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** Funnily enough, the same question actually gives her the same reaction ''twice''. First in the future hearing it from Jesse, then again in the present from Ellison.
* Emily delivers an Armour Piercing ''Line'' to Naomi in ''[[Skins]]'' during the Katie And Emily episode. Naomi is running away from their relationship (again) until three words stop her dead in her tracks - and bring her straight back for a lot of kissing against the lockers.
* In the classic James Newcomer ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode, "The Measure of a Man," Picard is forced to defend Data's rights when Commander Bruce Maddox claims he is not sentient and is Starfleet's property, giving Maddox the right to disassemble Data against his will to study and replicate him. Picard's defense is one giant [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] where he questions the [[Unfortunate ImplicationImplications|real implications of Maddox's work]] that eventually leaves Maddox shaken and silent.
{{quote|'''Picard:''' A single Data, and forgive me, Commander, is a curiosity: a wonder, even. But thousands of Datas, isn't that becoming a race?'' And won't we be judged by how we treat that race?"'' Now tell me, Commander, what is Data?
'''Maddox:''' I don't understand.
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[Picard is at a loss for words and turns away]
'''Data:''' I see, it is precisely because I am not human.
'''Picard:''' [shaken] That will be all, Mr. Data. }}
* ''[[Law & Order]]'': Ben Stone's cross-examination of an anti-abortion activist who had tricked a woman wanting an abortion into carrying a bomb to the clinic. After the woman self-righteously declared what she had done was just, and that the victim, a former follower of hers who had become pregnant, deserved what had happened, the question came that left her speechless.
{{quote|{{spoiler|If abortion is murder, then no matter how you feel about Mary Donovan, aren't you guilty of the murder of her unborn child?}}}}
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