- [last lines]
- Commander William T. Riker: In all trust, there is the possibility of betrayal. I'm not sure you were... prepared for that.
- Lt. Commander Data: Were you prepared, sir?
- Commander William T. Riker: I don't think anybody ever is.
- Lt. Commander Data: Hm... Then it is better not to trust?
- Commander William T. Riker: Without trust, there's no friendship, no closeness. None of the emotional bonds that make us who we are.
- Lt. Commander Data: And yet you put yourself at risk.
- Commander William T. Riker: Every single time.
- Lt. Commander Data: Perhaps I am fortunate, sir, to be spared the emotional consequences.
- Commander William T. Riker: Perhaps.
- Ishara Yar: Are you able to have friends?
- Lt. Commander Data: Yes.
- Ishara Yar: But you don't have feelings, do you?
- Lt. Commander Data: Not as such. However, even among humans, friendship is sometimes less an emotional response, and more a sense of... familiarity.
- Ishara Yar: So, you can become used to someone.
- Lt. Commander Data: Exactly. As I experience certain sensory input patterns, my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The input is eventually anticipated, and even missed when absent.
- [Troi and Worf have lost all their chips to Riker and Data at poker]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: You two have successfully divided the evening between you.
- Lieutenant Worf: [leaning over to her] I suspect conspiracy.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Perhaps the fault lies in ourselves; we were so eager to accept her. Each of us, myself included, wanted to see something of Tasha in this woman. We saw more than was there.
- Ishara Yar: [before beaming back to her planet] You know, Data, I wasn't always lying to you. That time we spent talking... that was the closest thing to friendship I've ever had - if that means anything to you.
- Lt. Commander Data: Energize.
- Ishara Yar: Our parents were killed in some crossfire, just after I was born. Some people took care of us for a few months, but then... one day we came home and they were gone. So Tasha took care of me; and when I was old enough, I joined the Coalition.
- Lt. Commander Data: Tasha did not?
- Ishara Yar: My sister hated the cadres. She blamed them for our parents' death. For everything. You know, she refused to join, and she left as soon as she had the chance. I always thought she was weak for doing that. But... maybe I was wrong, maybe... maybe she made the right choice.
- Lt. Commander Data: [explaining why he supports Ishara Yar with such determination] We must free the crewmen. She appears to be our best hope of doing so. In addition... I have become used to her.
- Lt. Commander Data: Your friendship with me was part of the deception, was it not? You misled me at each step, and yet... I was completely unaware.
- Ishara Yar: I don't run away when things get tough, like some people - like my sister did.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Let me tell you about your sister. The first time I saw Tasha Yar, she was making her way through a Carnelian minefield to reach a wounded colonist. Her ship had responded to their distress call, as had mine. When it was all over, I requested that she be assigned to the Enterprise; her ship's captain owed me a favor. In the months that followed, she never once failed to put the safety of the crew before her own. And she died doing the same. I'm sorry you never knew the woman Tasha became. I think you would have been proud of her - and she of you.
- Commander William T. Riker: Data, what's on your mind?
- Lt. Commander Data: Recent events have left me puzzled, sir. It has been days since Ishara left, and yet my thoughts seem to dwell on her. Almost as if I were experiencing a feedback loop in my mnemonic network.
- Commander William T. Riker: I know what you mean.
- Commander William T. Riker: Data, have you got a flush or a full house?
- Lt. Commander Data: It will cost you twenty to make that determination, sir.
- Lieutenant Worf: I understand you wish to join Starfleet.
- Ishara Yar: Someday - if I'm lucky.
- Lieutenant Worf: On that day, it is we who will be lucky.
- Ishara Yar: If it wasn't for my implant setting off all the alarms, I could guide you to your men.
- Lt. Commander Data: We could remove the implant.
- Ishara Yar: No. It has a micro-explosive inside that detonates on contact with air. When you join a cadre, you join for life.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: You keep using the word 'peace'. We've heard a different version of life on Turkana IV.
- Hayne: Ancient history. Where did you hear that?
- Lt. Commander Data: A former crewman was born here.
- Hayne: Where is he now?
- Lt. Commander Data: *She* was killed in the line of duty.
- Hayne: Yeah, that's as good a way to die as any.
- [first lines]
- Lieutenant Worf: [Requesting another poker card] One.
- Commander Riker: Are you trying to fill another inside straight, Worf? Don't say I didn't warn you.
- Lieutenant Worf: [Looking at his card] Pah!
- Counselor Troi: I fold.
- Lt. Commander Data: I will raise you three.
- Commander Riker: No cards? The best poker face I've ever seen. Dealer takes two. Your three and ten more.
- Lt. Commander Data: I will see your ten and raise you twenty.