"Relics" Line-by-Line

PICARD: Mister Data, send out a series of class-four probes to survey the far side of the sphere. Perhaps we'll have more luck with them.

 

DATA: Aye, sir.

 

[Engineering]

LAFORGE: Adjust the frequency stabilisation on the main deflector dish. It's out of synch with the aft sensors.

 

SCOTT: Laddie, you need to phase-lock the warp fields within 3% percent or they'll become unstable.

 

Geordi: What?

 

Montgomery Scott: Well look here. The warp field is --

 

(the computer rejects Scotty's commands)

Geordi (rolling his eyes behind his visor): We use a multiphase auto-containment field now. It's meant to operate above 3%.

 

SCOTT: Oh. Well, that would make the difference.

 

BARTEL: We can re start the engines in ten minutes, Commander.

 

Geordi: Thank you, Lieutenant.

 

SCOTT: I remember a time when the old Enterprise was spiralling in toward Psi two thousand.

 

Geordi: Thank you.

 

SCOTT: The Captain wanted to try a cold start of the warp engines. I told him that without a proper phase lock it would take at least thirty minutes You canna change the laws of physics, I told him, but he wouldn't believe me, so I had to come up with a new engine start-up routine. Do you know that your dilithium crystals are going to fracture?

 

LAFORGE: We recomposite the crystals while they're still inside the articulation frame. Look, Mr. Scott, I'd love to explain everything to you, but the Captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.

 

Scotty: Do you mind a little advice? Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way, but the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.

 

LAFORGE: Yeah, well I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.

 

Scotty: How long will it really take?

 

LAFORGE: An hour.

 

SCOTT: You didn't tell him how long it would really take, did you?

 

Geordi: Of course I did.