"The Defector" Line-by-Line

[Alienesse]

DATA: With their pants?

 

[BlueStuff]

LAFORGE: A metaphor. Catching them in the act.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: Because your gut tells you so?

 

[BlueStuff]

LAFORGE: Exactly. But you can't always go with your gut either. It's a combination, Data. Right, I'll put it to you this way. All these feelings that get in the way of human judgment, that confuse the hell out of us, that make us second guess ourselves, well we need them. We need them to help us fill in the missing pieces because we almost never have all the facts.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: So a person fills in missing pieces of the puzzle with his own personality, resulting in a conclusion based as much on instinct and intuition as on fact.

 

[BlueStuff]

LAFORGE: Now you're getting it.

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: But what does one do if he has no instinct and intuition?

 

[BlueStuff]

LAFORGE: Data. Look at this. The facts just took a left turn.

 

[Alienesse]

[Ready room]

DATA: As the probe went into orbit around Nelvana Three, it began picking up low level subspace radio emissions.

 

[BlueStuff]

PICARD: Could they be naturally occurring?

 

[Alienesse]

DATA: No, sir. The patterns are clearly artificial.

 

[BlueStuff]

LAFORGE: The signal was so faint our ship sensors couldn't read it from this distance.

 

[Alienesse]

PICARD: Can we decode it?

 

[BlueStuff]

LAFORGE: We've tried. It's probably Romulan but we can't be sure. We've also picked up ionisation disturbances.

 

[Alienesse]

(I'm off to lunch, see ya later!)

DATA: Cloaked Romulan ships could produce that effect.

 

[BlueStuff]

(see ya later perhaps!)

PICARD: What about the planet surface?

 

[Alienesse]

LAFORGE: Reading nothing but barren rock. I don't know. They might be able to hide a base from our probe. Its capabilities are limited. The only way we'll know for sure is if we go and take a look for ourselves.

 

[BlueStuff]

PICARD: That'll be all, gentlemen.

 

[LeadHead]

Later in Ten Forward, Data stares at Setal

Setal: I take it that you have never seen a Romulan before.

 

[BlueStuff]

DATA: That would be an incorrect assumption.