- [last lines]
- Lt. Commander Data: [of the ill-fated emotion-chip] I am pleased to say it was damaged when I was forced to fire on Lore.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Pleased? Data, you've wanted emotions your whole life.
- Lt. Commander Data: Yes. But emotions were responsible for what I did to you. I would never risk letting that happen again. My friendship with you is too important to me.
- [Data is about to destroy the chip; La Forge intervenes]
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data, I wouldn't be very much of a friend if I let you give up on a lifelong dream, now would I? Maybe someday... when you're ready.
- Lt. Commander Data: I now realize that my life aboard the Enterprise was a waste. My quest to become human misguided. An evolutionary step in the wrong direction.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Data, all I'm sensing from you is anger and hatred. Have you felt any other emotions?
- Lt. Commander Data: There are no other emotions.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data, just because you haven't experienced certain emotions doesn't mean they don't exist. Lore is only feeding you the negative ones.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [unbeknownst to Data, Picard has successfully rebooted his ethical program] You know, Data. I've been thinking about some of the times we've had together. Like the time we went sailing on Devala Lake. Remember that?
- Lt. Commander Data: [Data seems a little distracted] I have a complete memory record of that day.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You decided to go swimming.
- [laughing at the memory]
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And when you jumped out the boat you sank straight to the bottom.
- Lt. Commander Data: I did not have enough buoyancy to get back to the surface.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You had to walk over a kilometre to get back to shore.
- Lt. Commander Data: 1 kilometre, 46 metres.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: It took two weeks to get all the water out of your servos.
- Lt. Commander Data: I am ready to irradiate your existing brain cells.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data... if you ever go back to the way you were, you might not be able to forgive yourself for what you're about to do.
- Lt. Commander Data: [something is troubling Data] I am getting some anomalous readings from your neural net. I will have to do further tests before I proceed. Someone will come and take you back to your cell.
- Commander William T. Riker: Hugh?
- Hugh: What are you doing here, Commander Riker? Hasn't the crew of the Enterprise done enough damage already?
- Hugh: [the ground is littered with broken Borg drones] As you can see we don't exactly trust humans.
- Lore: The reign of biological life forms is coming to an end. You, Picard, and those like you... are obsolete!
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Lieutenant, is there any way we can use the planet as a barrier to keep the Borg from realizing we're in orbit?
- Lieutenant Barnaby: We can enter orbit while they're on the far side of the planet. And if we delayed dropping out of warp until the last possible instant, we could gain a few more seconds.
- Ensign Zandra Taitt: If your calculations are even slightly off, we'd hit the atmosphere!
- Lieutenant Barnaby: I'll just have to be sure my calculations are accurate, Ensign.
- [Ensign Taitt has suggested to produce a solar eruption, which would envelop and destroy the Borg ship]
- Ensign Zandra Taitt: I've already configured the tractor emitters to create the particle beam, and I've located the target point on the surface.
- Lieutenant Barnaby: If her calculations are off, that eruption could encompass us!
- Ensign Zandra Taitt: Well, I'll just have to make sure my calculations are accurate, Lieutenant.
- Lore: When I stumbled on their ship, they were lost, disoriented. They had no idea how to function as individuals. They couldn't even navigate their own vessel. I gave them purpose.
- Lore: Look at what I've helped them become. They're no longer mindless automatons. They're passionate! Alive!
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Are you saying that you caused them to become individuals?
- Lore: No. You did that, you and your friends. All I did was clean up the mess you made when that Borg you befriended returned to his ship.
- Lt. Commander Data: Hugh interfaced with the others and transferred his sense of individuality to them. It nearly destroyed them.
- Lt. Commander Data: The Borg aspire to the perfection my brother and I represent. Fully artificial life forms. We are their future.
- Lt. Commander Data: Here is the visor. May I ask why you wanted it?
- Lore: I thought it might look good on me.
- Hugh: You probably can't imagine what it's like to be so lost and frightened that you will listen to any voice which promises change.