Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Death Wish (1996)

John de Lancie: Q

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• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Based on my research, you have been many things - a rude, interfering, inconsiderate, sadistic...

  Q : You've made your point.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : ...pest - and, oh, yes, you introduced us to the Borg, thank you very much - but one thing you have never been is a liar.

  Q : I think you've uncovered my one redeeming virtue. Am I blushing?

• Q : Did anyone ever tell you you're angry when you're beautiful?

• Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres : This ship will not survive the formation of the cosmos.

  Q : Yes, but just think of the honor of having your DNA spread from one corner of the universe to the other. Why, you could be the origin of the humanoid form.

• Q : Without Q, there would have been no William T. Riker at all, and I would have lost at least a dozen really good opportunities to insult him over the years.

• [Q has provided Quinn with poison to facilitate the latter's suicide] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : I imagine the Continuum won't be very happy with you, Q.

  Q : I certainly hope not.

• Q : May I see you in your chambers, Captain?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : You've been in my chambers enough for one visit, sir.

• Q : [on Quinn]  By demanding to end his life, he taught me a little something about my own. He was right when he said the Continuum scared me back in line. I didn't have his courage or his convictions. He called me irrepressible. This was a man who was truly irrepressible. I only hope I make a worthy student.

• Q : Say, is this a ship of the Valkyries or have you human women finally done away with your men altogether?

• Q : Let's celebrate, just you and me - the two of us.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : What?

  Q : I'll take you home. Before you know it, you'll be scampering across the meadow with your little puppies, the grass beneath your bare feet. A man coming over the hill, way in the distance, waves to you. You run to be in his arms, and as you get closer, you see that it's... me!

• Q : I call myself to the stand.

  [clicks fingers and a duplicate of himself appears in the chair before him] 

  Q : [from the chair]  Ta-da!

  Q : [to himself]  Thank you for coming. It's a rare honor to have someone of your reputation and accomplishment with us today.

  Q : [from the chair]  Thank you.

• Q : Well, I guess that's what we get for having a woman in the captain's seat.

• Q : [times two]  Vulcans!

• Quinn : [about the Q]  They don't dare feel sad. If only they could, that would be progress.

  Q : Oh, the philosopher speaks.

• Q : Ready or not, here I am.

• Q : Facial art. Ooo, how very wilderness of you.

• [Janeway suggests a hearing] 

  Q : A hearing? You would have me put his future into your delicate little hands? Oh!... so touchably soft. What is your secret, dear?

• Q : You could live a perfectly normal life if you were simply willing to live a perfectly normal life.

• [Janeway suggests a hearing] 

  Q : All right, I accept on behalf of the Continuum on one condition - if you rule in our favor, Q agrees to return to his confinement.

  Quinn : I have a condition of my own. If you rule in MY favor, then the Continuum must grant me mortality.

  Q : Why? So you can kill yourself?

  Quinn : Exactly.

  Q : Accepted.

  [to Janeway] 

  Q : Well, this is going to make for an amusing diversion: Will you send him to prison for eternity or will you assist in his suicide plan? That's a toughie - but then again that's why they made you captain, isn't it, to handle the real tough ones? My, my. Now I guess we get to find out whether the pants...

  [checks out Janeway's bottom] 

  Q : ... really fit.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : Now a what?

  Lt. Tom Paris : Checking. We seem to be tethered to some sort of... plant.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : On screen.

  [sees a narrow image] 

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Computer, I need a wider angle.

  [Q picks up Voyager like it was an ornament] 

  Q : [Q appears on screen]  You can't hide from me Q.

  Quinn : And you can't take me by force. I'll stalemate you for eternity if I have to!