Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Last Outpost (1987)
Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data
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Quotes
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Commander William T. Riker : Yankee traders. I like the sound of that.
Lt. Commander Data : Well, sir, I doubt they wear red, white, and blue or look anything like Uncle Sam.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data, what are you doing?
Lt. Commander Data : [struggling a finger trap] Apologies, Captain. I seem to have reached an odd... functional impasse. I am, uh... stuck.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Then get unstuck and continue with the briefing.
Lt. Commander Data : [continues to struggle] Yes, sir. That is what I am trying to do, sir, but the... solution eludes me.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : My hero.
[laughs]
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Lt. Commander Data : Something to write home about.
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Lieutenant Tasha Yar : What have bright, primary colors got to do with it?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Ah, I understand the allusion. Colors representing countries at a time when they competed with each other. Red, white and blue for the United States, whereas the French... more properly used the same colors in the order blue, white and red.
Lt. Commander Data : And the German nation red, black and gold, the Italians green, white and red, the British...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : That's enough, Data!
Lt. Commander Data : It was you who...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : We were discussing the Ferengi.
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Lt. Commander Data : With this power drain, we may have trouble communicating with the Enterprise, sir.
Commander William T. Riker : Understood. Anything else?
Lt. Commander Data : Due to this force field, there is presently no way to beam us back, sir.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Oh, you had to ask...
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Cmdr. William Riker : [Riker and Data are exploring the planet's surface when Riker sees something] What's that?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : What, Commander?
Cmdr. William Riker : [points] That.
[They realize who it is...]
Cmdr. William Riker , Lt. Cmdr. Data : Geordi!
[Riker and Data run over to Georgi who is hanging upside down, suspended from a tree branch]
Cmdr. William Riker : Are you conscious?
Lt. Geordi La Forge : Do I *look* conscious?
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I regret, DaiMon Tarr, that I can no longer negotiate unless it is conducted visually.
Daimon Tarr : Your complete message not received, Enterprise, but visual communication is against our custom.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And it is against Starfleet orders to accept a surrender otherwise. Do you withdraw your surrender?
Daimon Tarr : [after a moment of dead air] You give us no choice, Enterprise. May we have a visual on you, as well?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [nonverbally giving Tasha the order] Agreed, DaiMon Tarr. You should be able to view us now. Are we on your screen?
Daimon Tarr : [his image appears on their viewer] Yes, the ugliness of the hu-man was not an exaggeration. I do not know how your twisted alien culture has paralyzed our vessel, but I concede your Enterprise is superior. We will return your worthless T-9 device and we offer the lives of our second officers as required by the Ferengi code.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : [whispering to Geordi] Fortunately, Starfleet has no such rules involving its second officers.
Daimon Tarr : Is this to your satisfaction, Picard Captain?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Your offer may be inadequate, but I will discuss it with my staff. Stand by for further communication.
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Lt. Commander Data : Captain, I think you had better see this.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What's wrong?
Lt. Commander Data : Someone is reading every file, every bit of information stored in the Enterprise memory banks.
Lt. Geordi La Forge : They can do that?
Lt. Commander Data : And more, perhaps.
Counselor Deanna Troi : Captain, if I may recommend. With our attention on the Ferengi vessel, we have ignored the planet.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data, consult the charts on this planet. See what we've got on it.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [catching up to a Ferengi marauder] Very impressive design.
Commander William T. Riker : Anything on that design, Data?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Nothing specific, sir. As you know, Ferengi technology is estimated to be generally equal to our own.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : But that does not mean identical, however.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Correct, sir. We are no doubt advanced in some areas, they in others.
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Counselor Deanna Troi : I'm sensing nothing from them, sir. Which could mean they can shield their thoughts and emotions from others.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Which still makes it our move.
Counselor Deanna Troi : Sir, they may know as little about us as we know about them.
Commander William T. Riker : Except that they know that they've got us in deep trouble.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : If so, then the question becomes what do they do with that knowledge? Data, do you have any information touching this on any file?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : None, sir. Only hearsay and third-hand reports, most of which conflict.
Commander William T. Riker : Which reports do not conflict?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : That the Ferengi are... well, the best description may be "traders".
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : What kind of traders?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : A comparison modern scholars have drawn from Earth history likens the Ferengi to the ocean-going Yankee traders of 18th- and 19th-century America, sir.
Commander William T. Riker : From the history of my forebears; Yankee traders.
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Who, in this case, sail the galaxy in search of mercantile and territorial opportunity.
Commander William T. Riker : And are these scholars saying that the Ferengi may not be unlike us?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Hardly, sir. I believe the analogy refers to the worst quality of capitalists. The Ferengi are believed to conduct their affairs of commerce on the ancient principle caveat emptor: "let the buyer beware".
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Commander William T. Riker : [as the Enterprise is fired on] Shall we return their fire, sir?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Negative, Number One. They're just responding to our close pursuit. Fall back a bit, but stay with them.
Lt. Commander Data : They are slowing, too, sir.
Lieutenant Tasha Yar : They may be turning to fight.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Open hailing frequen... why are we gaining on them? Don't anticipate.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : I'm not, sir. Something's wrong.
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Cmdr. William Riker : [while fighting a Ferengi] I got this one!
Lt. Cmdr. Data : [while holding a flailing Ferengi up with one arm] Be careful, commander. They are a lot stronger than...
[the Ferengi whom Riker is fighting with, punches Riker in the face. Riker falls to the ground heavily. Data winces in chagrin and shakes his head]