Season 5

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Redemption II

Data: "The end cannot justify the means."

Data: "I understand your concerns ... request denied."

Darmok

Picard: "Communication is a matter of patience … imagination."

Picard: "He who was my companion through adventure and hardship is gone forever."

Ensign Ro

Guinan: "Sound like someone I'd like to know."

Silicon Avatar

Disaster

Data (to Riker after electrocution): "A remarkable experience, commander."

Worf (to Keiko): "You are ten centimenters dilated.  You may now give birth."

The Game

Robin Lefler (to Wesley Crusher): "Your neutrinos are drifting."

Troi: "Chocolate is a serious thing."

Unification I

Dr. Crusher: "Your right eye is point zero zero four higher than the left."   
Picard: "Nobody's perfect, Doctor.  But--"

Data: "Considering the exceptionally long lifespan of Vulcans, it does seem odd that Sarek and Spock did not choose to resolve ... differences in the time allowed."   
Picard: "Father and son.  Both proud, both stubborn, more alike than either of them were prepared to admit. A lifetime spent building emotional barriers, they are very difficult to break down.  And now the time has come when it's too late.   It's a difficult moment.  It's a lonely one.  It's a moment that Spock is about to face."

LaForge: "This is going to be like putting together a big jigsaw puzzle when you don't even know what the picture's supposed to be."

Picard: "Peace, and long life."  
Sarek: "Live long and...   And...  Live long and...  Spock!  My son!"  
Picard: "And prosper."

Picard: "Mister Data, your resourcefulness never ceases to amaze me."

Picard: "Sarek is dead."

Riker: "Who does he think he is?"  
Troi: "The quartermaster of the supply yard, with information you need."

Troi: "He's king to his particular hill, Commander.  You have to treat him that way."

Troi: "Mister Dokachin, we must find this ship and you're the only one who can help us."  
Dokachin: "Who are you?"  
Troi: "Deanna Troi, ship's counselor."  
Dokachin: "He probably figures that we don't get to see a lot of handsome women out this way.  And someone like you might get a little more cooporation from me.  He's probably right."

Unification II

Data: "Perhaps you would be happier … in another job…?"

Picard: "Ambassador, with great respect for all that you have achieved on behalf of the Federation, this sort of ... cowboy diplomacy, will not easily be tolerated anymore."  
Spock: "'Cowboy diplomacy'."

Picard: "Ambassador, your logic escapes me. If I didn't know better, I would say that your judgment is influenced by your emotions."  
Spock: "You speak as if my father would if he were here, Picard."  
Picard: "I speak as a Starfleet officer.  And I cannot ignore the risks to you."

Picard: "But I wonder if this movement is strong enough to reshape the entire Romulan political landscape."  
Spock: "One can begin to reshape the landscape with a single flower, Captain."

Picard: "You let their emotions sway you."  
Spock: "On the contrary, I am pursuing the most logical course."  
Picard: "You're as skeptical as I am.  Is it logical to ignore your own good  sense?"  
Spock: "I fear the influence of Sarek has covered your attitudes, Captain, toward reunification and perhaps toward me."  
Picard: "That is the second time you have accused me of speaking with another man's voice.  It's true he will always be a part of me.   His experience, his spirit.  But I speak with my own voice, not his."   
Spock: "Curious.  That I should hear him so clearly, now that he is dead."

Picard: "But your fight with Sarek is over, Spock.  You have none with me."  
Spock: "I always had a different vision than my father.  The ability to see beyond pure logic.  He considered it weak.  But I have discovered it to be a source of extraordinary strength.  Sarek would've seen this mission of reunification as a fool's errand.  Somehow I think it is not."

Neral: "Times are changing.  And leaders who refuse to change with them, well, will no longer be leaders."

Sela: "Excuse me, I'm just finishing up a speech, for you, Mister Spock.  I rather enjoy writing, I don't get to do it very often in this job."  
Data: "Perhaps you would be happier in another job."

Sela: "Please feel free to change any words that you wish.  I tried to make it sound Vulcan, a lot of unneccessarily long words."

Spock: "... Perhaps you are aware of the small role I played in the overture to peace with the Klingons."  
Picard: "History is aware of the role you played, Ambassador."  
Spock: "Not entirely.  It was I who committed Captain Kirk to that peace mission and I who had to bear the responsibility for the consequences to him and to his crew. Quite simply, I am unwilling to risk anyone's life but my own on this occasion."

Spock: "I was involved with 'cowboy diplomacy', as you described it, long before you were born."

