Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Up the Long Ladder (1989)

Barrie Ingham: Danilo Odell

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Quotes 

• Danilo Odell : Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain.

• [Worf shows Odell how to use the replicator] 

  Danilo Odell : Whisky!

  [a glass materializes, Danilo sniffs it, takes a sip, and winces in disgust] 

  Danilo Odell : Terrible! It has no bite.

  Lieutenant Worf : [to replicator]  Chech'tluth!

  [a smoking Klingon goblet appears. Odell takes a sip... and then a deep breath, as his eyes cross] 

  Danilo Odell : [hoarsely]  Now, that's what I call a wee drop of the creature.

• Danilo Odell : Send in the clones.

• [Odell has complained about "lightning bolts" falling from the ceiling] 

  Danilo Odell : Yeah, what the hell was that thing?

  Lieutenant Worf : Automated fire system. A force field contains the flame until the remaining oxygen has been consumed.

  Danilo Odell : Ah, yeah, w-what if I had been under that thing?

  Lieutenant Worf : You would have been standing in the fire.

  Danilo Odell : Yeah, well, leaving that aside for the moment, I mean, what would have happened to me?

  Lieutenant Worf : You would have suffocated and died.

  Danilo Odell : Ye-ah, sweet mercy.

• Danilo Odell : Sir, would you happen to be married?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : No, why?

  Danilo Odell : No. Er, well, er, you see, sir, I have a daughter.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Felicitations!

• Brenna Odell : [yelling]  Father!

  Danilo Odell : Remember what I said about the moment of pain? Well, 'tis about to begin!

  [takes another slug of the Klingon drink] 

• [the Bringloidi are asked to beam over to a cargo bay] 

  Danilo Odell : Right, lads, everybody back onto the infernal machine!

• Brenna Odell : [to a tipsy Danilo Odell]  Are you drunk yet or can you talk to Dr. Polaski about the children?

  Danilo Odell : What about them?

  Brenna Odell : She wants to send them to school with the ship's children.

  Danilo Odell : [gasping from the Klingon drink]  Oh... an' what do you think?

  Brenna Odell : [smiles]  I think it's a good idea.

  [pause] 

  Brenna Odell : [shouts]  So go 'andle it!

  [Danilo stumbles off, tipsy and disoriented] 

• Danilo Odell : [Being introduced to Worf as chief of security]  I don't suppose security is much of a problem for you.