"Encounter at Farpoint" Line-by-Line

[They pass into the corridor]

RIKER: With the saucer gone, can I assume that something interesting happened on the way here?

 

[Turbolift]

TASHA: Battle bridge. That's for the Captain to explain, sir.

 

Battle Bridge

Picard: Do we have clearance?

 

DATA: Aye Sir, standard parking orbit.

 

Picard: Make it so.

 

[Yar and Riker enter from the Turbolift]

YAR (to Picard): Commander Riker for you, Sir.

 

RIKER: Riker, WT, reporting as ordered, sir.

 

PICARD (to Yar): Is the viewer ready?

 

TASHA: All set up, sir.

 

Picard: We're first bring you up to date on a little adventure we had on our way here, then we'll talk.

Yar is about to lead Riker away, then realizes the Captain hasn't said something important yet.

Picard: Welcome aboard.

 

TASHA: (to Riker) This way, sir.

 

Yar leads Riker to a workstation with a blank screen behind it. Riker sits down as Yar activates the screen and walks away.

Q (on monitor): Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately. Go back or thou shalt most certainly die. You can't deny you're still a dangerous, savage, child race.

 

DATA: Message from the saucer module, sir. It will arrive here in fifty one minutes.

 

PICARD: Inform them we'll connect as soon as they arrive. And sent the Commander to me when he's finished.

 

Yar: Yes, Sir.

 

(Picard leaves)
Q [on monitor]: And four hundred years before that, you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god images. Since then there are no indications that humans will ever change. There are preparations to make, and when we next meet, Captain, we'll proceed exactly as you suggest.

 

RIKER: He calls that a little adventure?

 

Ready Room.

(Door chimes)

PICARD: Come.

 

RIKER: Not exactly a run of the mill happening, Captain.

 

PICARD: It seems we are alive only because we have been placed on probation. A very serious kind of probation. (Com signal) Go.