Spock: "In your own way, you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew."  Picard: "Then I'm in good company, sir."

Spock: "I sense you have a closed mind, Captain.  Closed minds have kept these two worlds apart for centuries.  In the Federation, we have learned from experience to view the Romulans with distrust.  We can either choose to live with that enmity, or seek a way to change it.  I choose the latter."

Spock: "Intrigues me, this Picard."  
Data: "In what manner, sir?"  
Spock: "Remarkably analytical, and is dispassionate, for a human.   I understand why my father chose to mind-meld with him.  There is almost a Vulcan quality to the man."  
Data: "Interesting.  I have not considered that."  
Data: "And Captain Picard has been a role model in my quest to be more human."  
Spock: "'More human'?"  
Data: "Yes, Ambassador."  
Spock: "Fascinating.  You have an efficient intellect, superior physical skills, no emotional impediments.  There are Vulcans who aspire all their lives to achieve what you've been given, by design."  
Data: "Hm."  
Data: "You are...half-human?"  
Spock: "Yes."  
Data: "Yet you have chosen a Vulcan way of life."   
Spock: "I have."  
Data: "In effect, you have abandoned what I have sought...all my life."  
Data: "Ambassador Spock, may I ask a personal question?"  
Spock: "Please."  
Data: "As you examine your life, do you find that you have missed your humanity?"  
Spock: "I have no regrets."  
Data: "'No regrets.'  That is a human expression."
Spock: "Yes.  Fascinating."

Spock: "I will not read this or any other statement."  
Sela: "If you do not, you will die!  All of you will die!"  
Spock: "Since it is logical to conclude that you will kill us in any event, I choose not to cooperate."   Sela: "I hate Vulcans!  I hate the logic!  I hate the arrogance!"

A Matter Of Time

Data: "I assume your handprint will open the door, whether you are conscious or not."

Picard: "And how do I know that someone I might save down there might not be the next Adolf Hitler? Or Khan Singh?  I'm willing to take that chance."

Picard: "A persons life -- a future -- hinges on each of a thousand choices.  Living is making choices."

Picard: "Every choice we make allows us to manipulate the future."

"I've never been afraid of re-evaluating my convictions."

Picard: "To take a risk or play its safe … how precious the right to choose it is.  Because I've never been won to play its safe, I choose to try."

New Ground

LaForge: "I'm talking to the wrong crowd."

Troi: "You can't hide from your feelings."

Worf: "When you lie or steel, you not only dishonor yourself, but your family."

Hero Worship

Data: "I have often wondered what it must be like to have one's mouth ... water in    anticipation of the arrival of a confection.  Or to feel the pleasure I have observed in humans as they consume it."  
Timothy: "You sound like you don't want to be an android."  
Data: "I am an android.  That will never change."  
Timothy: "But if you could change, would you?"   
Data: "I have often wished to be human.  I have studied people carefully, in order to more closely approximate human behavior."  
Timothy: "Why?   We're stronger and smarter than humans.  We can do more than they can."   
Data: "I cannot take pride in my abilities.  I cannot take pleasure in my accomplishments."  
Timothy: "But we never have to feel bad either."   
Data: "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant that I could ...taste my dessert."

Data: "Timothy, androids do not lie."

Picard: "Make it so."

Timothy: "You hate it."  
Data: "No.  I am not capable of hatred."

Timothy: "Data, how come you can do that?"  
Data: "I am designed to exceed human capacity, both mentally and physically."

Timothy: "Androids are better than humans?"  
Data: "'Better' is a highly subjective term.  I do not for example possess the ability to experience emotion as humans do."

Timothy: "No emotions?  You mean you can't be happy...or sad?"   
Data: "That is correct."
Timothy: "Why not?"  
Data: "My positronic brain is not capable of generating those conditions."

Timothy: "'I am designed to exceed human capacity.'  'That is correct.'"   
Troi: "Hello, Timothy.  Are you ready to go?"  
Timothy: "Yes, Counselor, I am ready."  
Troi: "How do you feel?"   
Timothy: "I am functioning within established parameters."  
Troi: "'Established parameters'?  You sound like Data!"  
Timothy: "'I am an android.'"  
Troi: "I see.  Well, let's go for a walk, shall we?"  
Timothy: "'That would be acceptable.'"

Timothy: "Data, what's the most scariest thing that ever happened to you?"   
Data: "Fear is not a quality that I possess."  
Timothy: "Because you're emotionless."  
Data: "Correct."

