"All Good Things..." Line-by-Line

[Vanyel]

Q: That’s right. You’re doing it right now. You did it before, and you’ll do it again.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: What kind of meaningless doubletalk is this?

 

[Vanyel]

Q: He doesn’t understand. (The crowd laughs again.) I have only myself to blame, I suppose. I believed in you. I thought you had potential but apparently I was wrong. May whatever god you believe in, have mercy on your soul. This court stands adjourned.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard finds himself back in the present siting in his Ready Room.

Picard jumps up and walks out to the Bridge.

Picard: Commander, assemble the Senior staff and go to Red Alert. We have a bigger problem than I thought.

 

[Vanyel]

Riker: Red Alert!

 

[LeadHead]

Later the Senior staff is back in the Observation Lounge.

La Forge: I don't believe him. This has to be another one of Q's games. He's probably listening to us right now, getting a big laugh out of watching us jump through his hoops.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: And normally I would agree with you but this time I feel that somehow it is different. There was a deadly earnestness about him. I think he’s serious, which means that in some fashion I am going to be the cause of the destruction of humanity.

 

[LeadHead]

Crusher: But didn't Q say that you had already caused it?

 

[Vanyel]

Troi: And that you were causing it now?

 

[LeadHead]

Data: Given the fact that there is an apparent discontinuity between the three time periods the Captain has visited, Q's statement may be accurate, if confusing.

 

[Vanyel]

(Data: Damn! I owned you bitches. Go Data! Go Data!)

Picard: So what am I going to do? Lock myself in a room in all the 3 different time periods?

 

[LeadHead]

Riker: Captain, maybe not acting is what causes the destruction of humanity. What if you were needed on the bridge, at a key moment and you weren't there?

 

[Vanyel]

Troi: I don’t think we can start second guessing ourselves. I think we have to proceed normally and deal with each situation as it occurs.

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Agreed. I've been thinking about my conversation with Q. He admitted that he was responsible for my shifting through time. Now it occurred to me that he might be giving me a chance to somehow save humanity.

 

[Vanyel]

Riker: What makes you say that?

 

[LeadHead]

Picard: Well, he's always had a fascination with humanity, with myself in particular. I think he has more than a passing interest in what happens to me.

 

[Vanyel]

Data: That is true. Q’s interest in you has always been very similar to that of a master and his beloved pet. That was only an analogy, Captain.

 

[LeadHead]

Comm Beep

Bridge Officer: (over comm) Captain Picard.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard: Go ahead.

 

[LeadHead]

Bridge Officer: (over comm) We're approaching the Neutral Zone Captain.