Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Time's Arrow, Part II (1992)

James Gleason: Dr. Appollinaire

Quotes 

• [Picard, disguised as a workman, slips a small electronic detector into a wall sconce in a hospital ward] 

  Dr. Appollinaire : Just what're you doing with those lamps?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Replacing the burners. City ordinance. Makes it safer, in case of earthquake.

  Dr. Appollinaire : There hasn't been an earthquake here in thirty years.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [picks up his toolbox]  Well, that takes care of this ward. Time to be moving on.

  [he leaves] 

  Dr. Appollinaire : [scoffs]  Earthquakes.

  [spoken in San Francisco in 1893]