They're all happy!  Happy people!
Look at them!"
Q3: "They don't dare feel sad.  If only they could!  It would be progress."
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "When I was a respected philosopher, I argued that the purity of the 
Continuum was a great thing, the road, the endless possibilities... only
they're not so endless after all.  At the beginning of the 'New Age,' 
there was the exhilaration of discovery, the animated discussions of new 
things learned.  But after a time, all had been learned.  All had been 
shared.  Listen to their dialogues now.  They haven't spoken for millennia.
There's nothing left to say!"
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "I miss the irrepressible Q, the one who forced me to think."
--"Deathwish"

Q3: "Your mission is to explore.  Imagine you'd explored everything, 
that there's nothing left.  Would you want to live forever?  For us,
the disease is immortality."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "This is my gift to the Continuum."
--"Deathwish"

Q: "There's no need to call room service, Kathy.
I've already ordered."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I've taken the proverbial phone off the hook.  After
all...we don't want any interruptions."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Janeway: "I want you out, but first get rid of this bed."
Q: "I have no intention of getting between those Starfleet-issue
sheets.  They give me a terrible rash."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Oh, Kathy, don't be such a prude!  Admit it! It has been
a while..."
Janeway: "And it's going to be a while longer.  Now get out!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "So tense!  Why don't you slip into something more comfortable."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Oh, I see; you think interested in some tawdry one-night stand.
That's because I haven't told you why I'm here yet!  Of all the
females of all the species in all the galaxies... I have chosen
you to be the mother of my child."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I know that you're probably asking yourself, 'Why would a
brilliant, handsome, dashingly omnipotent being like Q want to mate
with a scrawny little bipedal specimen like me?"
Janeway: "Let me guess!  no-one else in the universe will have you!"
Q: "Nonsense!  I could have chosen a Klingon Targ!  A Romulan 
empress!  A Cyrillian microbe!"
Janeway: "Really?  I beat out a single-celled organism?  How 
flattering!"
Q: "It's an overwhelming honor isn't it?"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I can't get you out of my mind.  You're confident, passionate, 
beautiful..."
Janeway: "And totally uninterested."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Kathy, you can't leave!  My cosmic clock is ticking.  Besides... 
you have no idea what you're missing!  Foreplay with a Q can last 
for decades."
Janeway: "Sorry, but I'm busy for the next 60 or 70 years!" 
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Oh, I see, this is one of those silly human rituals!  You're 
playing hard to get!"
Janeway: "As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get."
Q: "Goody!  A challenge!  This is going to be fun!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I do believe you're jealous.  Why didn't you tell me
there was another man?"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Is it the tattoo?  Because mine's bigger!"
Janeway: "Not big enough."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Nice program, Tommy!  But it's all just so much 
holo-pleasure, isn't it?"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Guys...I just don't understand your captain.  I've 
tried everything...filling the bridge with roses, wrote Vogon 
love sonnets, serenading her in her bath..."
Paris: "I bet she loved that one."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "But no matter what lengths I go through to win her heart, 
she rejects me--me!--how, I ask you, is that possible?"
Harry: "Has it ever occurred to you that she just doesn't like you?"
Q: "No."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "You, bar rodent!  Another one of these...fruity 
concoctions!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Captain Janeway--now that's a subject I wanted to 
discuss!  Tell me... what are some of her favorite things? 
Chocolate truffles?  Stuffed animals?  Erotic art?"
Neelix: "You can't bribe Captain Janeway!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Oh no?  Isn't that what you do?"
Neelix: "What are you talking about?"
Q: "I understand that you acquire things for her.  Create 
little interesting diversions.  Prepare little tasty treats.
After all, why else would she be so fond of your fur-lined face?"
Neelix: "I'm respectful, loyal, and most of all sincere.  
And those are qualities someone like you could never hope to 
possess!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "How can you ignore that face?"
Janeway: "He's adorable.  But this has to stop."
Q: "Please, accept him as a small token of my affection."
Janeway: "No."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I'm afraid that I haven't been sincere.  When you 
first asked why I wanted to have a child with you, I made jokes, 
bragged about my prowess, engaged in sexual innuendo... I was 
using all that to cover up my true feelings....I'm lonely."
Janeway: "Lonely?"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I've been single for billions of years... it was fun at 
first, gallivanting all over the galaxy, using my omnipotence to 
impress women of every species... the fact is, it's left me empty.
I want someone to love me for myself.  I guess what I'm saying 
is... I want a relationship.  I just thought if you and I had a 
child, it would give me the kind of stability and security that 
I've been missing."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Janeway: "Sorry, Q, I'm not buying it."
Q: "Okay, Let's see if you buy this... you're stuck out here,
thousands of light-years from home, and you're not getting younger.
All your hopes for home, hearth and family grow dimmer every day.
Admit it, Katherine, you're lonely too.  And you wonder if you'll 
ever have a child."
Janeway: "You're right--I would like to have a child someday.  But 
not with you."
Q: "Why not?"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Janeway: "I'm just not the right kind of woman for you."
Q4: "Truer words were never spoken!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q4: "What are you doing with that dog?  "I'm not talking about the
puppy."
--"The Q and the Grey"


Q4: "That two-timing toad!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "The Continuum is burning.  The Q are in the middle of a civil
war."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q4: "Tossed aside for someone five billion years younger...
if it weren't so laughable I'd cry."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Chakotay: "There's got to be some way of reentering the Continuum
besides snapping your fingers."
Q4: "There's one possibility... but I doubt this rickety barge or 
your half-witted crew are up to the challenge."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q4: "You know, I've always liked Klingon females.  You've got
such... spunk."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q4: "You!  Helm boy!"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "If it's any consolation, there are those in the Continuum
who will remember us as martyrs."
Janeway: "I'd rather skip that particular honor."
Q: "Still, you have to admit, there's something romantic about 
going to our deaths together."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "Today I sacrifice my existence for the principles of freedom
and individuality that I've fought for so long.  But this woman
is innocent, and what's more she saved my life.  And she tried 
to save us from each other.  Kill me if you must, but let her go."
Q General: "A touching speech, Q, but as usual, your rhetoric fails
to compensate for your irresponsibility."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q4: "They may be humanoids, but they're using our weapons."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "What's the matter, Kathy, don't you like to watch?"
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q: "I was good, wasn't I?"
Q4: "Very good."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Janeway: "That was it?!"
Q: "You had your chance."
--"The Q and the Grey"

Q:" "He's got my cheekbones, don't you think?"
--"The Q and the Grey"