Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Elementary, Dear Data (1988)

Daniel Davis: Professor James Moriarty

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• Moriarty : Is the definition of life "Cogito ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Yes, that is one possible definition.

  Moriarty : It is the most important one - and for me, the only one that matters.

• Moriarty : Perhaps we'll meet again, madam.

  Doctor Pulaski : It could be a long time. Time won't pass for you, but I may be an old woman.

  Moriarty : But I'll still fill you with crumpets, madam.

• Moriarty : My mind is crowded with images, thoughts I do not understand, yet cannot purge; they plague me. You and your associate look and act so oddly. Yet though I have never met nor seen the like of either of you, I am familiar with you both; it's very confusing. I have felt new realities at the edge of my consciousness readying to break through. Surely, Holmes, if that's who you truly are, you of all people can appreciate what I mean.

• Doctor Pulaski : I have no idea what you're talking about.

  Moriarty : Of course you do, madam. The more you proclaim your ignorance, the more you try to mislead me, the more I'm on to you. Your every silence speaks volumes.

  Doctor Pulaski : Good. Then if you know what I'm saying when I'm not saying anything, what do you need me for?

  [she gets up] 

  Doctor Pulaski : Thank you for the tea and crumpets. I guess I'll be going.

• Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : The Doctor was right. Finally, we have a game worth playing.

  Moriarty : [entering the scene]  The time for games is over.

  Lt. Commander Data : Professor Moriarty, I presume?

• Moriarty : Mr. Computer - the arch, please.

• Moriarty : [describing the Enterprise]  A great monstrous shape, on which I am like a fly stuck on a turtle's back, adrift in a great emptiness.

• Moriarty : What I have seen... what I have learned... fascinates me. I do not want to die.

• Moriarty : I'm a civilized abductor, Captain Picard - civilized, but still dangerous.

• Moriarty : Whatever I was when this began... I have grown. I am understanding more and more; and I am able to use the power at my fingertips.

• Moriarty : If I destroy these surroundings, this vessel, can you say that it doesn't matter to you? Interesting pun, don't you think? For matter is what I am not.

• Moriarty : And like the spider, I feel the strings vibrate whenever anyone new chances into my web. Welcome, my dear Holmes, but not Holmes and Dr. Watson, but not Watson.

• Moriarty : I know that there is a great power called Computer, wiser than the oracle at Delphi.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I suspect you shook this ship in order to get my attention. Well, now you have it. What is it you want?

  Moriarty : The same thing you want for yourself. To continue to exist.