Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Second Chances (1993)

Marina Sirtis: Counselor Deanna Troi

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• Lt. Thomas Riker : Sometimes, I would look up into the sky and I'd think, if I tried hard enough, I could make you feel my presence - that if I could let you know that I was alive, maybe you'd wait for me. I know, it sounds... crazy, but there were times when I could've sw...

  [he looks at Deanna, who has become somewhat melancholic] 

  Lt. Thomas Riker : [dismissively]  What am I talking about?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : The other day when I told you about how... Commander Riker and I didn't meet on Risa... What I didn't say was how disappointed I was.

  Lt. Thomas Riker : You didn't have to. I knew.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I started to hear from him less and less. I knew his career was taking him away from me, but... I didn't want to believe it was over. I spent a lot of time thinking about him - wondering where he was, what he was doing. Sometimes, I'd look into the sky and imagine that he knew, and that... somehow, he could sense me thinking about him. So, who knows? Maybe one night, we were looking up at the same star and... you were thinking about me... and, in a way... I was thinking about you.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : [reading Lt. Riker's notes]  It pulses unendingly all through the night. Seek out the crystal that powers our flight. - What the future holds, no one can know, but forward we look, and forward we go.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : It's really hard for me to separate my feelings for them.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Deanna - just because things turned out the way they did between you and *Commander* Riker doesn't mean you shouldn't let things between you and *Lieutenant* Riker take their own course.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I knew you'd encourage me.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : We stayed in Ten Forward talking for hours.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Then what happened?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : He walked me to my quarters.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Then what happened?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Beverly!

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : I'm just asking.

• Commander William T. Riker : Ever since he came on board, I find myself thinking about the choice that you and I made.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Me too.

  Commander William T. Riker : Do me a favor. Be careful.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Will, I know you and he have had some problems.

  Commander William T. Riker : That's not what I'm talking about. If he had gotten off the planet instead of me, don't you think he would've made the same choices that I made? I just don't want you to be hurt again.