"No, I admire the Indians, but I ain't one myself."

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Hide and Q

Stardate: 41590.5

Original Airdate: 23 Nov, 1987


[Ready Room]

PICARD: Listen to me, Q. You seem to have some need for humans.

Q: Concern regarding them.

PICARD: Whatever it is, why do you demonstrate it through this confrontation? Why not a simple, direct explanation, a statement of what you seek? Why these games?

Q: Why these games? Why, the play's the thing. And I'm surprised you have to ask when your human Shakespeare explained it all so well.

PICARD: So he did, but don't depend too much on any single viewpoint

Q: It's a pity you don't know the content of your own library. Hear this, Picard, and reflect. All the galaxy's a stage.

PICARD: World, not galaxy. All the world's a stage.

Q: Oh, you know that one? Well, if he were living now he would have said galaxy. How about this? Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

PICARD: I see. So how we respond to a game tells you more about us than our real life, this tale told by an idiot? Interesting, Q.

Q: Oh, thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps maybe a little Hamlet?

PICARD: Oh, no. I know Hamlet. And what he might said with irony, I say with conviction. What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god.

Q: Surely you don't really see your species like that, do you?

PICARD: I see us one day becoming that, Q. Is it that what concerns you?










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:26 PM

To: Kerry Burgess

Subject: subjective

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=subjective

subjective

Particular to a given person; personal

taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment"

"Kerry began to suspect that performance reviews were mostly an exercise in appearances rather [ than ] a measurement of reality."


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 February 2006 excerpt ends]



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:03 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 31 May 2016