Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

True Q (1992)

Olivia d'Abo: Amanda Rogers

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• Q : Very impressive the way you contained that explosion. What else have you done?

  Amanda Rogers : I-I don't understand.

  Q : Telekinesis, teleportation? Spontaneous combustion of someone you don't like?

  [shoots a meaningful glance at Picard] 

• Amanda Rogers : If suddenly you could make anything happen - what would it be?

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Well, I would... probably want to heal people - people who are hopelessly ill.

  Amanda Rogers : Hm... Would you bring your husband back?

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : [sighs]  Amanda, I don't know. And I don't think that I could make... a decision like that until I was actually faced with it.

  Amanda Rogers : I *am* faced with it.

• [Amanda has seduced Riker and made him love her, yet without the result she had hoped for] 

  Amanda Rogers : You're right - none of this is real. I thought it would be romantic. But it's empty.

• [last lines] 

  Amanda Rogers : I hope I can come back and... see you.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : You're a Q. You can do anything you want!

• Q : [of Riker]  You're attracted to him!

  Amanda Rogers : I am not.

  Q : I think you are. How repulsive! How do you stand that hair all over his face?

• Amanda Rogers : Ever since I got here I've been fighting this. I've been denying the truth - denying what I am. I am Q.

• Amanda Rogers : [about her parents]  They loved me...

• [after Riker shows her to her quarters and she is alone, Amanda sees something amiss] 

  Amanda Rogers : Oh no...

  [Scene shows the living room where a litter of cute Labrador retriever puppies are huddled on the floor] 

  Amanda Rogers : [about her earlier statement of having a dozen dogs]  No, no, no, I didn't mean it! Oh no!

  [Amanda walks over to the living room are and gets down on the floor; to the puppies] 

  Amanda Rogers : You guys can't stay here!

  [a small group of puppies disappear magically] 

  Amanda Rogers : [to another group of puppies]  Come on, all of you.

  [the puppies disappear, until two remain. Amanda picks up one puppy, sweetly] 

  Amanda Rogers : Hello.

  [kisses the puppy] 

  Amanda Rogers : [Amanda picks up the other puppy] 

  Amanda Rogers : Come here little one.

  [She kisses the two puppies affectionately; gently] 

  Amanda Rogers : You two, come on. Come on.

  [Amanda sets the puppies down. The puppies vanish. Amanda sighs, relieved but slightly worried] 

• Q : You have it within yourself the ability to refrain from using the power of the Q. If you can do that, you can stay here.

  Amanda Rogers : Then I'm staying here.

  Q : Think about this. This is not so easy. Your parents were given this choice and they were unable to resist the temptation of using their power.

• Commander William T. Riker : You're a very lovely young lady, but none of this is real.

  Amanda Rogers : My feelings are real.

  Commander William T. Riker : I know, but you can't make someone love you.

  Amanda Rogers : Can't I?

  Commander William T. Riker : Oh Amanda, you're so beautiful.

  [kisses her neck] 

• Q : Well, to put it simply, we're omnipotent. There's nothing, nothing we can't do.

  Amanda Rogers : And what do you do with this power?

  Q : Anything we want.

  Amanda Rogers : Do you use it to help others?

  Q : I think you've missed the point, my dear. Clearly, you've spent far too much time with humans.

• Amanda Rogers : I'd like to know what my parents looked like, my real parents.

  Q : How quaint. So, do it.

  Amanda Rogers : What do you mean?

  Q : Summon the image.