Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Timescape (1993)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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• Deanna Troi : I was just leaving the reception when this Ktarian walks up to me and says...

  Deanna Troi : [impersonating Dr. Mizan]  "Hello, Diane. I understand you're an empath. I'm a very

  [winks] 

  Deanna Troi : sensitive man myself. I'm doing a thesis on interspecies mating rituals. Would you care to join me in some empirical research?"

  Lt. Commander Data : [after La Forge has commented on Dr. Mizan, the Ktarian]  Did you help him with his research, Counselor?

  Deanna Troi : Absolutely not!

  Lt. Commander Data : I thought it was a topic you were interested in.

• [last lines] 

  Lt. Commander Data : I have been testing the aphorism, "A watched pot never boils." I have boiled the same amount of water in this kettle sixty-two times. In some cases I have ignored the kettle; in others, I have watched it intently. In every instance, the water reaches its boiling point in precisely 51.7 seconds. It appears I am not capable of perceiving time any differently than my internal chronometer.

  Commander William T. Riker : Why don't you turn it off?

  Lt. Commander Data : Sir?

  Commander William T. Riker : Data, people do not *have* internal chronometers. Why don't you see what happens if you turn yours off?

  Lt. Commander Data : Thank you, sir. I will try that.

  [Riker nods and gets up to leave, but stops] 

  Commander William T. Riker : Just don't be late for your shift!

• Lt. Commander Data : It is the flash point of a warp core explosion. And it is expanding.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Expanding? I thought time was suspended on this ship.

  Lt. Commander Data : We were incorrect, sir. I have determined that time is moving forward at an infinitesimal rate.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Why didn't we notice it before?

  Lt. Commander Data : Our initial conclusion was based on our observations of the crew, The warp core breach moves at a much faster rate. The motion of the cloud is within my visual detection threshold. At its current rate of expansion, it will consume the Enterprise in approximately 9 hours, 17 minutes.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Is there anything we can do to stop it?

  Lt. Commander Data : It is no longer a question of stopping it, sir. The explosion has already occurred. The fact that it is moving slowly changed nothing