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Statistics

Every count on this page is computed from the transcripts by code: a dialogue line is a line that starts with a speaker label, and a scene is a bracketed location heading. The catchphrases and entities that are counted were chosen by hand, and stardates are corrected from Memory Alpha where the transcript misreads one. The transcript pages let you check any count.

Contents (6 sections)

Episodes, scenes and dialogue per season
Season Entries Scenes Scenes per entry Dialogue lines Speaking characters
1 25 1024 41.0 9683 159
2 22 806 36.6 8455 127
3 26 941 36.2 9225 132
4 26 938 36.1 9145 152
5 26 868 33.4 9508 148
6 26 840 32.3 8406 151
7 25 830 33.2 9013 152

Dialogue lines per season, main and recurring cast

The seven regulars across the run. Move across the chart to read exact values; the table below has the whole cast.

Character S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 Total Share of all dialogue
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 2353 1660 1885 1744 1702 1297 1668 12309 19.4%
Commander William T. Riker 1274 1281 1034 959 1069 937 848 7402 11.7%
Lieutenant Commander Data 822 961 830 960 920 745 1151 6389 10.1%
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge 539 533 692 638 739 705 736 4582 7.2%
Lieutenant Worf 343 532 484 572 614 552 717 3814 6.0%
Dr Beverly Crusher 552 1 420 629 464 569 610 3245 5.1%
Counselor Deanna Troi 385 387 421 401 509 486 626 3215 5.1%
Wesley Crusher 305 408 287 137 176 0 85 1398 2.2%
Lieutenant Natasha 'Tasha' Yar 437 4 61 0 0 0 25 527 0.8%
Dr Katherine Pulaski 0 525 0 0 0 0 0 525 0.8%
Guinan 0 108 112 86 117 64 0 487 0.8%
Chief Miles O'Brien 6 107 62 152 102 72 25 526 0.8%
Q 124 47 136 59 0 144 45 555 0.9%
Lwaxana Troi 49 74 77 88 75 0 62 425 0.7%
Ensign Ro Laren 0 0 0 0 251 7 116 374 0.6%
Lieutenant Reginald Barclay 0 0 75 113 0 151 31 370 0.6%
Alexander Rozhenko 0 0 0 10 108 26 56 200 0.3%
Nurse Alyssa Ogawa 0 0 1 20 36 29 56 142 0.2%
Keiko O'Brien 0 0 0 40 48 1 0 89 0.1%
Lore 52 0 0 20 0 3 37 112 0.2%
Gowron 0 0 0 77 14 28 0 119 0.2%

Catchphrases and recurring lines

Counted in dialogue lines; where a speaker is named, only that character's lines count.

Line Speaker Count Episodes Most in
Make it so Captain Jean-Luc Picard 75 57 Cause and Effect (5), The Loss (3)
Engage Captain Jean-Luc Picard 45 35 Where No One Has Gone Before (2), We'll Always Have Paris (2)
Tea, Earl Grey, hot Captain Jean-Luc Picard 6 4 Bloodlines (2), All Good Things... (2)
Number One Captain Jean-Luc Picard 371 121 The Royale (12), The Survivors (12)
Red alert anyone 52 36 Descent, part 1 (5), Unification, part 2 (3)
Shields up anyone 57 40 Contagion (4), Cause and Effect (4)
Resistance is futile anyone 8 3 I, Borg (5), Best Of Both Worlds, part 1 (2)
Intriguing / Fascinating (Data) Lieutenant Commander Data 12 11 Lonely Among Us (2), Encounter at Farpoint (1)
Fully functional anyone 1 1 Clues (1)
Captain, I sense (Troi) Counselor Deanna Troi 15 13 The Bonding (2), Future Imperfect (2)
Energise anyone 63 47 Angel One (3), The Masterpiece Society (3)
Prune juice anyone 3 2 Yesterday's Enterprise (2), Family (1)
Today is a good day to die anyone 1 1 Sins Of The Father (1)
Shut up, Wesley anyone 3 1 Datalore (3)
Imzadi anyone 15 9 Violations (5), Encounter at Farpoint (2)
Mon capitaine (Q) Q 5 4 Encounter at Farpoint (2), Déjà Q (1)
Picard to ... Captain Jean-Luc Picard 89 62 Man of the People (6), Power Play (3)

Longest and shortest transcripts
Episode Dialogue lines
Longest All Good Things... 775
2nd Encounter at Farpoint 679
3rd Samaritan Snare 502
Shortest Rightful Heir 227
2nd shortest Birthright, part 2 245

Stardate anomalies

Each episode's stated stardate against its broadcast position. Hollow orange points are episodes whose stardate is earlier than the previous episode's, the ones in the table below.

stardateearlier than the previous episode

Episodes whose stardate is earlier than the previous episode's, in broadcast order. The last column gives the likely reason: the episode was made before the previous one, the previous episode's stardate is the one that jumps ahead, or the scripts' stardates were simply not kept in sequence. Stardates are Memory Alpha's where the fan transcript misreads one. Episodes without a stated stardate are skipped.

Episode Stardate Previous episode Its stardate What explains it
S01E06 Where No One Has Gone Before 41263.1 S01E05 The Last Outpost 41386.4 Made earlier than the previous episode
S01E07 Lonely Among Us 41249.3 S01E06 Where No One Has Gone Before 41263.1 Script stardates out of sequence; Memory Alpha agrees
S01E10 Hide & Q 41590.5 S01E09 The Battle 41723.9 Previous episode is the outlier
S01E11 Haven 41294.5 S01E10 Hide & Q 41590.5 Made earlier than the previous episode
S01E13 Datalore 41242.4 S01E12 The Big Goodbye 41997.7 Script stardates out of sequence; Memory Alpha agrees
S01E15 11001001 41365.9 S01E14 Angel One 41636.9 Previous episode is the outlier
S01E16 Too Short A Season 41309.5 S01E15 11001001 41365.9 Made earlier than the previous episode
S01E18 Home Soil 41463.9 S01E17 When The Bough Breaks 41509.1 Made earlier than the previous episode
S01E19 Coming of Age 41416.2 S01E18 Home Soil 41463.9 Script stardates out of sequence; Memory Alpha agrees; transcript reads 41461.2
S01E23 Skin Of Evil 41601.3 S01E21 The Arsenal Of Freedom 41798.2 Previous episode is the outlier
S02E06 The Schizoid Man 42437.5 S02E05 Loud as a Whisper 42477.2 Made earlier than the previous episode
S07E04 Gambit, part 1 47135.2 S07E03 Interface 47215.5 Previous episode is the outlier
S07E11 Parallels 47391.2 S07E10 Inheritance 47410.2 Script stardates out of sequence; Memory Alpha agrees
S07E13 Homeward 47423.9 S07E12 The Pegasus 47457.1 Previous episode is the outlier

Most speaking characters in one episode
Episode Speaking characters
Shades Of Gray 25
Redemption part 2 24
Unification, part 2 23
Rascals 23
The Big Goodbye 22
Unification, part 1 22
All Good Things... 22
Justice 21
When The Bough Breaks 21
Ensign Ro 21