Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Hide and Q (1987)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

Photos 

Quotes 

• Lt. Commander Data : Sir, how is it that the Q can... handle time and space so well, and us so badly?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Perhaps someday we will discover that space and time are simpler than the human equation.

• [Riker has proposed to fulfill his friends' deepest desires] 

  Commander William T. Riker : Data...

  Lt. Commander Data : No! No, sir.

  Commander William T. Riker : But it's what you've always wanted, Data - to become human.

  Lt. Commander Data : Yes, sir, that is true. But I never wanted to compound one... illusion with another. It might be real to Q. Perhaps even you, sir. But it would never be so to me. Was it not one of the Captain's favorite authors who wrote "This above all, to thine own self be true"? Sorry, Commander. I must decline.