- Lieutenant Worf: Engineering reports computer ma... a... ATCHOO! I'm sorry - I'm getting sick.
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: I'm sure half the ship knows that by now.
- [last lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [hoarsely, still recovering from the virus] Mr. Data, set course for the Neutral Zone, warp 6.
- Lt. Commander Data: Coordinates set, warp 6, on your mark, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [croaks, almost inaudibly] Engage.
- Lt. Commander Data: ...Sir?
- [Picard looks pleadingly at Riker]
- Commander William T. Riker: Engage!
- [the away team has found the survivors of the Odin, but is greeted with some reservation]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Seven years on an alien planet, and I sense no anticipation, no excitement at being rescued?
- Ramsey: What is it that you think that you're rescuing me from? My shipmates and I have all taken wives, a few even have children. You can't rescue a man from a place that he calls his home.
- [Dr. Crusher enters Picard's quarters with a thermos bottle and fills a cup from it]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: It looks horrible. Tastes worse. But it's absolutely guaranteed to make you feel better.
- [she forces a reluctant Picard to drink]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: I knew you'd like it!
- Trent: Mistress Beata invites you to witness this morning's reaffirmation of Angel One's moral imperative.
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Is that the civilized word for 'murder' on this world?
- Commander William T. Riker: [on Data's warning of breaking Starfleet rules by saving Ramsey's group] I'd rather face a court martial than live with the guilt of leaving these people to their deaths.
- Commander William T. Riker: Commander Riker to the Enterprise.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [over comm] This is the Enterprise, Crusher here.
- Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Must be worse up there than we thought.
- Commander William T. Riker: Mr. Data will need access to your library.
- Beata: Our library is far too sophisticated for a man to comprehend.
- Lt. Commander Data: I am an android, Mistress. Though anatomically, I am a male.
- Beata: An amusing notion.
- Commander William T. Riker: To travel the distance we did in two days at warp 1, would have taken the Odin escape pod five months.
- Lt. Commander Data: 5 months, 6 days, 11 hours, 2 minutes...
- Commander William T. Riker: Thank you, Data.
- Lt. Commander Data: ...and 57 seconds.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I've an away team down there, in less than friendly territory, and in addition, I have an appointment with several Romulan battlecruis...
- [gasping and steadying himself, exhausted]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You have an appointment in your cabin, Captain, with your bed!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Is that an order, Doctor?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Yes!
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: This virus mutates every twenty minutes! But we haven't had any fatalities - yet.
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: If this continues, there'll be no one left to run the ship.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: If this continues, Lieutenant La Forge, nobody will be healthy enough to care.
- Lt. Commander Data: Angel One has evolved into a constitutional oligarchy. It is governed by a parliamentary body consisting of six elected mistresses and headed by a female they refer to as 'The Elected One'.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: It sounds like my own planet.
- [Beata is trying to seduce Riker, who is slightly resisting]
- Commander William T. Riker: It's not my function to seduce or be seduced by the leader of another world.
- Beata: It's not the reason.
- Commander William T. Riker: No, it's not. But will you still respect me in the morning?
- Beata: I hope so.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: What is that smell?
- Lieutenant Worf: Hm, yes - slightly reminiscent of night-blooming throgni, Captain. From home. Quite stimulating, wouldn't you say?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No!
- Lieutenant Worf: I think I may sneeze.
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: A Klingon sneeze?
- Lieutenant Worf: Only kind I know.
- [first lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [voice over] Captain's log, stardate 41636.9. As feared, our examination of the seven year overdue Federation freighter Odin, disabled by an asteroid collision, revealed no survivors. However, three escape pods were missing, suggesting the possibility of survivors.