"Encounter at Farpoint" Line-by-Line

RIKER: You're right, Captain. It has to be conceivable that somewhere in this galaxy there could exist creatures able to convert energy into matter.

 

Picard: And into specific types of matter, just as our transporters do.

 

YAR: On the viewer, Captain!

 

(The alien vessel transforms into a giant space jellyfish)
PICARD: Groppler, you captured something like that, didn't you?

 

ZORN: Warn my people, please, to leave Farpoint Station immediately!

 

Q: He lies, Captain. Shouldn't you let his people die?

 

PICARD: Transmit the message, leave Farpoint Space Station immediately.

 

TROI: Then it was a pair of creatures I was sensing. One down there in grief and pain, the other up here, filled with anger.

 

Data: And firing on not the new Space Station, but on the Bandi and their city.

 

PICARD: Attacking those who had captured its...its mate?

 

Yar: Energy beam ready, Sir.

 

PICARD: Lock it in on Farpoint Station.

 

Q: I see now it was too simple a puzzle. But generosity has always been my weakness.

 

Picard: Let it have whatever it can absorb. Energize.

 

TASHA: Now getting feedback on the beam, sir.

 

PICARD: Discontinue. Groppler Zorn, there'll soon be no Farpoint Station, if I'm right about this.

 

Q: A lucky guess.

 

(Farpoint transforms into another space jellyfish)
ZORN: Please believe me, we meant no harm to the creature. It was starving for energy.

 

PICARD: Which your world furnishes you in plenty.

 

ZORN: We did feed it.