Timothy: "I, I think that was pretty silly when I had my hair like yours and everything."  
Data: "I have been told that imitation is the highest form of flattery."

Troi: "So, what would you like?"  
Timothy: "Androids do not eat or drink.  However, we sometimes like to taste things."

Violations

Data: "Perhaps you remember the pleasant memories and forget the unpleasant ones."  
LaForge: "No, sometimes the bad memories can be the most intense of all."  
Data: "It would seem there is no predictable pattern to human memory."  
LaForge: "'It would seem'."

Data: "If an event were important enough to the recovered, why would it be forgotten?"

Jev: "Father, you know you're not supposed to probe someone's memory unless they've given you permission."  
Tarmin: "You are right.  But sometimes, with a beautiful woman, I cannot help myself."

LaForge: "Sometimes the bad memories can be the most intense of all."

Picard: "Earth was once a violent planet too.  At times, the chaos threatened the very fabric of life, but like you, we evolved.  We found other ways to handle our conflict.  But I think no one can deny that the seed of violence remains within each of us.  We must recognize that, because that violence is capable of consuming each of us, as it consumed your son."

Worf: "Klingons do not allow themselves to be...probed."

The Masterpiece Society

Arron Conor: "We're a part of our environment….  We cannot separate ourselves from it without altering who and what we are."

LaForge: "Maybe necessity really is the mother of invention.  You never look for something until you need it."

LaForge: "Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I should be here, whether or not I might have something to contribute?"

Conundrum

Computer: "Commanding Officer, Captain Jean-Luc Picard.  Executive Officer, Commander Keiran MacDuff.  Second Officer, Commander William Riker.  Operations Officer, Lieutenant Commander Data.  Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Beverly Crusher.   Ship's Counselor, Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi.  Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge.  Security Chief, Lieutenant Worf.  Helm Officer, Ensign Ro Laran."

LaForge: "Looks like we're all in the same boat."

LaForge (to Data): "You must have been one hell of a bartender."

MacDuff: "We may soon face a critical moment.  The success of our mission may hang on a split-second decision.  Hesitation would kill us all.  And those that are counting on us would surely die as well.  We cannot let this happen. That'll be all."

Picard: "But I, also, can't also ignore that we greatly outclassed the one enemy vessel we encountered.  And that every single possible shred of information which might shed some light on this situation has been conveniently eliminated!  I feel ... as though I have been handed a weapon, sent into a room, and told to shoot a stranger.  Well I need some moral context to justify that action. ... I'm not content simply to obey orders. ... I need to know that what I am doing is right."  
MacDuff: "So do I.  I'd feel a lot better if all the questions were answered. And if you want to abandon our mission until our memories return that's your choice, but I must ask you ... is it right to risk prolonging this war?  To allow the needless deaths of thousands on both sides ... solely on the basis of our moral discomfort?"

Picard: "I do not fire on defenseless people."

Riker: "The rules on this ship do not change just because Ro Laran decides they do."

Riker: "I don't know who any of you are."  
Picard: "Nor do I. -- I don't even remember who I am."

Riker: "Well, with that holodeck we just saw.  I think I could conjure up an interesting program or two."  
Ro: "Now that's disappointing."   
Riker: "Why?"  
Ro: "You don't strike me as a man who needs a holodeck to have a good time."

Riker: "Your memories are gone as well?"  
Data: "The databanks that identify who I am ... are not functioning."

Riker: "What's wrong?"  
Troi: "Everything.  Every time I think about this war, our mission, I feel a sense of panic like a hand is closing around my throat."  
Riker: "You're never going to feel good about this war, none of us will.  But we've got to complete our mission."

Riker: "How could our mortal enemy be over one-hundred years behind us in weapons technology?"

Ro Laren: "Kind of exciting, isn't it? We just don't know!"

Ro: "For all we know, you and I could be married."  
Riker: "'For all we know', you and I could hate each other."

Troi: "Data, chess isn't just a game of ploys and gambits.  It's a game of intuition."

Troi: "Nothing feels right.  This room, this ship, most of all, this war we're fighting."  
Riker: "I don't imagine war ever feels right."

Worf: "Now we are ready."  
Picard: "Question is: for what?"

Worf: "Captain ... I regret my recent behavior.  I assumed an attitude of authority that was ... unwarranted."  
Picard: "Mister Worf, we're all doing the best we can in a difficult situation.  Think nothing more of it."   
Worf: "Thank you, Captain."

Power Play

Riker (Re: broken arm after crash landing): "Yeah, pretty sure that's broken."

