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I am now on Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, and I have to say that this is the best written season, so far. The episodes are very well written, and the themes are very inspiring. Darmok is one episode that lingers, and The Unification is a nostalgic trip – with Spock making his first (and probably only) appearance in TNG. This exchange between him and Data deserves to be my best quote in Star Trek so far
Data: .. Captain Picard has been a role model in my quest to be more human.
Spock: More human?
Data: Yes Ambassador.
Spock: …. Fascinating … you have an efficient intellect, superior physical skills, no emotional impediments … there are Vulcans who aspire all their lives to achieve what you’ve been given, by design.
Data: Hmm. You are half human?
Spock: Yes.
Data: Yet you have chosen a Vulcan way of life.
Spock: I have.
Data: In effect .. you have abandoned what I have sought … all my life.

Data: Ambassador Spock, may I ask a personal question?
Spock: Please.
Data: As you examine your life, do you find that you have missed humanity?
Spock: I have no regrets.
Data: No regrets. That is a human expression.
Spock: Yes …. fascinating…

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Another Star Trek: The Next Generation (3rd Season) DVD night for me, and another good exchange between Picard and Data. In the episode entitled “The High Ground”, they are discussing the terrorist activities in a planet wherein some of their crew have been thrown in the middle:

Data: … why are their methods often successful? I have been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change.
Picard: Yes it can be… but I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows through the barrel of a gun.
Data: Yet, there are numerous examples when it was successful… the independence of the Mexican state from Spain…
Picard: Yes, I am aware of them.
Data: Then, would it be accurate to say that terrorism is acceptable, when all options for a peaceful settlement have been foreclosed?
Picard: (sigh) Data, these are questions that mankind has been struggling with throughout history. Your confusion is … only human…

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Watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) on DVD tonight, and I just found this hilarious exchange between Picard, Worf and Data at the transporter room, where the three men will be beaming onto an ancient ship (in an episode titled Booby Trap). Here is Picard telling Worf and Data to step into the transporter:

Picard: Get in the bottle…
(Blank, confused looks on Worf and Data)
Picard: Ship in a bottle … good lord … didn’t anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?

Worf: I did not play with toys.
Data: I was never a boy.

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