"You will now answer to the charge of being a grievously savage race!" "Grievously savage could mean anything. I will answer only specific charges." "Are you certain you want a full disclosure of human ugliness? So be it, fool." —Encounter at Farpoint, Capt. Picard and Q, Stardate: 41153.7, Original Airdate: 28 Sep, 1987. "You've made yourself judge, jury, and if necessary executioner. By what right have you appointed yourself to this position?" "Superior morality." "Yes. I recall how you used your superior morality when we first encountered you. You put us on trial for the crimes of humanity." "The jury is still out on that one, Picard. Make no mistake." —True Q, Capt. Picard and Q, Stardate: 46192.3, Original Airdate: 26 Oct, 1992. "It must be terribly frightening for you, to be totally defenseless after all of those centuries being omnipotent." "I'm warning you. I still have friends in high places." "Frightening one race after the other, teasing them like frightened animals, and you enjoying every moment of your victims fears..." "From now on I'll do missionary work. Okay?" "That would be a most noble cause, Q." "You could learn a lot from this one." "Sure. The robot who teaches the course in humanities." "I am an android. Not a robot." "I beg your pardon?" "I'd enjoy that and you'd better get used to it." "What?" "Begging. You're a pitiful excuse for a human. The only way you're going to survive is by the charity of others." —Déjà Q, Guinan, Data and Q, Stardate: 43539.1, Original Airdate: 5 Feb, 1990. "I still don't know what to make of it. Was it a dream? Was it one of Q's elaborate tricks?" "A lot of people near death have talked about strange experiences, but I've never heard one so detailed." "And you know, there's still a part of me that cannot accept that Q would give me a second chance, or that he would demonstrate so much compassion. And if it was Q, I owe him a debt of gratitude." "In what sense? It sounds like he put you through hell." "There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads it unraveled the tapestry of my life." —Tapestry, Capt. Picard and Riker, (Stardate Unknown) Original Airdate: 15 Feb, 1993.
