"Death Wish" Line-by-Line

JANEWAY: To what end?

 

Q: Your Captain Honour, I am here to argue for the majesty of life. What it means to us to be alive. A Q's life takes him to all corners of the universe. This Q's life has touched and affected many, many others, including some on your own homeworld. With your permission, I would like to call some of those people whose lives have been changed by this Q.

 

JANEWAY: You want to bring people here from Earth?

 

Q: I promise it won't impact the timeline, and no one will remember ever having being here after I send them back.

 

JANEWAY: This is most unusual. Do you have any objection, Mister Tuvok?

 

TUVOK: I am as curious as you are, Captain.

 

JANEWAY: Very well. Proceed.

 

Q snaps his fingers and 3 men appear, a hippie, a man with a large curly wig and Commander William T. Riker.

Riker: Q. What the hell is going on?

 

JANEWAY: My apologies, Commander. To you all. My name is Kathryn Janeway.

 

Riker: Captain Janeway, USS Voyager.

 

JANEWAY: That's correct, Commander. You're aboard Voyager. We're lost in the Delta Quadrant, and as much as I wish you could tell them that when you get home, your memories will be wiped before you get back.

 

Ginsberg: God, if you let me live through this, I promise I'll clean up my act. I swear.

 

NEWTON: I demand an explanation. Why are you dressed like this, young man?

 

Ginsberg: Man, have you looked in a mirror lately?

 

JANEWAY: Allow me to try to explain, Mister?

 

Ginsburg: Ginsburg, Maury Ginsburg.

 

Newton: Sir Isaac Newton.

 

RIKER: William Riker. Nice to meet you.

 

JANEWAY: Consider for a moment that it might be possible to travel forward in time, say to the twenty fourth century, onto a starship seventy five thousand light years from Earth.
(Blank looks. )

JANEWAY: You're having a very strange dream, and in this dream, you're seeing this man whom you've all met before.

 

NEWTON: Yes I have seen that man before. You were sitting under the tree the day...