- [last lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Captain... do you know what year this is?
- Captain Bateson: Of course I do. It's 2278.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Perhaps you should beam aboard our ship. There's something we need to discuss.
- 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 Beverly Crusher: Do you have the feeling that you've done this before?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: No, I don't.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Neither do I. Maybe that's a good sign.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Must be deja-vu.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Both of us? About the same thing?
- [first lines]
- Commander William T. Riker: Damage report!
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: 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 Ro Laren: 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 Jean-Luc Picard: All hands abandon ship! Repeat: all hands aban...!
- [the Enterprise explodes]
- Commander William T. Riker: [after losing a poker game] How'd you know I was bluffing?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I just had a feeling.
- Commander William T. Riker: I guess it's better to be lucky than good.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: It's the way your left eyebrow raises when you're bluffing... Just kidding, Commander.
- [the Enterprise is faced with a cloud-like distortion]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Back us off, Ensign. Nice and slow.
- Ensign Ro Laren: 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 Deanna Troi: 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 Worf: Shields inoperative.
- Ensign Ro Laren: The helm is not responding.
- Lt. Commander Data: The vessel is on a collision course. Impact in 36 seconds.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Hail them.
- Lieutenant Worf: No response.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: 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 Jean-Luc Picard: Make it so, Mr. Worf.
- Lieutenant Worf: Engaging tractor beam.
- [the two ships collide]
- Commander William T. Riker: You're going to call my bluff, aren't you? I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: How did you know I was going to call your bluff?
- Commander William T. Riker: I just had a feeling.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Me too...
- Commander William T. Riker: Sometimes I wonder if he's stacking the deck.
- Lt. Commander Data: I assure you, Commander, the cards are sufficiently randomized.
- Lieutenant Worf: I hope so.
- Nurse Alyssa Ogawa: Ogawa to Dr. Crusher.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Go ahead.
- Nurse Alyssa Ogawa: Commander La Forge needs you in sickbay.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: On my way.
- Lieutenant Worf: [at the poker table] I am experiencing... nIb'poH - the feeling I have done this before.
- Commander William T. Riker: Yes, last Tuesday night.
- Lieutenant Worf: That's not what I mean.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Captain's log, stardate 45652.1 - The Enterprise has entered an area of space known as the Typhon Expanse. We're the first Starfleet vessel to chart this unexplored region.
- 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.