Where's your stubbornness now, Picard, your arrogance? Do you still profess to be prepared for what awaits you?
Without our shields, at this range there is a high degree of probability that a photon detonation could destroy the Enterprise.
If we all die, here, now, you will not be able to gloat. You wanted to frighten us. We're frightened. You wanted to show us that we were inadequate. For the moment, I grant that. You wanted me to say I need you. I need you!
That was a difficult admission. Another man would have been humiliated to say those words. Another man would have rather died than ask for help.
I understand what you've done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew.
If you can’t take a little bloody nose maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid