Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Host (1991)

Gates McFadden: Doctor Beverly Crusher

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• [the symbiont Odan has been transferred into his new host Kareel, a woman] 

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Perhaps it is a human failing; but we are not accustomed to these kinds of changes. I can't keep up. How long will you have this host? What would the next one be? I can't live with that kind of uncertainty. Perhaps, someday, our ability to love won't be so limited.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : It feels good to indulge yourself sometimes.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : I guess so.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Especially when you haven't done so in a while.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : What... What is that supposed to mean?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Beverly - you're in love!

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Sometimes I wish you weren't so... empathic!

  Counselor Deanna Troi : [leans over, whispering]  I don't think it's really a secret.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : It isn't?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : [shakes her head]  You've been glowing!

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Oh... Must be the astringent.

• [last lines] 

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Odan... I do love you. Please remember that.

  [Kareel Odan kisses Beverly's wrist] 

  Kareel Odan : I will never forget you.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : There is a foreign organism in his body. Medical School didn't exactly prepare me for situations like this.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : Is that the colognite astringent you have on your eyes?

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Yes. I guess so.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I've never tried it.

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : Someone... just put it on... me.

• Doctor Beverly Crusher : The first man I ever loved unconditionally was named Stefan. He was a soccer player, and I would watch him as he would race down the field. And I thought my heart would stop, because he was so beautiful. We married, and had three children: twin boys, Andrew and Alexander; and then, later, a little girl, Jennifer. Stefan became an artist, very famous. He created huge, breathtaking metal sculptures. He came to adore me as much as I worshiped him. In my daydreams, at least. Stefan was eleven and I was eight. He never even knew I existed.

• [Odan's symbiont has been transferred into Riker's body] 

  Doctor Beverly Crusher : I loved Odan. I'm sure of it. I had no doubts, no fears. But what was it I loved? His eyes? His hands? His mouth? They're gone. If that was all it was, I should mourn him and go on. But it was more than that. I felt completely free with him, unguarded. At ease with myself. There were so many things that made him special to me. Where are they? Are they still here, alive in Will Riker? I look at Will, and I see... someone I've known for years, a kind of... brother. But inside... is he really Odan? Oh, help me, please.