Doctor Agnes Jurati

"I do miss Locutus."

"I'm a hundred percent sure he doesn't miss you."

"I assume a lecture on the futility of resistance is not going to be necessary?"

"You just saved billions of lives."

"That was the idea, mister."

"Ah, you have a taste for the classics, I see."; holding a copy of The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov.

"I never really cared for science fiction... I guess I just didn't get it."

"What's your book about."

"The existential pain of living with the consciousness of death and how it defines us as Human beings."

"Well that's not a conversation killer at all."

"Anyone else think the 'Way of Absolute Candor' sounds potentially annoying?"

"Maybe they've changed."

"Changed? The Borg."

"They coolly assimilate entire civilizations, entire systems in a matter of hours."

"They don't change. They metastasise."

"Everybody here thinks you're crazy."

"And brave."

"...and brave. Adios, kid."

"They've left us behind, Picard! They're generations beyond us!"

"In one sense, yes, but in another, as you said, they are children. And until now, the only teachers that they've had are a couple of hermits, and the fear of extermination. But fear is an incompetent teacher. Yes, they have life. But no one is teaching them what it's for. To be alive is a responsibility, as well as a right."

"How are they supposed to learn that lesson in six minutes, and eleven seconds?"

"The way that children learn most things, by example."

"So, how do we hold off 218 warbirds until Starfleet gets here? If they get here? … Are you not answering to build suspense, or…?"

"At the present moment, Dr. Jurati, I am trying to pilot a starship for the first time in a very long time, without exploding or crashing! If that is alright with you."

"No, totally, good call. One impossible thing at a time."

"What you have just done here is more difficult, and vastly more dangerous than you realise."

"And what is that?"

"You've impressed me."