Future Imperfect Line-by-Line

[CaptVader]

DATA: (thinks) At warp one, in three days, four hours.

 

[Orac]

Number 1: How about at warp 7? (pause) At warp 8? At warp 9? What's the matter, Data? What happened to those millions of calculations per second?

 

[Iamnotspock]

Data: Pardon me, sir. I am experiencing subspace interference which limits my abilities. I can't operate as quickly as...

 

[Orac]

Number One: What did you say?

 

[CaptVader]

DATA: I said I cannot operate…

 

[Orac]

Number 1: No! That's not what you said. You said I can't. You used a contraction, didn't you?

 

[CaptVader]

DATA: Sir, I can explain if you would just give me a moment.

 

[Orac]

Number One: No you can't. Don't even try.

 

[CaptVader]

(Picard, Troi and Tomalak have come out of the ready room)
PICARD: Captain, perhaps it would be best if we discussed this–

 

[May 20]

RIKER: Shut up!

 

[CaptVader]

PICARD: I beg your pardon?

 

[Orac]

Number 1: I said, shut up. As in close your mouth and stop talking.

 

[CaptVader]

TROI: Will, I sense how upset you are. You're angry and impatient.

 

[Orac]

Number One: Deanna, back off. Well, would anyone else like to speak up? Or shall we end this charade?

 

[May 20]

TOMALAK: As you wish, Commander Riker.

[Romulan Holodeck]

TOMALAK: The charade is over.

 

[Orac]

Number 1: The Enterprise? My son, you created it all.

 

[Athena28]

TOMALAK: With the help of our neural scanners and what you would call a holodeck. Now, please tell me. How did you discover the truth? The future we constructed for you should have been convincing.

 

[Orac]

Number One: It wasn't. There was a computer time lag, for one thing.

 

[Oddish]

TOMALAK: "Unavoidable. Our scanners have a limited response time, so whenever you strayed from our expectations. But surely that was not enough to..."

 

[Orac]

Number 1: To smash your house of cards? No. It was the visual record of my wife, Minuet. Bad move.