"Deja Q" Line-by-Line!

[Admiral Shran]

[Bridge]

(The light is everywhere.)

RIKER: Data?

 

[Vanyel]

Data: Sensors are showing broad band emissions including berthold rays.

 

[Leandar]

Riker: Lethal?

 

[Admiral Shran]

RIKER: Lethal?

 

[Vanyel]

Data: No, Commander (I will be fine, the rest of you will drop dead….now.) overall exposure is less than 75 rems. Very low intensity. More like a soft medical scan. I would speculate we are being probed.

 

[Leandar]

Picard: By whom?

 

[Admiral Shran]

DATA: The sensors cannot identify the point of origin. It seems to be coming from all around us.

 

[Vanyel]

Geordi looks around Engineering then the security guard in the Brig looks around, the light coalesces into a ball above Q then disappears.

Picard enters the Brig to speak with Q:
Q: Aww you’ve come to apologize, how nice. All is forgiven. No offense taken.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: Enough. Q, what exactly is going on.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Oh, but how can I know what’s going on? I’ve been in this dungeon of yours – alone, helpless, bored to tears.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: We have a moon inexplicably falling out of orbit, and just now this ship was probed with Berthold radiation.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: I wasn’t aware of this. Truthfully Jean-Luc. I have been entirely preoccupied by a most frightening experience of my own. A couple of hours ago I realized my body was no longer functioning properly. I felt weak. I could no longer stand. The life was oozing out of me, I lost consciousness.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: You fell asleep.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: Oh, terrifying. How do you stand it day after day?

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: You get used to it.

 

[Vanyel]

Q: What other dangers await me? I’m not prepared for this. I need guidance.

 

[Leandar]

Picard: You get used to it.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: Q, I'm not going to play along with this. If you want to continue this charade, you can do it alone.

 

[Vanyel]

Picard turns to leave.
Q: Jean-Luc wait. (Q gets up to chase after Picard but is stopped by the force field.) This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them. You have a moon in a deteriorating orbit. I’ve known moons through the universe – big ones, small ones, I’m an expert. I could help you with this one…if you let me out of here.

 

[Admiral Shran]

PICARD: Q, there are millions of lives at risk. If you have the power to....