Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Time's Arrow (1992)
Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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[Data has not been included in the away team]
Lt. Commander Data : Sir, it is standard procedure that the Second Officer accompany the away team.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Yes, yes, Mr. Data, I'm aware of that.
Lt. Commander Data : Then I must assume your decision is related to the discovery on Earth.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I think it is reasonable to take precautions.
Lt. Commander Data : Captain, there is no rational justification for this course.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Then I'll be irrational!
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Guinan : Do you remember the first time we met?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Of course.
Guinan : Don't be so sure. I just mean, if you don't go on this mission - we'll *never* meet.
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Lt. Commander Data : It is possible, sir, that the events leading to my death will not occur for years, even centuries.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I hope that's true, Mr. Data. Nevertheless, this investigation began with your death. I'm simply trying to see that it doesn't end that way.
Lt. Commander Data : I appreciate your concern, Captain. But, to employ an aphorism, one cannot cheat fate.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : "Cheat fate"?
[ponders over this]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Perhaps we can't, Mr. Data. But at least we can give it a try.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : The security of the Enterprise is of paramount importance, Mr. Worf.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Can you predict how long this has been in the cavern?
Lt. Commander Data : Decomposition strongly indicates that life was terminated approximately five hundred years ago. That would be consistent with the other artifacts we recovered.
Commander William T. Riker : Your head is not an "artifact"!
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I haven't seen such a complex operation since the Academy lab final in exochemistry.