Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Hide and Q (1987)
Jonathan Frakes: Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker
Quotes
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Q : You seem to find this all very amusing.
Commander William T. Riker : I might - if we weren't on our way to help some suffering and dying humans, who...
Q : [dismissively] Ah, your species is always suffering and dying.
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Commander William T. Riker : I feel like such an idiot.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Quite right. So you should.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Perhaps they're all remembering that old saying "Power corrupts".
Commander William T. Riker : And absolute power corrupts absolutely. Do you believe I haven't thought of that, Jean-Luc?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And have you noticed how you and I are now on a first name basis?
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[Riker is demonstrating the abilities bestowed upon him by Q]
Commander William T. Riker : [to Geordi] And you, my friend, I know what you want.
[with a wave of his hand, Riker restores Geordi's eyesight]
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : [seeing Tasha for the first time] You're as beautiful as I imagined. And more.
Commander William T. Riker : Then we can throw away the VISOR?
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : I don't think so, sir.
[Geordi glances at Q]
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : The price is a little too high for me. And I don't like who I'd have to thank.
[Geordi takes his VISOR back and sits down]
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Make me the way I was.
[pleadingly]
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Please!
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[Riker has proposed to fulfill his friends' deepest desires]
Commander William T. Riker : Data...
Lt. Commander Data : No! No, sir.
Commander William T. Riker : But it's what you've always wanted, Data - to become human.
Lt. Commander Data : Yes, sir, that is true. But I never wanted to compound one... illusion with another. It might be real to Q. Perhaps even you, sir. But it would never be so to me. Was it not one of the Captain's favorite authors who wrote "This above all, to thine own self be true"? Sorry, Commander. I must decline.
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Commander William T. Riker : We don't have time for these games.
Q : Games? Did someone say "game"? And perchance for interest's sake, a deadly game? To the game!
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Commander William T. Riker : But it won't be boring. If Q is anything, he's imaginative.
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Commander William T. Riker : No one has ever offered to turn me into a god before.
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Commander William T. Riker : Geordi, can you see Worf?
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : I'd see the freckles on his nose if he had them, sir.
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[Q has offered Riker to become part of the Q]
Commander William T. Riker : To become a part of you? I don't even like you.
Q : You're gonna miss me!