With a Q flash Q changes seats with Riker. Q: That was a difficult admission. Another man would have been humiliated to say those words. Another man would have rather died than ask for help.
Picard: I understand what you've done here Q. But I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of 18 members of my crew.
Q: If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid. (Q vanishes and everyone is back in his own seat)
Q: If you can’t take a little bloody nose maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid. (Another Q flash and Riker is back in his seat.)
10 Forward: Picard and Guinan are playing 3D chess. Guinan: Q set a series of events in motion bringing your contact with the Borg much sooner than it should have come. Now, perhaps when you’re ready it might be possible to establish a relationship with them. But for now, for right now you’re just raw material to them. Since they’re aware of your existence………
Picard: Well perhaps what we most needed was a kick in our complacency to prepare us for what lies ahead.