Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Where No One Has Gone Before (1987)

Eric Menyuk: The Traveler

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• Commander William T. Riker : And you have this ability, to travel?

  The Traveler : Yes.

  Commander William T. Riker : And others of your kind have the same ability?

  The Traveler : Oh, yes.

  Commander William T. Riker : Then why, in all of our history, is there no record of you or someone like you ever having visited us?

  The Traveler : What wonderful arrogance! There is no record because we have not visited you before.

  Commander William T. Riker : Why not?

  The Traveler : Well, because, up until now - if-if you'll forgive this - you've been... uninteresting.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Who are you? Or what?

  The Traveler : I am... a Traveler.

• The Traveler : You do understand, don't you, that thought is the basis of all reality. The energy of thought, to put in your terms, is very powerful.

• Wesley Crusher : Is Mr. Kosinski like he sounds? A joke?

  The Traveler : No, that's too cruel. He has sensed some small part of this.

  Wesley Crusher : That space and time and thought... aren't the separate things they appear to be? I just thought the formula you were using said something like that...

  The Traveler : Boy, don't ever say that again, especially not at your age in a world that's not ready for such... such dangerous nonsense.

• The Traveler : Are you familiar with the intricacies of what is called here 'music'?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Somewhat.

  The Traveler : And such musical genius as I saw in one of your ship's libraries, one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others? Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played.