Favorite Star Trek couples (canon and fanon) - Deanna Troi and Will Riker
“Thanks for sticking by me.”
“I always will, even when you’re old and grey.”
"Ronald D. Moore regretted that more wasn’t done with the 1890s period; an idea dropped due to time and budget would have had the crew staying for several months. They would meet at a cafe run by Picard, where the running joke was how bad his food was."
—About the TNG episode “Times’s Arrow”
Favorite Star Trek friendships - Guinan & Jean-Luc Picard
“Do we become friends?”
“Oh - it goes far beyond friendship.”
Favorite Star Trek friendships - Ro Laren & Guinan
“You’re not like any bartender I ever met before."
"And you’re not like any Starfleet officer I’ve ever met before, but that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting friendship."
Favorite Star Trek friendships - Data & Geordi La Forge
“Yeah, but you’re not just another electronic system.”
“Thank you, Geordi. Nor are you just another biological organism.”
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I’m not sure how much longer I can keep away from him – I mean, keep him distracted.“
Picard had to wonder just how willingly Q had consented to play decoy. Was he voluntarily luring 0 away from the bridge, or was he merely putting a self-serving face on circumstances he was helpless to prevent? "What do you mean?” Picard asked. “What do you need us to do?”
“How should I know?” Q said impatiently. “You’re the ones who specialize in triumphing against overwhelming odds. Have Data whip up some technobabble. Tell Counselor Troi to get in touch with her feelings. Let Riker punch someone.
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—Q and Picard during “Q-Strike” [Third book of the Q Continuum series]
