Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Schizoid Man (1989)

Brent Spiner: Lieutenant Commander Data, Dr. Ira Graves

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• Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Did you damage your face, Data?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : It is a beard, Geordi.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : Geordi.

  Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : Yeah.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : May I ask a question?

  Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : I think you just did.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Quite correct. Then may I ask another question after this one?

  Lieutenant Geordi La Forge : You can ask me anything you want.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Why am I lying on the floor in this undignified position, with the four of you standing over me, displaying expressions of conc...

  Capt. Picard : I've heard more than enough. You're you again.

• Data-Graves : [from his eulogy on Graves]  I can safely say, that to know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him. Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar.

• Dr. Ira Graves : [examining Data]  Looks like Soong's work.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Quite correct, sir. Did you know Dr. Soong?

  Dr. Ira Graves : Know him? I taught him everything he knows. You could say that I was the father of his work.

  [laughs] 

  Dr. Ira Graves : Which, uh, kinda makes me your grandfather, doesn't it, sonny?

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : I have noticed, Grandpa, that you keep repeating the same notes of a musical phrase I am unfamiliar with.

  Dr. Ira Graves : Oh, it's a, it's an ancient little tune called "If I Only Had a Heart" - a plaintive lament sung by a mechanical man who longs to be human. It's his only wish.

• Dr. Ira Graves : I'm an incredible man, possessing a... an iron will and nerves of steel - two traits that have helped me become the genius I am today as well as the lady killer I was in days gone by.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : You condone homicide, sir?

• Data-Graves : All things must pass.

• Wesley Crusher : That was a great speech, Data. "To know him is to love him is to know him... "

  Data-Graves : Verbal composition at its most sophisticated level. Your childlike mind cannot appreciate the time-worn wisdom of my words.

  Wesley Crusher : "Childlike mind"?

  Data-Graves : When you get to be my age, you will understand.

  Wesley Crusher : Your age? Data, chronologically, you're not much older than I am.

  Data-Graves : Well, you are only as old as you feel. Try to remember that, boy.

• Capt. Picard : Data, something has obviously gone wrong with your circuitry.

  Data-Graves : That is ridiculous. I am as healthy as a Rigellian ox.

  Capt. Picard : I wish I could believe that. I would accompany you to sickbay, but I doubt if that would do us any good.

  Data-Graves : Sickbay? Are you ill, Captain?

  Capt. Picard : I'm getting there!

• Capt. Picard : You have no right to do what you've done.

  Data-Graves : I have every right, Captain! I am man, he is machine; there is no question who must live and... what must die.

  Capt. Picard : What of Data?

  Data-Graves : Data?

  [chuckles contemptuously] 

  Data-Graves : Before me, he was nothing. Just a walking tin can with circuits for intestines. Pathetic! Without heart, a man is meaningless.

• Commander William T. Riker : You're not turning into a philosopher, are you, Mr. Data?

  Data-Graves : I am many things - scholar, artist, philosopher... lover, genius...

• [last lines] 

  Wesley Crusher : And you don't remember anything?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Not a thing.

  Wesley Crusher : "To know him is to love him is to know him"?

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Perhaps it is best that I do not remember. I trust I did nothing... unbecoming to a Starfleet officer?

  Commander William T. Riker : Does wrestling with a Klingon targ ring a bell?

  Capt. Picard : Mr. Crusher, take us out of orbit.

  Wesley Crusher : Aye, sir.

  Lt. Cmdr. Data : Did I win?

• Lt. Cmdr. Data : [to Troi and La Forge, in his quarters, looking at his reflection in the mirror]  When I stroke the beard - thusly - do I not appear more... intellectual?