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Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Skin of Evil (1988)
Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data
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Quotes
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : You are capable of great sadism and cruelty. Interesting. No redeeming qualities.
Voice of Armus : So, what do you think?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I think you should be destroyed.
Voice of Armus : A moral judgment from a machine.
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Doctor Beverly Crusher : What is he made of?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : It did not register on the tricorder.
Voice of Armus : "It"? Does that mean I am not alive?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : No. Clearly you are some kind of intelligent form.
Voice of Armus : But you said I did not register on your instrument. Perhaps your instruments are useless.
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[last lines]
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Sir - the purpose of this gathering... confuses me.
Capt. Picard : Oh? How so?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : My thoughts are not for Tasha, but for myself. I keep thinking how empty it will be without her presence. Did I miss the point?
Capt. Picard : No, you didn't, Data. You got it.
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Voice of Armus : Tell me, tin man, how does it feel to face your own extinction?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : Curious.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : [about whether the tar-like oil slick that is Armus is a living creature] It is possible. It possesses two of the requisites for life.
Voice of Armus : [his deep, almost demonic voice is heard for the first time] Very good, tin man!
[Armus slowly lifts himself like a slimy ghost rising from the dead, before the landing party's very eyes]
Capt. Picard : [back on the Enterprise Bridge, Picard becomes concerened] What is it, Number One? What are you seeing?
Commander William T. Riker : [grimly; as Armus reaches his full height] Trouble.
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Lt. Cmdr. Data : [to Armus] You are capable of great sadism and cruelty. No redeeming qualities.
Voice of Armus : So what do you think?
Lt. Cmdr. Data : I think you should be destroyed.
Voice of Armus : [scathingly] A moral judgement from a machine!