"Deja Q" Line-by-Line!

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: The millions of people down there who are watching as their moon falls out of the sky.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: I haven’t the vaguest idea what you’re talking about and I have a much more serious problem. I’m no longer a member of the Continuum. My superiors have decided to punish me.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: And punish us as well, it would seem.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: They say I spread chaos through the Universe and they’ve stripped me of all my powers. You don’t believe me, do you? Do you think I would humiliate myself like this?

 

[HarryM]

RIKER: If it served your purpose, yes.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: It’s the truth. I stand before you defrocked. Condemned to be a member of this lowest of species, a normal, imperfect, lumpen human being.

 

[Admiral Shran]

TROI: They made you human as part of your punishment?

 

[Vanyel]

Q: No, it was my request. I could have chosen to exist as a Markoffian sea lizard or a Belzodian flea. Anything I wished, as long as it was mortal. And since I only had a fraction of s second to mull, I choose this and asked them to bring me here.

 

[Admiral Shran]

TROI: Why?

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Because in all the universe, you’re the closest thing I have to a friend Jean-Luc.

 

[Admiral Shran]

DATA: Sir, he is reading as fully human.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: What is there an echo in here?

 

[Admiral Shran]

TROI: I am sensing an emotional presence, Captain. I would normally describe it as being terrified.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: How rude.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: What is it you want, Q?

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Your compassion. All right, sanctuary on this ship, dreary as it may sound to the both of us.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: Return that moon to its orbit.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: I have no powers! Q, the ordinary.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: Q the liar. Q the misanthrope.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Q, the miserable. Q, the desperate. What must I do to convincer you people?