- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [of the Promellian battle cruiser] It is exactly as they left it, Number One - 'in the bottle'.
- [Data and Worf, like Riker earlier, look at him rather blankly]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The ship in the bottle... Oh, good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?
- Lieutenant Worf: I did not play with toys.
- Lt. Commander Data: I was never a boy.
- Chief Miles O'Brien: I did, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [pleased] Thank you, Mr. O'Brien.
- Chief Miles O'Brien: [to a doubtful looking Riker] I did! I really did! Ships in bottles? Was great fun!
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: I just don't get it, Guinan. I can field-strip a fusion reactor; I can realign a power transfer tunnel. Why can't I make anything work with a woman like Christy? It's like... I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say.
- Guinan: You're doing fine with me.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You're different.
- Guinan: No, *you're* different.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: But I'm not trying now.
- Guinan: That's my point.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You know, Number One, you missed something not playing with model ships. They were the source of imaginary voyages, each holding a treasure of adventures. Manning the earliest spacecraft, flying an aeroplane, with only one propeller to keep you in the sky. Can you imagine that?
- [sighs]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Now the machines are flying us.
- Dr. Leah Brahms: I am not used to having people question my judgment.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: And I'm not used to dying.
- [Data and Wesley are playing chess in Ten Forward when La Forge enters, rather downcast]
- Wesley Crusher: Uh oh...
- Lt. Commander Data: I beg your pardon, Wesley?
- Wesley Crusher: Geordi had that big date with Christy tonight. He spent days putting together the perfect program. Looks like it ended kinda early.
- Lt. Commander Data: Uh oh...
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [after being denied access to Leah Brahms's personal files] Great! Another woman who won't get personal with me on the holodeck.
- [La Forge inquires Guinan on her views about men]
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: As a woman, what's the first thing you look at?
- Guinan: His head.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: His mind, of course.
- Guinan: No - his head. I'm attracted to bald men.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Seriously?
- Guinan: Seriously.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Why?
- Guinan: Maybe because a bald man was kind to me once, when I was hurting. Took care of me.
- [arguably alluding to the events in 'Time's Arrow']
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Is it possible... we've fallen into the same snare that killed them? A thousand-year-old booby trap?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: [to holographic Leah Brahms] Don't go away. I mean, er... computer, save program.
- Commander William T. Riker: Mr. La Forge, we need warp power now!
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Matter-antimatter mixture ratio settings... at optimum balance. Reaction sequence... corresponding to specified norms. Magnetic plasma transfer to warp field generators per program specs. Commander, we should be going like a bat out of hell!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [returning from the Promellian battle cruiser] Thrilling. That was... absolutely thrilling. And I was right, Number One. There were ghosts on board that old ship. One of them actually spoke to us.
- Commander William T. Riker: A friendly one, I hope?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: My own counterpart - the Captain's final message, praising his crew.
- Commander William T. Riker: I hope you'll be as thoughtful when the time comes.
- Commander William T. Riker: Computers have always impressed me with their ability to take orders. I'm not nearly as convinced of their ability to creatively give them.
- [La Forge has suggested an alternative way to get out of the energy trap instead of letting the computer fly the ship]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Have you analyzed the risk factor?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: The numbers say it's even money. It's no better than turning it over to the computer, but no worse either - but I say forget the numbers! There's no way the computer can compensate for the human factor, the, the intuition, the experience.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: And the wish to stay alive.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You know, I've always thought that technology could solve almost any problem. It enhances the quality of our lives, lets us travel across the galaxy - even gave me my vision - but sometimes you just have to turn it all off. Even the gypsy violins.
- Dr. Leah Brahms: Violins?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Different program.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Leah, do you like Italian food?
- Dr. Leah Brahms: Like it? Wait till I make you my fungilli.
- Dr. Leah Brahms: I'm with you every day, Geordi. Every time you look at this engine, you're looking at me. Every time you touch it, it's me.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Everything we've done says we can't adjust that fast, but if we could, it might work.
- Dr. Leah Brahms: I could do it.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Data couldn't even do it. It'll take a hundred, maybe a thousand adjustments every second. How are you gonna do it? It's humanly impossible.
- Dr. Leah Brahms: I'm not human.