- Lt. Commander Data: Captain, I am detecting life readings from the planet's surface, as well as several small areas of thermal radiation and carbon dioxide emissions, indicative of combustion.
- Wesley Crusher: [smiles] Campfires, Data.
- Lt. Commander Data: Is that not what I said?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It is remarkable, how very much alike the two of you actually are.
- Chorgan: That's ridiculous!
- Sovereign Marouk: Really, Captain!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No, I'm quite serious. You are both able negotiators, strong leaders...
- Brull: We don't obey weak leaders.
- Chorgan: We have nothing in common at all. We haven't agreed to anything.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You're wrong, Chorgan. We've agreed to have some brandy together.
- Chorgan: Who are you?
- Yuta: Yuta, of the Clan Trilesta.
- Chorgan: Th-there are no more Trilestas!
- Yuta: Five survived the last Lornack raid. But on that day, a century ago, my life ended, and my search began. I was the one chosen. Transformed. My cells were altered, and my aging slowed. Enough to finish my task.
- Chorgan: Will you feed us? And clothe us?
- Sovereign Marouk: No, of course not! We've set aside some land for you...
- Chorgan: [laughs uproariously] Land?
- [throws an arm around Brull's shoulders]
- Chorgan: Do we look like farmers?
- Sovereign Marouk: [keeping her temper with difficulty] Then don't farm.
- [Riker phaser-stuns one of Chorgan's men]
- Chorgan: A Federation trap!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Chorgan, I assure you, my First Officer has a very good reason for his actions.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [emphatically] You do, Number One?
- Sovereign Marouk: You people haven't changed in a hundred years!
- Brull: You should know. You were there!
- Yuta: As... the Sovereign has no further need for my services this evening, she suggested I might spend some time with you.
- Commander William T. Riker: What a charming suggestion.
- Commander William T. Riker: The wars are over, Yuta.
- Yuta: You cannot understand.
- Commander William T. Riker: You're right, I can't. Because I've seen the part of you that regrets what you've become.
- [Dr. Crusher has isolated a microvirus from Volnoth's body]
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: This microvirus will only attach itself to cells with a very specific DNA sequence.
- Commander William T. Riker: How specific?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Without knowing more about their genetic makeup, I can't be sure. But my guess is, this virus would only kill one Acamarian in a million.
- Commander William T. Riker: Pretty single-minded bug.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Too single-minded. I can't believe it's a naturally occuring virus.
- Commander William T. Riker: Meaning someone engineered it?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: Meaning Volnoth was murdered.
- Brull: You don't like me.
- Wesley Crusher: I didn't say that!
- Brull: No problem. I have many friends that don't like me. But what do you know about me?
- Wesley Crusher: You're a thief!
- Brull: I steal to survive, not because I enjoy it! We Gatherers value our freedom, we do what we want, and we answer to no creature!
- Wesley Crusher: Then why are you helping Sovereign Marouk to change all that?
- Brull: Maybe because I want something better - for me, and for my children.
- Wesley Crusher: [surprised] You have children?
- Brull: Yeah, two sons. One's just about your age.
- [grins]
- Brull: He's not any good at math.
- [Chorgan's ship fires on the Enterprise]
- Lieutenant Worf: Shield holding.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, contact Chorgan, tell him Brull has brought us to talk...
- [the ship rocks again]
- Lieutenant Worf: Chorgan is not responding.
- [the ship rocks again]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Mr. Worf, can we knock out their shields without seriously damaging their ship?
- Lieutenant Worf: I believe we can, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Prepare phasers and open a channel.
- Lieutenant Worf: Phasers locked, channel open.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Chorgan, this is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Enterpr-
- [the ship rocks yet again]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: All right... let's focus their attention. Mr. Worf, fire phasers.
- [the Enterprise fires]
- Lieutenant Worf: Their forward shields are inoperative.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Well done, Lieutenant.
- Lieutenant Worf: We are being hailed, sir.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That's better. On screen.
- Chorgan: Brull, you traitor! You have brought them here to destroy me!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Chorgan, if I wanted you destroyed, you would not be talking to me right now. Obviously, I wanted something else.
- [last lines]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: New orders from Starfleet. The rendezvous...
- [He waves a waiter away]
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Nothing, thank you. The rendezvous with the Goddard has been postponed.
- Commander William T. Riker: In the meantime?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Starbase 343. We're to take on medical supplies for the Alpha Leonis system.
- Commander William T. Riker: Sounds pretty routine.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: With the Gatherer truce in effect, it certainly should be. We won't require a full ship's complement. I'm going to extend shore leave on the starbase to anyone who wants it.
- Commander William T. Riker: I'll pass that along to the crew, Captain.