Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)
Home Soil (1988)
Gates McFadden: Doctor Beverly Crusher
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Quotes
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[the crew is analyzing an inorganic but flashing object]
Doctor Beverly Crusher : Analyze: the pattern of the flashes.
Computer Voice : Not repetitive or sequential. Pattern not recognized.
Doctor Beverly Crusher : What is the source of the flashes?
Computer Voice : Unable to specify. Theoretically not possible from this substance.
Doctor Beverly Crusher : Disregard incongruity, and theorize as to source.
Computer Voice : [bleeps extensively] Life.
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[the inorganic substance has made a cell division]
Doctor Beverly Crusher : Two of them!
Lt. Commander Data : Only life can replicate itself, Doctor. Inorganic or not - it is alive.