Ethics

Worf: "I want you to help me die."

Worf: "I will not wait of as an object of pity or shame."

Riker: "I will not help a friend commit suicide."

Picard: "Klingons choose their friends with great care."

Worf: "I will not  be seen lurching through corridors as some have Klingon machine."

Dr. Toby Russell: "Are you really going to hide behind the rules of some bureaucracy?"

Dr. Crusher: "Suicide is not an option."

Dr. Crusher: "Never make the patient any worse."

Worf: "Each of us must die in our own time."

Worf: "I do not welcome death."

Dr. Crusher: "Death occurred at 1240 hours."

Dr. Crusher: "Alexander, I am so sorry."

The Outcast

Cause and Effect

Picard: "Captain, do you know what year this is?"  
Captain Morgan, USS Bozeman:  "Of course I do. It's 2278."

The First Duty

Cost Of Living

Picard: "Nothing would pleased me more than to give away Mrs. Troi."

Worf (Re: mud bath): "You're just supposed to sit here?"

The Perfect Mate

Riker: "I make it a policy not to open another man's gift."

Imaginary Friend

I, Borg

03/07/99

Troi: "Sometimes, even when a victim has dealt with his assault, there are residual effects of the event that linger."

Dr. Crusher: "... some of the implants in his brain were damaged.  I may have to remove them."
Picard: "The Borg will die if they're removed permanently.  Their brains grow dependent on the bio-chips."
Dr. Crusher: "Perhaps Geordi can construct some new implants."
LaForge: "They contain relatively straight forward programming -- interface protocols.  We have the files we downloaded after your experience.  I think I could manage it."
Picard: "Mr. LaForge, do you know enough about Borg programming to alter the pathways to their root command structure?"
LaForge: "I'm not sure, Sir.  Sub-routines are pretty complicated.  I'd probably have to study the data algorithms.  It's the only way I could trace the access codes."
Picard: "If we could get to the root command, we could introduce an invasive programming sequence through its bio-chip system and then return it to the hive."
LaForge: "The Borg are so interconnected, it would act like a virus."
Picard: "Which would infect the entire Collective.  We could disable their neural network at a stroke."
Dr. Crusher: "Infect it?  You make it sound as if it's a disease."
Picard: "Quite right, Doctor.  If all goes well, a terminal one."

Data: "The Borg are extremely computer dependent.  A system failure will destroy them."
Dr. Crusher: "I just think we should be clear about that.  We're talking about annihilating an entire race."
Picard: "Which under most circumstances would be unconscionable.  But as I see it, the Borg leave us with little choice."
Riker: "I agree.  We're at war."
Dr. Crusher: "There's been no formal declaration of war."
Troi: "Not from us, but certainly from them.  They've attacked us at every encounter."
Picard: "They've declared war on our way of life.  We are to be assimilated."
Dr. Crusher: "But, even in war, there are rules.  You don't kill civilians indiscriminately."
Riker: "There are no civilians among the Borg."
Picard: "Think of them as a single collective being.  There's no one Borg who is more an individual than your arm or your leg."
Dr. Crusher: "How convenient."
Picard: "Your point, Doctor?"
Dr. Crusher: "When I look at my patient, I don't see a collective consciousness.   I don't see a hive.  I see a living, breathing boy who has been hurt and who needs our help.  And we're talking about sending him back to his people as an instrument of destruction."
Picard: "It comes down to this:  We're face with an enemy who are determined to destroy us and we have no hope of negotiating a peace.  Unless that changes, we are justified in doing anything we can to survive."

Picard: "He's alone.  For the first time, he's being forced to cope with his environment without the resources fo the Collective."

Dr. Crusher: "The Borg don't ingest food.  Their implants can synthesize any organic molecules their biological tissues require.  What they need is energy."

Borg Drone: "We are Borg.  You will be assimilated.  Resistance is futile."
LaForge: "Just look around, pal.  You're hardly in a position to make any demands."
Borg Drone: "We must return to the Collective."
LaForge: "Who's we?"
Borg Drone: "We -- are Borg."
LaForge: "Yeah, but -- there's only one of you.  --  Do you have a name?   A means of identification?"
Borg Drone: "Third of Five!"
LaForge: "It does kind of suit you."

Borg Drone: "You are not Borg."
LaForge: "That's right, and I hope to stay that way."
Borg Drone: "You will be assimilated.  Resistance is futile."

LaForge: "If I'm going to figure out his command pathways, I need to learn how he processes information.  And the only way I know how to do that is by giving him perceptual tests."

