Timescape (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Quotes

Timescape (Star Trek: The Next Generation) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Timescape completed its run in 1970.

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

Timescape (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Quotes

• (Unnamed) "I have been testing the aphorism, "A watched pot never boils." I have boiled the same amount of water in this kettle sixty-two times. In some cases I have ignored the kettle; in others, I have watched it intently. In every instance, the water reaches its boiling point in precisely 51.7 seconds. It appears I am not capable of perceiving time any differently than my internal chronometer."

• (Unnamed) "You gotta stop playing Parisi Squares as if you were twenty-one years old. One of these days you're gonna fall and break your neck, and I'm not gonna be able to heal that as easily."
• (Unnamed) "I wasn't playing Parisi Squares."
• (Unnamed) "Worf's calisthenic program?"
• (Unnamed) "No."
• (Unnamed) "I give up, what was it?"
• (Unnamed) "I was trying to feed Spot."

• (Unnamed) "Captain?"
• (Unnamed) "It's going to take a little time to explain, Number One."

• (Unnamed) "Oh, by the way; you'll need this."

• (Unnamed) "Dr. Fassbinder gave an hour-long dissertation on the ionization effect on warp nacelles, before he realized that the topic was supposed to be; psychology."
• (Unnamed) "Why didn't anybody tell him?"
• (Unnamed) "There was no opportunity. There was no pause."
• (Unnamed) "He-just-kept-talking-in-one-long-incredibly-unbroken-sentence-moving-from-topic-to-topic-so-that-no-one-had-a-chance-to-interrupt-it-was-really-quite-hypnotic."

• (Unnamed) "Just don't be late for your shift."

• (Unnamed) "I was just leaving the reception when this Ktarian walks up to me and says --"
• (Unnamed) ""Hello, Diane. I understand you're an empath. I'm a very"
• (Unnamed) "sensitive man myself. I'm doing a thesis on interspecies mating rituals. Would you care to join me in some empirical research?""
• (Unnamed) "Did you help him with his research, Counselor?"
• (Unnamed) "Absolutely not."
• (Unnamed) "I thought it was a topic you were interested in."

• (Unnamed) "'Hissing ball of fur.'"

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