- Barclay: Computer, begin new program. Create as follows: workstation chair. Now, create a standard alphanumeric console, positioned for the left hand. Now an iconic display console, positioned for the right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core, utilizing neural-scan interface.
- Enterprise Computer: There is no such device on file.
- Barclay: No problem. Here's how you build it.
- Commander William T. Riker: [after Barclay has managed to raise the shield strength by 300%] Mr. Barclay! Everyone's still trying to figure out exactly how you did it.
- Barclay: Well, it... it just occurred to me that I could set up a frequency harmonic between the deflector and the shield grid, using the warp field generator as a power flow anti-attenuator, and that, of course, naturally created an amplification of the inherent energy output.
- Commander William T. Riker: [clueless] U-huh, I see that...
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Reg, ever since our run-in with that probe, something's different about you.
- Barclay: What? Because I'm beginning to behave like the rest of the crew? With confidence in what I'm doing?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [at a senior staff meeting] Has Mr. Barclay done anything that could be considered... potentially threatening?
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [after a pause] Well... he did make a pass at me last night. A good one.
- Cytherian: [analyzing the Humans] Emotive. Electrochemical stimulus-response. Cranial plate. Bipedal locomotion. Endoskeletal. Contiguous external integument.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise.
- Cytherian: Hierarchical collective command structure.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Who are you?
- Cytherian: [surprised] Interrogative!
- Barclay: The Cytherians are exploring the galaxy, just as we are. The only difference is that they never leave their home. They bring others here. Their only wish: an exchange of knowledge. They want to know us!
- [last lines]
- [Barclay analyzes a chess game and makes the next move]
- Barclay: Checkmate in nine moves.
- [he rejoins Troi for a walk]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I didn't know you played chess.
- Barclay: I don't.
- [Barclay is back to his old self]
- Counselor Deanna Troi: So how much do you remember?
- Barclay: I - I remember doing everything. I just don't remember how or why.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: How do you feel now?
- Barclay: Smaller.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Just plain old Barclay, huh?
- Barclay: Always seems to come back to that, doesn't it?
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The question is, how're we going to deal with it?
- Commander William T. Riker: We could confine him to his quarters.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: How can we do that? What's he done? I mean, we're talking about locking a man up for being too smart.
- Barclay: Wouldn't you like to take a walk with me through the arboretum? The zalnias should be in bloom.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Reg, as your former counselor, I don't think it would be appropriate.
- Barclay: I don't need a counselor. What I need is the company of a charming, intelligent woman.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [indulgent] Good night, Mr. Barclay.
- Barclay: I've finally become the person I've always wanted to be. Do we have to ask why?
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, I think we do.
- Barclay: The moon, yes, that'll be my home, my... Paradise. I shall find there all the souls that I love: Socrates, Galileo... And when I arrive, they will question my worthiness. "What the devil is *he* doing there among us?" Philosopher, scientist, poet, musician, duellist! Here lies Hercule Savinien De Cyrano de Bergerac!
- [to Beverly, as Roxane]
- Barclay: I would not have you weep any less for that charming, good and handsome Christian. I only ask this: that as the great cold surrounds my bones, you allow a double meaning for your mourning veil. And when you let fall your tears for him, some few will be... for me.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [blinking away tears] ... That was a real improvement.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: [analyzing Barclay's brainpower] I couldn't even guess at your IQ level now.
- Barclay: Probably somewhere between 1200 and 1450.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: But that isn't all. The corpus callosum, the connecting bridge between both sides of the brain? It is so active now that the hemispheres are essentially behaving as one.
- Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: So it's not just raw intelligence we're talking about here?
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: No. Creativity, resourcefulness, inspiration, imagination, they've all been enhanced. Lieutenant - you could very well be the most advanced human being who has ever lived.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: Reg, you've frightened all of us. I'm sure that wasn't your intent.
- Barclay: Young children are sometimes frightened of the world. That doesn't mean that their parents should let them stay in their cribs.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: He taught violin technique at the music school last night.
- Commander William T. Riker: I didn't know Barclay played the violin.
- Doctor Beverly Crusher: He didn't. Not until last night.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: You know, almost everyone has a moment in their lives when they exceed their own limits, achieve what seems to be impossible.
- Holodeck Albert Einstein: [the mentally enhanced Barclay has written a baffling set of equations on a blackboard about the universe and is sharing his theories with a Holodeck Albert Einstein] So it is, so it is.