Dr. Crusher: "I'm here to help, but I don't have to like it."

Borg Drone: "What is a doctor?"
Dr. Crusher: "A doctor heals the sick and repairs the injured."
Borg Drone: "The sick and injured are reabsorbed.  Others take their place."

Borg Drone: "We are Hugh."

LaForge: "It's the prosthetic eye.  It seems to be giving him very complex visual information."
Dr. Crusher: "Like some kind of holographic imaging system."

Dr. Crusher: "We don't want to be assimilated."
Hugh: "Why do you resist?"
Dr. Crusher: "Because we don't want to live the way you do."
Hugh: "Here, it is quiet.  There are no other voices."
LaForge: "Other voices?"
Hugh: "On a Borg ship, we live with the thoughts of the others in our minds.   Thousands of voices with us always."
Dr. Crusher: "I think what you're saying is that you're lonely.'

Guinan (to LaForge): "You named the Borg?"

Guinan (to LaForge): "When that 'kid's' big brothers come looking for him, they're not going to stop until they find him.  And then they're going to come looking for us.  And they will destroy us.  And they will not do any of the soul searching that you are apparently doing right now."

Guinan: "You don't look so tough."
Hugh: "We are Borg."
Guinan: "Aren't you going to tell me you have to assimilate me?"
Hugh: "You wish to be assimilated?"
Guinan: "No, but that's what you -- things do, isn't it?"
[Hugh nods]
Guinan: "Resistance is futile."
Hugh: "Resistance is futile."
Guinan: "It isn't.  My people resisted when the Borg came to assimilate us.   Some of us survived."
Hugh: "Resistance is not futile?"
Guinan: "No, but thanks to you, there are very few of us left.  We're scattered throughout the galaxy.  We don't even have a home any more."
Hugh: "What you are saying is that you are lonely."
Guinan: "What?"
Hugh: "You have no others.  You have no home.  We are also lonely."

LaForge: "I'm trying to learn more about you."
Hugh: "Why?"
LaForge: "Because you're different than we are.  Part of what we do is learn about other species."
Hugh: "We assimilate species, then we know everything about them."
LaForge: "Yeah, I know."
Hugh: "Is that not easier?"
LaForge: "Maybe it is.  It's just not what we do."

Picard: "How can a geometric form disable a computer system?"
Data: "The shape is a paradox, Sir, and it cannot exist in real time or space.   ..."
LaForge: "... [the Borg will] try and analyze it."
Data: "It is designed so that each step they take will spawn an anomalous solution.   The anomalies are designed to interact with each other linking together to form an endless and unsolvable puzzle."

Guinan: "If you're going to use this person ..."
Picard: "It's not a person, damn it, it's a Borg."
Guinan: "If you are going to use this person to destroy his race, you should at least look him in the eye once before you do it because I am not sure he is still a Borg."
Picard: "Because it's been given a name by a member of my crew doesn't mean it's not a Borg.  Because it's young, doesn't mean that it's innocent.  It is what it is."

Hugh (recognizing Picard): "Locutus!"

Picard: "This culture will be assimilated." 
Hugh: "They do not wish it." 
Picard: "Irrelevant." 
Hugh: "They will resist us." 
Picard: "Resistance is futile." 
Hugh: "Resistance is not futile.   Some have escaped." 
Picard: "They will be found.  It is inevitable.  All will be assimilated." 
Hugh: "Must Geordi be assimilated?" 
Picard: "Yes." 
Hugh: "He does not wish it.   He would rather die than be assimilated." 
Picard: "Then he will die." 
Hugh: "No, Geordi must not die.  Geordi is a friend."

Picard: "You will assist us to assimilate this vessel.  You are Borg.   You will assist us." 
Hugh: "I will not." 
Picard: "What did you say?" 
Hugh: "I will not assist you." 
Picard: "I?"
Hugh: "Geordi must not be assimilated." 
Picard: "But you are Borg." 
Hugh: "No.  I am Hugh."

Hugh: "The Borg assimilate civilization, not individuals."

The Next Phase

LaForge: "Stop being so rational. Try using your imagination once in a while."

LaForge: "But ... my uniform ... my visor ... are you saying I'm some blind ghost with clothes?"

The Inner Light

Picard: "Seize the time, Meribor.  Live now; make now always the most precious time.  Now will never come again."

Picard: "Live now! Make now the most precious time!"

Time's Arrow

Riker (quoting Data): "Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns."