Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Devil's Due (1991)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data

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Quotes 

• Lt. Commander Data : The advocate will refrain from making her opponent disappear.

• Ardra : Please do not take any offense to these questions, Captain. You know how fond I am of you.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Objection.

  Lt. Commander Data : Sustained. The advocate will refrain from expressing personal affections for her opponent.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : A wise man once said: "There is a sucker born every minute."

  Lt. Commander Data : P.T. Barnum.

• [Data is playing Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol", facing the ghost of Jacob Marley] 

  Jacob Marley : Why do you doubt your senses?

  Lt. Commander Data : [as Scrooge]  Because... a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be a bit of undigested beef, a... blot of mustard, a... crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. Why, there's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are. Humbug, I tell you. Humbug.

• Lt. Commander Data : Since I have no emotional awareness to create a performance, I am attempting to use performance to create emotional awareness. I believe if I can learn to duplicate the fear of Ebenezer Scrooge, I will be one step closer to truly understanding humanity.

  [Picard is called to the bridge, which he acknowledges] 

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data - the moment that you decided to stop imitating other actors and create your own interpretation, you were already one step closer to understanding humanity.

• [first lines; Data is playing Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol", facing Jacob Marley's ghost] 

  Jacob Marley (Ghost) : You don't believe in me?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : [as Scrooge]  I don't!

  Jacob Marley (Ghost) : What evidence do you have marked, of my reality, beyond that of your senses?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : I don't know.

  Jacob Marley (Ghost) : Why do you doubt your senses?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Because... a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be a bit of, uh, undigested beef, a... blot of mustard, a... crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.

  [chuckles nervously yet condescendingly] 

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Why, there's more of gravy than a grave about you... whatever you are. Humbug, I tell you. Humbug.

  Jacob Marley (Ghost) : [the ghost of Jacob Marley lets out a ghostly, howling scream while rattling his chains]  AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : [Data, as Scrooge, lets out a fearful cry as he jumps out of his chair and cowers down to the floor, as Marley screams]  O-Oh!

  Capt. Jean-Luc Picard : [Picard is revealed to be sitting in a chair, watching Data perform; to the computer]  Computer, freeze program.