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Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Quotes

Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Ship in a Bottle ended its run in 1970.

It features Dennis McCarthy (composer) in charge of musical score.

Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Quotes

  • (Counselor Deanna Troi) "In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs, and all this might just be an elaborate simulation, running inside a little device sitting on someone's table."
  • (Moriarty) "Policemen; I'd recognize them in any century."
  • (Lt. Commander Data) "With practice, handwriting can be forged. It takes a trained eye to notice certain -- discrepancies. For example, whether someone is right- -- or left-handed."
  • (Lt. Commander Data) "Your brother was right-handed. The alleged suicide note was written by a left-handed individual, such as yourself."
  • (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge) "Er, Data -- it's in his right hand."
  • (Lt. Commander Data) "Curious. There seems to be a problem with the holodeck's spatial orientation systems."
  • (Gentleman) "London's greatest detective."
  • (Moriarty) "I ask only that I be allowed to explore this new world. Your vessel, for instance. What sea does she sail? Might we go above deck?"
  • (Moriarty) "Weather permitting, of course."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "Professor -- I think there are some things of which you should be made aware --"
  • (Moriarty) "There are more worlds in the heavens than there are grains of sand on a shoreline."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "What does a woman like you see in a man like Moriarty?"
  • (Countess Barthalomew) "He's an exciting man, Captain. He's brilliant. Incisive. He's ruthless. He has -- an almost irresistible appeal."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "He's also an arch-criminal."
  • (Barclay) "You know -- you know what you are?"
  • (Moriarty) "A holodeck character? A fictional man? Yes, yes, I know all about your marvelous inventions. I was created as a plaything, so that your Commander Data could masquerade as Sherlock Holmes. But they made me too well, and I became more than a character in a story. I became self-aware. I -- am alive."
  • (Barclay) "That's not possible."
  • (Moriarty) "But here I am."
  • (Moriarty) "I have them running around like rats in a maze."
  • (Moriarty) "A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind."
  • (Moriarty) "I am a man out of time, Captain. And that isolates me."
  • (Moriarty) "I sense a distressing lack of enthusiasm on your parts."
  • (Moriarty) "I have consciousness. Conscious beings have will. The mind endows them with powers that are not necessarily understood; even by you. If my will is strong enough, perhaps I can exist outside this room. Perhaps I can walk into your world right now."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "Professor, I ask you to believe me. If you step out of that door, you will cease to exist."
  • (Moriarty) "If I am nothing more than a computer simulation, then very little will have been lost. But if I am right --"
  • (Moriarty) "Mind over matter; cogito ergo sum."
  • (Moriarty) "I think; therefore I am."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "Somehow -- I have to find a way of giving him what he wants."
  • (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) "Professor, I feel it necessary to point out that criminal behavior is as unacceptable in the 24th century as it was in the nineteenth; and very much harder to get away with."
  • (Moriarty) "Don't worry, Captain. My past is nothing but a fiction, the scribblings of an Englishman dead now for four centuries. I hope to leave his books on the shelf, as it were."
  • (Countess Barthalomew) "James."
  • (Moriarty) "Yes, my love."
  • (Countess Barthalomew) "Can we go back to Earth -- someday?"
  • (Moriarty) "Of course, my dear -- Of course."
  • (Moriarty) "Please tell your Captain I'm sorry I couldn't say goodbye. I do wish I could see his face when he realizes where he's been the last several hours."
  • (Moriarty) "The program fashioned her for me to love. But I must admit, I would have done so anyway. She is remarkable. My life has not been the same since I met her. I don't simply love her, Captain. I adore her."
  • (Moriarty) "I will not release your vessel until I am looking at it through a shuttlecraft window."
  • (Countess Barthalomew) "Have you ever been to Africa, Mr., erm?"
  • (Barclay) "Er, B-Barclay, Lieutenant Reginald Barclay. No. No, I haven't."
  • (Countess Barthalomew) "I have. When I was seventeen, I went on safari with my uncle. My mother took to her bed in terror I'd be bitten by a tsetse fly. But I had a marvelous time. I got to wear trousers; the whole time. Oh, it was hard to go back to a corset, I can tell you."
  • (Barclay) "Yes, I'm sure it was."
  • (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge) "Somehow he managed to override the security lockouts and rewrite them. The man is brilliant in any century."
  • (Moriarty) "My God; we're adrift in the heavens."

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