Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

The Q and the Grey (1996)

John de Lancie: Q

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• Q : I know that you're probably asking yourself "Why would a brilliant, handsome, dashingly omnipotent being like Q want to mate with a scrawny little bipedal specimen like me?"

  Captain Janeway : Let me guess: no one else in the universe will have you!

  Q : Nonsense! I could have chosen a Klingon targ; the Romulan Empress; a Cyrillian microbe.

  Captain Janeway : Really? I beat out a single-celled organism? How flattering!

• Q : Q! How did you find me?

  Female Q : Never mind that. What are you doing with that dog?

  [Q looks at the Irish Setter puppy in Janeway's arms] 

  Female Q : I'm not talking about the puppy.

• Q : Kathryn Janeway, may I present... Q.

  Female Q : Not just any Q - *his* Q.

  Q : We were involved... for a while.

  Female Q : About four billion years - and now you desert me to pollute the continuum with the DNA of this... narrow little being.

• Q : Besides, you have no idea what you're missing. Foreplay with a Q can last for decades.

  Captain Janeway : Sorry, but I'm busy for the next sixty or seventy years.

• Q : [to Neelix]  You, bar rodent!

• Captain Janeway : [seeing the Q mate, merely by the touch of their index fingers]  That was it?

  Q : You had your chance. Don't go crying about it now.

• Q : I look at the universe in an entirely different way now. I mean, I can't go around causing temporal anomalies or subspace inversions without considering the impact it'll have on my son.

  Captain Janeway : I'm glad to hear you intend to set a good example.

  Q : By the way, did I tell you how smart he is? I've already taught him how to knock small planets out of orbit.

• Q : [referring to Chakotay]  I was wondering, Kathy, what could anyone possibly see in this big oaf anyway? Is it the tattoo? Because MINE'S BIGGER!

  Captain Janeway : Not big enough.

• Q : You'd be surprised what innovative munitions can be created by one immortal being who's set his mind on killing another.

• Q : [about the civil war of the Q]  It's terrible, isn't it? But it's also a wonderful opportunity.

  Captain Janeway : I fail to see anything wonderful about a war.

  Q : War can be an engine of change. War can transform a society for the better. Your own Civil War brought about an end to slavery and oppression.

• Q : [after the mating]  I was good, wasn't I?

  Female Q : Very good.

• Captain Janeway : I want you out, but first, get rid of this bed.

  Q : I've no intention of getting between those Starfleet-issue sheets. They give me a terrible rash!

  Captain Janeway : Well - since you won't be getting in the bed, I wouldn't worry about it.

• Q : Oh, I see. This is one of those silly human rituals - you're playing hard to get.

  Captain Janeway : As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get.

  Q : Goody! A challenge! This is going to be fun!

• Q : I'm an idea-man. Hard work isn't my forte.

• Q : Oh, Kathy, don't be such a prude. Admit it - it has been a while.

  Captain Janeway : And it's gonna be a while longer.

• Q : I want you to help me transform the Continuum in the same way your Civil War transformed a nation.

  Captain Janeway : By mating with you?

  Q : I know - it's brilliant, isn't it?

• Q : What the Continuum needs right now is an infusion of fresh blood, a new sensibility, a new leader, a new messiah! Think of it, Kathy: our child will be like a precious stone tossed into the cosmic lake, sending endless ripples of human conscience and compassion to wash up on every distant shore of the universe. What greater contribution could a being of your limited power ever hope to make? What is more important to humanity than peace? I'm offering you the opportunity to be the mother of peace.

• Q : Oh, darling, I knew you'd come for me.

  Female Q : Mm-hm.

  Q : Aren't you going to untie me?

  Female Q : How do I know you won't run off with the next bi-pedal female that catches your eye?

• Q : Guys, I just don't understand your captain. I've tried everything - filling the bridge with roses, writing Drabian love sonnets, serenading her in her bath...

  Lt. Tom Paris : Oh, I'll bet she loved that one.

  Q : But no matter that lengths I go to win her heart, she rejects me. Me! How, I ask you, is that possible?

  Ensign Harry Kim : Did it ever occur to you that she just doesn't like you?

  Q : [unbelievably]  No.

• Captain Janeway : The only thing that interests me right now is the welfare of my ship and crew.

  Q : [referring to Chakotay]  Well, I'm sure your first officer - "Chuckles," is it? - I'm sure he's got everything under control for the moment.