Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
The Last Outpost (1987)
Marina Sirtis: Counselor Deanna Troi
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Quotes
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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 : So, while we still have some power left, it's time for difficult decisions. Opinions, please?
Lieutenant Tasha Yar : I say put all available power into a full-out, combined phaser and photon torpedo salvo. Destroy their ability to sustain this force field, sir.
Lieutenant Worf : Yes! Hit them hard and hit them fast.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Impractical. And provocative. Even assuming that we have the power to sustain such a tactic.
Lieutenant Tasha Yar : But, Captain, isn't firing on us an act of war?
Counselor Deanna Troi : The facts are the Ferengi did fire on us, but we were chasing them. Since then, all they've done is search our computers trying to learn who and what we are.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Your point, Counselor?
Counselor Deanna Troi : Let's talk to them.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It's been tried. No response.
Counselor Deanna Troi : But did we tell them anything they wanted to hear?
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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".