"Encounter at Farpoint" Line-by-Line

[Marketplace]

RIKER: I'm sorry, Counsellor, but you must. We need more information.

 

[Passageway]

TROI: Pain. Such pain! Pain!

 

[Marketplace]

RIKER: Hang on, I'm coming. Enterprise, lock us onto her signal.

 

[Marketplace]

Riker: Hang on, I'm coming. Enterprise, lock us onto her signal.

[Passageway]

(Data and Riker beam into the passageway)

Riker: I'm sorry. Close your mind to the pain.

 

TROI: Unhappiness. Terrible despair.

 

RIKER: Who?

 

Troi: I don't know. No life form anything like us.

 

RIKER: What in the hell kind of place is this? Geordi, what do you see?

 

LAFORGE: Well, it's of no material I recognise, sir, or have even heard of.
(They carry on exploring)

 

[Bridge]

(The turbolift doors open, and Wesley is standing there)
PICARD: Children are not allowed on the Bridge.

 

(Crusher appears from where she was hiding)
CRUSHER: Permission to report to the captain..

 

Picard: Doctor Crusher.

 

CRUSHER: Captain. Sir, my son is not on the Bridge. He merely accompanied me on the turbolift.

 

Picard: Your son?

 

CRUSHER: His name's Wesley. You last saw him years ago when

 

Picard: Well, as long as he's here. I knew your father, Wesley. Want a look around?

(Wesley steps onto the Bridge)

Picard: But don't touch anything! Try it out. (the captain's chair) The panel on your right is for log entries, library computer access and retrieval, viewscreen control, intercoms, and so on. Here we have

 

WESLEY: And here, the backup conn and ops panels, plus shield and armoury controls.

 

PICARD: The forward viewscreen is controlled from the ops position there..

 

WESLEY: Which uses high resolution, multi-spectral imaging sensor systems

 

PICARD: How the hell do you know that, boy?