But Then Again All Good Things Take Time
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Capt. Picard : I sincerely hope that this is the last fourth dimension that I find myself here.
Q : Y'all just don't become it, practise you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, yous did.
Capt. Picard : When I realized the paradox.
Q : Exactly. For that ane fraction of a 2d, you were open to options you had never considered. *That* is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, simply charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
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Q : You lot're not alone, you know. What yous were, and what you are to become, will ever be with you.
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Q : The Continuum didn't think y'all had information technology in yous, Jean-Luc. But I knew yous did.
Capt. Picard : Are y'all saying that it worked? Nosotros collapsed the anomaly?
Q : Is that all this meant to you? Just another spatial anomaly, just another day at the office?
Capt. Picard : Did information technology work?
Q : Well, you lot're here, aren't you? You're talking to me, aren't y'all?
Capt. Picard : What nigh my coiffure?
Q : [scoffs] The bibelot, my ship, my crew; I suppose yous're worried about your fish, too. If it puts your mind at ease - you've saved humanity, once again.
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Q : Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss yous. You had such potential. Merely then over again, all adept things must come to an end.
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Q : You run across this? This is you. I'k serious! Correct here, life is about to class on this planet for the very first fourth dimension. A group of amino acids are near to combine to class the outset poly peptide - the building blocks...
[chuckles]
Q : ...of what you lot phone call "life". Foreign, isn't it? Everything you lot know, your entire civilisation, it all begins correct hither in this little swimming of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn't information technology? Too bad you didn't bring your microscope; it'due south really quite fascinating. Oh, await! In that location they get. The amino acids are moving closer and closer, and closer. Ooh! Goose egg happened. See what you've done?
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Capt. Picard : [after learning that he successfully collapsed the bibelot] Thank you.
Q : [curious] For what?
Capt. Picard : You had a hand in helping me go out of this.
Q : I was the one that got you into it. A directive from the Continuum. The part about the helping hand, though... was my idea.
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Q : The trial never concluded, Captain. Nosotros never reached a verdict. But at present we accept. Yous're guilty.
Capt. Picard : Guilty of what?
Q : Of existence inferior. Seven years agone, I said nosotros'd be watching yous, and we have been - hoping that your ape-like race would demonstrate *some* growth, give *some* indication that your minds had room for expansion. Simply what take we seen instead? You, worrying about Commander Riker's career. Listening to Counselor Troi's pedantic psychobabble. Indulging Data in his witless exploration of humanity.
Capt. Picard : We've journeyed to countless new worlds. We've contacted new species. Nosotros have expanded our understanding of the universe.
Q : In your own paltry, express way. Yous have no *thought* how far you nonetheless accept to go. But instead of using the last seven years to change and to grow, you lot have squandered them.
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Capt. Picard : We are what we are, and nosotros're doing the best we can. Information technology is non for y'all to set the standards by which we should be judged!
Q : Oh, but it is, and we have. Time may be eternal, Captain, but our patience is not. Information technology'due south time to put an cease to your expedition through the stars, make room for other more worthy species.
Capt. Picard : You're going to deny us travel through space?
Q : [laughs] No! Yous obtuse piece of flotsam! You're to be denied *existence*. Humanity's fate has been sealed. Yous will be destroyed.
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Q : [to Picard, later on the other ships explode] Two down, one to go.
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Capt. Picard : Nosotros demonstrated to you that mankind had get peaceful and benevolent. You agreed and you allow u.s. continue our way. Now why am I standing hither once more?
Q : Oh, you'd like me to connect the dots for you, lead you from A to B to C, and then that your puny mind could comprehend? How boring.
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[Q's final line of the series]
Q : In any case, I'll be watching. And if you lot're very lucky, I'll drib by to say hello from fourth dimension to fourth dimension. See yous... out in that location!
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Capt. Picard : The terminal time that I stood here was seven years ago.
Q : Vii years ago! How little do yous mortals understand time. Must yous be so linear, Jean-Luc?
Capt. Picard : You defendant me of being the representative of a... a barbarous species.
Q : I believe my verbal words were "a dangerous, cruel child-race."
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Q : I believed in you. I idea y'all had potential. But plain I was wrong. May whatsoever god yous believe in...
[snorts]
Q : ...have mercy on your soul. This court stands adjourned.
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Picard : Q? What is going on here? Where is the bibelot?
Q : [pretendind to be deaf] Where is your mommy? Well, I don't know.
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[Q has given Picard the chance to ask ten yes/no questions]
Capt. Picard : ...Is information technology part of a Romulan plot, a ploy to start a war?
Q : No and no.
[crowd jeers]
Q : *Five* down!
Capt. Picard : That'due south merely four!
Q : "Is it a Romulan plot?" "Is it a ploy to starting time a war?" Those are *separate* questions.
Capt. Picard : [sighs] Did you create the anomaly?
Q : No, no, no!
[laughs]
Q : Y'all're going to exist so surprised when you realize where it came from...
Q : [of a sudden menacing] if you ever figure it out.
Capt. Picard : Are you lot responsible for my shifting through time?
Q : I'll respond that question if you promise you won't tell anyone.
Q : [leans in and whispers] Aye!
Capt. Picard : Why?
Q : Pitiful! That'south not a yes or no question. You lot forfeit the rest of your questions.
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Picard : Now tell me i thing: this bibelot we're looking for - will that destroy humanity?
Q : Yous're forgetting, Jean-Luc - *y'all* destroy humanity.
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Q : Information technology's fourth dimension to put an end to your expedition through the stars.
Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111281/characters/nm0209496
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